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Specialist Burton . First name is John .

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Um , 11 bravo . I've been in for

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three years . I'm with 2325 go white

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falcons . Ok . Wonderful . And is this

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your first time in Normandy ? Yes ,

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I've been to Europe before but first

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time in France . So we just took a tour

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of the La Causeway where the 82nd had

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to overtake this causeway from the

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Germans with very little manpower ,

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very little firepower and they were

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successful . So you are wearing the

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82nd airborne patch . Now , what does

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it mean to you to hear these stories of

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generations ago they wore this patch ?

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Now you're back here . How does it feel ?

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What does it mean to you ? So I'm going

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to be honest with you . I don't want to

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speak for everybody , but it's kind of

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a dream come true . This is definitely

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where the modern warfare started and to

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see just the , the modesty of it , you

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know , you have these expectations of

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everything . But when you get to see it

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on the ground , it's very surreal and

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makes me thank thank God for the men

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that came before us . I just think that

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if we could have an experience like

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that . It would definitely be

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worthwhile . Absolutely . And what do

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you think that you can take from your

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time ? A week , week and a half here in

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Normandy ? What can you take from these

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lessons of the past ? And how can you

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implement them into your unit and what

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you do every day as a soldier ? That's

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a good question . Um , so I got lucky .

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I'm doing color guard for some of the

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ceremonies , get the whole US flag . So

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uh I think just being able to

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participate in things like that

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definitely uh give you a new

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perspective . Um I know the army can

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get mundane everybody watching the

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snows . But um you just get re inspired .

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Um You remember why you came and uh

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hopefully you keep uh figure it out why

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you're uh you're going awesome . Uh I

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appreciate you . Let me answer the

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questions . Shout out Bravo Company .

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2325 .