- Nov 07, 2020
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- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
- Marine Corps
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
- Boot Camp
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020