They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree.
My parents actually wanted me to join the service.
It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.
And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
It ended up taking eight years to finish college because I got deployed and went overseas.
They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.
I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.
I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.
In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time.
I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.
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