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When I came to Edgar and I was actually 

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coming off a deployment in Missoula 

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Iraq , I was an army reservist . 

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I actually came into the military 

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because of my role as a teacher . At 

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the time , I was teaching in a rural 

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county and in that county , students 

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needed to see what discipline looked 

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like and how it manifests in your life . 

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And I thought the military would be a 

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great way . So I challenged my then 

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11th and 12th grade english language 

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arts students to join any branch of our 

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US Armed forces and I told them that if 

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they did , I would . Now these are 

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students who are accustomed to adults 

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letting them down and they needed to 

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see an example of an adult that honors 

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his or her word . And so I did . So I 

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actually went to basic training with 

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six of my students . We were all at 

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Fort sill Oklahoma .