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Personal Narrative: Joining The Military
Joining the military was not an easy process. Every day was a constant struggle. There were days when I honestly felt that I would not be experience a new life and adventures than what was concerned normal.

It all began towards the end of junior in high school. I was walking towards the end of the lunch line when a man dressed in a nicely pressed tan shirt and dark blue pants with very shinny shoes approached me with a smile and said “Hello, bud how is it going?” I stopped and looked at him with a concerned facial expression on my face and replied saying “I am fine sir?” With a smile and on his face is laughed and asked if he could have few minutes of my time. I replied “Sure you may” wondering what he was going to say. As I began to approach the table I began to notice a lot of flyers and paper
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I took them put them in my backpack give him a hand shake said “Thank you” and walked away. By the time I tried to get in line for lunch the bell had rang for me to go back to class. Later on that evening while having dinner with my family I told my mother what occurred that day. For a few seconds there was a dead silence at the table. I said “Mom did you hear what I said?” She replied with a puzzled look on her face “Yes I did son”. My mother never mentioned anything about the idea of me joining the military. The following week I saw SSG DelaRosa I spoke to him and made the decision to begin the process of enlisting into the Marine Corps. After that day I saw SSG DelaRosa almost every day. Just when I thought everything was going well SSG DelaRosa slowly began to ignore my phone calls or text messages so by this time I decided that the military was just not for me. So I left things how they were and I continue focusing on graduating from

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