"I guess it was a process of waking up to what I was actually doing and just as I am helping set up all these memorials out here, I think back to some of the things that were part of my day to day life in the military even before I got to Iraq, just how some of our battle cries would be things like kill them all."

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And the interesting point is many people who have this sort of experience, for whom their mortality has become vivid, they often say,I've got to change my life.

而且有趣的是很多拥有这种经验的人，对必死性的了解更为深刻的人，通常会说，我要改变我的生活。

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I've got many coats in my life.

我生命中有很多大衣。

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But as I grew up, as I got more life and flyfishing experiences under my belt as I changed, really my old favorite magazines seemed to stagnate a bit.

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