| ou nearing high school graduation and are unsure | | | | about helping, serving, and protecting other people. |
| of what to do next or where to go to college? | | | | There is no greater feeling than the one that |
| Or perhaps you are unsure if college is really the | | | | comes from knowing that your life is counting for |
| right next step for you? You should consider the | | | | something huge, and serving in the army allows |
| option of serving with the army. | | | | you this great feeling. |
| Think about all of the ways that your life has | | | | Deciding to serve in the army is also a great way |
| been protected and enriched because of the | | | | to meet new people, experience new things, and |
| faithful service of men and women in the army. | | | | see new parts of the world. Your years in the |
| In many nations around the world it is the army | | | | army can be full of learning and full of making |
| that has allowed each country to become all that | | | | new friendships that will last a lifetime. Many |
| it is today. Imagine your life without all of the | | | | people who consider joining the army think that |
| freedoms you love so deeply. Can you imagine | | | | they will miss out on important things by not |
| living in a country where you could not attend | | | | going to college right away, but just think about all |
| school, could not get a job if you wanted one, or | | | | of the extra experiences time in the army will |
| where you did not have the freedom to believe | | | | give you. It will still be possible and even probable |
| anything you wanted to? I cannot imagine a life | | | | that you will have the opportunity to enter college |
| without the freedoms and privileges that I have | | | | once your time of service in the army is up. |
| come to count on. And when I stop to think | | | | Serving in the army allows young men and |
| about it, the people serving in the army deserve | | | | women to gain valuable skills and disciplines that |
| a lot of my thanksgiving for the life I enjoy. | | | | will benefit you for the rest of your life. There is |
| Serving in the army is a great way to be a part | | | | perhaps no better way to spend your first years |
| of a cause that is larger than yourself. In the | | | | out of high school than serving your countryin the |
| army your life is not just about you, but it is | | | | army. |