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šļø 26 August 2022
ā±ļø 219 minutes
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0:00.0 | It was when the towers came down. |
0:02.0 | I felt I had an obligation, and I wasn't going to let other people go in my place. |
0:07.0 | When I worked up at the front gate as a designated marksman, we would have people from the local towns walk up and be like, |
0:14.0 | hey, this guy came up to me in the middle of the night and offered me the equivalent of 10,000 cash here in the U.S. |
0:20.0 | to go plan IEDs on this route. |
0:22.8 | What do you want me to do with the IEDs? |
0:25.1 | And there was one time where I searched a guy and I lifted his shirt up and he had a map of the base drawn on his belly. |
0:30.2 | And Sharpie? |
0:31.3 | Yeah. |
0:32.2 | Like on his... |
0:33.1 | Yes. |
0:33.8 | It's interesting because a lot of the problems like hypervigilance and all these things are assets when you're over there. |
0:39.9 | Now part of the problem is we treat mental injuries and physical injuries different. |
0:44.1 | If you have a physical injury, you get a purple heart, you're treated as a hero, everything. |
0:49.0 | You have a mental injury? You're just crazy. |
0:51.4 | I knew death would stop it and I figured if I'm going to go out, I'm going to |
0:56.4 | send a message. |
1:05.9 | What's cooking everybody? I am joined in the bunker today by John LaBecky and if you heard that intro snippet |
1:12.6 | right there yes John is a veteran who happened to serve both in the Marines as well as in the army |
1:18.3 | pre and post 9-11 and you will hear all about that today his story of his deployments and also |
1:24.9 | his story of what happened when he came back so So John was recently featured in yet another documentary. |
1:30.3 | He's been in several, but the most recent was Michael Pollan's four-part docu-series on Netflix called How to Change Your Mind. |
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