- It opened me up to...opened me up more to the world. I'm from a rural area, you know, and the military in itself is, I've had the privilege of traveling to about 18 different countries and doing all sorts of different, different things. And it introduced me to an element that I'd never been exposed to before. It gave me a hunger and interest to learn more. 

- About? 

- About people. I mean, obviously the big question is, you know as an American citizen, living in a democracy in which we have more freedoms and rights than anybody else in the world, why would people hate us? Why would they want to kill us? Why would they want to take planes and fly them into our buildings and kill men, women, and children? Why would they want to put on vests and blow themselves up? You know, I'd like to know that, I'd like to know what motivates people to want to do that and think you're doing something good in the process. I mean, that's a big question, isn't it? It's a question that, you know maybe if we learn the answers to, we can find ways in this world to prevent those things from happening by getting to know other people and to know what motivates them. 

- Do you have any thoughts after having served in Guantanamo as to what might be? 

- Simply the issue that, you know, get to know your neighbors, get to know people, you specifically go out your way to learn about who the individuals are and to learn the good qualities they have rather than just seeing somebody different and then being afraid of them, or being paranoid about them being there, you know, becoming friends across their differences and to celebrate our differences rather than using them as a way to divide us into categorize us and set us apart.