Family Network in the Military

One of the things I learned in the military, that family is very important and when I say family I’m not talking about my wife and my children and that thing but I’m talking about the family in the military, you know, that’s very important. When I first got out of the forces I found it really difficult to step back into civilian life because that network of family was no longer there, so that’s one of the things I guess and having said that too, my family is very important to me and I’m talking about my wife and children and my grand-children. They are very important to me but I think that’s where I first learned about family, in the forces. I think that’s the way I see it. The military also learned me to stand up for I guess my rights and I’m not trying to pull the lawyer stuff but to be a man and stand up. I guess when I went into the military too and I never touched on this and I don’t want to make this sound male chauvinist but when I went into the forces to not succeed and get through the military boot camp, I would have been something less than a man and that’s the way I was brought up and I firmly believed that, you know, I couldn’t understand anybody that couldn’t make it, however, so I guess that’s basically it in a nutshell, they taught me to be a man, they taught me what family meant, and you know be able to survive.