The Warfighters (2016) s01e10 Episode Script

1 DAVE: It was a hot deployment.
There was a lot of action going on.
A lot of high-value targets that we were after.
Going in, we knew we were gonna make contact.
We were doing special operations raids on any known terrorists that we could find.
But things happen every everyday that change the plan.
Some people need to be killed and that's how it is.
And there's social taboos that say it's bad, but, really, I mean, they're just people that need to go away.
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING.]
HAL: To me a Ranger is somebody's that's constantly evolving, changing.
Shoot guns, blow stuff up and do extreme things.
[DISTANT GUNFIRE.]
You're there to eliminate the nation's enemies, and you're premier fighting force in the world.
DAVE: The Regiment is it's a competitive culture.
You got to have thick skin.
If you can't handle the heat, then, you know, get off the field.
[FAINT GUNFIRE.]
MAN 2: There's a couple year window there when we just had a really strong, um, group in our in our platoon.
People were just unbelievably talented in so many different ways.
HAL: This was a very experienced platoon with a lot of good guys quality guys.
Everybody knew their position, knew what they had to do.
It just came to be machine-like after a while.
ALEX: I was the Alpha team leader at the time.
HAL: I was the sniper.
DAVE: I was the overwatch.
My role was to make sure that my buddies were were safe.
And, together, we made an unstoppable force.
ALEX: We did everything 100%, the best of our ability all the time.
You know, part of this team, you know, being so close for that that time was that our personalities jelled well on our downtime.
DAVE: We were around each other all the time, 24/7.
If we weren't working, we were messing around.
We were at the gym.
The running joke was, you know, we'd go to the gym, and we had 20 minutes of mandatory mirror time.
Uh, and then, after that we just kind of goofed around with each other.
Everyone just made we found little quirky things to make fun of each other.
Alex's tan lines, or something ridiculous like that.
And that's how things just went.
You know, you gotta find a way to take the edge off.
ALEX: We even setup a like, a living room.
And we've setup TV in there, we moved some cots around and turned them into, like, couches.
My wife would send us, like, gossip magazines.
At first it was kind of a joke, like, why'd she send these to us? No one's gonna look at 'em.
And before you know it, we'd be sitting in our TV room thumbing through it, and, you know, then it became almost a need.
We were like, "Did you get a new package? 'Cause we wanna see what's going on with this celebrity.
" The gossip magazines, uh, I refuse to touch his gossip magazines.
I'm not interested in what Britney Spears' latest haircut is.
HAL: No one had smart phones.
You couldn't have cameras.
You can't have a lot of this stuff.
So you're reading, like, Paris Hilton and you just need something else to take your mind away and, like, stimulate you somehow.
ALEX: That became a funny little thing that we were doing.
Right before we would go down, you know, go to bed, we would, you know, throw a movie in or a television series on a disc and throw those in, watch some TV.
"Lost" was big at the time.
So we would get word that we have to go on a mission we're in the middle of an episode, we would be like, "No, we're in the middle! How're we gonna know what happens?" So, we would kid, like, All right.
Now we're really mad at these bad guys.
Right? Like, now they've really angered us.
They interrupted our show.
DAVE: It was always like, "Okay.
We're in this together.
" I never had an experience like that.
Not like battalion.
FEMALE REPORTER: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, this man is considered by U.
S.
officials to be more dangerous to post-war Iraq than Saddam Hussein ever was.
Zarqawi was pretty much the number one guy.
You know, you had Bin Laden, but Zarqawi was the big guy everybody was trying to shoot for.
They'd been going a lot for him.
He'd been there.
He's running the show.
And on the deployment, you know, he was killed.
Big news for U.
S.
Forces in Iraq.
Al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.
S.
airstrike Wednesday north of Baghdad just outside the town of Baqubah.
MALE REPORTER: U.
S.
officials say they found a treasure trove of intelligence at Zarqawi's safe house, which they have already used to launch at least 17 raids against Al-Qaeda militants in and around Baghdad.
HAL: After Zarqawi got killed, that shook up the leadership structure.
And that was about halfway through our deployment he got killed.
DAVE: Everyone was jumping over each other to, like, get the next high-value target.
Or, you know, on the other side, to be the next Zarqawi.
And it made for a very active deployment.
The first mission it's a little frightening, but once you get that first one under your belt, it's I mean, it's game on after that.
It's like, you're going after the people that that are coming after us.
ALEX: We were bringing the fight to the bad guys, and we were doing Special Operations raids on any known terrorists that we could find.
Sometimes we would get back from a mission, put our stuff down, only to put it right back on, 'cause we were going back out again.
MALE REPORTER: Fast, dark and potentially very confusing pre-dawn raids are getting to be about as routine as having breakfast for many U.
S.
troops.
We came there to do our job, and we knew the risks associated with that job and and that, you know, that's what we wanted to do.
America needed someone to be fighting this war we wanted to be the ones doing it.
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING.]
ALEX: This particular mission, we were the primary assault, my group was.
When we were on the helicopter, I would just kinda say a little prayer every single time we went out, I mean some of the guys may have seen me kinda leaning down for one second "Please keep me and my guys safe," kinda thing.
A little internal prayer.
Yeah, I'd pretty much do that every single time we went out.
You know, it's funny.
I never I never really talked about that before.
But, yeah, there you go.
I took the lead walking out.
I can remember walking through fields, um, and some light forest, a lot of farm land.
And and we landed quite a ways away.
DAVE: We did have to walk a distance.
I mean, that was mostly for the element of surprise.
We wanted to make sure that when we hit them, we hit them hard.
HAL: There's probably like 40 of us.
So us sneaking around, you know, one guy could blow it.
And when you're on missions, everything has to be perfect.
Everything has to be a hundred percent.
'Cause if you fail, you may cause the death of somebody else, or, you know, an injury or what have you.
And nobody wants that on their conscious or on them, like, hey, I messed up and this guy's paralyzed.
Or, this guy's dead.
You know, I'd rather be the dead guy than that.
ALEX: We were getting close, and the sniper team had moved up to get in front of us so that they can start to set in.
I'd go in with one of the squads.
We had to cut through some fencing, some wire to get through.
We went through a lot of trees.
And the whole time I was just like, "We have to be quiet about this.
" As we got closer, I heard this loud noise.
I was just like, "Is that something somebody's not telling us?" Or something's going on?" So as we got up to the chicken coop, we noticed what the noise was and it was a generator.
Really loud, too, and we were just like, "Wow, that was that was pure luck.
" It could've not been running.
It could've been dead.
You know, probably one of the only things that runs correctly in Iraq.
I pulled security while the other sniper went around, got the ladder.
We had intelligence and stuff like that, so, we knew a ladder was already gonna be there.
So we used the ladder on the actual target.
We didn't carry one in.
There was light on, too, so as the other sniper went around, you know, he was kinda exposed to the actual guard.
But his back was turned to us the whole time.
We were both pointed towards his back and we let the platoon sergeant know, "Hey, we're set.
" The other guys, they'd already been moving around setting up their positions.
DAVE: My job is to make sure that nobody gets in the fight that shouldn't be in the fight.
It keeps the objective secluded from from anything that's outside and it keeps outsiders from getting into the objective.
It's a necessary role, but there's no way around it.
Being in the back sucks.
It's like being on the sidelines during the Super Bowl.
Like it just it sucks.
You want to be upfront.
You wanna be the guy that's like kicking the door down.
You wanna be the guy that's like getting to the action.
But someone's gotta make sure that the rest of the guys while they're not looking, are being taken care of, someone's watching over 'em.
On that mission on my overwatch was over the open field between the chicken coop and the village just to make sure that we didn't have any insurgents coming in from any other areas.
My group made a wide circle around everyone.
To the back side of the building that all of our enemy were located.
We decided we were gonna enter that rooftop from the external staircase.
I definitely remember being underneath looking up at that building and trying to keep my weapon pointed up while finding the staircase.
I'm looking right at the staircase, I got my weapon pointed where if they leaned over, you know, I could see 'em.
HAL: It seemed like it took forever for Alex and his squad to setup, and that's what we were really worried about.
We're like, "The guard, he doesn't know we're here yet" But he something's up.
He knows something's up.
He would sit on the ledge and he would just look up like this, up at the sky and like, around and stuff.
DAVE: Hal and his partner are giving us the play-by-play.
So I'm listening to this the entire time.
I'm making sure that my guys are setup with their sectors of fire just to make sure that I keep them away from from what's about to happen.
ALEX: You know, at that point Hal is talking to the platoon sergeant and the platoon sergeant gave him, um, the green light to take out the the guard before the guard took my group out.
HAL: The platoon sergeant called up, he's like, "Hey, everybody's set.
It's on you.
" I congratulate our troops on this remarkable achievement.
But the difficult and necessary mission in Iraq continues.
We can expect the terrorists and the insurgents to carry on without him.
We can expect the sectarian violence to continue.
Wednesday night's airstrike swiftly and suddenly decapitated the Al-Qaeda organization at least part of it, and you can be sure that already there are insurgents making moves to be the next man in charge.
ALEX: We had done so many missions.
We were getting into, um, different engagements with enemy often.
We had seen numerous suicide bombers, uh, numerous fire fights.
But it was kind of normal at that point.
HAL: This deployment, we were always going after high-level guys, you know? We didn't want low level because those were replaceable.
You'd want to go after the leadership guys.
And those guys were smarter, they're mobile.
They're moving around a lot, you know, and they're more dangerous.
ALEX: On this particular mission, there's a number of heavily-armed individuals, and all of them were sleeping outside with one guard awake.
The snipers were setup in buildings directly across from us.
Right at about 100 meters away.
They had a really good vantage point of the whole chicken coop area where the bad guys are.
Platoon sergeant called up, he's like, "Hey, everybody's set.
" So the other sniper and I, we, you know, we did a three-two-one at the same time - and shot, uh, the target.
- [GUNSHOT.]
And he just flew off that lip of the chicken coop.
ALEX: Hal, really good as a sniper.
Very fortunate that, uh, he was on this particular mission.
HAL: You know, I like it when they trusted me.
I like it when they gave me that responsibility.
And it would've hurt me if I let them down.
You just don't want to be a failure in general.
Especially in that environment where we were at, you know, Ranger Battalion.
You don't want to be the weak link.
We came from a sniper platoon where it was really dog-eat-dog.
It is very small 'cause they were constantly firing people.
And that's what they told us.
You know, we will constantly have somebody's head on the chopping block, because that's how we get the best out of people.
And, honestly, I like that type of environment.
It definitely weeds out the weak, and that's what you want.
DAVE: Hal is one of those guys that I can count on to deliver no matter what.
And those are the type of guys in Battalion that you want to surround yourself with.
You don't want people that aren't gonna hack it in in Regiment.
HAL: You know, growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, by just running around the woods hunting or doing whatever, and, you know, blow up stuff, you know, do all that childhood fantasy stuff.
Every weekend, it was, "What're you gonna get into?" You know, you had the Friday night football games.
And then you'd go to parties later, get in fights later.
Go out on the weekend, same stuff.
And I definitely wasn't a goody two-shoes, by any means.
I'd read books about executive outcomes, mercenary books, stuff like that, and it was all about, you know, this life adventure going overseas.
You know, my senior quote was, "It'll be something to tell our grandkids about.
" You know? I just don't see the point in living if you're just gonna do what everybody else is doing.
The goal was always to go to sniper school.
To me it's just like a test of manhood.
You know, you got to test yourself and push it.
It was that urge that insatiable appetite, to go see that type of action.
What I was told coming to Regiment, you're there, you engage, you destroy and that's it.
And that's essentially, you know, how it's done.
You know, this mission, I think we're about at our second month.
So we were kinda peaking.
We were getting to that place where this is just another mission.
But you really had to bring your "A" game because they're a bunch of sharks.
You're in deep waters with sharks.
ALEX: Once Hal and Alex, the sniper team were engaging, everyone else on the rooftop, of course, is now awake.
The surprise element's done.
We proceeded to engage the other insurgents there.
And I know we got at least four guys.
There were seven up there.
As I was engaging, this one guy, he was looking right at us, myself and the other sniper.
Our only concealment was the darkness.
And since we had the suppressors, he couldn't see our muzzle flash.
I tried to to really eliminate that, but I couldn't.
[GUNSHOT.]
I didn't find out till later, but that he's behind a like, a little wall like this, and only his eyes were showing.
And I was aiming, like, two inches below his eyes.
I was aiming center mass, so I was hitting the lip right in front of him.
The platoon sergeant called up, "Hey, lift fire.
" The other guys were about to assault the roof.
ALEX: My squad leader moves into the spot right behind me, and he pulls a grenade from my back.
At that point, he is radioing with our platoon sergeant and the sniper team in here that, you know, he's prepping to enter that roof.
Once it detonates, that's the signal for all fires from our other elements to stop completely.
They're no longer engaging anyone because we are gonna be on top of that roof.
DAVE: That was my cue to say, "Okay, we're in it.
" I need to shift my guys to cover the rest of the guys going on that rooftop "as quickly as possible.
" What we didn't know was that the grenade lodged underneath a water tank.
And water is a great way to absorb impact.
So, that grenade did nothing but maybe give us a little bit of element of shock or something.
But the down side is, it kinda told 'em that we were coming up on the roof.
We got up there and we engaged as fast as we could.
[GUNFIRE.]
We basically formed a line what we would call like a strong wall, and we just started walking towards them to close the distance between us, and the enemy had a lot of firepower on that roof and they were set up to fight.
They had magazines setup in a way that they could do mag changes very fast.
HAL: I just get down because I need to keep from getting stray rounds.
So my head was on the ground.
Like, I didn't know what was going on.
It's all happening so fast, too.
I mean, split seconds.
The muzzle flashes stopped.
ALEX: We were fortunate that day.
It's one of those you reflect back now and then you take the time to think about it and you're like, you know, we trained so hard, and we worked so hard together, and to see it result the way we want it to.
It doesn't always happen like that.
Most Rangers you'll see wearing a KIA bracelet.
It's just sometimes unavoidable, um, you know, that we lose someone.
So, I'm certainly, you know, no hero, but I was surrounded by many heroes that day.
DAVE: Alex, when he first showed up, he was different because he had gone to college before.
We were a bunch of young dudes trying to figure life out.
He already had a little bit of experience under his belt.
ALEX: My father passed away my freshman year of college.
Through college, I spent a lot of time back and forth, you know, to help my Mom and sister out.
During all that time, the military was just in my head.
So it was something that I I really wanted to do.
You know, that kind of incident just drove me to it.
My brother who is a Marine had, you know, kind of tried to steer me towards going in the Air Force or or the Navy.
You know, I didn't listen.
I wanted to try and one-up him, if you will, "So I was like," If I go in the Army and then I try and go to a special operations unit, I can kind of, you know, that brotherly rivalry.
So that was, I guess, kind of what drove me to the Army, you know, as a final decision.
What I remember about Ranger Indoctrination Program is that was the worst part of all the things I did.
I did not like that place.
It was hard.
I mean, it was physically demanding, of course, but the selection process is meant to drive out those who are not the right fit.
So, I was very motivated to make it.
You're working with the best.
So, you're always trying to be a part of the best.
And, you know, I yeah, absolutely loved being around that group.
HAL: Once Alex and the other guys eliminated the other insurgents on the roof, and I got the call, like, "Hey, everything's good.
" And we went down the ladder and, you know, there's a dead insurgent not far away.
There were two more enemy located inside one of the buildings.
They had tried to sneak up behind a part of Dave's element.
He was able to eliminate one of them right away.
It sent a another one running into a chicken coop building.
I'm bringing my team back around the backside of the objective at this point.
And because we don't know what the insurgent is doing, what he's got.
There was kind of like a main door.
I don't know what that door was made out of, um, I don't know if it was steel or what, but they had like three main just huge latches.
We were trying to actually open it manually and we couldn't.
ALEX: We did all our missions, you know, at night.
We're doing a lot of raids and our method of entry, for the most part, was an explosive charge.
We spent a lot of time building the charges.
So we'd come home from mission, we'd get out all the explosives and build the charges.
So we were ready to go at anytime.
DAVE: I had my breacher, set the charge to blow the door up to get into the coop.
[CHICKENS CHATTERING.]
DAVE: I was the first one through the door.
But I couldn't see anything.
I saw just the cloud of the explosion still.
And so there was, like, debris, chickens everywhere.
I wasn't expecting that many chickens in the coop.
It was disgusting.
There was chicken poo everywhere.
It smelled horrible.
I thought I was gonna walk away with some kind of disease.
When we were kicking these chickens everywhere, I was getting hit in the side of the leg by chickens getting kicked by the guy next to me.
I was kicking chickens.
I mean, we were just punting chickens everywhere.
There were support beams, like, throughout the coop.
He was hiding behind one of 'em and once we saw where he was, I mean, after that it was I mean, it was just everybody making sure that we eliminated the target.
[CHICKENS CHATTERING.]
HAL: The other sniper and myself, we get the ladder and put it on the chicken coop that Dave and his squad had just cleared and we're gonna pull overwatch over the city because we heard over coms that people were coming out of the city and actually coming towards our position.
Usually people run away from us, but these people were very aggressive, and they were actually coming towards us.
We had helicopters circling our position.
They were armed with some guns and some rockets.
They started to engage these all the armed fighters that were approaching our position.
And they were having to come in very, very low to do these gun runs.
HAL: The other sniper and myself, we're on the other chicken coop and we're running across that roof to overwatch this field to engage people coming towards us.
As this little bird was doing gun runs or engage in targets, the guys coming out of the village, there's a loud boom! [EXPLOSION IN DISTANCE.]
And I see blue sparks everywhere.
One of the little bird helicopters caught a telephone line that you obviously couldn't see in the dark.
HAL: And when it did that, it set off all the rockets in the pods.
The pilots were smart enough and experienced enough to try and they shot them away from everybody.
So they landed out in the field where none of the force was.
And then the primary concern at that point was the helicopter, the pilots.
The platoon sergeant then immediately hops on the radio, connects with one of the squad leaders and we send one of the squads out to make sure we secure the crash site.
ALEX: It had to have been close to a mile out as far as where the helicopter went down.
We could hear a little bit of activity gunfire in the distance.
They had a few enemy try and kind of probe the position.
That squad began to treat the pilots.
The pilots were banged up but good, so that was a welcome, you know, radio call to know they were okay.
DAVE: We knew that things happen everyday that change the plan.
We were always prepared and ready to act in a way that no matter what happened we were still gonna make sure that we were successful.
When I was a kid, my Dad was always like, "If you're gonna do something, you're gonna be the best at it.
" When I was in basic, I wasn't challenged.
RIP challenged me.
I was excited to sign a Ranger contract.
I had no idea what I was doing, what I was gonna learn, what I was gonna experience, but I was like, this is my chance to just do the best that I could and that I was gonna give it my all.
I grew up in Anaheim, California.
Both my parents are immigrants, so they're both Mexican.
I was raised speaking Spanish.
I got a younger brother and a younger sister.
So I was the oldest one.
My parents worked long hours, uh, so my mom had two jobs.
She'd clean houses on the weekends and then during the week she'd work her normal job.
And then my Dad was an upholsterer who would work I mean, there'd be sometimes seven days a week, six days a week.
My dad was always big on education.
And, you know, it's like, "You need to go to college if you're gonna make something of yourself.
" As I got older, I knew I couldn't pay for college, and so the only logical option for me was, "Well, I guess I'm gonna join the Army.
" I think it was wanting to be a part of something bigger.
We knew that when the bird goes down, you could pretty much squash any plans of exfiling anytime soon, and because you have villagers trying to get into the fight.
By that point, it's find a job, make sure that we're providing good security for the rest of the team, and, basically, just wait for the next move.
I had full view of the rest of the field that was in between the little bird and the insurgent village.
I saw personnel coming in and out of a main house and it was the decision by higher-ups to see what's inside that house.
DAVE: Our main objective was done at this point, except for the fact that we had a downed little bird and we had hostiles in the village that we had to make sure that we cleared.
HAL: We re-grouped and then we went into the village.
A lot of people hideout in those average towns.
You know, you overlook 'em.
Here's a main building we're gonna go to and, you know, everybody had their position, what they were supposed to do, and then we went into the city.
ALEX: There's so many missions that you go to a particular location, think that's where the target you're looking for is, it turns out it's another location.
Or this particular place led you to a clue to another place or something.
So it's common.
You know, we go in with a great plan and it gets shifted, your training takes over.
HAL: It's just machine-like.
You got to do your job.
That's it.
It doesn't matter what happens, what they throw at you.
At the end of the day, "Is the job done? Yes or no.
" And you need to say, "Yes.
" When we got to the town, we cleared some of the buildings.
In particular, one of the buildings where we knew one of the enemy that was trying to move in retreated to.
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING.]
HAL: As they were clearing the house, they found personnel in the house.
[SOLDIER YELLING.]
He had two of his fingers shot off, and there was a large hole in his shin.
It's more likely from the minigun from the little bird.
He was not screaming was not anything, he handled it very well.
Going in, yeah, we knew we were gonna make contact.
That was well-known.
But we'd been making contact the whole time.
We were comfortable with it.
It's just kinda robotic machine-like, you know? This is the place for people who want to run the razor's edge and live an extreme lifestyle.
And people say, "Well, you could die.
" Well, you know what? Then your worries are over.
They looked through the house and think they just got him and a couple other people.
He wasn't gonna die.
You know, there was nothing life-threatening there.
And, uh, they, uh, you know, you need him for information later.
I ran up on the roof and setup overwatch and overwatch other rooftops, other alleys, stuff like that.
Myself and another sniper, we see another guy on a adjacent rooftop maybe 75 yards away.
Our main force was now down to street level.
We saw a weapons system.
So we set up and called over the net, "Hey, we're about to engage this guy.
" Some people need to be killed, and that's how it is.
You know, that's just how the world is.
You know, there's social taboos that say that's bad, but really, I mean, they're there're just people that need to go away.
And most people are not comfortable with that.
The other sniper and I did a three-two-one shot.
If I don't get 'em, the other guy does.
He fell off the top of the third story, you know, and he was he was expired.
So, we left the top of the rooftop, went downstairs, and prepared for exfil.
One of our advantages was starting to disappear very quickly, which was the cover of the night.
ALEX: Missions were probably a couple hours.
like, we'd ride there, do the mission assigned to us, gather intelligence, check our people, and leave.
It all happened very fast.
We were very precise with how we did things.
And we all definitely knew this one was it was continuing to drag on.
It's just an eerie feeling.
We're more vulnerable and it makes it more difficult for us to to keep everybody safe.
HAL: There's a lot of things that were happening.
We weren't in control like we usually are, so we had to eliminate that.
We had to get out of there.
Wherever we go, we want to be in total control.
ALEX: We moved out, um, kind of through as much tall grass and wooded area as we could to an open field.
DAVE: We were waiting around for exfil and I remember this low-flying fighter jet that just came down it was like a nosedive, and it must've flown, I mean, I felt like I could touch it.
It was a very surreal feeling.
[FIGHTER JET FLYING OVERHEAD.]
It was like, this is the path to exfil.
That was probably the thing that I remember the most.
I mean, every now and then, I'd just look back and I remember that feeling of of just American firepower.
And it felt awesome.
ALEX: I went out into the field and held up a big florescent thing that the helicopters could see to kinda tell 'em where we were.
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING.]
ALEX: As soon as they landed, we hopped on and got out of there as quick as we could.
HAL: When you're in the bird or riding in the doors, you can let your guard down.
You're not operating at a hundred percent in a sense of, you know, that the pilot's are mostly in control right now.
DAVE: The rivers and the trees, they just, like, pulls you out of the fight for a little bit.
Then you get snapped back into reality and you're like, "Oh, well, except that, you know, there's a lot of bad people there, actually.
" HAL: You know, this mission, looking back, I guess, everybody came together to perform and it is a well-oiled machine.
It just it ran how it was supposed to run.
ALEX: This was a successful mission from the standpoint that we all made it out of there alive.
And I would say that with any mission that you go on.
Y'all leave there alive, it's a success.
DAVE: I think that in those moments on that deployment, I was around the best guys.
That mission without Alex, would've been way different.
Without Hal, it would've been way different.
You know, without the rest of the guys, it would've been it wouldn't have been the same.
The Regiment's a special place.
It quenched my thirst for that that eagerness to be a part of something bigger.
That was probably the one of the biggest or, it has been one of the biggest impacts on my life still.
Does this mission change anything about me? I would say that there's every mission does my whole time in the military does.
HAL: And I tell guys, you know, once you cross over the dark side, you're not coming back.
And that's just how it is.
DAVE: I think I learned to value things differently.
Then you're back home and things look different.
They smell different.
It's not the same.
HAL: It's depressing within itself because here you are around all these guys, and then it gets taken away from you.
You have to go back to a lot of people who you'll never bond or relate to.
You notice from the instinct they don't understand that.
They don't realize we'll never be the same and as good.
We appreciate life so much more now because we know how short it is.
You drive yourself crazy trying to find that rush again.
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