Personal Narrative: Becoming A Death Of A Soldier

One challenge that i have faced and that impacted me in a drastically manner was my cousins death. Many people overcome a death in a few weeks, but it took me a while to face the fact that I was no longer going to see him. His death really effected me because he was the only one who supported my dreams in going to the army . I guess it was because he was in the army at that time. I would always get put down because my dreams where not for a girl but he was the only one who understood my dream to go to the army. I never in tented applying to college, it never crossed my mind. I wanted to go to the army. My cousin had just came back honorably discharged from the army at the age of 21, I was happy he came back alive. A few Weeks before this nightmare happened he told my parents not to let me go to the army, he said i didn't deserve that

He also said he wasn't the same since he came back and didn't want that for me. I didn't hear this till after, I didn't get to hear it from his words. I thought my parents were using the moment to convince me to go to college I was in disbelieve, but as days past i realized my parents wouldn't do that to me they want whats best for me. My cousin didn't simply died of a natural cause, he was murdered at the hand of an old friend. I couldn't understand how someone would point a gun at him and pull the trigger not once but multiple time. How can these type of people live in this world. I was in denial for several days, I would go through his Instagram page hoping he would post something funny like he would always do. It was extremely hard to deal with his loss but i learned how to cope with the pain. And even though hes gone there is a place in my heart for