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were you worried about his going into the Marines just because he was small no I never thought about that at
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all MH he was very strong well you know what kind of body dancers have mhm most people think of ballet as an art form MH
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and it is an art form but just as much it is a sport and the men in the ballet room
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can outdo a lot of men that you would think of as athletes but um 18-year- old Marines might not know
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that and none of them did he did not share it with them oh is that right he kept it a secret he kept
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it a secret however his Commander Todd de grossier figured it out Todd told me when I interviewed him this Summer that
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Colin walked differently from the other boys that he seemed to float above the ground and went to Colin and said you
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know what's up with this and Colin said I grew up dancing ballet what kind of marine was it Todd
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says he was a very good Marine with excellent coordination Etc that all his ballet training really helped him to be
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a Marine