A Soldiers Wife: Katy Benko
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It's hard to even begin to imagine the sacrifice...
When they leave they are husbands and fathers, wives and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, yet they are willing to put it all aside and stand up for that one great cause that they believe in, that one great fight they believe will make the world that much of a better place. We often sometimes hear their story, and if we don't, we can see some of it in their faces, in their eyes, in the slightly measured walks as they come home. Often I can't watch without feeling my heart fill with this overwhelming sense of gratitude for all that they have done, all they have sacrificed, in a calling they believe to be greater than anything any one of us can offer ourselves to in our day to day life.
Yet, amidst all of that, we sometimes forget the stories of the ones that they leave behind. The husband or wife that they look into the eyes of that one last time before they board their ship or climb on board of their plane, those children that they hold in their arms for that final time, holding extra tight, hoping and praying that they can hold on to their innocence for just a moment longer, hoping they will grow up in a world, that they will become brave, strong men and women of conviction and courage in a world that doesn't need the sacrifices they are about to, the mothers and fathers whose pain is so touching, so heart wrenching, so real.
Tonight on Patriot Action Live, joined by Katy Benko, an award winning country music singer/song writer who has performed for President George Bush and his wife at the White House, Senator John McCain during his No Surrender Tour, who has performed with Kenny Rogers, Brooks and Dunn and countless other big names in Country Music, we had the chance to hear one of those stories first hand from someone who knew it all too well, someone who lived it.
Katy is the writer and performer of A Soldiers Wife, a powerful, vivid song about what it is like, what one feels when they are the one left while their husband goes off to the far distant battlefields of war.
Marrying her College Sweetheart Ryan, a ROTC Candidate turned young Lieutenant, she watched as his Unit was called into active duty and he was sent overseas. Tonight, Katy took the opportunity to tell us her story and her husband's story, that of a man who she could only find herself admiring more, loving more, for the measure of sacrifice, duty and devotion that he showed. It was a story not only she felt but that she knew other military wives felt with their husbands called away from them, and, in that, it was a story she knew she had to tell.
A woman of passion and deep emotional commitment, it's impossible not to be carried away by her song, and by her story.
If you missed the show don't worry, you can still hear Katy's story. Join us at Patriot Action Live as we talk to A Soldiers Wife and remember the families and their devotion and service to the nation as well those they love who are serving.
And don't forget to vote for Katy's song at Music Nation.