" Military Wives don't rate anything"

Hi Everyone! This is my first blog. Often things happen, and all you want to do is just vent about it! Being a military wife, I can say we have lived through many experiences! Has anyone seen, or heard the talk that military wives are going to have a rank system!? Many people when they heard of such a thing, started to react! http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/07/pentagon-releases-preliminary-military-spouse-rank-chart/ I think my favorite thing was hearing from others that have never even been a military wife say, " This makes me mad! Military wives don't rate anything! All they did was marry, and they know what they signed up for!" Has anyone looked at the chart that was created for military spouses? It is a joke! I am seeing knives, and forks in the ranking design! Military wives may cook, and eat, or provide a great home cooked meal to our significant other, but I don't imagine as a military spouse we would ever proudly want to display that decal on our car, or try to get it sewn on our everyday mom attire as we work around the house! When you make the comment around a military wife that they don't rate anything, I feel a huge mistake just took place! We don't need a reward, we don't need a service medal, we don't need to wear his, or our own rank! There is something we might like, or might rate, and I call it a handshake! Yeah that is right a good simple handshake! We as military wives as a whole have often heard military marriage have a high failure rate. I believe military or not, marriages fail tremendously anymore! When you marry someone in the military service you may know nothing about the lifestyle like I did! You also watch the one you love join the service, and maybe during peace time! So then, you don't even think that war will ever hit! And then if war does happen to the one you married, you will be torn from him, or her as they go to stand at the front line, and give all the fight they can for there country, and even maybe give up there life in the process! And if you have children like I do, then they are going through it as well! Our children do not know what they were born into coming into a military life, or into a military family, and we all really didn't know what we signed up for as a whole! But I stand by my husband! I will stand by my country! And I will stand by the people my husband fights for including you the reader! Living Free means something to us! You don't need to give me the wife a service medal, and please don't give me a silly, hot pink rank to wear on my sleeve to show others my degree of experience! Just give me a simple good handshake! Give my kids one too if you want! And don't forget my husband of course! Blessings!