Spencer Bailey

I'm here because of Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Nielsen.

I'm here because of the nurses at St.

Luke's and Sioux City.

I am here because all these people cared and showed up.

And very luckily, we had an incredibly trained cockpit on that plane.

In terms of your identical twin brother, you've described wanting desperately to be seen both as twins and as separate individuals.

And I'm wondering how twinship is.

shaped your understanding of identity, especially since you went through this profound experience and he didn't, to a degree.

Yeah, of course.

The big hole in the center is losing our mom.

And I think it was probably extremely traumatic for him to see his brothers come back in the condition that we did.

Yeah.

There's a story actually that's relevant here, which is when I left the hospital and I went to my maternal grandmother's house in the Adirondacks in Lake Placid.

I showed up and Trent saw me and I had this scar really bad pointing to my elbow.

And then I had a huge scar on my head that you can't see because the hair grows over it.

But it's there.

The whole left side of my head is a scar.

I almost lost my left ear.

Yeah, I heard it was almost sliced off.

You were in a coma for, I think, five days.