I wonder if his deployment was ten months ago. Just wondering...

Then you wonder like an idiot. What a asinine thing to say. And you got a vote for it. So someone else here is as big an ass as you are.

@verno: Sometimes this sort of thing happens... Maybe to your mom.

Actually, you'd be disgusted by how many times a soldier comes home to his wife who is pregnant. Nine months pregnant, in fact, and he's been gone for ten. Or eleven, or twelve. Most of the time, this doesn't register with them because they don't really notice; after being away for a year in combat deployment, you're so tired and glad to be home and oftentimes ecstatic about being a father that the time itself doesn't really register. Some don't even notice it, EVER. Most of them just assume it was from that "goodbye-sex" they had. But really, it's pretty disgusting when that sort of thing happens, and it's happened quite a few times, too, which is even more disgusting.

I would not be disgusted because I am not into blame. Loneliness, sadness, worry, anxiety - all these things can cause many things to come about that under normal circumstances wouldn't.

Wow! I hope the soldier isn't reading these comments. What a disgusting thing to write! This guy doesn't deserve to have people write terrible things about his new family like that. (So what if that happens!) It hasn't happened here. All that has happened her is a guy who served our country in the military got home in time to watch his wife have his baby!

End of story pigs!

I made this the first story I read this morning because I wanted to start the day on a happy, positive note...and the story didn't let me down.

Would like to second 'schoolyard' in thanking Staff Sgt Nunes for his service...and his wife also. We seem to forget that there is someone at home 'serving' in one way or another while a loved one is away in service to our country.

I'm with you again, schoolyard, in wishing the best to the new Nunes family.

HP, cry me a river. There are a lot of us like that, but we don't whine about it.

For crying out loud HP. Get over it. I did three ship board deployments (immediately after NAM) and never talked to a soul and had to wait weeks for letters to arrive. It was what it was and I also remember the "dogs and sailors keep off the grass signs." I dont whine about it. If the WW2 Vet generation is the greatest, then the NAM generation is getting to the point of having a very undignified label attached to it. I swear that even I who remember what you NAM guys went through and have always had the highest regard and sympathy am starting to get tired of it. Get over it, move on, and enjoy a good story; or just hit the bottle, sit in a corner and shut up!

My daughter is in the Coast Guard and my son is a Marine, and I would tell them both exactly the same thing.

Tom / USN

You get over it . The Vietnam war was a draft war . Many of the soldiers did not want to go to war and either were in danger of getting draft notices or got said notices. The Gingrich running for office got an exemption for some childhood illness that he didn't have as an Adult . Clinton got a political exemption . The poor and for the most part those not politically connected were the soldiers , not the officers. Today soldier is given a sign up bonus . He is given a decent salary, and he or she is totally a volunteer . They get their private MOS . They pick , not the service . If you want to forget history and the shame of anyone serving their country as I was part of that shame , this is your choice , but don"t tell anyone who live through it and was part of this Am Shame casting on soldiers , to get over it . I guess if you had your wife die , you saving stolen , and you assaulted with bullet in you somewhere that could not come out , you might have someone say to you get over it . Right , everyone should move on because you don't want to hear about it . This was the way it was in Nazi Germany . The friend and neighbors of those going to the gas chambers were told to get over it , and there associations with Jews and Catholics were to get gotten over immediately , and they all got over it very fast . Even today the German say we are sorry , and this means they are over it . Get it , the say they are sorry , but they make no attempt re build the families they destroyed or killed .