Vee Tuohy

Making the List Vee Tuohy

As it turned out, civilian life wasn't what Sherman thought it would be. It wasn't long after retiring that the "good life" of being a civilian started to weigh on him. Sherman quickly realized that he wasn't a civilian and probably never would be. He was and always would be a Marine. He realized that life would never be the same. He was unable to cope with the feeling of being a nobody, slogging through the days without any feeling of accomplishment or purpose. There has to be more, he thought. Is this really it, is this my life, is this what I am meant to be? Protecting those who cannot protect themselves was what drove me and was the only way I was able to function in the world and still feel like a productive member of society. "What are you good at?" his coworker asked. "Good at? Locating, closing with, and destroying the enemy," Sherman stated with a slight smile. "Well, I'm not sure if there are too many of those opportunities out here for that," another employee mused from across the break room. "Yeah I know, tell me about it . . . I wish I could go back to killing people for a living, I was so good at it,"