Shawn Ryan

the everything to me.

Probably about 16 years old.

He stayed out of the war efforts.

He really wanted to help educate us.

Earlier when I said that when we went to, in country, everybody's calling his brother American, he would be the first to say, here's why.

And his kid knew everything about America.

That's all he wanted to do was go to America one day.

And he told me that his mom and dad were killed two weeks before we got there in the Civil War.

And there's a lot of kids running around with no parents.

And so, you know, when we see him, they're like, hey, kids, you got to go away.

You can't stay here anymore.

We have no place to go.

We have no place to go.

I'm like, okay, well, why don't you go back to your village?

Your parents are dead, okay?

So we had these five kids that would always hang out with us on a daily basis.

They'd always be looking for work.

So we'd give them MREs and medicine and stuff, and they'd tell us where to get eggs in town and little blocks of cheese, because you're eating MREs every day, and there's not a whole lot of food running around in that country during that war.

So he was extremely resourceful.

Like one day he ran into town eight miles to get an egg and a block of cheese for me and a little bowl of bread and ran eight miles back and came back at the end of the day.