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Posted: Mon 16:09, 05 Aug 2013 Post subject: defense language institute |
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in middle eastern studies now, whom I met when we were both young analysts in Georgia said it best during a phone conversation a few years ago. He said "I saw some really smart people with master's degrees from really good schools who failed out of DLI (defense language institute), but I also saw people from really bad neighborhoods who had GEDs occasionally carry the highest grade in the class." In this respect it was the service that first taught me there might be some sort of hope for myself. Really and truly by comparing myself against the people I came across in the service --which remains a broad spectrum of American life even as it is increasingly divorced from the mass of people-- I learned that it might be possible for me to go to college and succeed. In some ways, although I don't know for sure,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I would argue that a similar education took place for my little brother. He went to Germany and was stationed there for three years. A poor boy from Montana,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he married
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