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Our Thing with Sammy The Bull

Fireside with the Underboss - "She Called Me a Child Killer Then She Spit on Me"

Our Thing with Sammy The Bull

Sammy "The Bull" Gravano

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Sammy tells us the unique story about how he got drafted and transported to South Carolina. The experiences he has before, during, and after basic training paint the picture of what so many soldiers went through during the Vietnam war.

Transcript

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0:31.5

This gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:36.5

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was all wrapped up, but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and had a little ribbon on it and I was so guest.

0:47.5

For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so for that one change me a little.

0:53.5

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0:57.5

Hey guys, I got a lot of people asking me about the military when I was young and I already said a story or two but I think I'll tell you what happened.

1:26.5

When I was 19 years old back then there was a draft. You got drafted. Originally I was arrested.

1:36.5

My lawyers found a way to get me out of this case. There was a law back then away with minor treatment. The war was on.

1:50.5

So I fled to that that I would go into the military. The judge dropped the case.

2:00.5

But I didn't go in the military. He says, what you did that with the judge. I don't even fuck up not going.

2:10.5

In 1964 I got a notice to go down to take the physical and all of this stuff. It used to work like this. It used to work. You went down.

2:25.5

You took a physical. They took measurements of you. They did all kinds of questions and questions as you had to fill out. They let you go home and then they sent you a final notice of draft.

2:39.5

So I got that first notice. I didn't think anything of it. I went down. It was the law. I was getting drafted. It was the processing.

2:50.5

So I went down. I said, I'll take the physical. I'll do all that stuff and it's fine. I was 19 years old.

2:59.5

I went down and I did the physical. I did everything towards the end of the day. It was a fairly long day. They fed you while they're lunch and a whole bunch of things.

3:12.5

And they took us into a big auditorium back then the Vietnam War was raging.

3:22.5

And I think they were starting to get desperate for more men. In this auditorium they got on us up on the stand and they said,

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