My heart breaks for you. I hope for the day every one of our military personnel comes home from a place we have no business being.

I live on the edge of Camp Pendleton and hear much of the frustration and anger of the marines and their families.

I cannot begin to know how you must feel but it makes me think of when I was in college. It was the height of the Viet Nam conflict. And the Nixon impeachment. The world around me was in turmoil. And I was so angry. This was suppose to be a great time for me....and all anyone talked about or cared about...was war and Nixon.

I know that sounds terribly selfish but there was a war for what? So I can get a really cheap manicure? Viet Nam has a communist government and the world continues to turn.

I have opposed this war since before it began because of people like you and your husband.

I fervently hope your husband... all the husbands and wives... return home soon and safely.