Keenan Williams 1
Keenan Williams
Instructor Hughes
INRW 0399
11-12:45
2/23/2014
My Greatest Influence
In life you have many people who influence you. Some are good influences and some are bad influences. The person who influenced my life most would have to be my grandfather. My grandfather sacrificed a lot in his lifetime to make his children's lives better. I adore my grandfather he is a strong confident man and loves his family. I have become the person I am today because of him.
My grandfather was raised in Corsicana Texas. When he turned 18 he graduated high school and moved to Los Angeles California. When he moved out to California the U.S Army started a draft for the Vietnam War and Koran War. He tells me when it's Veterans Day he's not proud of being a veteran because he didn't want to be in the army. After he served in the army he came back to Texas and lived here in Fort Worth where he met my grandmother and they had 4 children.
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