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Now, last night was the Miss America pageant, I do enjoy watching it, but last night many things happened.
First, I do not agree or support the contestants wearing 2 piece bikinis in the swimsuit competition because it's immodest and gives the wrong impression to any young girl watching.
Second, the woman who won, just didn't have the wow factor that I think a Miss America should have. So who has the wow factor?
Miss Kansas Theresa Vail!
She has served in the Army, is a dental assistant in the Army, an expert bow hunter and has tattoos. I love her! I'm so proud of her for the service and sacrifice she has made to the United States. She is the second woman from the Army to ever compete in the Miss America pageant. I wish she would have won.
To note, I did really appreciate when Miss Connecticut Kaitlyn Tarpey championed the beauty of red heads and freckles.
So here is the beautiful Miss Kansas Theresa Vail, who in my opinion should have won the Miss America pageant. No worries to you Miss Theresa, I think there will be greater opportunities waiting for you!
Now, enjoy this interview with Fox and Miss Kansas Theresa Vail.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/09/13/miss-kansas-theresa-vail-bullied-so-much-nearly-took-my-own-life/
Theresa Vail is an sergeant in the U.S. Army who is a crack shot, can
handily skin a deer, is an expert with a bow and arrow, and sports a
couple of tattoos. And to top it all off? She speaks Chinese! The 22
year-old blonde beauty is also representing Kansas in the Miss America
pageant which airs this Sunday night. (She’s only the second woman from
the armed forces to compete in the pageant). Vail took time out from the
competition already underway in Atlantic City to talk to FOX411.
FOX411: How on earth did you become involved in beauty pageants?
Theresa Vail: It was actually somebody from my unit who told
me that through everything I did, I was a role model and I should really
embrace that so I started thinking up ways of how I could really get
involved and help people and then it dawned on me that if I happen to
win a pageant I could have a state wide voice and really become a role
model and hopefully a national voice.
FOX411: What is your message?
Vail: Empowering women to overcome stereotypes and break
barriers. We all face challenges in society. We’re placed under certain
convictions and we feel we have to stay under them and I want people to
know, it doesn’t matter what society says. It doesn’t matter what the
quote, unquote rules say. You can do whatever you want, whatever you set
your mind to, that’s what I did when I showed my tattoos.
FOX411: Tell me about the tattoos.
Vail: I have two. The Serenity Prayer down my side and the
army dental insignia on my left shoulder blade. There’s a big taboo in
the pageant, nobody shows their tattoos for fear of losing, but I said,
‘What a hypocrite I would be if I say be all you can be, embrace your
individuality, embrace your differences, break barriers, if I couldn’t
even do that myself.'
FOX411: You had to change your talent at the last minute.
Vail: I wanted to do archery, I wasn’t allowed. I had to pick
up singing. I guess the Miss America organization has an insurance
clause against projectile objects.
FOX411: But you’re really accurate right?
Vail: I am! That’s what I told them. In my defense, I’ve never missed anything I’ve tried hitting.
FOX411: You hunt too?
Vail: Yes I do and I’m a supporter of the N.R.A.
FOX411: You were bullied as a child.
Vail: Yes, I was about 10 years old. I’d been bullied pretty
much consistently up to that point. We lived in Germany at the time and
it got so bad that I nearly took my own life. Thank God it was my Dad
who saved me. I remember I didn’t know the words of the Serenity Prayer
at that point but I knew what I wanted to say to God, which was, help me
find peace in these things that they’re making fun of me for, because I
can’t change them, but on the other hand I also prayed for courage to
just stand up for myself and change things that I really could. So when I
was old enough I knew I never wanted to forget that story because I
wanted to inspire people who may be in the same situation. That’s why I
got the tattoo.
FOX411: Why did you join the Army?
Vail: My Dad was in for 33 years. I saw the benefit it gave
him, serving his country. He had so much pride and I knew I wanted to do
the same thing. He always told us the motto, others before self, so
that’s what we live for. We live to serve other people.
FOX411: Are you in for life?
Vail: Yes! I just re-enlisted for another six years. The Army will pay for my dental school and then I’ll go on active duty.
FOX411: So you could speak Chinese while shooting a squirrel?
Vail: I could!
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