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🗓️ 19 September 2018
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Even when you spend the better part of your adolescence dreaming about warfare, and your teens preparing for it, there still is an unnavigable distance between theory and practice, especially when there isn’t even a war on. You attack enemies that aren’t just phantasms, but phantasms without nationality or goal, just representatives of the vague threat you’re trying to thwart. But when the war and the enemy are real, it is nothing like you possibly could have imagined.
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0:00.0 | I was just some small hit kid, brancher that didn't know really anything about the world. |
0:15.4 | I just thought that, hey, this is my chance to do what I want to do. |
0:18.8 | I'm doing the Marine Corps 2 Go To War, so this is the best opportunity and you know, |
0:24.0 | fight for my country and of course being a dumb kid that want to do it and just kill |
0:29.6 | somebody I think is I wanted to be my first the first kid in my town to actually be like, |
0:36.4 | yeah, I killed somebody for my country. Even when you spend the better part of your |
0:42.1 | adolescence dreaming about warfare and your teens preparing for it, there still is an |
0:47.3 | unnevocable distance between theory and practice, especially when there isn't even a war on. |
0:52.4 | You attack enemies that aren't just phantasm, but phantasm without nationality or goal, |
0:58.2 | just representatives of the vague threat you're trying to thwart, but when the war and the enemy |
1:03.4 | are real, it is nothing like you possibly could have imagined. Zebuland Jensen joined the |
1:09.4 | Marines to fight, to have adventures and to serve his country in the best way he knew how at the |
1:14.4 | time, but even as prepared for war as he thought he was, there is so much more to being a Marine than |
1:20.2 | just killing and dying. There is a responsibility to other Marines to be support, but also to stand |
1:27.2 | witness. So smoked my first cigarette ever in my life and kind of just kind of is kind of space |
1:35.3 | because you don't realize that's real life. Like you're just like, wow, this is how I'm feeling |
1:40.5 | right now. One of my buddies is dead, possibly because of me because I miss that IED. |
1:45.9 | What is true bravery? What makes a hero a hero? Tested by the worries of what's happening at home, |
2:03.6 | thousands of miles away, and the reality of what you're facing here and now. When your life is |
2:10.8 | in danger every second and it's either killed or be killed, from wondering and in-congruity media, |
2:18.8 | this is Anthony Russo, and this is war. When you're running a business, you want to try and be smart. |
2:33.9 | Do you know what's not smart? Hiring your relatives to fill in at work while you look for staff, |
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