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^- I am a sergeant.

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^My name is Sara Wightwick.

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^I'm from Hatfield, Pennsylvania, a very small town.

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I'm a Wounded Warrior Battalion East

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on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

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My sister and I always wanted to join the military.

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It was something we wanted to do because we were always

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attracted to it.

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Something that we both had a passion for

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and we both actually deployed together in Afghanistan.

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I try to educate a lot of marines about the kind of stuff

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that happened to me, the same way that I found out

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about it.

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I was hiking and I was adjusting the pack the way

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I usually do, and all of a sudden my arms were going numb,

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and my back was seizing.

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We all have something to give to each other

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and we all have a lot of stories, and we have a lot

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of information about

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our own situations.

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I am participating in archery and I'm participating

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in swimming at the Marine Corps Trials.

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I enjoy archery the most.

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I've never done it before.

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Everyone's really friendly.

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The coaches are really intuitive.

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They've been teaching us a lot.

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We've been making a lot of friends, a lot of international

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friends, and definitely got to have a lot

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of fun conversations, got to have a lot of memories

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and photos and things like that.

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I love the Marine Corps regardless of whatever,

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everything that happened to me, I still love

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the Marine Corps and I always will.