Daniel P. Driscoll

Kids would drive from all over the county.

There were no private schools.

It was an amazing childhood.

Most of it spent outdoors, skiing, mountain biking, just playing sports.

Ended up my rising...

When I was going into junior year, I ended up meeting this woman, Cassie, who was a rising freshman.

I was 18 months older than her and asked her out.

She couldn't date till she was 16.

We ended up dating, I think, a couple months before she turned 16.

She's now my wife.

We've been together for 22, 23 years.

So it was just an absolutely amazing childhood growing up up in the mountains.

What got your interest in the military?

So think about this.

This kind of blows my mind when I think back to it.

So the summer before, so I was going to UNC Chapel Hill for college.

And the summer reading book from UNC Chapel Hill was this book, Absolutely American.

So they had all the freshmen reading this book about these three guys who had gone to West Point and then deployed to Iraq.

And my granddad had served in World War II as a decoder.

My dad was an infantryman in Vietnam, as I was telling you.