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I was the biggest target ever…

 

Learn more about PTSD from Marlene Diaz (US Navy, 1991-1995) and other Veterans who’ve been there: http://www.ptsd.va.gov/AboutFace

Transcript

Well, when I joined
the military in the '90s,

it was a more Caucasian-dominant,

what we called salty old dogs,

and they were middle-aged
White Caucasian men

or White Caucasian women
that had a point to prove,

that they measure up to their counterparts

which was White male,
middle-age Caucasian men.

So here I am, this boisterous,
vivacious, Latina woman,

you know, Puerto Rican
girl from the Bronx,

and man, I was the biggest target ever,

because my tone of voice was wrong.

How I spoke was wrong.

That was a hard pill to swallow.

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