gosh i want to ask hollywood guy usual suspects never proud american first of all i'm dressed as george washington and r.v.'s to suggest uncle stan to me is a good story big boy because this is my buddy max famous financial guru and we'll she's a little bit different. there well no one knows about less but not least my larger than life. the night an aspiring star rio. with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road to have some fun. meet every day americans. and what's america. and see how things got so crazy i was naked. the right thing to hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american pill which.

it's day two in new england and stephen makes his way to a historic restaurant to meet with a local vietnam veteran in a single father who was had more than a few obstacles to overcome. coming. we're going to go say hi. good afternoon gentlemen how are you doing good what's your name. some steve just a real. piece pretty cool ah. you go this. mystery of. you can tell they're really impressed well you want to ask them for they need some help when you take him for a walk. thanks and then they went up i think to him and then that's when. that whole fiasco studded they're both hamburger hill. and then were you

outside of the hamburger hill sonority or did you have miles away. they had us around if it was a. force coming in and helicopters were. killed . i don't know couple of 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 good for your guys all movement all this work we're 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. tell me the story you had some problem with a fellow soldier we were out on. 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 backed out and i was the only one left so they had another guy. feelin as a gun. and we got into a fight and he would shoot. on the top of my helmet.

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 we did 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 in and your comrades who are over there what do you do for downtime we're playing cards we basically play cards when we 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 be a cause 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 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've only travelled twenty feet in that time. a lot of famous movies about. this one movie that shows like. this helicopter coming for some entertainment for the troops

you know church spirits 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 him from like a hundred yards away no we got to talk with them and they just were nice and they were just nice and would 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 and i was always only there for one tour i extended my time so i could get an early out of the service 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 or to get out and that's what you. know. but you did just got lucky and just did what i supposed i did the last two months. running the what we call the and the light in the shower 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. that was my duty the last two months. so you finished up the eighteen months. go lucky i got home and nine hundred seventy tell me about the. word that we got when we were still in vietnam. you didn't want anybody to know where you came from. because

it wasn't a very popular. so all i want got my tickets. when i had my uniform on and then i took my uniform off . and got on the plane and 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. and i would say. up until a couple years ago.

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easy. to tell jim. keltner. and i almost thought i would love me. one of them somebody doesn't know it's a mask you never know what's happening and whether they're shooting whether it's your. mistrust out of the. love of. your. post which would mean you must be just thinking of the new but i'm addicted to sit with your middle class and in the muslims all these clear when the.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy people in from day shouldn't let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development the only place really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. 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 see. up until a couple years ago. probably in the last ten years. since they've been coming out with veterans. and recognizing them

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 are you sitting still it doesn't matter i was serving my country. i can understand it. because in the beginning it was you was walking down. as the war went on people were against it so i can understand. the change of heart or feel 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 do after that that work.

well actually. i bought a truck a new boat and went fishing for ten months. i love when you catch oh i was going close right then asked anything that i could catch and sell down on cape cod oh yeah you know i don't i just want to fish i would go out and make enough money from fishing. to buy gas for the truck the boat. buy some beer. what more was there. for 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 nine flat around the old mill. tell me about your son bruce he's walking in rio de 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 cool 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 chemotherapy treatments and.

i guess the chemotherapy can really mess up 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. i'm fifty one i'm going northwoods just prayed out so i mean it was just yeah it's a you worry about it 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 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 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 their. when they put the stem cells back in those stem cells a cancer free to run 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 something is if i told you. 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. 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 now 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 if you can. immediately go in and get the treatment you needed so that you can use it all they were able to deal with they go into the mets i 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. so to speak. as we wrap up our interview with bruce. and stephen is distracted by a sound that's due to the spark. 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. from.

here yes here's my man real. things 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 you got to shake hands with the rio de janeiro. i'll see you take care. you too buddy. good afternoon how you old 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 signature or your what your sweater all about offering to help a time when they take shelter so i can train them and give them to enter and a safe start right 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. well we're in boston massachusetts for a tell me more about delta actually i have a brochure from the event today oh well there's a. stock that we actually are innocent charity event today to raise money for the our our children station which will be presented to them. and veterans day . where they have one of their larger events to be old school to the support of the beautiful so today the blue reapers did a bike ride as a fundraiser for operation delta 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 circle back with you on this one later stuff and i'll be in touch and i appreciate it thank you you. have to meet

with us learning about the long term effects of the vietnam war and also can you ready 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 was 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 heard the first bomb go off and how it sounded like a cannon going on a few minutes later 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

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