These were the words the U.S. Marines told me when my family and I were sheltering in the U.S. embassy after American diplomats were taken hostage in Iran.
I was a little kid who had just moved to a foreign country for my father's new job, and I was absolutely terrified
But in that moment, for the first time in a long time, I felt safe.
That was the exact moment I knew that when I grew up, I wanted to serve in the military.
Years later, I went on to attend the Naval Academy and serve for 25 years in Special Operations retiring as a U.S. Navy Captain.
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