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My name is Victoria Correa

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I'm a Custom and Border
Protection Officer out of

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JFK International Airport.

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I'm also a dragon boater.

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Originally I got into it.

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My mother who is
a breast cancer survivor

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was diagnosed with cancer
around the same time

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that I was in a really
bad motorcycle accident.

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I just got out of Iraq, broke my pelvis.
I was in a wheelchair for about a year

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and I had to
have reconstructive surgery.

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Everything had basically
just gone wrong in my life.

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My mother ended up
coming into dragon boating

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as a form of therapy.

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After seeing the type
of people that she was with

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and how they managed to make it
out into the water

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even after radiation therapy

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was something that motivated me so much

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that I ended up joining my own team

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and training for a few years.

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A lot of people who know
me personally know

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that I started out
because of my mother.

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She started it because
of rehabilitation and also

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for the sisterhood that it causes.

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At JFK I do just about everything

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that I can pretty much
get my hands on.

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Which is inspections of primary,
secondary baggage.

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Hard secondary cases.
Soft secondary cases.

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I try to be as flexible as possible

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and as adaptable

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to whatever situation I can be,

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because, I want to learn
as much as I can

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and I want to be able
to be used

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wherever it's humanly possible
within my line of work.

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Bring it in.

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Next race in about an hour.

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One, two, three UNITED!

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I love doing what I do.

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I really love dragon boating.

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I think I love it as much as I do

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because, I am inspired
by my mom and her team.

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Which for me
is my second group of moms.

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They come in after
radiation treatments.

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They come in after being told

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that they have a deadline
in regards to their cancer.

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And their ages are at a point
where most people feel

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like you don't have
anything left to do,

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but sit down watch TV.

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They do more than than most people

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my own age 20's 30's 40's.

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And for me that's
the biggest inspiration as to

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why I started doing what I did

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and what
pushes me

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when I do the type of work
that I do.

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I have no excuse, because I see
my constant role models

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doing what
people say is impossible.