It was a collge aplication essay on my father. it was well recieved by the university of miami and Davidson college

A person who has impacted your life?
<Tab/>I keep remembering odd things: his love for cars, jokes he told at the dinner table, his subtle brand of sarcasism, the look in his eyes when he tlaked about my future. I knew college before I'd ever hear of high school, I was my dad's last chance at the degree he never had.
His parents never pushed him to achieve any thing in life, he dropped out of high school and joined the army to fight in war he didn't believe in (Vietnam War). After finishig his term in the army he married a women and fathered two children, his first marriage…