Kawa Mawlayee

And I deployed to both places several times as well as several other countries in the Middle East.

Mm-hmm .

And I gained a lot of knowledge and experience out of those wars and all that time in the military.

And I made a lot of lifelong friends and like a brotherhood for sure.

And I became an asset to my unit, just like we all, we were all assets.

But once I, I mean, once I kind of came to this realization, I mean, I wasn't really for the war in the beginning because even after 9-11, I mean, I was a young Marine when 9-11 happened, but...

I knew, I was like, this doesn't sound right, man.

Yeah, even back then I was like, it doesn't sound right.

Like 19 dudes, okay, could have been 19 dudes, right?

And then all these like little holes in the story were kind of showing, you know, you see something missing here or there and you're like, wait a minute, this doesn't sound right.

And just from like maybe six months in, I was convinced.

I was like, no, man, this was like an inside job.

Yeah.

You know, like a lot of that information came out.

And I was like, no, it's an inside job.

But that gets me to a place where it's like I did everything I did for my country.

And really at the end of the day, I did it for the guys to my left and right.

Right.

It's like it doesn't matter where we were, what we were doing.

As long as we get home from this, we get back to the base, I'm good.