Tammy Duckworth:
You know, I guess it is.
In the process of writing this book, I sort of came to realize that maybe those things that I faced when I was younger made me better able and more resilient to overcome the effects of being shot down and being wounded.
I didn't think of it at the time, right? You're a kid. You're just living your life. I thought I had a pretty adventurous childhood. I followed my dad, who retired from the Army in 1972 and went to work for the United Nations refugee programs and development programs. So, we were in Cambodia, where my dad was actually putting up telephone lines until the Khmer Rouge took over.
And, yes, I went through adversity in my teens, when my family fell on really hard times. And in the book, I write about being in Hawaii, where people think of it as a paradise, but I was hustling to try to put together $1 a day, so that my brother and I could eat the next day.
And I think all of those things helped to make me more resilient later on in life. But, at the time, I was just living my life, trying to survive. I wasn't — there's no grand plan in the process for me.
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