grappling with the enemy up close like
that your friend's death you're right
there with him can't be easy talking to
a roomful of strangers about those
things it is sort of weird being honored
for the worst day you're alive never
mind
so what's it like being a cheerleader
you really want to know yeah not really
do hmm well it's great I mean people see
us on TV and they think that's all there
is to it you know dancing and having fun
but community service is actually the
main part of our job visiting hospitals
working with underprivileged kids stuff
like that you know to me that's been the
most satisfying thing about being a
cheerleader serving others a spiritual
aspect of it really are you a Christian
oh I'm searching do you pray
not as much as I should I never got much
from going to church but then in Iraq in
the middle of all this shooting my
friend shroom Sgt Braman gets hit he's
just you know lying there bleeding out
I'm gonna go to him suddenly for the
first time in my life I feel close to
something I'm no bigger myself and when
shroom died I felt something passing
through me like oh really most of the
time that's how it works
life gets so dark and we think all the
lights gone out of us but it's always
there if we just open the door a crack
the light comes pouring in you know how
we kept looking at each other I think
God wanted us to meet look if you
couldn't deliver why'd you tell the guys
that number now they think they're
coming home to jacuzzis and I told
him a lot of things have to happen it's
Thanksgiving in LA I just need more time
that we don't have time over I know
Jesus what happened to you nothing why
do you look like you just got laid
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