Essay On My Hero Journey

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To start from the beginning, I was born in 1994 on a United States Army Installation in from the state of Tennessee. Apparently, Fort Campbell lies on the Kentucky/Tennessee border; so growing up I never knew which place to say I was born in when asked. I find it pretty cool, though, sort of being born in two places at once, and I am also proud to have been born on an Army base. My father was stationed at Fort Campbell with the 101st Airborne Division, and we lived just off the base in Clarksville, Tennessee. When I was about ten months old my father had served a three-year term and we moved back to West Covina, California. Two of my uncles had made the trip up to Tennessee to help drive the moving truck while my parents drove their car.

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