Army Speech
A junior ROTC ball is not the most receptive audience for a speech about the future and possible career choices, but nonetheless I was asked to speak to a group of future military members at just such an event. However these future members of the military were still only high school students and I was keeping them from enjoying their party, so I knew I had to somehow captivate their imaginations in order to keep their attention. I also had once sat in their chairs as a HSJROTC student and I felt that since I had once been where they were, I could at least give them some advice as how to succeed in the military. But I could give them something more than that, since, as young people without any real experience of the military, I could give them my personal experience and hopefully instill some excitement about a future military career.
For those who are unfamiliar, a junior ROTC ball is much like a high school prom. Although it is meant to be a more formal event, the immaturity of high school students, even those with some military training like the audience I was addressing, was quite prevalent. After all, these students were experiencing things for the first time and their excitement sometimes could get the better of them. I did not know these students personally, they were students at a school in Butler Georgia, the home of my first sergeant, Command Sergeant Bush; the man who had asked me to speak there. Butler is a small rural community with a...
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