Okay, my response was brusque and glib.
At 20, I was enjoying a new marriage. Honeymooning at campgrounds. Doing the blue-collar thing at a local plant. Dining and drinking with the fiancee-then-wife and our friends. Enduring the nosiness of parents and doing the social obligations with them. Buying new furniture.
And trading the blue-collar life for the Marines. Seriously, I turned 21 in boot camp. Not good timing.
At 20, I was enjoying a new marriage. Honeymooning at campgrounds. Doing the blue-collar thing at a local plant. Dining and drinking with the fiancee-then-wife and our friends. Enduring the nosiness of parents and doing the social obligations with them. Buying new furniture.
And trading the blue-collar life for the Marines. Seriously, I turned 21 in boot camp. Not good timing.