How did your service and experiences affect your life?

mad me better and more self reliant Person ... more competent and more capable ... wise and experienced...
Taught me to see the People and their actions for who and what they are... made me a better Judge of character ... and people
and made me far more tolerant of others ... maybe More than I really should be...

Well it taught me that life was too short to wait. So I got married and started a family instead of putting it off any longer.