Soldier in the Making

September 11, 2001 0700 EST I am sitting on my bed, my girlfriend has stopped by my parents place, (whom I still lived with at the time), to see me before she went off to school. I turn on the TV in my bedroom and change it to a local news station. What I see is utterly gutwrenching. The camera is panned in on one of the WTC buildings, it is smoking horribly and there is a gaping hole in the side of it. My first reaction could be described as shock. I didn’t really know what had happened. In the next few hours I found out. WE WERE AT WAR. The next year could be described as training for what was to come. I spent the next 11 months working full-time, knowing what the end result was going to be…military service. I wanted to defend my country from the monsters who had attacked it.

I was constantly working. When I wasn’t working, I was preparing myself. I had already chosen my MOS. I wanted to be a Forward Artillery Observer. I wanted to be in the grind, to battle first hand with those whom had so savagely attacked the country I love so dearly. I entered military service (no kidding) on September 11, 2002. It was the first sign of things to come. Since then I have become a Master Sergeant in my service (Army). I am currently in my 9th year of service and I see no signs of leaving anytime soon. 9/11 made me a man essentially. I am defending my country and fighting a war that may never come to an end. I wouldn’t change anything I have done over the last 9 years for all the money on the planet.


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