chuckle do you have a specific place or time you spend thinking specifically about your fallen comrades yeah anytime that things are going good in my life any moment of happiness any time I’m enjoying my life or I’m thinking about what the future holds that’s when I think about my friends that died so surfing after a good wave and waiting for the next one after some good jujitsu training after a good workout or a good meal or maybe a smile or a laugh with a friend or having an ice cream cone with my with my daughter or playing guitar with my son or catching a catching a little smile from my wife at those moments at those moments without a doubt that’s when I think a mark and that’s when I think of Mikey and that’s when I think a Ryan and that’s when I think of it’s what I think of all those those brave souls those brave souls that have fallen and I always will I always will but you know it’s not it’s not a bad thing and and I don’t want you to think that it that it ruins the moment because it doesn’t it doesn’t at all it doesn’t fill me with sadness or with sorrow or with pain it doesn’t make me angry or frustrated or depressed or dark it doesn’t make me focus on undeath no it doesn’t do that at all it makes it makes me want to live makes me want to live more and do more it makes me want to be more to know at those moments those precious moments this this life this life is a gift from those men they gave this to me they gave me that moment and because they gave it to me they don’t have it anymore they gave us everything they had everything they had they gave to us so I’m grateful grateful to them and when I think of them I’m not sad when I think of them I’m happy I’m a happy I knew them I am I’m happy I served with such heroes and I’m happy that they gave me the chance to be happy today and I won’t let the dark specter of death drag me down I’ll remember them and and for them I will live
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