Jake Rademacher reconnects with his brothers and soldiers he embedded with in Iraq. He creates a unique “then and now? | dG1femROd1lKNFM2QWc
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00:00You
00:06Have you ever been in a river you open your eyes
00:11You don't see anything it's not clear
00:15You go down too deep
00:17It's darker
00:19You need someone to stick their arm in water
00:24There's someone to grab you pull you up
00:30One of the hardest parts of being a warrior is coming home I
00:38Was angry at everybody they didn't understand what I understood
00:43Yeah, I was this close to taking my own life. I
00:47Invested so much of myself into the military that it was hard to let go
00:51I'm doing this documentary right now because I want to see how the guys that I embedded with years ago are doing
00:58How they're really doing
01:05We are here
01:08We are family
01:10And we don't have to fight this fight alone
01:12You spend so much time out here with them
01:15You must become brothers. So if I fall down I expect you to fight
01:22My main purpose is to get my guys home safe
01:28Being in the military, it's kind of an honor
01:31Yeah, my country has problems, but it's still my country, you know, and I I did a good job here
01:36People need more of a reminder of what Memorial Day weekend is for the amount of sacrifice
01:44I have asked my wife to make is
01:47Kind of gut-wrenching man
01:51The buddy who just took his own life
01:53How do you tell his wife and his daughter, I'm so sorry we all tried to help him in
02:03It just inspires us to make good on the time we are given if it helps save another soldier's life to share my experience
02:09Hey, dude, you need to stop putting this facade like John Wayne. You're not bro. Nobody is
02:18It's a breath of fresh air to know that people still care
02:22My favorite moment would be now I'm gonna make the most of that next chapter. I have friends out here
02:29That might need me one day
02:32And I want them to know that I'll be back here
02:37Coming home has always been the hardest part of being a warrior
02:41But if we walk beside them
02:44They can make it all the way home
02:51You