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My mother's brother was killed in Belgium. My mother was the first Black WAC from Chicago in WWII . My brother did two tours in Nam, and died a year ago from AO effects. My younger sister got AO'd in the Philippines, and her husband got AO'd a year later in Nam. All three of them have physical, mental and emotional issues. Me? I'm just generally screwed up in the head, but I was born that way.
Bottom line, we don't need influence to take the oath and join the military. We just do it because it's right and necessary.

I was a war baby from Georgia and took time in the military for granted, took advanced ROTC for the money, and at the time, I didn't consider the oath or war to be sin.

I always wanted to go into the Military since I was a little girl. Walking with my dad, by the military iron swinging advertising boards outside our local post office, I would stand & salute and my dad would chuckle, I always kept that love of country and excitment of joinging inside me. My dad served in WWII and I looked up to him very much and he was supportive of my decision to enter the Air Force after I graduated from high school. My mom, not so much, she didn't want her daughter going into the service. I loved it and glad I went and mom and dad were both proud of me.

My Dad. I wanted to be like him and he taught me some of the principles I needed. He taught me about duty, honor, and commitment. My Dad taught me that God comes first and 2nd was family and then Country. My oldest son tattooed God Family Country under a cross on the back of his shoulder. There were other influences but by far my Dad was the strongest.

I always wanted to go into the Military since I was a little girl. Walking with my dad, by the military iron swinging advertising boards outside our local post office, I would stand & salute and my dad would chuckle, I always kept that love of country and excitment of joinging inside me. My dad served in WWII and I looked up to him very much and he was supported of my decision to enter the Air Force after I graduated from high school. My mom, not so much, she didn't want her daughter going into the service. I loved it and glad I went.

I filled out a ROTC post card when I went to Wheaton College. Plus my dad and grandpa were in the military.

What a great idea

For me it was to get myself straightened out. I was too wild

My hero, my dad. He joined during WWII after lying about his age, and then went to Korea. He was incredibly humble and incredibly patriotic. He instilled in me patriotism, honor and commitment. I paid my way through college then joined the Navy. I hope I made him proud.

Grandfather was an artillery during World War II father was a Captain in the Army Air corps during World War II, one uncle was a major in Army artillery, and another uncle was a major in the Army Corps of Engineers. I was Intelligence liaison with The Phoenix Program in Vietnam, three months as a Divisions RTO graveyard shift, and six months as an aerial observer in a bird dog 01.