It all started when a fourteen year old girl thought she was in love.
One thing lead to another and nine months later a baby was born into a world that he was not ready for.
As the story goes on you would think things got better but they only got worse.
About two years later the mother got scared and gave the little boy to her mother. now he lived in a place he had to fight to stay alive, had to steal to ease his hunger.
As the story goes on you would think things got better but they only got worse.
About six years later, now drugs, sex, and alcohol were just another thing.
Death lurked around every corner, but it could not ever catch the boy.
Then one day a cop stopped the boy and asked "What are you doing son."
The boy looked up and at the man and said, "Surviving the only way I know how."
The boy was taken to a placed called foster care.
As the story goes on you would think think things got better but they only got worse.
About ten years later, he had moved so many times, felt many pains, and seen many things he didn't need to see.
A little while later he got into college and things got worse.
He got into drugs and alcohol, his grades started falling and he was looking at death in the face.
Then one day he stepped back and looked at his life. He saw that he was becoming just like his mother.
He said to himself, "This is not how I want to live my life."
So he started looking for something to fill the whole in his soul.
As the days went by he found nothing that could fill the void that was missing.
Then one day a man in uniform stopped the boy and said, "Young man it looks like you need something to get you along the way."
As the conversation continued the boy was told about how he could serve his country and better his life.
The boy thought it was gold and took it all the way.
About one year later the boy fights in Iraq for what he believes and for people he does not know.
Now the boy knows what is mean to become a man.