At the time, in 1997, when I got out, I almost felt like I had just disappeared. I was very fortunate, though. I was a full-time mother. Not many people, obviously, could do that, but that was what I was doing.
If I had gone back to the workforce, I think it would have been a challenge, because of what I got experience in during my career in the military. Civilian jobs and .50 cal.... I was qualified in a lot of infantry courses, artillery, so I didn't know what I would be doing.
I looked at it that way, but with the teacher education, when she asked me that question and told me that, I was like, “Wow, okay. I do have that responsibility to do that.”