I was at a seminar by LTC Dave Grossman and he said something that has taken me years to fully apply to my life. He simply said, if our brothers and sisters that we lost could come back for a moment, would they want us depressed, drunk, crying, removed from society? Or instead would they want for us to live a full and happy life? I have made some progress in recent years and I hope this year has brought some healing to you and your family. May God bless your family 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I agree, but it doesn’t change anything for some. When I see the pos vets that park in handicap spots at the gym and run and lift with the rest of us. Or you see them tailgating the old timer in front of them with the server with pride sticker. It’s just too many shit bags in the world, plenty are active or have served.
What I learned from dealing with loss is letting out, and discussing your feelings with others, no matter what they are. It’s ok to be vulnerable. Nobody thinks you’re not a warrior for doing that. It’s to better yourself, and keep you around to be there for your family and others. Also, your son, Garand Thumb, needs you.
I served from 2004 to 2008 with a rotation to fallujah in 2006 where we lost 9. 3 of which were close to me including my squad leader. I too have only the last 2 yrs made a pivot to really saying "celebrate such men lived." Dealing with loss takes time. Maybe we're all in that period of acceptance that we can remember we were the lucky ones who got to have a family instead of the sombre seclusion.
Hello sir , I’m from iraq , iraq now safe and stable .and falujah peacfull city now ،This year Al-Karma Club plays in the Iraqi Football League and has bought professional players from Colombia and Spain, everything has changed in Iraq now.
Thank you. It's nice to hear the same thoughts and feelings coming from others. The biggest trigger I would get was " Happy Memorial Day." Knowing that they ment well, they just didn't understand. This helped.
I thank the both of you for sharing your message to other hurting veterans and people. Travis I do thank you for your service and all of the good you continue to do Brother.
Good talk. I say something similar, we owe it to our fallen brothers and sisters to make this nation a better place and contribute to bettering humanity, but it starts with us individually and internally. Took me a while to get to that point too, and of course we'll all be working on that/ ourselves in that way even after the epiphanies. Cherish what we have-- our fallen brethren would want us to enjoy ourselves. But also-- Never Forgotten.
Thank you for talking about this. I might be only (around) half of your age, and was dealing with high school nonsense while you were doing what needed to be done to save American lives overseas. But I am extremely proud of you for opening up like this and being vulnerable. It takes a true man to be able to speak as openly as you are. I aspire to be half of the man and leader you are. Seeing this video from you shows me that as accomplished as one may be, we are never done learning and growing as humans. Thank you for showing true love to yourself, your family, and everyone you want to remember. I think they'd be happy to know that you're able to start to let go of some of that pain.
Travis, I appreciate everything you've done for me. I've never met you, but I got into law enforcement about 12 years ago, and I dove into your content about shooting and mindset. I've studied your shooting philosophy and have adapted many of your techniques. I think what stands out about you the most is your compassion for others, ur a good person and a great role model for the generation coming up.
Thank you for your service as a law enforcement y’all don’t get the credit you deserve from us. The internet has painted y’all a bad picture. But thank you even if your not in my town or state
Stay vigilant, Brother. Take care of yourself emotionally and physically. The career takes a toll on both. Stay close to your family and don't do things to screw it up. After 30 years on the job, I am now learning how screwed up I am. Luckily, I didn't do too much damage to my family. It isn't the fun thing to do, but promote and get off the street to save yourself physically. Stay healthy so you can enjoy at least as many years in retirement as you put into your career. Stay safe, but, if you can't be safe, be violent.
Well said, Bro! Memorial Day is always tough. Time has helped some, but it still hurts. We need to live for our Brothers who have given the ultimate price. Semper Fi!
Thank you for sharing. I do not know anyone close to me who lost their lives in service to our country so you sharing helps me start to understand the pain of those who have and therefore appreciate it more.
Thank you for your service and your service and most of all the ones that gave the ultimate sacrifice. It’s a shame out government has turned there back on our veterans and the people of America! Thank you we love you men an women that served
Beautiful life Trav, you should be proud your living one for those who cant. They did it for you too brother, keep using it the way they wanted you too.
WOW! I almost scrolled past this video and I am so glad I didn't. Thank You, Travis & Britony for your sermon. I didn't serve in the military, but I retired from 30 years of law enforcement. I've lost partners to suicide and murder and seen the evil that humans can impart to one another. You cannot keep that hard shell you develop from cracking occasionally. At best, only tears leak out. At worst, extreme rage and anger escape. I totally understood what you were talking about in being present with your friends and family. Although I am "with" them, I often only feel like I am in their "orbit" and not fully a part of them and giving and receiving love and affection to them. Moving to acreage in North Idaho and escaping the big city and having my grandkids around me has started the healing process for me. I now teach firearms classes to civilians once or twice a week and that "scratches my itch" I still have for "that world." You definitely married a phenomenal woman, Travis. Thank you for standing by your warrior, Britony. Knowing what I put my wife through, I know it isn't easy for you wives.
Always appreciate what you are given even a discount been in many a stores and was told as Corrections’s officer I wasn’t law enforcement or heard buddy’s stores of cops saying the same thing. Most cops aren’t like that and they respect what I did but it’s hard to serve in anything when you’re not appreciated or worse looked at as the bad guy in every movie or show.
Well said! Memorial Day is a day to honor the sacrifice that men and women have given in the service to our country. It is a day to celebrate their lives, remember them and think of their families left behind. I remember the following Rangers that I served with who have passed on everyday: 21 September 1981 Six members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion were killed in Indian Springs AFB, Nevada, when a C130 landed hard and munitions exploded: LTC William E Powell, 2/75 Battalion Commander Cpt. Gregory E. Gardner SFC Jimmie D. Bynum, B-Co 3rd Platoon Medic. Specialist John P. Critselous, PFC Lonnie J. Furr, Private Kevin E. Langley. And 03 October 1993: SFC Randall Shughart. Randy and I served together in 2/75. Randy was a U.S. Army Delta Force operator who, along with SFC Gary Gordon were both posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Battle of Mogadishu, during Operation Gothic Serpent ("Black Hawk Down") Randy was my friend - my Ranger Buddy. And I wept when I read that he died, but I wasn't surprised that he went in to save others! - Rangers Lead The Way
I understand now why you were there, why you were volunteering to put up the flags that had fallen, why you wanted to do the video. The revelations that have come to you take time to develop and internalize, as they did for my husband after Vietnam. It sounds like you have an understanding and supportive wife, too. Live life to the fullest for those who did not get to finish theirs, because it’s the best way to honor them. Accept the thanks for your service from the people you meet. They wouldn’t say it if they didn’t mean it. Embrace the children being taught to respect that service even as you realize they have no concept of war or loss, even as we pray they will never have to know it. ❤️🇺🇸💙
I still struggle a lot with being vulnerable. One motivation that keeps me going is putting back into the world what it lost, be a good brother, a good father, be helpful in the smallest of ways when you can. Show your gratitude to those we lost by being GOOD in their place.
I agree with you on all fronts. It's Memorial Day not Veterans Day. I've had to explain that to my Nephews. I also struggle with the greeting, "Happy" Memorial Day.....
Everyone should treat all branches of the US Military with respect all the time. However today do something nice for at least one or more US Veterans. Even if it's something as little as remembering The Fallen who gave the ultimate sacrifice because the man & woman that served we will NEVER let them be FORGOTTEN SEMPER FI 🇺🇸 OORAH
I don’t want free food. I don’t want to be thanked, especially on Memorial Day. I do look down on people that ask for discounts and free food. It doesn’t help the restaurant or anything else except showing the world you want free food.
I was at a seminar by LTC Dave Grossman and he said something that has taken me years to fully apply to my life. He simply said, if our brothers and sisters that we lost could come back for a moment, would they want us depressed, drunk, crying, removed from society? Or instead would they want for us to live a full and happy life? I have made some progress in recent years and I hope this year has brought some healing to you and your family.
May God bless your family
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I agree, but it doesn’t change anything for some. When I see the pos vets that park in handicap spots at the gym and run and lift with the rest of us. Or you see them tailgating the old timer in front of them with the server with pride sticker. It’s just too many shit bags in the world, plenty are active or have served.
What I learned from dealing with loss is letting out, and discussing your feelings with others, no matter what they are. It’s ok to be vulnerable. Nobody thinks you’re not a warrior for doing that. It’s to better yourself, and keep you around to be there for your family and others. Also, your son, Garand Thumb, needs you.
I served from 2004 to 2008 with a rotation to fallujah in 2006 where we lost 9. 3 of which were close to me including my squad leader. I too have only the last 2 yrs made a pivot to really saying "celebrate such men lived." Dealing with loss takes time. Maybe we're all in that period of acceptance that we can remember we were the lucky ones who got to have a family instead of the sombre seclusion.
What unit? I was 2/8 and was in fallujah 2006 and a little of 2007
@@jonathonmiller6320 5th Marines. Security company. Aug 2006 to march 2007
@@nicholasbaker2904 we probably passed each other at some point. I spent a lot of time in Karma and at Saqlawiyah.
@@jonathonmiller6320 we probably did. Ran security convoys for EOD and resupplies thru karma and anywheres else from TQ to ramadi and Baghdad air base
Hello sir , I’m from iraq , iraq now safe and stable .and falujah peacfull city now ،This year Al-Karma Club plays in the Iraqi Football League and has bought professional players from Colombia and Spain, everything has changed in Iraq now.
God bless you Travis, and thank you for providing training and tactics. and may god bless your family. 🫡
Thank you. It's nice to hear the same thoughts and feelings coming from others. The biggest trigger I would get was " Happy Memorial Day." Knowing that they ment well, they just didn't understand. This helped.
It’s a cringe I don’t think I’ll never let go. It’s as pc as thanking for our service.
Thanks for sharing Travis. Wife’s help us so much. Semper Fi brother
I thank the both of you for sharing your message to other hurting veterans and people. Travis I do thank you for your service and all of the good you continue to do Brother.
Good talk.
I say something similar, we owe it to our fallen brothers and sisters to make this nation a better place and contribute to bettering humanity, but it starts with us individually and internally. Took me a while to get to that point too, and of course we'll all be working on that/ ourselves in that way even after the epiphanies.
Cherish what we have-- our fallen brethren would want us to enjoy ourselves. But also-- Never Forgotten.
Thank you for talking about this. I might be only (around) half of your age, and was dealing with high school nonsense while you were doing what needed to be done to save American lives overseas. But I am extremely proud of you for opening up like this and being vulnerable.
It takes a true man to be able to speak as openly as you are. I aspire to be half of the man and leader you are. Seeing this video from you shows me that as accomplished as one may be, we are never done learning and growing as humans.
Thank you for showing true love to yourself, your family, and everyone you want to remember. I think they'd be happy to know that you're able to start to let go of some of that pain.
Travis, I appreciate everything you've done for me. I've never met you, but I got into law enforcement about 12 years ago, and I dove into your content about shooting and mindset. I've studied your shooting philosophy and have adapted many of your techniques. I think what stands out about you the most is your compassion for others, ur a good person and a great role model for the generation coming up.
Thank you for your service as a law enforcement y’all don’t get the credit you deserve from us. The internet has painted y’all a bad picture. But thank you even if your not in my town or state
Stay vigilant, Brother. Take care of yourself emotionally and physically. The career takes a toll on both. Stay close to your family and don't do things to screw it up. After 30 years on the job, I am now learning how screwed up I am. Luckily, I didn't do too much damage to my family. It isn't the fun thing to do, but promote and get off the street to save yourself physically. Stay healthy so you can enjoy at least as many years in retirement as you put into your career. Stay safe, but, if you can't be safe, be violent.
Well said, Bro! Memorial Day is always tough. Time has helped some, but it still hurts. We need to live for our Brothers who have given the ultimate price. Semper Fi!
Thank you for sharing. I do not know anyone close to me who lost their lives in service to our country so you sharing helps me start to understand the pain of those who have and therefore appreciate it more.
Thank you for your service and your service and most of all the ones that gave the ultimate sacrifice. It’s a shame out government has turned there back on our veterans and the people of America! Thank you we love you men an women that served
thank you Travis for your service and sacrifice
Travis, you have a great woman there!! Don't ever let her go!!!
Like the last one?
@@hitman_s1 I see what you did there! 🤣😂🤣
Beautiful life Trav, you should be proud your living one for those who cant. They did it for you too brother, keep using it the way they wanted you too.
Good job, Travis. Thank you both.
Thnx Guy... we appreciate you guys more & more & more!
WOW! I almost scrolled past this video and I am so glad I didn't. Thank You, Travis & Britony for your sermon. I didn't serve in the military, but I retired from 30 years of law enforcement. I've lost partners to suicide and murder and seen the evil that humans can impart to one another. You cannot keep that hard shell you develop from cracking occasionally. At best, only tears leak out. At worst, extreme rage and anger escape. I totally understood what you were talking about in being present with your friends and family. Although I am "with" them, I often only feel like I am in their "orbit" and not fully a part of them and giving and receiving love and affection to them. Moving to acreage in North Idaho and escaping the big city and having my grandkids around me has started the healing process for me. I now teach firearms classes to civilians once or twice a week and that "scratches my itch" I still have for "that world." You definitely married a phenomenal woman, Travis. Thank you for standing by your warrior, Britony. Knowing what I put my wife through, I know it isn't easy for you wives.
Always appreciate what you are given even a discount been in many a stores and was told as Corrections’s officer I wasn’t law enforcement or heard buddy’s stores of cops saying the same thing. Most cops aren’t like that and they respect what I did but it’s hard to serve in anything when you’re not appreciated or worse looked at as the bad guy in every movie or show.
Well said!
Memorial Day is a day to honor the sacrifice that men and women have given in the service to our country.
It is a day to celebrate their lives, remember them and think of their families left behind.
I remember the following Rangers that I served with who have passed on everyday:
21 September 1981
Six members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion were killed in Indian Springs AFB, Nevada, when a C130 landed hard and munitions exploded:
LTC William E Powell, 2/75 Battalion Commander
Cpt. Gregory E. Gardner
SFC Jimmie D. Bynum, B-Co 3rd Platoon Medic.
Specialist John P. Critselous,
PFC Lonnie J. Furr,
Private Kevin E. Langley.
And 03 October 1993:
SFC Randall Shughart.
Randy and I served together in 2/75.
Randy was a U.S. Army Delta Force operator who, along with SFC Gary Gordon were both posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Battle of Mogadishu, during Operation Gothic Serpent ("Black Hawk Down")
Randy was my friend - my Ranger Buddy.
And I wept when I read that he died, but I wasn't surprised that he went in to save others!
- Rangers Lead The Way
Why only list those? Smells fishy
@@Rubeless
Because I served with them.
Lots of rangers and delta died that day, you only knew one…come one
@@Rubeless
I wasn't active duty in the 1990s, Randy and I were in same platoon.
I love you both very much! 😘Thank you so much for sharing ❤
Great message. Thank you both for sharing.
I understand now why you were there, why you were volunteering to put up the flags that had fallen, why you wanted to do the video. The revelations that have come to you take time to develop and internalize, as they did for my husband after Vietnam. It sounds like you have an understanding and supportive wife, too. Live life to the fullest for those who did not get to finish theirs, because it’s the best way to honor them. Accept the thanks for your service from the people you meet. They wouldn’t say it if they didn’t mean it. Embrace the children being taught to respect that service even as you realize they have no concept of war or loss, even as we pray they will never have to know it. ❤️🇺🇸💙
Great video, thank you sir.
Fantastic, Thank you Brother,,
Thank you. 🇺🇲
women love their emotions
Thank you.
I still struggle a lot with being vulnerable. One motivation that keeps me going is putting back into the world what it lost, be a good brother, a good father, be helpful in the smallest of ways when you can. Show your gratitude to those we lost by being GOOD in their place.
Amen brother. The best treatment is a wonderful wife 🙏🏻
We love you, Travis and Britony, and all of our fallen brothers and sisters and their families.
You’re a good man, bro.
I agree with you on all fronts. It's Memorial Day not Veterans Day. I've had to explain that to my Nephews. I also struggle with the greeting, "Happy" Memorial Day.....
Well said . If just 10% listen & start to follow ,, The difference will be seen .
Travis is a living legend. Cant thank you enough sir for all youve done for us, civilians as well as vets.
Good, Travis! Semper Fi
Happy memorial day once again.
Respect bro.........
Amazing 😍
Amen.
Semper Fi Brother!
❤️
Peace be with you
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Semper Fi, Brother...
Everyone should treat all branches of the US Military with respect all the time. However today do something nice for at least one or more US Veterans. Even if it's something as little as remembering The Fallen who gave the ultimate sacrifice because the man & woman that served we will NEVER let them be FORGOTTEN SEMPER FI 🇺🇸 OORAH
Disgust is an emotion, right?
I don’t want free food. I don’t want to be thanked, especially on Memorial Day. I do look down on people that ask for discounts and free food. It doesn’t help the restaurant or anything else except showing the world you want free food.
Interesting name, is it Eastern European?
Get some.
2:00 😂 haley
No more wars for Israel
This guy gets it. Europa the last battle.
Don’t blame them for Americas oil greed
@@VictoryOrValhalla14 absolutely, and “the greatest story never told”
@@guitarthrasher81 you mean greedy Jews
@@guitarthrasher81 that’s a very Jewish thing to say schlomo
I'm surprise she didn't lick the tree
First😊
This is cringe.
No one cares
I love you brother…something us men seem to hide from…not me..🫡
❤