http://armystrongstories.com Army Strong Stories is an official U.S. Army blog portal created to share personal Soldier stories. Its purpose is to promote discussion surrounding life in the military, communicate the impact of day-to-day military life and follow the paths of Soldiers enlisted in different areas of the U.S. Army as they experience new opportunities. Fri, 25 May 2012 04:05:12 GMT Fri, 25 May 2012 04:05:12 GMT http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/melvin-cooper/through-adversity-comes-strength/ By: <a href='http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/melvin-cooper/'>Melvin Cooper</a><br /> At a young age, I had to find out that in our lives, the trials we go through are not important. What&#8217;s important is how we learn from them and move on. Growing up, the hardest thing I had to deal with was not having a strong male role model to show me what a real man is. Coming from a big family, there were many male figures in my life, but I decided that the life I wanted for myself was nothing any of the men in my family could understand. Drugs, jail, and violence are a few of...<a href="http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/melvin-cooper/through-adversity-comes-strength/">read more</a> Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:06:00 GMT Melvin Cooper http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/melvin-cooper/through-adversity-comes-strength/