Name: 【TED】Wes Moore: How to talk to veterans about the war (Wes Moore: How to talk to veterans about the war)
Uploaded: 2017-03-23T07:23:32.000Z
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I'm excited to be here to speak about vets,

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I didn't join the Army because I had a lust

and it was what I knew that I thought I could do well.

No one in my family ever had joined the military at all,

and how I first got introduced to the military

because my mother had been threatening me

with this idea of military school ever since I was eight years old.

and my mother would always tell me, she's like,

"You know, if you don't get this together,

I'm going to send you to military school."

And I'd look at her, and I'd say, "Mommy,

she started giving me brochures to show me she wasn't playing around,

so I'd look at the brochures, and I'm like,

"Okay, Mommy, I can see you're serious, and I'll work harder."

I was on academic and disciplinary probation

my mother came up to me, and she was like,

I can see you're upset, and I'm going to work harder."

And she was like, "No, you're going next week."

because she thought this was a good idea.

I had to disagree with her wholeheartedly

because literally in the first four days,

I had already run away five times from this school.

They had these big black gates that surrounded the school,

and every time they would turn their backs,

I would just simply run out of the black gates

and take them up on their offer that if we don't want to be there,

So I just said, "Well, if that's the case,

I realized that I actually was growing up.

I realized the things that I enjoyed about this school

and the thing that I enjoyed about the structure

was something that I'd never found before:

the fact that I finally felt like I was part of something bigger,

part of a team, and it actually mattered to people

the fact that leadership wasn't just a punchline there,

but that it was a real, actually core part

And so when it was time for me to actually

I started thinking about what I wanted to do,

had no idea what that meant or what I wanted to do.

in particular a lot of the men, in my life

So the Army then went through this process

There really wasn't a whole lot going on.

I first joined the Army when I was 17 years old,

so I literally needed parental permission

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