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Some people enjoy it,
some don't.
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Some just go out and do it as a job.
It's a daily grind.
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-[Man] What is it for you?
- I enjoy it.
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Now I know that he will have a very
important message for each one of us,
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so I want you all
to listen very attentively...
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to what he has to say to you.
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- Lieutenant Coker.
- If you ever have to go to a war,
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and unfortunately, someday
you probably will have to fight a war,
:49:47
you'll find out
that life becomes very simple.
:49:51
Because the only thing you're
concerned about is living and dying.
:49:55
Everything else is unimportant,
:49:58
because suddenly
your life is at stake.
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And that's what it's like to be
when you become a prisoner,
:50:06
particularly,
a prisoner of war.
:50:08
Because the thing that got us through
were the things we learned...
:50:11
before we were ten years old.
:50:14
I"d like to open up
to questions now.
:50:17
Just raise your hand or yell it out
and you can ask any question you want.
:50:20
and I"ll do the best I can
to answer them.
:50:25
How did you feel when
the Vietnam war was over?
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How did I feel
when the war was over?
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I felt real good.
Real good.
:50:33
It was a long war
and a very difficult war to understand.
:50:37
But the reason we went there
was to win this war.
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I volunteered to go.
I'd go again if I had to.
:50:45
And we wanted to win.
That was our number one ambition.
:50:48
That's what we really wanted,
was to win this war.
:50:50
And it took us a long time.
So when we knew that we had won,
:50:54
we felt great;
we really felt great.
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- What did Vietnam look like?
- What did Vietnam look like.