Pride of Being a Veteran
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Pride of Being a Veteran
It took me a couple of years to actually go and do a Veteran’s
day ceremony again because I had, I had my own issues of,
it’s tough to be injured whether you’re dealing with a mental
health issue or otherwise. And for me as a soldier, you’re not
supposed to get injured. Whether you break your leg jumping out
of an aircraft or whether you’re suffering some type of mental
health issue from experiences overseas, it’s just not supposed
to happen. So there was a certain amount of shame that I
carried with myself that I became injured, but that was only,
that was only a couple of years and now over the last couple
of years I’ve really kind of come into my own that I’m a
Veteran. I think I might go and get myself one of those Veterans
license plates, you know, and hold my head high and get a
poppy tattoo and you know, and kind of, cause these poppy days
and the older generation of the World War Two folks,
they’re moving on and who is going to take over?
You know, flying the flag of Veterans ... it’s me. It’s my
generation. It’s our turn to step up and that sense of pride
now that, you know, I’m a Veteran.
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