We just kind of hear the rounds pinging around us bouncing off our vehicles, but then eventually

I see this car at the end of this alleyway and I can see the muzzle flashes coming from

the windows and so I tell everyone else, hey, you know, light up that car and so we all

just start unloading.

Curtis Heiss was one of the thousands of regular enlistees in 2001, people who were joining

the military in pursuit of personal excellence, social improvement, or maybe even adventure.

So combat deployments always are on the table.

He joined at a time when answering that call didn't seem as if it were going to happen.

When it did, he learned quickly enough that loss is a part of war, but that doesn't mean

that it's easy to accept.

I remember hearing someone yell and I opened my eyes and looked up and it was, purple and

top was yelling and I couldn't tell what he was yelling.

I could just kind of see his lips moving and hear him yell in something because it's

so loud in there.

But then eventually I made it out to say Sergeant Rios is hit.

What is true bravery?

What makes a hero a hero?

Tested by the worries of what's happening at home thousands of miles away and the reality

of what you're facing here and now.

When your life is in danger every second and it's either killed or be killed.

From wondering and in congruity media, this is Anthony Russo and this.

Is war.

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