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I'm constantly in pain.
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um-- take a lot of morphine.
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It helps with that stuff.
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I'm doing-- doing you know, just readjusting.
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Getting life back on track.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I'm not going to do what it is I did before.
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Um, I-- I was a republican for quite a few years.
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And um, and for some reason they uh--
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they conduct business in a very dishonest way.
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I am going to be incredibly active
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in the democratic party down
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where I live once I get out. So..
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I'm going to definitely do my best
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to insure that the Democrats win control.
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Iraq and Baghdad--
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I didn't know any of those things.
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And he-- we were in a hallway.
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And in the upstairs of our house
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and he was crying and he said
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that he was really scared
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and that he didn't want to have to go to Iraq.
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So we were able to have a whole conversation
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about sometimes some fear is healthy
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because it keeps our senses about us.
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And that's when he told me
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that he had not told anyone else
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but he knew he was going to Baghdad.
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We were as everybody, we were glued to the TV.
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Just glued completely glued to the television
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in hopes of seeing a glimpse of him.
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'Can't you please go over to where the Helicopters are?
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Can't you please let us see him?'
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Then that night it was about 10 something.
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I went upstairs to the bedroom
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and I was laying in bed
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and I was flipping the channels with the remote
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and all I heard was
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'Black Hawk down in south-central Iraq.'
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What I can tell you at this hour is that last night
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the Army did indeed lose a Black Hawk helicopter.
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We're being told by officers on the ground
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that there were six occupants inside the Black Hawk.
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Well the next morning I got up and I said
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'You push those thoughts out of your mind.