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In reply to the discussion: National Guard presence in high schools? [View all]lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)Grew up on Jules Verne and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea...
Ironically Senator Bob Dole chose me to be one of his two academy picks for that year, although because my father was retired Navy and my brother was serving as a Lt JG, I might have been chosen anyway.
But then that happened and a few weeks after the funeral my mother screamed at my father that "the g-damn Navy was only going to get one of her two sons" and that was that. The Academy was never brought up again.
That's OK... I got to spend 1 year in the Caribbean teaching Scuba Diving and right after that I joined my other dream... NASA (but not as an astronaut, but as a scientist).
So I got to visit the ocean anyway... and my father was very proud that I "served" as a civilian with NASA... and at a Navy base to boot.