Steve Bunting

was starting to heal.

I come in and my grandma was like, I never missed any, like never missed a day.

It was like, I had been coming there every weekend for the last 20 years.

I sat down and had dinner and started building a relationship with them.

And, you know, as I was kind of touring their little house, they have a quaint little house there in the desert.

I saw my grandpa had a shadow box.

Right?

He was a sailor in the Navy.

And in that shadow box, I saw he had a combat action ribbon and I was just now learning about what these things mean.

And he was a whole technician.

So I was like, hey grandpa, I was like, how'd you get a combat action ribbon as a plumber?

And he didn't appreciate that too much.

I was like, listen here, Dick Smith, when you finally go to combat, you rate and I'll tell you.

And I was like, oh, okay, grandpa.

But we became the bestest of friends, man.

No one else in the family understood my grandpa, but he did two tours in Vietnam.

He's a river ring guy, man, two dual 50 cows on the ding and whooped it on.

I never told anybody, right?

And I would sit out in that garage with him and just talk to him.

And he was so proud of me and my brother.