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    Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
    Indeed. All things are possible...

    You have experience he does not. Don't sweat the small stuff, keep on pushing.

    As a smart old general once told me, "If you don't blow your own horn every now and then, People will start thinking it's funnel."
    I know Ken, and I know that you'll jump in when I'm off base.

    At our Superbowl party tonight, I showed some of my boys what I'm doing, and they just laughed.

    "Sir, no one's going to believe it. No one will every understand it. Yes, please come teach our boys on how to do business."

    I made them do push-ups. They made me do shots.

    Life was good .

    Final thoughts before I sleep. 40 beers accumalated around my sink. I looked around the room and the boys that I know. I counted up the years that they had served in Bosnia, Iraq, and A'stan. The number far exceeded the beers around my sink. I;ve written and published before. Initially, I wrote trying to understand my own experiences. I wrote for me. Now, as I gazed at the beers and my friends with tours upon tours upon tours, I'm starting to believe that future writings and instruction will actually teach and help others. Now, I'm that major that cadets look up to.
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