It's been two decades sin
stepped foot on Iraqi soi
war on terror. To go on a
for weapons of mass destr
Saddam Hussein. But for s
there 20 years, feels lik
hard to get those kind of
know, I call them my bloo
I can't see anything but
human beings and not so m
really does surround our
signed up for the army in
wasn't even old enough to
had to sign a consent for
for a path to medicine. H
about actually being sent
that time. It's like, wel
even begin? You know, eve
seemingly at a stalemate,
their pieces of, you know
And it's like, how could,
become a reality? But in
it did 2.5 years after Am
almost at the end of his
was on that plane to Iraq
to this day. His memories
battle buddies, losing th
American soldiers acting
It has to do with the dea
At one point, uh, some of
I was working with in the
decided to go to the back
a omy on the cadaver. I m
uh uh I'm gonna see for t
you know, and nobody coul
as they were sticking a s
and trying to get the tub
sort of stuff. I was just
on here, like, like I wan
stop, but I, I I could ha
the incident to a captain
wouldn't happen again as
trauma in real time, he w
home, there were very mix
his service, his sacrific
at war in Iraq when he go
that continued controvers
through the guilt of the
dead policeman focused on
earned a spot at Harvard
lifelong dream for him, b
rotations took him right
whether it was listening
va or a group of doctors
patient in the hospital.
hearing people running ag
there in Iraq and I was j
humvee and I was just try
the chair that I was on a
memories. I was like, I c
do this. I can get throug
know, there's going to be
are going to be easy part
after multiple medical le
home with that decision,
for himself. The very rea
in the first place died s
he never went. Um I'll be
I still grieve to grieve
You know, I always though
doctor was the thing I wa
science. I love medicine
away. Sergio says he went
a long time, isolating hi
not leaving the house, ju
himself alive in Iraq. It
not dying at home. It tur
same. He says his loved o
where he can actually liv
me to the core of who I a
story. So others will do
number of soldiers lost b
in Iraq doesn't keep grow
said like, oh, yeah, he w
the same. And I just hope
that the core of who they