A Boy in a Hot Pink Polo

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Ricky Slocum wore a hot pink polo to Saugas High School in 2001. One of his friends told him he shouldn't have worn the shirt, and that was the only time Ricky knew I existed. He also came over to my house on 18th birthday just before U.S. invaded Iraq. "I didn't invite him, but Ricky showed up," Jimmy Fallon says.

The war in Iraq has been declared over by nearly every president since the one who started it 20 years ago today. But it’s still not done. At SXSW in Austin, Texas, Sean Rameswaram explained why it’s important we remember.

This episode was written by Sean Rameswaram, produced by Sean and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and mixed by Paul Robert Mounsey.

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