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What does being a father mean to you ?

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What being a father means to me is

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being a positive male role model , uh

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striking the balance between your work

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life and your personal life and take

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sacrifice . So being able to be a

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positive male role model uh throughout

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the day and then come home and be a

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positive role model for your son or

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daughter . That's what being a father

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means to me . Being a father ,

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it means everything to me . It means

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setting up another generation . But

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taking what I've learned from my life

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experiences and passing that on to my

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Children who will then pass it on to

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hopefully their Children and building

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that generational wealth for a better

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future . Being a father means to

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me , it's

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sacrifice , you uh sacrifice kind of

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your own needs and wants for your kids

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to provide a , a better life for them .

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And I think that kinda led to a lot of

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the decisions I made to become a marine .

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And , you know , I want them to have a

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better future than upbringing than I

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did , you know , coming up . So

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sacrifice being a father means

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sacrifice . Being a father uh means

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attitude , taking care of my two

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boys and showing them that respect

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matters and teaching them how to

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respect themselves and respect others

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inside their community . Uh making sure

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everyone's , you know , taken care of

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and in the right head space at home , I ,

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you know , I try to instill those

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values into them . I want to make sure

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they're upstanding members of the

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community and I just do everything in

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my power to make sure that happens

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every day is my biggest joy . It's uh

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the honor to have the opportunity um to

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raise two beautiful Children um in this

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world um to be able to take care of

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them um in which it means

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responsibility . It means

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it's just an internal love that I can't

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even describe . Um it just means to ,

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it means the world to the families of

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recruiting station Cleveland . The

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sacrifices that our marines make on a

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daily basis contribute toward the

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continual success that we feel as a

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family take some time today to thank

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the fathers that we have across our

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command to thank them for all they do

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for our family and for yours to the

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marines from one dad to another . Happy

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Father's Day .