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The reason why I joined the army was

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really for my grandpa . Uh , he talked

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highly of it . Ok . He said it was some

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of his worst and best days . And you're

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looking forward to those , um , worst

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and best days you said he was in

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Vietnam ? Ok . Wow , that's good stuff .

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Ok . So that was one of the , you know ,

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to continue on the tradition . You ,

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you join the military . You know , I

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really just did it for him . I learned

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that I'm a lot tougher than I thought I

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was . I used to like , when I got it ,

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when I was done with wrestling , I got

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kind of scared and timid . Ok . So I

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would like back out of things and I

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wouldn't , like , go all the way

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through . Well , now I'm learning , I

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can do more than I thought I could . My

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goal is to get as far as I can . And uh

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I want my grandpa used to say if you're

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gonna do something be the best at it .

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So I want to get the best I can . All

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right , what is the hardest part of

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being away from home ? And how do you

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cope with it , uh , really ,

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just not being able to see my , my

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close family and my mom , they hang out

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and missing all the birthdays and all

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the Christmas and all the holidays .

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Kind of tough . Especially on

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deployment . Huh . I cope with it by

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making friends , like the people that I

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joined here with and went through

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everything with . They really become

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like a second family to me so I can

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really rely on them and I hang out with

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them and they really help me cope .

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That's good . That's good .