My Dad Research Paper

My hero is my Dad and all the men and women who fights for are country, and the real heros are the ones who lost their life fighting for us. My dad was born December 31st, 1967 in Long Beach, California. He was a football star for his high school in Ohio. He joined the U.S. Marine corps when he was 19. He served in the military for 6 years and during this time he was deployed to the Philippines, Greece, Turkey, Japan, and he also fought in the Gulf War in Saudi Arabia. While he was serving in the Marine Corps, he met my mother at Disneyland and they fell in love instantly. They would marry 6 months later in 1993 and have been together ever since. My dad and mom lived in California for almost 2 years before they moved to Chicago, Ill.

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He motivates me in many ways and teaches me things about love, respect, honesty, and the importance of God. He told me many stories of his life and adventures when he was in the Marines. One of my favorite stories he has told me about the Marine corps was when there was this big dust storm and all his big radios and antennas got messed up from the wind and dirt. He was up for 3 days trying to fix them and he started getting angry at everyone and yelling. After they finished working on the radios, he went back to guarding his spot to watch for any enemies and no one tried to sneak in and attack the base. Then he told me one about how God sometimes answers our prayers. One day when he was in Saudi Arabia, the enemies had set a large amount of oil on fire. The smoke was so thick in the sky that he could not see the sky during the day or any stars at night. One night he really wanted to feel the calmness of the night sky because he has not seen the stars for about a month or more , because of all of the smoke he still could not see them, so he closed his eyes and said a prayer asking God to please let him see the stars. When he said amen and opened his eyes, the smoke had cleared for him to see several stars up in the night