After recruiters assistance I had to report into SOI west for Marine Combat Training. I graduated MCT twenty one days later. Then I reported into Combat Engineer Instruction course. Spent four months just waiting to pick up the class. April first I got promoted to Private First Class.
I tried to get conscientious objector status but my first sergeant told me he couldn't find the forms to apply and he didn't feel like looking for them. I didn't know about conscientious objector status until about a month before I got orders and that was when I first tried to do it. Shortly after that, I got orders, so I never really got a chance to apply for it. Leaving was kind of like a spur of the moment thing. It was my only option other than live underground in the United States and be running for the rest of my life or go to Canada.
After being Honorably Discharged, I was employed in retail for approximatley ten years. In 1990 I became an LPN, where I continued to work until I fell ill with Cancer. In 2005 cancer free I returned to school. In 2007 I obtained an Associate in Information Technology ; a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology focused on Multimedia-visual communication in 2009. I am currently in my last class working towards an MBA with a focus on Health Care
This was documented and monitored. We could not force Mr A to have a bath or shower but at the same time as careers we have a duty of care . After a week of reviewing this we had noticed that his flannels in his bath room were dry and was evidence that actually he wasn’t even having a strip wash, but he was having a wet shave every other day. We next called in the family and explained to them what was going on. The family said that they had also noticed that
She lets us know that her father is in the Navy and has moved them from Puerto Rico, to Paterson, New Jersey into a tiny apartment referred to as El Building. During this time frame she gives us details of that the first few years were all in shades of gray. This signifies to me a hardship for her family. Her father gave strict orders for them not to socialize with anyone and only to keep to themselves. The only time her mother felt comfortable and spoke to people living in El Building was at the La Bodega.
The second outcome of moving was having a closer relationship with my extended family. Having lived my whole life in the states I never had the chance to develop a close relationship with my family that lived in Hong Kong. Due to the language barrier I remember feeling distant from my extended family when they came over to visit. Neither side knew how to interact with the other. This dilemma did not stop till I realized the importance of language and took the effort to learn Cantonese in hopes of being able to hold a conversion longer than a minute
Cecil R Palmer 99th Infantry Division For over 40 years I seldomed talked about my war-time experiences with anyone except maybe another buddy from my company—they are the only ones that can understand. Life goes on, and you try to forget the horrors of war, try to forget that I was involved in a kill-or-be-killed mode for many months. Was I scared I would die and never see my wife or my parents again? Or never get to see my daughter that was born while I was overseas? You better believe it.
I ran out to our shelter and there was our mum and sister sitting in there but my dad wasn’t. I looked at my mum and she said, “He’s gone.” Suddenly the ground started to shake and then a massive bang, the lights went off and everything was silent. I was clutching onto my sister’s hand, terrified. It’s been a week now since the bomb, we haven’t been outside yet and we have a little bit more food between us since our dad is dead. Our only hope is for the army to save us.
If I felt like I was falling behind on my goal I would walk around aimlessly in my apartment or find reasons to go outside and walk until I reached a step count that I felt more comfortable ending my day at. The first week I had started doing the pedometer assignment I still had not been cleared from my knee injury by my doctor to participate in exercise activities so I did not meet the guidelines of 150 minutes of moderate physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week. I could have been stretching and at least doing resistance training on my upper body but I did not doing any of that either my first week so I also did not meet the guidelines of two to three days of resistance training or stretching 3 plus days per week. At the start of my second week I was finally cleared to start engaging in some physical activity. I met the guidelines of 150 minutes of moderate physical activity and the 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity by participating in cardio 5 days of that week and did a total of 250 minutes of combined vigorous and moderate activity.
The company I worked for had been in business for fifty-seven years. Then one day, in our prime building season, I was told that they were going out of business. Now, without any warning and after fifteen years of employment, I was unemployed, and had no benefits and no idea what I was going to do. This is why an unwavering state of mind is so important when it comes to living the good life. I have always tried to live modestly, keeping money put away for a rainy day.