so heres the thing....there is a brother/sisterhood of police and fire-that is known! But what many of you dont know is there is a special sisterhood too---and in the past few days, I can not tell you how proud I am to be a member of this sisterhood....the sisterhood of police and fire wives! we stand together and feel each others hurt, pain and passion for our families! We stand together because we know how it feels to be an officers wife! We experience a way of life that most people could never begin to understand! not many people can say that every single day when their husband leaves for work, a fear sets in that he may not come home and no matter how long he has been on the job-it happens every time he leaves for work! or how rearranging and/or hurrying through holidays feels so you husband can see the excitement and joy on your childs face! or how devastating it feels when there is a huge police story on the news and your husband is not answering the phone! or how it feels to finally get a text that says Im ok! or how bullets being shot at your husband sound on the other end of a phone line--and truly its a sound you never forget! you will never know how it feels to have no words to say to your husband when he is in tears telling you about the gruesomeness of a scene he was on and knowing that that scene will forever be in his head and heart! you will never know how it feels to constantly worry that that same scene or any other that he has seen will one day be the breaking point for him! you will never know how heavy the rate of police suicide and divorce weigh on your heart on a day to day basis. you will never know how it feels to have people cuss at, spit on or talk crap about your husband for doing a job he loves and protecting the very same people who hate him without even wincing! you will never know how it feels to go to an officers funeral even if you never knew them-yet you feel the hurt for the wife that will be alone now because she lost her best friend to a job that our city deems WORTHLESS! you will never know how much peace the sound of him taking off his vest or unclipping his gun sounds once he is safe at home after his shift! you will never know the sense of pride I feel when a child comes up to my husband and just wants a picture with him or his auto graph or simply a handshake! you will never know the same sense of pride I feel when an older individual pays the same respect to my husband! You will never know the sense of pride I feel that MY husband chose an honorable profession and has continued to perform his job with integrity for 18 years despite this city breaking its promises REPEATEDLY to him! I never chose this life, but I chose and still choose my husband--I choose to stand behind him and love and support him throughout every battle we face! and this sisterhood--stands with me and I am proud to be a part of this wives club that when the going gets tough---we only get tougher!! We fight a battle everyday being a LEO wife--so why did this city think we would just allow this fight to pass? We will keep fighting for our husbands-we will keep supporting each other-we will continue to have to deal with people who have no idea what this life we have chosen even remotely feels like-we will deal with people who dont care to educate themselves on what this city is doing to our husbands! and when this battle is over--we move on to the next one! Its what we do! I love yall~Emily (thanks Amber for sharing this video!)
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 02:19:42 +0000
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