| There's something I wanna tell you. |
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| After I got shot... |
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| ...you wanna know the very first thing
that entered my mind... |
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| ...before I blacked out? |
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| Coins. |
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| I'm 8 years old again
on a tour of the U.S. Mint. |
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| I'm listening to a guide explain
how coins are made. |
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| How they're punched
out of sheet metal. |
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| How they're rimmed and beveled. |
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| How they are stamped and cleaned. |
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| And how each and every batch
of coins are personally examined. |
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| Just in case any have slipped through
with the slightest imperfection. |
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| That's what popped into my head. |
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| I am a coin
in the United States Army. |
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| I was minted in the year 1 980.
I've been punched from sheet metal. |
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| I've been stamped and cleaned. |
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| My ridges have been rimmed
and beveled. |
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| But now I have
two small holes in me. |
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| I'm no longer in perfect condition. |
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| So there's something else
I wanna tell you. |
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| Right before
everything went black... |
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