Joshua Harris (sXe)

Joshua is a mostly online fulltime student majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies (the equivalent of a Psychology major and Sociology minor). He is a poet and writer who aspires to be an author. He has been home, Christian, and public schooled.

He has lived in Okinawa Japan and been deployed to Afghanistan twice. He has visited (or been on bases) in Jamaica, Mexico, Iwakuni (Japan), Germany, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan (Russia), and most of the United States. He has been through car accidents, blizzards, floods, hurricanes, typhoons, and mortar attacks.

He has been medevac'd, woken up unable to breathe, burned the equivalent of commercial jet fuel in a cast iron stove for warmth in a country that has been at war for the past 60 years, sang in front of 6,000 teenagers and lead 45 men and women into Afghanistan.

He is a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, and his story is still being told…

“ ‘Thick of lips with wooly locks, skin a richly dark complexion

Temper colored like the skin, likely married to a weapon’

All this, and more, am I labeled; falsely, sure!

Not that the truth it lacks, but in me, box, there’s more…

…-so- much more…”  - sXe