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He was just looking for a way to be able to pay for college and support his family, and the Army was his opportunity to be able to do that.


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BLAKE FARENTHOLD I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.
BLAKE ANDERSON Even if it's your wedding, if you're a guy, it's boring.
BLAKE SHELTON Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE The eye altering, alters all.
WILLIAM BLAKE The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not on...
WILLIAM BLAKE I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, ...
BLAKE SHELTON Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
WILLIAM BLAKE I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
WILLIAM BLAKE The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; ...
BLAKE LIVELY The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of...
BLAKE LIVELY Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
WILLIAM BLAKE Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
WILLIAM BLAKE Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
WILLIAM BLAKE When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the...
WILLIAM BLAKE A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in...
WILLIAM BLAKE