"The rate I was going I wasn’t going to end up anywhere five star, you know?"
"Join the military and get out of poverty because that was the lifestyle that Lynn brought to my family."
"You don't necessarily hear too much about the military assisting people."
"As smart as I thought I was, my kids knew from day one there was something wrong."
"I figured the military would buy me some time to sort of figure out what I was doing."
"After awhile you just kinda don't care. What are the odds if they haven’t hit us yet?"
"The biggest risk the US has now is trying to solve too many of the world’s problems militarily."
"I’m a student, I’m a veteran, I’m not active duty. This is me now."
"I didn't know how to deal with the things that we had seen, that we had experienced."
"You have to pay attention to what you're doing. You have to know where you are."
"I felt the duty to repay my dues to a country that accepted me as one of their own"
"It was a long difficult road, and I would do it again if somebody asked me to."
"What I miss most about Afghanistan is the bonding you have with the other guys."
"They will be my friends for life. They’ll be my family for life."