Personal Narrative: My Interest In The Military

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When I was younger I always played pretend that I was in the military doing heroic deeds to save hundreds of people and those that I loved. I think my interest into the military was sparked when I found out that both my grandfathers had been in the Army during the Vietnam conflict, I always tried to get them to talk about their days in the service but they would never talk to me about it. One of my grandfathers was an interrogations officer and the other was a military police officer. There was also this electrician that I met where his dream was to be a tank operator but his family convinced him to change his mind and he told me that it was his biggest mistake listening to his family instead of going into the service. I chose the Army because

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