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Puhaha

High School Play

I was a Marine with 1/1 Weapons Company, 81's platoon, out in Camp Pendleton, California
I joined a few months after September 11, feeling like I think most people in the country did at the time filled with a sense of patriotism and retribution
and the desire to do something that, coupled with the fact that I wasn't doing anything
I was 17, just graduated from high school that past summer, living in the back room of my parents' house paying rent,
in the small town I was raised in Northern Indiana called Mishawaka
I can spell that later for people who are interested
Mishawaka is many good things but cultural hub of the world it is not, so my only exposure to theater and film was limited to the plays I did in high school and
and Blockbuster Video, may she rest in peace
I was serious enough about acting that I auditioned for Juilliard when I was a senior in high school
didn't get in, determined college wasn't for me and applied nowhere else, which was a genius move
I also did that Hail Mary LA acting odyssey that I always heard stories about, of actors moving to LA with, like, seven dollars and finding work and successful careers. I got as far as Amarillo, Texas,
before my car broke down. I spent all my money repairing it, finally made it to Santa Monica, not even LA
stayed for 48 hours wandering the beach, basically got in my car, drove home thus ending my acting career, so
Seventeen, Mishawaka, parents' house, paying rent, selling vacuums
telemarketing, cutting grass at the local 4H fairgrounds. This was my world going into September, 2001
So after the 11th, and feeling an overwhelming sense of duty,
and just being pissed off in general at myself, my parents, the government, you know not having confidence, not having a respectable job,
my shitty mini fridge that I just drove to California and back
I joined the Marine Corps and loved it. I loved being a Marine. It's one of the things I'm most proud of having done in my life
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