KPLU Local News
(2010-07-06)
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Army wife Jamie Warren with sons Jeremy, 9, and Jacob, 6.
Austin Jenkins photo.
One soldier's wife says her joy is mixed with sadness. For the past year, Jamie Warren has been holding down the home front while her husband - an Army medic - is stationed in Afghanistan.
Kids: "No, that's mine. I know."
As the mother of two boys, ages 6 and 9, Warren is doing things she never expected: like coaching her son's baseball and soccer teams and that's not all.
Jamie Warren: "Here in like three weeks, I have a day camp with Cub Scouts and I'm the range master teaching the kids how to do archery. Who would have thought?"
Warren has also grieved a lot this year. On more than a dozen occasions, she has dressed in black and gone to an Army chapel for a memorial service. Warren says the deaths of those soldiers make her husband's homecoming bittersweet.
Jamie Warren: "Here I am super excited about my husband coming but it's almost like you can't celebrate because you feel guilty almost."
Warren's husband is a member of the 5th Stryker Brigade. It lost more than 30 soldiers over the past year - most to bomb blasts.
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