Susannah Stokes credits her father and male relatives for her military calling, shaped by a strong moral foundation in childhood. She drifted from those values but her family's example pulled her back, illustrating how early role models can call someone to service later in life.
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So that's a, that's a little elevator pitch of what's been happening in my life for the last 36 years. Yeah.
So Susanna, you mentioned, uh, that your father and, and, and many other men in your, in your family sort of inspired you to become, you know, to go into the militaries and things of that nature. So what was it about what you seen them do that inspired you to go into the military Or, you know, as I'm listening to you now, or were you, uh, as you say, we, we struggle against our true calling at times, you know, so we, we run away from it. We, when we're younger, we got the, we got the foundation. The Bible say train up a child in the way that they should go, and when they get older, they won't depart from it. But as you alluded to, I had the foundation when I was younger, but then when I got a little older that wisdom that I had, I kind of like, you know, strayed away from it. And so, so that's my question, like, what did you see that was interesting with what your father and the other men in your family did to go to the military that inspired you to say, you know what, this is the mantle that I want to take up?