it's day two in new england and stephen makes his way to a historic restaurant to meet with a local vietnam veteran and a single father who was had more than a few obstacles to overcome come on come on. we're going to go see high. good afternoon gentlemen how are you doing good what's your name. bruce i'm steve just a real. piece pretty cool ah. you get this. mysterious it. you can tell their really impressed well you want to ask but they need some help when you take him for a walk. thanks buddy yeah. he can probably go right down there by the water. appreciate and bruce jr and rios set up to have some good clean fun.

while you do it so bruce as i understand it the old mill 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. back you know this is heaven yeah it is beautiful it's fantastic so he said more about this neighborhood this town because we've been 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 it's the west minister of the town that's a very nice town 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 the verse yes they did. where you were you born i was going nine hundred forty eight forty eight i was born. sixty six close. nineteen

fifty eight forty eight forty eight all not even close. to the reason just the host improver yes we can agree more were to go to school. in lexington school system graduated then got drafted it was nineteen i was drafted nine hundred sixty eight read i school. no kid i was too. 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 was in fort bliss texas for vance individual training and went from there to california and shipped so be it all in the same year and what aspect of the military was it was in the i mean i was

in a small outfit were. called quad fifties it was cool fifty caliber machine guns mounted on the turret which was on the back of a deuce of a half or five ton truck i know dennis. and what division were you in and all that she battery sixty fifth that hill. and where did you go first to be at no denying then i was shipped up to. and everywhere you went it was just nuts you know i was on the front line ninety percent of my time. i was in nashville valley i don't know if you ever heard of hamburg until. i was on eagle's nest which overlooked the valley we were surrounded in one night and they brought off the magic dragon puff the magic dragon. that was a c one thirty seven napalm c one thirty. many guns and the

whole underneath of the c one thirty. pm nation. told you are just too dangerous to shoot everybody back to protect you guys you know they shot all night and then when they ran out of ammunition they brought in cobras and they shot. they were our only protection. and then i guess they drove the v.c. away and then they went up i think to hamburger hill and then that's when that whole fiasco studded their boat hammer hill. and then were you outside of the hamburger hill sonority or did you have miles away from there did we hear a lot of your guys in the whole movement all this were were ok we just hunkered down and 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. tell me the story you had some problem with a fellow soldier on. had been. placed on the side of the mountain they give you fifty thousand. at the time. they. get hit. so the head. as a. helmet

the. heat. 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 with a tablet that 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 down playing cards yeah basically. when you had the opportunity of 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 them be a cause to shoot at you and then see the cigarette they see the flash and they just shoot. yeah and they shoot at that point so it might be years ago. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and. somehow want to be. actually going to be press it's like the full story in the morning can't be good.

i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should. be and it is a. secret indeed priests accused of sexually abusing children can cancel enough money from the fission. to buy gas for the truck the boat. by some beer. what paul was it what kind of beer to drink st paul i drink the same product but non alcoholic i have an allergy to alcohol. i break out in handcuffs. ok. and just me and. my luck with. mine did too. i don't drink any will still fish.

i just hope i get to convex sometime and visit you're good to be 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 nine laps around the old mill. tell me about your son bruce he's walking in rio the pomeranian how old is it he's twelve. big boy for twelve yeah he's growing like a we like to restore them 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 he 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 exposed to agent orange fifty years ago yeah so what 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 pool he asked me if i had been in the service and i told him yes then he wanted to know what branch were you when i said i me 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 and. i

guess the. chemotherapy can really mess up my course toxic process and i was at the point where i didn't know who i was aware of it was i was double checking everything i was doing because i was you weren't sure if you forgot yeah i thought maybe i didn't have all the time and sort of dementia because my memory wasn't there how will 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 just prayed outside yeah it's a 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 they had a stem cell transplant today. the technology they have the stem

cell transplants is if i was diagnosed ten years ago would have been a death sentence what did you learn about that how did it help you in addition to maybe normal chemo or any of that you go through an awful lot to get the stem cell done i went into the hospital they cut in neck and they put a tube down and they had three poor. so that they don't have to keep sticking you when you're in rusk but i had to lay in a bed for about six hours. and the. blood through a machine 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 right so that when they put it 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 some. yeah it is and if i told you. back from vietnam we could do something like that you wouldn't believe why would i believe i had cancer in the first place through veterans affairs and all that 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. that's when i received my first check. and they're going to cover all those costs. i go to fish which is the next town over. 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 it accurate to say it's been four months you've been cancer free yes. that's. right well i've notice within the last. months as i progress on my treatment. what a difference i can balance my check. 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 needed so that. ten years ago they would have been able to do what they don't want to they know. it's nice to since. you're at a place of peace it seems to me like you're content you're ok with it now you can just. do your best to take it one day at a time and stay in the solution. so to speak. as we wrap up our interview with bruce. stephen is distracted by a sound that's easier to listen. these bikers are on a pilgrimage of their own and have worked up quite the appetite. and it looks like bruce jr has finally gotten tired of walking steven's dog. my friend right. here is here's my man real. things bruce. 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 you get to shake hands with the rio de janeiro. i'll see you take care. you too buddy. good afternoon how you all do on a nice day for a bike ride a heard the engines a little bit ago i used to ride bikes and i was younger i'm steve baldwin but your name from my signature or your what your sweater all about offering to help a time when he takes shelter dogs and train them thank him and see what an hour and a say start on but yes it'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 reapers more cycle we're in boston massachusetts or tell me more about delta docs actually i have a brochure for me but today oh well there's a bed for operation doctor that we actually are innocent charity we're going today to raise money for the our our children station on earth which will be presented to them. i'm going to stay. where they have more of their larger events to be old school to the support of the beautiful so today's the blue refers to a bike ride as a fundraiser for operation delta dot correct how many bikers are on the run twenty one year to fall i think it's so amazing i would love to hear more about it if it's already with you guys have a safe ride and circle back with you on this one later on i'll be in touch and appreciate it thank you you. have to meet with

us learning about the long term effects of the vietnam war and also continue running the other group of veterans who are sponsoring a charity that's close to students heart it's time for steven to hit the road and meet back up with max who is filming 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 who are running the marathon and we still heard the first bomb go off now it's not like a cannon going on a few minutes later the second one off the building. is saw people just running running and people with blood were like what the hell is going on you know when i took the picture of the two the two brothers were in the picture. yet. i still have a you want to see it. everyday

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for common ground. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer need me to live the death penalty just because i think that's the parent make the right thing research shows that for every nine executions. one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying and there's just no really there hasn't been that we're even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace it's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

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