Nautical Star tattoo. This was my first tattoo. I used to fight MMA inside of a cage. It was a fight house & I was a part of a group called Northern Pain. It’s a nautical star to remember where you came from and where you are going in the future.
I had just come off a deployment. I was 20 years old at the time. I had a buddy who had died in combat. I got this tattoo to remember him. One of the things you had to have with you when going out on a mission was a gas mask. He could not figure out where his gas mask was. I passed him mine. For him, I got the biohazard symbol. It’s a piece of a lost art for a brotherhood.
Dragon, woman, and koi fish tattoo. This was default always to have someone to love. And a dragon for honor and strength. The koi fish is for luck.
Samurai with bear flag tattoos. The samurai was for the art of battle, respect for yourself and others, and humility. The bear flag is from my partner. They used to call me polar bear because I lived in Alaska for so long. That was my way of adding my partner to the tattoo. It was to show I belonged to somebody; that I was already taken.
At the end of the day, it just shows I once had money to blow on a tattoo.
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