I get really frustrated sometimes because I feel like we're really fighting the other forgotten war -- when I got home for leave, a lot of my friends were joking that Afghanistan wasn't that bad -- they just didn't even know.

And they don't know that it's not all bad we're doing good things -- we're training the Afghan people to do better for their country, to fight against the people that aren't going to do them any good -- Nobody understands that we were doing good over there -- that it wasn't just going outside of the wire and killing people.

I got this tattoo in November of 2007, at the Lucky Dog Tattoo Shop in Seaside. Bob Roughton did it. I took my boyfriend out with me, he got a little tattoo too, then four hours later, I got mine.

It was kind of sunny down in seaside, which is unusual, so we went down to the beach. I used to live there for 14 years, so it was a lot of me getting caught up on what had changed and what it looked like. We walked on the beach, went and looked at my old house and then went to dinner.