Marine hero speaks:

"When I think about my gang member past I shudder in shame. But if there was one lesson I learned from my past it is that there is a profound moral difference between using violence to destroy lives and using violence to save lives. Terrorists do the former; soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines do the latter."

This Marine saw unspeakable things that made him a supporter of the war in Iraq.

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