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EUSTIS – I would be remiss if I didn t absolutely acknowledge and thank my better half for putting up with me for 47 years, former Airman 1st Class Joseph Monroe said emphatically in an interview last week. He was speaking of wife Martha Monroe, a retired Army staff sergeant and Operation Desert Storm vet who once worked as an administrator on the personal staff Gen. Colin Powell.
But Joseph, 66, made it clear throughout the lively back-and-forth that it was God who put an anointing on my life (and) rescued me from what easily could have been disaster. I was as susceptible as anyone to the common traps, he said, recalling his enlistment into the Air Force at 17 and his exposure to drugs and a strong attraction to alcohol. It s too common a story: once some kids get away from home, they stop going to church, they have no mentor and they disregard some tremendous opportunities that are placed in their hands – like free college, he said. That was me.