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Well being nine different personalities .

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Everybody brings a certain special

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something to the stage . When you throw

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nine cogs in the wheel , you put them

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all together and you make a

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transmission , transmission works very

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well . It's a , it's a broad mission

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that we do when we first got here for

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about a month . We were entertaining

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troops solely entertaining troops in

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the month of december christmas time

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and I know that was very important

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playing for people that , that are away

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from their families , away from their

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homes and doing much less glamorous

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jobs than the one we get to do . Um ,

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after that , after christmas we are

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mission changed a little bit and we did

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get to go out and play a little bit for

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civilians . Okay .

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Oh , it's uh ,

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you guys each other in some of the

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makes a mistake or something has a

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little hiccup that's usually get a

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little chuckle out of that . I don't

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think the audience can , you can't tell

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but we , we know the music so well and

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we've been playing together so much

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over the last six months that we really

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have a good connection . It's a , this

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is a cool thing about music is that

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it's communication , but it's a non

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verbal communication so we can have a

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conversation up there without actually

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talking . So we can communicate that

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way . Yeah ,

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music is a universal language in that

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it's all circles and squares and dots

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and I've been to , well this deployment

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was one example of when we can take a

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style of music into a school and they

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understand it and they enjoy it . I've

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been been in other places in the world

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where we've done joint concerts with

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say , I worked with the Mongolian um

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band and we put a piece of paper on the

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stand and we both read it . We both

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smiled at each other when we finished

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and thought , wow , we just did the

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same thing and I don't even speak his

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language , but that's how it's the

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universal language . It doesn't matter

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where you are in the world , doesn't

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matter who you're sitting next to or

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who you're playing for . It just works

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for everyone . It's , it's just a good

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good feeling by going out interacting ,

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especially with kids with tomorrow's ,

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with tomorrow's leader leaders with

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tomorrow's taxpayers and tomorrow's

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adults were shaping the opinions of the

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people that are going to be um maybe

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determining policy about how do we like

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americans . How do we approach

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americans ? Are they people that we've

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just heard of ? Or are they people that

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uh oh I remember when I was a kid , uh

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these guys came and played at my at my

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school and they were a lot of fun and

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they took the time to talk to me

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afterwards and they signed an autograph

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and uh and they rocked , we have an

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opportunity now to make an impact on

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tomorrow . This may well be the most

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worthwhile thing that I've done in my

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22 years in the air force