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“I said, ‘Catch you guys on the flipside.’ And that was the last thing I ever said to them.”
Marine Lance Corporal Travis Williams recounts in a heart-rending animation on being the sole survivor of his 12-man team.
“I’m most proud of not blowing my head off by now. It’s just a whole lot easier if you’re dead. But that shouldn’t be your tribute to your dead friends. When they’re looking down on you, they don’t want you to be living in the moment that killed them. You made it. You got home. You should honor the memory by living the life they didn’t get to live,” said Williams.
Watch the tearjerker below:
[via SPLOID, images via StoryCorps]
“I said, ‘Catch you guys on the flipside.’ And that was the last thing I ever said to them.”
Marine Lance Corporal Travis Williams recounts in a heart-rending animation on being the sole survivor of his 12-man team.
“I’m most proud of not blowing my head off by now. It’s just a whole lot easier if you’re dead. But that shouldn’t be your tribute to your dead friends. When they’re looking down on you, they don’t want you to be living in the moment that killed them. You made it. You got home. You should honor the memory by living the life they didn’t get to live,” said Williams.
Watch the tearjerker below:
[via SPLOID, images via StoryCorps]