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Praise | Dave Roever | 5/24/19

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May 24, 2019

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Praise | Dave Roever | 5/24/19

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- THIS HAS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE PRAISE PROGRAMS
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THAT WE WILL EVER CONDUCT.
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- PRAISE TAKES YOU ON AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY.
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- I'M IN VIETNAM ON THE VAM CO TAY RIVER.
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IN 1969, DAVE ROEVER LOST HIS SKIN ALONG WITH HIS
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HEART FOR THE PEOPLE HE LOVED THE MOST.
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[MUSIC]
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- NATIONAL HERO DAVE ROEVER.
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IT'S A STORY OF HOPE AND DELIVERANCE.
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- I DIDN'T HAVE TO DIE TO REST IN PEACE.
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- AN ALL NEW PRAISE STARTS RIGHT NOW.
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[MUSIC]
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- DAVE ROEVER: I GOT A QUESTION FOR YOU, DO
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YOU HAVE TO DIE BEFORE YOU CAN REST IN PEACE?
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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
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TODAY I'M ON THE VAM CO TAY RIVER IN VIETNAM WITH
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TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK WHO WENT TO THE
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BACKSIDE OF THE PLANET TO RECORD A STORY THAT WOULD
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CHANGE THE LIVES OF MANY PEOPLE INCLUDING
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THE ONE TALKING.
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IT'S A POWERFUL STORY OF GOD'S DELIVERANCE IN A
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PLACE RIGHT NOW THAT WAS MY NEAR DEMISE.
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SUICIDE FOLLOWED. I ATTEMPTED IT.
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PAIN BEYOND WORDS THAT I COULD EVER DESCRIBE, BUT
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I CAME BACK HERE, AND I'M TELLING YOU TODAY I'M
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TOTALLY AT PEACE.
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I DIDN'T HAVE TO DIE TO REST IN PEACE.
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[MUSIC]
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50 FEET TO MY LEFT RIGHT UP HERE IN THIS WATER,
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YOU WALK UP ON THE BANK OF THAT RIVER, YOU'LL
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FIND SOME OF MY DNA, MY BLOOD, MY SKIN, MY TEARS.
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I'M IN VIETNAM ON THE VAM CO TAY RIVER WHEREIN 1969
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DAVE ROEVER LOST HIS SKIN ALONG WITH HIS HEART FOR
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THE PEOPLE HE LOVED THE MOST.
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WELCOME, TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK, TO
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A BROADCAST YOU WILL NEVER FORGET FROM VIETNAM.
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GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!
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- MATT CROUCH: THIS HAS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE MOST
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UNIQUE PRAISE PROGRAMS THAT WE WILL EVER CONDUCT.
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WE HAVE SOME OF THE BEAUTIFUL VIETNAMESE
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PEOPLE, AND SHE'S WAVING AND SMILING.
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- LAURIE CROUCH: HI.
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- HELLO.
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WE ARE ON THE VAM CO TAY RIVER RIGHT HERE IN
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VIETNAM, AND JUST OVER DAVE ROEVER'S LEFT
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SHOULDER YOUR BOAT WAS NESTLED UP ON THE RIDGE
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UP ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER, KIND OF LIKE OURS
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IS RIGHT NOW.
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AND A WHITE PHOSPHORUS GRENADE BLEW UP IN YOUR
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HAND, ABOUT KILLED YOU RIGHT THEN.
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- ABSOLUTELY.
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- BUT IT REALLY CHANGED WHAT YOU DO FOR A LIVING.
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IT REALLY CHANGED HOW YOU DO WHAT YOU DID, AND GOD
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MADE SOMETHING AMAZING OUT OF THAT TRAGEDY.
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- WELL, HE DID BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE WAS GOING TO
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MAKE ANYTHING AMAZING OUT OF IT.
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I WAS HEADED FOR THE MORTUARY.
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THERE WAS NO WAY I WAS SUPPOSED TO LIVE
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THROUGH THIS.
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THAT GRENADE EXPLODED RIGHT HERE.
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I'M NOT EXAGGERATING.
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HOW DO YOU EXAGGERATE THIS.
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IT BLEW RIGHT HERE, AND I DIDN'T KNOW AT THE MOMENT
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WHAT HAPPENED.
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I THOUGHT I WAS HIT BY A ROCKET, BUT THE BULLET
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WENT THROUGH MY HAND, HIT THE GRENADE AND EXPLODED,
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AND WHEN I LOOKED DOWN I COULD SEE MY
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HEART BEATING.
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I LOOKED FURTHER THERE'S MY FACE ON MY BOOTS.
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THIS BEHIND US HERE GOES BACK INTO THE
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JUNGLE A BIT.
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THIS WAS A ROUGH COUNTRY.
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THIS WAS THE ROUGHEST PLACE IN THE WAR AT THE
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TIME BECAUSE IT WAS THE LIFELINE FOR THE
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COMMUNISTS AS WELL AS US TROOPS TO FIGHT THE WAR.
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THIS WAS THE LIFELINE FOR THE PEOPLE LIKE THIS
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PRECIOUS WOMAN HERE TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING,
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EKING OUT ONE FISH AT A TIME.
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- WE'RE GOING TO UNPACK YOUR STORY FROM TRAGEDY
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TO TRIUMPH, ALL OF THAT, AND FOR US TO TRAVEL BY
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PLANE, BUSES, BY FOOT, BY BOAT TO GET TO WHERE WE
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ARE SO THAT WE CAN UNPACK THE STORY THAT IS
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DAVE ROEVER.
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ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PRAISE PROGRAMS EVER.
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STAY TUNED.
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[MUSIC]
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[MUSIC]
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- DAVE ROEVER: THE BANK OF A RIVER IN
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VIETNAM TO THE STAGE OF A BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADE IN
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WASHINGTON DC AND MANY OTHER STAGES WITH
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DOCTOR GRAHAM.
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HOW DID I GET FROM POINT A TO B?
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FIRST OF ALL STARTED OUT WITH WAR, RIGHT HERE,
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RIGHT HERE ON THE BANK OF THIS RIVER.
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- WE'RE IN VIETNAM, AND THIS IS PRAISE PROGRAM.
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DAVE ROEVER.
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IF YOU JUST JOINED US, WE ARE ON THE VAM CO TAY
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RIVER IN VIETNAM, AND WE ARE PUSHED UP AGAINST THE
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BANK THAT CHANGED DAVE ROEVER'S LIFE.
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WE PUT TOGETHER A LITTLE CLIP I WANT YOU TO WATCH.
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WATCH THIS.
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- DAVE ROEVER IS A PATRIOT AND VETERAN WHO
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SERVES HIS COUNTRY WELL.
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AT THE HEIGHT OF THE VIETNAM WAR, HE JOINED
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THE US NAVY AND SERVED AS A RIVER BOAT GUNNER IN
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THE ELITE BROWN WATER BLACK BERET IN VIETNAM.
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EIGHT MONTHS INTO HIS TOUR OF DUTY IN VIETNAM, ROEVER
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WAS BURNED BEYOND RECOGNITION WHEN A
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PHOSPHORUS GRENADE HE WAS POISED TO THROW EXPLODED
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IN HIS HAND.
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THE ORDEAL LEFT HIM HOSPITALIZED FOR 14 MONTHS.
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HIS SURVIVAL AND LIFE ARE MIRACULOUS.
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TODAY WITH HIS ENGAGING HUMOR, DAVE ROEVER IS
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ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED BOTH NATIONALLY AND
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INTERNATIONALLY AS A PUBLIC SPEAKER.
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IN EVERY SETTING, MR. ROEVER'S MESSAGE IS
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ONE OF HOPE.
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- I'M STANDING HERE TODAY LIVING EVIDENCE
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THAT TOMORROW IS WORTH WAITING FOR.
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DON'T GIVE UP.
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[APPLAUSE]
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- THE FOUNDATION OF HIS HOPE IS HIS FAITH IN GOD.
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DAVE ROEVER HERE ON PRAISE.
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MATT CROUCH: WE CAME TOGETHER --
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MANY YEARS AGO OUR PATHS CROSSED.
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- YOU WERE A CHILD.
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- YOU WERE VERY VERY CLOSE TO MY FOLKS AND
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VERY VERY CLOSE TO MY MOM AND DAD.
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- THESE THREE FINGERS AND THUMB WERE TAKEN OFF
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EXCEPT FOR THE SKIN ON THE BACK OF MY HAND.
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NONE OF IT WORKED ANYMORE.
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[MUSIC]
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- MATT: WHEN WE BOOKED THIS TRIP, WE DIDN'T KNOW OUR
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PATHS FROM YEARS AGO WOULD LEAD US TO THIS
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LOCATION. AND HOW SYMBOLIC ARE THESE GATES, I MEAN
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LITERALLY, THESE GATES ARE WORLD HISTORY MAKING
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GATES. THE MOMENTS IN TIME, THE LIFE MAGAZINE COVERS,
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THE FACT THAT YOUR LIFE INTERSECTED HERE IN VIETNAM.
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YOUR LIFE WAS REDEFINED IN THIS NATION.
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AND IT SOMEWHAT IS STILL BEING REDEFINED.
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- RIGHT. RIGHT.
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- AND YOUR THOUGHTS AS WE'RE STANDING HERE
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KIND OF AT A HISTORY--
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- THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST HIM.
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[LAUGHTER]
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THAT'S WHAT'S GOING THROUGH MY MIND.
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AND I DON'T CALL THIS HELL.
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I'M SAYING THE GATES OF FREEDOM AS WE UNDERSTAND
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IT CANNOT BE PREVENTED.
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THESE CANNOT PREVENT WHAT'S COMING.
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AND THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
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WE'RE AT MID-TERM. THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
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- WHAT'S YOUR MESSAGE?
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THIS IS A UNIQUE PLACE TO TALK TO ME AND THE
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VIEWERS THAT ARE KIND OF HERE WITH US NOW.
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY?
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THIS IS A PRETTY IMPORTANT LITTLE, PRETTY
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IMPORTANT LITTLE MOMENT IN TIME.
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WHAT'S ON YOUR HEART, DAVE?
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY?
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- IT'S THE MASSES THAT BREAK MY HEART.
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A HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, THESE FOLKS HERE HAVE
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COME FROM ALL OVER VIETNAM AND OTHER COUNTRIES.
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THESE COUNTRIES THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE TO VIETNAM ARE
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NOT NATIONS KNOWN FOR THEIR EVANGELICAL MISSION
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OR EVANGELICAL MISSION STATEMENT.
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THE WORLD WOULD SAY WE'RE ALL WRONG.
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IT DOESN'T MATTER. ALL PATHS LEAD TO HEAVEN.
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I'M LOOKING OVER HERE RIGHT NOW AT A FEW
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BUDDHIST MONKS, AND I CAN'T HELP BUT SAY
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IF YOU ONLY KNEW.
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IF YOU ONLY KNEW WHAT WAS BEHIND THE SCAR.
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JOHN LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID I SAW A LAMB SLAIN.
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HOW DID HE KNOW THE LAMB HAD BEEN SLAIN?
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HE WAS COVERED IN SCARS.
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OH, WE'VE GOT TO MOVE. A BUS IS COMING.
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THANK YOU.
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- A BUS INSTEAD OF A TANK IS A MUCH BETTER DAY.
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- OH, YEAH, YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!
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[MUSIC]
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- MATT CROUCH: YOUR WORST DAY MAYBE EVER.
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- EVER.
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- HAPPENED RIGHT BEHIND YOU, BUT IN ONE CRAZY
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SENSE IT MADE YOU WHO YOU ARE.
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- YES, SIR.
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- AND SO GOD DOESN'T DO ACTS OF PAIN AND MISERY
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AND HORROR AND ALL OF THAT, BUT HE CAN
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CERTAINLY FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE
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SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL.
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- OH, YEAH.
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- OF IT.
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AND SO WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS AND WHAT WE WANTED TO
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DO IS ESTABLISH THE POINT THAT MAYBE SOMEBODY'S
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WATCHING TODAY THAT IS EXPERIENCING THEIR
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WORST DAY EVER.
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- YEAH.
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- WELL, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE A
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WHITE PHOSPHORUS GRENADE IN YOUR HAND THAT JUST
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BLEW UP AND BLEW WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE SKIN
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OFF YOUR BODY?
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- JUST A LITTLE UNDER 50% THIRD DEGREE.
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- OKAY.
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- 60 POUNDS OF FLESH WAS BLOWN OFF ME IN
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ONE SECOND.
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I LOOKED DOWN, I SAW MY FACE
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ON MY BOOTS.
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I LOOKED CLOSER, I SAW MY HEART BEATING, MY BACK
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IS ON FIRE, SKIN DRIPPING.
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I PICKED MYSELF UP AND ROLLED ACROSS THE DECK
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AND I SPLASHED INTO THE WATER RIGHT THERE.
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I'M IN THE WATER, AND I WENT DOWN UNDER THE
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WATER, AND YOU FEEL THE CURRENT MOVING THE BOAT?
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IT MOVED ME UNDER THE BOAT.
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VERY FEW HAVE EVER HEARD ME TELL WHAT I'M GOING TO
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TELL YOU RIGHT NOW.
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I DON'T SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE.
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IT'S TOO MIRACULOUS, AND I CAN'T BUY IT MYSELF.
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IT TAKES A GOD EXPLANATION.
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I WENT UNDER THAT BOAT AS THE BACK OF IT SETTLED
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DOWN, IT WAS TAKING ON WATER AS IT SETTLED DOWN,
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AND IT PINNED MY SHOULDERS AND HEAD UNDER
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THE BACK OF THE BOAT, AND MY FEET WERE KICKING IN
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THIS WATER, KICKING.
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I'M TRYING TO GET FREE AND I CAN'T GET OUT.
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I CAN DROWN.
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I CAN BURN TO DEATH, OR I CAN BLEED TO DEATH.
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I HAVE THREE.
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ALL OF THE ABOVE WAS TAKING PLACE AT ONE TIME.
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I WAS PINNED UNDER THAT BOAT RIGHT THERE, AND I
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COULDN'T CRY OUT TO GOD.
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I WAS STUCK.
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I'M GLAD THAT HIS WORD WAS NOT HIDDEN
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IN MY POCKET.
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HIS WORD WAS HIDDEN IN MY HEART.
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AND I HOPE PEOPLE WATCHING UNDERSTAND THAT
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I CAN'T TELL THIS STORY WITHOUT EMOTION BECAUSE
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GOD WAS WITH ME THROUGH IT ALL.
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AND I DON'T KNOW HOW I GOT OUT.
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JUST SUDDENLY I FLOATED UP TO THE TOP OF THE
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RIVER, AND MY HEAD BOBBED OUT RIGHT THERE.
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MY CREW WAS ON THE FRONT OF THE BOAT.
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THE BACK WAS DOWN IN IT A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE THE
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WATER HAD TAKEN -- FRONT WOULDN'T SINK.
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SO THEY WERE ON THE FRONT OF THE BOAT.
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I'M AT THE BACK OF THE BOAT.
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ONE GUY, ONE OF MY TEAM MEMBERS JUMPED IN TO HELP
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ME. THE OTHERS KNEW NOT TO TOUCH ME.
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HE WAS THE NEW GUY, THE NEWEST GUY, DENNIS.
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SWEETHEART OF A GUY. ONLY KNEW HIM A COUPLE OF WEEKS.
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HE JUMPED IN RIGHT HERE TRYING TO SAVE ME,
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AND I'M SCREAMING DON'T TOUCH ME!
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DON'T TOUCH ME!
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I DIDN'T WANT HIM TO GET BURNED.
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WHEN I SURFACED, THE FIRST WORDS THAT CAME OUT
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OF WHAT WAS LEFT OF MY MOUTH WITH A BALL OF
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FIRE CAME OUT BECAUSE I INHALED THAT FLAME.
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WHEN I SURFACED, I SUCKED IN [INHALES DEEPLY] AND I PULLED
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THE FIRE IN. WHEN I EXHALED, THE FIRE CAME OUT AND I SAID GOD,
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I STILL BELIEVE IN YOU!
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THAT'S AN EXACT VERBATIM QUOTE.
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I DIDN'T SAY THAT BECAUSE GOD DIDN'T KNOW.
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HE KNEW I STILL BELIEVED IN HIM.
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I DIDN'T SAY THAT BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A
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GREAT LINE TO SHARE ONE DAY IF I EVER CAME BACK. DUH.
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YOU KNOW WHY I SHARED THAT?
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I SAID THAT BECAUSE I WANTED THOSE BOYS THAT
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I'D BEEN WITNESSING TO FOR EIGHT MONTHS, I
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WANTED THEM TO KNOW THAT THE GOD I TOLD THEM ABOUT
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DIDN'T HURT ME. I WANTED THEM TO KNOW THE GOD I
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TALKED TO THEM ABOUT DIDN'T DO THIS TO ME.
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AND I VOWED TO BRENDA I'D BE FAITHFUL TO HER.
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I VOWED TO GOD I'D BE FAITHFUL TO HIM.
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AND I KEPT BOTH THOSE VOWS.
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THE ONLY PROMISE I EVER BROKE TO MY WIFE WAS WHEN
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I KISSED THAT LITTLE TEENAGER GOODBYE AT LITTLE
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FIELD IN DALLAS TO COME TO THIS WAR.
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SHE ASKED ME, HER LITTLE LIPS WERE TREMBLING,
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SHE'S TRYING NOT TO CRY, AND I KISSED-- AND I CAN
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STILL TASTE THE SALT OF HER TEARS ON MY LIPS, SHE
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SAID ARE YOU COMING BACK?
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IN THIS WATER, AFTER I SAID GOD I STILL BELIEVE
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IN YOU, I REMEMBERED MY WORDS AND I WAS SO SAD BECAUSE
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I KNEW I WOULD BREAK THE ONLY PROMISE I'D EVER
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MAKE THAT I MADE TO HER.
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I CAME BACK BUT I WAS SCARRED. I WAS MUTILATED.
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AND I ASKED HER TO FORGIVE ME FOR THAT WHILE
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I WAS STILL IN THE HOSPITAL.
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I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF TO TELL YOU ABOUT
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THE HOSPITAL BUT WE'LL GET THERE.
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BUT FROM THIS POINT THEY TOOK ME IN THE
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HELICOPTER, AND THEY FLEW ME TO SAIGON. I DON'T KNOW
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WHERE THE FIRST STOP WAS. IT WAS A MASH HOSPITAL.
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- BEFORE YOU GET THERE, I REMEMBER A PORTION OF
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YOUR STORY THAT YOU SAID SOMEBODY WAS REACHING
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HERE TO PULL YOUR DOG TAGS OFF.
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- OH, YEAH, THEY DID.
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- AND THEY HAMMER THEM UP INTO YOUR--
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- THAT WAS IN THE HELICOPTER AND THAT WAS
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STANDARD PROCEDURE.
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THEY TAKE THE DOG TAG, YOU HAVE TWO OF THEM, AND
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THEY TAKE ONE OF THEM AND PUT IT BETWEEN YOUR
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TEETH, AND THEN THEY KICK IT WITH THE HEEL AND IT
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DRIVES IT INTO THE GUM. YOU'RE DEAD.
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IT'S NOT GONNA HURT YOU. BUT I WASN'T DEAD,
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AND I DIDN'T WANT THE PAIN IN THE MOUTH.
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I GOT ENOUGH PAIN NOW, AND I DIDN'T WANT HIM
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KICKING ME IN THE MOUTH.
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THAT'S WHEN I STARTED YELLING, MEDIC!
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AND HE ALMOST JUMPED OUT OF THE HELICOPTER.
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HE THOUGHT THE DEAD CAME TO LIFE AND SCARED HIM
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HALF TO DEATH, AND THE PILOT LOST CONTROL AND
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DROPPING LIKE A ROCK, AND THAT'S WHEN I THOUGHT
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GOOD LORD, WE'RE GONNA CRASH.
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I'LL BE THE ONLY SURVIVOR. [LAUGHTER]
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- SO YOU GO FROM THE VAM CO TAY RIVER, FROM THIS
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BANK TO THAT BANK, LIFT OFF IN A HELICOPTER
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AND LAND IN SAIGON.
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- ACTUALLY, WE LANDED IN A MASH HOSPITAL SOMEWHERE
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ALONG THE WAY, AND THEY WERE ARGUING, THE TWO
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DOCTORS WERE ARGUING.
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OF COURSE THEY KNEW I WAS ALIVE, BUT THEY SAID
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HE CAN'T LIVE. I WAS STILL BURNING.
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THEY OPENED ME UP, AND SOME OF THAT HAD NOT HAD
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ENOUGH AIR TO EXPLODE YET, AND I BURST INTO
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FLAMES. THEY'RE DIGGING IT OUT.
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I SET THE OPERATING ROOM ON FIRE.
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I WAS TOLD, BECAUSE I WAS UNDER ANESTHESIA,
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I WAS TOLD THIS STORY.
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THEY SAID THEY RAN OUT, AND THEY SAID WHEN THEY
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CAME BACK, THEY CAME BACK BECAUSE THE MORTICIAN
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ASSISTANT CAME TO GET ME, AND THEY HAD STABBED MY
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CHEST WITH A KNIFE AND TURNED IT SIDEWAYS TRYING
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TO GET AIR IN ME BECAUSE MY LARYNX SHUT DOWN
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AND I COULDN'T GET AIR.
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THAT'S WHY I DIED ON THE TABLE.
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THEY SAID I WAS DEAD.
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THEY PULLED THE SHEET OVER ME AND SAID HE'S
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DEAD, AND THEY LEFT THE SCALPEL IN THERE, THEY WALKED
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OUT BECAUSE I'M DEAD.
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WELL, THEN THEY COME OUT TO TELL MY WIFE,
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AND HER FOLKS AND MY DAD WAS THERE.
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THEY SAID-- THESE ARE THEIR WORDS.
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THEY SAID WE LOST HIM. AND THEY HEARD A SCREAM.
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THEY RAN IN AND IT WAS THE MORTICIAN AGENT ASSISTANT.
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I HAD, DURING THE TIME THEY HAD THAT KNIFE STUCK
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IN THERE, OXYGEN REFILLED MY LUNGS SLOWLY, HAD
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ENOUGH AIR, AND I LET OUT A YELL, AND THAT MEDIC,
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HE ALMOST DIED. AND THAT WAS HOW CLOSE
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THE NEXT BRUSH WITH DEATH CAME.
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I WAS THAT CLOSE TO BEING DEAD.
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THEY'D ALREADY WALKED OUT AND SAID WE LOST HIM,
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BUT GOD WASN'T THROUGH.
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GOD DIDN'T LOSE ME. HE KNEW WHERE I WAS.
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- BOY, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOUR LIFE
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IS IN GOD'S HAND, AND IF YOU'RE STILL ALIVE
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THERE'S STILL A PURPOSE FOR YOU, THEN I DON'T
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KNOW WHAT ELSE IS GONNA CONVINCE THEM.
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[MUSIC]
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- THIS REPRESENTS WHAT WE NOW KNOW AS THE,
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KIND OF THE END OF SOUTH VIETNAM.
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- THIS IS THE KEY THAT UNLOCKED THE GATE.
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- ALL RIGHT.
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SO WHAT PART OF THE STORY IS HERE AS YOU KNOW OUR
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VIEW, WE'RE LOOKING PAST A TANK BARREL AND WE'RE
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LOOKING NOW AT THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE WHICH
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IS MORE OF A MUSEUM NOW, REALLY, BUT THIS WOULD
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HAVE BEEN THE WHITE HOUSE OF VIETNAM, SOUTH VIETNAM
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AT THAT TIME. SO IN THE 60'S, YOU WERE A WARRIOR.
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YOU WERE A GUY THAT WAS STRAPPED UP, YOU HAD
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AMMO CRISS-CROSSED ACROSS YOUR BODY.
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- LITERALLY, M-16, 7.65.
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- YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN BASICALLY COMING HERE AS
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A WARRIOR TRYING TO DECLARE FREEDOM.
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YOU CAME BACK IN THE 70'S TO PROCLAIM A
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DIFFERENT KIND OF FREEDOM.
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- RIGHT.
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- A FREEDOM FOR THE SOUL.
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- AND MAY I CONTRAST RIGHT HERE.
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HERE IS THE WEAPON OF WARFARE FOR THE CARNAL.
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THIS IS A WEAPON OF WARFARE USED IN A CARNAL
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SENSE. MY WEAPON OF WARFARE IS NOT CARNAL,
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BUT IT IS MIGHTY THROUGH GOD OF THE
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TEARING DOWN OF STRONGHOLDS.
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- DAVE: AS WE WALK BY THE TANKS, I THOUGHT TO
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MYSELF WHEN YOU MADE THE STATEMENT THESE ARE RELICS.
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THE ENGINES ARE MISSING, THEY WON'T FIRE AMMO.
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THEY'RE JUST TO LOOK AT.
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A LOT OF CHRISTIANITY ENDED UP THAT WAY, JUST A
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RELIC. BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, WHEN YOU'VE BLED FOR
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SOMETHING, YOU BELIEVE IN IT.
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WHEN YOU'VE GIVEN UP YOUR FLESH AND BLOOD, YOUR
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SKIN, YOUR HOPES, YOUR FUTURE, EVEN MY IDENTITY
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WAS LOST FOR A CAUSE.
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AND I WANT TO TELL YOU, THIS OLD RELIC HAS STILL
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GOT AN ENGINE IN HIM, IT STILL FIRES WEAPONS WITH
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ALMIGHTY GOD BEHIND IT.
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AND I KID YOU NOT, IT IS A VICTORIOUS WALK TO
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STAND HERE TODAY AND SAY I WILL NOT BE DENIED MY
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DESTINY. I WILL NOT BE DENIED IT.
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I'LL STAND ONE DAY AND SEE THAT DREAM FULFILLED
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IN THE SEA OF HUMANITY CARRYING THE HOPE OF CHRIST.
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- SO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'RE REALLY TALKING
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ABOUT, DAVE, IS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE IDEA
00:18:07.080 --> 00:18:11.040
THAT ONE DAY A DREAM IS GONNA BE FULFILLED WHERE
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YOU'RE GONNA STAND INSIDE OF THESE GROUNDS, INSIDE
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OF THIS LOCATION, AND SEE THE GOSPEL PRESENTATION
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SHARED. WELL, DAVE, WE COULD BE DOING THAT RIGHT NOW.
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- DAVE: WE ARE.
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- MATT: WE'RE DOING THAT RIGHT NOW.
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- DAVE: WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
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- THE BIBLE SAYS EVEN THE STONES CRY OUT.
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THE LENS OF THAT CAMERA IS MADE FROM A STONE.
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IT'S CRYING OUT RIGHT NOW.
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THIS IS FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY AND HOPE.
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AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
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IT DOES NOT THREATEN THIS GOVERNMENT.
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IT DOES NOT THREATEN THIS PRESENT GOVERNMENT.
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I DON'T WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO FEEL LIKE
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THERE'S SOME KIND OF SUBVERSIVE EFFORT COMING IN.
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NO. CHRISTIANS PAY THEIR TAXES, CHRISTIANS ARE
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LOYAL, THEY DO NOT HAVE TO FEAR THE HOPE THAT IS
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FOUND IN CHRIST IN THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION.
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WE STAND WITH THESE PEOPLE, WHETHER IT'S
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GOVERNMENT OR NOT, THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO
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HEAR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
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MY SACRIFICE, AS PUNY AS IT IS COMPARED TO THOSE
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WHO GAVE EVERYTHING, FOR EVERY FINGER THAT WON'T
00:19:02.120 --> 00:19:05.150
WORK, FOR EARS THAT ARE MISSING, FOR EYES THAT
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DON'T FUNCTION, FOR ARTIFICIAL HAIR, FOR A
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BODY LITERALLY WRACKED FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY
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FEET TOP OF MY HEAD WITH METAL, EVERY DROP OF
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BLOOD HAS BEEN WORTH IT.
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[MUSIC]
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IT WAS JULY 1969 ON THIS RIVER
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ON THE BORDER WITH CAMBODIA.
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IT WAS A NORMAL DAY IN THAT, IF THERE'S EVER A
00:19:35.060 --> 00:19:38.220
NORMAL DAY IN WAR, WE WERE HERE DOING LICENSE
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CHECK, PERMIT CHECKS.
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THREE DAYS EARLIER WE HAD A FIRE FIGHT HERE.
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I BEACHED THE BOAT ON THE BANK OF THIS RIVER
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RIGHT BEHIND ME. RIGHT HERE.
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AND I WAS GONNA DO A BODY COUNT.
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WE WERE LOOKING FOR ANY EVIDENCE.
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I REACHED DOWN, I FELT SOMETHING WRONG MATT.
00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:57.140
SOMETHING WAS BAD WRONG.
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I WAS PICKING UP ON IT, I DON'T KNOW IF I HEARD IT,
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SMELLED IT, FELT IT SOMEWAY, I GRABBED A
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WHITE PHOSPHORUS HAND GRENADE AND PULLED THE PIN.
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I DREW BACK TO THROW, I WAS ONE SECOND FROM DELIVERY.
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I DIDN'T KNOW WHY THEN, I FOUND OUT LATER, THE
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GRENADE EXPLODED, ME THINKING IT WAS A ROCKET
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THAT GOT THE WHOLE BOAT. IT WASN'T.
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IT WAS A BULLET WENT THROUGH MY HAND, HIT THE
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GRENADE AND EXPLODED RIGHT HERE.
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HALF MY SKIN CAME OFF.
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I JUMPED INTO THE RIVER RIGHT HERE.
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I GOT IN THE WATER.
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I SWAM TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER.
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UNCANNY STRENGTH, UNBELIEVABLE STRENGTH.
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I SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SWIM.
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MY FINGERS WERE DANGLING, ON THE RIVER ON MY KNEES.
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I HEAR A HELICOPTER COMING IN.
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I FOLLOW OVER BACKWARDS.
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THAT MOMENT, THEY ALL THOUGHT I DIED.
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THE HELICOPTER TEAM RAN OVER THROUGH DOWN A
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STRETCHER AND ROLLED ME ON THE STRETCHER, PICKED
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ME UP. I WAS STILL BURNING.
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THE STRETCHER CAUGHT FIRE.
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THEY'RE RUNNING, I FELL THROUGH AND JUST DID A
00:20:52.210 --> 00:20:54.240
FORWARD FLIP OUT OF THAT STRETCHER.
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THEY ROLLED ME UP IN WET BLANKETS DIPPED IN THIS
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WATER. CAN YOU IMAGINE THE DISEASE AND GERMS?
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THEY ROLLED ME UP IN THAT BLANKET.
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GOT ME ON ANOTHER STRETCHER IN THE HELICOPTER.
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IT LEFT FROM SOME AREA OVER HERE.
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FLEW ME, MADE ONE STOP ON THE WAY TO A MASH UNIT,
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AND THEY DID EMERGENCY SURGERY THERE DIGGING OUT
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THE PHOSPHOROUS TRYING TO STOP THE FIRE BUT STILL
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BURNING. WATER WON'T EXTINGUISH IT.
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THEN THEY FLEW ME BY THE HELICOPTER ON TO SAIGON,
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PREPARED ME FOR A LONG RIDE.
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IT WAS IN A C-141 WHICH IS A CARGO JET MADE INTO
00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:36.050
A HOSPITAL PLANE. AND THEY FLEW ME TO JAPAN.
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IN JAPAN, I WAS THERE I THINK THREE OR FOUR DAYS,
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AND THE FIRST DAY THERE I ASKED FOR A MIRROR.
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WISHED I HADN'T. WISHED THEY HADN'T BROUGHT IT BECAUSE
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WHEN I LOOKED UP, I LOST MY HOPE AND I TRIED TO
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TAKE MY LIFE. I DIDN'T HAVE A GUN OR KNIFE,
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BUT I PULLED THE TUBE OUT.
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IT'S REALLY A FUNNY THING OUT OF TRAGEDY, BUT I
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PULLED LUNCH AND I GOT HUNGRY. I DIDN'T DIE.
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AND I'M GLAD I PULLED THE WRONG TUBE.
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IT GOT ME ON ANOTHER PLANE TO AMERICA.
00:22:03.030 --> 00:22:05.070
THERE WAS A LONG FLIGHT. IT WAS A--
00:22:05.090 --> 00:22:10.150
EVERYBODY ON THERE WAS NOT GONNA MAKE IT.
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WE WERE ALL SUPPOSED TO DIE, BUT THEY HAD TO GET
00:22:12.150 --> 00:22:14.050
US OUT OF JAPAN AND GET ON HOME IF WE COULD.
00:22:14.070 --> 00:22:17.050
I THINK EVERYBODY LIVED.
00:22:17.070 --> 00:22:18.240
I GOT TO KELLY AIR FORCE BASE IN SAN ANTONIO,
00:22:18.260 --> 00:22:21.220
TEXAS, AND THEY SENT OVER A HELICOPTER,
00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:23.240
PICKED ME UP THERE.
00:22:23.260 --> 00:22:25.080
FLEW ME OVER TO BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER.
00:22:25.100 --> 00:22:27.260
AND THEY PUT ME IN THE HOSPITAL AT BROOKE INTO A
00:22:27.280 --> 00:22:30.210
WARD THEY CALLED IT THE I.C.U., WHICH I DIDN'T
00:22:30.230 --> 00:22:33.090
KNOW WHAT THAT MEANT UNTIL THEY GAVE ME MY
00:22:33.110 --> 00:22:34.210
GOWN, WHICH IT WAS FUNNY, IT DIDN'T COME TOGETHER
00:22:34.230 --> 00:22:37.120
IN THE BACK, IT WAS THE I.C.U. (I SEE YOU).
00:22:37.140 --> 00:22:39.260
THEY SAW ME ALL RIGHT.
00:22:39.280 --> 00:22:41.110
BUT I LEARNED TO WALK AGAIN AFTER ABOUT FOUR
00:22:41.130 --> 00:22:43.100
MONTHS, AND AFTER ONE YEAR AND TWO MONTHS IN
00:22:43.120 --> 00:22:47.010
THE HOSPITAL, I WALKED OUT SUITCASE IN ONE HAND
00:22:47.030 --> 00:22:50.070
AND SWEETHEART IN THE OTHER.
00:22:50.090 --> 00:22:51.250
AND I BEGAN THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE THAT WOULD TAKE
00:22:51.270 --> 00:22:55.210
ITS LONGEST AND MOST WONDERFUL LEAP FORWARD
00:22:55.230 --> 00:22:58.280
THAT BROUGHT ME TO THIS MOMENT ON THIS BOAT WHEN
00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:02.100
I WAS INTRODUCED TO PAUL AND JAN CROUCH AT TRINITY
00:23:02.120 --> 00:23:06.260
BROADCASTING NETWORK IN CALIFORNIA.
00:23:06.280 --> 00:23:10.000
AND I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE TBN,
00:23:10.020 --> 00:23:13.020
I LOVE YOUR MOM AND DAD. I MISS THEM SO BAD.
00:23:13.040 --> 00:23:15.270
ALL THE YEARS TOGETHER, I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY
00:23:15.290 --> 00:23:17.160
HUNDRED TIMES WE WERE TOGETHER.
00:23:17.180 --> 00:23:19.150
BUT TODAY IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY
00:23:19.170 --> 00:23:21.150
I'VE EVER BEEN ON TBN.
00:23:21.170 --> 00:23:23.080
- BECAUSE IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE.
00:23:23.100 --> 00:23:25.080
WE'VE TRAVELED UP THE VAM CO TAY RIVER, AFTER
00:23:25.100 --> 00:23:30.080
A LONG BUS RIDE, LITTLE BIT OF A WALK, GOT ONTO
00:23:30.100 --> 00:23:33.240
THIS BOAT AND TRAVELED TO THE EXACT SPOT
00:23:33.260 --> 00:23:39.080
THAT YOUR LIFE CHANGED.
00:23:39.100 --> 00:23:42.260
DAVE, I JUST, I THINK OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE
00:23:42.280 --> 00:23:46.060
GONNA CHANGE BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY.
00:23:46.080 --> 00:23:48.040
WE'RE UNPACKING THE DAVE ROEVER STORY
00:23:48.060 --> 00:23:48.080
RIGHT WHERE IT HAPPENED.
00:23:50.210 --> 00:23:53.150
[MUSIC]
00:23:53.170 --> 00:24:03.070
- SO LET'S TALK ABOUT IF YOUR LIFE WAS DEFINED ON
00:24:03.090 --> 00:24:11.210
THE BATTLEFIELD, AND CERTAINLY IT WAS, A
00:24:11.230 --> 00:24:14.020
PORTION OF IT, IF IT SHAPED YOU INTO SOMETHING
00:24:14.040 --> 00:24:19.250
AND IF YOU TOOK THOSE SCARS AND TURNED THEM
00:24:19.270 --> 00:24:24.250
INTO YOUR TESTIMONY THAT UNDOUBTEDLY YOU'VE
00:24:24.270 --> 00:24:28.260
PREACHED BEFORE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THROUGH WAY OF
00:24:28.280 --> 00:24:32.090
TELEVISION, AND CRUSADES, AND THE DECADE THAT YOU
00:24:32.110 --> 00:24:35.120
WERE WORKING INSIDE THE BILLY GRAHAM
00:24:35.140 --> 00:24:39.070
ORGANIZATION, AND, AND, AND, AND.
00:24:39.090 --> 00:24:42.220
THEN LET'S REDEFINE IT ONE LAST TIME.
00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:47.150
WHAT'S YOUR LEGACY? WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE--
00:24:47.170 --> 00:24:52.270
- THE KINGDOM OF GOD SUFFERS VIOLENCE
00:24:52.290 --> 00:24:57.180
BUT THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE.
00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:01.090
THEY REDEFINITION, RESIGNING THE PHYSICAL
00:25:01.110 --> 00:25:05.270
TISSUE OF MY BODY IS REALLY A GOOD EXAMPLE OF
00:25:05.290 --> 00:25:10.010
THE PRICE THAT'S PAID AND SACRIFICE FOR WHAT YOU
00:25:10.030 --> 00:25:13.180
BELIEVE IN. YET ON THE INSIDE, AND THERE'S ONLY
00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:18.190
TWO PLACES TO HAVE SCARS, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE.
00:25:18.210 --> 00:25:21.060
THE INSIDE, I DON'T HAVE THOSE SCARS.
00:25:21.080 --> 00:25:25.080
I'M DEFINED IN THE EYES OF MANY PEOPLE BY WHAT
00:25:25.100 --> 00:25:27.270
THEY SEE OF THE PHYSICAL MAN, BUT I AM FIRST AND
00:25:27.290 --> 00:25:32.060
FOREMOST A SPIRITUAL MAN. IT'S NOT BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT;
00:25:32.080 --> 00:25:34.200
IT'S SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY.
00:25:34.220 --> 00:25:37.020
- WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE TO OUR GENERATION?
00:25:37.040 --> 00:25:40.290
WHAT DO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE ACCOMPLISH?
00:25:41.010 --> 00:25:45.110
HOW DO YOU ENSURE THE DYNAMICS OF CHRIST'S
00:25:45.130 --> 00:25:55.140
DEATH, RESURRECTION, YOU KNOW, STAYS WITH OUR
00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:58.220
GENERATION AND THAT YOU ARE DUPLICATED, YOUR
00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:02.190
EVANGELISTIC CAUSE, WHAT'S YOUR MESSAGE
00:26:02.210 --> 00:26:04.080
TO OUR GENERATION?
00:26:04.100 --> 00:26:06.250
- MATT CROUCH, THERE'S ONLY ONE OF YOU.
00:26:06.270 --> 00:26:10.050
WE NEED A THOUSAND MORE.
00:26:10.070 --> 00:26:12.060
WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT ARE NOT AFRAID,
00:26:12.080 --> 00:26:15.120
THAT STEP IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD.
00:26:15.140 --> 00:26:17.280
YOU CLAIM THE GROUND. YOU POSSESS THE LAND.
00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:21.090
AND I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH IT MEANS TO
00:26:21.110 --> 00:26:23.100
ME THAT YOU AND TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK
00:26:23.120 --> 00:26:26.110
WOULD STEP UP TO THE CALL AT SUCH A TIME AS THIS,
00:26:26.130 --> 00:26:31.100
FOR SUCH A COUNTRY AS THIS, ONE OF THE GREATEST
00:26:31.120 --> 00:26:32.260
NATIONS ON EARTH. LITTLE OLD VIETNAM.
00:26:32.280 --> 00:26:35.080
EVERYBODY KIND OF LOOKS DOWN ON IT.
00:26:35.100 --> 00:26:37.050
I'M GONNA TELL YOU SOMETHING, THEY BETTER WATCH IT.
00:26:37.070 --> 00:26:39.160
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT MILITARY MIGHT.
00:26:39.180 --> 00:26:41.150
I'M TALKING ABOUT THE POTENTIAL AND THE
00:26:41.170 --> 00:26:42.270
GREATEST MOST AMAZING PEOPLE ON EARTH,
00:26:42.290 --> 00:26:45.060
THE VIETNAMESE. I LOVE THEM. GOD BLESS THEM ALL.
00:26:45.080 --> 00:26:50.170
- OKAY. YOU'RE GETTING TO AN AGE WITH
00:26:50.190 --> 00:26:57.100
ALL OF YOUR GRAY HAIR.
00:26:57.120 --> 00:27:00.100
- WELL, SOMEBODY ELSE'S GRAY HAIR.
00:27:00.120 --> 00:27:02.140
HE'S FROM CHINA.
00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:03.220
[LAUGHTER]
00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:06.290
- WITH ALL OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL GREAT HAIR,
00:27:07.010 --> 00:27:11.030
WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF YOUR LIFE?
00:27:11.050 --> 00:27:16.090
YOU TOLD ME OFF CAMERA, I'M GONNA SEE IF YOU'LL
00:27:16.110 --> 00:27:19.020
SAY IT ON CAMERA, THAT YOU'VE NEVER REALLY WOKEN
00:27:19.040 --> 00:27:22.100
UP A DAY IN YOUR LIFE SINCE YOUR ACCIDENT
00:27:22.120 --> 00:27:25.040
FREE OF PAIN.
00:27:25.060 --> 00:27:27.280
YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING I'VE DONE ON THIS TRIP
00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:32.070
WITH A SOMEWHAT BROKEN BODY, A SCARRED BODY.
00:27:32.090 --> 00:27:38.290
YOUR, I CAN TELL NOW THAT WHILE WE'RE STANDING HERE
00:27:39.010 --> 00:27:44.030
IN VIETNAM ON THE PALACE GROUNDS BY THE WAY DOING
00:27:44.050 --> 00:27:47.150
THIS SEGMENT, WHICH IS AMAZING BY THE WAY,
00:27:47.170 --> 00:27:51.020
THAT YOU'RE IN PAIN.
00:27:51.040 --> 00:27:52.210
BUT WHAT IS YOUR MEMORY OF YOUR LIFE, YOUR
00:27:52.230 --> 00:27:59.290
EVANGELISTIC CALL, YOUR EVANGELISTIC TIME?
00:28:00.030 --> 00:28:04.000
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE
00:28:04.020 --> 00:28:07.120
DATE, THE LIFE OF DAVE ROEVER?
00:28:07.140 --> 00:28:10.030
- HE CAME, HE SAW, HE CONQUERED. IT'S THAT SIMPLE.
00:28:10.050 --> 00:28:13.040
IT'S NOT ORIGINAL BUT IT IS WITH ME.
00:28:13.060 --> 00:28:15.130
HE CAME, HE SAW, AND HE CONQUERED.
00:28:15.150 --> 00:28:19.190
YET I CAN DO NOTHING IN MYSELF BUT I CAN DO ALL
00:28:19.210 --> 00:28:21.200
THINGS THROUGH CHRIST.
00:28:21.220 --> 00:28:23.150
OUT OF THIS TRAGEDY CAME THE TRIUMPH THAT'S NOW
00:28:23.170 --> 00:28:27.140
ASCENDING THE MESSAGE THROUGH OUR OWN
00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:29.170
MINISTRY, NOT TO MENTION THE POWERHOUSE OF TBN.
00:28:29.190 --> 00:28:32.200
JUST THROUGH OUR MINISTRY WE'RE REACHING 29
00:28:32.220 --> 00:28:35.210
NATIONS, I THINK IN 11 LANGUAGES NOW BECAUSE
00:28:35.230 --> 00:28:39.120
SOMETHING HAPPENED HERE ON THE BANK OF A RIVER IN
00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:41.110
1969 THAT TODAY, IN THE YEAR 2018 STILL
00:28:41.130 --> 00:28:46.000
REAPING THE BENEFITS.
00:28:46.020 --> 00:28:47.150
THE DEVIL CHOSE THE WRONG GUY TO FIGHT THAT DAY.
00:28:47.170 --> 00:28:49.260
- IF DNA WAS SEED, YOU'VE PLANTED A LOT OF
00:28:49.280 --> 00:28:57.230
SEED INTO THE GROUND PHYSICALLY INTO THIS COUNTRY.
00:28:57.250 --> 00:29:01.280
YOUR BODY WAS PARTLY BLOWN OFF AND SCATTERED
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:06.110
INTO THIS RIVER, AND YOUR LIFE IS REALLY PLANTED
00:29:06.130 --> 00:29:16.270
INTO THE SOIL OF VIETNAM WHERE WE'RE TALKING
00:29:16.290 --> 00:29:19.040
TO YOU FROM TODAY.
00:29:19.060 --> 00:29:20.090
- YEAH.
00:29:20.110 --> 00:29:21.140
- WHAT DO YOU WANT THAT HARVEST TO BE?
00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:24.110
- I WANT IT TO BRING FORTH THE IMAGE OF CHRIST
00:29:24.130 --> 00:29:28.150
AND OF EVER NEWBORN BABY. IF I CAN PUT IT THAT WAY.
00:29:28.170 --> 00:29:32.040
THERE HAS TO BE-- YOU CAN'T ASK FOR GOD TO
00:29:32.060 --> 00:29:36.120
SEND REVIVAL TO VIETNAM.
00:29:36.140 --> 00:29:38.010
THERE'S NEVER BEEN A "VIVE" TO REVIVE.
00:29:38.030 --> 00:29:40.160
IT REQUIRES A NEW BIRTH.
00:29:40.180 --> 00:29:44.000
IT REQUIRES AN AWAKENING, AND THAT AWAKENING HAS
00:29:44.020 --> 00:29:48.140
STARTED. MY HOPE FOR THIS WHOLE COUNTRY IS THAT
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:53.050
THE ALARM WILL SET OFF AN AWAKENING, AND IT WILL
00:29:53.070 --> 00:29:56.160
BRING THEM UP FROM VIRTUAL GRAVE OF
00:29:56.180 --> 00:29:58.070
HOPELESSNESS INTO THE GLORY OF THE LIGHT OF THE
00:29:58.090 --> 00:30:01.240
GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
00:30:01.260 --> 00:30:04.250
- HOW DO YOU WANT TO BE REMEMBERED?
00:30:04.270 --> 00:30:08.160
- I USED TO THINK I'D BE FAT, UGLY AND STUPID, BUT
00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:10.210
MY WIFE TOLD ME I WASN'T STUPID, SO THAT LEAVES
00:30:10.230 --> 00:30:13.040
FAT AND UGLY, I GUESS.
00:30:13.060 --> 00:30:15.200
I GUESS IF I'M GONNA BE REMEMBERED, THIS IS
00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:18.290
REALLY WHAT I WANT TO BE REMEMBERED FOR.
00:30:19.010 --> 00:30:20.280
I'LL GET TO IT.
00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:22.260
I LOVE THE WAY YOU HOLD YOUR COMPOSURE.
00:30:22.280 --> 00:30:24.250
I REALLY WANT TO BE REMEMBERED THAT HE NEVER
00:30:24.280 --> 00:30:28.080
EVER GAVE UP. HE NEVER QUIT.
00:30:28.100 --> 00:30:31.270
FIFTY-NINE SURGERIES AGO, I WAS A HEALTHY MAN, AND
00:30:31.290 --> 00:30:37.010
IN ONE SECOND MY LIFE WAS VIRTUALLY DESTROYED
00:30:37.030 --> 00:30:40.060
PHYSICALLY, AND IT MAY HAVE BEEN
00:30:40.080 --> 00:30:42.060
THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
00:30:42.080 --> 00:30:44.180
- WOW.
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:47.150
[MUSIC]
00:30:47.170 --> 00:30:57.080
[MUSIC]
00:30:57.080 --> 00:31:04.280
- THINK OF THE UNIQUENESS OF BEING IN
00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:09.200
VIETNAM DOCKED AGAINST THE BANK THAT
00:31:09.220 --> 00:31:14.230
CHANGED YOUR LIFE.
00:31:14.250 --> 00:31:18.010
SET THE STAGE AND TELL US KIND OF WHERE WE ARE AND
00:31:18.030 --> 00:31:23.170
WHY THIS AREA WAS THE DIFFERENCE IN DAVE ROEVER
00:31:23.190 --> 00:31:29.280
BEFORE THIS BANK AND AFTER THIS BANK.
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:32.130
- WE HAD TO CONTROL THESE RIVERS, AND MY JOB
00:31:32.150 --> 00:31:36.140
WAS TO CARRY SEAL TEAM ONE WHO WAS, THEY HELPED
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:39.260
TRAIN ME AND I WAS INJURED HERE IN VIETNAM
00:31:39.280 --> 00:31:43.020
WORKING WITH THE NAVY SEALS.
00:31:43.040 --> 00:31:45.100
BUT I WAS A GROUND WATER BLACK BERET.
00:31:45.120 --> 00:31:47.210
WE WERE A SMALL GROUP, MUCH SMALLER THAN THE
00:31:47.230 --> 00:31:49.140
SEAL TEAM. VERY SMALL GROUP.
00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:51.190
AND HAD A VERY HIGH K.I.A., KILLED IN ACTION.
00:31:51.210 --> 00:31:56.030
AND BECAUSE THIS RIVER IS SO STRATEGICALLY
00:31:56.050 --> 00:31:58.090
IMPORTANT TO THE CAUSE OF THE WAR AT THAT TIME, IT
00:31:58.110 --> 00:32:00.200
WAS OUR JOB TO INTERDICT ANY TRANSPORTATION OF
00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:03.280
ARMS, AMMUNITION OR PERSONNEL BY THE
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:05.230
ENEMY ON THIS WATERWAY.
00:32:05.250 --> 00:32:08.040
AND THIS PLACE HAS A LITTLE CANAL RUNS UP IN
00:32:08.060 --> 00:32:11.180
HERE, I DON'T REMEMBER HOW FAR BACK IT GOES NOW,
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:14.140
BUT RIGHT ON THIS CORNER ON JULY THE 23, 1969 THEY
00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:19.240
OPENED FIRE IN THE WORSE FIRE FIGHT I'D BEEN IN.
00:32:19.260 --> 00:32:22.080
THEY WERE COMING AT US FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE
00:32:22.100 --> 00:32:23.290
RIVER, AND I GOT HIT IN A SMALL WAY.
00:32:24.010 --> 00:32:26.170
AND IT WAS NOT AN INJURY THAT WOULD DEBILITATE ME,
00:32:26.190 --> 00:32:30.060
BUT IT TOOK ME OFF THE RIVER FOR THREE DAYS.
00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:32.180
SO ON THE 23 MY FIRST INJURY FOR WHICH I
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:36.020
RECEIVED A PURPLE HEART, BY THE WAY.
00:32:36.040 --> 00:32:37.170
I WOULD COME BACK TO WHERE WE'RE SITTING RIGHT
00:32:37.190 --> 00:32:39.040
NOW, ONLY WE WOULD BE BEACHED UP AGAINST THE
00:32:39.060 --> 00:32:41.280
RIVER BANK THERE IN THAT FIBERGLASS RIVER BOAT,
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.240
AND WHEN WE BEACHED THAT BOAT, I KNEW SOMETHING
00:32:45.260 --> 00:32:48.160
WAS WRONG. I WAS SITTING IN THE GUN TUB OF THAT BOAT.
00:32:48.180 --> 00:32:52.240
I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG.
00:32:52.260 --> 00:32:54.080
I COULDN'T SEE THEM, HEAR THEM, SMELL THEM, BUT
00:32:54.100 --> 00:32:56.240
AFTER ENOUGH MONTHS IN COMBAT, YOU DEVELOP A SIXTH
00:32:56.260 --> 00:33:00.090
SENSE. I CAN'T DESCRIBE IT BUT EVERYBODY
00:33:00.110 --> 00:33:03.040
THAT'S BEEN THERE KNOWS IT.
00:33:03.060 --> 00:33:05.240
I REACHED DOWN BY MY RIGHT FOOT, AND IN THIS
00:33:05.260 --> 00:33:09.000
GUN TUB I WAS STANDING IN THERE WAS A TRAY FILLED
00:33:09.020 --> 00:33:11.210
WITH WHITE PHOSPHORUS HAND GRENADES.
00:33:11.230 --> 00:33:13.180
THEY'RE ABOUT THE SIZE OF A COCA COLA CAN.
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:16.140
AND IT'S REAL SMOOTH.
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:19.040
IT'S NOT LIKE THE PINEAPPLE SHAPE YOU SEE.
00:33:19.060 --> 00:33:21.080
IT'S EASY TO IDENTIFY THEM BECAUSE OF THE FEEL.
00:33:21.100 --> 00:33:23.250
I DIDN'T EVEN LOOK DOWN, I DIDN'T TAKE MY EYES
00:33:23.270 --> 00:33:25.190
OFF THIS, I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG.
00:33:25.210 --> 00:33:27.290
I PICKED UP THE GRENADE AND I PULLED THE PIN
00:33:28.010 --> 00:33:30.170
AND I DREW BACK. THE REASON I WAS GONNA THROW IT
00:33:30.190 --> 00:33:31.280
WAS YOU SEE ALL THIS DENSITY OF BRUSH?
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:35.060
IT BURNED DOWN THAT HIGH BRUSH.
00:33:35.080 --> 00:33:37.050
IT WAS JUST EXACTLY LIKE THIS.
00:33:37.070 --> 00:33:38.230
THERE'S NO WAY TO DESCRIBE IT BETTER THAN
00:33:38.250 --> 00:33:40.070
WHAT'S BEHIND ME, WHAT'S TO MY RIGHT HERE.
00:33:40.090 --> 00:33:42.140
THEY COULD BE LAYING IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT AND
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:44.170
YOU COULDN'T SEE THEM FOR YOUR LIFE,
00:33:44.190 --> 00:33:46.090
AND I HAD TO SEE THEM.
00:33:46.110 --> 00:33:48.020
AND I DREW THAT GRENADE BACK RIGHT BESIDE MY
00:33:48.040 --> 00:33:51.220
HEAD, AND A SNIPER SOMEWHERE, I DON'T KNOW
00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:55.180
WHERE, HE MAY HAVE BEEN ACROSS THE RIVER,
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:58.000
AND HE OPENED FIRE.
00:33:58.020 --> 00:34:01.200
THE BULLET GOT THERE BEFORE THE SOUND DID.
00:34:01.220 --> 00:34:04.030
SO NOBODY COULD IDENTIFY IT.
00:34:04.050 --> 00:34:06.030
CONFUSION OF THAT EXPLOSION, NOBODY'S
00:34:06.050 --> 00:34:09.010
LOOKING TO SEE WHERE-- NO ONE KNEW IT WAS EVEN A
00:34:09.030 --> 00:34:12.090
SNIPER TO START WITH.
00:34:12.110 --> 00:34:14.080
I WENT TWO MONTHS IN THE HOSPITAL BEFORE
00:34:14.100 --> 00:34:16.190
I FOUND OUT THAT I WAS HIT BY A SNIPER.
00:34:16.210 --> 00:34:19.000
TWO MONTHS BEFORE I WAS EVER TOLD WHAT
00:34:19.020 --> 00:34:21.040
ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME.
00:34:21.060 --> 00:34:23.090
AND WHEN I DREW BACK TO THROW, ALL OF A SUDDEN
00:34:23.110 --> 00:34:26.120
MY WHOLE WORLD CHANGED. RIGHT THERE.
00:34:26.140 --> 00:34:29.210
MAGNIFICENT EXPLOSION OF WHITE, LOOKED LIKE WHITE
00:34:29.230 --> 00:34:33.230
SMOKE CAME OUT. 5.000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.
00:34:33.250 --> 00:34:37.110
THAT'S ENOUGH TO MELT THE ENGINE OUT OF YOUR CAR,
00:34:37.130 --> 00:34:39.230
TWICE THE HEAT NECESSARY.
00:34:39.250 --> 00:34:41.180
IT WAS RIGHT HERE MATT. RIGHT THERE.
00:34:41.200 --> 00:34:45.180
AND WHEN IT BLEW, WELL MY FINGERS CAME OFF
00:34:45.200 --> 00:34:49.010
EXCEPT FOR THAT FINGER.
00:34:49.030 --> 00:34:50.140
I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE, GOD, THAT'S MY PREACHING FINGER.
00:34:50.160 --> 00:34:52.280
BUT THESE FINGERS AND THUMB WERE INSTANTLY,
00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:55.060
THE THUMB CAME OFF WITH THE BULLET, I'M SURE.
00:34:55.080 --> 00:34:58.210
IT WAS HANGING BY A TENDON.
00:34:58.230 --> 00:35:00.050
THESE FINGERS HANGING BY TENDONS.
00:35:00.070 --> 00:35:01.180
BUT THE GRENADE EXPLOSION CAUSED BLOOD, SEVERED THE
00:35:01.200 --> 00:35:04.030
ARTERY IN MY WRIST DOWN HERE, DEEP INSIDE.
00:35:04.050 --> 00:35:07.100
AND I WAS SHOOTING OUT BLOOD.
00:35:07.120 --> 00:35:10.080
MY DNA IS ON THIS RIVER BANK, MATT.
00:35:10.100 --> 00:35:12.160
MY SKIN IS UP HERE SOMEWHERE.
00:35:12.180 --> 00:35:13.250
I TELL PEOPLE MY EAR IS THERE TOO, I CAME BACK
00:35:13.270 --> 00:35:15.110
LOOKING FOR IT. BUT IT'S RIGHT HERE.
00:35:15.130 --> 00:35:18.180
IT'S AMAZING I FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE TO TALK ABOUT IT.
00:35:18.200 --> 00:35:23.100
I DON'T HAVE ANY OF THAT, IT'S NOT SO FRIGHTENING
00:35:23.120 --> 00:35:26.190
OR, I COULDN'T EVEN FAKE BEING CONCERNED.
00:35:26.210 --> 00:35:31.030
I'M HAVING TOO MUCH FUN WITH YOU GUYS.
00:35:31.050 --> 00:35:33.000
[MUSIC]
00:35:33.020 --> 00:35:36.150
- OUR STORY CONTINUES.
00:35:36.170 --> 00:35:38.020
WE'RE HERE IN HO CHI MINH CITY IN VIETNAM, AND
00:35:38.040 --> 00:35:42.000
WE'RE IN FRONT OF WHAT IS NOW CALLED THE OPERA HOUSE.
00:35:42.020 --> 00:35:46.270
AND IN THE EARLY 90'S, WHAT HAPPENED HERE DAVE
00:35:46.290 --> 00:35:50.150
THAT REALLY KIND OF HELPED KIND OF DEFINE
00:35:50.170 --> 00:35:55.260
YOUR IMPORTANCE OF YOUR SECOND PHASE
00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:58.170
OF YOUR LIFE'S WORK?
00:35:58.190 --> 00:36:01.110
- ON THESE VERY STEPS WAS THE BEGINNING
00:36:01.130 --> 00:36:04.100
OF A NEW ERA FOR US IN VIETNAM.
00:36:04.120 --> 00:36:08.080
I HAVE AN NGO, AND WE WERE SCHOLARSHIPPING
00:36:08.100 --> 00:36:11.280
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN, STILL DO TO SOME DEGREE,
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.000
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN FROM THE SIXTH GRADE
00:36:15.020 --> 00:36:16.230
THROUGH GRADUATION.
00:36:16.250 --> 00:36:18.160
IT SO IMPRESSED THE GOVERNMENT, THEY BECAME
00:36:18.180 --> 00:36:20.060
MY FRIEND. I'VE SPOKEN TO ALMOST EVERY
00:36:20.080 --> 00:36:21.210
PUBLIC SCHOOL IN SAIGON. PEOPLE FIND THAT IMPOSSIBLE
00:36:21.230 --> 00:36:24.130
TO BELIEVE BUT I'VE DONE IT.
00:36:24.150 --> 00:36:26.100
AND THEY MADE IN THIS VERY BUILDING ONE OF THE
00:36:26.120 --> 00:36:29.270
LARGEST UNBELIEVABLE CELEBRATIONS I'VE SEEN IN
00:36:29.290 --> 00:36:33.250
MY LIFETIME, HUNDREDS OF BEAUTIFUL VIETNAM
00:36:33.270 --> 00:36:37.130
CHILDREN PUTTING ON THE BIGGEST DANCE SHOW, THE
00:36:37.150 --> 00:36:40.040
BIGGEST PROPAGANDA YOU'D ALMOST THINK, EXCEPT
00:36:40.060 --> 00:36:42.080
WHILE PEPSI COLA WAS HERE, FORD MOTOR COMPANY
00:36:42.100 --> 00:36:47.130
WAS HERE, ALL THESE NGO'S THAT WERE HERE, NIKE, THE
00:36:47.150 --> 00:36:51.220
MINISTRY OF DAVE ROEVER HAD THE LARGEST SUPPORT
00:36:51.240 --> 00:36:56.030
FOR THE CHILDREN OF VIETNAM OF ANY OF THOSE
00:36:56.050 --> 00:36:58.230
GIGANTIC COMPANIES.
00:36:58.250 --> 00:37:00.210
AND THIS BUILDING WAS FILLED WITH THE POLITICAL
00:37:00.230 --> 00:37:03.290
FIGURES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, AND WE CELEBRATED.
00:37:04.010 --> 00:37:07.160
I MEAN IT WAS FILLED, COMPLETELY FILLED.
00:37:07.180 --> 00:37:12.070
AND ACROSS THE FRONT HERE, AND WE HAVE
00:37:12.090 --> 00:37:15.070
PICTURES TO SHOW YOU, IT WAS HONORING ROEVER
00:37:15.090 --> 00:37:19.010
EDUCATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, WHICH IS ONE OF
00:37:19.030 --> 00:37:21.160
THE MOST POWERFUL NGO'S IN THE COUNTRY NOW.
00:37:21.180 --> 00:37:24.260
I'M NOT SURE I'VE MAINTAINED MY NGO STATUS
00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:27.050
AT THIS POINT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE IT FOR
00:37:27.070 --> 00:37:29.200
WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW, BUT I COULD NOT BELIEVE
00:37:29.220 --> 00:37:33.190
AMBASSADORS WERE HERE FROM ALL OF THESE COUNTRIES, BUT DAVE
00:37:33.210 --> 00:37:37.030
ROEVER WAS SITTING NEXT TO THE VICE
00:37:37.050 --> 00:37:39.010
PRESIDENT OF VIETNAM.
00:37:39.030 --> 00:37:40.240
I CALL HER THE ROSE OF VIETNAM, AND SHE WAS
00:37:40.260 --> 00:37:43.030
HOLDING ONTO MY ARM, AND I WAS FEELING HER JUST
00:37:43.050 --> 00:37:45.260
SQUEEZE MY ARM WITH EMOTION BECAUSE THEY WERE
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:50.050
SAYING THANK YOU FOR LOVING THEIR CHILDREN.
00:37:50.070 --> 00:37:53.020
JESUS SAID LET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME.
00:37:53.040 --> 00:37:54.280
DON'T DENY THEM.
00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:57.000
IT'S THROUGH CHILDREN -- EVEN SAMSON SPOKE TO A LAD.
00:37:57.020 --> 00:38:01.110
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
00:38:01.130 --> 00:38:03.030
AND THE LAD GAVE HIM THE NEWS OF WHAT'S GOING ON?
00:38:03.050 --> 00:38:04.280
A CHILD SHALL BRING FORTH THE GOOD NEWS.
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:08.010
AND I KID YOU NOT, THAT WAS MY INTEREST IN THIS
00:38:08.030 --> 00:38:10.180
COUNTRY AT THIS BUILDING JUST TAKING OFF AND
00:38:10.200 --> 00:38:13.110
FLYING OFF EVER SINCE.
00:38:13.130 --> 00:38:15.280
- YOU KNOW, SOME CASE SOMEBODY JUST TUNED IN,
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:19.170
WE'RE IN HO CHI MINH CITY.
00:38:19.190 --> 00:38:21.140
IT'S KIND OF MORE KNOWN MAYBE TO SOME AS SAIGON.
00:38:21.160 --> 00:38:25.080
SO HO CHI MINH CITY IS WHERE WE ARE, AND DAVE,
00:38:25.100 --> 00:38:30.170
THIS OPERA HOUSE KIND OF ALMOST REPRESENTS WHAT WE
00:38:30.190 --> 00:38:36.050
HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT AS PHASE TWO OF YOUR LIFE.
00:38:36.070 --> 00:38:41.060
YOU CAME HERE ONCE WITH A GUN TO TRY TO HELP THE
00:38:41.080 --> 00:38:46.060
SOUTH VIETNAMESE.
00:38:46.080 --> 00:38:47.290
YOU CAME LATER, AFTER YOUR INJURY AND RECOVERY,
00:38:48.010 --> 00:38:51.130
TO HELP THE CHILDREN, TO SCHOLARSHIP CHILDREN.
00:38:51.150 --> 00:38:55.230
BRING US UP-TO-DATE.
00:38:55.250 --> 00:38:57.170
WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATUS OF WHAT ALL OF THE
00:38:57.190 --> 00:39:02.040
DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS UNDER DAVE ROEVER AND
00:39:02.060 --> 00:39:06.130
WHAT YOU ADMINISTRATE AND WHAT YOU TAKE CARE OF,
00:39:06.150 --> 00:39:08.220
WHAT THE LATEST STATUS?
00:39:08.240 --> 00:39:10.180
WHAT ARE YOU ACCOMPLISHING NOW THAT
00:39:10.200 --> 00:39:13.060
YOU WANT THE PEOPLE OF THE TBN AUDIENCE
00:39:13.080 --> 00:39:15.170
TO KNOW ABOUT?
00:39:15.190 --> 00:39:17.090
- FOR ONE THING, THROUGH MISSION VIETNAM -- AND I
00:39:17.110 --> 00:39:19.270
SERVE ON THAT BOARD.
00:39:19.290 --> 00:39:21.130
I CREATED IT UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE BOARD --
00:39:21.150 --> 00:39:24.120
HAVE BUILT AND RE-ESTABLISHED, RESTORED
00:39:24.140 --> 00:39:27.150
BUILDINGS THAT WERE ONCE CHURCHES, OVER 30.
00:39:27.170 --> 00:39:30.290
IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE ONLINE BIBLE COLLEGE
00:39:31.010 --> 00:39:33.260
IN THE COUNTRY.
00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:36.040
WE SURPASSED, A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, THE 59.000
00:39:36.060 --> 00:39:40.000
MARK OF ENROLLED STUDENTS IN THIS COUNTRY, ONE FOR
00:39:40.020 --> 00:39:42.150
EVERY DEAD G.I.
00:39:42.170 --> 00:39:44.200
THAT WAS ONE OF MY ULTIMATE GOALS AND MADE IT.
00:39:44.220 --> 00:39:47.100
- AND NOW YOU HAVE LIKE 70.
00:39:47.120 --> 00:39:49.110
- YEAH, WE'RE ABOUT 70.000 AT THIS POINT AND
00:39:49.130 --> 00:39:51.150
STILL GROWING WORLDWIDE.
00:39:51.170 --> 00:39:53.250
IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE BROUGHT TO THIS
00:39:53.270 --> 00:39:57.060
COUNTRY, FOR THE RED CROSS, HUNDREDS OF
00:39:57.080 --> 00:40:00.010
BLANKETS AND WHEELCHAIRS AND BOATS FOR WHEN THE MI KONG
00:40:00.030 --> 00:40:06.150
DELTA FLOODS AND THINGS THAT HAVE EVOLVED
00:40:06.170 --> 00:40:10.140
OUT OF ALL THOSE RELATIONSHIPS.
00:40:10.160 --> 00:40:13.020
ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROJECTS AT THE HOSPITAL,
00:40:13.040 --> 00:40:16.290
YOURS TRULY, NOT BEING MEDICALLY ORIENTED EXCEPT
00:40:17.010 --> 00:40:20.160
FOR THE FACT THAT I AM A MEDICAL -- I DIDN'T EVEN
00:40:20.180 --> 00:40:23.110
KNOW WHAT A CATHETERIZATION LAB WAS,
00:40:23.130 --> 00:40:26.240
BUT I FOUND OUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE ONE
00:40:26.260 --> 00:40:28.200
ANYWHERE IN VIETNAM.
00:40:28.220 --> 00:40:30.030
- I'LL TELL YOU LATER.
00:40:30.050 --> 00:40:31.250
- OKAY. WELL, IT'S NOT THAT KIND OF CATH.
00:40:31.270 --> 00:40:33.160
THIS IS A HEART CATH.
00:40:33.180 --> 00:40:35.270
OH, YOU ARE FUNNY.
00:40:35.290 --> 00:40:37.110
[LAUGHTER]
00:40:37.130 --> 00:40:39.120
BUT THE HEART CATH, WE PUT IN A TOSHIBA DIGITAL
00:40:39.140 --> 00:40:41.050
IMAGING CATHETERIZATION LAB AT THE HOSPITAL.
00:40:41.070 --> 00:40:44.000
THE PLAQUE IN THAT BUILDING STATES THAT IT
00:40:44.020 --> 00:40:48.080
WAS A $14.7 MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT.
00:40:48.100 --> 00:40:52.100
AND OUR MINISTRY PAID IN FULL IN CASH, NEVER
00:40:52.120 --> 00:40:54.270
BORROWED A DIME, FINISHED THE PROJECT, AND WE SAVE
00:40:54.290 --> 00:40:56.290
ABOUT 300 LIVES A YEAR.
00:40:57.010 --> 00:40:58.280
THAT'S THOSE THAT WOULD HAVE DIED, NOT TO MENTION
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:01.290
THOSE WHOSE LIVES ARE IMPROVED.
00:41:02.010 --> 00:41:03.220
SO THAT GAVE ME A FELLOWSHIP WITH MY -- IT
00:41:03.240 --> 00:41:07.280
USED TO BE MY ENEMY.
00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:09.160
I DON'T LOVE COMMUNISM ANY MORE THAN THEY LOVE
00:41:09.180 --> 00:41:11.110
CAPITALISM, BUT PEOPLE CAN LOVE PEOPLE,
00:41:11.130 --> 00:41:13.090
AND I LOVE THE PEOPLE OF VIETNAM.
00:41:13.110 --> 00:41:16.140
I DON'T CARE WHAT THEIR POLITICAL VIEWS ARE.
00:41:16.160 --> 00:41:18.180
I LOVE THE PEOPLE OF VIETNAM, AND THE REASON I
00:41:18.200 --> 00:41:21.270
THINK I'M DIFFERENT FROM A LOT OF MY VETERAN
00:41:21.290 --> 00:41:24.100
FRIENDS BECAUSE I MADE IT A POINT TO COME BACK AND
00:41:24.120 --> 00:41:27.070
BUILD THE BRIDGES THAT WERE BURNED DOWN, AND
00:41:27.090 --> 00:41:30.060
TODAY, I HAVE THE UNCANNY BENEFIT TO DO WHATEVER
00:41:30.080 --> 00:41:33.190
JUST ABOUT ANYTHING I WANT TO DO IN THIS
00:41:33.210 --> 00:41:35.280
COUNTRY WITHOUT INTERFERENCE, AND MY
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:38.130
PARTNERS, DAN DANG, AND HE GREW UP IN THIS
00:41:38.150 --> 00:41:41.160
COUNTRY AS A YOUNG LAD AS A BOAT PERSON; ENDED UP
00:41:41.180 --> 00:41:46.090
ALL THE WAY IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA, HAD TO LEARN
00:41:46.110 --> 00:41:49.080
ENGLISH, GO TO SCHOOL AND GRADUATED WITH A MASTER'S
00:41:49.100 --> 00:41:51.050
DEGREE IN BUSINESS.
00:41:51.070 --> 00:41:53.040
AND GOD PUT HIM AT A RADIO SHACK ON MY
00:41:53.060 --> 00:41:55.150
PARKING LOT IN FT.
00:41:55.170 --> 00:41:57.080
WORTH, TEXAS WORKING FOR TANDY CORPORATION. HE'S A MIRACLE.
00:41:57.100 --> 00:42:01.190
HE TOLD HIS FATHER HE'D FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS.
00:42:01.210 --> 00:42:03.160
THEY LEFT VIETNAM NOT KNOWING IF
00:42:03.180 --> 00:42:05.010
THEY'D EVEN SURVIVE.
00:42:05.030 --> 00:42:06.080
ALMOST EVERYBODY ON THEIR BOAT DIED.
00:42:06.100 --> 00:42:09.210
HE LIVED, HIS FAMILY LIVED.
00:42:09.230 --> 00:42:11.220
HE ENDED UP IN THAT RADIO SHACK. I WALKED IN.
00:42:11.240 --> 00:42:13.090
HE SAID, YOU'RE DAVE ROEVER!
00:42:13.110 --> 00:42:14.230
I SAID, YES I AM. WHO YOU ARE?
00:42:14.250 --> 00:42:16.060
HE SAID, I'M DAN DANG.
00:42:16.080 --> 00:42:17.180
YOU CAME TO DA NANG.
00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:19.000
HE SPOKE WHEN WAS A STUDENT THERE, AND YOU
00:42:19.020 --> 00:42:20.130
SAID YOU CAME WITH THE M-16.
00:42:20.150 --> 00:42:22.110
NOW YOU COME BACK WITH A JOHN 3:16.
00:42:22.130 --> 00:42:26.120
- DANIEL, COME HERE, DANIEL.
00:42:26.140 --> 00:42:28.030
SO DANIEL, STEP IN HERE.
00:42:28.050 --> 00:42:30.100
- THIS IS THE MAN. HE WAS 15 YEARS OLD.
00:42:30.120 --> 00:42:32.210
- SO YOU ARE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH A LOT OF YOUR
00:42:32.230 --> 00:42:36.200
VISION, YOUR DREAM, YOUR GOAL BECAUSE OF DANIEL
00:42:36.220 --> 00:42:39.040
HERE, BECAUSE OF HIS ABILITY TO CONNECT.
00:42:39.060 --> 00:42:42.250
WHAT IS YOUR MISSION STATEMENT, IN ESSENCE, NOW?
00:42:42.270 --> 00:42:48.130
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
00:42:48.150 --> 00:42:50.110
- COMPASSION LEADS TO CONVERSION.
00:42:50.130 --> 00:42:53.270
HOW CAN YOU WIN A CITY, A COUNTRY, A POLITICAL
00:42:53.290 --> 00:42:56.060
SYSTEM, HOW CAN YOU WIN ANYTHING YOU DON'T LOVE?
00:42:56.080 --> 00:42:58.090
- RIGHT.
00:42:58.110 --> 00:43:00.130
- AND DAN AND I PUT IT IN OUR HEART TO PARTNER
00:43:00.150 --> 00:43:03.030
TOGETHER ALL THESE YEARS, HE WORKS WITH THE
00:43:03.050 --> 00:43:05.050
MINISTRY TODAY.
00:43:05.070 --> 00:43:06.110
HE'S OVER ALL THE ROEVER CORPORATION; ROEVER
00:43:06.130 --> 00:43:08.260
EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, R.E.A.P.
00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:11.050
OUR UNIVERSITY IS CALLED GLOBAL REAP.
00:43:11.070 --> 00:43:13.150
HE HEADS UP THAT UNIVERSITY.
00:43:13.170 --> 00:43:15.100
HE'S ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING MEN I'VE EVER
00:43:15.120 --> 00:43:17.000
KNOWN, AND HE WAS 15 YEARS OLD IN DA NANG
00:43:17.020 --> 00:43:18.210
WHEN HE HEARD ME TALK.
00:43:18.230 --> 00:43:20.070
AND HE SAID I'LL FOLLOW IN
00:43:20.090 --> 00:43:21.170
MR. ROEVER'S FOOTSTEPS.
00:43:21.190 --> 00:43:23.080
I WALKED INTO THE RADIO SHACK THAT HE'S MANAGING
00:43:23.100 --> 00:43:25.070
SOME FOUR HUNDRED AND SOME ODD RADIO SHACKS AT
00:43:25.090 --> 00:43:27.140
THAT TIME, A BIG MUCKITY MUCK WITH TANDY
00:43:27.160 --> 00:43:31.110
CORPORATION, AND HE LOOKS UP AND SAYS, I TOLD MY
00:43:31.130 --> 00:43:34.080
FATHER I'D FOLLOW IN YOUR FOOTSTEPS.
00:43:34.100 --> 00:43:36.040
I POINTED AT MY OFFICE DOOR AND SAID, THERE IT IS.
00:43:36.060 --> 00:43:38.210
WOOP, THERE IT IS. YOU MADE IT, BUBBA. YOU MADE IT.
00:43:38.230 --> 00:43:42.030
AND I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THERE, HE DIDN'T KNOW I WAS THERE.
00:43:42.050 --> 00:43:45.020
- WHERE DID YOU GET THAT PHRASE THAT YOU JUST USED?
00:43:45.040 --> 00:43:47.250
WITHOUT COMPASSION...
00:43:47.270 --> 00:43:50.190
- COMPASSION LEADS TO CONVERSION.
00:43:50.210 --> 00:43:52.220
- WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?
00:43:52.240 --> 00:43:54.060
- I WAS MENTORED UNDER BILLY GRAHAM FOR NINE
00:43:54.080 --> 00:43:55.260
YEARS TRAINING ME IN MASSIVE EVANGELISM.
00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:58.040
I SPOKE ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE
00:43:58.060 --> 00:44:00.060
AT THE BIG CRUSADES AND HAD MONDAY NIGHT TO SHARE
00:44:00.080 --> 00:44:02.070
MY STORY, AND DOCTOR...
00:44:02.090 --> 00:44:05.250
HOW CAN I SAY ANYTHING BETTER?
00:44:05.270 --> 00:44:09.050
I DON'T WANT TO CALL HIM DOCTOR, BILLY IS MY
00:44:09.070 --> 00:44:11.250
FRIEND, BUT OUT OF RESPECT DR. GRAHAM, BUT
00:44:11.270 --> 00:44:14.110
BECAUSE OF DAN DANG, BECAUSE OF HIS
00:44:14.130 --> 00:44:17.020
WILLINGNESS TO BE USED BY GOD, HE WALKED AWAY FROM
00:44:17.040 --> 00:44:19.140
A HUGE INCOME WITH TANDY TO SETTLE FOR A
00:44:19.160 --> 00:44:23.230
MENIAL INCOME BECAUSE I'M NOT A STRONG
00:44:23.250 --> 00:44:26.250
CORPORATION FINANCIALLY.
00:44:26.270 --> 00:44:29.010
WE DON'T HOLD MONEY.
00:44:29.030 --> 00:44:30.200
IT COMES, AND BEFORE THE DAY'S OUT, IT'S ALREADY SPENT.
00:44:30.220 --> 00:44:32.130
I DIDN'T EVEN GET A CHANCE TO SEE THE
00:44:32.150 --> 00:44:34.040
FACE ON THE DOLLAR.
00:44:34.060 --> 00:44:35.240
HOLY COW, AND DANIEL, HE GAVE HIMSELF.
00:44:35.260 --> 00:44:40.140
STILL TO THIS DAY, I'VE NEVER KNOWN A DAY LIKE HIM.
00:44:40.160 --> 00:44:42.250
HE WORKS 80-90 HOURS A WEEK, TRAVELS.
00:44:42.270 --> 00:44:45.040
HOW MANY COUNTRIES THIS YEAR?
00:44:45.060 --> 00:44:46.190
JUST OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD.
00:44:46.210 --> 00:44:48.000
- THIS YEAR SO FAR ABOUT SEVEN.
00:44:48.020 --> 00:44:50.010
- SEVEN COUNTRIES THIS YEAR.
00:44:50.030 --> 00:44:51.200
- ESTABLISHING OUR GLOBAL REAP UNIVERSITY. WE ADDED 450.
00:44:51.220 --> 00:44:56.060
- YES, SIR. SOME OF THEM FROM CONGO.
00:44:56.080 --> 00:44:58.290
- CONGO.
00:44:59.010 --> 00:45:00.150
- 420 YESTERDAY.
00:45:00.170 --> 00:45:02.000
- 420.
00:45:02.020 --> 00:45:03.210
- RIGHT HERE IN VIETNAM, WE HAVE 420 STUDENTS.
00:45:03.230 --> 00:45:06.070
- THAT WERE REGISTERED YESTERDAY?
00:45:06.090 --> 00:45:08.160
OR WHILE WE WERE HERE.
00:45:08.180 --> 00:45:10.190
WELL, WE'RE, LIKE YOU SAID, OVER 70.000.
00:45:10.210 --> 00:45:13.060
PEOPLE CAN'T BELIEVE IT.
00:45:13.080 --> 00:45:14.200
THEY COME TO THE OFFICE SAYING, YOU'RE LYING,
00:45:14.220 --> 00:45:16.010
YOU'RE EXAGGERATING. THEY SEE THE
00:45:16.030 --> 00:45:17.210
STACKS OF TESTS THAT HAVE TO BE SCORED.
00:45:17.230 --> 00:45:20.260
70 POUNDS PER STACK COVERING THE WHOLE FLOOR.
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:23.270
THEY SAY, YEAH, WE BELIEVE YOU.
00:45:23.290 --> 00:45:25.280
IT'S HUGE, AND IT'S GROWING EVERY DAY, AND
00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:28.160
VIETNAM HAS BEEN THE CATALYST FOR THIS
00:45:28.180 --> 00:45:31.180
WORLD-CHANGING ONLINE UNIVERSITY THAT'S GOING
00:45:31.200 --> 00:45:33.290
INTO COUNTRIES THAT NOBODY -- WE'RE RIGHT IN
00:45:34.010 --> 00:45:37.080
THE MIDDLE OF BOKA HARAM, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF
00:45:37.100 --> 00:45:40.040
NIGERIA, NIGERIA, MATT.
00:45:40.060 --> 00:45:42.150
RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF BOKA HARAM WITH OUR
00:45:42.170 --> 00:45:44.020
SCHOOL FLOURISHING.
00:45:44.040 --> 00:45:46.030
IT'S A GOD THING, AND IT STARTED IN VIETNAM.
00:45:46.050 --> 00:45:48.110
[MUSIC]
00:45:48.130 --> 00:45:56.140
[MUSIC]
00:45:56.140 --> 00:46:04.030
- ON THIS RIVER, I CRAWLED OUT ON THAT SIDE,
00:46:04.050 --> 00:46:08.080
AND I'M ON MY KNEES.
00:46:08.100 --> 00:46:10.120
I'M LOOKING AT THE DAMAGE.
00:46:10.140 --> 00:46:11.200
I FELL OVER BACKWARDS. THESE OTHER GUYS COME UP.
00:46:11.220 --> 00:46:13.090
YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING THROUGH MY MIND?
00:46:13.110 --> 00:46:14.250
PHILIPPIANS 1:12.
00:46:14.270 --> 00:46:16.120
I WOULD YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND BRETHREN THAT
00:46:16.140 --> 00:46:19.090
THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED UNTO ME HAVE FALLEN OUT
00:46:19.110 --> 00:46:23.160
RATHER TO THE FURTHERANCE OF THE GOSPEL.
00:46:23.180 --> 00:46:27.090
VERSE NUMBER ONE CAME TO ME.
00:46:27.110 --> 00:46:28.210
THAT'S NUMBER 12. VERSE 12.
00:46:28.230 --> 00:46:30.010
BUT IT WAS THE NUMBER ONE VERSE THAT CAME TO ME.
00:46:30.030 --> 00:46:32.110
AND I'M LAYING THERE THINKING THIS SHALL
00:46:32.130 --> 00:46:35.070
TURN TO MY SALVATION.
00:46:35.090 --> 00:46:37.230
VERSE 19, THIS SHALL TURN TO MY SALVATION THROUGH
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YOUR PRAYER AND THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT OF
00:46:42.140 --> 00:46:44.150
JESUS CHRIST THAT ACCORDING TO MY EARNEST
00:46:44.170 --> 00:46:47.200
EXPECTATION AND MY HOPE IN NOTHING I SHALL BE
00:46:47.220 --> 00:46:51.010
ASHAMED, BUT WITH ALL BOLDNESS AS ALWAYS SO NOW
00:46:51.030 --> 00:46:54.210
ALSO CHRIST, NOW LISTEN, SHALL BE
00:46:54.230 --> 00:46:57.290
MAGNIFIED IN MY BODY WHETHER IT BE BY LIFE OR
00:46:58.010 --> 00:47:03.060
BY DEATH, FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST
00:47:03.080 --> 00:47:06.230
AND TO DIE IS GAIN.
00:47:06.250 --> 00:47:09.050
AND THAT "LIVE IS CHRIST" STARTED PLAYING OVER AND
00:47:09.070 --> 00:47:12.250
OVER, TO LIVE AS CHRIST, TO LIVE AS CHRIST,
00:47:12.270 --> 00:47:15.280
TO LIVE AS CHRIST.
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THE HELICOPTER IS LEAVING, TO LIVE AS CHRIST.
00:47:17.190 --> 00:47:19.210
THEY'RE PUTTING ME DOWN, THEY'RE ARGUING OVER
00:47:19.230 --> 00:47:21.240
WHETHER I'M GONNA LIVE OR DIE, TRY TO HELP ME OR
00:47:21.260 --> 00:47:23.140
NOT AT THAT LITTLE FIELD HOSPITAL, TO LIVE AS
00:47:23.160 --> 00:47:25.280
CHRIST, TO LIVE AS CHRIST.
00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:27.180
THEY GET ME TO THOMPSON AIRPORT AND GET ME ON AN
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AMBULANCE AND TAKE ME OVER TO THE HOSPITAL,
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IT BROKE DOWN IN THE TRAFFIC, THE
00:47:33.240 --> 00:47:36.060
AIR-CONDITIONING BROKE, IT WAS HOT, I'M STILL
00:47:36.080 --> 00:47:38.260
SMOLDERING, TO LIVE IS CHRIST, TO LIVE IS CHRIST.
00:47:38.280 --> 00:47:42.000
IT GOT ME INTO THE HOSPITAL, PUT ME ON A BIG
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C-141, FLEW ME TO JAPAN, AND THERE I ASKED THEM
00:47:43.230 --> 00:47:48.260
FOR A MIRROR. TO LIVE IS CHRIST WAS NOW FADING.
00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:53.010
AND IN JAPAN, I LOOKED IN THE MIRROR THEY BROUGHT ME.
00:47:53.030 --> 00:47:57.070
I SHOULDN'T HAVE ASKED THEM,
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THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE BROUGHT IT.
00:47:58.130 --> 00:48:00.110
AND I HAD MY LEFT EYE, AND WHEN I LOOKED UP,
00:48:00.130 --> 00:48:02.020
I SAW THIS SIDE OF MY HEAD WAS SKULL, AND I THOUGHT
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SHE'S A TEENAGER. SHE DOESN'T DESERVE THIS.
00:48:05.160 --> 00:48:10.250
I CAN FIX THIS.
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THEY WALKED AWAY WITH THE MIRROR, THEY WALKED AWAY
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WITH MY HOPE.
00:48:15.210 --> 00:48:17.070
AND I'VE SAID IT MANY TIMES, HOPE IS THE LAST
00:48:17.090 --> 00:48:19.160
LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST SUICIDE.
00:48:19.180 --> 00:48:21.020
THAT DAY I DECIDED THAT I WOULD KILL MYSELF AND GET
00:48:21.040 --> 00:48:23.280
ME OUT OF HER MISERY.
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I DIDN'T WANT HER TO SEE ME IF I LIVED THAT LONG.
00:48:26.060 --> 00:48:28.210
I DIDN'T WANT HER TO COME TO THE MORTUARY.
00:48:28.230 --> 00:48:30.290
THEY WOULD TAKE ME HOME.
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I KNEW THAT. NO SOLDIER LEFT BEHIND.
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I DIDN'T WANT HER TO EVER SEE WHAT I'D TURNED INTO,
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A MONSTER. SO I PULLED THE TUBE.
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I DIDN'T HAVE A GUN OR KNIFE, AND I THOUGHT
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SUICIDE, GOD YOU'LL SURELY ACCEPT IT.
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IT'S OKAY FOR ME, ISN'T IT.
00:48:46.100 --> 00:48:49.030
TO LIVE WAS NOT CHRIST ANYMORE.
00:48:49.050 --> 00:48:52.140
I CAN'T SAY I WAS THAT SELF-CENTERED.
00:48:52.160 --> 00:48:55.090
I WAS FRIGHTENED AND I HAD DRUGS IN ME.
00:48:55.110 --> 00:48:57.180
I'VE NEVER DONE DRUGS IN MY LIFE.
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I LAUGH AND TELL EVERYBODY I COULD HALLUCINATE ON
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HALF DOSES OF THE SAINT JOSEPH ASPIRIN FOR CHILDREN.
00:49:01.160 --> 00:49:04.260
I'D NEVER DONE A DRUG AND I WAS CONFUSED.
00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:07.130
AND BY THEN, I CAN'T TELL YOU THE PAIN.
00:49:07.150 --> 00:49:09.280
GOD DOESN'T EVEN LET ME REMEMBER IT.
00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:11.290
I JUST KNOW IT WAS THERE, BUT I CAN'T TELL YOU
00:49:12.010 --> 00:49:13.120
WHAT IT FELT LIKE.
00:49:13.140 --> 00:49:14.270
AND SO I PULL THAT TUBE OUT, AND I LAID MY HEAD
00:49:14.290 --> 00:49:17.060
BACK AND I WAITED TO DIE.
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AND THIS IS WHERE THE HUMOR OF THE ALMIGHTY
00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:22.180
COMES SCREAMING THROUGH. I GOT HUNGRY.
00:49:22.200 --> 00:49:26.110
I'M NOT DYING, I'M GETTING HUNGRY.
00:49:26.130 --> 00:49:28.000
I THINK I'M STARVING TO DEATH. I WAS HUNGRY!
00:49:28.020 --> 00:49:30.080
YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE HUNGRY AND WANT TO
00:49:30.100 --> 00:49:32.120
DIE AT THE SAME TIME.
00:49:32.140 --> 00:49:34.100
YOU CAN'T WANT TO DIE AND BE HUNGRY AT THE SAME
00:49:34.120 --> 00:49:36.200
TIME BECAUSE HUNGER MEANS YOU WANT TO EAT BECAUSE
00:49:36.220 --> 00:49:39.210
YOU WANT TO LIVE.
00:49:39.230 --> 00:49:41.010
WELL, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LIVE, YOU DON'T WANT
00:49:41.030 --> 00:49:42.100
TO EAT, BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO LIVE.
00:49:42.120 --> 00:49:43.230
WHY WAS I HUNGRY?
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AND I STARTED THINKING HOW DO I PLUG THIS TUBE
00:49:45.160 --> 00:49:48.290
BACK IN? IT WAS MY FEEDING TUBE.
00:49:49.010 --> 00:49:51.030
I PULLED THE WRONG ONE. I PULLED OUT LUNCH.
00:49:51.050 --> 00:49:53.290
LIFE IS NOT FAIR, IS IT? HOLY COW.
00:49:54.010 --> 00:49:57.220
AND I'M BACK WHERE IT STARTED HERE AND CAN
00:49:57.240 --> 00:50:00.160
LAUGH ABOUT IT.
00:50:00.180 --> 00:50:02.040
AND I WANT PEOPLE THAT ARE WATCHING, YOU GUYS
00:50:02.060 --> 00:50:03.230
WATCHING, YOU NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING, SUICIDE
00:50:03.250 --> 00:50:07.000
IS NOT THE SOLUTION.
00:50:07.020 --> 00:50:08.100
LOOK WHAT I WOULD HAVE MISSED.
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- AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WATCHING RIGHT NOW THAT
00:50:16.250 --> 00:50:18.270
NEED TO HEAR ME. THEY NEED TO HEAR ME.
00:50:18.290 --> 00:50:24.040
SUICIDE IS NOT THE SOLUTION.
00:50:24.060 --> 00:50:26.060
WHAT IF I HAD PULLED THE RIGHT TUBE?
00:50:26.080 --> 00:50:28.090
THE CONSEQUENCES, AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A
00:50:28.110 --> 00:50:30.270
MOMENT, BUT THE CONSEQUENCES WERE
00:50:30.290 --> 00:50:34.030
AMAZING, IF I HAD SUCCEEDED, AMAZING LOSS,
00:50:34.050 --> 00:50:38.290
AMAZING LOSS.
00:50:39.010 --> 00:50:41.060
NO GRAND BABIES, NO BABIES, NO LOVE OF MY WIFE.
00:50:41.080 --> 00:50:44.040
I WOULD NEVER KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BOUNCE BACK.
00:50:44.060 --> 00:50:47.110
I'M A RESILIENCY COACH FOR THE U.S.
00:50:47.130 --> 00:50:49.210
MILITARY TODAY, ALL FOUR BRANCHES.
00:50:49.230 --> 00:50:52.010
IT'S A PROGRAM CALLED THE COMPREHENSIVE SOLDIER
00:50:52.030 --> 00:50:54.180
FITNESS PROGRAM, AND I'VE BEEN CONTRACTING WITH THE
00:50:54.200 --> 00:50:57.020
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENDANTS SINCE 9/11.
00:50:57.040 --> 00:50:59.270
AND HONESTLY, I WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD THE
00:50:59.290 --> 00:51:02.250
OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE THOSE LIVES THAT WE'VE
00:51:02.270 --> 00:51:05.120
INTERVENED IN -- I'M NOT TAKING CREDIT FOR MYSELF.
00:51:05.140 --> 00:51:07.240
IT'S A GOD THING.
00:51:07.260 --> 00:51:09.230
BUT IF I HAD SUCCEEDED, LOOK WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST.
00:51:09.250 --> 00:51:13.140
I FOUND PASSION THAT REPLACED DEPRESSION.
00:51:13.160 --> 00:51:18.020
THE PASSION REPLACED DEPRESSION.
00:51:18.040 --> 00:51:22.130
I FOUND A REASON TO LIVE, AND I FOUND IT IN CHRIST.
00:51:22.150 --> 00:51:26.010
I FOUND HIM AT TBN.
00:51:26.030 --> 00:51:28.200
JAN CALLED, "I WANT YOU ON TBN." SO I WENT, AND
00:51:28.220 --> 00:51:32.120
SHE ASKED ME THE HARDEST QUESTION OF ALL, AND LIKE
00:51:32.140 --> 00:51:34.180
A GOOD LAWYER, I DON'T ASK QUESTIONS I DON'T
00:51:34.200 --> 00:51:36.290
ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER TO, ESPECIALLY ANSWERS OF
00:51:37.010 --> 00:51:39.190
THIS CALIBER LIKE, OKAY, GOD, I KNOW DIDN'T DO
00:51:39.210 --> 00:51:42.190
THIS TO ME.
00:51:42.210 --> 00:51:44.210
I KNEW WHAT HAPPENED, I KNEW WHEN IT HAPPENED, I
00:51:44.230 --> 00:51:46.180
KNEW WHERE IT HAPPENED, AND I KNEW WHY IT
00:51:46.200 --> 00:51:49.180
HAPPENED EXCEPT FOR ONE THING; I DIDN'T KNOW WHY
00:51:49.200 --> 00:51:53.180
GOD DIDN'T STOP IT FROM HAPPENING.
00:51:53.200 --> 00:51:55.040
HE DIDN'T DO THIS TO ME.
00:51:55.060 --> 00:51:57.010
THIS IS WAR.
00:51:57.030 --> 00:51:58.200
SOME LITTLE VIET KONG GOT A MEDAL, I DID, TOO.
00:51:58.220 --> 00:52:00.260
HIS IS ON HIS CHEST, MINE'S IN MY HEAD.
00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:03.020
[LAUGHING]
00:52:03.040 --> 00:52:04.210
THAT'S WHERE I WEAR MY MEDAL IS IN MY BODY.
00:52:04.230 --> 00:52:06.230
BUT YOU KNOW, I GOT TO TELL YOU, GOD DIDN'T STOP
00:52:06.250 --> 00:52:10.130
IT FOR A REASON, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHY, AND I
00:52:10.150 --> 00:52:12.190
WOULDN'T DEAL WITH IT BECAUSE I WAS WILLING TO
00:52:12.210 --> 00:52:15.140
TRUST GOD WITH WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW, AND THAT'S
00:52:15.160 --> 00:52:18.100
WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN TODAY.
00:52:18.120 --> 00:52:20.100
IF YOU DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, THAT'S OKAY.
00:52:20.120 --> 00:52:22.160
TRUST GOD WITH THAT.
00:52:22.180 --> 00:52:24.070
TAKE THAT LEAP OF FAITH AND SAY, WHATEVER IT IS,
00:52:24.090 --> 00:52:26.030
GOD, I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, BUT I WILL SOONER OR LATER.
00:52:26.050 --> 00:52:28.060
AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:30.240
I UNDERSTOOD THAT NIGHT ON THAT TBN SHOW.
00:52:30.260 --> 00:52:33.270
JAN LOOKED AT ME AND SHE SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW WHY
00:52:33.290 --> 00:52:36.100
GOD LET YOU BE SCARRED, MAIMED AND BURNED, DON'T YOU?
00:52:36.120 --> 00:52:39.060
MISS JAN, I DON'T KNOW WHY GOD LET ME BE
00:52:39.080 --> 00:52:41.050
SCARRED, MAIMED AND BURNED.
00:52:41.070 --> 00:52:42.210
SHE SAID, BECAUSE HE COULD TRUST YOU WITH THE SCARS.
00:52:42.230 --> 00:52:49.200
JUST LET IT SETTLE. LET THAT SINK IN.
00:52:49.220 --> 00:52:55.030
HE CAN TRUST YOU WITH THE SCARS.
00:52:55.050 --> 00:52:58.250
WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A LIABILITY WAS A LIBERTY.
00:52:58.270 --> 00:53:01.130
WHAT I THOUGHT WAS CONDEMNATION WAS CONFIRMATION.
00:53:01.150 --> 00:53:06.090
SO I LEARNED TO DEAL WITH IT, AND SINCE MY SUICIDAL
00:53:06.110 --> 00:53:10.050
TENDENCIES WERE SO POWERFUL THOSE 20 YEARS,
00:53:10.070 --> 00:53:14.020
I GOT TO TELL YOU THE GOOD NEWS.
00:53:14.040 --> 00:53:16.030
THAT NIGHT, ON TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK WITH
00:53:16.050 --> 00:53:18.280
JAN CROUCH, WHEN SHE SAID, HE KNEW HE COULD
00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:21.270
TRUST YOU WITH THE SCARS, AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I
00:53:21.290 --> 00:53:24.290
LIE NOT, 28 YEAR LATER, COMING UP ON 29, I'VE
00:53:25.010 --> 00:53:29.130
NEVER THOUGHT OF SUICIDE AGAIN, EVER.
00:53:29.150 --> 00:53:32.170
IF SUICIDE COMES TO MY MIND, IT'S IN HELPING
00:53:32.190 --> 00:53:34.150
SOMEONE THAT'S DEALING WITH IT.
00:53:34.170 --> 00:53:36.170
AND NOW, AS A RESILIENCY COACH, I'M SENT ALL OVER
00:53:36.190 --> 00:53:40.030
THE WORLD; SAUDI ARABIA,KUWAIT, OMAN,
00:53:40.050 --> 00:53:42.120
QATAR, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, AFGHANISTAN,
00:53:42.140 --> 00:53:45.140
IRAQ, SYRIA, BOSNIA, KOSOVO, SOUTH KOREA.
00:53:45.160 --> 00:53:47.090
HOW LONG SHOULD I GO ON?
00:53:47.110 --> 00:53:49.080
THE COUNTRIES ME SEND ME TO HELP STOP ONE
00:53:49.100 --> 00:53:52.170
SPECIAL OPERATOR FROM TAKING HIS LIFE -- IT
00:53:52.190 --> 00:53:55.040
COSTS A MILLION DOLLARS TO TRAIN HIM AND A
00:53:55.060 --> 00:53:57.180
MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO MAINTAIN HIM.
00:53:57.200 --> 00:54:00.190
THEY CAN'T AFFORD HIM TO TAKE HIS LIFE, SO THEY
00:54:00.210 --> 00:54:03.200
SEND ME, AND WHY ME?
00:54:03.220 --> 00:54:06.210
BECAUSE I'VE BEEN DOWN THAT ROAD, AND I FOUND
00:54:06.230 --> 00:54:09.050
THE ANSWER IN JESUS.
00:54:09.070 --> 00:54:13.160
- SHARE THE GOSPEL FROM INSIDE THE STATE OF
00:54:13.180 --> 00:54:17.220
VIETNAM RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF THE FLAG OF VIETNAM.
00:54:17.240 --> 00:54:22.010
JUST THE SIMPLEST FORM OF THE GOSPEL.
00:54:22.030 --> 00:54:25.080
- I WALKED UP THESE STEPS A COUPLE YEARS AGO
00:54:25.100 --> 00:54:28.220
WITH 50 VIETNAM VETERANS, AND AS WE APPROACHED THE
00:54:28.240 --> 00:54:30.160
TOP OF THE STEPS, SUDDENLY, WE ALL HIT THE GROUND.
00:54:30.180 --> 00:54:33.120
WE HIT THE GROUND.
00:54:33.140 --> 00:54:35.190
A MACHINE GUN WENT OFF, WE THOUGHT.
00:54:35.210 --> 00:54:38.070
IT WAS A BAND THAT WAS BEATING THEIR DRUM AND
00:54:38.090 --> 00:54:41.110
ECHOING IN THAT CHAMBER SO LOUD WE ALL THOUGHT IT
00:54:41.130 --> 00:54:43.150
WAS MACHINE GUNFIRE.
00:54:43.170 --> 00:54:45.090
WE'RE DUCKING FOR COVER.
00:54:45.110 --> 00:54:47.080
THAT'S CALLED POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER.
00:54:47.100 --> 00:54:49.110
I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING, I BELIEVE THAT
00:54:49.130 --> 00:54:52.120
COMING HERE TODAY IS FOR THE SAKE OF VIETNAM THE
00:54:52.140 --> 00:54:55.260
BEGINNING OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW CHRIST.
00:54:55.280 --> 00:54:58.200
AND IF YOU'RE WATCHING THIS, HAVE EVEN THE
00:54:58.220 --> 00:55:01.100
SLIGHTEST INKLING OF THE MIRACULOUS THINGS THAT
00:55:01.120 --> 00:55:03.240
ARE TAKING PLACE AS YOU WATCH, YOU HAVE MISSED IT
00:55:03.260 --> 00:55:06.250
IF YOU DIDN'T SEE IT, BUT IF YOU SEE IT, I WANT YOU
00:55:06.270 --> 00:55:09.110
TO KNOW JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR VIETNAM.
00:55:09.130 --> 00:55:12.280
HE DIED FOR EVERY NATION ON EARTH, EVERY TONGUE AND TRIBE.
00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:15.210
YOU ARE INCLUDED, AND IF YOU'RE OF THE VIETNAMESE
00:55:15.230 --> 00:55:18.200
PEOPLE, EVEN MORE SO TODAY TO I EXTEND TO YOU
00:55:18.220 --> 00:55:23.020
THE HAND OF HOPE IN JESUS CHRIST WHEN DIED FOR OUR SINS.
00:55:23.040 --> 00:55:27.000
LISTEN, THE PENALTY OF SIN IS DEATH.
00:55:27.020 --> 00:55:30.000
IT IS EXECUTION.
00:55:30.020 --> 00:55:32.010
BUT WHEN JESUS CAME, HE SAID, I'LL PAY THAT
00:55:32.030 --> 00:55:34.180
PENALTY FOR YOU.
00:55:34.200 --> 00:55:36.130
HE DID IT, HE SATISFIED THE DEMAND OF GOD FOR
00:55:36.150 --> 00:55:38.210
SACRIFICE, AND TODAY, I STAND HERE A FREE MAN
00:55:38.230 --> 00:55:42.200
TELLING YOU HOW TO BE FREE IN JESUS CHRIST.
00:55:42.220 --> 00:55:45.280
BELIEVE ON HIM, AND YOU SHALL BE SAVED, AND YOUR
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:48.240
GOVERNMENT, AND YOUR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
00:55:48.260 --> 00:55:51.280
AND YOUR PRESIDENT, AND YOUR FAMILY, AND YOUR CHILDREN.
00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:54.240
GOD BLESS YOU. I LOVE VIETNAM. I LOVE YOU, MATT CROUCH.
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YOU'RE THE BEST GUY I'VE EVER COME ACROSS, BROTHER.
00:55:59.140 --> 00:56:01.170
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