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My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

I have family that are vets of the military. My grandfather served as well.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa.

My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.

My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.