Why

Sep 11, 2021 — Comic #286
A dotted-line map traces one Coastie’s journey: watching the Twin Towers burn on 9/11, enlisting, getting a buzz cut, training, graduating, receiving his first medal (“Do we even deserve these things? Doesn’t feel like we’ve even done anything yet”), desk work, promotions, cutter duty, boardings, late-night watches, and finally retirement papers and a farewell paddle. It ends at a bar, where a date asks, “So what made you want to join the Coast Guard?”
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Do we even deserve these things? Doesn’t feel like we’ve even done anything yet / So what made you want to join the Coast Guard?

9/11 serious
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