Craig Morgan

you know 19 year old kid going gosh man this is what this this could happen you know I could be in Vietnam and somebody would make me shave with a bath razor you know you just don't know what's going to happen no that's crazy just to even have to go through that at such a young age what would you say was the defining moment in the army that changed you for the rest of your life

Probably Panama in 1989 during the conflict.

There were things that happened there that made me realize, you know, we don't control things.

And no matter how good you are at what you do, there's things that will...

That affect it that are beyond your control.

Right.

And you get us in combat and any veteran that's experienced any form of combat at all would, I think, would attest to this.

You have a sense of appreciation for life so much so that you are not scared to die.

And you don't even know it.

For me, the whole time, all I can remember, even in Panama in 1989, thinking what I am doing will prevent people at home from ever having to do anything like this again.

When we were in Iraq, all of our soldiers that were there would tell you what was happening there prevented that thing from happening there again.

happening at home.

Right.

And then September 11th, you know, that was, you know, that, and that was as big an event as that was in our country.

That's, that's, that's minuscule to the, what they have planned or what they would love to do to, to us as Americans.

And for everything that you've been through.

It's the greatest privilege of my life.

Greatest honor.

I want to be real careful.

I don't want to identify it as trauma.