I was drafted & sent to Vietnam in 1970 only a few months after my cousin, my best friend, the guy I considered my big brother David... was KIA only 2 months after he arrived in country. I still haven't heard a combat veteran yet who can adequately describe the sheer terror, desperation, or chaos of an ambush & ensuing firefight. If you weren't wealthy, Draftees basically had 3 choices. Leave the country never to return, go to prison, or become a reluctant cog in politicians war machine. At the time the military had the unique power of forcing a normally good natured 19 year old kid out of his home & place them in a situation where it's either kill or be killed. The motherfuckers. David L. Palmer: Panel 10, Row 30, Vietnam Memorial Wall.
You are 100% correct though I thought my wife understood. Until I came to one night (from a life changer) with my K-Bar to her throat. Thank God she just said “I Love You” over and over and that I later learned, in therapy, is the only reason I snapped back saving her and possible our twins. This was the late 90’s and thought I was just being a bitch when I woke up in cold sweats (and vivid memories) so I never thought of “getting help”. My wife went and stayed at her moms for a week and came back and said if I agreed to get help with her in session (when gov’t allowed) I can’t remember a session she came to and didn’t leave the room early in tears and that still wasn’t the worst ! Luckily she stood by me, although I still see faces, break down watching certain things (esp children after waist I saw in Central Africa) but I haven’t laid my hands on another human being in violence in 20yrs now
@@USMC-ms1pb Thank you for sharing. Thank you for your sacrifices. Thank you for sharing. That is both beautiful and horrifying. My father never spoke much about his service in the Corps. He's now been gone for a few years. Thank you again Marine.
@@John-mg7fb 🙏🏽 Thanks my Brother! I’m sorry to hear of the loss of your father! My dad served in the Corps but his little brother(my uncle) was drafted to Vietnam so my father left college to be close and that is all I know other than what I could dig up after finding a couple Purple Hearts and Medal of Honor in my Granny’s attic when she passed. I asked him and he said “ask John what he wants done with that one, the other two are just reminders of the worst of humanity as well as my ability to abandon mine “. Those words stuck with me though i didn’t understand the gravity, only being 14 and clueless as to what they were nor did I know my father had served. It wasn’t until i entered my Jr year at The Citadel and told him I decided to sign up that he he opened up about the scars I was always told were from bar fights. When I received my first PH he made the comment “this is the only time I can say I wish I had mine now”. Little did he know this kid had no thoughts of throwing those cool looking “thingies” away. That night at 22yrs old I saw my Pops cry for the first time when I brought his medals and ribbons I “pilfered” from Grannies attic!
@@USMC-ms1pb You should write a book. Honestly these types of things should be shared with the world. Lest some forget and for those who might never have known otherwise. Stay strong sir!
He had to learn that. I remember the days (not that long ago) where most of the comments on the JRE podcasts were about Joe not letting his guests talk!
I definitely see that too. He's really caught up in over thinking the matter after the fact. It's over, you did your job, you lived. Keep moving forward. I know it's easier said than done for some.
@SpaceShroom That's true, but it's also human nature to live in caves and draw on walls. There's a lot of stuff in our nature that we've abandoned because we advanced beyond it as a species. I wish killing each other was one of those things
@Le Monke Yea that might be the case for a lot of people but there are also people lke me, i never felt the need to hurt somebody or thought about beating someone to death or anything like that. The thing is i never really feel angry, like sure i get a little heated up when im talking about a sensitive topic or when someone talks shit about you or your family, but I never felt the need to punch someone. when i was young i definetely had moments like that but i dont really remember how i felt back then. The only thing i remember from these moments is that i would be angry about myself because i thought about hurting someone else so it might have something to do with that.
That's a very thoughtful and human way of looking at it. Sadly, a lot of people don't see it that way. They do hate. A lifetime of nationalism and propaganda make sure of that.
"If I could connect to a man whose life I was taking, then definitely we all can connect to each other better with all our small differences". This is probably the one most impactful and powerful line I ever heard.
@@cryptoscircus6880 seriously? You need to make this about something else ? This is important enough. These are the realest things you'll ever hear but no no it's all about kneeling for the flag ? this is bigger then the United States these are life lessons that cross borders.
You ever heard of these things called...hands? Why do you think boxing and the UFC are so big. (I'm saying, imagine just beatin' a dude to death w/ your bare hands.)
Yea man it's intense. Imagine cutting someone's through someone's flesh with even a knife. While they are looking you in your eyes knowing it is now happening. That's hardcore as fuck.
@@DBAY012 yea but UFC is not war, it is not a fight over life and death. It's not a fight over seeing your loved ones ever again really . 9 times out of ten they will make it home. But I understand what your trying to say.
honestly tho if u were to look at it my way i’d be okay with it look at it like this (i’m beating this guy with a rock right n it’s so fucked but if it was him beating me with a rock he wouldn’t give 2 fucks he just wants u dead) so i wouldn’t be fucked for life after that yes i’d be changed but i wouldn’t be scarred
Brastin Manningway That's easy to say but you really can't know the effect it would have on you unless you had to do it. Like he said, he didn't feel bad about it necessarily, he would kill him 1000 times over if he were in the same situation again because he was the enemy and he would've done the same thing back. Its more about the look of defeat in the mans eyes, bashing the mans skull in
I really like Joe bringing on so many military men and women. It really gives some perspective into what war is like without having been there. These guy deserve a much larger voice.
@@TristanB361. To be able to live in their country, in their home, without another country invading, killing and enforcing a way of life upon them. Maybe ask yourself what you would be fighting for if someone decided military action in your country was necessary.
"How many generations, just that day were changed?" This guy thinks about the real things. Every life taken in that firefight changed the course of history, as every life taken in war.
That makes me contemplate all the countless deaths from wars in ancient history. How many people like Leonardo de Vinci’s we’re killed by Genghis Khan or Charlemagne?
I've always thought about the next "Einsteins" or people that can change the course of this world for the better that die at the age of 19 in a firefight in some corner of the earth.
Wisdom from a man that self admittedly had none, then one day, acquired more than most of us. These are hard words he is speaking, he speaks them so comfortably because he has been through them in his mind a hundred thousand times. We could all use a little bit of perspective, I think. Awesome interview, and a special thank you to Dakota Meyer for talking about things he probably has nightmares about every night.
@@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 I agree. He’s definitely accepted what has happened, but you can hear the stress in his voice. He lives with this weight every day.
@@NahImPro True and I phrased this statement poorly (and was thinking of when there's been an active draft.) Better put: "There's a reason marines are most actively recruited for bootcamp at 18 or 19." It may not be the stated reason, but try getting someone with a trace of self-preservation or life perspective to sign up for the job. Sure, you'll find the occasional 25 -30 year old, but it's the exception.
@Muneeb Iqbal A short sighted way to look at the military is to look at the shitty decisions and wars countries enter to and assume that if they stopped that, then shit would sort itself out. At some point someone or something will come into the equation that needs to be dealt with, and that is why people join. They want to defend their country that they love from a threat. I dare say a lot of military personnel know a large portion of conflict is complete bullshit, but they'll be there when things actually matter. Also consider the opposing side, such as Iraqi and afghan forces the west were fighting and the above still stands true IMO.
Intelligence (or lack thereof) is a factor, but the more desirable trait of a soldier is obedience. A typical soldier is no less smart than a humanities undergraduate. The difference is a soldier will follow orders and has a higher sense of duty. His contemporaries of the same generation (liberals, academics etc) mostly do not have these traits. So they pursue other paths - not because they are smarter per se, but that they aren't born soldiers. An officer is a very smart individual but will kill without hesitation. And there are PhD graduates (I know first hand) who cannot string a sentence together or use critical thinking outside their narrow research bubble.
Jacob Canaday because he is. Once forced to do the unthinkable, that person will always be able to visualize it. It’s forever seared into their memories
Eh, not really. Theres a ton of reasons why people dont connect: Social Anxiety, IQ difference, most people are fukin dum. And Im talking Joe-Rogan-from-ten-years-ago dumb...
go watch world war 2 interviews then.. this guy is just one of a very very long list over 100s of years of war.. just we live in a time of mass media so these stories are able to get out more often hopefully it helps.
Joe Rogan is such a good interviewer. The way he just sits and silence and really lets this mans story hit you. Not trying to talk over it or ask too many questions
@@cameronforbes2649 when somebody has something really important to say he lets it be said. You cannot do this all the time or they would be extremely boring interviews, his frequent talking that so many complain about is what generates situations like these so often.
“I don’t even know this guy ... we’re just here in this place cause we’re in two different countries” Thats tough. When he says, “the other guy wasn’t wrong, he believes in his cause as much as I believe in mine”. This world is tough.
you guys are missing the Marines point of this video. "In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one to mobilize us." -Thich Nhat Hanh edit: that is what brought him to that point of killing a man with a rock. then he seems he seen the flipside when he says we should see how humans connect instead of the opposite
It shows how feeble the human mind can be. If we all were capable of putting our ideologies aside and unite we would find peace. Sadly, this just isn't possible. Maybe one day we will unlock the ability to use our entire brain and things will be different, but peace is an impossible feat for at least several thousand years at least.
"More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way"-Glen Cook @@defeatignorance8681 maybe that's why psychedelics is schedule 1 while meth is not. keep us divided and war minded? idk
It's chilling to see him as he is still struggling to make sense of it all. My husband is a combat veteran whose experiences were nowhere near as intense as those of SGT. Meyer's but there are times when he talks about it and you can literally see the questions in his head as he is, after many years, still trying to make sense of what he saw.
That's the reality of it for black men in AmeriKKKA you dont know whether or not you gona make it hme to your family... we dont need travel half way across the globe to get that feeling when white policemen & women gunning us down..
I wish that was the case now, American military has simply become a business. We really have no purpose of being in other country’s besides the us. We have a lot of problems here already idk why were getting into other countries problems. Every time we just escalate it
And thats why I dont voluntarily go to war. You come to my country and start shit then we'll talk but im not gonna fight someone in their country when they aint doing dick to affect me.
"We’re just in this place right now cuz we were born in 2 different countries!" Unfortunately, it's a lot more complicated and nuanced than this, but he can keep telling himself whatever he needs to tell himself to get through his day.
@koolcat420 Yeah, it's pretty disgusting. Those two men shouldn't have even been in the situation that resulted in the other guy getting his head bashed in with a rock.
Is that why he said he'd kill him again? there is nothing humble about this guy, he was an ignorant child when he went over, admitted to being an agressor because he had tanks and planes to back him up then wonder why his mind is messed up, the only thing he should wonder is WHY was he there to begin with.
What I find truly remarkable isn't this man's reflections on the humanity of his foe, but rather the strength of determination to say "I'd kill him a million times over." To have this weigh so heavy on you and still have the will to do the hard thing, knowing how it will affect with the benefit of hindsight. That's real strength.
Absolutely!!! I would even say skip to that. If only everyone would learn to compromise and accept that we are different and will not all agree on many things, but it should not inspire hatred for one another. I wish we could replace every politician in Washington with guys as wise as this.
My dad once ask me what was wrong when I came home from high school one day. I told him I was having the worst day of my life cuz I had failed an exam and broke up with my girl friend. He then told me about his worst day in his life was in Vietnam holding a 18 yr old Marine in his arms as he drew his last breath. That was over 30 yrs ago and I have never forgot it.
Man this should be viewed by every American. "If I can feel empathy for a man while bashing is skull in with a rock, you should be capable of not dehumanising your political opponents"
"and I just think about, like, in that moment, a man who, like, I'm taking his life, we all in America can find a way to connect to each other. Like.... I don't care what your reasons are, you should find reasons why we should be able to get along, not reasons why we should not be able to get along" 7:40 :)
@Anthony Ramsey Got a point, I shouldn't have put quotation marks around it since it wasn't a direct quote rather my paraphrasing. I'll keep that in mind in the future, cheers
Him talking about the look in a man’s eyes, how it changes once they realize they’ve lost, and what the cost of that is. Proud of this guy, something about being so perceptive and capable of love after this world can show you how evil it really can be take strength.
hmmm, military... military... military... . . . OH! you're talking about the Petrodollar Mercenary Force we send allover the world to commit geopolitical terrorism!!
This is the kind of narrative that our leadership needs to hear. This is what we send our sons, daughters and parents into. There are valid reasons for it, but it's a high cost.
@D G question for you: did you vote for the trump that said Saudi Arabia was behind 9/11 before he was president or did you vote for the trump that licks Saudi Arabian boots after he became president?????
Mind you this happened 11 years ago. Every second of his day he has to live with this story. We listen once and move on. He has to recite it every. Single. Minute.
Dont go to war then. Protecting the american people? No. Fighting for oil and control for the benefit of rich white men? Yup. I have no respect for soldiers that willingly and blindly go to "fight the good fight" The good fight...get the fuck real
Kai Campbell you should respect them, they truly believe what they do is for US, they’ve been brainwashed and manipulated through training Edit: instead of what you said you should feel lucky to have the knowledge to know better. That’s just luck of the draw
It’s not looking like that’s true anymore unfortunately. Nearly every agenda at the mo is built on hate to cause division and unfortunately it’s working
Can't have love without hate. We're also more likely to be murdered by someone that loves us than by a stranger. Be kind, be aware, cover your ass and be grateful.
This man is a hero, defied the orders of his superiors while on a mission drove into a eastern Afghanistan “killing zone” and rescued 36 U.S. and afghan troops
he was trying to get him to paint a picture. and he did and it led to him saying some incredible words. joe did his job. and that man is a marine. wasn't like the question hurt his feeling any. he did what he had to, to win that situation.
@@michaeltobias3110 I mean it was a valid question... when you were a soldier in active combat and you tell someone you killed an enemy with a rock... of course the first thought in most people's minds would be, "did you lose your gun or run out of ammo? Why a rock?" Ya know what I'm saying.
I have a lot of vet friends. And one night, chilling at one Navajo friend's home, he had a few drinks. And my son asked him, "why do you drink alcohol?" He took a second and said, "I hurt people in Iraq, and now it hurts me."
@@lukehorning9713 my point is it had absolutely no significance to the point he was making. It was a useless detail. Should I give a fuck about him being native for some reason? I wouldn't know because it was never addressed. That clear enough for you? Or do I need to bring up what year I graduated high school since apparently ANY AND ALL information is relevant when making a point to you. Btw I'm white, I had a girlfriend when I was a teenager named ariana. She turned out to be a whore. You see where I'm going with this yet? Useless, irrelevant information that serves no purpose to the point has no place in the conversation.
I don't understand PTSD from a veterans point of view, as I've never served. I have been a firefighter for 9 years and deal with a diffrent type of PTSD. I never took lives, it was my job to preserve life and property and to create order from chaos and destruction. Fighting so hard to save someone and then they die was hard for me. I could never withdraw myself from it. I always personalized every single patient I had. I still remember their faces, what they were wearing, what the weather was like, how the air smelled. I've thought many diffrent things like Dakota has. They have families they will never see again. Their generation stopped.. When you watch someone die, you can see the moment they give up. It's so heartbreaking to know that they fought so hard, I fought so hard, but their body just couldn't keep going. I struggle with those memories. Its easy to let your mind control you with the thoughts of what if I did something diffrent. It's easy when a trigger happens to get lost in a memory and it will consume you. I cannot imagine what this Marine went through. Fighting another human being who is trying to take your life is something I've never experienced and can only imagine. We are all human beings. We all have compassion, empathy, and regret. It doesn't make you a bad person to feel things like this. You're a human being... God bless you Dakota Meyer. You are the standard of the Marine Corps. Your values and beliefs are amazing. Thank you, Warrior. I pray you find comfort in your life before its over. If anyone deserves it, you do. God bless our heroes who sacrifice so much and God Bless America 🇺🇸
May the Lord bless you too sir as well as all the good american men and women in your country who fight for the good and well being of your people, brazilian here by the way 🙌🙏
@@NefariousPorpoise yeah im a fan of Dakota meyer but I'm not going to "get along" with communists(for example) who have killed 100+ million people. Especially when they want to kill me too. That makes zero sense.
@@Togairu funny how you write you are fan and then completely push aside one of his main points - nobody thinks they are wrong.
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mtereletsky1 that’s the most bull shit statement ever America not on survived but thrives on hate lol. Literally stole land and killed native Americans and enslaved black people and look at America today.
@@codykanitz97 Because they find that quote to be particularly interesting and touching, and want to share it with other people that they felt something they found important.
I think the comments were made in reaction to the video, not vise versa. You know, wouldn't that make what you said completely impossible? In fact, i think you may be joking. I'm so clever.
“Find a reason for why we should all get along” - never truer words said. If we could all put as much effort into loving each other as we do into hating, the world would be a better place.
@Toasted Joe *"Be a denialist and go through life with nonplussed indifference and then wonder why you're clueless and out of touch with reality."* _there, ftfy, yw_
This experience in now way compares to the intensity of Dakota’s. I remember deer hunting with my dad when I was 14. We were sitting there together and a deer came trotting along. I shot the deer but I broke it’s back. It was on a ridge down below us and it’s back legs were paralyzed and it was trying to drag itself with it’s front legs. It looked absolutely pathetic and awful. We walked down to the deer and my dad said “Well finish it off.” I looked down at the deer still breathing but not moving and it was gut wrenching. My dad looked at me and knew I couldn’t finish it. He said “It’s not so easy once you’re up close is it?” He put it out of its misery. That’s the last day I went hunting. Every time I think of going hunting again I think about that deer and decide against it. I can’t fathom sitting on top of a guy and bashing his face in with a rock and having to live with it. That’s the most primal, ancient, savage way I can imagine killing someone. I hope Dakota finds peace.
It's completely different when your very survival depends on it. If you had to feed your suffering family that crippled deer would bring you deep deep joy.
Dakota Meyer is just an incredible human. His strength, humility, wisdom, and his ability to have those attributes and more I think shows a lot of intelligence. We need more people like him in the spotlight and as "influencers" and as people who guide and make decisions for our country too. Just a solid character.
@@jump171 go to where he was in the same situation. With the same stakes. Are you saying you’d have let them kill you? Would you have let them kill those closer to you than some family? Yes he’s a killer. It’s combat and that is the ugly truth of it. But lest we forget, it’s kill or be killed. Those men on the hills surrounding him were just as assuredly trying to take his life. One up close and personal. He’s not a murderous piece of shit. He’s just an ordinary guy who happened to find himself in an extraordinary position. I wholeheartedly believe you would’ve made the same decisions in the same circumstances.
There’s a difference between killing for no reason and killing for a reason that you absolutely accept and believe in. When it comes down to it both people are willing to die for their countries and what they are fighting for. But he can die for his, because we are gona live for ours.
Zamokwakhe Sishi What? Awards like the Medal of Honor isn’t something you look at and smile? It’s something this man looks and thinks of why he earned it! All these privileged kids that were able to go to college and not serve their country. The people that volunteered for their country deal with the mental aspects of things you’ll never imagine. I was given a Suburban life and joined the military because I didn’t want to waste my parents money in college and not even know what I want. I also felt an obligation.
That, and it was much easier to find new land to give away in territories freshly conquered than it would be to find such land in the heart of the Empire in Italy.
...your comment says nothing about WHY they were offered these things instead of money etc in the cities. All soldiers wanted to be farmers? There was a reason they were offered things that put them AWAY from the cities etc. That is the point you totally missed. Try again.
Well the truth is "we're in this place" because our those people decided to hate us and attack us. Islamic religious violence is happening all over the world, and the victims are not just western people , they are attacking all races and religions. Muslims are even killing each other like the Sunni vs Shia wars, even within the Sunni movement there is killings and violence between Kurds and others.
Ever seen #Deadwood where Sheriff Bullock fights the Native American & kills him with a rock & speaks these words almost verbatim. Check the scene out, Great Fucking Series! #Swedgen is the Man!
I've never heard so many deep words spoken, I had tears in my eyes. Hearing what this man had to go through, and I've honestly never gotten to hear anything like this from the source, usually they are to emotional to tell there story. Makes me want to be a better American, and show a little more American pride, and most of all show more thanks for our veterans. Sometimes we all get wrapped up in our own life, we don't appreciate the right things.
I feel for him as well. And, because I actually do care instead of cowardly joining into the Hollywood-produced military-industrial complex circle-jerk, I think we need to balance his loss with the loss of the people they needlessly kill which includes a lot of women and children being caught in the crossfire or, worse, killed indiscriminately. Joe giving voice to military people is fine, but Joe doesn't have the guts to do a show that actually exposes WHY these people are shoved into endless wars that are NOT fighting for our freedoms and make our nation and the world less safe. Here's someone with GUTS willing to tell the truth in a sea of Hollywood lies: ruclips.net/video/qM__quEzH7o/видео.html
President Obama awarded Sgt. Dakota Meyers the CMOH for this day. He is a true hero that doesn’t believe he rates the honor. There is hours before, and hours after of combat which rated him the Medal of Honor. All said.... Humble Marine brother......
i haven’t watched joes or jockos respective podcast with Meyer, so while watching this video i googled him. when a white house staffer reached out to arrange his medal of honor ceremony, meyer asked if he could have a beer with the president. i don’t know why that stuck out to me, but i hope he had that beer.
He did there’s pictures of it but from my understanding Obama couldn’t finish it due to something happening elsewhere and it was cut short so in my opinion he still owes him half a beer😂
@@mark-jx9uh no, no he's really not. unless u mean we are _all_ low key junkies. Coffee, sugar, alcohol, chocolate, sex, exercise, adrenaline, cigarettes....particular behaviors... _Everyone_ is addicted to something. If we can assume 'junkie' to be a derogatory term, then the only person, i feel(IMHO), qualifies for the word is an addict so far _'gone',_ in their addiction, that they will _harm others_ to quell their withdrawals. That and only that, is a junkie - You know, someone so far gone, they're barely human anymore. They are dysfunctional - only existing to support their addiction..... I wouldn't even call full-blown addict to heroin or cocaine a junkie if they pay taxes, and don't hurt others.
When a man sees combat, it takes his life too. Even as a survivor. You get never see things the same and it is brutally final. Can't change it... just learn to deal with it. God Bless all those that have been there.
Back in 2016, my best friend Lukas had just come out of rehab, he called me and said he was going to meet me but first he had to score som H. I told him not to do it and just come to my house and have a couple of beers and watch some sports, he told me he had to do it because he couldnt handle being sober. I told him okay and that it was his choice but that he couldnt do any needles in my house, 1-2 hours go by and he calls me when he is on the train on his way to me, I could hear in his voice that something wasnt right, he said to me "i don´t know man, something feels wrong today and im not feeling great, but come and meet me at the train station". I try to call him about 30 minutes later but his phone was off. I go down to the trainstation and when the train from Stockholm rolls in i cant fint him on the platform, i stick my head in the train but cant see him. I go home again and go to sleep, i wake up from a phonecall from a friend, "lukas is dead, he was found on the train toilet yesterday" This fucked me up for several years, could i have done something different? should I have hopped on the train to look for him? Should i have called someone when i spoke to him on the phone and heard that he wasnt feeling good? The guilt of knowing that one of your best friend tried to explain in his own way that something was off but you didnt listen carefully enough. RIP Lukas Brynje (1991-2016).
Twenty-five years ago, I had my M16 locked and loaded, six inches from the face of a man I was about to kill. In the ten seconds before that moment he had made a series of aggressive moves toward a group of us who were guarding a recently secured area. I was the NCOIC and the linguist of the recon team, and before I squeezed that trigger I shouted a command to him in his language. He obeyed. I didn't fire. He pissed himself and started crying, then collapsed to the ground. ... Once he calmed down I spoke with him, and the whole incident was a case of wrong place, wrong information, wrong time. He was the owner of the establishment we had commandeered, and he had been told we were robbing him, when in fact we were looking for him in order to negotiate terms of occupancy. I wondered later what would have happened if his aggression had taken him face to face with another soldier, one who could not speak that unfortunate man's language. I wondered what kind of life would have ended, whose father or son he was and how would they feel if one of us had killed him over a mistake. I cried myself to sleep in our tent, many long hours after that confrontation, thinking about my six-year-old daughter waiting for me back at Bragg. What if she had become fatherless because of a mistake, a generational mistake, to borrow the terms used by this man in this video. ... My reenlistment window closed four days later, and I left the military ten weeks after redeployment. In my nine years of active duty, twice in combat zones, I never killed anyone, and I'm glad of it, because the almost was/is bad enough. My thoughts are with the Marine in this video. Rest easy, brother, though I think I know how difficult it must be.
So you went over to this mans country and decided to, in your own words COMMANDEER his establishment? Gosh i wonder why they dislike you. Commandeer, command, OBEY. You arrogant coward.
Thank you for sharing this.. This is a side of life people need to understand... I have much love/respect for what you've done.. No matter what happens in life from here on out please keep your head high is I know you will. And don't let any of the internets finest effect your moods negatively..
@@AJ-xv7oh ashley ,why would you make a comment to a soldier like that .a soldier follows the orders of his direct commander, its not a personal choice.sitting back at home and calling people a coward for talking about a terrible experience is a cowardly act in itself.
Wow - Thank you sir for speaking from your heart and Joe Rogan for giving Dakota Meyer a forum to be heard. I have been studying war and listening to combat veterans my entire life including my father who fought in WWII and this is the most condensed, real and in your face discussion on killing, combat and understanding your enemy that I have ever heard. Thank you.
Not every single person who engages in war/kills multi purpose let other people/see their friends die don't develop PTSD some people can manage it and turn it off
As the father of an armed serviceman who saw 8 tours of duty....thank you for this interview...I now can begin to understand why my son screams in his sleep..this man is an extraordinary human...weeping from this interview
Sorry you and your son have to go through this. Tell him that real Americans are proud of him and thank him for all the freedoms he has blessed us with. We the people salute you!
The Shitstorm Starter well doesn’t matter if you don’t agree with the politics or what war is going on . The military is responsible for your safety in this country and they are owed respect for it . When you get invaded and your women and children get fucked and murdered with no military to protect them I bet you’ll wish you showed some damn respect little kid .
You Tube are you even educated in what the war was ? It’s almost like your being ignorant on purpose . What you hear ? And what you know are very different. I shouldn’t have to educate you on how to do research in a RUclips comment .... Jesus Christ
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him." - Orson Scott Card
@give me Chocolate He was 18 when he went in literally still a young kid he dodnt k ow what happened, the internet wasnt very popular then and we hadn't been in war for years, he saw 3000 people die on the news, and joined up bc that's why they thought they were fighting.
I felt like I held my breath for this entire clip. Violence and death have always been an element of life, and still is despite many privileged modern perspectives. My heart goes out to this man and many others like him, in America and other countries, for defending what they hold dear.
Eddie Taliaferro Moral of the story: go to another mans country under false pretenses and with bad intentions, beat him to death with a rock, then you will find clarity.
Precision Lift it’s not that deep it’s actually an massive over generalizations of the situation. Because by that standard everyone you don’t connect with is willfully trying to have conflict and we know that not true all the time
@@kmoss9521 Technically true, but in this case I think its fair to generalize, because if humans as a whole Were connected, do you think we would have the same kind and/or amount of life-or-death conflicts?
Most profound interview of a soldier on RUclips ...raw and honest....everyone in our country should have to watch this before they graduate from high school. More importantly, every single politician should watch this and take heed. Professional athletes should watch this and stand for this young man and every other solider who had to confront the ultimate fear of imminent death at age 21.
Professional Athletes can kneel. Kapernick ended up being a shitty 3rd string QB before he wanted to be a social activist, but when he sat on his ass, a VETERAN turned pro football player, asked him to kneel out of RESPECT.
It's mind blowing that this man sees more humanity in a man that he is fighting for his life than so many of us can see in those that vote differently.
Johnny Cash The Man in Black "I wear the black in mourning for the lives that could of been Each week we lose a hundred fine young men And I wear it for the thousands who have died believing the Lord was on their side. I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died believing we were all on their side"
I love this discuss, couse I learn every day more and more of persoectives in live. I love that I dont have to do this experience, to recognize what is improtant. We should more talk about our real thougts and experinces, than to go this far and to live with this Pain every day. Thanks for this lesson!
From a Marine Corps Vet...this is the best description of war I've ever heard...this is heavy stuff people. Being a hero is a huge burden on the mind. Dakota is one of the greatest men of our generation.
Daniel Castaneda the podcast Den Zuko is almost definitely referring to is #1171 - Nick Yarris. Like this one, it was also a heavy one to watch, but had a lot of profound stuff and intense stories.
Papa Steve I would say Kevin Smith talking about how he died and came back the same way his mother did was pretty damn good. I never seen Joe be quiet for that long
“i’ve seen the best of humans.. the worst of humans.. and nobody thought they were wrong.” heavy.
Powerful.
Heavy bigtime bro
Michael Thomas wow
Duality of man
Man, very heavy. And deep.
Dakota: killing people was difficult to deal with and changed me
Joe: have u ever eaten an edible in an isolation tank
Best comment hahah
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Bobby Harr lmao
Yeah dude that annoyed the fuck out of me.
Bobby Harr I was your 900th like. This shit deserve to be one of the top comments 😂
“Looking into his eyes I could see he knew where this was going” that’s a memory that will never go away.
that was hard to listen too.
@@a-hvlogs2046 yea but the silver lining of what he figured out..
Being beaten to death with a rock will tend to make your eyes do that.
@@sangwooToobnoob There is no silver lining in beating a man to death with a rock.
@@a-hvlogs2046 the title of the video then watch the video? "in that moment.. "
I was drafted & sent to Vietnam in 1970 only a few months after my cousin, my best friend, the guy I considered my big brother David... was KIA only 2 months after he arrived in country. I still haven't heard a combat veteran yet who can adequately describe the sheer terror, desperation, or chaos of an ambush & ensuing firefight. If you weren't wealthy, Draftees basically had 3 choices. Leave the country never to return, go to prison, or become a reluctant cog in politicians war machine. At the time the military had the unique power of forcing a normally good natured 19 year old kid out of his home & place them in a situation where it's either kill or be killed. The motherfuckers.
David L. Palmer: Panel 10, Row 30, Vietnam Memorial Wall.
Thank you for both your service and sacrifice.
You are 100% correct though I thought my wife understood. Until I came to one night (from a life changer) with my K-Bar to her throat. Thank God she just said “I Love You” over and over and that I later learned, in therapy, is the only reason I snapped back saving her and possible our twins. This was the late 90’s and thought I was just being a bitch when I woke up in cold sweats (and vivid memories) so I never thought of “getting help”. My wife went and stayed at her moms for a week and came back and said if I agreed to get help with her in session (when gov’t allowed) I can’t remember a session she came to and didn’t leave the room early in tears and that still wasn’t the worst ! Luckily she stood by me, although I still see faces, break down watching certain things (esp children after waist I saw in Central Africa) but I haven’t laid my hands on another human being in violence in 20yrs now
@@USMC-ms1pb Thank you for sharing. Thank you for your sacrifices. Thank you for sharing. That is both beautiful and horrifying. My father never spoke much about his service in the Corps. He's now been gone for a few years. Thank you again Marine.
@@John-mg7fb 🙏🏽 Thanks my Brother! I’m sorry to hear of the loss of your father! My dad served in the Corps but his little brother(my uncle) was drafted to Vietnam so my father left college to be close and that is all I know other than what I could dig up after finding a couple Purple Hearts and Medal of Honor in my Granny’s attic when she passed. I asked him and he said “ask John what he wants done with that one, the other two are just reminders of the worst of humanity as well as my ability to abandon mine “. Those words stuck with me though i didn’t understand the gravity, only being 14 and clueless as to what they were nor did I know my father had served. It wasn’t until i entered my Jr year at The Citadel and told him I decided to sign up that he he opened up about the scars I was always told were from bar fights. When I received my first PH he made the comment “this is the only time I can say I wish I had mine now”. Little did he know this kid had no thoughts of throwing those cool looking “thingies” away. That night at 22yrs old I saw my Pops cry for the first time when I brought his medals and ribbons I “pilfered” from Grannies attic!
@@USMC-ms1pb You should write a book. Honestly these types of things should be shared with the world. Lest some forget and for those who might never have known otherwise. Stay strong sir!
What I absolutely LOVE about your interviews is you know when NOT to talk!
That's the greatest trait any tv or radio personality could possess IMO. Know when to shut up and allow the moment to define itself.
Comments directly addressing the youtoubers make me uncomfortable
A Ghost. Why
He had to learn that. I remember the days (not that long ago) where most of the comments on the JRE podcasts were about Joe not letting his guests talk!
hellkid227 I was just thinking the same thing. It seems like it wasn’t even a year ago he was getting shit for this.
You can tell this mans brain is so cluttered with thoughts and anxiety when he talks about these terrible experiences. Pretty sad.
I definitely see that too. He's really caught up in over thinking the matter after the fact. It's over, you did your job, you lived. Keep moving forward. I know it's easier said than done for some.
@@OldSchoolParatrooper Did you hear how he won the medal of honor? The story is insane.
Law Dawg Awarded. You don’t ‘win’ the Medal of Honor
@@jakesnake9821 Sorry my grammer was not perfect, awarded the medal of honor.
Thats what he signed up for.
The deepest thing I’ve heard “i don’t hate this guy i don’t even know this guy we’re just here because we were born in 2 different countries”
@SpaceShroom That's true, but it's also human nature to live in caves and draw on walls. There's a lot of stuff in our nature that we've abandoned because we advanced beyond it as a species. I wish killing each other was one of those things
@Le Monke Yea that might be the case for a lot of people but there are also people lke me, i never felt the need to hurt somebody or thought about beating someone to death or anything like that. The thing is i never really feel angry, like sure i get a little heated up when im talking about a sensitive topic or when someone talks shit about you or your family, but I never felt the need to punch someone. when i was young i definetely had moments like that but i dont really remember how i felt back then. The only thing i remember from these moments is that i would be angry about myself because i thought about hurting someone else so it might have something to do with that.
Not at all the deepest thing i ever heard... Where im from we call that common sense.
That's a very thoughtful and human way of looking at it. Sadly, a lot of people don't see it that way. They do hate. A lifetime of nationalism and propaganda make sure of that.
@@boyo4172 XD
"If I could connect to a man whose life I was taking, then definitely we all can connect to each other better with all our small differences". This is probably the one most impactful and powerful line I ever heard.
Wish Joe would have asked him next so what do you think about kneeling for the flag.
Very powerful
This hurt me in me heart
@@cryptoscircus6880 seriously? You need to make this about something else ? This is important enough. These are the realest things you'll ever hear but no no it's all about kneeling for the flag ? this is bigger then the United States these are life lessons that cross borders.
@@cryptoscircus6880 loser.
I can only imagine the huge difference it makes killing someone with a rock than with a firearm.
You ever heard of these things called...hands? Why do you think boxing and the UFC are so big. (I'm saying, imagine just beatin' a dude to death w/ your bare hands.)
Yea man it's intense. Imagine cutting someone's through someone's flesh with even a knife. While they are looking you in your eyes knowing it is now happening. That's hardcore as fuck.
@@DBAY012 yea but UFC is not war, it is not a fight over life and death. It's not a fight over seeing your loved ones ever again really . 9 times out of ten they will make it home. But I understand what your trying to say.
honestly tho if u were to look at it my way i’d be okay with it look at it like this (i’m beating this guy with a rock right n it’s so fucked but if it was him beating me with a rock he wouldn’t give 2 fucks he just wants u dead) so i wouldn’t be fucked for life after that yes i’d be changed but i wouldn’t be scarred
Brastin Manningway That's easy to say but you really can't know the effect it would have on you unless you had to do it. Like he said, he didn't feel bad about it necessarily, he would kill him 1000 times over if he were in the same situation again because he was the enemy and he would've done the same thing back. Its more about the look of defeat in the mans eyes, bashing the mans skull in
I really like Joe bringing on so many military men and women. It really gives some perspective into what war is like without having been there. These guy deserve a much larger voice.
PNW Nighthorse what is it that they are fighting for, can you explain to me? not the U.S but the other side.
JOCKO
Scumbag idk i’m not well informed on the subject, i just know it has something to do with religion. could you explain?
Thou shalt not kill. Read the Bible that God guy is a genocidal Maniac but thou shalt not kill
@@TristanB361. To be able to live in their country, in their home, without another country invading, killing and enforcing a way of life upon them.
Maybe ask yourself what you would be fighting for if someone decided military action in your country was necessary.
"How many generations, just that day were changed?" This guy thinks about the real things. Every life taken in that firefight changed the course of history, as every life taken in war.
Same could be said about the lives that where not taken...
That makes me contemplate all the countless deaths from wars in ancient history.
How many people like Leonardo de Vinci’s we’re killed by Genghis Khan or Charlemagne?
Precisely. And even deeper, how many of those generations will continue the fighting *because* of that day?
I've always thought about the next "Einsteins" or people that can change the course of this world for the better that die at the age of 19 in a firefight in some corner of the earth.
The Longview
Wisdom from a man that self admittedly had none, then one day, acquired more than most of us. These are hard words he is speaking, he speaks them so comfortably because he has been through them in his mind a hundred thousand times. We could all use a little bit of perspective, I think. Awesome interview, and a special thank you to Dakota Meyer for talking about things he probably has nightmares about every night.
He doesn't look that comfortable to me, even many years later, and that's part of what makes this so moving.
Knowledge is acquired, wisdom is incurred
🐶👹
@@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 I agree. He’s definitely accepted what has happened, but you can hear the stress in his voice. He lives with this weight every day.
Our problem is people will watch this and not "feel" like gaining perspective. That's the issue.
There's a reason soldiers are recruited at 18 or 19 and not 25 or 30.
Soldiers regularly are recruited at 25-29 in every branch
@@NahImPro True and I phrased this statement poorly (and was thinking of when there's been an active draft.) Better put: "There's a reason marines are most actively recruited for bootcamp at 18 or 19." It may not be the stated reason, but try getting someone with a trace of self-preservation or life perspective to sign up for the job. Sure, you'll find the occasional 25 -30 year old, but it's the exception.
@Muneeb Iqbal A short sighted way to look at the military is to look at the shitty decisions and wars countries enter to and assume that if they stopped that, then shit would sort itself out. At some point someone or something will come into the equation that needs to be dealt with, and that is why people join. They want to defend their country that they love from a threat. I dare say a lot of military personnel know a large portion of conflict is complete bullshit, but they'll be there when things actually matter. Also consider the opposing side, such as Iraqi and afghan forces the west were fighting and the above still stands true IMO.
johnny walker takes one to know one
Intelligence (or lack thereof) is a factor, but the more desirable trait of a soldier is obedience. A typical soldier is no less smart than a humanities undergraduate. The difference is a soldier will follow orders and has a higher sense of duty. His contemporaries of the same generation (liberals, academics etc) mostly do not have these traits. So they pursue other paths - not because they are smarter per se, but that they aren't born soldiers.
An officer is a very smart individual but will kill without hesitation. And there are PhD graduates (I know first hand) who cannot string a sentence together or use critical thinking outside their narrow research bubble.
It seems like he's visualizing what he remembers while he's talking
Edit: I meant he actually sees it. It's different than just remembering something
Jacob Canaday because he is. Once forced to do the unthinkable, that person will always be able to visualize it. It’s forever seared into their memories
He is
Don’t you?
I'm certain it's always there
Jacob Canaday thats the only way I remember things
"If we don't connect with each other, it's because we CHOOSE not to."
Powerful words, my man.
It hit me like a ton of bricks.
@@mrdjchasm or a rock to the face. Hahaha
Yep hasn't worked consistently in history and never will..it's just something we will forever deal with..
And? Why deal with other humans they are untrust worthy
Eh, not really. Theres a ton of reasons why people dont connect: Social Anxiety, IQ difference, most people are fukin dum. And Im talking Joe-Rogan-from-ten-years-ago dumb...
Damn bro I damn near cried when he was talking about how neither of them were wrong and how they only here because of were they are born
@Queen of England it really isn’t
@@YouArentSlick but it is
The most honest interview about what War really is. There is so much wisdom in this conversation
Wisdom *O V E R L O A D*
go watch world war 2 interviews then.. this guy is just one of a very very long list over 100s of years of war.. just we live in a time of mass media so these stories are able to get out more often hopefully it helps.
@John Doe type in you tube "world war 2 interview"
John Doe need to go onto jocko willink and listen to any of the podcasts he has with serving/past military people they’re all as honest as this
"It is good that war is so terrible , else we should grow to fond of it." Robert E. Lee.
Joe Rogan is such a good interviewer. The way he just sits and silence and really lets this mans story hit you. Not trying to talk over it or ask too many questions
It's very true 😁
I like Joe Rogan, and this was a good moment, but this is not typical behavior of him.
@@cameronforbes2649 when somebody has something really important to say he lets it be said. You cannot do this all the time or they would be extremely boring interviews, his frequent talking that so many complain about is what generates situations like these so often.
maybe because Joe was as shook by the story as i was
It's rare that he is this quiet and not constantly interrupting his guests. But even Joe knew not to interrupt this guy during this retelling
“I don’t even know this guy ... we’re just here in this place cause we’re in two different countries” Thats tough. When he says, “the other guy wasn’t wrong, he believes in his cause as much as I believe in mine”. This world is tough.
Screw the reasons why. It's either you, or him.
@@bighairyfeet yep and as we both know it's about the people serving with you. Nothing is stronger than that bond
you guys are missing the Marines point of this video.
"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one to mobilize us." -Thich Nhat Hanh
edit: that is what brought him to that point of killing a man with a rock. then he seems he seen the flipside when he says we should see how humans connect instead of the opposite
It shows how feeble the human mind can be. If we all were capable of putting our ideologies aside and unite we would find peace. Sadly, this just isn't possible. Maybe one day we will unlock the ability to use our entire brain and things will be different, but peace is an impossible feat for at least several thousand years at least.
"More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way"-Glen Cook
@@defeatignorance8681 maybe that's why psychedelics is schedule 1 while meth is not. keep us divided and war minded? idk
It's chilling to see him as he is still struggling to make sense of it all. My husband is a combat veteran whose experiences were nowhere near as intense as those of SGT. Meyer's but there are times when he talks about it and you can literally see the questions in his head as he is, after many years, still trying to make sense of what he saw.
that was well written.
Dakota : This guy tried to choke me out
Joe : Was that a rear naked choke ?
Jesus360NoScope Joe: “ you ever trained jiu-jitsu prior?”
You’re one of those guys who doesn’t know when and where to make a joke. Good for you.
😂
Waldemar Rodriguez Joe "you should try weed while doing jiu-jitsu " Rogan
Did your jiu-jitsu coach believe in flat earth theory and chem trails?
Joe: “ I probably would have used my spinning back kick”
Joe: "I'm an outsider doing typical Hollywood insider shit promoting military shit like a good, little boy" - ruclips.net/video/qM__quEzH7o/видео.html
😂😂
That's the reality of it for black men in AmeriKKKA you dont know whether or not you gona make it hme to your family... we dont need travel half way across the globe to get that feeling when white policemen & women gunning us down..
@@fbc_junior2448 victimhood complex is strong in this one
@@fbc_junior2448 , lie
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ― G.K. Chesterton
Deep
if ur a vet
I wish that was the case now, American military has simply become a business. We really have no purpose of being in other country’s besides the us. We have a lot of problems here already idk why were getting into other countries problems. Every time we just escalate it
That's a warrior. A soldier takes orders, no questions asked, unfortunately.
You learned nothing from what this man just told you.
This should be on every public screen in US right now.
Exactly everyone would be acting very different in a good way
Yea man, this shit with China and Taiwan is freaking me out.
“I don’t hate him, I don’t even know this guy. We’re just in this place right now cuz we were born in 2 different countries!” 😭😭
But only 1 is born in the country they were standing
And thats why I dont voluntarily go to war. You come to my country and start shit then we'll talk but im not gonna fight someone in their country when they aint doing dick to affect me.
"We’re just in this place right now cuz we were born in 2 different countries!"
Unfortunately, it's a lot more complicated and nuanced than this, but he can keep telling himself whatever he needs to tell himself to get through his day.
@koolcat420 Yeah, it's pretty disgusting. Those two men shouldn't have even been in the situation that resulted in the other guy getting his head bashed in with a rock.
This gave me goose bumps....
This is why this is the craziest, most interesting, podcast out there.
raztubes listen to jocko podcast. He has some absolute badasses on there
It’s the only podcast I watch/listen to
James Edwards
what’s wrong, man?
you need a hug?
Nah alex jones is
Hanndsss downnn man..
This man has seriously contemplated eternal consequences and has far more humility than 99% of the population.
Is that why he said he'd kill him again? there is nothing humble about this guy, he was an ignorant child when he went over, admitted to being an agressor because he had tanks and planes to back him up then wonder why his mind is messed up, the only thing he should wonder is WHY was he there to begin with.
@@TheDiveDawg lol you obviously have nothing worth dying for.
@@nohalfmeasures6 What? mass produced consumer devices?
ostrich and sand come to mind.
@@TheDiveDawg what is wrong with you
@@garrettbaratheon567 I'll play your silly little game, what's wrong with me?
What I find truly remarkable isn't this man's reflections on the humanity of his foe, but rather the strength of determination to say "I'd kill him a million times over." To have this weigh so heavy on you and still have the will to do the hard thing, knowing how it will affect with the benefit of hindsight. That's real strength.
This is probably the realest Joe Rogan interview ever
did ya get to see Nick Yarris? His was pretty fire too.
@@sinnisyt yeah i watched that one it was crazy
Rogan is always real
Watch the one about cowboy going cave diving.
The last two minutes or so of this clip should be going viral across america right now
1,000,000%
Absolutely!!! I would even say skip to that. If only everyone would learn to compromise and accept that we are different and will not all agree on many things, but it should not inspire hatred for one another. I wish we could replace every politician in Washington with guys as wise as this.
Facts
Right on brother!
Agreed but unfortunately would fall on many deaf ears.
I was 19 when I was in Iraq. Shit’s crazy. Learned war before manhood.
Thank you for your service bro
Sorry you got duped bud.
SNAB1987 hero
HOOOAH!!
@@EPA3 you mad?
This is what the face of ptsd and the horrors of war look like. This man is an American hero and deserves peace in his heart
hero? who did he save?
One minute his buddy’s killed, 20 seconds later he’s putting a rock through someone’s face. And I thought I’d had a rough day.
David what did he do to you
@ lol you must me a miserable guy
David yeah dude, you tell him
@ let him talk about the perspective he gained. What are you trying to prove? Smh
My dad once ask me what was wrong when I came home from high school one day. I told him I was having the worst day of my life cuz I had failed an exam and broke up with my girl friend. He then told me about his worst day in his life was in Vietnam holding a 18 yr old Marine in his arms as he drew his last breath. That was over 30 yrs ago and I have never forgot it.
“If we don’t connect with each other it’s because we chose not to.” Powerful words for us to reflect on.
Basically the antithesis of what MSM has been pushing.
Straight from the leftist playbook.
danzoil what does his political affiliation have to do with his message?
@@TheFiddlinRy You hate white people just admit it!!, Fuck U leftist
That's bullshit,I wish I could connect with people but there's nothing there😞
Man this should be viewed by every American. "If I can feel empathy for a man while bashing is skull in with a rock, you should be capable of not dehumanising your political opponents"
"and I just think about, like, in that moment, a man who, like, I'm taking his life, we all in America can find a way to connect to each other. Like.... I don't care what your reasons are, you should find reasons why we should be able to get along, not reasons why we should not be able to get along" 7:40 :)
@Anthony Ramsey He's right, why would you look for reasons for people to not get along?
@Anthony Ramsey I'm sorry you found my message so offensive to your sensibilities.
@Anthony Ramsey Got a point, I shouldn't have put quotation marks around it since it wasn't a direct quote rather my paraphrasing. I'll keep that in mind in the future, cheers
What's funny is that Anthony Ramsey didn't find reasons why we should be able to get along, but he rather found a reason to not get along.
Him talking about the look in a man’s eyes, how it changes once they realize they’ve lost, and what the cost of that is. Proud of this guy, something about being so perceptive and capable of love after this world can show you how evil it really can be take strength.
This was probably the single most deep cutting segment I've ever seen on JRE.
That was heavy.
Berenstein Wolf it’s crazy the burden our military carry’s
hmmm, military... military... military... . . .
OH! you're talking about the Petrodollar Mercenary Force we send allover the world to commit geopolitical terrorism!!
This is the kind of narrative that our leadership needs to hear. This is what we send our sons, daughters and parents into. There are valid reasons for it, but it's a high cost.
@Mark Taylor bring it you saudi bootlicker
@D G question for you: did you vote for the trump that said Saudi Arabia was behind 9/11 before he was president or did you vote for the trump that licks Saudi Arabian boots after he became president?????
Mind you this happened 11 years ago. Every second of his day he has to live with this story. We listen once and move on. He has to recite it every. Single. Minute.
Yup I live with that ,but on a diff level
Dont go to war then. Protecting the american people? No.
Fighting for oil and control for the benefit of rich white men? Yup.
I have no respect for soldiers that willingly and blindly go to "fight the good fight"
The good fight...get the fuck real
Kai Campbell you should respect them, they truly believe what they do is for US, they’ve been brainwashed and manipulated through training
Edit: instead of what you said you should feel lucky to have the knowledge to know better. That’s just luck of the draw
@@whirledpeas1182 Well done on the edgy cop out logic. How much oil have we gotten from Afghanistan?
@@Wallbank888 how many terrorists have we gotten from afghanistan? ignorance truly is bliss
Dakota Meyer: "all my teammates died"
Joe Rogan: "Hmmm Jamie pull up that video of the Jaguar on DMT"
Yeah, you're not that funny though.
Stfu he funny as hell
That was actually pretty funny.
@@watdeneuk you just jelly you didn't think about it first.
*Jamie
"No cause that you have built on hate, will survive." Dakota Meyer
Americans should take a lesson from this
So true!!
It’s not looking like that’s true anymore unfortunately. Nearly every agenda at the mo is built on hate to cause division and unfortunately it’s working
Can't have love without hate. We're also more likely to be murdered by someone that loves us than by a stranger. Be kind, be aware, cover your ass and be grateful.
Quintus Arrius : "Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength."
Get Roe Jogan back on the show
Lol
I actually laughed😂 barely do that on yt comments anymore
lol
Roe Jogan the evil twin💀💀
no
"It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."
Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
Do you think god forgives him for taking another mans life?
INeedsMoneys prolly bruh seems like a good guy
INeedsMoneys everything is forgiven with the blood of Jesus.
@Overby's Raiders its actually Clint Eastwood's line from Unforgiven.
@@JonathanNelsonOfficial There isn't a god. And if the bible is real at all Satan is the savior of the people. Not the lord, damn sure not Jesus.
This man is a hero, defied the orders of his superiors while on a mission drove into a eastern Afghanistan “killing zone” and rescued 36 U.S. and afghan troops
Maybe you should read about how a majority of his story is made up and that there is video evidence that contradicts his story.
@@SBoss281 Maybe you should get that schizophrenia checked out.
@@SBoss281 One question, What have you done with your life?
No hes a murderer. Just admitted it tl millions of people. Classic america celebrating their legal murderers
The Goat Classic humanity you mean? Every country has soldiers. Every single solider who has taken a life is a legal murderer. Get tf over it.
this guys talking to Joe like a therapist for PTSD and Joes there like
"did you have any bullets when you killed that guy."
Well that’s because Joe IS NOT a therapist 🤷♂️
"What sound do you think a chimpanzee would make if you were hitting it in the face with a rock?"
Joe really doesn't ask the right questions at the right time sometimes.
he was trying to get him to paint a picture. and he did and it led to him saying some incredible words. joe did his job. and that man is a marine. wasn't like the question hurt his feeling any. he did what he had to, to win that situation.
@@michaeltobias3110 I mean it was a valid question... when you were a soldier in active combat and you tell someone you killed an enemy with a rock... of course the first thought in most people's minds would be, "did you lose your gun or run out of ammo? Why a rock?" Ya know what I'm saying.
That’s a good man carrying the burden of demons.
Pithy
Most, if not all who've been in combat do.
Well said.
I have a lot of vet friends. And one night, chilling at one Navajo friend's home, he had a few drinks. And my son asked him, "why do you drink alcohol?"
He took a second and said, "I hurt people in Iraq, and now it hurts me."
So the significance of being Navajo was what. Congrats for your friend?
@@EnvisionedBlindness its a form of describing the scene, I see nothing wrong with that
@Jonathan Blind Ok... Mr PC Policeman. Anything wrong with him saying that (in that context) either? You pretty much have no point.
@@lukehorning9713 my point is it had absolutely no significance to the point he was making. It was a useless detail. Should I give a fuck about him being native for some reason? I wouldn't know because it was never addressed. That clear enough for you? Or do I need to bring up what year I graduated high school since apparently ANY AND ALL information is relevant when making a point to you. Btw I'm white, I had a girlfriend when I was a teenager named ariana. She turned out to be a whore. You see where I'm going with this yet? Useless, irrelevant information that serves no purpose to the point has no place in the conversation.
@@lukehorning9713 do I have a point now, moron?
“All my teammates died” how he pause briefly when he said that, it makes you think.
Time of clip?
Jesse Montgomery so you actually think that every US soldier sent to foreign land deserves to die? Check yourself dipshit
@@andrewmoore739 yep they do
I don't understand PTSD from a veterans point of view, as I've never served. I have been a firefighter for 9 years and deal with a diffrent type of PTSD. I never took lives, it was my job to preserve life and property and to create order from chaos and destruction. Fighting so hard to save someone and then they die was hard for me. I could never withdraw myself from it. I always personalized every single patient I had. I still remember their faces, what they were wearing, what the weather was like, how the air smelled. I've thought many diffrent things like Dakota has. They have families they will never see again. Their generation stopped.. When you watch someone die, you can see the moment they give up. It's so heartbreaking to know that they fought so hard, I fought so hard, but their body just couldn't keep going. I struggle with those memories. Its easy to let your mind control you with the thoughts of what if I did something diffrent. It's easy when a trigger happens to get lost in a memory and it will consume you. I cannot imagine what this Marine went through. Fighting another human being who is trying to take your life is something I've never experienced and can only imagine. We are all human beings. We all have compassion, empathy, and regret. It doesn't make you a bad person to feel things like this. You're a human being... God bless you Dakota Meyer. You are the standard of the Marine Corps. Your values and beliefs are amazing. Thank you, Warrior. I pray you find comfort in your life before its over. If anyone deserves it, you do. God bless our heroes who sacrifice so much and God Bless America 🇺🇸
May the Lord bless you too sir as well as all the good american men and women in your country who fight for the good and well being of your people, brazilian here by the way 🙌🙏
@@yanmatheusleal54 Thank you my friend!
Thank you for sharing your story, may Gob Bless you and your family! Hope you can get some type of comfort and professional help for your PTSD.
Fireman are heros imo. Selfless, Dangerous both physically and mentally. I wish you the best.
I Pray for your well being sir
"No cause built on hate will survive."
If more people went about life with this in mind, the world would be a much different, and much better place
Plenty of causes built on hate survive, this is just bullshit, fluffy logic. "Good will always triumph over evil".. bull-fucking-shit.
@@NefariousPorpoise yeah im a fan of Dakota meyer but I'm not going to "get along" with communists(for example) who have killed 100+ million people. Especially when they want to kill me too. That makes zero sense.
@@Togairu that's just a lazy idiotic way of thinking.
@@Togairu funny how you write you are fan and then completely push aside one of his main points - nobody thinks they are wrong.
mtereletsky1 that’s the most bull shit statement ever America not on survived but thrives on hate lol. Literally stole land and killed native Americans and enslaved black people and look at America today.
This guy took a lot of quotes from the comment section
Fuckin uncanny
Lmao i never understood why people re quote stuff just watch the damn video
@@codykanitz97 Because they find that quote to be particularly interesting and touching, and want to share it with other people that they felt something they found important.
I think the comments were made in reaction to the video, not vise versa.
You know, wouldn't that make what you said completely impossible? In fact, i think you may be joking.
I'm so clever.
Mystic Zealot I feel that, maybe I just don’t really comment that much
"It does make sense, I understand what you're saying."
"So did like, his eyeballs go flying in different directions?"
🤣🤣🤣 needed this.
haha
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You are a dickhead sayin that
“Find a reason for why we should all get along” - never truer words said. If we could all put as much effort into loving each other as we do into hating, the world would be a better place.
"If we dont connect with each other is because we choose not to" we all have to help spread this mans message and share this.
@The Observer Be a pessimist and go through life with anger and then wonder why you're not happy.
@Toasted Joe *"Be a denialist and go through life with nonplussed indifference and then wonder why you're clueless and out of touch with reality."*
_there, ftfy, yw_
It's in queue for my next Facebook status update
This experience in now way compares to the intensity of Dakota’s. I remember deer hunting with my dad when I was 14. We were sitting there together and a deer came trotting along. I shot the deer but I broke it’s back. It was on a ridge down below us and it’s back legs were paralyzed and it was trying to drag itself with it’s front legs. It looked absolutely pathetic and awful. We walked down to the deer and my dad said “Well finish it off.” I looked down at the deer still breathing but not moving and it was gut wrenching. My dad looked at me and knew I couldn’t finish it. He said “It’s not so easy once you’re up close is it?” He put it out of its misery. That’s the last day I went hunting. Every time I think of going hunting again I think about that deer and decide against it. I can’t fathom sitting on top of a guy and bashing his face in with a rock and having to live with it. That’s the most primal, ancient, savage way I can imagine killing someone. I hope Dakota finds peace.
It's completely different when your very survival depends on it. If you had to feed your suffering family that crippled deer would bring you deep deep joy.
The thousand- yard stare is clearly visible. Hats off to him though
Real American that's been in the trenches
Fuckin scary man.
The moral implications of killing another being is clear.
This dudes head was not in that chair.
Dakota Meyer is just an incredible human. His strength, humility, wisdom, and his ability to have those attributes and more I think shows a lot of intelligence. We need more people like him in the spotlight and as "influencers" and as people who guide and make decisions for our country too. Just a solid character.
Yes. We should all pick better heros in this world.
are u joking hes a murdering piece of shit
@@jump171 okay buddy
He’s a killer..
@@jump171 go to where he was in the same situation. With the same stakes. Are you saying you’d have let them kill you? Would you have let them kill those closer to you than some family? Yes he’s a killer. It’s combat and that is the ugly truth of it. But lest we forget, it’s kill or be killed. Those men on the hills surrounding him were just as assuredly trying to take his life. One up close and personal. He’s not a murderous piece of shit. He’s just an ordinary guy who happened to find himself in an extraordinary position. I wholeheartedly believe you would’ve made the same decisions in the same circumstances.
"Every way of man is right in his own eyes...."
Proverbs 21:2
This line always makes me think of the film 3:10 To Yuma. Very fitting quote for this clip.
...But the Lord weighs the hearts."
@@tylergrasshopper don't. did. him. he's. raly. loss.
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Tomi Adewole dame for the fuckers who wrote that
Religion is the reason were in this mess
this young man sounds like really messed by all the killing
I dunno if he's messed up, maybe enlightened
Definitely not messed up
Zamokwakhe Sishi only a psychopath wouldn’t be
There’s a difference between killing for no reason and killing for a reason that you absolutely accept and believe in. When it comes down to it both people are willing to die for their countries and what they are fighting for.
But he can die for his, because we are gona live for ours.
Zamokwakhe Sishi What? Awards like the Medal of Honor isn’t something you look at and smile? It’s something this man looks and thinks of why he earned it! All these privileged kids that were able to go to college and not serve their country. The people that volunteered for their country deal with the mental aspects of things you’ll never imagine. I was given a Suburban life and joined the military because I didn’t want to waste my parents money in college and not even know what I want. I also felt an obligation.
The Romans understood war and what it did to men. This is why they settled their retired soldiers away from Rome.
Greatest civilization to ever exist and the Egyptians as well
@@Wopkage facts, rome was the most influential/powerful and egypt was the most advanced for it's time
That, and it was much easier to find new land to give away in territories freshly conquered than it would be to find such land in the heart of the Empire in Italy.
@@currahee Arguably the greeks were more influential
...your comment says nothing about WHY they were offered these things instead of money etc in the cities. All soldiers wanted to be farmers? There was a reason they were offered things that put them AWAY from the cities etc. That is the point you totally missed. Try again.
man, his eyes in this spoke more than his words did. he was going back to places.
“Find a reason why we can get along, not why we should not get along”-Dakota Meyer
Okay, but what if it directly harms me?
@@F_Du_Sea in how many situations does someone elses thoughts, beliefs or actions directly harm you.
@@F_Du_Sea you're probably paranoid
When those beliefs are to dominate and control I cannot just "ignore our differences"
@@brigadierblue221 It's sad. They're so innocent.
"We're just here in this place right now because we were born in two different countries." Exactly brother.
Alrachid truer words never been spoke
Well the truth is "we're in this place" because our those people decided to hate us and attack us. Islamic religious violence is happening all over the world, and the victims are not just western people , they are attacking all races and religions. Muslims are even killing each other like the Sunni vs Shia wars, even within the Sunni movement there is killings and violence between Kurds and others.
@@tubester4567 100%
@@tubester4567 So they're the ones attacking you even though YOU'RE invading THEIR country for oil. Sweet logic bro
@@tubester4567 we found the idiot.
When he explained the part with the rock.. I felt like I was there. I can't even imagine being in a situation like that.
Minoxiis fr i understood that on a primal level
Some of the most profound shit I’ve ever heard. The perspective and way he told it was just hypnotizing
Ever seen #Deadwood where Sheriff Bullock fights the Native American & kills him with a rock & speaks these words almost verbatim. Check the scene out, Great Fucking Series! #Swedgen is the Man!
@@clarkyrock187-2 I haven't, I'll look it up
I've never heard so many deep words spoken, I had tears in my eyes. Hearing what this man had to go through, and I've honestly never gotten to hear anything like this from the source, usually they are to emotional to tell there story. Makes me want to be a better American, and show a little more American pride, and most of all show more thanks for our veterans. Sometimes we all get wrapped up in our own life, we don't appreciate the right things.
Ari had the same connection when he looked Bert in the eye as he drank molly
Hahaha hahaha
And right before he choked Bobby Lee out and assaulted him a few times at work, such an intimate moment.
You still crying over that shit? Change ur panties ffs
AGFB40 🤣
You slayer, you!! You just killed me...
I really feel for this guy you can see the strain in his eyes. He looks like his soul is tearing itself apart
I feel for him as well. And, because I actually do care instead of cowardly joining into the Hollywood-produced military-industrial complex circle-jerk, I think we need to balance his loss with the loss of the people they needlessly kill which includes a lot of women and children being caught in the crossfire or, worse, killed indiscriminately. Joe giving voice to military people is fine, but Joe doesn't have the guts to do a show that actually exposes WHY these people are shoved into endless wars that are NOT fighting for our freedoms and make our nation and the world less safe. Here's someone with GUTS willing to tell the truth in a sea of Hollywood lies: ruclips.net/video/qM__quEzH7o/видео.html
nah I think that's a misread, he doesn't feel horribly about it or anything, it's just an intense moment, he's deeply thoughtful about it.
President Obama awarded Sgt. Dakota Meyers the CMOH for this day. He is a true hero that doesn’t believe he rates the honor. There is hours before, and hours after of combat which rated him the Medal of Honor. All said.... Humble Marine brother......
Quit blaming Hollywood for your life sucking. That’s like blaming Kentucky for the existence of mosquitoes. Moronic.
Want a tissue
"Find a reason why we can get along, not why we should not get along."
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i haven’t watched joes or jockos respective podcast with Meyer, so while watching this video i googled him.
when a white house staffer reached out to arrange his medal of honor ceremony, meyer asked if he could have a beer with the president.
i don’t know why that stuck out to me, but i hope he had that beer.
He did there’s pictures of it but from my understanding Obama couldn’t finish it due to something happening elsewhere and it was cut short so in my opinion he still owes him half a beer😂
Joe Rogan: "That does make sense. Do you think the Afghan's smoke DMT?"
LMAO!
Yo foreal..joe is low key a junkie
@@mark-jx9uh no, no he's really not.
unless u mean we are _all_ low key junkies. Coffee, sugar, alcohol, chocolate, sex, exercise, adrenaline, cigarettes....particular behaviors... _Everyone_ is addicted to something.
If we can assume 'junkie' to be a derogatory term, then the only person, i feel(IMHO), qualifies for the word is an addict so far _'gone',_ in their addiction, that they will _harm others_ to quell their withdrawals. That and only that, is a junkie - You know, someone so far gone, they're barely human anymore. They are dysfunctional - only existing to support their addiction..... I wouldn't even call full-blown addict to heroin or cocaine a junkie if they pay taxes, and don't hurt others.
@@OldManPaxusYT chuuch
Yeah no doubt! I'm sick of hearing his stupid fucking DMT stories!
The worst things in the world are justified by belief.
Joshua Gandara couldn’t agree more
Azeri_ I didn’t say it U2 said it.
Joshua Gandara aka religion
motoxridah lol yes pretty much
He’s talking about beliefs as in his entire life not just religion.
Dakota meyer:"Does that make sense"?
Joe Rogan: "that does make sense, have you ever tried dmt"?
LOL!
When a man sees combat, it takes his life too. Even as a survivor. You get never see things the same and it is brutally final. Can't change it... just learn to deal with it.
God Bless all those that have been there.
its beautiful that these murderers will face consequences too even if they are mental
Joe: "I know what you mean man, I've shot Elk."
Hahahahaha
While on DMT
“Is it kinda like in Call of Duty?”
Thomas Veysey take a joke
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This was probably some of the realist shit I’ve ever herd.
God bless you my man 🙏
*heard
realest*
James V you forgot heard*
Herd of buffalo . Heard what you said .
Joe "I killed an elk" Rogan
Twobarpsi as if the elk would be hard to kill compared to a person 🤣
@@shogunguy with a rock it would be.
@@coolkids374 you think it's harder to kill a man with a rock than an elk. Good luck catching an elk on foot and not getting gutted and stomped by it.
These jokes are old .. give it up already
@@shogunguy people are dumb
Back in 2016, my best friend Lukas had just come out of rehab, he called me and said he was going to meet me but first he had to score som H.
I told him not to do it and just come to my house and have a couple of beers and watch some sports, he told me he had to do it because he couldnt handle being sober.
I told him okay and that it was his choice but that he couldnt do any needles in my house, 1-2 hours go by and he calls me when he is on the train on his way to me, I could hear in his voice that something wasnt right, he said to me "i don´t know man, something feels wrong today and im not feeling great, but come and meet me at the train station".
I try to call him about 30 minutes later but his phone was off.
I go down to the trainstation and when the train from Stockholm rolls in i cant fint him on the platform, i stick my head in the train but cant see him.
I go home again and go to sleep, i wake up from a phonecall from a friend, "lukas is dead, he was found on the train toilet yesterday"
This fucked me up for several years, could i have done something different? should I have hopped on the train to look for him? Should i have called someone when i spoke to him on the phone and heard that he wasnt feeling good?
The guilt of knowing that one of your best friend tried to explain in his own way that something was off but you didnt listen carefully enough.
RIP Lukas Brynje (1991-2016).
Twenty-five years ago, I had my M16 locked and loaded, six inches from the face of a man I was about to kill. In the ten seconds before that moment he had made a series of aggressive moves toward a group of us who were guarding a recently secured area. I was the NCOIC and the linguist of the recon team, and before I squeezed that trigger I shouted a command to him in his language. He obeyed. I didn't fire. He pissed himself and started crying, then collapsed to the ground. ... Once he calmed down I spoke with him, and the whole incident was a case of wrong place, wrong information, wrong time. He was the owner of the establishment we had commandeered, and he had been told we were robbing him, when in fact we were looking for him in order to negotiate terms of occupancy. I wondered later what would have happened if his aggression had taken him face to face with another soldier, one who could not speak that unfortunate man's language. I wondered what kind of life would have ended, whose father or son he was and how would they feel if one of us had killed him over a mistake. I cried myself to sleep in our tent, many long hours after that confrontation, thinking about my six-year-old daughter waiting for me back at Bragg. What if she had become fatherless because of a mistake, a generational mistake, to borrow the terms used by this man in this video. ... My reenlistment window closed four days later, and I left the military ten weeks after redeployment. In my nine years of active duty, twice in combat zones, I never killed anyone, and I'm glad of it, because the almost was/is bad enough. My thoughts are with the Marine in this video. Rest easy, brother, though I think I know how difficult it must be.
Thank you for sharing your story.
So you went over to this mans country and decided to, in your own words COMMANDEER his establishment? Gosh i wonder why they dislike you. Commandeer, command, OBEY. You arrogant coward.
Thank you for sharing this.. This is a side of life people need to understand... I have much love/respect for what you've done.. No matter what happens in life from here on out please keep your head high is I know you will. And don't let any of the internets finest effect your moods negatively..
@@AJ-xv7oh ashley ,why would you make a comment to a soldier like that .a soldier follows the orders of his direct commander, its not a personal choice.sitting back at home and calling people a coward for talking about a terrible experience is a cowardly act in itself.
@@AJ-xv7oh ur the reason ppl lose hope in humanity... asshole
The fact that people love their 'cause' so much is the reason we get into wars in the first place....
I also blame politicians and the media
it's okay to blame the people who join the Petrodollar Mercenary Force too
So true, so sad.. no end in sight to this flaw in human nature
My heart breaks for this man. These are some of the heaviest words I’ve ever heard.
@Mike H he is a broken man. And he will be forever but I know he’s going to make it his life purpose to fix other broken people as best as he can
Wow - Thank you sir for speaking from your heart and Joe Rogan for giving Dakota Meyer a forum to be heard. I have been studying war and listening to combat veterans my entire life including my father who fought in WWII and this is the most condensed, real and in your face discussion on killing, combat and understanding your enemy that I have ever heard. Thank you.
Just watched this right before bed and needless to say I am incredibly moved and will probably be up thinking for a while.
I’m starting the video and I need to sleep after lol shit
Same
Same brotha makes me look at war differently
dont lie to yourself, you were going to stay up for 4 more hours watching youtube anyways.......
you up?
This man just spoke me into a different universe watching this and how deeply changed he is and how much that PTSD got him.
PTSD ain't a joke. Been fuckin with me since 2/11/09
John Chase damn man, I turned 4, 9 days before your ptsd caused incident, worlds crazy when you realize reality 💯👌
John Chase wish you the best my man 🤝🤝
John Chase keep fighting brother 💪🏽
Not every single person who engages in war/kills multi purpose let other people/see their friends die don't develop PTSD some people can manage it and turn it off
As the father of an armed serviceman who saw 8 tours of duty....thank you for this interview...I now can begin to understand why my son screams in his sleep..this man is an extraordinary human...weeping from this interview
Thank him 4 all of us🇺🇸
@@rise-amorph8178 Thank you sir...I will 🙏
Sorry you and your son have to go through this. Tell him that real Americans are proud of him and thank him for all the freedoms he has blessed us with. We the people salute you!
@@bobburchett6089 amen
Bob Burchett I don’t understand at what point was your freedom under threat
The aphorism is true: 'No man knows his true Self until he's handed power or his life is threatened'.
This guy was the first living Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Respect
Respect indeed , but this story means more then the award.
The Shitstorm Starter well doesn’t matter if you don’t agree with the politics or what war is going on . The military is responsible for your safety in this country and they are owed respect for it . When you get invaded and your women and children get fucked and murdered with no military to protect them I bet you’ll wish you showed some damn respect little kid .
You Tube are you even educated in what the war was ? It’s almost like your being ignorant on purpose . What you hear ? And what you know are very different. I shouldn’t have to educate you on how to do research in a RUclips comment .... Jesus Christ
@@optimuss_jedi2394 Watch blackstone intelligence. You are still fighting Israels wars. No WMDs, Neo cons did 9/11. Do your research.
The Shitstorm Starter because the wars are bullshit you disregard what Dakota Meyers did that day?
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him." - Orson Scott Card
Who is orson?
@Werewolf Dex MUSIC
Avengers??
@Werewolf Dex MUSIC
Alright.. No need to explain anymore.. I've found it.. My bad..
Lee Kendrick
That is a great line tho.. So true..
A.E. Wiggin
You can hear in this dudes voice hes a genuine good dude
Yup a good guy with a good heart,just put in a terrible situation...
keflar5 what?
Yes i can hear his voice because I’m not deaf
Yeah but from his eyes you can see doing those things has taken it's toll
@give me Chocolate He was 18 when he went in literally still a young kid he dodnt k ow what happened, the internet wasnt very popular then and we hadn't been in war for years, he saw 3000 people die on the news, and joined up bc that's why they thought they were fighting.
I felt like I held my breath for this entire clip. Violence and death have always been an element of life, and still is despite many privileged modern perspectives. My heart goes out to this man and many others like him, in America and other countries, for defending what they hold dear.
Just saying if you held your breath for 8 mins you’ll be dead
This was one of the deepest things I ever heard.
Eddie Taliaferro Moral of the story: go to another mans country under false pretenses and with bad intentions, beat him to death with a rock, then you will find clarity.
Alan Smith he’s talking about his experience & how it changed him...he’s not saying he has clarity.
Fck yeah , me too.
a1chera_ some people never understand it, that’s sadder.
This wasn’t fucking deep at all. It’s a bunch of ideological babble.
“If we don’t connect with each other it’s because we choose NOT To” DEEP very Deep
Precision Lift it’s not that deep it’s actually an massive over generalizations of the situation. Because by that standard everyone you don’t connect with is willfully trying to have conflict and we know that not true all the time
@@kmoss9521 Technically true, but in this case I think its fair to generalize, because if humans as a whole Were connected, do you think we would have the same kind and/or amount of life-or-death conflicts?
If you can sum up PTSD in a facial expression it's this man's face
Deep
No shit
PTSD, is that what they are calling guilt. He feels guilty for volunteering to kill people that did nothing to him.
He's not depressed, he's bipolar😤😝
@@travisdavis3974 you clearly have zero idea what you're talking about
Most profound interview of a soldier on RUclips ...raw and honest....everyone in our country should have to watch this before they graduate from high school. More importantly, every single politician should watch this and take heed. Professional athletes should watch this and stand for this young man and every other solider who had to confront the ultimate fear of imminent death at age 21.
Much love, but this isn’t a soldier. This is a US Marine.
Professional Athletes can kneel.
Kapernick ended up being a shitty 3rd string QB before he wanted to be a social activist, but when he sat on his ass, a VETERAN turned pro football player, asked him to kneel out of RESPECT.
There’s a lot of seriously profound insights in this one.
It's mind blowing that this man sees more humanity in a man that he is fighting for his life than so many of us can see in those that vote differently.
@@5000rgb well put brother
Johnny Cash The Man in Black
"I wear the black in mourning for the lives that could of been
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men
And I wear it for the thousands who have died believing the Lord was on their side.
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died believing we were all on their side"
Cheers brother🍻🍻 gonna drink myself stupid now🥃
Yeet Mister see ya there
@@rayblanco4477 Raise your glass to the sky for the fallen and returned for me
@@rayblanco4477 cheers
My favorite song of all time.
"If we don't connect with each other its cuz we choose not to" So damn true!
I love this discuss, couse I learn every day more and more of persoectives in live. I love that I dont have to do this experience, to recognize what is improtant. We should more talk about our real thougts and experinces, than to go this far and to live with this Pain every day. Thanks for this lesson!
A great line hey! On point!
From a Marine Corps Vet...this is the best description of war I've ever heard...this is heavy stuff people. Being a hero is a huge burden on the mind. Dakota is one of the greatest men of our generation.
You can tell it's painful for him to speak on these things. Amazing he has the strength to be able to do so.
“I was willing to take his life because of what I love” heavy
Without question, this is the most impactful clip I’ve seen on Joe Rogan’s podcast
The one from the guy from prison is really powerful too.
@@denzuko8415 which is that?
Daniel Castaneda the podcast Den Zuko is almost definitely referring to is #1171 - Nick Yarris. Like this one, it was also a heavy one to watch, but had a lot of profound stuff and intense stories.
Papa Steve I would say Kevin Smith talking about how he died and came back the same way his mother did was pretty damn good. I never seen Joe be quiet for that long
Den Zuko the guy from the prison stories podcast is such a fucking liar bro 😂 at least half of what he said was total bullshit
Seriously tearing up watching this. I'm SO sorry some people have to go through this stuff. We're such a bunch of idiots on this planet :(