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- I went without seeing this
flag for five and a half years.

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And when I saw it on the tail
section in that Starlifter,

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I was overwhelmed, and it
means everything to me.

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When I see this flag, it reminds me

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of how fortunate I am to be an American.

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I could have been born
in Rwanda, you know?

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So could you, we all could have been.

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But I had the good fortune
to be born an American,

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and this is the most
important thing in my life.

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- We had a guy, Lord rest
his soul, he's gone on now

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to his eternal reward, Mike Christian,

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and he gets the flag and, unfortunately,

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the Vietnamese shaking
down the place catch him,

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get the flag, rip it up, haul him out,

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not only beat him up, but run him

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through enhanced
interrogation again, torture.

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Mike says, red, white, blue,

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it represents what people have
given their lives for since

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the time this country was founded.

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It represents Normandy, Iwo
Jima, the battle of Hue.

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So it's more than just a piece of cloth.

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