Entry Two
I should probably begin in talking about myself a little bit. I was born in what is Upstate New York. Yes, of course I know everything north of New York City is considered Upstate, but I'm not going to tell you more than that at this point. I had a pretty normal life as much as a military brat can have. We moved around a lot, my dad, mom and twin sister Danielle. I guess thinking back now, that military experience probably influenced my deck choices.
I liked moving around and seeing new things and new places, but I also began to realize that something was happening within the military. I can remember my dad coming home very late at night a lot or not even coming home at all some nights. I knew this because he would always see both my sister and I off to bed and talk about an old game called Duel Monsters. I guess my dad was some big time duelist when he was younger because he would tell us both about some of the matches he used to have. But as time went along he would come home late more and more often.
When I was a little older, I finally started to realize what was going on. My father was actually involved in the stories that we saw on the news. I remember my mom watching the holo-generator every night he didn't come home, trying to see if she could see him on it. She would stay up very late watching the news and waiting for my dad. When I would come down the stairs some mornings, I would find my mom on the couch asleep with the holo-generation still on.
I think I was about 12 years old when things around my house really started to get tense. I remember my parents arguing a lot about my dad's job. I really didn't understand what exactly was going on but I knew it was something big. I talked with my sister at that time, because we were trying to figure out what was going on with our parents because we feared they would get divorced.
But neither one of us really understood what was happening until the war started. And when it did, everything changed.
-Scott
