Gwidon Sajdak
Gwidon Sajdak voted up Rooster Cogburn's answer
Did you mature and grow up (or were you actually forced to) faster than you actually really wanted to? Say by about at least a decade or so or more?

Yes, I would say so. I left to Boot camp at 18 and was shipped to Vietnam where I had to grow up and be a man real quick or perish. After 8 years in Southeast Asia, I came home a war weary 40 year old man instead of 26. Never got to experience those … Read more

Gwidon Sajdak
Gwidon Sajdak voted up Rooster Cogburn's answer
Did you mature and grow up (or were you actually forced to) faster than you actually really wanted to? Say by about at least a decade or so or more?

Yes, I would say so. I left to Boot camp at 18 and was shipped to Vietnam where I had to grow up and be a man real quick or perish. After 8 years in Southeast Asia, I came home a war weary 40 year old man instead of 26. Never got to experience those … Read more