Accidental admiral . Guest what a great question at a certain level all of our lives, you can choose to steer a particular course but the sea will come, the wind will come and you will go in a different direction. It comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral just finishing up at us Southern Command in charge of all military activities south of the United States and i was very hopeful in going to the pacific as commander of us Pacific Command which is a senior position, robert gates, called me up and said forget about the specific we are going to send you to nato so i became the first and thus far the only admiral, supreme allied commander in nato and it was an accident that did that. From the nato perspective i was be accidental admiral who became the supreme allied commander. Host the navy was an accident as well. Guest somewhat. I grew up in a marine corps family. My father fought in korea and vietnam. I grew up in that environment and went to Quantico High Scho
Competed in russian, european and world championships, became a bronze medalist at the world cup. There have been olympics in your life, i participated in the olympics in turin, they say you have acted in films, yes, in three projects, and are you also familiar with television . At first she was a participant in ice shows, then she hosted programs. State your name, Anastasia Grebenkina. Hello, anastasia, hello. The theme of the game today is figure skating, so we are especially glad to see you here, a wonderful athlete, Participant International competitions, star of ice shows, anastasia, at some point you almost gave up the sport, tried to do business, didnt train for a year, what made you return to the ice, and how did you manage to come back to bigtime sports after a serious break . It could have been, of course, a great love for figure skating; i couldnt live without him. I breathed it, i was sick of it and couldnt imagine my life without it, so a year after i finished skating, whe
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They treat you as you must be psychologically damaged or when friends of yours who do indeed have posttraumatic stress find they cannot express their feelings . I do not actually have the answers to those questions. But the book was the only way i knew how to start thinking them through, not just because there is a rigor involved in trying to turn fictional stories into emotional truth, but because when you write it up there is the possibility of people responding. Unidentified friends who might read the work, even if across centuries, and join the conversation. For me, writing this book, i cannot think of i cannot think of a more important conversation to be having. Too strange to be processed alone. And so i want to thank everyone who picked up the book, read it, decided to join the conversation. I want to thank the judges, the National Book foundation i want to thank peter who first publish my work published my work and has been a tremendous advocate for veteran writers. Who kicked