Stephanie Smith is grateful her Marine Corps husband Paul will
be paid during the government shutdown.  But the shutdown has
hurt military families, like hers, in countless other ways.
Childcare programs have been scratched, subsidized military
grocery stores are closed, non-essential medical care has been
cut back, and kids' sports programs have been canceled.  That
means the Smith family grocery bill will go up by $200 a month
if the shutdown lasts that long.  But what hurts most for Smith
is the cancellation of the soccer program for her daughters,
aged 12, 9 and 5. For her, it's those little things that count
-- the glue that holds a hard military life together. Like many
military families, hers also has to constantly move locations
and suffer through years without seeing her husband, who was
most recently deployed in Afghanistan.  "My girls are amazing.
They've been through four deployments and countless moves," said
Smith, 30, who lives at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton,
California.  "To take awa