“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
The Robert Frost poem could summarize the life of Emily Williamson up to this point. The sophomore dance team standout has a story that is not like many others.
The Charleston, S.C., native joined the military at the young age of 17. An organized person in general, the Goose Creek H.S., native is extremely organized in everything she does now thanks to the military.
Williamson works with logistics, having undergone nine weeks of additional training after basic for where she’s working now.
She had never thought about being in the military until she talked to a recruiter at a job fair, but it seemed like it would be worth it despite the six-year contract.
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