Siblings of service academy candidates

<p>My least favorite is “hey, why do you want to kill people for a living? Aren’t there better things you could do for our country?”. I have to restrain myself everytime I hear that one, which unfortunately is quite often. People also say things like that to my mom. I don’t think many people join the military to kill someone. I’m joining the military because it’s always been important to me to know I was doing everything I could to make friends and family safe. I always get congratulated and then feel guilty when my friends have gotten into places and no one cares because its a “normal school”. People I don’t even know come talk to me! I’m just happy it didn’t get announced to all the teachers, or put in the paper. I feel for you dictatoranna!</p>