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My name is Juan Ramirez . I'm a private

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and I'm from Fresno , California . Uh

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Well , I was born in Los Angeles ,

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California . I moved to Fresno ,

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California , which is the central

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valley of California . Uh more or less

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for the port , the job opportunities

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for my parents as immigrants . It

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wasn't easy . And I mean , you could

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take the , you take the job you can get .

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I grew up uh five o'clock , wake ups ,

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four o'clock , wake ups . Uh Life is

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pretty similar to here . Tough but

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tough makes you rough . I joined the

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army to continue to follow the American

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dream such as my parents did . They

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sacrificed a lot for me a lot for my

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future . So in a way this is to help

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pay back everything they did for me and

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all the hardships they went through .

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So I felt as the army as a big

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opportunity as a stepping stone . Uh

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people in the valley is just day and

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night working , constantly trying to

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uphold their families , trying to give

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them a future . Something to look

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forward to . Same here . I see a lot of

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my battle buddies getting up every

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morning , pushing each other every day

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to become better for , push for our

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goals . Push for other things that

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motivate us to strive for the American

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dream , strive for greatness . Strive

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for everything you could ever think of .

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The army . Gives you a big opportunity

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in doing that . Shout out the 559 , all

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the central valley . Shout out to them ,

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Ramirez .