For the 25

I mean typical. The thing is the marines don't want to admit it or whatever and I'm totally fine with that. I don't want, I don't want people to know that I have a weakness, although it's not a weakness, it's something you have to do. deal with so many people coming back from war and saying, "I'm fine, I'll deal with it and it's no big deal" and you know, maybe some of them can, but you know, I tried to deal with it on my own. own for so long going back to the beginning I like to think, you know, I went through the wringer and I was the one who had all the problems and then you look back and you have to think that it was all like the price it cost your loved ones, you know ?

I saw what it was doing to my family and you know it was just like I heard it. My mom said what can we do and I realized it was affecting the people around me and that's when I thought, okay you know what steps I have to take to change this and that was, you know, a year a year. and a half after I came back and then with my home life, you know, I felt like I couldn't talk to my wife or whatever and I felt like dealing with people that I could talk to is like you guys and like my friends.

I know I actually went with and finally when I saw that my dad gave me, I mean, if I didn't move to Michigan, if I stayed in California and lived with my closest friends, I would live with them, that's still when you need to talk to someone you need someone who can relate to that and there's just no one unless you've been through it you can't relate to it you know she's still stuck with me in this faithful and she still likes you I know she's constantly doing things cleaning the house and making sure that you know that I have a good life.

He just gave me a beer like I was welcome home, son, yeah, I wouldn't be where I am today if he were her. My girlfriend Amanda is not here, she has helped me a lot, she knows that she has seen my bad sides when I have had problems. She wasn't. I don't know if she would have been okay if yes, you know if you were. And she stayed and calmed me down and talked to me and held me through things, so I took it like I have to thank her a lot for that and it sucks too much because we know some people who aren't. in the same situation as us and we see the struggles that they go through, so we know it's working, she's like me, three four, I think that was the biggest understanding with my family, is realizing the importance of them, You know, three, you're a girl.

I got to ten and when I came back I thought, oh yeah, I was one of the ones who went through all this and just came back like Christmas this year. It was when I first realized that this was taking an emotional toll on everyone close to me. It wasn't just me, you know, I'm like it took me a year and a half to figure it out. Throughout this film, I questioned whether I was doing the right thing by asking my brother to relive those moments to delve deeper into that pain again. A difficult task, but I now understand that we owe it to the 25 who did not return home and to all the other warriors who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

We owe it to them to keep their memory alive, no matter how difficult it is for us to keep walking. Thirdly, we owe it to the fatherless children, to the wives who will never feel the touch of their husband again, to the girlfriends who keep that last letter in the top drawer of their bedroom dresser, to the brothers, sisters and friends who would do anything to hear her laugh once again we owe it to the mothers who never stopped praying and the fathers who buried their children too early and the grandparents who took care of them girl, we owe it to those who They returned home without limbs and to the men who left their innocence on the battlefield we owe it to the twenty-five to keep our Brotherhood alive to live our lives with their memory in our hearts to help each other as we did when death was a constant companion and make them proud because they always will stay with us in spirit you Vanessa yes I say goodbye let's go something goodbye say so she looks in unison hey goodbye okay