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"We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years... and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works." —Colin Powell on the use of American military power.

Background

Well everyone, welcome to my Wikipedia/Wikinews page. My name is John Thomas Bjorum-Docksey. I was born in Bergen, Norway in 1987. Given dual citizenship given that my father is an American citizen and my mother (was) a Norwegian citizen. Moved to the United States in the mid-1990s, and became exclusivly an American citizen eight years later. Unfortunately, I retain hardly any knowledge of Norsk or German, but I can get a vague idea of what people are saying when they speak those languages. I participated in high school and club level competitive swimming and water polo, specifically in the 200m, 100m, and 50m freestyle events in swimming, and as a left wing in polo. Naturally, being of Norwegian hertiage, I have been skiing for almost my entire life. Despite living in the flat lands of the American Midwest, very frequent vacations to Norway, Colorado, and Utah have made me an excellent downhill skiier. In 2004 I was awarded a nomination to the United States Military Academy at West Point from congressman Mark Kirk of Illinois. I opted for deferred enrollment, and spent the year between his high school graduation and college enrollment as a lifeguard and swim team coach. I will being attending West Point in the late summer of 2006, graduating in 2010.

I have one brother, Adam, who is entering his junior year of high school. My family owns two Shetland Sheepdogs, named Eddy and Jimmy. They are both very unique dogs. Eddy chases everything, airliners, cars, birds (especially swallows hunting for bugs). Jimmy on the other hand prefers to lay around on air conditioning vents, scavange for food around the kitchen, and generally attract attention from everyone he can. Both dogs have seen more than their share of tragedies. When he was three years old, Eddy was hit in the right rear leg with a golf ball at close range, destroying his knee. After a complicated surgery and a long recover time, he has regained full use of that leg (including running at full speed), but he does hold it in a rather odd manner. When Jimmy was two years old, he broke his leg jumping off a two foot wall while chasing a car. Since then, he isn't able to run nearly as fast as it could before. One year later, he was diagnosed with lupis. Thankfully, it is in full remission and he is quite healthy. Both dogs are now six years old, and yes they are brothers.

Contact Me

You can reach me via MSN at jtd4753@comcast.net

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