Four days.

Across the border out of Sunday, I got shot on Thursday.

And my short-term memory is garbage these days.

It's because of the gunshot, but I remember everything about that day.

This is death, sex, and money.

Now I will kill you until you die from it.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

You're in more dire need of a blow job than any white man in history.

And need to talk about more. I haven't seen one dollar from you. I'm Anna's sale.

In the early months of 2003, Staff Sergeant Tom Tran was deployed with the U.S Army in Kuwait near the Iraq border.

He was 23 and waiting for his orders.

And I remember there was one major who was like,

this isn't gonna happen boys, we've been here for three months,

this is not happening, just plan on being here two more months

and then we're gonna leave.

And then like we would watch the news every day,

we'd go to the mwr tent and watch you know CNN coverage of you know this slow

buildup and we're like oh yeah this is this is us like we were watching coverage that we were living in.

The war in Iraq started 15 years ago this month

on March 20th, 2003.

Ten days later, Tom and his unit crossed the border

from Kuwait into Iraq.

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