Rossdale, Polly - short clip - MomentsofHope
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(marker scribbling) | 0:00 | |
- | Humans are capable of the most terrible things | 0:03 |
and the most wonderful things and some. | 0:06 | |
You know I got to meet some very extraordinary men | 0:09 | |
who were really very resilient despite | 0:12 | |
the phenomenal abuse that they'd been through. | 0:16 | |
And it's not just that, it's that, you know | 0:22 | |
there are those small moments when, you know | 0:24 | |
you get a call from someone, you know, | 0:27 | |
you've worked with who, | 0:30 | |
to tell you that they've had a baby or | 0:31 | |
gee my favorite is someone who told me | 0:34 | |
that he'd managed to go fishing | 0:36 | |
for the first time again and he'd caught an octopus. | 0:37 | |
That's | 0:40 | |
(laughs) | 0:41 | |
those small moments | 0:42 | |
are pretty good. | 0:45 | |
And, and yeah, and seeing people, you know | 0:48 | |
make meaningful lives again, you know. | 0:51 | |
Yes. You know, Guantanamo set out to destroy the person. | 0:54 | |
I mean, that really is what to see a regime, | 0:58 | |
the psychological regime was about. | 1:01 | |
It was about destroying the personality, | 1:03 | |
but actually you know, and, | 1:07 | |
but actually some, | 1:11 | |
you know some people managed to resist that | 1:12 | |
and it takes huge amount of time to recover from that. | 1:14 | |
But, you know, there are, | 1:18 | |
there are moments of hope. | 1:19 |
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