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Yeah , I've been on the

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flood duty since it started

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initially . There was a lot of hope

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that we would beat the flood .

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I like a lot of other people in the

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community . You know , I have the same

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questions . You know , what am I going

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to do for housing ? What am I going to

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do to get my family back together just

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to make sure that my life goes on .

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Even to this day I'm living in and a

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borrowed space . My family is living in

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a trailer that somebody was kind enough

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to allow them to use and I'm moving out

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of the armory . There are soldiers

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obviously in the fight from all the

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units here that are in the same

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situation that I'm in the guard as I

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said , has been very generous about

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lighting soldiers that need to come off

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duty come off duty . You know , even

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though that I'm in a situation Where my

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family is also involved in this flood .

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There were 11,000 people in this town

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that need help and those 11,000 people

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rely on us being on duty and doing what

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we do . Um , and that's kind of my

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motivation to continue to do what I do .

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Some of it may even be a little selfish .

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You know , it gives me something to do .

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I can't get right up to my home yet ,

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but I think , uh , this is a hometown

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to two units . So there are units that

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have real personal attachment to this

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fight that is going on . This isn't

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something that's happening halfway

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around the world , this is our backyard .

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This is what we trained to do . We

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make ourselves available to assist in

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times of emergency . It is one of

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our motivating factors that we are so

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personally tied into this mission to

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ensure that we're out there doing the

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best that we can do for this community

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and make sure that might not rebound .

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Yeah , I have people constantly coming

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up to me asking , Hey , first started ,

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how's it going ? How's your house doing ?

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How's your family doing ? Hey , how's

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it going ? Those people are always

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available to kind of check me . So when

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I'm having a bad day , somebody can let

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me know , Hey , first started , You

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know , maybe maybe you need to step

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back and take a breath . And it's good

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to have those kind of people around you

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also .