Dakota Meyer
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two new t-shirts and then a hundred percent of the profits we donate at the end of the month so it's like a handful of veteran organizations and things like that yeah and we vet those ones because you have to vet the non-profits you have to and so like you know i i think that i think that's the first expectation you have to set is is like that that they those are injuries not terminal illnesses and so what that means is is like don't be a victim
Yeah.
Like you, you, you can be more than a victim of your own service.
Right.
And like the worst day of, and here's the reality is, is like the worst day of my life is no more significant than the worst day of your life or your life.
Like, why are we trying to out victimize each other?
Right.
Like it's just the worst day of your life in your mind.
And you know what I mean?
And so it's like, you need to deal with that.
Yeah.
and get past it in order to be better from it, right?
But I think that when we set the expectation that once you have PTSD, you have it forever, well, then you're screwed, right?
Because then that's all they ever have and that's all they have to live up to and it becomes their identity.
Well, let me, so this is why like my team leader himself a few years ago.
And this is why like I am so hell bent against like if you commit something like,
it is a cowardly act.
Like I am not backing off that, right?
Like it is not the same.
Like there is nothing more unbecoming than if you, if you kill yourself, right?