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Summary: Etiquette, Schmetticit!
Review: Perhaps Officers Wives will find this book helpful. In all my years as an Army Wife I have NEVER needed to know any of this stuff. I have never made an invitation, I have never needed to know about calling cards or recieving lines... Mostly the people who matter that I would need to impress pay no attention to me. They don't care about myself or my husband enough to come to our tiny base house and check to make sure the place setting is correct. I find it hard to believe that any man knows what a correct place setting looks like anyway. It's true that I don't know anything about going to a ball: my husband has been deployed for the last 5 of them so I have never been able to go. As far as etiquette goes, I am polite to his superiors when they pay attention to me. Thats all I really need to know. I resent the fact that I am somehow considered a "bad wife" for not caring so much about the Army that I act like someone I'm not. I think officers wives need to live in enlisted shoes for a while before they can say that the "young know it alls" are making their husbands look like idiots and ruining the Army. They don't have the slightest idea about the Army. The Army is not only about "socials and protocol" like the officers wives seem to think. No one seems to care about the enlisted guys, and that is why most of them don't seem to care about etiquette. What is the point of having perfect etiquitte when no one is paying attention to you anyway??? The fact is the enlisted folks keep the whole Army running. They would do fine without the officers... what would they do without us?
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