MILITARY HUMOR
Comments on an upcoming posting to Edmonton when I mentioned I always get butterflies when posting season rolls around: "Well you have have had butterflies, I nearly threw up! So now that I am over that, we told the kids. Cried laughed, cried laughed. Our middle one had only one question, what do the movers do with the remotes? We are forever losing them so she was concerned. Hubby told her we would stuff them in the couch because that is where we always find them! She was quite happy with that!
Hubby checked the PMQ rents in Edmonton, $800.00-1000.00! Guess they really don't want us to live on base eh? Well must run and start sorting through nine years worth of stuff!! Tracy MacLeod
From my book Hurry Up And Wait: Six long months of peacekeeping duty on Aphrodite's Isle were almost over. The troops were restless. As repatriation dates approached, the passionate detail of letters from home intensified. One spirited, recently married, young soldier was particularly anxious to return. In a final letter he instructed his young bride to "Have a mattress in the back of the van at the airport". Her equally spirited reply was classic. "Make sure you're the first one off the plane!"
Taken from the collection of military humor called War Stories Anecdotes and Lies by Major Bill Leavey, CD
Six years ago we were living in Kingston, my son, four years old at the time, was playing nicely in the sandbox in the front yard. All of a sudden he rushed in yanking my arm (of course the other was holding his sleeping younger brother) stressing how "Mommy come here, Mommy come here quick come see....." we rushed outside as a group of troops were marching by and he exclaimed: " Mommy look ARMY MEN!!!" A sense of laughter and sadness swept through me knowing that wow not even his son realizes what he does. Michelle Foreman