Me leading Delta company! Left! Left! Left right! Right! Right left! My first sergeant’s voice filled my ears - The cadence ringing...

This article was sent to us by Natalie S., an eighth grader stationed in Texas. Do you have a story to share with your fellow military...

The song "Home" by Phillip Phillips is one I was raised on, and it has always resonated with me. The meaning of this song is so close to...

Four years ago, in mid-January, my family PCSed from coastal California, where it was around 60 degrees all year, to our current home in...

Growing up at the intersection of military and civilian life, I've learned that identity is rarely a simple narrative. Living between two worlds—the military world and the civilian world—has profoundly changed my worldview. In the military world, service is more than a profession; it's a profound commitment etched into the fabric of daily life. Pride isn't just an emotion, but a lived experience of sacrifice, resilience, and collective purpose. Watching my father serve for al

This article was sent to us by Natalie S., an eighth grader stationed in Texas. Do you have a story to share with your fellow military...

At the intersection of family service and national policy, military teens have a complex but often unrecognized magnitude of expertise and past experiences. However, our experiences and wealth of knowledge are often not fully utilized. From a young age, I’ve understood that military-related decisions are made far away and by individuals who are far more important than myself. These policies drafted in distant conference rooms have rippled through our lives like silent waves,

It begins with the desire to reconnect - to relive old memories and share new experiences. But as you stare at your phone, you're met...

Being stationed abroad during the holiday season can be received with mixed emotions. Some people love it, taking it as an opportunity to...

If anyone’s spent a few hours around the military, they’ve likely discovered that it’s filled (and I mean FILLED) with special jargon and...

Moving to Spain in sixth grade, as a very musical person, I doubted there would be many opportunities to continue doing what I loved....

Living on a military base - especially overseas - and living within the civilian side of the US economy are two very different things....

This article was sent to us by Emma H., a college freshman stationed in Nashville, Tennessee. Do you have a story to share with your...

About a year ago, I wrote this article reflecting on what community service meant as a high school student. Particularly, I wrote from the perspective of an individual who did not feel like a true member of their local community after having lived there for only three non-consecutive years. Finding an online community of military-connected teens through Bloom was huge for me – and also how I met my service hours requirement for civics. I’m now in my second year of college, wh

This article was sent to us by Natalie S., an eighth grader stationed in Texas. Do you have a story to share with your fellow military...

Seven years ago, a fourth-grade girl standing alone in a library curiously picked up a volume titled Global Warming. As she flipped...

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. The early bird gets the worm. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. ...

I’m no stranger to changing neighborhoods and schools, having nine of each under my belt. The transition is always tough, but as an...

I’ve always been fascinated with the Red String Theory. As a kid, I imagined having a little red string tied around my finger, wrapping around the world and tangling in knots over places in my memory, eventually creating a loom where a tapestry keeps growing in length. The Red String Theory, a belief from East Asian mythology, believes that people who are destined to be present in each other’s lives are connected by a red string, and life will bring them to meet again despite

This summer, I had the opportunity to attend an American Legion Auxiliary Girls State program in Missouri. The program consisted of...