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"I want you to be remembered as a very wonderful humble man, but most of all a hero."
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"I want you to be remembered as a very wonderful humble man, but most of all a hero."
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"The sewing machine and the needle and the thimble, that's it for me, you know."
2:22
"The sewing machine and the needle and the thimble, that's it for me, you know."
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"My father was everything to me..."
2:04
"My father was everything to me..."
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“His decades of abuse — it was the funeral pyre to the old ways.”
2:43
“His decades of abuse — it was the funeral pyre to the old ways.”
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"My mother told me that Dad had gone to fly for God."
"My mother told me that Dad had gone to fly for God."
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“It just seemed like this mountain that I didn't really want to buy the equipment to climb.”
3:02
“It just seemed like this mountain that I didn't really want to buy the equipment to climb.”
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"Most doctors will tell you three to 10 years, but nobody really knows."
"Most doctors will tell you three to 10 years, but nobody really knows."
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"School was out for two weeks and all the telephone lines were down."
"School was out for two weeks and all the telephone lines were down."
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"We'd known death but not like this."
3:18
"We'd known death but not like this."
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"It seemed like a really long flight."
"It seemed like a really long flight."
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"I just tried to stay in the background..."
"I just tried to stay in the background..."
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"I wanted to get out there and shoot a gun. I wanted to go in the dirt. But we weren't allowed to."
"I wanted to get out there and shoot a gun. I wanted to go in the dirt. But we weren't allowed to."