Welcome to the Tudor Dixon Podcast. We have a really special podcast for you today

because my guest actually is a gentleman who I met at one of my daughter's Halloween parties.

She was over at a friend's house

and we were sitting around the bonfire in the back

and Will was there and he started talking about, he's a veteran, he started talking about his service and I just thought it was so

fascinating that I really felt like his perspective and his take on this should be shared with people because I'm somebody who I think you all know I was not in the service and I don't have a lot of friends that are veterans so it's nice for me to be able to sit with someone and kind of see what it's like to go to be deployed to serve and come back home and what that whole experience is and Will was willing to share that with us.

So I wanted to bring Will Durksi.

Thank you so much for joining me on the podcast today and it was a pleasure meeting you so I'm so glad that you decided to agree to come on and talk about this stuff.

Well thank you Tudor. It was a pleasure to meet you also and glad to be here and to share my experience.

So one of the things I was just telling you, one of the things that struck me is that you and your wife were both deployed together and that's how you met and you were both

sitting there the other night when we were chatting or a few a few months ago when we

were chatting and you were talking about your experiences when you were

deployed and she was like, you know, it's funny, we were together and we have totally different

memories. A lot of these things that I just don't even remember happen.

And I thought that was fascinating because we always think that, you know, everybody kind of

experienced the same thing, but I think one of the things that we don't realize as civilians is that everyone

comes back with different experiences and different scars when they've served.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah, my wife, she doesn't remember a lot of the statistics

and what we did there all the time.

My mind, I just absorbed all of time. My mind I just absorbed all of it when I was over there when we left on September 19th after the Twin Towers were hit.

When we got over there and we launched our first planes in at night,

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