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Hello, friends, and welcome to another episode of the Latter Day Lives podcast.

My name is Sean Rappier.

I am your host.

This is episode 26, which also means that we've now been doing the podcast for six months,

half a year. Thank you so much for

supporting us. We appreciate it. This week on the show, an incredible guest. Damon Holsey actually

spent two tours of duty, one year each in Afghanistan, and he's going to tell us all about it,

which is just fantastic. And this week in my latter day life, I'm going to tell us all about it, which is just fantastic.

And this week in my latter day life, I'm going to tell you a little bit about my experience with Las Vegas and drinking. Don't worry, it's actually a really good story. So anyway, sit back,

relax, and here is this week's conversation.

Music relax and here is this week's conversation and it is my pleasure to have right here with me damon holsey damon how are you i'm doing Sean. Thanks. So Damon has been a friend of mine for many,

many years. A lot of years. I have invited him here because Damon has an amazing story to tell.

Damon was deployed twice. Yep. To Afghanistan. Yeah. 03 to 04 and 08 to 09. So we're going to talk about all that.

But before we do, let's get a little bit of history on Damon.

Damon, tell us where you're from.

So I'm from San Jose, California.

I have, what, two brothers, one sister.

We grew up all right there in San Jose.

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