{"id":14806,"date":"2020-07-31T19:27:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T23:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/2020\/07\/31\/letting-go-of-the-bullet-that-almost-killed-me\/"},"modified":"2021-04-25T17:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T21:01:53","slug":"letting-go-of-the-bullet-that-almost-killed-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/letting-go-of-the-bullet-that-almost-killed-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting Go of the Bullet that Almost Killed Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Fred giving the bullet back\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y9O4Ngwurd0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once upon a life, I fought on the front lines in the Vietnam War. 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I left that bullet in Vietnam, back from where it came, thinking that gesture would change my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it didn\u2019t.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/map-fred-t.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14879\" width=\"300\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The hate continued to fester. Not at the Vietnamese, but at those I researched and determined were my true \u201cenemy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot forgive the lying politicians who sent us. I cannot forgive our Generals who agreed to the stupid rules of engagement that got many of us needlessly killed. 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