Months and no word....oh the terror

You think our soldiers today have it bad? Leaving their families to go fight in Iraq, they get to call home, text home, and sometimes even web cam home. They have it a lot better than they did in WWI. Back then it would take weeks for a letter to get from its sender to its receiver, IF it even made it. So imagine being a wife who's son or husband was shipped out and knowing that they might not be alive by the time their letter gets to you. It is also hard on the soldier because they could die before their loved ones letter gets to them. That would be a awful way to die. I think it was a huge mental stress to be continents away and trying to communicate.