To My Brother

Brandon is 26 years old, has a wife, Danisha 24, and a son Brison, who is 2 1/2 years old. Brandon has been in the Army National Guard for 8 years, his time was up when he was deployed for Iraq but they sent him anyways. He has been through three different deployments, luckly not all to Iraq. His first one 3 1/2 years ago was to Cuba for 10 months, during a visit in the middle of his deployment was when him and his wife, who were already living together, had gotten married and pregnant. After he was home from Cuba for good he had a couple months with his family and newborn son, he then went to the boarder where he was able to come home on the weekends, he was there for a year, he was then pulled from the boarder to go train for Iraq, he was gone for 4 months before being deployed to Bagdad. He has been there since August and will be coming home in about a month and a half, his service and time in the Army will be complete and he will be finally able to focus on his wife and child, and learn who they have become during this long absence.
You would think that knowing he will be home in less than 2 months they would be nothing but thrilled, well they are just balls of stress at this point. He is the sole bread winner for the family and his job for almost 4 years has been with the Army, coming home he's not going to have that. This should be a joyous occasion, the stressful part should be over! You'd think that after all the years he has put in serving his country and sacraficing what most won't, would be rewarded with some type of support from the army until he has had the time to gain footing in this world that is foreign to him. He has served well and has given more than most are willing, and it has all been for his family, and now once things seem to be looking up for the family to be whole, work in the regular world seems non exsistant. Our country is the best in this crazy world, but at times it seems as if they have their priorities ass backwards!
Thank you Brandon for all that you have done and have given for your family! You are an amazing brother, son, father, and husband to all those you have touched during your service and everything outside of that as well, I love you and I am more proud of you than words could ever describe!