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(audience applaud)

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- When I was 13 I had first

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experience with the Marine.

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In 1987,

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I was a novice Buddhist Monk.

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I saw the Marine, and
Marine, they saw me too.

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And they ask me, why you here?

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I just tell 'em, I walk for food.

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And they said hold on,
they told me hold on,

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and then they run back to the tent.

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They came back with MRE.

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(Thai music)

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And they follow me to the temple,

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and then they give me a
one pen with American flag,

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and they helped me do my homework.

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And then it so inspire

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for me to want to learn more

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about English, and want to see the world.

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(speaks foreign)

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(children speak foreign)

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You put a seed of
happiness, or of friendship,

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into somebody heart.

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And I got those friendship

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from thirty years ago.

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Thirty years.

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And now I can come back as
an officer, as a chaplain.

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Come back here and give it back.

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One kid doesn't have anything.

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The only one toy, or
one book that you give,

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it's mean everything that
they're going to have.

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Think about that.

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That how much impact to them.

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One pen that those Marine gave it to me,

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the only one pen that I have.

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First gift pen in my life.

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(children cheer)

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Actually it means a lot to me.

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I can feel my heart, actually.

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I serve the United State
and Navy chaplains.

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But I never had a chance to serve Thai,

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where born and raised.

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Now I get it, opportunity to serve

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both countries at the same time.

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And of the top of that,
I'm a Buddhist Chaplain.

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So as I grow up in temple,
you know, it's amazing.

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It's great and awesome to me.