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Pershing Cable
56th Field Artillery Brigade
February 1978
Vol. 14, No. 2
Supporting th I /41st. 1/8bt. 3/l,lth Fleld Artllltries and the 2/4tb lnlantry
Pershing Wives:
hove been possible.
Story by Sp4 John Ann Floyd
and Sp4 Den ise Wright
Although eoch woman's probPhotos and Illustrations by
lems ore a little different from
Sp4 Denise Wright
her neighbor's, many of the
EDITOR'S NOTE: Part One of the women hove learned lo cope with
"Pershing Widows" concerns their problems in one way or anmany of the thoughts, problems other. Next month, port two will
and feelings of women about consist of lhe solutions lo some of
being a wife in a Pershing unit.
the many problems faced by the
Many thanks and much appre- wives.
ciation ore extended to all the
Jokes are often made about
wives who toolc the lime lo particwomen whose husbands abandon
ipate in the surveys and inter them
over the weekend to play golf
views needed for this two -par:! or to sit In fron,t of the TV set watchstory. Without your eagerness to Ing football. These women are hubecome involved and inform the morously termed "widows".
community, this article would not
MIiitary wives probably find this
wos built over an Army vehicle. The '99 displayed the Germon and American flogs, o
tlag with the KONTAKT symbol a~ Uncle
Som riding a unicorn, the city symbol. The
theme for the float was "KONTAKT hatches
friendship" which was written In both
German and English along the front of the
float. (Photo by Sgt. Hutton)
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