thanks buddy yeah. he played to go right down there by the water. appreciate and bruce jr and rio set off to have some good clean fun. while you do it so bruce as i understand it the old no here is one of your frequent hangouts of my correct yes well. you're like me brother. you're a little smarter than maybe you look. for thank you this is heaven yeah it is beautiful it's fantastic tell me some more about this neighborhood this town because we mean some of the folks and just the folks in massachusetts just seem so nice so nice that they have the self-proclaimed nickname mask. west minister of the town it's very nice it's. very quiet small town as you see right now it's very quiet peaceful well as are you too except for that.

the people got to us yes they did. where you were you born i was going one hundred forty eight forty eight i was born in sixty six. close. nineteen fifty eight forty eight all not even close. here's a reason i'm just the host of the program yeah we can agree more when you go to school. in lexington school system graduated then got drafted it was nineteen i was drafted and i think sixty eight read i school. no kid i was too wow drifted right into the military one nine hundred sixty eight take me through after the draft tell me the story i was drafted in the spring i went through basic training i went down to fort dix new jersey then i. i was in

texas for vance individual training and went from there to california and was shipped to be at all in the same. and what aspect of the military much was in the army i was in small as it was. called fifties it was for fifty caliber machine guns mounted on a tour which was on the back of a deuce and a half or a price on what i know that is. what division where you went and all that battery success that. and where did you go first in vietnam then and then i was shipped up to down. and everywhere you went it was just not. you know i was on the front line ninety percent of my time holy moley i was in nashville valley i don't know if you ever heard of hamburg until. i was on eagle's nest which overlooks the valley we were surrounded one night and they brought off the magic dragon puff the magic

dragon. that was a c one thirty that napalm c one thirty had many guns and the whole underneath of the c one thirty. pm nation. told you i was just to just to shoot bush everybody back to protect you guys they shot all night and then when they ran out of ammunition they brought in cobras and they sure that . they were our only protection. and then i guess they drove. away and then they went up i think to him the hill and then that's when that whole fiasco started their boat hamburger hill. and then were you outside of the hamburger hilson are you or did you have miles away. they had us around if it was. here force coming in and helicopters wouldn't.

do it and now they feel. i don't know a couple miles away that was overrun before i came out to this particular. position . they lost almost everybody on that hill and then of course hamburger hill that was a massacre. we lost guys there did me a lot of that but your guys in the whole movement on this were were ok we just hunkered down lucky. a man. i don't believe in luck. i believe in god. absolutely now let's check in with real to see how they're doing on their.

looks like it's going to. tell me the story you had some problem with a fellow soldier we were out on. had been. placed on the side of the mountain they give you fifty thousand. now that it. was. at the time. taken. the. hit. they were better and i was the only one left so they had the guy. as a. we got into a fight he was. top of my helmet and told. yeah. yeah. yeah.

yeah. and did he respond yeah good yeah see now it just goes to show you bruce these days you want to just give your kid a little spank on the bottom in the twenty first century there's probably better ways to discipline your children what i do is take the phone away of the tablet it works even better yeah you don't whack little bruce on the head with a tablet you know. better when you're in somebody else's easy to hit somebody else's thing you know you should probably avoid that as well my question is so. with you and your comrades who are over there what do you do for downtown where you're playing cards where you yeah basically. when you had the opportunity to go sleep because they would attack at night. and we would sleep during the day. night you couldn't smoke because that would be zero in for the be a cause to shoot at you really see the cigarette they see the flash and they just

shoot. yeah and they shoot at that point so at night even if you smoke you smoke like this couple. so that they couldn't see the cigarette because that lights up a dead giveaway that could have been a big problem yes prescript now. eighteen years. you're a smart man. either they're doing laps around the restaurant or they've only traveled twenty feet in that time. a lot of famous movies about vietnam. in this one movie that shows like this helicopter come in for some entertainment for the troops you know your experience one of them no. i'm sorry i haven't the only thing i didn't bring the playboy bunnies into hamburger hill. you know what they did was

they brought to us so girls in to opposition. for i guess a half an hour and we're just stared in from like a hundred yards away now we got to talk with them and they just were nice and they were just nice and we just like sit down and just having a conversation so to speak because we didn't have anyplace else to go actually because the position we were at was on top of a mountain. and then they. lifted him back out. how long were you. active in vietnam that was the first tour i was always only the a for one tour i extended my time so i could get an early out of the service but i stayed fourteen months total because they only had two years in the service if you had eighteen months when you return to the united states or to get out of the mess which i've had enough. but she did just got lucky and just did what i

supposed i did the last two months. burning the what we used to call the and light the showers. were sent me as well as out houses and they had. fifty five gallon drums cut in half and under me and that's where you went to the bathroom they had holes in the outhouse that was my duty the last two months. so you finished up the eighteen months. i go lucky i got home and nine hundred seventy tell me about that. word that we got when we were still in vietnam as we didn't want anybody to know where you came from. because it wasn't a very popular. so i went and got my tickets. when i had my uniform on and then i took my uniform off

. and got on the plane went home. i called my family from boston and they came up and got me. obviously there's a lot of bad memories. associated with. that being an unpopular war. so how long after you got home could you even start saying yeah i was i was i'm a veteran i fought in vietnam. but i would say. up until a couple years ago. cleared of murder. so. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or interim or more somehow want to be

principle. that's a going to be press that's what will before school three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my college. course should. some are much more entertainment have become blurred it in our culture and we have children grow up playing playing war games on their computer this war has somehow been domesticated as entertainment to russia because there's nothing funny about war it is so serious russia will be the last to give up nuclear weapons because russia regards nuclear weapons as the bow. of the against inflation or war flotus a period coalition of full of.

about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taking your last bang turn. your attitude up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry but only i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker. in

america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's long debt. studying so hard it requires transit. going through humiliation to enter an elite society. and paci dead sometimes quite literally. wants other true colors of universities in the u.s. . so how long after you got home could you even start saying yeah i was i was i'm a veteran and i fought in vietnam. and i would say. up until a couple years ago. so probably in the last ten years. since they've been coming out with veterans. and recognizing that ignites at the

back so it's kind of it's a good thing yeah it is now. can you look back on all that and say. you know. with all of what was reported in the way all the story happened is there a party maybe now that understands the confusion in your heart and mind you say to yourself it doesn't matter i was serving my country. i can understand it. because in the beginning it was it was botched then. as the wall went on people were against it so i can understand. the change of heart or feel that if. they did. they wanted us to come home. they just wanted to stop. but guys like you were stuck in the middle of that you

know she got home. and you laid low and would you do after that if you work. well actually. i bought a new truck a new boat and went fishing for ten months. i love what you catch oh i was going close right then asked anything that i could. catch itself down on cape cod oh yeah yeah. i just want to fish i would go out and make enough money from the fishing. to buy gas for the truck the boat and buy some beer. what more was there what kind of beer to drink st pauli girl i drink the same product but non alcoholic i have an allergy to alcohol so. i break out in handcuffs. ok. and just me and.

my intellect where the. mind did too i don't drink an evil but still fish. just hope i get to come back some time and visit you're good to your fishing. i'm sure they would be best friends speaking to best friends let's check in with rio and his new pal. on their thirty ninth lap around the old mill. tell me about your son bruce he's walking in rio de pomeranian how old is he he's twelve. this big boy for twelve yeah he's growing like a we like to rest of him you know what's it been like for you the reality of. bruce jr coming into your life and then how that's affected things up until now well it's been your single dad yeah his mother has had some problems and that's why he's with me it's just been tough to. take care of him and then having cancer.

my goodness you know whole cancer when i was in the service. i was exposed to agent orange. how long after that did you find out about i just found out. to see both a year and a half ago you were expose. agent orange fifty years ago yeah so it was in my body all that time i didn't know. i just couldn't sleep one night when in the hospital. they did a bunch of blood tests and they came up with the fact that i had bone cancer the doctor told me that. i had only about a year to live because it was stage four right he asked me if i had been in the service and i told him yes then i wanted to know what branch were you when i said i mean he asked me was vietnam i said yes he said age and already i said really didn't look good i had stage four and i had to go in the chemotherapy treatments.

i guess the chemotherapy can really mess up in my course toxic process and i was at the point where i didn't know who i was where i was i was double checking everything i was doing because i was you weren't sure if you forgot yeah and i thought maybe i didn't have all the time and sort of dementia because my memory wasn't there how old are you sixty nine i'm fifty one. and i got the worst dang memory bruce no kidding you just asked him that ten minutes ago if my kids and my wife make fun of me. i'm fifty one i'm going lord what lives did you just prayed outside yeah it's a it's a you worry about it's a little bit so in the times you got we got more to be worried about so we forget more yeah. and how you doing today good it's been four months since i had

a stem cell transplant today. the technology they have the stem cell transplant see if i was diagnosed ten years ago would have been a death sentence what did you learn about that how how did this help you in addition to maybe normal chemo or any of that he. go through an awful lot to get the stem cell done i went into the hospital they cut a neck and they put a tube down and they had three port. so that they don't have to keep sticking you when you're in ross but i had to lay in a bed for about six hours. and the pump your blood through a machine and just goes in a circle and they take the stem cells out and they put them in a bag and then they freeze it. and then when you go to have the transplant i had three days of chemotherapy high dose chemotherapy

then they take the stem cells so far out of them out and then they put the stem cells back in chemotherapy kills all disease and all the cancer in your body after that when they put the stem cells back in those stem cells a cancer free to run so that when they put them back in. their strength and because the cancer has been beat back so what helps your bones get healthier and stronger faster is the rejuvenated stem cell yes. man in that something yeah that is if i told you then after you got back from vietnam we could do something like that you were to believe why would i believe i had cancer in the first place through veterans affairs and all that did you have everything you needed you were taken care of. i had to fight for everything. as i've been going it took me quite a while to get recognition stating the fact that yes we acknowledge that you were

exposed to agent orange in vietnam and that's what's caused the cancer and that you are one hundred percent disabled and they finally recognize the fact february that's when i received my first check in a letter. and they're going to cover all those costs to pay all those now. i go to fish which is the next town over and go to the v.a. and they take care of anything and everything. fine that's the way it should be my friend. so is this is it accurate to say it's been four months you've been cancer free yes. so blessed brother. that's good stuff right well i've noticed within the last. four months as i progress on my treatment. what a difference i can now balance my check for breath i got lucky again somehow.

miraculously the cancer didn't come sooner it just happened to come out whenever it came out like fifty years later so you can immediately go in and get the treatment in needed so that yeah ten years ago they would have been able to do what they go into the mix up you know. it's nice to sense. you're at a place of peace it seems to me like you're content you're ok with all of it now you can just. do your best to take it one day at a time and stay in the solution you know on the life. so to speak. as we wrap up our interview with bruce. stephen is distracted by a sound next year with. these bikers are on a pilgrimage of the room and it worked up quite the appetite. and it looks like bruce jr has finally gotten tired of walking steven's dog. from.

sirius here's my memory no. thanks bruce educated you to hang out a little bit if you like my body real he's the prince of the pilgrimage. you come sit here young man thank you so much. god bless you guys. don't get up bruce right you get to shake hands with the rio de janeiro. i'll see you take care of it don't you too buddy. good afternoon how you all do on a nice day for a bike ride a herd the engines a little bit ago i used to ride bikes when i was younger i'm steve baldwin but your name from my signature or your what your sweater all about offering stealth a time when he takes shelter dogs and train them thank him and see what that are in a sense or not but yeah that's also totally cool i've heard of service dogs for

vets but i never heard of what work is shelter dogs being you know taken out cared for trained what's the name of the organization i'll be reapers more cycle we're in boston massachusetts or well tell me more about delta docs actually i have a brochure from the event today oh well there's a bed for operation doctor that we actually are innocent a charity event today to raise money for the our children station on the earth which will be presented to them. i'm going to stay. where they have one of their larger events to be always go to and support or be a beautiful so today the blue reapers did a bike ride as a fundraiser for operation delta dot correct how many bikers are on the run twenty one beautiful i think it's so amazing i would love to hear more about it if it's already you guys have a safe ride and if it's a rick and i circle back with you on this one later stuff and i'll be in touch and

appreciate it thank you chip. after meeting with ruth learning about the long term effects of the vietnam war and also continue writing to another group of veterans who are sponsoring a charity that's close to students' hearts it's time for steven to hit the road and meet back up with max who is filled. the kaiser. and with our heroes reunited they head into being in town to learn what it means to be boston strong. next time on the great american pilgrimage there were two of our friends were running the marathon and we saw heard the first bomb go off now it sounded kind of like a cannon going off a few minutes later the second one off and the building shook it's saw people just running running and people with blood were like without going on you know when i took the picture of the two the two brothers were in the picture. yet.

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