Army veteran Andrew Chambers recently
shared the story of how he was sentenced to ten years in prison after a
judge allegedly told him that his service in the Iraq war makes him a
“threat to society.” Video of his speech from prison for
TEDxMarionCorrectional’s TEDxTalks is now going viral after being posted
on Oct. 31.
After explaining that he decided to
join the Army following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001,
Chambers talked about the positive side of joining the U.S. military —
traveling the world and experiencing different cultures. He was deployed
to Iraq in 2004 after spending a year in Central America.
However, his experience in the
devastated country took its toll. Chambers told his audience about the
time he was working as a turret gunner on the top of a Humvee when
gunfire erupted. He said he heard someone laughing and remembers asking
himself, “who could be laughing at a time like this?”
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