Uncommon Valor: A Vietnam Story-R.A. the Rugged Man/Jedi Mind Tricks

[00:32.98]Yeah, I don't know why I'm over here, this job is evil [00:35.65]They sent me here to Vietnam to kill innocent people [00:38.21]My mother always said, "The president, he doesn't care" [00:40.87]He tryin' to leave the footprints of America here [00:43.37]They say we tryin' to stop Chinese expansion [00:45.83]But I ain't seen no Chinese since we landed [00:48.39]Sent my whole entire unit thinkin' we could win [00:50.84]Against the Viet Cong guerrillas there in Gia Dinh [00:53.61]I didn't sign up to kill women or any children [00:56.26]For every enemy soldier, we killin' six civilians [00:58.97]Yeah, and it ain't right to me [01:00.78]I ain't got enough of ************' fight in me [01:03.38]It frightens me, and I just wanna see my son and moms [01:06.79]But over here, they droppin' seven million tons of bombs [01:09.10]I spent my days dodgin' all these booby-traps and mines [01:11.70]And at night, prayin' to God that I get back alive [01:14.26]And I'm forced to sit back and wonder [01:17.02]Why I was a part of Operation Rolling Thunder [01:19.41]In a foxhole with nine months left here [01:22.07]Jungle like the ******' harbinger of death here [01:24.58]I don't wanna be here, I'm scared, I just wanna go home [01:28.69](You ******' kiddin' me? Don't be a *****, don't you love your country?) [01:32.54](I like being here, I'm ready) [01:34.55]True story [01:35.05]Call me Thorburn, John H., staff sergeant [01:37.20]Marksman, skill in killin', illin', I'm able and willin' [01:39.71]Kill a village elephant, rapin' and pillage a village [01:42.27]Illegitimate killers, US Military guerrillas [01:44.72]This ain't no real war, Vietnam **** [01:46.72]World War II, that's a war, this is just a military conflict [01:49.98]Soothin' drug abusin', Vietnamese women screwin' [01:52.72]***, gambling and boozin', all this **** is amusin' [01:55.24]******* and guns, this is every man's dream [01:57.39]I don't wanna go home where I'm just an ordinary human being [02:00.24]Special Op, Huey chopper gun ship run **** [02:03.01]Gook run when the minigun spit, won't miss [02:05.40]Kill ****, spit four-thousand bullets a minute [02:07.86]Vic the Charlie, hit trigger, hit it, I'm in it to win it [02:10.53]Get it, the lieutenant hinted, the villain, I been it [02:13.09]The killing, I did it, cripple, did it, pictures I painted is vivid, live it [02:16.35]A wizard with weapons, the secret mission, we 'bout to begin it [02:18.86]Government funded, behind enemy lines [02:20.96]Bullets is sprayin', it's heatin' up a hundred degrees [02:23.38]The enemies the North Vietnamese, ***** please [02:26.07]Ain't no sweat, I'm told, "Be at ease" [02:27.97]Until I see the pilot got hit, and we 'bout to hit some trees [02:31.23]Nail the road, it broke, crash land [02:32.98]American man in Cambodia, right in the enemy hand [02:36.24]Take a swig of the Whiskey to calm us [02:38.10]Them yellow men wearin' black pajamas, they wanna harm us [02:40.71]They all up on us, bang, bang, bullet hit my chest, feel no pain [02:43.96]To my left, the captain caught a bullet right in his brain [02:46.72]Body parts flyin', loss of limbs, explosions [02:49.27]Bad intentions, I see my best friend's intestines [02:51.78]Pray to the one above, it's raining, I'm covered in mud [02:54.23]I think I'm dyin', I feel dizzy, I'm losin' blood [02:56.75]I see my childhood, I'm back in the arms of my mother [02:59.34]I see my whole life, I see Christ, I see bright lights [03:02.24]I see Israelites, Muslims and Christians at peace, no fights [03:05.09]Black, Whites, Asians, people of all types [03:07.24]I must've died, then I woke up, surprised I'm alive [03:09.85]I'm in a hospital bed, they rescued me, I survived [03:12.42]I escaped the war, came back, but ain't escape Agent Orange [03:15.38]Two of my kids born handicapped [03:17.78]Spastic, quadriplegia, micro cephalic [03:20.18]Cerebral palsy, cortical blindness, name it, they had it [03:23.00]My son died, he ain't live, but I still try to think positive [03:25.26]'Cause in life, God take, God give