I was a naive Catholic girl with very little exposure to anything other than Christianity. I grew up not knowing any ethnic kids (small white town), or non-Christian kids. When I went to college, my UG school had a large Jewish population; my roommate was Jewish and so was my boyfriend. I learned a lot about this religion and although I never considered converting, I gained a great degree of respect for it. Later, when I joined the AF, I made some awesome, lifelong friends (who happen to be white, black, hispanic, and Asian). Thank God I didn't make the decision where to go to school and whether to join the military based on how many people would look, speak, think, and pray like me. That would be so boring.