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Caption translated by google translate: Yesterday the in Rivne region, without a white dress, friends, parents, but with a delicate bouquet for the bride, two National Guardsmen got married. In the barricaded city council, two Ukrainian soldiers swore allegiance to each other.
They swore allegiance, hugged, and went on to defend Ukraine!
(I tried to copy and paste the pic but when I did, a generic box appeared that you had to click on to open the pic. So I just decided to paste the twitter link. Anyone know how to get around this?)
Ptah
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Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)That image of their marriage is bringing up a lot in me. I was deployed to Iraq from feb 2004 a March 2005 and I got married during my two week leave in the middle of my deployment.
It was a rushed ceremony and I was married in the basement of town hall of the small town I grew up in. We didnt even have time to get wedding rings.
I met my (ex)wife about 8 before I left for Iraq. We corresponded and talked on the phone regularly up until about April of 2004, right when I saw my first bit of combat. Things started to get intense where I was in Iraq and I basically turned off that part of my life. I just couldnt bring myself to talk to her or anyone from home on the phone. How do I describe what is going on around me without breaking down on the phone? How can I listen and pretend to care about the struggles of loved ones at home when the biggest problem they have is a dog peeing on the carpet or something borderline offensive somebody said to another person? Meanwhile Im doing combat patrols and dealing with pulling half-burned bodies out of a car I destroyed. I sent the occasional email, but I just stopped talking to anyone back home.
The whole time, life went on for everyone back home. I guess it even went on for me.
I sincerely hope they both are able to fight together and survive the war. Theyll have a bond that few people ever do.
Excuse my ramblings. I turn everything I respond to into a war story of mine.