Coleman Ruiz

How did we live like that?

How does anyone live like that?

And I know, you know, my experience is the military people go through, you know, all sorts of tough situations in different walks of life.

But I have so much compassion for anybody who's trying to live in an environment like that where

you know, you are going on the next deployment.

And, you know, I mean, look, Andrew, we left Bakuman in 08 before Tommy was killed.

Three fucking weeks later, guys are getting blown up in the same area.

Like, and they got all the debrief from us.

They knew exactly where to go, but it was just such a kinetic environment.

Yeah.

it was almost like you couldn't stop it, you know?

It was just like the balls rolling.

And when I think about people overseas and, you know, different situations that countries find themselves in right now, I can feel it for them, you know, what it takes.

It's an intense environment.

I think it was just reflexive.

It wasn't really a pause at the front door.

And admittedly, the story I would like to tell is that I was super Zen about it.

And I had this process and I would come home and I would take this off and put on regular dad things.

And I think I was just by the same level of effort that we put into what we were doing, Bridget and every other wife, mom,

at least the ones that I knew, they put that level effort in as well.