With her husband deployed, Jenny Munoz finds war is far from
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Overcome with emotion  "Momma, I wanna go upstairs now!"  It's
just before dinner, and Emma gets a time out.  But the 8-year-
old's recent tantrum is an improvement over how things have been
in the Munoz household. She's been acting out a lot since her
father, Freddy Munoz, left for the Middle East.  More: Video |
Photos | Special Section  Munoz, 31, is one of the roughly 2,400
members of the Minnesota National Guard's 1st Brigade Combat
Team, 34th Infantry Division — the Red Bulls — stationed in in
Kuwait and helping the U.S. military leave Iraq. He won't return
to Minnesota until May.  Until then, his wife Jenny will be a
single parent to Emma and her six-year-old sister, Ezsie, their
two foster daughters.  "It's really hard to be the mom and the
dad," Jenny Munoz says. "It really is."  Feeling the stress
With Freddy gone, Jenny must raise the two girls, work and
navigate the complic