KILLEEN DAILY HERALD | SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2024
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Nebraska native married high school sweetheart, spent three decades as a soldier’s wife Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Fort Cavazos Herald last fall.
of my decisions. I had to remind him about that class he took,” she said, laughing. Cassandra grew up in Omaha BY JOHN CLARK with two sisters and two brothHERALD CORRESPONDENT ers. Her father was a welder. She graduated from high school in CORYELL COUNTY — Since 1981, and at that time, she did earning her master’s degree in not have any solid plans lined 2018, longtime military spouse out for the future. She had been Cassandra Core-Holt has dating a young man named Kelworked as a licensed marriage vin Holt for three years — 10th, and family therapist associate, 11th, 12th grades — and when and she remembers a time long they decided to go their separate ago when she and her U.S. Army ways after school, he decided to pilot husband might have benjoin the military. efited from a little counseling. “I was working and he was “One issue military famiin the National Guard,” Caslies have is when the soldier sandra said. “We had broken up is away, the spouse takes over – I think it was a mutual thing everything,” the Coryell County – and he joined the military to resident originally from Omaha, get away from me. He did not Nebraska, said. “When the want to live in the same town I soldier comes back, they have to was in and see me with someone go through a class – or they used else. to have to go through a class “We got back together before – that tells them, OK, when you he left (for basic training), so try and re-integrate with your him getting away from me didn’t family, don’t criticize decisions work out. I was busy going to the spouse has made. school and working, so I didn’t “Re-integration is a difficult really think about it until he left. thing for a lot of people. You Then I was sad, but we stayed in have to re-think your roles. If contact.” they have children, the wife is Kelvin headed to Fort Knox, used to taking care of everyKentucky, in 1982, and the young thing with the kids, and then couple got married the following the father wants to come in and year. maybe discipline or something “He was in for about six like that, when things have months and he found out he already been running like a was going to Germany,” Casmachine. They don’t know their sandra said. “So he came back place anymore. to Omaha to visit me and said “One of the first things that PLEASE SEE WIFE, D4 Cassandra and Kelvin Holt have been married since 1983. Mr. Holt did was criticize some
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