 To me, Black History Month has changed before it was more of a time of reflection, but now I believe it's more of thinking of where we've come from and where we are now today. The struggles that previous African-Americans had to go through and thinking of it now is that the civil rights leaders and everything that they've done has gotten us to the point where there are no struggles or less struggles, I would say. The Montfort Marines, the first African-American Marines to serve in the Marine Corps, I would say they definitely paved the way for people like myself because of the struggles that they went through, joining in a time of segregation and going to fighting wars and then having to come back and be in a reality where their life is still segregated and have to go through those kind of struggles, paving the way for people like myself that no longer have to go through those things. Coming up to the future for people like Sergeant Major Kent, Sergeant Major Michael, Sergeant Major Estrada, Sergeant Major Green, no one would ever think that a Black or African-American Marine would ever become the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, so I would say that those Marines paved the way to help people like myself to become. My message to younger Marines, sailors, anyone, person of color in the military, the sky's the limit. When I first started out, I was just another Marine and no one ever cared about my race or anything like that and I never let that hold me back or ever thought about how that would come up to opportunities that I couldn't handle because of my race. The Marine Corps has really opened the doors for persons of all color and the fact that if you have strong dreams and you pursue them, you can definitely become someone.