It's a rant. Just pass along. :)

So tomorrow, Obama will be in my hometown for like .. 6 hours. My boyfriend has to listen to him talk about how he wants to have our troops pulled out of Iraq by August of 2010 and how we're deploying about 12,000 more troops to Afghanistan to stop more terrorism.

I don't know who reads these, but this is going to be my constant topic of debate. I'm not overly obsessed with a boy, I'm overly obsessed with a war that I don't think is our problem anymore. I don't know how many of you have come in contact with a GOOD Marine, (one that opens your door and has manners) but mine is one of them. I don't understand why we have to deploy these sorts of good people to fight a fight that shouldn't have been started in the first place.

Don't get me wrong, I support our troops 100% .. My dad is a colonel in the Corps and I'll support him till the day I die .. And then in Heaven. But I'm sick of hearing casualty counts and hearing civilians tell me how they hate this war. I GET IT. I LIVE THIS STUFF EVERY SINGLE DAY. I'm told EVERY DAY that the man I fell in love with might not come home. I'm told EVERY DAY that my friends and my friends parents could be leaving on a moments notice.

So PLEASE don't ask me if I'm going to miss any of my friends that deploy. Don't ask me if I support the war. DON'T ask me why I wait or how I do this.

Some of you don't know what you want to do with your lives. I'm not going to be the average enlisted housewife .. I'm going to make something of myself with a good career and a driving passion. But the first thing I'm going to do is be a good friend. I'm going to be a good girlfriend on top of that and I'm ready to support my boyfriend and any of my other deploying friends in their endeavours.

I wish that more people understood what it was like to date a Marine. You cry about not being able to see your loved one for two weeks .. I don't see mine for 10 months. But not everyone is strong enough to do what girls like me do. God only knows how many people are faithful in their relationships anymore.

:)