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