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How did that wartime experience inform the life that he came back to? BC: Well, he was honorably discharged from the military and, for him, the saying hadn’t been ‘God, Family, Country,’ it was ‘God, Country, Family.’ You can read about him or watch him actually say that. Family had been last, and he wanted to amend that. There’s a 90 per cent divorce rate amongst SEALs, and he didn’t want that to happen to his family. So, he made a choice to put family first. But when he got home, it wasn’t so easy to make that transition and because he was willing and physically able to fight, he would always say, he wasn’t there anymore. So, he found this other way of being of service, which was helping veterans. He would put the gun back into the vet’s hand to take the stigma away from it – because there’s something that they loved about it – and he knew that holding a gun again could be therapeutic. He would do this thing where he would drive up to this ranch and go shooting with vets and drive back, get to know them, hear their story, share his… CE: All the guys that he was helping in that scene, with the exception of one actor, were all vets, and they all knew the story. Bradley sat down and chatted with them. We just started talking about, ‘Well, who are you guys? How do you guys feel about this? How do you feel about war?’ The whole deal. And you get all kinds of different people coming from different directions. But I don’t think any of them had He liked taking care of people. He liked the leadership aspect of it. I guess he felt that was his calling. He worked hard to become a great Navy SEAL