
- 256 pages
- English
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I Married a Soldier
About this book
"I warned you Brenda, that's what you get for dating a soldier - heartache. A life of heartache." It's an army spouse's worst nightmare. It's what you fear more than anything. But fear cannot prepare you for the reality, or the desperate heartache. I Married a Soldier tells the deeply moving, true story of Brenda Hale whose husband, Mark, was taken from her in an instant while serving in Afghanistan. In the midst of the grief, distress, and financial confusion caused by Mark's death, Brenda became determined to fight for the rights of her two daughters and their futures. Her campaigning to support bereaved forces families eventually led her into politics, where she rose to be a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. This is the powerful story of how one woman found a way through an event that threatened to crush her, by drawing on her faith in God and on a personal strength she didn't know she had.
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Acknowledgments from Rachel Farmer
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: July 2009 ... a time to rest
- Chapter 2: February 1985, Northern Ireland ... a time to dance
- Chapter 3: July 1987, Bournemouth ... a time to love
- Chapter 4: December 1987, Poole, Dorset ... a time to begin
- Chapter 5: 1990, Dorset ... a time to believe
- Chapter 6: September 1992, Werl, Germany ... a time to wait
- Chapter 7: January 1994: Werl, Germany ... a time to embrace
- Chapter 8: December 1996, Plymouth ... a time to learn
- Chapter 9: September 2000, Twickenham ... a time to be born
- Chapter 10: September 2001, Twickenham ... a time to fight
- Chapter 11: July 2002, Northern Ireland ... a time to grieve
- Chapter 12: 2004, Northern Ireland ... a time to dream
- Chapter 13: 2006, Dromara, Northern Ireland ... a time to treasure
- Chapter 14: July 2009, Dromara ... a time to be still
- Chapter 15: July 2009 ... a time to laugh
- Chapter 16: July 2009 ... a time to leave
- Chapter 17: August 2009 ... a time to hope
- Chapter 18: Thursday 13 August 2009 ... a time to die
- Chapter 19: 13 August 2009 ... a time to cry
- Chapter 20: 18 August 2009 ... a time to mourn
- Chapter 21: 18 August 2009 ... a time to weep
- Chapter 22: 1 September 2009 ... a time to honour
- Chapter 23: October 2009 ... a time to pray
- Chapter 24: November 2009 ... a time to remember
- Chapter 25: April 2010 ... a time to speak up
- Chapter 26: May 2010 ... a time to uproot
- Chapter 27: December 2010 ... a time to plant
- Chapter 28: May 2011 ... a time to start
- Epilogue: September 2016 ... a time to reflect