bad things happen in 3s

Remember the old Irish proverb that bad things happen in threes? Well my life is living proof!! I quit blogging in May because it was a cursed month for me and towards the end I was really contemplating getting into bed and not getting out until June! It started with my husband's great Aunt dying, then my grandfather died, and then last week my brother died at 45 of a massive heart attack! It was devastating to me because I loved him so much and with my blood pressure being high I wasn't able to fly up to Iowa for his funeral. So, I sat at my house in Columbus and cried for a week... cried for my dead brother and his niece that he will never get to know! I cried for my mother and not being able to imagine losing a child..I cried for my grandmother who had just buried her husband of 65 years three weeks earlier... and I cried because Jeff was a good guy and I have so many great memories of him but I wanted so much more!
On top of all this misery, my husband went to walk on at Ranger school on Monday and didn't get in... No... once again the military bends over for officers and even other countries(a Turkish officer got a slot) but over 46 of our own guys walked away without a school that they need in order to be promoted! The military wonders over and over why they aren't retaining middle career NCOs? Are they that fucking stupid? My husband would do just about anything to get the schools he wants and needs to make his rank and help him in his job but the Army keeps giving those slots to cherry Lts and foreign officers..and to Turkish officers? Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't those the same assholes that wouldn't let us enter Iraq through their country? Aren't those the same ones that we had PR problems with b/c they promised not to enter Iraq and then we busted their SF guys doing missions up on the Iraqi border (I know b/c my husband's platoon busted them)..oh yeah but let's train them up and give them slots my husband could have had... it's bullshit.. the US Army needs to pull it's head out of its ass and start addressing the real issues it faces... so with an ATAR slot it looks like July for Ranger school it is.. unless they decided to screw around again..in which case my husband might be looking for another career...
So we're hoping here that June is better...keep your fingers crossed for us... and to all the support and love we've received from family and friends.. thank you so much..we love you all ciao