Going Deep with Retired Colonel Greg Gadson on Resilience
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Everyone is thinking about war and service. Here’s a conversation with someone who has known many battlefields and paid dearly for his commitment to defend and protect. Retired Colonel Greg Gadson was a kid who dreamed of playing football and who ended up with Super Bowl rings after all. You can watch this episode at any time on PBS. Special thanks to AmeriHealth Caritas.
Retired Colonel Gadson’s book is Finding Waypoints: A Warrior’s Journey Toward Peace and Purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about where |
| 0:08.0 | we find purpose and, relatedly, peace. If you ask me, after 400 interviews, the most |
| 0:15.5 | predictable outline of any life is that something unpredictable happens, and our response |
| 0:21.2 | to it, for better or worse, becomes our story. Greg Gadson, a retired colonel at Double |
| 0:27.5 | MPT, a purple heart, is my thought partner today. He was just a guy who wanted to play football. |
| 0:33.4 | That was the goal. And many decades and lifetimes later, he is something else, something better, |
| 0:39.5 | I would say, an expert in finding waypoints, which is the name of his soon-to-be-released |
| 0:45.4 | book. So join us for Kelly Corrigan Wonders in a conversation with the deeply admirable |
| 0:51.5 | Greg Gadson. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. In the almost 250-year-old |
| 1:10.9 | experiment that is America, it's easy to take for granted our right to non-stop criticism, |
| 1:16.4 | debate, and protest. That freedom comes at a cost. Retired colonel Greg Gadson has served |
| 1:23.8 | in every major conflict in the past two decades, for which he has been much recognized. Distinguished |
| 1:30.8 | service metal, two legion of merit awards, three bronze stars, he was a big kid from a hard-working |
| 1:37.3 | family who wanted only to play football. But after losing both his legs in Iraq, he has become |
| 1:44.7 | the voice of wounded veterans everywhere. So here is my conversation originally filmed for my |
| 1:51.1 | PBS show Tell Me More, with amateur photographer, locker room inspiration, and purple heart, Greg Gadson. |
| 1:58.8 | Your parents grew up in Walter Burrow, South Carolina. Yeah. Jim Crossouth. Yeah. In the 40s. |
| 2:10.7 | 45, born in 1945. Do you have a strong sense of what that was like for them, what choices were blocked |
| 2:17.2 | from them? My sense is that that was part of the environment, but their sharing of it, that wasn't |
| 2:25.6 | the entire story. I mean, I never felt like that's all they focused on. It was their environment, |
| 2:33.1 | but their family lives, the things, the things they had to do, my dad, picking cotton, plowing |
| 2:39.9 | behind a mule. Those kinds of things stand out more in my mind than maybe the overall injustices |
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