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There are a lot of things a military child goes through. Some of them are moving, exploring different cultures, and meeting many different people. There are also many ups and downs of being a military child and what I go through.

As a military child I move everywhere. When I move sometimes it makes me happy or excited, and sometimes it makes me upset, like a chunk of me gets ripped out and I need to start completely over. That is because making new friends is amazing but leaving old ones is really hard.

Since I’m a military child I have met so many people. That means I have a lot of friends. That also means that I have learned about many different cultures. Like when I moved to Guam, I knew nothing about the Chamorro culture but when I met new people and I learned about it in culture I felt a little more connected.

The last thing that military children go through is when parents get deployed. When my dad gets deployed he leaves for about 6 months and I don’t see him until those 6 months are over. It makes me really upset to see him go but I know that I’ll see him again. But I still get to call him every day before school. Even though It’s not the same as when he’s actually here, it's a huge step up from not talking to him at all.

Military children go through a lot of different things. But not all of them have to be hard to go through, especially because they aren’t alone. That is what it means to be a military child.