100% OF PROCEEDS WILL BE FOR MEDICAL EXPENSES, AND ANY OTHER COSTS INCURRED BY MR MCGINNIS FOR HIS BROKEN ARM. PERSONALLY I WAS INSPIRED BY HIS HEROISM FOR STANDING UP AGAINST ANOTHER WAR ON AMERICANS DIME! HE IS A TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT THAT HAD THE GUTS TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER WHEN NO ONE ELSE WOULD. PLEASE HELP SUPPORT A TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT, THIS IS NOT ABOUT LEFT OR RIGHT POLITICS, ITS ABOUT DOING THE MORALLY CORRECT THING. BELOW IS BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION I FOUND ONLINE ABOUT BRIAN
Graduated from Quincy Senior High on a Saturday in early June 2000, and went to Marine boot camp the following Monday. Mama was not ready.
Did my one enlistment as a Light Armored Vehicle Crewman, an infantry MOS in the Corps, until June 2004.
Highlights:
-Six months on a Med Float on the USS Wasp in 2002, established a training ground in Djibouti, Africa.
-Deployed for the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 and traveled extensively across the country.
-Made the All-Marine boxing team later in 2003 until the end of enlistment, tried out the year prior, but broke my hand in the tryouts.
Upon my honorable discharge from the USMC, I attended John Wood Community College in Quincy, IL and earned an associate's degree in education from 2004 to 2006.
Then, I attended the University of Illinois and spent two semesters studying Elementary Education, and heard many groans about how No Child Left Behind redirected learning from more fundamental sources and origins to simply teaching knowledge and skills to score well in standardized testing that linked schools to Federal Funding. Power, Resources, and Money to the teachers of America! I switched majors to kinesiology for one more semester, then left the university to become a firefighter in Raleigh, NC, in 2008.
I have been a Firefighter for Raleigh ever since and have learned so much from my instructors in my fire academy, my officers I work under, and my fellow firefighters I work alongside. Firefighting allows me to work physically, which aligns with my nature. My work also allows me to help the community I live in, which aligns with my newest passion: my wife and four young children. Contributing to society in a way that sustains our future, not instant gratification and grand surpluses for a few, is my genuine aim.