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Up next, another story on Hank Brown,

one of the greatest and most humble statesmen of our era.

Hank volunteered to serve in Vietnam,

served in the U.S. House of Representatives,

and the U.S. Senate,

served as president of three different universities,

including having a unanimous bipartisan support

to lead the University of Colorado out of a number of scandals. Let's get into the story of his

military service. I was in grad school and found it boring to the point of distraction.

So I joined the Navy, went through Officers Candidate School in Newport,

then volunteered for the UDT training,

underwater demolition training.

Unfortunately, my eyes weren't good enough.

I was 20-30 in one eye.

So when I got turned down for that, I applied for flight training.

You could, with correctable vision, you could become a navigator, got into a VR squadron.

And when Lyndon Johnson asked for volunteers for Vietnam to serve in Vietnam, I remember it was a Thursday afternoon.

He was on television. I was it was a Thursday afternoon.

He was on television. I was in the ready room, working on some paperwork. And he came on television and asked for volunteers.

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