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- There was a story that my
father told me growing up.

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(dramatic orchestral music)

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He said there were these two
gentlemen sitting on a porch

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having a conversation.

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(all shouting)

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There was a dog laying
out in the yard but this

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dog was crying

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(footsteps)

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and so the guy looks over to his

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buddy and says "Hey man,
why is that dog laying out

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in the yard crying?"

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(all shouting)

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And he says "Oh, he's
just laying on a nail"

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(all shouting)

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"Why doesn't the dog just
get up off the nail?"

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(all shouting)

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He's like "Oh, because
the nail's not sticking

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him hard enough."

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(grunts loudly)

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And what I mean by that
is, I mean a lot of

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individuals, they'll complain about their

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situations and their
circumstances and they'll

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never get up and do anything about it.

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Future Marines Velazquez
has saw that there was

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a problem and he got up
off that nail and he's

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doing something about it.

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- People tell me "Why you join the

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armed forces?"

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People keep like doubting me

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Even though I almost
and I just don't want to

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do that anymore.

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My Mom has to work a lot
in order to pay rent,

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food, and everything.

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So we have to like, move
a lot, we have like,

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problems with other
people and so we end up

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moving here to get away
from all those problems

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and still we end up in problems with money

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and stuff like that.

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It was like very hard,
I felt like I couldn't

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do it. It's like, too hard.

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I was thinking that, My
Mom risked everything to

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give me a better life
and might as well do the

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same for her.

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She's a little worried
but she's supportive,

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it will be worth it in the end.