good what's your name. bruce i'm steve just a real. piece pretty cool ah. you guessed. mystery oh sit. you can tell dear really impressed well you want to ask but i need some help we take him for a walk. thanks buddy yeah. he can probably go right down there by the water. 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 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 is that it yeah it is it's

fantastic piece more about this neighborhood this tim and his we mean some of the folks and just the folks massachusetts just seems so thanks so nice that they have the self-proclaimed nickname mask it's the west minister of the town it's a very nice town it's. very quiet small town as you see now it's very quiet peaceful well as are you too except for that. the people got the first yes they did. where you were you born i was going nine hundred forty eight forty eight i was born in sixty six close. nineteen fifty eight forty eight all not even close. to the reason i'm just the host of the program yes we can agree more when you go to school. in lexington school system graduated there. got drafted it was nineteen i was drafted in one 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 small lots they 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 four or five times that i know dennis. and what division were you in and all

that she better be sixty fifth that till. now where did you go first a bit no denying then i was shipped off 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 ash 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 had many guns and the whole underneath of the c one thirty. pm nation and the whole drop just to shoot just to shoot and push 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. they were our only protection. and then i guess they drove

the e.c.u. away and then they went up i think to hamburger hill and then that's when that whole fiasco studded their boat hamburger hill. and then were you outside of the hamburger hill sonora. miles away. they had us around if it wasn't for the air force coming in and helicopters with. us and now they feel. i don't know couple miles away that was overrun before i came out to this particular. position and. they lost almost everybody on that hill and then of course hamburger hill that was a massacre. we lost guys there did we hear a lot of your guys in the whole movement all this were were ok we just hunkered

down a lucky. man. i don't believe in luck i believe in god god was looking. absolutely now let's check in with bruce jr in rio to see how they're doing on their. looks like it's going. to me the story you had some problem with a fellow soldier we were out on an eagle's nest had been airlifted out and they placed on the side of the mountain they give you fifty thousand rounds and have at it and. we. at the time we had taken some incoming. and those gunner in the squad leader both got hit.

they were better bet and i was the only one left so they had another guy. as a gun. we got into a fight he would shoot so i hit him on the top of the head with my helmet. he'd say. 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 works even better yeah we did you don't whack little bruce on the head with the 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

in and your comrades who are over there what do you do for downtown where you're playing cards where you yeah basically play cards when he had the opportunity to go sleep because they would attack at night. and we would sleep during the day. and night you could smoke because that would be zero in the a kong to shoot at you see the cigarette. and they just shoot. yeah and they shoot at that point so at night even if you smoke you smoke like this. so that they couldn't see the cigarette because. dead giveaway could have been a big problem yes but script now. eighteen years. you're a smart man. either

they're doing laps around the restaurant or they don't we traveled twenty feet in that time. a lot of famous movies about vietnam. and there's one movie that shows like this helicopter come in for some entertainment for the troops you know church parents one of them no. i'm sorry i haven't the only thing i bring the playboy bunnies into hamburger hill. 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 you know 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 the. back out. how long

were you. active in vietnam that was the first tour and i was always only there for one tour i extended my time so i could get an early out of this or i stayed fourteen months. old because they only had two years of the service if you had eighteen months when you return to the united states or to get out and that's what you. know. but you did just got lucky and just did what i posted i did the last two months. burning the what we used to call and light in the shower as. well as out houses and they had. fifty five gallon drums cut in half in under me and that's where you went to the bathroom they had holes. that was my duty the last two months. so. finished up to eighteen months. go lucky i got home

and nine hundred seventy tell me about that. word that we got when we were still a vietnamese we didn't want anybody to know where you came from. because it was a very popular. so what 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 again i was i was i'm a veteran i fought in vietnam. and i would say. up until

a couple years ago. when i was chose seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. me. yet to shape out these days to come to educate and indeed from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. no you don't accept the slow drivers will destroy the right to live it's.

the speed. of television. and i don't buy the stuff i love me. while i'm somebody who doesn't know it's a mask you never know what's happening and whether they're shooting the birds or. mistrust the tibetans are. going to. be just like you know that in you but i'm a dick to sit. in the muslims while these clear when the.

when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. leave room for the real news group. 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. and i would say. up until a couple years ago. probably in the last ten years. since they've been coming out with veterans. and recognizing that ignites it

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

she got home. and you laid low and would do after that if you work. well actually. i bought a new truck a new boat and went fishing for ten months. i love when you catch oh i was going for striped bass anything that i could catch and sell down on cape cod. i just want to fish i would go out and make enough money from the fishing. to buy gas for the truck the boat. 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. i break out in handcuffs. ok. and just me and.

my luck with. mine did too i don't drink any will still fish. just hope i get to convex sometime 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 the pomeranian how old is it he's twelve. it's 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 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. 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 and i'm fifty one i'm going lord what lives did you just preach outside embers with yeah it's a you worry about it it's a little bit silly in the times you've 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 transplant see if i was diagnosed ten years ago would have been a death sentence what did you learn about that how did this 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 the 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 roscoe had to lay in a bed for about six hours from 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 of me you too buddy.

good afternoon you know there was 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 but your name from my street you know what your screw about operational. the time when he takes shelter dogs and train them thank you and see you out and assess a terrorist but that's just 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 was 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 from the event today oh well there's been threw up we're still stuck today we actually are in a supply charity event today to raise money for the our our children station which will be presented to them. and veterans day. when they have one of their larger

events to be old school to support of the beautiful so today the blue reapers did a bike ride as a fundraiser for operation delta dock 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 in a circle back with you on this one later stuff and i'll be in touch and appreciate it thank. you. and with learning about the long term effects of the vietnam war and also can you write another group of veterans who are sponsoring a charity that's close to students hard to say it's doubtful that many couples won't vote kill what chance the put him political spawn post pulled up to the outputs of a few of the hope of the. you

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