Not many people write handwritten letters today. During Basic Combat Training (BCT) we lived for the mail. I got to know our postal carrier very well. Brad prayed that his name would be yelled during mail call. He was a thirty-eight year old with a wife and two preschoolers at home and wasn’t sure he could make it up against a bunch of teenagers. He had always wanted to be in the military and now he was trying his best to make it through basic training. He hoped to continue on and make it through Officer Candidate School (OCS). He wanted to be an Officer in the US Army. I never would have thought when I married Brad that I would be an Army Wife. I knew I would always have to worry about my husband since he was in the law enforcement profession, but didn’t expect to become a military family.
The letters were our life line to each other during BCT because we only got about three two minute calls during those few months. My letters were usually on stationary with stars all over and little girl scribbles on them. Brad’s letters were on Army stationary with pictures of tanks, helicopters, and soldiers on them.
Made Again has several types of correspondence included in the chapters. Early on, it is the emails we sent back and forth before we met face to face. Later, I include quite a few of our BCT handwritten snail mail letters. Near the end of the book I describe various text and video chat conversations we had while he was deployed to Afghanistan. Please join us and see the power of letters in my memoir. Thanks friends!