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6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual

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Combat Was the Best Time That I've Had in My Life

i don't know if liberating is the word, but perhaps it is, i think again. I go to national cemeteries, and there are fresh flowers on that particular grave. And when you ask those people ther they very often give the answer, i'm glad it happened to me. This is what i learned from it. They had to face death, and once they were through it, they realized, you know, they wouldn't wish it on their best, on their worst enemy,. The sun coming up in the morning is a beautiful thing.

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