By Mallory Panuska
FAIRMONT — Editor’s note: This is the first in a week-long series profiling veterans as the Times West Virginian honors all those who have served in the armed forces.
“I guess it was always a dream, something I wanted to do ... I felt it.”
For Cpl. Samuel Price, this was the simple explanation for why he decided at just 17 years old to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Now 22, Price, a Fairmont native and resident, has already done two seven-month tours in Iraq.
Growing up, he said he had played all the military video and computer games and watched all the movies. Around seventh grade, when kids started planning what college classes they wanted to take, Price decided he wanted to join the military, a decision that stuck with him until he was old enough to enlist.
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