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" Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters... on that aspect, no. "
Lost
Mission
Think
" Honesty has always been very important to me. "
Honesty
Me
Been
" I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do. "
Giving
Giving Up
Person
" I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money. "
Box
Money
Family
" I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed. "
Worth
Having
Our
" I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs. "
Virginia
Up
Community
" I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good. "
Good
Some
Said
" I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job. "
War
Remember
People
" I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud. "
Uniform
Time
Army
" I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place. "
Down
Place
Moment
" Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it. "
Mind
Obstacles
Go
" The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans. "
Point
Even
Hospital
" There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in. "
Day
Goes
Remember
" There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them. "
Create
Doing
Every Day
" The truth is always more heroic than the hype. "
Always
More
Truth Is
" The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy. "
War
Shooting
You
" They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area. "
See
Area
Me
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