When Dean Buerhr walked the halls of high school, he had to take on a lot of responsibilities. Living in Midwestern Ohio in a small farm town, everybody had a farm. His family in particular owned a 5 acre farm where Dean had a …show more content…
Dean said, “I thinks that was one of the biggest transitions for him at that time.” Most people say the biggest transition in their lives was when they went to college, but he didn’t even go to college at that time. I think that the reason he doesn’t think that college was his biggest transition is because he went at such a late age. He talked a little about how college didn’t really affect him in the normal sense. Most of the transitions people struggle with didn’t affect him to much.
Which is why I think military was such a big event in his life. In the military, they make you go through basic training. He mentioned the significance of a test they were required to take, in which each person had to climb underneath a barbed wire fence. Majority of the time, it resulted in the scraping of their heads, a harsh task. He was laughing a little when he said, “If a guy got too scared, orfroze up, they would have five guys go down, the guns would halt their fire and they would retrieve the m(en/an)