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[sil.]

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You have that red, right there.

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You have this, is this color in

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there somewhere, or not? Yeah, that\'s, that\'s... That\'s
(crosstalk) right? That\'d look pretty good on the knuckles.

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If I had like a fake arm that looked real,

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on like, on one of the roller coasters.
Especially like if you, if you sit in the front.

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Do it on a loop and just drop it
and like have blood everywhere,

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and it\'ll land in somebody\'s lap. And when
the ride stops, just get off the ride, just

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start screaming bloody murder, the blood
everywhere. Can you imagine the big, the

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little 18-year-old, 17-year-old kids working the
rides? They\'d be like aaaggh, what do I do?

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Traumatized. See, told you to keep your

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hands inside the car at all times.
This is my

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Dad. He served in the Army.
He got blown up by an IED

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in Baghdad, Iraq.

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Hi. Ow. So that one\'s
(crosstalk)(inaudible)

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I told you. Can I do it, can I do it?
Nuh-uh.

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Cee Cee, don\'t forget (crosstalk) the other one\'s torture. That\'s still
your fingers, (crosstalk) that\'s your fingers. That didn\'t hurt,

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that\'s not even hard. Oh God, (crosstalk)

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Turn it, turn it.

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[sil.]

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Yeah, you\'ve got some cheese on your arm.

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Bye. We\'re gonna

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miss you. You\'ve gotta go back to Kentucky.
Bye. Don\'t forget to

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write. OK.

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You getting out? Of the military?

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Yeah. Um, yeah. Yeah? I don\'t

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want to. But I still think about not
getting out, but I\'ll probably get out.

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I mean. Cuz you\'re infantry, right? Used to be, yeah.
I\'m transportation now, but I used to be 11th.

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I grew up... See, that\'s just it there, that\'s the same thing
with me. They ain\'t going to make me do some bullcrap job, you

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know? I don\'t want any of it, so... Yeah. That\'s
why I\'m getting out. I\'m getting out too. Just

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the fact that you\'re willing
to get, you know, I mean like,

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I\'ve have a family to think about. Yeah.
Trust me, dude, I know. I gotta

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ask y\'all. Is this a sealant that y\'all
put... Right up there on the top?

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Yeah. (crosstalk) under the nails? Yep, this is silicon
coat. Yeah, because, yeah like on these it looked really

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good, but on some hands I see it looks like
dirt gets all caked in there. OK. Yeah. And it

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looks dirty. \'Cuz I think I said, I\'m
real picky about having clean nails.

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You don\'t realize

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you\'re missing a leg. I know that
I\'ve, have no leg, but I just,

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I haven\'t like dealt with it yet. And I,
I will, but it\'s just, it\'s just, it\'s

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still unbelievable. And I know, like, this
incident, everyone\'s like you\'re a hero, and I,

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I\'m not a hero. I mean, my buddy died, I didn\'t save him,
and the guy that pulled me out of my truck, he\'s the hero.

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I mean, I just, I just got blown up, you
know? I mean, it\'s, it\'s nothing. I

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ain\'t a hero. His arm looks so

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beautiful. You shocked me!

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Did you feel that really, Dad? Eh.

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Well I did, and it didn\'t feel too good.
Well Britney says, she went down the hall,

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and she said, from a distance...
You can\'t tell. She says you can\'t

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tell. Uh-uh. Oh, it\'s coming off.

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Yeah, it\'s kinda coming off. It\'s

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not kinda coming off, it is coming off.
Yeah, it is.

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Hmm.

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[sil.] (inaudible)

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Are you pretty happy with it, Ross?
Uh, yeah.

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Yeah, but like I said, it\'s just,
it\'s not... Functional. Yeah,

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it\'s just not something very, you know.
If I can\'t use it for

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a purpose then I don\'t want
it dangling from my shoulder.

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[sil.]

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You\'ve got space in back.

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I can\'t fit it all the way to the back.
Okay. It\'s too tall. Turn it sideways?

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Oh, yeah. Okay. If it doesn\'t fit all the
way to the back that way, what makes you

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think it\'s going to fit all
the way to the back that way?

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Okay You got they keys? No, I thought she had
\'em. I think I left \'em in the trunk. [music]

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Back in \'96 I was, uh, laying carpet.
But then when my wife

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became pregnant I really needed a good solid
income. So, uh, that\'s why I joined the

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Army. You know, I felt that I had

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something to offer the people of
America, defending from bad terrorists.

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[music]

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Coming home is

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a big change. At Walter Reed
you walk down the hallway and

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you\'re probably going to see a good eight
amputees that you\'re gonna say hi to.

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Here, most people, they ask,
well what\'s Walter Reed?

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This is an authentic Iraqi

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blanket. From Iraq. Give me a kiss.

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I love you, baby. You\'re shedding.
I\'m shedding?

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You\'re sweating. All right, goodnight.

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He was in a vehicle and an IED

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came from the left side and killed

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the driver, and his name was Adam Fargo,

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and then it,

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then Dad\'s arm, I guess,

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um, got blown off a
little bit but was still

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dangling. I didn\'t want to like go into shock
or anything like that, by looking at it and

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going oh my God, I lost my arm. So
I kinda just looked to the right

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and I called out for the doc. If the
gunner hadn\'t put the tourniquet

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on my Dad, then my Dad would have
bled out and died. So I\'m very happy.

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And that\'s all I know about the injury.

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They\'re called, um,

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I don\'t know, either KIA or WIA,
Killed in Action or Wounded in Action

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bracelets. I got this
made, um, in remembrance

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of my, my driver who got killed.
Him and I were real close.

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So, uh, he was a great

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guy.

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What\'s next?

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Do you need a minute, do you want...
No, I\'m good, go ahead.

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No, it\'s just, it\'s just rough.

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[sil.]

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I find making these models very relaxing.

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Some may say it\'s monotonous work. It\'s

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fun, though. That a range outside, honey?

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Uh-huh. You can hear the gunshots.
It\'s kind of what Iraq

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sounds like. Outside. You always hear

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stuff from a distance. You
kind of get numb to it.

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All around (ph) is booms.

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Don\'t they know people
have PTSD on this post?

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[sil.]

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What\'ve they got, your leg
is still down or not?

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So have you got a limp, or... My cal-, they cut a
lot of my calf out. Cuz I still have an assload of

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shrapnel in my leg. I think that Jamie says I
think I\'ve got a piece of shrapnel in my butt.

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I know, that\'s funny. Let
go of that (inaudible)

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She says cuz there\'s a dark spot like right on my
butt cheek, she says, she, it looks like a piece of

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shrapnel wanting to come out, but she\'s
not sure. It\'ll work its way out, or...

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Yeah. I\'m gonna get an all black
shirt, and on the front it\'ll say, uh,

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it\'ll say missing, uh, reward if found, and then
on the back I\'ll have a picture of my left arm.

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And then it\'ll say missing, one left
arm, and then it\'ll say like last

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seen, uh, east side of Baghdad.
No. (inaudible)

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[sil.]

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I had planned on staying in, doing

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20 years in the military, but it\'s
not what I want now, anymore.

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I had never really planned on going to
college, but I\'m going to be enrolled by

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the gall term. It\'s going to be weird,

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you know. Lot of 19, 20 year
olds in school, I\'m the 32-

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year-old one-armed guy that
just got out of the Army.

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[sil.] [music]