| Don't be in too much of a hurry to get there. I thought for sure I would be getting my CIB in Iraq. But fate works in mysterious ways. All of my boys got to go, and I got a $350,000 dollar education dropped in my lap. I feel really bad that I am not there with them, but in a few years I will be an LT. I am off to bigger and better things. I was afraid that I was missing my shot at combat. But there will always be more. I'll get it next time it comes around. Being a joe is a game for the young. I will be 20 in November. Coming up on three years in, my body is already feeling the bangs and bruises from the past two and a half years. I can only imagine what I'll be feeling after a few more.
Moral of the story, don't be in a rush. Trust me, I was. I enlisted a month after I turned seventeen. Take it nice and slow.
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If Heaven I cannot bend then Hell I will stur.
-James Otis
We must give them the bayonet!
-Gen. Thomas Jackson
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