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  • I have, Ah, a number of friends who are not alive and I have a few that I wish we weren't.

  • I have, uh, a couple of people who never returned from Vietnam in their heads.

  • They're crazy.

  • They can't be around other people.

  • You see him drop down into a crouch and fire an imaginary machine gun.

  • People that I spent a lot of time with when I was a teenager, they didn't deserve that kind of stuff.

  • I don't know.

  • I just think that, uh, those people that I lost, they're lost and they're okay.

  • But I feel really badly for the ones who are still here and just can't cope with the world around them.

  • It's It's a crying shame.

  • It's worse of a lost in life.

  • Send my 18 year old friend war.

  • He's in a group home.

  • He's 40 years old now.

  • I maintain a relationship with a family.

  • I think of the dad is is my substitute dad.

  • I'm sure I fill a role for him as a son, but it's a shame.

  • I know a lot of people, and I know a lot of people who have friends in that situation.

  • The pain of death goes away or it becomes tolerable.

  • But the pain that goes along with somebody who's mentally or physically lost never goes away.

  • The reminder is always in front of you.

  • It's home.

  • My father's generation Hey was a chaplain in the Air Force during World War Two and afterwards for a while, and they they had a sense of completion about their war.

  • They did the right thing, they knew the right thing.

  • And But I believe they did the right thing.

  • We don't we still think we made a terrible mistake, the war itself, the way we don't want war.

  • Um, there's still, I think, a sense of futility, and you and me about what we can or what we did do about that war.

I have, Ah, a number of friends who are not alive and I have a few that I wish we weren't.

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