Then 9/11 happened. It made me understand how short life is and that it could be taken away at any second.

911发生后，我忽然醒悟到人生短暂，生命随时流逝。

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Afghanistan made me understand the value of teamwork and how individual contributions fit into a larger picture.

阿富汗的军旅生活让我懂得了团队协作的价值，也让我明白了个体的贡献如何融入一个更宏大的图景之中。

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It made me understand a profound truth: that people should not blindly do, but after careful thought, and action.

这让我明白了一个深刻的道理：人们不应该盲目地做，而是经过仔细的思考和行动。

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"I doubt if you can understand how happy this modernizing has made me.

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The memorial made me understand how Churchill inspired the British people not just to fight Britain's liberty, but for the world's freedom too.

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"For me, seeing that reality that a life can pretty much be determined by the third grade, it really made me care and understand so much more, " he says.

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"Being involved in that and ... getting to understand the city made me realize that the impact I could make here was so much greater than at a boring real estate economic research firm back home, " the 23-year-old said.

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