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All right . I'm specialist , I'm

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Specialist Jonathan Lyles 1165th

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Military Police Company Mobile Alabama .

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I was in fifth grade in elementary

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school at castle in elementary in grand

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bay Alabama and we're at gym class and

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the teachers came out and pulled us out

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from our class and walked us back to

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our classroom and rolled on tv in front

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of us and showed us a video . And then

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after that everybody started their

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parents came up and uh , got him out of

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school . A bunch of people did , but

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his mind wouldn't come and get me

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because I'm not sick . So she just left

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me up there until school that out . But

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where it was like , it kind of ,

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it's like the only line of defense .

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You know , it's somebody messed with us .

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There are the people that come over and

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take care of it And I always wanted to

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be a part of that . I wanted to get

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back at somebody that did that to us .

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It is the decision . Uh , I promised

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myself since I was in fifth grade that

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I was , you know , do whatever it takes

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to join the military of some sort and

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come overseas and try to do my part and

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changing . Well ,

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it's like Right after 9 11 you'll see

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people flying flags outside their

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houses everywhere you go . People being

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all together more patriotic and no , a

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big family pretty much it did as

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like that's like I said before , as

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soon as it happened , wanted to listen

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to the military and I was going by

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wearing like red , white and blue on me

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and a little fifth grader wearing

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walking around wearing red , white ,

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blue oil everywhere . Yes , we've

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developed more tactics to before , you

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know , we were in a we've

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never fought really in this type of

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warfare before , I guess . I don't know

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really , but you learn more

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tactics , stuff like that .