Privileged to hear from two Vietnam Veterans who are comrades and brothers chuck hagel and tom haeckel both volunteered to go to the war and fought in the same Army Infantry unit. From Middle America to the vietnam war and then home again. As we observed we are privileged to hear from the two eyewitnesses. Retiring as a Lieutenant General commanded troops both in afghanistan and iraq earning a five star medals in combat action badge as a contributing editor for the magazine and the author of eight other books. He currently teaches history at North Carolina state university. He was the secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015 and beforend that, a u. S. Senator from his home state ofeb nebraska. During the vietnam war, he served in combat as the army and earned two purple hearts in the combat infantry badge and vietnamese gallantry. After graduating from the university of nebraska at omaha he worked as a staff assistant, cofounded vanguard cellular and served as the head of the administrat
How are you doing . Pretty good. Welcome. Thank you. Were very happy to have a chance to talk to you today. Um, can you tell me a little bit about your childhood . Im interested because it seems like your independent, fighting spirit seemed to emerge early. Perhaps earlier than for most. Yes. I spent part of my childhood in georgia, in the middle part of georgia. However, i was born in jacksonville, florida, and i think from age probably 3 to 8 was spent in georgia, wattela, georgia, which is considered middle georgia and not that far from augusta, georgia. After that, i went to with my family to st. Augustine, florida, and thats where i came of age as a teenager. I came by my activism very early. I always had sort of an innate sense of what was right and what was wrong, and i dont know exactly where i got that from, but the idea of segregation and things that white people could do and black people could not do, i understood very early, maybe as early as 7, 8 years old that there was s
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