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I'm Katherine Morris , uh K A T H E R I

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N E M O R R I S . OK . Uh ,

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and so did you ever consider a career

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in the Navy as a kid ? I believe

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I did , yes . My mom was in the my both

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my parents were in the Navy , but yeah .

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Um , so wait , just going forward . So

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when I ask a question , just kind of if

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you could repeat the question as part

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of the answer like when I was , yeah ,

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if you know what I mean . OK . Yeah ,

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yeah , yeah . Um , so how did you

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discover a path to the navy like tell

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me about why you joined . Um , I joined ,

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I joined the Navy because

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The travel I'd love to travel . um I've

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traveled , uh , so far , um , also

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with the uh the tuition assistants and ,

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uh , the GI bill and everything I can

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go to college that , um , can further

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help my . Education .

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OK , and what advice do you have for uh

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young adults in up there in Bath , New

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York , uh , if they want to join the

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Navy , what kind of advice would you

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give ? Uh , my advice is , if you want

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to . Get out there and and work

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at doing something like the navy um

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just keep working at it . um , if you

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feel like it's getting too much and you

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feel like , oh maybe I should stop ,

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that's when you should keep going , uh ,

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keep going . And you'll make it Just

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keep pushing yourself . And then what

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uh what was the biggest challenge for

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you uh to adjust to Navy life after

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leaving your hometown ? Ah , my , my

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biggest , um . My

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biggest challenge was , uh , the amount

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of the amount of proximity that you

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have to be close to each other . Um ,

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the ships , they don't have that much ,

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uh , space , so you're very close to ,

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to your shipmates on the , on the ship ,

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but it makes it a family year too as

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well . Um , can you share a story from

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your Navy days that really means a lot

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to you ? OK , um .

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Story that means philosophy that uh

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happened in the navy . Um

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Having family problems back home , um ,

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my , I've had a few that I've needed to

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take emergency leave and um my chain of

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command has been very Very supportive

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for me to be able to go home in a

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timely manner . Uh , like within a

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few days they're , they're able to be

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like , yes , you can , you can actually

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go home , you can go home and and visit

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your family and everything . Uh , what

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does being part of Fleet Week mean to

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you ? Being part of Fleet Week means to

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me um is showing part of the ship ,

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showing part of who we are as the US

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military to um people who are curious

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and who are wondering what we do as

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the US military and um so we can just

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show them a little bit of a little

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piece of what what we do . Um , how

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about while you're , uh , while you're

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in town on Liberty , are you looking

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forward to doing anything out in the

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city ? Well , uh , while I'm here ,

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I would love to see the , uh , the 9/11

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memorial . Um , I have lived here in

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New York my whole life , so , um , but

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I haven't been able to get to the city ,

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so that's something that I would really

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like to see while I'm here . What does

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it feel like to remember and honor

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those who gave their lives to our

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country in light of being Memorial Day ?

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Um , it makes me feel very proud to be

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part of the US military , be part of

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the part of the Navy , um . To

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Work towards uh

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What they've done and what they've uh

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sacrificed for um it's it's very it's

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humbling as well it's humbling um to

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know that um I'm also doing .

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Similar work , not the same , but

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similar work than um than those that

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have given their lives to um for

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Memorial Day . Uh , OK , and then what

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does the Navy's 250th anniversary mean

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to you personally ? Uh , the 250th

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anniversary means to me is , uh , we've

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We've gone pretty far with how we've

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How we've done well with protecting our

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nation and protecting others around the

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world and um . And we've been

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continuing to do that , continuing to

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continue , continuing to help others ,

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helping our nation , keeping everybody

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safe . Uh , and then finally , what ,

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uh , what would you like people back

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home in Bath to know about life in the ?

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Um , back home , uh .

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To know some some stuff about the , I

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guess some stuff about the navy , um .

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I mean , it's a , it's a hard job .

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It's a hard job , um . Some days you

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have your hard days , some , some days

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it's , it's easy , but um it's always

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worth it in my , in my opinion there's ,

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it's worth it to to be in something as

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important as the US Navy . OK .