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My name is Harley Felchner and I'm from

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Jacksonville North Carolina . So real

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close to Camp Lejeune . I'm 19 years

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old . I know both of my

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grandfathers were in the military . My

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great grandfather was in the military .

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Most of my uncles have been in the

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military and I have a couple cousins

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that have been in the military as well .

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I joined the marine corps because I

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figured I kind of wanted to live up to

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my grandparents and my uncles , right ?

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You know , I had one grandparent in

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Vietnam . My great grandfather was in

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World War II . My other grandfather ,

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he was in Iraq during the 80's I want

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to believe and then my uncles , my

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cousins just been filling in the gaps

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ever since . So I figured I'd be the

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first one of this generation to do it .

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Mm My favorite parts of boot camp were

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probably doing some things that I was

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terrified of like the repel tower or

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jumping off of the like 10 15 m

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tower for swim qual . I believe that my

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mother and my grandfather coming to

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graduation .

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So when I first found out that my

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family would be able to be here , I was

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just super , super happy , super

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related . Uh , I remember I called , I

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called my mother to tell her what was

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happening and we both cried for like a

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minute while I was on the phone . Um ,

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and then as , as time goes on and I

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started thinking about it more , I

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started , I started to feel like a

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little proud of it because it's , I

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mean this is the first , this first

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class that's had a graduation since

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coronavirus . And I heard the last time

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that , that nobody was allowed on the

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island was for the Vietnam War . So , I

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mean , that's like that's making

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history . That's pretty cool .

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Yeah .

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All right .