time he was hurt. i learned that serving a cause greater than yourself hurts. anybody in the military can tell you the risk you take. he couldn't put his jacket on. he couldn't comb his hair. because he got hurt serving a cause greater than himself. i remember how easy it is to say and how hard it is to do. how hard it is to tell your base -- i think you're wrong. how hard it is to solve problems that nobody else wants to talk about. i learned that failure and success are the different sides of the same coin. that john told me i have become better for my failures because it teaches us and i have been tempted by my success and without my failures i would have never been successful. so to those striving as a young