Terence Knox: Sgt. Clayton 'Zeke' Anderson

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• Sgt. Clayton 'Zeke' Anderson : This trip home here wasn't easy for me for a lot of reasons. It's hard to lose a friend like Art Binion when he gives his life. But somehow, it's easier when you have to go back to duty. To come home here and to share the loss and the grief with his friends and his family, it - it gives a whole other way of looking at the effects of this war. When I think of this happening to two or three hundred families across the country every week it makes me doubt what I am doing in Vietnam. And to come here and find this country that I love all turned upside down with hatred and political turmoil, it doesn't make it any easier. But then maybe it's not supposed to be easier. I don't know. I don't know about the politics anymore. And maybe we have gone too far to ever think: my country, right or wrong, no matter what. I don't know. But what I do know is Art Binion was a good man, he was a good soldier, and he was a friend of mine. And he died just like he lived his life, believing in truth and friendship and sacrifice and duty. It reminds me of what Martin Luther King Jr said one time: I hope that a man can be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin. And Art Binion did that. That's who he was. And maybe if we could all do that, even just one time, maybe some of this hatred and misunderstanding would just -- would just, fade away. I don't know. But four men as alive because Art Binion gave his life. And that pretty much says it all.