11th grade at Thunder Ridge HS in Highlands Ranch... On my way back from the bathroom. Saw it through a window to another classroom.... Came back into my room and got yelled at by the teacher for pushing the TV to the front of the class while they were reading the Illiad by Homer... (outloud by the way. god bless our school systems! LOL). Nobody reprimanded me for disrupting class. Imagine that.

The next day I dropped out of HS. The 13th was my 17th B-day. I signed an infantry contract for the army on Oct. 1st. Left to Ft. Benning for basic on Jan. 6th. The rest is history. G

God bless everybody we lost that day, and every damn soldier, marine, airman, and sailor that is fighting for what is right EVERY day!

~Ben