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My Sophomore Year: Personal Narrative

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As a former military dependent, I moved from one Military base to another. I attended 3 different high schools. Started my freshman year at O’Fallon Township High School in O’Fallon, Illinois. My father,
Chief of Security Forces for the Air Force received orders overseas.My family PCS’d to Okinawa, Japan my Sophomore year. Even though I was born in South Korea, it was still a scary transition from Stateside to a foreign country. Living on a military base, I was sheltered and protected from the outside civilian world. My father retired after severing 32 years in the Air Force. I left Okinawa, Japan in 1986 and attended East Kentwood High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
That’s when the reality of life outside

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