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Personal Narrative: My Involvement With JROTC

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People form and change based on the events that they experience within their lives. How people react to these experiences is what creates a person’s personality and individuality. The most formative experiences I have had was my involvement with JROTC. JROTC taught me how to be a leader and improved my social skills so that I could become the man I am today. My transition into the man I am today started when I entered high school. When I first entered high school I was a nervous, timid boy. I had never been it such a large school with so many different people. It was during this time, that I started to push myself to break out of my shell and become a more social person. As I proceeded through high school my Mom’s old stories about JROTC popped
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