It is Tuesday morning the 11th of September and you will not forget this day. So I actually I had no idea it was going on until later that day. My parents put my mother put me on the bus, my dad was working. I was in school like every other normal day. A bunch of kids were getting pulled from class and my mother explained to us what happened. Something bad happened in the city and she told myself my older brother that our dad wasn't coming home. My father and uncle were both killed in that day. That was a police officer and my uncle was in New York City firefighter. I think it prepared me a lot for the world. So we always knew that there were bad guys but to us they were just people my dad arrested. We never really thought that anything that bad would happen and the evil in this world would be terrorism and a lot of stuff because as a little kid you don't realize what terrorism actually is. Play army Marines in the backyard. You don't know what you're actually doing and then when that happened we realized that go not just to gain this is actually like life and death. One of my father's regrets was that he never joined the Marines and after college I was like well I'll do it now I don't ever do it and I didn't want to have any regrets so here I am. I honestly do love the Marine Corps. There are some days where I don't love it as much as others but I still do love it. I got a great group of guys, good NCO Corps, great office Corps and I love being here. I would have thought in the USS New York the ship that I saw in New York back in 2007 would be the ship I'd be deployed on. Of all ships to go on I'm happy it was that one. So the USS New York is actually made out of steel from the World Trade Center. There is memorabilia all around the ship including subway signs from the World Trade Center, placards with the names and pictures of the firefighters and police officers who were killed that day. Being on the USS New York was a more meaningful experience myself because I'd walk out of the shower hall and all my way back down to my birthing I had to pass a picture of my dad. So every day I'd get to see my dad. I give the last 18 years for just one more day. I miss him.