The Advantages of Having Discipline and Endurance At the age of twelve, while most of my classmates were vacationing on the beach or traveling abroad for summer, I was enrolling myself in the Jr. Red Cross Cadets, with my parents’ permission. I was taught how to treat casualties, and I saw firsthand and up close how to take care of the wounded. I was trained in using c.p.r., and the correct way to put on bandages...