Personal Narrative: My Father David Biddle

My father, David Biddle, has had quite the experience in life. He has had some good times and some bad times. He is fifty-four now so he has had some time to experience these events. My dad's life has had its ups and downs but no matter the odds, he somehow found the light at the end of the tunnel.

First off, we will start in his childhood, in the years 1966, when he was a small child, to 1979, when he graduated from high school. I guess you could say his childhood was pretty normal for a kid about eight years old other than moving a lot since his father was in the military. Once he got to high school, things got a lot tougher for him. He had really started to slack on his school work and his grades were plummeting. The only good he got from

high school was his athletic career. He always looked forward to baseball after school and playing with his friends. After a hard four years in high school, my father finally graduated and was looking forward to college.
Things got worse after college had started for my father. Once again, his grades were plummeting and he was having some major financial issues. Only one semester later, he had to drop out because of money problems. After dropping out, he had a plan to get a job to make money to attend college. But sadly, his plan hadn't worked out as he had intended it to. He worked multiple jobs to try to get the money to go back but he could never accumulate enough to afford it. He had started to lose hope, he only had one other option. Join the Air Force.
On the year of 1988 and at the age of 27, my dad, David Biddle, joined the Air Force. This was his last option to make a living in life, and boy did it pay off for him. Since there was no school work or hard math, he got through training with ease. A couple of years later, he got deployed on his first military mission, Desert Shield/Storm. He was there for a whole ten months before coming home. He said the experience was not as bad as he had anticipated. Finally, something he could do to secure himself a good life. Today, my dad is living a great life than he was. He is now married and has one child, me. My father always tells me," Give everything your best shot and don't ever let anything get you down." Knowing what he has gone through, I will always keep that advice close to my heart.
My father has had a very oscillating life. Living okay as a kid, doing awful in his twenties, and living great in his thirties on. Whenever life hits you hard, you never give up, you get up and fight back, you always try to find that light at the end of the tunnel.