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Blog by soldier’s wife chronicled pain of Army life

By Matt Flegenheimer

 |  New York Times  

  March 18, 2012

She detailed her pregnancy, with her husband a world away. She described the pit she got in her stomach from missing him. She wrote of her disappointment after he was passed over for a promotion. But mostly, Karilyn Bales - the wife of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers last week - relayed the simple anguish of life as a military wife, tending to a home with two young children, with a husband summoned for repeated deployments.

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