WEBVTT 00:00.239 --> 00:02.869 You , you die twice in , in this life . 00:02.880 --> 00:05.102 The first time is your physical death . 00:05.102 --> 00:07.436 Everybody goes through a physical death . 00:07.436 --> 00:09.324 The second death is the last time 00:09.324 --> 00:11.436 somebody says your name or knows what 00:11.436 --> 00:13.600 you did . My family's been in the 00:13.609 --> 00:17.600 military for a very long time 00:17.610 --> 00:19.790 and there was never any pressure to 00:19.799 --> 00:21.920 join the military , but all of the 00:21.930 --> 00:24.559 males that I knew had been some form of 00:24.569 --> 00:27.510 the military , army Navy , uh Marine 00:27.520 --> 00:31.219 Corps and couple in the Air Force . Um 00:31.229 --> 00:33.340 So , yeah , it definitely impacted my 00:33.340 --> 00:35.507 thought on joining , going back to the 00:35.507 --> 00:37.619 Spanish American War . I've done 00:37.630 --> 00:39.759 further research and found family in 00:39.770 --> 00:43.500 the civil war , uh the Revolutionary 00:43.509 --> 00:47.049 War . So 17 hundreds . Um 00:47.060 --> 00:50.200 but things that I have documented and 00:50.209 --> 00:53.389 have pieces of , of their history , I 00:53.400 --> 00:56.220 have for 100 and 20 100 30 years or so . 00:56.630 --> 00:59.290 Um I also have some extended family 00:59.299 --> 01:01.909 that before they migrated to or 01:01.919 --> 01:04.086 immigrated to the United States . They 01:04.086 --> 01:06.197 were in the German army , the k , the 01:06.197 --> 01:08.475 Imperial German army in the 18 sixties . 01:08.475 --> 01:10.697 Um And I have stuff from that as well . 01:10.697 --> 01:12.863 It's tangible . The things that I have 01:12.863 --> 01:14.975 here are all tangible . You can reach 01:14.975 --> 01:17.141 out and touch them , you can reach out 01:17.141 --> 01:19.363 and read the stories of what they did , 01:19.363 --> 01:21.475 uh , in their own handwriting to keep 01:21.475 --> 01:23.697 the legacy going is important to me and 01:23.697 --> 01:22.900 it's gotten more important as I've 01:22.910 --> 01:25.410 gotten older , um , to know where you 01:25.419 --> 01:27.949 come from , you know , uh , the 01:27.959 --> 01:30.181 sacrifices that , that people have made 01:30.181 --> 01:32.181 before you in your own family . You 01:32.181 --> 01:34.292 don't have to look outside of that to 01:34.292 --> 01:36.339 find , uh people who are heroes , 01:36.349 --> 01:39.809 people who have done things that um 01:40.160 --> 01:42.160 have impacted others impacted other 01:42.160 --> 01:45.050 people's lives . I'm Lumby Indian . Um 01:45.059 --> 01:47.900 I also have some family members far 01:47.910 --> 01:50.021 extended that are puny Indian , which 01:50.021 --> 01:52.243 are a part of the pal tan confederacy , 01:52.243 --> 01:54.299 but I'm not enrolled in that tribe . 01:54.299 --> 01:56.410 I'm enrolled in the Columbia tribe of 01:56.410 --> 01:58.632 North Carolina . My great grandfather's 01:58.632 --> 02:01.260 been dead since the eighties . Um It's 02:01.269 --> 02:04.900 2024 and I'm still talking about him 02:04.910 --> 02:07.139 talking about the impact that he made . 02:07.540 --> 02:10.710 Uh my name is after him . So for the 02:10.720 --> 02:13.229 rest of my life , even though he might 02:13.559 --> 02:15.990 have been dead for 100 years , we're 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 still talk , I'm still able to talk 02:18.000 --> 02:20.210 about him . Um Even though I never met 02:20.220 --> 02:23.190 him because he impacted my father , he 02:23.199 --> 02:25.366 impacted my grandfather . And so those 02:25.366 --> 02:28.419 impacts uh go down to me , I do have a 02:28.429 --> 02:30.779 lot of pride in , in , in these things . 02:30.789 --> 02:34.130 Um They aren't worth much monetarily , 02:34.139 --> 02:36.250 but sentimentally , they're , they're 02:36.250 --> 02:39.789 worth their weight in gold . Um I feel 02:39.800 --> 02:41.911 very proud to be the one to keep it . 02:41.911 --> 02:44.078 And my goal is to preserve them better 02:44.078 --> 02:46.189 than they currently are . Uh , and to 02:46.189 --> 02:48.022 hopefully get some of the things 02:48.022 --> 02:50.133 restored , they can be restored or at 02:50.133 --> 02:52.300 least stop them from deteriorating . I 02:52.300 --> 02:54.522 have documents that are over 100 and 20 02:54.522 --> 02:56.689 years old , uh in a trunk , you know , 02:56.689 --> 02:58.744 and I want them to exist for another 02:58.744 --> 03:01.100 120 years . I'm proud to be lumby 03:01.110 --> 03:04.750 Indian American native American soldier . 03:05.070 --> 03:07.429 Uh , these are all important things to 03:07.440 --> 03:07.770 me . Yeah .