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When I came home I went back to a job that I left with the State
of Connecticut, a great job that I loved and wanted to stay at.
I was on track for a great career as a drug counselor
and it offered me everything except I was suffocating 'cause
I had no adrenaline rush.
And I did, which way too many people, Veterans,
have done is I looked for adrenaline in the wrong places
and I got in trouble with the law and ended
up doing time for that.
I wasn't the kind of kid or young man or warrior
in the military that ever would have gotten
in trouble had it not been for my looking
for that adrenaline rush.
One of the things I ask all of you is,
look for it in other ways because we don't need any more
of us in jails and prisons because we've pushed the limit
or we've driven too fast and killed ourselves
in car accidents or gotten involved in drugs
and had overdoses or become alcoholics and drug addicts.
There are better ways to find some type of an adrenaline rush
but you're never going to get, in my opinion,
the adrenaline rush that you had in the war.
And that's something you have to surrender to also
but there are other things you can do.
Find them.
Please, help yourselves.