Personal Narrative Essay: Spring Break 2013

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Spring Break 2014… Helmand Province Afghanistan. A heat comparable to the feeling of opening a hot oven, blisters two Marines as they talk to pass time during their patrol. “Yo Webb, what are you doing when you get out of this shithole country and ‘EAS’ (end of active service)?” asked one, “Well, gonna use my GI Bill, live that college life and make something better of myself…” replied the other Marine as an explosion goes off interrupting them. What is free is not free, someone out there, somewhere, fought for it one way or another. Funding for American citizens to go to college for the first two years should not come from the US Federal Government. Allowing such an atrocity to happen would increase taxes on the working class citizens of this

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