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Four days no contact. That is not unusual. It is not unusual. I am typing it so I believe it.

The unusual part is that the other wives are also typing it.

There are four hundred American service members inside those fences tonight on generator power.

Every single conversation about this is about the weapons. I understand why. I would just like one person in the coverage to remember that there are people standing next to them, and that somebody is married to each of them.

A ship went down.

Every spouse in this neighbourhood is standing at a window right now watching the street for a car that does not belong here. That is what today is. Not the news. The window.

Please do not post the name until the families have been told. Please.

Tanya. Every single one of us on this street felt exactly that this morning when we saw it was not our husband's hull number.

It is not shame. It is what love does when it is frightened. Do not carry that one on top of everything else.