Life After Going To War With Remi Ishizuka & Nathan Pontious
The Bossticks
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How I Grew Up in a Small Rural Town in Illinois
After 9-11, Nate decided he wanted to go to war. He enlisted the Marine Corps immediately out of high school and went straight off to boot camp. Boot camp is it's a spiritual experience. It's a psychological like change of the makeup of who you are as a human being. They need to turn you into exactly what is going to behave in the manner in which a human needs to behave in combat. As a recruit, you have essentially lost your individuality. You cannot refer to yourself as such. This recruit requests permission to do whatever.
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