Air Force Veteran

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Well i’m going to start out by first saying that my grandpa is a Air Force Veteran. He had said that the Air Force had changed who he was when he had first started out. He said that it made him grow up and be more responsible and able to do better and be a better person. He was in the Air Force from 1971 to 1988. While he was in the he had earned a lot of ribbons and medals and he was a high rank as well. My grandpa was proud of what he had done, we are all proud of him for what he did for us.

When he had first started out one of his biggest fears was being away from home, he had never been away from home before, until he had joined the Air Force Another one was not knowing what to expect when going in the service. The last fear that he had
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Another was maybe not being able to handle it, also being talk down to, to be built right back up in a new image. In their image to be a better person, to be a better citizen. To be a better soldier so he would be able to fight for our country and not be weak or fail or anything like that. He traveled many places as well on different missions and he was successful at all of …show more content…
It was good for to be able to learn and do stuff quickly because he would be able to do well and succeed in what he did. His weaknesses were: physical inderinsh, also one was being shy and not opening up to people right away. He thought that was one weakness because of his shyness or not opening up maybe he needed to know something and was too shy to ask if he did or not.

He loved what he did for his country and family, he had said that he would do it all over again if he had the chance to. He didn’t want to retire but, he had to. It was his time to retire and return home back to his family that did not travel with him. He had take his wife my grandma, and his two sons with him which is my dad and uncle. I was not born yet at the time he was in or the time he had retired but, when he had told me about his time that he had served it had made me very proud of him. when I had asked him if he loved it, and would he do it all over again he had said yes I

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