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on the day of the gulf war didn't kill former security alexander litvinenko that's according to a lie detector test by a british organization in a case continuing to drive a wedge between moscow and london. right now we look at the hardships of a soldier's life through the eyes of a group of veterans from three generations of wars in our special report. i am going on that at this moment on duty. to be a soldier was a very important thing in a young man's life and to be not just a soldier but to be a damn good soldier and to be in combat to. the fanout komi. i managed to go that's where you belong. and that's the southerner in me in time of

war that's where you belong i know i think. i had left mississippi. probably due on my junior year because of the anger i had to go it out i needed to get out of necessity or probably want to settle and . i came up to you ben arbor michigan to work on the harvest and that work i couldn't do i couldn't make money at it so i came back and while i was in jackson i want to leave the induction center there and signed i believe i believe. i have a sound piece and you see me. this is a cotton mill area there were five textile mills here and i want to run for about two months and was looking for a job and finally one of the old neighborhood grapes had been around for years

had for i get a job in the cotton mill. i want straight to the army recruiter. i'm not coming. here and i'm ready to go. by group and trailer park i grew up in a little small town called parent land texas that's near galveston i remember sitting on the couch and watching. the first gulf war. two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait and watching it on the television seeing how quick the women and the reply afterwards i am from the liberated to be too. awful great to be an american i had felt the we had lost the ghosts of vietnam i remember sitting there on the cal said night and

thinking less of you know you want to go into you know to go into the military. be doing. so we got married on the thirtieth of december of ninety six the fire show and i left on january third of nineteen six to six go on a vietnam so i got spent mana moment in vietnam along. we went from bomb towel to bin while we're at day care for what they call orientation period you know to get used to the climate and to actually get used to the sounds of war.

the first couple of weeks i was terrified every not. and after my first briefing i went back to my bed and i just couldn't sleep i. think i was going to be they're going to shoot me more of course the next day nothing happened. and then. somewhere at about three or four weeks we had an operation where they had thirty helicopters i was circling waiting on my turn to go in this l.z. or landing zone to put the combat assault in. and i heard the radio and the power of the one of the red flight said this is red lead we're taking fire and all i could hear in the background was. now i try to relax and i try to forget about it and it would scare right by this paralyzing kind of fear of knowing that i had to

stop and be shot in. a helicopter you have both hands full so your gut instinct is to fight it. but there's no place to hide you're looking through a clear plexiglas window at the surrounding little flashes and you know that people are shooting to dissipate they don't hit you. from that point. i think i realized that it is possible. that. we were a bunch of thirty guys in a two and a half ton truck put in as replacement training and we couldn't find the division. we finally found it in the first thing they said to us when we got there i remember that why'd you take so there was no welcome. being

a replacement which is the most god awful curse you can have on a human being. you're going to combat you don't know anybody and they don't care about you and they were scared to death you were going to do something stupid and lift your it at the wrong time fire at the wrong time anything to attract fire that would get them killed. by january two thousand and three. i found myself sitting in the kuwaiti desert waiting to invade iraq. i told myself you know hey we're here to fight a war this is it you know this is so tough and this is what eleven years of

training and you know has accumulated to my main goal was making sure that my men came home alive hello to me care about i had to say it but i didn't really care about anybody that was outside of my platoon. once we crossed into iraq we were roll into these towns like a bunch of cowboys shooting the place. we went into the rasheed. it was an actual military compound it's a huge military compound we pulled in there was an abrams tank that was parked at one of the entrances. and i started asking me what was going on because there was some demonstrators down the road and. i

asked him if any of them at any weapons and he said no. and so what do you think the. you know they're going to stage a coup against sister anything like that and he said no they they're just down their set and you know chant and yell and i go behind my humvee and tear open an m.r.e. and all a sudden i hear a gunshot i step out from behind my home be. as soon as i step out from behind mom be my marines are discharging their weapons and the demonstrators so on sling my weapon and i put the the stock up and. the butt of the rifle stock up on my shoulder and i start firing. and i'm hitting i'm hitting the demonstrators no i am. and of course i'm aiming at the head i mean. center mass but i don't know who called cease fire oh no it was kind of like

simultaneously and we all just stopped firing. the lieutenant he comes up to me and he goes what the hell happened. i don't know you tell me sir you're the lieutenant . i said i do know i heard a gunshot that went over our heads and i said did you hear he's heard i say well who opened fire. i don't know. where when we did the reconnaissance and as we're driving by. as we're driving by the bodies i'm looking down at the at the ground and not seeing any me weapons they were wearing traditional. jalapenos and. course they were soaked in red with blood. now i thought to myself for

a split second i said. you know these people didn't have any weapons we just shot at a bunch of the norm. protestors. and then a little voice and then your head goes off and this is well that's war. that's what happens in war. i just i'll be honest with you chalked it up. i really did i chalked it up as a you know. how did we know.

so when after we arrived in gucci we didn't know that we have built a basic out above these complex of toggles i'm so what are those people almost daily by sniper fire or at times a mortar fire. or felt that we had everything going against us where there was just the viet cong. the creatures of nature itself the snakes. they're spiders. and i know it's a different smile. especially if you were in battle i know i've heard many people say you can't smell blood but to me that's a lie. you can smell it.

and i remember early on i think it was in april. sixth the sixth we were out in noble woods and it was people in a rice feel that we didn't know what they were at and on the black pajamas and so at and we had an hour and in that short period that we were there i did everything in black pajamas was in a me so we opened fire on them. we were able to go and physically look at them and they had no weapons and they looked to be teenage children young

very young. so you have that doubt in your mind when one reality hit you you know. what did i kill that i kill innocent kids i wasn't a call that base of course and that's never and said. look. i . am. thanks parents should be fired if i had to stop bryson nerving so i. asked to be transferred to the army told carter button because they never stopped they shoot rockets and machine guns. i don't think i really thought about what your job was. but. at some point.

you you come upon a situation where you see people that you have to shoot. and you have a machine gun we call it goes on down because it looks like your conscious brain thanks seeing people move. and seeing women and children go into a house and being told that this is an enemy location you. have to aim at this building and you have to far be the rockets from machine guns and if you're far enough away it's still not quite like shooting people. but i think it presents a problem for most people if you think about taking a gun and shooting since. most people can't. a soldier has to be trying to

do it so. initially it was pretty tough i tried to. not see. to hope that it didn't hit anybody or he only saw the building explode you didn't see the table. the day i got hit the weather was exactly like this it was cold it was there it was foggy was damp it was september in northern france. we left for done that morning we were to cross the moselle you were on one side of the river and you were being destroyed by artillery shells coming the other way.

i was digging a hole. in the dirt because we knew we were going to be attacked by artillery and i was had my shovel in my hand and inside me i was flying through the air like i.q. sledgehammer that hit me and thrown me way into the air and i didn't know it as come back to the ground i went up and up and suddenly i fell back to. put my hand up and i felt a piece of some in my head and then i looked at my hands and i was just scarlet with blood and i looked at my back at my butt and my butt was the you could see the white fat in this huge hole and my but i remember always lying there and. the medic came over and he tried to fix me up and he was leaning over me and i watched the tip of his nose disappear a piece of shrapnel cut off the tip of his nose and then the blood from his nose

merged with my nose. and the next thing i knew i was in a stretcher i still wasn't hawk yet because i was still paralyzed on my right side and then i had the operation on my head and what i still remember i grit my teeth to i didn't have any understudies you and they drilled with the drill to start taking all this stuff out and i can still remember it felt like i had put my head on a railroad track and the train had run over. what i remember is being treated with symbols enormous tenderness and passion.

sometime in may of six the stakes. neighborly general my cop and i was sent out we were like can a pig swear we were to be hit and the other cop unaids were converging and wiping the enemy out. there was a bright night you could. see long distances by them oh we have been out for quite a while on this patrol and saying anything so we relaxed all at once some dead on stepped out of the bushes. and it startled them to see us there that startled me and. it was firing and i didn't have my weapon was on the die for my way of. so i

managed to get. hangin aids off my belt. cost a couple grenades. but i got. there and we could see as far as we could see there were viet cong that was common up to our parameter . and we called in for and direct fire and couldn't get it we called in for permission to return and we couldn't get it because my copy was getting overrun. so my commander told us to just try to find a place and spend the night there we took the marshy and he was the only one that was killed and one on a bomb crater and we sat there on night.

eventually the mechanized unit came in and we loaded democracy on. his brains actually fell out and swore we all we were moving in. that's still still good but you know they were in them for it said and that crater our night with. them but i did say it sounded hollow. but it was easier

to go back and kill boy that's part of what what drove me. was very day and. sleep. sleep. sleep. sleep. sleep sleep. sleep. sleep some people love to hunt i loved on animals. deer moose sail bear whatever whatever suits their fancy. but i can also tell you that there is no other feeling in the world that comes close to hunting another

human being. that's what you're trained to do. and the drawback to it is the fact that you want to do it again. because you enjoy it. it's almost like a drug and you become addicted to it but after a while like with any like with any addiction. you know suz you're fired and you get that first burst of enjoyment. they don't last so long and the high comes to a load after wears off to feel to me like everything was just muddy and dark waters feels like swimming in a in a big well we've referred to in the marine corps as a shit hole and. you find yourself. looking forward to the next. mission or for combat role.

you get all right if it's like oh. i don't know why you do it but it's first kill is. same are you you think about especially. if you have to kill a close quarters. it up and you know where i killed with. a weapon i. might hate what it would build in our forty's people and i wanted to kill. i

felt good at the time when i when i did it bother me if i. didn't get a chance to kill someone it went beyond and outside and the call of duty it turned into something i said. that i hate that i had had growing up in the south i think it had expanded. because of what was happening in vietnam because so knows and people. i feel i've become an animal i. feel no remorse.

i literally saw young men turn into psychopathic killers. but the great thing about the marine corps is the training process that the young men and women go through gives them all the ability to kill at least one time to put that warrior ethos in effect and then once you've done it then it's on you. so many things happen in a war that put you at all odds with your sense of right and wrong. i've seen things that would be described as his war crimes. the sergeant who had the ring of beers who. is not a secret i mean he's walking around with

a big wiring with human ears pushed through the low but they're all hanging on the ring these are people he has cut off their ears to try to get information. shooting civilians. you don't really call it it's not like you're shooting a scene. it's like. collateral damage. culture is the same as my taxpayers' money i mean isis is never real nice reassign it's hard to deny something foreign is happening in french politics with president

nicolas sarkozy fighting for his political life what is the future.