Mrs. Lieutenant

This Is Phyllis Zimbler Miller Signing Off

PZMiller — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:25:20 -0400

I started blogging in March with two blogs and added a third blog in June. During those months I posted my blogs here because I wanted to share my information with other online people. read more »

Civilians DO NOT Salute and How I Learned to Tell Rank

PZMiller — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:22:39 -0400

The “Tell-Your-Own-Story” military spouse contest sponsored by www.YourMilitary.com in connection with Lifetime TV’s Season 2 of ARMY WIVES has announced the contest winners. Their names and the winning essays can be read at www.YourMilitaryBlog.com.

Here are winning essays by two of the five grand prize winners; reprinted with permission from YourMilitary.com. read more »

Your Husband was in a Helicopter Crash in the Bering Sea

PZMiller — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:42:55 -0400

Army’s Family Readiness Group (FRG) Has Support and Information Mission

PZMiller — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:34:43 -0400

Some of the winning essays in the military spouse contest sponsored by www.YourMilitary.com on the occasion of Season 2 of Lifetime TV’s ARMY WIVES mentioned the FRG. And although I’d heard the term FRG on the show ARMY WIVES, I wasn’t clear exactly what that term meant. (It wasn’t a term I heard back when I was a Mrs. Lieutenant.) So I turned to someone in the know. read more »

YourMilitary.com Announces Military Spouse Contest Winners

PZMiller — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:55:34 -0400

YourMilitary.com has announced the winners of the “Tell-Your-Own-Story” military spouse contest in connection with Lifetime Television’s series ARMY WIVES. The winners’ names and the winning essays are featured on www.YourMilitaryBlog.com and www.YourMilitarySpace.com. read more »

Memories From the Daughter of a Vietnam War Veteran

PZMiller — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:52:45 -0400

I asked Anna Horner, who blogs at www.diaryofaneccentric.blogspot.com, to write a guest post after she talked about her father in the review she did of MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL on her blog (http://tinyurl.com/6z9cn6). I particularly appreciated her description of visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial because Sharon Gold visits this memorial in the epilogue of MRS. LIEUTENANT. read more »

Do Our Troops Need Cosmetics? A Unique Way to Show Our Gratitude

PZMiller — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:45:50 -0400

I asked Nancy Sutherland, sales director of Mary Kay, to write a guest post describing an important project that she is promoting. (She has her own blog at http://nancymkqueen.wordpress.com.) read more »

Expiation for Killing: Young Soldiers Are Taught How to Kill But Not Taught That Killing in Combat Is Okay CONTINUED

PZMiller — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:26:48 -0400

In my July 27th post (http://tinyurl.com/55zq2z), National Guardsman Big Tobacco (www.big-tobacco.blogspot.com) currently deployed in Iraq provided his response to my July 20th post about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military personnel (http://tinyurl.com/6eu789). read more »

Expiation for Killing: Young Soldiers Are Taught How to Kill But Not Taught That Killing in Combat Is Okay

PZMiller — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:38:55 -0400

Help Needed for Military Spouses – Especially During Deployment Times

PZMiller — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:16:27 -0400

This week An Army Wife’s Life blog is having a giveaway contest for MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL (see http://tinyurl.com/5gay8z ). To be eligible for the giveaway, people must leave a question for me. And after the giveaway is over I will answer some of the questions.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the comments, most of which fall into the following categories: read more »