i came up to ben arbor michigan to work on the harvest and that work i couldn't do i couldn't make money at it so i came back and while i was in jackson i want to leave the induction center there and signed i believe. i'm going to be in you mean. this is a cotton mill area there were five textile mills and i want to run for about two months and looking for a job and finally. one of the old neighborhood greats had been around for years had very i get a job in the cotton mill. i went straight to the army recruiter. plan on coming. here and i'm ready to go. by group and trailer park i grew up in a little small town called parent land texas near galveston i remember sitting on the couch and watching. the first gulf war. two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait and watching it on the television seeing how quick that win and the reply afterward and from the liberated be too. awful great to be an american i had felt we had lost the ghosts of vietnam. i remember sitting there on the cal said night and thinking most of you know you want to go into you