WEBVTT 00:21.810 --> 00:25.614 - Well, like I say, if I do that, I'm gonna get 00:25.614 --> 00:28.197 more mail and more aggravation. 00:28.451 --> 00:30.169 I get these letters all the time 00:30.169 --> 00:33.086 and I get tired of it, it gets old. 00:33.890 --> 00:36.554 When you get older you kinda like to be left alone. 00:36.554 --> 00:38.452 It seems like as I get older it gets worse. 00:38.452 --> 00:42.619 And just like shooting, I'd rather it be forgot too. 00:46.265 --> 00:47.098 You know? 00:48.527 --> 00:51.263 (soft music) 00:52.722 --> 00:55.868 If you'd ever been there, you don't know what it is, 00:55.868 --> 00:57.711 you don't know how the hell to explain it. 00:57.711 --> 00:59.294 Now there's a few people, you'll see them, 00:59.294 --> 01:02.294 they'll brag about it, they love it. 01:03.054 --> 01:05.304 But, I'm not a glory hound. 01:07.178 --> 01:10.178 Never have been and I never will be. 01:11.253 --> 01:13.233 (soft music) 01:14.676 --> 01:16.342 - It's your job to provide that accuracy, 01:16.342 --> 01:17.920 there's no mystery about good shooting. 01:17.920 --> 01:20.091 Observe a set of simple rules and anyone can 01:20.091 --> 01:22.758 become a consistently good shot. 01:23.407 --> 01:26.990 - [England] I had a first cousin that went in in '48. 01:27.761 --> 01:30.663 He stayed at Parris Island four years 01:30.663 --> 01:34.580 and he was on the rifle range, a coach, part of the time. 01:34.956 --> 01:38.726 And he'd tell me, "Just come down here, we can shoot, 01:38.726 --> 01:42.226 "shoot a lot, I like that shooting a lot." 01:43.552 --> 01:47.125 Well, I love shooting and I love to be a good shot 01:47.125 --> 01:51.125 because being a good shot makes a better Marine. 01:51.646 --> 01:55.813 I wanted to be a good Marine, and which I considered myself 01:55.885 --> 01:57.992 a better than the average Marine because I could shoot 01:57.992 --> 02:00.492 better than the average Marine. 02:02.613 --> 02:06.780 What inspired me a lot them days was Chesty Puller. 02:07.776 --> 02:11.943 When I got distinguished at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in 1954, 02:13.667 --> 02:17.500 Chesty presented my distinguished badge to me. 02:19.991 --> 02:22.824 About Vietnam, well like all wars, 02:24.678 --> 02:26.761 it ain't no good feeling, 02:28.279 --> 02:31.362 especially some of the jobs you have. 02:32.799 --> 02:36.632 I just liked shooting marksmanship at targets. 02:44.268 --> 02:46.445 - Yeah, your mind's gotta be the same, 02:46.445 --> 02:48.207 you gotta get a good shot off. 02:48.207 --> 02:50.765 When you go up to get that one shot off, you try to 02:50.765 --> 02:53.265 put yourself in another world, 02:54.724 --> 02:56.938 you try to put yourself in a little bubble. 02:56.938 --> 03:00.253 And you cut the world out, and you just concentrate 03:00.253 --> 03:04.420 on them things that you've got to do to get a good shot off, 03:07.477 --> 03:10.727 because if you don't you could be dead. 03:12.249 --> 03:16.416 I got my walking papers and walked out and they paid me off, 03:16.429 --> 03:18.648 and it felt like the world ended. 03:18.648 --> 03:21.028 It was a long road, it's 600 miles here, 03:21.028 --> 03:24.695 and it seemed like 6,000 miles getting home. 03:25.516 --> 03:29.683 And I guess some people's happy to say goodbye and get home. 03:30.149 --> 03:33.982 I was the other way, I just didn't feel right. 03:36.418 --> 03:39.797 Goodest thing ever happened to me when I went to military. 03:39.797 --> 03:41.316 If I'd have never went to military, 03:41.316 --> 03:45.483 I'd have never been nothing, the military helped me. 03:45.701 --> 03:49.525 It really helped me, the Marine Corps did, it helped me. 03:49.525 --> 03:51.275 It made me what I am. 03:51.566 --> 03:54.316 I'm a Marine and I'm proud of it. 03:56.203 --> 03:59.018 (soft music)