Vicki Cody
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From the last days of the Vietnam War to the present-day war on terrorism, this story is a moving and poignant tribute to love, marriage, family, and the men and women who serve this nation. In describing her thirty-three-year journey as an Army wife, Cody gives an in-depth look at what it takes to keep a marriage strong, raise a family-oftentimes as a single parent-create a home, and face separations and loneliness amid the uncertainty and stresses...
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It is August 1990, and Iraq has just invaded Kuwait, setting off a chain reaction of events leading up to the first Gulf War. Vicki Cody's husband, the commander of an elite Apache helicopter battalion is, deployed to Saudi Arabia-and for the next nine months, they have to rely on written letters in order to stay connected.
From Vicki's narrative and journal entries, the reader gets a very realistic glimpse of what it is like for the spouses and...