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I'm Camila Kishani, and we have another short episode for you this week.

From Memorial Day, we're going to hear from Marine Lance

Corporal Travis Williams and Iraq War veteran.

On August 3rd, 2005, his squad was on a rescue mission in Barwana.

When their caravan hit an improvised explosive device or IED, he was the only member of his

12-man team that survived.

That morning, we loaded into the vehicle and I get tapped on the shoulder and I got told

that I need to bounce up to the next vehicle.

I said, catch you guys on the flip side and that was the last thing I ever said to

him.

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