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This is a writing from a prompt in a class to pick one event which helped shape your life. It is all true, and probably a terrible poem, but a decision that literally saved my life.

The summer before my senior year, at 16

I walked a block from my school, on a whim, 

into an office nearby 

and started a conversation

with a man whose name

I can't recall.

In just a few days 

I was in a hotel in Boston.

A young suburban boy

in a city I did not yet know.

I took a test.

My health was checked.

I was given a job.

In just a few weeks

I had shiny boots,

a new haircut,

and a uniform.

I was being groomed for

Basic training and learning

how to act until then.

See, there is this program

called early enrollment

where they put you to work

before you're trained to do it.

So once a month between 

classes and teen life, I was

a military-owned

civil engineer.

In just a few months,

I began to doubt my motives

and the path I was on.

The quickest way out 

of my parents house

is hardly a proper reason

to make a decision

such as this.

But there I was

17 and green

A rebel in uniform

wondering if I had

just betrayed myself.

Where there is a will though,

there is always a way. I

searched and researched,

and learned of a loophole

and jumped right through.

I had no idea if

What I had just done 

was right 

until 

just three months later;

as my country's fear rose..

as the twin towers fell.

See, I was supposed to leave

June 11th, 5 days after

Graduation. I would have

finished my training in

October of

2011.

Author's Note

True story about myself and how I almost ended up locked into ten years of combat after signing up for four. I would not be here now had this played out differently.

Reviews

[Sam]

Good Job! Your details make a flow to your piece of writing! :)