and then in 1965 he enlisted in the united states army. now, if you are doing the math, him enlisting in 1965, that was way before the draft for vietnam. the draft for vietnam didn t start until years later in late 1969. he went in there before that by choice, he enlisted in 1965, and then in 1967 he volunteered to be sent to vietnam. he did nearly a year in combat from the spring of 1967 to the spring of 1968. in april of 1968 he earned the silver star, and there was an attack on his battalion command post. he exposed himself to enemy fire, to pull his injured colleagues to safety to give them first aid. he earned the silver star that day, april 1968. it was a thursday in april. and that thursday that he earned the silver star that he went through that hell, he was actually only a few days away from going home, only a few days away from the end of his tour. but four days after that battle for which he earned the silver star, the monday after that thursday a grenade blast too
from my life during covid? among other things, cufflinks. and so imagine my stress when i went for this anchor man shirt tonight and it was a cufflink shirt and i had no cufflinks and, you know what did you do? the thing is, you know, brian s not working in the building, and so mr. cufflinks isn t here. and you know, kornacki can t help you in a wardrobe distress situation, right? so i don t know if we can get this, but sterling brown in the control room might get the paper clips that are dude, we can at least upgrade you to binder dlips. those might be better. i m blaming brian for not being here and being able to rush in some manly cufflinks for me when i needed them. i am going to rush ship you some of those dice, you know what i mean? yeah vegas. get me some vegas cufflinks. that s what i want for christmas. there you go. on my way. on my way. well done. my resilient friend. thank you, rachel. thank you very much. well, in june our first guest receiv