Author: Michael

This is Chapter 1 in the Wellness Memoir. Come back every Friday for the next two months to walk this journey with Jaimi, one chapter at a time.
My name is Jaimi Erickson, and I am the wife of a retired United States Marine. He served for 24 years on active duty, and during the final 20 years of his military career I was along for the adventure. During the next eight weeks, I will share the pivotal experience that taught me just how strong military spouses can be under pressure. I still look back and am amazed that so much could happen during one year of time.

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On Sept. 19, Dr. Olivia Cheung, Research Fellow at the China Institute at SOAS University of London, spoke about her book, The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, co-authored with Steve Tsang. Image: COP PARIS
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Our military services are steeped in tradition built out of real-life heroics of our predecessors: George Washington and his soldiers fearlessly crossing a frozen Delaware river; Marines raising the flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima; the harrowing contests in the air over Europe by the Tuskegee Airmen and the 100th Bomb Group; James Lawrence’s final cry admonishing his men, “Don’t give up the ship!

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