How Does It Feel to Be a Problem. Blog 2

Reading the next couple of chapters in Moustafa Bayoumi's work, I read stories of characters with different perspectives and lives that I also found interesting.
The first of the two that I read was from a Muslim American named Sami.  Sami came from Brooklyn with a large population of multi ethnicities, especially Muslim.  After high school, he never had any idea what to do so he decided to join the Marines without his parent's consent.  His experience with his application was that the recruitong officer convinced him that the Marines will make him a hero amnd well respected.  Especially for retirement and the near future. Those are true but the experience will not be for others.  The marines and the military in general were well known to manipulate people to join the armed forces in order increase their size of soldiers on duty.
After his completion of training, Sami heard the news about the 9/11 attack.  In his eyes, he could not believe that his own native country would do such an outrageous massacre on American soil.
This gave him the anger towards his own roots and decided to join the war in Afghanistan.  But it also gave him the anxiety that the soldiers in his unit will be shocked that they have a Muslim in the team.   But thankfully he was treated with the same amount of respect the same way he respected his soldiers.  Also he was proven useful for his knowledge of speaking Arabic for translations during operations.
But during his time in Afghanistan, he saw one of his soldiers physically threatening an innocentt Middle East citizen with his assault rifle.  It made Sami angry at the fact that the citizen was treated unfairly and falsely accused for the attack at the World Trade Center.  Sami talked with his soldier furiously and let the person go.
Then on base, he and the soldiers had an argument that all Muslims are terrorist because it was their first time watching the attack on video.  But the arguments died down.  Later, Samia nd his unit were told that the war was over, but it was a lie and so he decided to be honorably discharged. 
During his process of being discharged from the marines, his younger brother decided to join as well.  So Sami decided against it and told him the consequences of enlisting like being manipulated to join because it is a good expereince and a lot of soldiers would do nasty against innocent Muslims in Afghanistan.  And his brother understood him and decided not to join.
Sami was eventually happy to come back to Brooklyn not only because his parents live there, but also because it was better to stay at home than see soldiers looking down on Muslims and doing unethical things to them.  Also he came back because he fell in love with his culture and native roots after being on tour in Afghanistan where he got to embrace his ethnicity as a Muslim American.