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		<title>Gratitude</title>
		<link>http://leftface.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/gratitude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ophiolite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not going to say that I am a profoundly emotionally deep person, because g-d knows I have my absolutely shallow moments, but I wanted to share what I&#8217;ve been pondering for the past four months. In past years, I have written a number of published letters to the editor expounding on why civilians [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftface.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6388540&#038;post=2554&#038;subd=leftface&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, LeftFace!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Army Wife</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four Years ago, a group of women met on the internet, got together, and started this nifty little blog. LeftFace has been a home to many over the years, and we all truly love this space &#38; what it has done for others! With that said, it&#8217;s time for some clean-up. LF is in desperate [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftface.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6388540&#038;post=2551&#038;subd=leftface&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide numbers &#8211; the tip of the iceberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>libarmywife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Not Alone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, we’ve seen a lot of attention paid to the issue of suicide in military families.  An article on NBC from Bill Briggs, quoting my friend Kristy Kaufmann, and discussing the very real issues we are facing was met with a frankly perplexing SpouseBuzz piece.  That piece was brilliantly refuted by Military Families Count [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftface.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6388540&#038;post=2325&#038;subd=leftface&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OMG the Women are Coming! (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://leftface.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/omg-the-women-are-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ophiolite</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[combat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lifted the 1994 ban on women serving in combat positions! Yay! Right after that many military spouses and some service members crazy wingnuts  began clutching their pearls and crying foul for some of the most idiotic reasons I have ever heard, such as: 1) &#8220;Women won&#8217;t be able to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftface.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6388540&#038;post=2470&#038;subd=leftface&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is about more than a Spouse&#8217;s Club</title>
		<link>http://leftface.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/this-is-about-more-than-a-spouses-club/</link>
		<comments>http://leftface.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/this-is-about-more-than-a-spouses-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ophiolite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had vainly hoped that when the media fervor over Ms. Broadway was denied entry to the Association of Bragg Officer&#8217;s Spouses it meant that they had come to their senses, reversed their decision and rejoin the modern era. Apparently, they are continuing to stick with their bigoted ways and every day they continue to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftface.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6388540&#038;post=2453&#038;subd=leftface&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I want to tell my civilian friends about deployment</title>
		<link>http://leftface.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/what-i-want-to-tell-my-civilian-friends-about-deployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ophiolite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our number has finally come up again, which means we&#8217;re headed for another deployment. My milfolk friends all understand what this means for us. I will pull away to a degree to focus on my spouse more in an effort to drink in what time we have together. These moments are precious and will be [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftface.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6388540&#038;post=2448&#038;subd=leftface&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The perfect gift</title>
		<link>http://leftface.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/the-perfect-gift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ophiolite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week my inbox has exploded with email from every company with whom I have ever done online business or to whom I have given my email address. The barrage is constant and overpowering&#8230;save here, buy this, only X hours left. This coupled with the incessant TV commercials about Black Friday deals has made [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftface.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6388540&#038;post=2330&#038;subd=leftface&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blame it all on the war</title>
		<link>http://leftface.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/blame-it-all-on-the-war/</link>
		<comments>http://leftface.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/blame-it-all-on-the-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>libarmywife</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From one of our contributors who prefers to remain anonymous &#8211; Anonmilwife.  She is a military spouse who has been through deployments, PCSs, and all the rest of the military spouse life. &#160; Thanks to the well-publicized mistakes of a few high-level officers, military marriage has come under the mainstream media microscope recently. Some of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftface.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6388540&#038;post=2317&#038;subd=leftface&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Military Marriages &#8211; our take</title>
		<link>http://leftface.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/military-marriages-our-take/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>libarmywife</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were asked if we were going to have any comment on the Petraeus scandal.  Since this should be a private matter between the couples involved, our response was not just NO, but OH HELL NO.  But then our commenter wanted to know if we were going to talk about  how “this story affects normal [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftface.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6388540&#038;post=2293&#038;subd=leftface&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LDS mission does not equal serving your country</title>
		<link>http://leftface.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/lds-mission-does-not-equal-serving-your-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ophiolite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. and Mrs. Romney: I have heard each of you separately tout Romney’s mission for the LDS Church as his reasoning and rationale for not serving our country during Vietnam. Mrs. Romney even went so far as to state that sending your 5 sons on missions was basically equivalent to LAW, one of our [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftface.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6388540&#038;post=2314&#038;subd=leftface&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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