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Uh the Thai army has a saying , it says

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uh if you wanna go fast , go alone . If

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you wanna go long meaning to endure ,

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you do it together during the outcome

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of the pol pot regime that took over

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Cambodia for a good period of time . In

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the eighties . My family fled over to

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the border and settled in a little town

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called Sako , but specifically there

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was a Thai refugee camp called Kan .

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Now where I am now here , I'm in the

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United States Army E seven green beret .

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And to be back here in the homeland ,

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it's uh it's very um it's almost unreal .

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So in bringing back uh what bit of

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experience that I have uh in my

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military background to um our

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counterparts here in Thailand . It is

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again , just synonymous with like a

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brother , reaching out and helping

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another brother .