Walker, Marilyn - short clip - HardToSeeHimGo
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- | You know, I wasn't that comfortable with it. | 0:00 |
First of all, because, you know, | 0:03 | |
I didn't feel like he'd had that much world experience here. | 0:08 | |
And to go that far. | 0:12 | |
And it was a long way. | 0:14 | |
I didn't know anything, that was halfway around the world. | 0:16 | |
And I know the media made it out | 0:20 | |
to appear that, you know, sure. | 0:22 | |
You know, where would you like to go? | 0:25 | |
And, you know, go. | 0:27 | |
But it wasn't like that for me, you know? | 0:31 | |
I did a lot of research. | 0:32 | |
I talked to people. | 0:33 | |
The one person I spoke with in particular, | 0:35 | |
she was from Ireland | 0:39 | |
and she had her own travel business. | 0:42 | |
And she would take people to Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Iran. | 0:45 | |
And she said hands down, if she had to pick a place to live | 0:50 | |
on the planet tomorrow, | 0:53 | |
it would be Sanaa Yemen. | 0:54 | |
And she loved it. | 0:56 | |
She said, the people are wonderful. | 0:58 | |
They're kind. | 0:59 | |
And so she said, | 1:01 | |
you know, he'll be fine. | 1:05 | |
He'll be fine. | 1:06 | |
So, you know, I also knew that, you know, | 1:08 | |
kids do go abroad for study. | 1:13 | |
You know, sometimes they go, while they're in high school. | 1:16 | |
Some private schools send their kids abroad in high school. | 1:18 | |
And I didn't think it would be forever, but you know | 1:22 | |
when he did finally board that plane | 1:28 | |
and I watched it takeoff, I mean, I was just... | 1:31 | |
It was really hard. | 1:38 | |
It was really hard to see him go. | 1:39 | |
Because my preference would have been, | 1:42 | |
if there had been a school here for him to study, | 1:44 | |
that would have been, that would have | 1:48 | |
been the thing that I would have wanted him to do. | 1:50 | |
But at the time there wasn't. | 1:52 | |
Because he also wanted to study about the religion. | 1:54 | |
And there didn't seem to be, to my knowledge, | 1:57 | |
but again, I didn't know anything, | 2:02 | |
you know I didn't really know anything. | 2:04 | |
And I realize, | 2:06 | |
maybe some of the criticism was fair, that I know, | 2:07 | |
I know I was naive. | 2:13 | |
I was naive, you know, I'll admit I was naive. | 2:14 |
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