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>be me
>milfag
>knew I was going to enlist when I was like 6-7 years old listening to grandpa's old war stories
>grandma was navy too where she met grandpa in medical school before Korea
>uncle followed suit and used to tell me his old submarine stories when he was stationed out of Hawaii
>gramps passes a year before I graduate high school, the 21 gun salute solidified my adult life
>twin and I enlisted out of HS
>fast forward to this year
>twin and I are both stationed on the east coast
>twin's spouse also military killed in an accident
>drive down within 10 minutes of finding out to help out however I can
>while there a few days later get a call that grandma passed away in the middle of the night
>fly home to attend the funeral, the funeral detail lets me join and bury her in full dress like she would have wanted
>been two months, get a call tonight that submarine uncle has been hiding his cancer for half a year and will be dead in a week
>getting ready to fly back to bury him too

Getting older fucking sucks. The bright side is that seeing my role models age while not taking care of themselves has kicked me into hyper drive and I'm pushing very hard to lift and cardio as much as I can so that my kids have a strong example to look up to. I'm gaining muscle quickly and looking better than I did in my teens and 20s, I even talked to my dad on the phone today (before we found out about his brother) and he wants to retire and start lifting with me over here so he can start getting back into shape before he hits 70.