I had the good pleasure this weekend to see two young men who were in my youth group a few years ago. Young people can change a lot that first year away from home (and not always for the better) but this encounter was pleasing beyond words.
The first is Bryan B., who is training to be a Navy corpsman with the Marines (a corpsman is like an Army medic). He'll be with the 7th Marine Regiment in Twentynine Palms. The 7th Marines plans to deploy to Iraq this fall.
The other is Cordell H. He has just finished his second year at the US Military Academy at West Point where he's studying engineering. You can perceive in that young man a profound sense of prowess and competency in all areas mental, physical, and ethical.
Military culture is not always a good thing for young men, but sometimes it instills the most noble of qualities – those qualities of duty and honor that might otherwise vanish in a jaded and self-centered world.
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