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The War at Home
:00:26 My father's great-grandfather,
Colonel Steven A. Collier...
:00:30 fought alongside General Lee
until Cold Harbor.
:00:34 He was wounded and died
from a gangrenous leg
he refused to have amputated.
:00:38 His grandson and
my grandfather, Henry Collier,
fought in the Great War...
:00:42 making the world safe for democracy,
as an ordinary private.
:00:46 He returned home to operate
a dry cleaning business...
:00:49 and died of a heart attack
six years before I was born.
:00:51 My father caught
the end of World War II...
:00:54 working mainly as an airplane
mechanic in Hawaii.
:00:56 He went to college,
got a degree in business...
:00:59 and opened a car dealership
which flourished while America
ruled the world.
:01:03 The history of my family, like
the history of civilization...
:01:06 is the history of war.
:01:08 The getting into it
and out ofit and over it.
:01:12 And Vietnam should've been
no different, but it was.
:01:16 Its final battle was waged
along an unrecognized front...
:01:20 far from the shelling
and the napalm...
:01:23 and the sounds
of planes and guns.
:01:26 It was a battle my brother
Jeremy fought when he came back.
:01:55 Find the cost of freedom
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