Transcript: ‘It made me a better person’

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Ethan Fagon:

But overall, I don’t regret joining the Army. I think in some way it made me a better person. It made me learn to cope with the good, bad and indifferent.

If I didn’t join the Army, maybe I wouldn’t be alive today because I was bad tempered. I didn’t take anything from anybody, you get what I mean. And maybe, just maybe, I would have been killed, or something like that.

But the Army kind of – how do you put this – kind of helps you in a way to control your emotions at times. You want to do something, but then you think about the consequences, especially if you have someone depending on you, like a wife, children or something like that. You say: 'Oh god, I could kill this so-and-so. But what’s going to happen to my family?' You know what I mean. 

So, you have to think twice.