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Speaker 1: Welcome into Unbreakable Mental Wealth Podcast with Jay Lazer. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jay Lazer, and today is a mental health check in,

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Speaker 1: but it's a mental health check in for all veterans

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Speaker 1: out there. I'm a moral day and several years ago

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Speaker 1: when I first started MARGI vets and players. The very

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Speaker 1: first Memorial Day we had. We're in a group, it's

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Speaker 1: probably a fifty of us, and I asked our veterans,

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Speaker 1: what are you guys doing to celebrate this weekend for

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Speaker 1: Memorial Day? And they all got mad at me. Did

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Speaker 1: this for a reason? And they kind of jumped me, like,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean so we don't celebrate? This is

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Speaker 1: when we lost our boys, this is when we lost

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Speaker 1: our sisters. I said, I know, so what are you

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Speaker 1: doing to celebrate them? They kind of looked like what

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Speaker 1: I said, why are you not celebrating them? You think

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Speaker 1: they want you sit home drinking, maybe possibly thinking about

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Speaker 1: doing something worse, or do you think they want to

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Speaker 1: be celebrated. Let's celebrate them In the moment they said that,

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Speaker 1: the room started a shift and I said, gay, when

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Speaker 1: I die, no one's wearing black. Yo are celebrating me.

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Speaker 1: We're gotta have fun. Tell crazy glay stories, same with them.

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Speaker 1: Let's celebrate them and it's beautiful. The idea then came up,

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Speaker 1: you know what, let's actually take up a hike together

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Speaker 1: a Memorial Day and get closer. Hike up mountain, get

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Speaker 1: closer our brothers and sisters, if you will. And that's

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Speaker 1: what we started doing. And then the next Memorial Day

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Speaker 1: or two after that, our group actually went to the

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Speaker 1: cemetery here in Los Angeles and they started walking to

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Speaker 1: other family members of veterans and veterans in there, saying,

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Speaker 1: who are you celebrating today? And they got the same

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Speaker 1: reaction back initially, but then it became, oh, wait, let's help.

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Speaker 1: We'd like to help you celebrate them. And then really

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Speaker 1: it was almost like, oh, yeah, you're right, Marvee not

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Speaker 1: celebrating them. So I know it's tough because we did

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Speaker 1: lose our brothers and sisters this day, but let's also

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Speaker 1: honor them a Memorial Day by celebrating them. They deserve it.

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Speaker 1: Let's keep walking this walk together