Keeping love in the war

Alexis Kowaleski
With the war in Iraq many young soldiers leave loved ones behind to worry.

Wixom senior Trystyn McCarthy is not only part of Central Michigan’s ROTC Army program, she is also married to a recent CMU and ROTC graduate Tim McCarthy, who will be shipping off to Iraq in June.

“I think because I am in the Army too that I don’t worry as much about Tim leaving, I know he’ll be alright,” Trystyn said.

The couple was married April 20, 2007 after Tim graduated, while Trystyn still had a year of school and a semester of student teaching.

“I wanted to marry her, there was no thought about rushing into anything because we didn’t,” Tim said.

Though they seem young to be married, Trystyn still being in school and the two had only dated for a year before their engagement, the two believe that waiting for something they both knew was going to happen was pointless.

The hardest part however seems to be the separation, while Trystyn is still at CMU, Tim lives in Copperas Cove, Texas where he is active duty military at Fort Hood.

“There are times that we won’t talk for days and that gets hard but I do fly out there as much as I can afford to do,” Trystyn said. “When we do talk or see each other we really soak up every minute.”

Though it may be several years before the McCarthy’s are able to live a normal married life after the military, they are willing to wait.

“He’ll deploy for a year and then when he gets back I’ll be deploying, it’s going to be hard but I don’t care, I can wait, I’ll do what I signed up to do so I can live a life I fought to protect.”