Personal Narrative: My Interview With The Veterans Project

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I interviewed Jared Crecraft for the Veterans project. Jared is 27 years old and just recently married. Jared has been in the military since he was 20 years old. Jared is my cousin's husband and I interviewed him over facetime. Jared is working in Arizona right now and has been for about 4 months and will continue until an opportunity closer to Ohio pops up. His wife, Alicia, is not in the military but travels with him to all the states he goes. He is in the Air Force and is apart of the “Low Observable Structural Maintenance”, in other words, he fixes planes and jets. Jared was honored but very tired when I interviewed him because he just got off of night shift. The first things we talked about were why he joined the military and the

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