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To begin today's program, I want to share a story with you and it's a story from my

childhood and it begins in an unlikely place South Korea. My dad Robert Hyatt

served in the United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s, and that was during the height of the Korean War.

And it was a conflict that cost over a million lives, 36,000 Americans by the way, who were wounded or left

dead or had permanent disabilities, my dad served as a gunner on a tank.

And in that role, one of the things he had to do was periodically clean the tank.

So he and one of his buddies were out on the tank one day cleaning the gun

when there was an incoming missile that blew up and my dad got hit with some shrapnel.

And it knocked him out, in fact he was in a coma for months, his buddy was killed, and it altered his life in a very dramatic way because it was a

very severe hit injury, and it's left him with a limp that he walks with to this day.

Well, as a young young boy I didn't know

anything about the war I didn't know anything about the injury you know just wasn't

old enough to be aware of that but what happened was that I started inadvertently walking with a limp myself?

So much so that my mom finally, when I was about five years old, called me aside, put her arm around

me and said, Michael, is there a reason why you're walking with a limp?

Did you hurt yourself?

And I said, no.

And she said, and she kind of figured it out.

She said, oh, so you're walking with a limp because dad walks with a limp? And I said, yeah,

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