10.06.98
last civilian picture, with my niece Katrina (Oct 6, 1999)Nervous Jitters, yes I am Human. This is hopefully the first entry in a long and involved account of the birth of a soldier. Loss of individuality is threatened by the next four years -- I can only hope to keep a spark of myself intact, and this journal may become my sole link...yet may it not be so.

Even now. this close, the reality of the situation escapes me, but we all live a life of forced decisions -- we can only strive to take each step looking for its meaning, and it's consequences.

The unexamined life is worthless, yet an overexamined life is dangerous. May I always be who I am and safe within my ideals.
 
 



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