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New Environment can be Difficult

I knew that day was coming with medically released and that was fine with me. I was down a different path now away so I was given a chance to have schooling paid for me through SISIP Program so I went and went into college. But I found what was difficult was after injury and those three years til 2000, but then after 2000 when I was medically released and out, released from the military and away from the military that’s when I found it difficult because you are not in that environment anymore and it’s such a close-knit, tight unit that once you’re gone from it, it’s away. After injury I went in as a golf profession so I was a professional golfer and it was a lot of work through rehab because I picked golf and it’s a great sport for me cause it helped with of course stability and getting myself out, out of the house so I wasn’t stuck in the house anymore. So that journey to the point now, you know, it’s twenty years this year that I was injured, coming up in November. To be chosen to be an assistant, sorry, the coach of the golf team for these injured soldiers that are participating in the Invictus Games, I can see in a lot of them what I went through maybe fifteen years ago.

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