He was born in the late 1940s and Grew up in Arizona. As a child (age 9) he started smoking and drinking. That has really effected his child hood because he was at first the strait A student until he started his bad habit. He wanted to stop his drug addiction badly.When he was 17 years old he wanted to join the marines so he could stop smoking and drinking. Once he started, he has been doing good and was one of the best marines. During the 1960s, Melvin went to the Vietnam War. The reason why he joined the marines was because he wanted to stop his drug addiction and in the end he succeeded. Ever since he started the marines he has been doing great the entire time, he got all his stripes, he hasn't messed up once, he also got all his education there, and he was one of the best marines.
They both have connections with each other because they both fought in a war. Melvin fought in a war for his country and Fredrick Douglas fought in a war against slavery.
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