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- [Voiceover] While in my career in the military,

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you get diagnosed with physical disabilities

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and mental disabilities,

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and then after a while they tell you that you can't

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be a solider anymore, so then you get medically discharged.

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- [Voiceover Two] You see a lot of struggle,

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you see a lot of people

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trying to find an identity again after the army's

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been taken away from them, and they're forced

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with injury that's gonna last them a life, they're forced

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wit the reality that they're gonna be out.

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- When something like that happens after

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25 years of being in the military, your life shuts down.

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It's like everything that you had a meaning and a purpose

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for kind of goes right out the window.

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And it's like the warrior games just gives you another

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desire to want to give up in the morning, to want to

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do something, and it kind of makes you feel whole again,

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like a real person.

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- It's a relief, they say sometimes you have no one

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else to look to and knowing that you're working out with

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people and working with people who's in the same

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situation as you just kind of motivates you to keep

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pushing on, saying anything's possible.

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- Army Trials and Warrior Games have opened up

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those opportunities for us, or for me especially

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so it's helped me to put things in focus and

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remember not to ever give up, just keep going.

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There's life after the military,

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there's life after injuries.

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- [Coach] Think positive, I think everybody even when things

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are really hard, everyone is positive or upbeat.

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All I can say is that it's been a pleasure to be with

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every single one of you tonight, and go army baby!

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(shouting)

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(clapping)

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(upbeat music)