New Sailor

One of the newest sailors in the United States Navy had graduated last month is one of my best friends. Jordan M. is currently training to be a nurse.

She is one of the most amazing people I've ever known. She graduated high school cum laude, and that was the only achievement title she accepted. There was a special title afforded to students who had served at least 10 hours of volunteer service, but she did not even recognize that she served that many. How wrong she was! She never logged for herself a single hour of volunteer service, never thinking her actions merited such record, but others logged it for her. During her graduation party, she recieved the President's Call to Service award, which is given to someone who had served 4,000 hours IN A LIFETIME!!! She received a lifetime achievement award at 18! One of the things she spent her time doing was taking care of a veterans wall she set up in her school. She was pretty much the only patriotic person in a school generally hostile to their country. She had to battle against vandalism of varying degrees while making sure all the veterans she knew of was properly represented on that wall.

I am so proud of her. You can't even imagine! She is on her way to do some of the most amazing things with the most amazing people in the world. To know that she's out there, defending all of us, makes me sleep more soundly at night.

Good luck, Sailor!