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🗓️ 20 February 2019
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Long before he enlisted in the army, Samuel Graves developed a work ethic that separated him from his peers. He approached whatever job he was doing with exceeding his own expectations as the only goal. But when I arrived in Iraq, he saw how big a part chance played in war.
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0:00.0 | I see his hand sticking out of the rubble and I just grand by the hand and I pull him out. |
0:18.1 | And I'm in pants, no shirt, no shoes, no socks. |
0:23.3 | Long before he enlisted in the army, Samuel Graves developed a work ethic that separated |
0:27.5 | him from his peers. |
0:29.0 | He approached whatever job he was doing with exceeding his own expectations as the only |
0:33.3 | goal. |
0:34.3 | It's the kind of attitude that people who count on you learn to appreciate pretty quickly. |
0:38.7 | Throughout his military career, he benefited from equal parts hard work and dumb luck, |
0:42.8 | but at the end of the day, the difference between chance and fate isn't that significant. |
0:47.3 | Because once you step onto the battlefield, close calls are a given. |
0:50.5 | They're the known unknowns. |
0:52.4 | I raised up to fire at him. |
0:54.8 | I was thinking, this is a car bomb coming right at me. |
0:58.6 | And that's exactly what it was. |
1:07.4 | What is true bravery? |
1:09.4 | What makes a hero, a hero? |
1:12.6 | Tested by the worries of what's happening at home thousands of miles away and the reality |
1:17.7 | of what you're facing here and now. |
1:21.3 | When your life is in danger every second and it's either killed or be killed. |
1:27.0 | From Wondry and in-congruity media. |
1:31.1 | This is Anthony Russo and this is War. |
1:39.1 | Hi, this is Anthony from This Is War and we've got some really exciting news. |
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