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Tell me about your time in the Marine Corps while we're talking here. Oh jeez

Well, that I tell you you know

It really starts back to my dad you told me that yeah, yeah

And part of the reason of the Marine was my

Grand Paws brother died in World War 2 and I

Saw his black and white photograph on the wall a lot and that inspired me

You know every time you visit grandma, which I only saw my grandma grandpa once every four years because we lived on opposite ends of the coast so yeah

You know, but it was something that the whole family respected and it was you know probably

Like they didn't talk about him that much if at all, but it was

It was

The hero and the family if you will kind of thing and so on my own when I was young

I just started trying to research and figure out like okay

Who's he with what he do where to go and all that because no one would tell me anything so I just tried to research books and

Unit identification and all that stuff so

When I was about 12. I don't know how this guy got it this recruiter

Sent me a flyer in the mail and said hey, you know if you sign up for the Marines

Give me a call and here's a sticker and an iron on Marine Corps logo you can put on a t-shirt have your money and do and I said thank you

And I said yeah, it Marines interest me and so he suddenly got all amped up like I got I got one

He didn't know how old I was and came over to the house

And my dad's like what's going on here? Yeah, no, I hear that your son is interested in joining the Marines

I'm like come over and he's all dressed up. Yeah, and

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