I joined the Navy when I was 19, to combat elements of myself I did not know how to live with. This is something I have had mixed feelings about over the years. I joined during the Forever Wars, which I was strongly opposed to, but my moral code isn't really the reason I washed out during Service School: to quote the Waybacks, "they caught me reading On the Road /and threw me on my ass /there were a bunch of other factors/ which I won't enumerate". Still, it became part of me. The decision to join the Navy led my life in new directions I never could have predicted, and was ultimately a good one. I have never been prouder of it than I was today, when I wore my US Navy uniform hat to join the millions of Americans at No Kings rallies across the country. I was only in for five months. That's five months longer than the man who just wasted 148 million dollars on a giant military parade while waging war on his own citizens in LA. I will continue to do all I can to ...
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