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I work at a local bank, and one of the neat things we do every year is offer a scholarship that graduating seniors can apply for. For the last three years I have been on the committee that decides who to give the scholarship to, and last year we gave it to a really deserving girl. I still tear up a little when I think about her. She wanted the scholarship to get into a surgical technology program. Her reason for wanting to do that was because her dad was a soldier, and had been seriously injured in Iraq. A surgical tech had saved his life, and the final line of her essay was “I want to help save lives, like that man saved my dad’s life and countless other soldier’s lives”.