Bryon Gustafson

We have one pig egg.

If we were to replicate this with the Vietnam War, we'd have 8.9 pig eggs, just to give you context.

Um, then they got to come home and be called war or baby killers X, Y, Z. Um, they knew that something existed out there that was shell shock, um, later become known as, you know, PTSD.

They fought for it so that future generations would get that.

Um, always grateful to them for everything that they've done.

So much so that when, and maybe you experienced this, when I came home, especially after Fallujah, we got home, it was, we were like Super Bowl champs.

Like we had fire trucks, we had police cars, we had people cheering, we got off the bird and it was just insane.

Even to this day, there's a bit of celebrity that comes with being a service member, having served your country.

If you talk to Vietnam era veterans.

My father-in-law, Jim, was telling me that when he would get home and be in a bar, you didn't dare tell anyone that you were in the service for fear of repercussion, violent repercussions.

In all of that, I believe that...

Because a lot of those guys would tell us, I remember getting out that they would tell me specifically, claim everything, you know, everything's wrong with you.

Make sure you do X, Y, and Z so that the VA will reward or give you the appropriate- Compensate you.

Compensate is the appropriate word.

So from that, I believe that some of that victim kind of mentality was born from Vietnam veterans actually trying to help, right?

And then it somewhat gets morphed into let's all feel sorry for us.

And then we had already discussed the, again, if there's a financial gain here and

If we were living in a time where you've got to have a couple different jobs, which we are, and you've got to have a side gig and grind and work your ass off to make a little bit of money, it's not how it was in the 80s and 90s.

It's a little different now, right?

If I can count on a little bit of extra money coming from X, Y, and Z, then I'm going to play the game, right?