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I remember the first moment I saw him
after returning from his second tour of duty.
My daughter and I had flown to Texas,
where he was staying in the hospital,
and we were walking across the parking lot,
and I could see him on the other side of the parking lot.
In the past, he would have been running
and grabbing us up and swinging us around,
and he was kind of vacant when I looked at him.
He was walking towards us, but he was vacant.
And when he spoke to me his speech was slurred.
And he was down.
He had never been down before.
He was always very alive, and he was down.
He didn't have words, he didn't really speak.
When he did, like I said, it was slurred,
and when I would talk to him
he wouldn't remember things that I had already said.
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