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Author: Larissa Copeland, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
(Reprinted with permission from Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)

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A Life of Honor and Commitment

Nov. 5, 2013

Honor. Courage. Commitment. These are the values on which the U.S. Navy was founded and built. Frank Watson, a Choctaw born in 1924 on his family's 160-acre government allotted farm land near Lone Grove, has lived these values from day one, so it seems fitting, almost destined, that he would someday become a Sailor.