Coleman Ruiz

It made our home life just very comfortable.

So it was easy.

Like I didn't have to go through some process, right?

It was, this is how I remember it.

It was easy for me.

I don't know if it was easy for Bridget.

She would have to answer that question.

It was easy for me.

And so I felt like for the most part,

Like I wasn't like platoon commander dad, you know, some movie, you know, the great Santini type dad, you know, I think Pat Conroy wrote the great Santini.

His dad was crazy apparently, or it's like, that's what he writes about.

It wasn't like that.

It was more of this home is such a relief

and Bridget is so dialed that I don't have to, unfortunately, hard for Bridget, I don't have to do anything.

The time that I'm here, I can be here and then go away again.

And so it's, as we know what trauma does to the mind, like there are many, many stretches of that time period that I just don't remember.

And what I do remember is mostly,

Obviously, the fun times, the front yard, the whatever, playing with the boys, doing roughhousing and going on vacation and stuff.

But when I was in the grind, when we were in the training cycle of our cycle or deployment or whatever, I don't really remember sections of it.

You're done.