we'll be back to wrap it up with the sea cadet corps, here on "comunidad del valle." stay with us. el valle." we're talking--the topic is "wreaths across america" event. with me is cadet melissa copado with the sea cadet corps and tin tin wisniewski, who's the executive officer of the enterprise division, also united states navy sea cadet corps. so you mentioned the leadership skills, melissa that you're--that the cadet corps is teaching you. what do you--where do you see yourself eventually? i know you're still a young lady, you have a lot ahead of you. but where--is, maybe, the military something you're considering? melissa: i really am considering the military because my father was--he was enlisted in the army and he served quite some time, and i felt like i really needed to follow in his footsteps. so, i'm really hoping to join the navy after this. damian: at your age, when you are--you're freshman in high school or about to go to high school? which are you? melissa: i'm a freshman in high school. damian: so at your age, and i remember my freshman year in high school, a lot of t

right now and i'm so grateful that the naval academy was able to bring midshipmen here, a bunch of sea cadets, that our future, ladies and gentlemen, in the back of this room. i would conclude saying we did it by our own example. if we were scared, if we were worried, if we didn't understand what was happening to us, we kept that behind closed doors but we continued to talk to one another and learn. one little tidbit and i will conclude, the silver lining out of covid was our service academies, all five of them, west point, merchant marine, coast guard, that brought the superintendents and leadership teams of all five of those schools closer together than in the history of all the service academies because we are all in the business of doing the same thing, we all didn't have a corner on the market of good ideas of how to do it and we talked every single day for a year and weathered the storm. >> you will root for army tomorrow in that show of -- >> one the second after that final second ticks off that clock, they are my brothers and sisters. >> you have had quite an interesting background, w