tv The Great American Pilgrimage RT October 7, 2018 9:30am-9:53am EDT
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piece pretty cool ah. you guessed. mystery oh sit. you can tell dear really impressed well you want to have some fun i need some help when you take him for a walk. thanks buddy yeah. he paid to go right down there by the water. appreciate and bruce jr and rios 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. 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 massachusetts just seem so
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nice 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 that you see three now it's very quiet peaceful well as are you too except for that. people got to eat burgers yes they did. 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 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. ok i was two. drifted right
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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. vs individual training on. top of the head with my helmet. 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
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works even better yet read it 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 then you know you should probably avoid that as well my question is so. with you and and your comrades here over there what do you do for downtown where you're playing cards where you basically play cards when you had the opportunity to go sleep because they would attack at night. and we would sleep during the day. night you could smoke because that would be zero employ them be a kong to shoot at you when they 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. so that they couldn't see the cigarette because the lights up a dead giveaway could have been. big yes but script now. eighteen
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years. you're a smart man. either they're doing laps around the restaurant or the only travel 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 they 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
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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 it was the first tour i was always only there for one tour i extended my time so i could get in early out of the so. i stayed fourteen months. old because they only had two years of the service if you have eighteen months when you return to the united states 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. running the what we used to call the and the light in the shower as. well as out houses. fifty five gallon drums cut now and then
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the knee is 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. go lucky i got home in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight tell me about that. word that we got one week or still in vietnam as you 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 and 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
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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. and i would say. up until a couple years ago. i didn't think the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten points over here in tampa he did . eighty five percent of global wealth you won't see the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second in bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars.
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china's building two point one billion dollar ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. see a good bye. and it is a new school is a. secret indeed catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the geographic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot where the previous standard was not known the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that of that's known as the i and then i conclude that it just is not in.
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its path. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. somehow want to be preached . to the right to be christ was like that before three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters about how. i and i should. get america really bad. 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. i would say. up in. couple
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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 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. because in the beginning it was there was possible that. as the war 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.
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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 do after that it's work. well actually. i bought a 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 and sell down on cape cod oh 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 the bison 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
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alcohol. i break out in handcuffs. ok. and just me and. my luck with. mine did too i don't drink anymore but still fish. i just hope i get to convex some time and visit you're going 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 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 wee like tourists to 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
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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. you know whole cancer when i was in. service. i was exposed to agent orange. how long after that did you find out about i just found out. the sea both a year and a half ago you were exposed to 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. told me that. i had only about a year to live because it was stage fool 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
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asked me was vietnam i said yes he said agent orange i said really didn't look good i had stage four and i had to go in with 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 a 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 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 are just prayed outside yeah it's a a it's a you worry about it's
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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. in the. 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
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three days of chemotherapy high dose chemotherapy then they take the stem cells so far out of them 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 can't sofrito right 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 some. yeah it is if i told you. back from vietnam we could do something like that you wouldn't believe why wouldn't i believed i had cancer in the first place through veterans affairs and all that you have everything you needed you were taken care of no i had to fight
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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
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progress oh my. what a difference i can now balance my check. i got lucky again somehow. miraculously the cancer didn't come soon or 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. 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 get on with life. so to speak. as we wrap up our interview with bruce. stephen is distracted by a sound that's due to a spark. these bikers are on a pilgrimage of their own and worked up quite the appetite. and it looks like bruce
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jr has finally gotten tired of walking steven's dog. or from right. here is here is my man real. things bruce and you guys do just 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 got 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 when i was younger i'm steve baldwin but your name from my signature wonder what your sweater all about offering stealth
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a time when he takes shelter dogs and train them thank you and see you out and assess the terrorist on but yes 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 reapers more cyclical we're in boston massachusetts or well tell me more about delta docs actually have a brochure when we went 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 guessing the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the old for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred
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to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only food but. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it's meaningless in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing 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 way that hasn't been that we hear even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep
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