DISCLAIMER:
This article was published in The Press of Atlantic City in July of 1999, and was published more for public sympathy than an expression of my true opinion, which is the hard work and risk of life that expected of me was completely unfair. I did what I had to do to get out; I quickly decided that the hard work and risk of life that’s expected in the military wasn’t for me, so I pretended like I fell out of a mile run, and was sent to the doctor.
While with the doctor, I informed him of my heart condition, which my recruiter had instructed me to conceal, and long story short, I was sent home. If I’d kept my mouth shut, I would have had to do a lot of hard work, and maybe even risk my life. I couldn’t have that. And that is why I got out, leaving the hard work and dying for someone else. It is who I am.