Some families at Fort Hood reacted with anger and frustration Wednesday to the announcement that their soldiers will be staying even longer in Iraq."A year is so long apart you hardly know your husband. Now they're making it longer?" said Nichol Spencer, whose husband is a soldier at Fort Hood.Spencer is a former soldier who said the couple liked military life. But she said the constant rotations have soured them and put their marriage under duress."At this point, it seems ridiculous for the United States to be in the middle of another country's civil war," she said, "but I guess the president has absolute power over this." Download complete article in PDF format.
