Personal Narrative: My Father In The USAr Force

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The environment I was raised in was kind that teaches some people the “Yes ma’am, no ma’am, yes sir, no sir” kind of manners. Growing up, my father was in the U.S. Air Force at the time, meaning that I never get to stay one place my entire life. I went from being in San Antonio for almost a good 2 years, then my father was stationed in Fairfield, California, so we had to move there and that’s where I more or less spent my childhood. Then my father was stationed back to San Antonio, so we moved back to my birth state. My family was interesting. I’ve had both my parents from the start, but as said before, my father was a part of the U.S. Air Force, so there were times where he wasn’t around because of work. For almost exactly 2 years, I’ve

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