Lakemacher, Daniel - short clip - ComingtoTermsWithWhatIDid
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| - | I began to see just how much the people who are | 0:00 |
| in prison down there had been dehumanized, | 0:04 | |
| before I had even met them. | 0:07 | |
| And I immediately made the connection at that point in time | 0:08 | |
| with how that happens to recruits | 0:12 | |
| coming into the Navy as well. | 0:14 | |
| And so, | 0:16 | |
| I think even before it became something conscious, | 0:19 | |
| I had started acting in a different way, | 0:23 | |
| almost in a sense trying to redeem myself, | 0:26 | |
| for the the level that I had stooped to. | 0:30 | |
| Not in any specific action, | 0:34 | |
| but in my mindset, while I had been down in GTMO. | 0:36 | |
| I began to see that, you know what, thinking that, | 0:41 | |
| this detainee has a life 'cause he can get medications 24-7, | 0:45 | |
| is really missing the picture | 0:49 | |
| when he's been locked up for years without any trial | 0:51 | |
| or charges or anything else being brought against him. | 0:55 | |
| Yeah, that (laughs), those types of insights | 1:00 | |
| started sinking in. | 1:03 | |
| And, I mean, the last thing for me | 1:05 | |
| was accepting the fact that I was ultimately, you know, | 1:08 | |
| personally responsible for not having questioned things | 1:12 | |
| while I was down there. | 1:16 | |
| And that was kind of the last step of the process for me. | 1:19 | |
| And that was even after | 1:23 | |
| I had come to the conclusion that, in my mind, | 1:24 | |
| war can't be morally justified. | 1:28 | |
| The last piece of the puzzle | 1:30 | |
| was where it got really personal. | 1:32 | |
| And I had to admit that, you know, | 1:34 | |
| I personally bore responsibility for having helped to | 1:36 | |
| perpetrate what I view as rights violations. | 1:40 |
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