Life before the mast twenty years of naval service

LIKE THEY SAY WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS MAKE LEMONADE. MY ADVERSITIES ARE LIVING PROOF OF ONE MANS COURAGE TO DO THE RIGHT THING NO MATTER WHAT THE OUTCOME. MANY POINTS IN MY LIFE I WOULD HAVE TO SAY I FELT LIKE THERE WAS NO WAY THIS COULD BE HAPPENING TO ME, LIKE NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED TO GET AHEAD THERE WAS ALWAYS A SET BACK OR SOME ROAD BLOCK PREVENTING ME FROM GETTING WHAT I RIGHTFULLY EARNED , BUT YOU KNOW WHEN I LOOK BACK AT IT IT MADE ME WHO I AM TODAY , WHO WOULD HAVE KNOWN THE BOOK IS FINALLY HERE.