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this is such an emotional book. such a fantastic book. your humility can be seen throughout this period you don't want to talk about yourself a lot, you want to talk about your brothers. some of whom survived, some of whom did not. it is a patriotic book. you can get it at amazon.com or any other bookstore. tell us, we know you lost both of your legs which is a horrible horrible thing, but i don't think everybody knows if you can tell us how. >> my job in the marine corps was to take bombs apart. as you know, most people know, you refer to them as roadside bombs or ied's. the way the enemy tried to kill us will put bombs in the ground. my job was to help find them. when we did find them it was to take them apart and move them so no one got hurt. on august 6, 2010 we were
this is such an emotional book. such a fantastic book. your humility can be seen throughout this period you don't want to talk about yourself a lot, you want to talk about your brothers. some of whom survived, some of whom did not. it is a patriotic book. you can get it at amazon.com or any other bookstore. tell us, we know you lost both of your legs which is a horrible horrible thing, but i don't think everybody knows if you can tell us how. >> my job in the marine corps was to take bombs apart. as you know, most people know, you refer to them as roadside bombs or ied's. the way the enemy tried to kill us will put bombs in the ground. my job was to help find them. when we did find them it was to take them apart and move them so no one got hurt. on august 6, 2010 we were
is such an emotional book. it is such a fantastic book. and your humility can be seen throughout this. you don't want to talk about yourself a lot. you want to talk about your brothers, some of whom survived , some of whom didn't some of whom are having issues. it is an extraordinarily patriotic book. you can get it at amazon .com or any other book store. but briefly tell us because look, we know you lost both your legs, which is a horrible , horrible thing, but i don't think everybody knows exactly how if you could tell us. absolutely so my job in the marine corps was to take bombs apart. we called it eod explosive ordinance disposal, and as you know, most people know you referred to him as roadside bombs or ieds. the way the enemy tried to kill us was to put bombs in the ground. get away from us and hope we stepped on them and killed ourselves by by stepping on them. and so my job was to help find them. and when we did find them, my job was to take them apart and move them so nobody got hurt. and on august 6 2010
how was it reliving that to share with our audience? >> you know, talking about myself and what happened on august 6, 2010 when i lost my legs, i tell that story because some one died that day, daniel greer. his wife stacy is the gold star wife is one of the ten chapters so you want to know the story how i lost my legs you learn lieu the lens of stacy being notified her husband was killed, this is what she was told happened. she went to germany, i'm three rooms down struggling to live but she's there to tell daniel goodbye off life support so you learn about that da from her perspective and me getting injured through my friend keith's perspective who was in the army in germany trying to help chris in the marine corps struggling and we lose him so you learn about all these things that happened in my life after my injury and these people that
american people, the morale of our military and even our ability to recruit the military now as our -- all of our branchs are behind in their military goals. >> would you sign your life away to a commander-in-chief after his own report after the death of 13 service members calls it manageable risk? they learned nothing from the 13 people being killed at abby gate. i want to say one thing. every day in my life, my job was to walk down on bombs and home i did enough right that if anybody got killed it was me and nobody else. august 6, 2010, i made enough of a mistake that took my legs but took corporal daniel greer's life who was hoping that i would do my job at the best of my ability. i didn't come back giving you a million excuses. i didn't see. i had sun in my eyes. i take accountability for his