How Killing a Man Changed Dakota Meyer

the Joe Rogan experience yeah well I think sometimes people need to hear it from some of their like you you know or someone like Jocko or you know the the beautiful thing about these podcasts is that you get to hear people's perspective and a lot of them are eye-opening you know they're they literally could change the world because they change the way you behave and you interact with people when you listen to it yeah and that podcast that you did with Jocko when I was listening to me it changed my whole day it changed like how I was gonna look at my day I was you know instead of like looking at my day like up it's a normal day I was thinking god damn I'm lucky ah damn I'm lucky and goddamn imagine experiencing what you and how old were you at the time I was 21 21 years old yeah and experiencing what you experienced in that insane firefight being locked down and I mean how many guys did you wind up engaging with I I don't know I you know I don't know I mean everyone they I got an opportunity with right and just you know it was just uh you know I was so chaotic I mean I still die look I think about all the time obviously it's something I could have never experienced I mean I trained for war every single day when I was in the Marine Corps I mean it was what I was what my job was and I still could have never imagined that day the way it was or anything to turn out I could have never pictured it I could have never and and and I think every day it goes by I think there's a reckoning of it right the way that I've seen it that day is not the way I see it today and I think that comes with you know just just sharpening and just your body you know you change and you see different things in perspective but yeah I mean you know I I you know that day I mean it's still I mean it still is just you know just it's just there's so many lessons that come from that day that that you know I look at people complaining about stuff here in America and it's like you know I seen him one day the best of humans the worst of humans and everybody nobody thought they were wrong and it's possible you know it's just it's just one of those deals of you know that that day was just that's an important point what you just said nobody thought they were wrong not them not you yeah you know I I but and it changed me that day like I walked in there that day and I was the guy who was cocky who would tell you you know I love fighting you know I mean like I like I just want to go fight like you know but every fight I had before that it was like you know I always had airplanes sitting you know our helicopters sitting sitting around I always had you know it was like I'm gonna go in there and start the fight and then I'm gonna call in all this other this other stuff to win right and that day it wasn't there and and and literally I walked out of there and I just think about all the time today I just think about all the time of how many generations just that day were changed how many generations of of people's lives were changed you know all my teammates died so they'll never have kids that generations stopped their families forever exhume any lives were changed that day by that that that piece and guess what and everybody in America had no clue it was going on like right now there are US troops somebody wondering if they're gonna be able to come home and see their family again that's reality whether you want to ignore it or not like that's reality and that was me September 8 2009 and it was just uh she was a chaotic day it's amazing how you could have thousands of days in your life in one day changes the way you look at everything one day changes the way you look at everything and you know in like the the further I go on that I look at it different you know I always talked about the story of you know whenever this guy came up behind me and I ended up I ended up killing him with the rock and I always remember just like I remember it like I see it every night like I remember like I just see his face and I got just because there was a point there was a point that I feel like that anybody that when they whether they're injured or anything like they realize they're defeated like they like it like yeah I don't know I just think there's a point when you look at somebody and they know they're gonna die and I'll never forget that and I you know now I look at it and I see it and how we thanked it like this guy is a son to somebody his mother and father are gonna miss him this guy he believes in his cause as much as I do he doesn't believe he's wrong this guy this guy he he could have had a wife or kids that are never gonna see their father again just like you know my dad might have never seen me again if it was switched and really I don't even know that I don't hate him I don't even know this guy we're just here at this place right now because we were born in two different countries were you out of weapons were you out of ammo so my know he came up and he started choking me my shot him once before and he I was trying to pick my buddy dolly my one of my closest afghans dolly had been shot he got killed he had been killed and I came around this terrorist to get him and I was on my knee and this guy came up behind me and so he didn't have a weapon either he was no he did he had a weapon and I end up shooting him from the ground and I thought he was dead when he fell on the ground and I kind of moved down and got down with Donnelly cuz we I was still getting shot at from this machine gun up on this hill and I was trying to make myself small as I could and this guy ends up coming up at choking me like I thought he was I thought he was dead and he ends up choking me out he starts trying to choke me out and eventually let up a little bit and I end up getting around him and I just got we were fighting back and Forrest and I can remember all I was thinking about was like don't let his legs get on me like you know these guys their legs or I mean they been crawling up mountains their whole life and he was up he was a pretty big dude and I just remember getting on top of him for honey I got on top of him and I was rolling on top of him he didn't have all the gear on I did and I end up I remember getting on top of him like like I was straddling him and I'm just reaching up trying to grab for anything I can I'm holding him and holding him down with my throat with my my forearm and I'm just grabbing anything I can and finally I ended up grabbing a rock and I just started beating this dude's face in and I started beating and beating and beating and I remember I remember just like finally like after hitting him you know I don't know three or four times four five times whatever I remember him like finally just kind of looking at me like just it's it's like he's like just I'm just looking him in the eyes like obviously closer than me to you right now and you just see all the you can tell like he knows where this is going and I always think about that you know obviously I would kill him a million times over again right he was the enemy like I don't feel bad about that part of it but I just think about like in that moment if I can find a way to relate to him in that moment a man I'm taking his life we all in America can find a way to connect with each other if we don't connect with each other's because we choose not to I don't care what your differences are like don't like find a reason of why we can get along not why we should not get along right and and I always think about that moment you know of this guy and you know he obviously ended up dying and and and it would it showed me was is that no cause that you have that's built on hate Will Survive I didn't hate this guy didn't even know him but I was willing to to take his life because of what I loved and that's what that's what we have to build our lives in our foundation on is not not being angry and hating each other but because we love the cause that we believe in so much does that make sense it does make sense I understand what you're saying [Applause]

Channel: JRE Clips

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Length: 8min 51sec (531 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 08 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/thehypocrisyofreddit]

"You can tell, he knows where this is going."

Jesus Fucking Christ. Raw.

[u/branded]

"I killed him with a rock."

FUCK.

[u/IloveblinkingIdo]

I love the pauses. The way he speaks is so plain and free of ego. So rare to see someone actually think about what they're saying. Also his breathing is so calm. I could listen to that guy all day.

[u/treebend]

The most interesting part of this video is

"obviously I'd kill him a thousand times over...he was the enemy"

[u/ToProvideContext]

If you liked this there is a podcast called “Warriors in their own Words” that interviews soldiers from different conflicts including WW2, Vietnam and Korea. They’ve got some MoH recipients there as well.

[u/thesaltycpl]

One of my online PS4 buddies was in the second invasion of Fallujah. He is drunk almost 24/7, He finally tells the story about when he breached a house, kills 2 guys in the main room, went to clear the rest of the house goes through a closed door only to find a dude waiting right there. No chance for a shot as he was to the side of him he manages to push the guy off then he pulls out his bayonet and stabs the guy till hes doesn't move anymore. That was one story he opened up about.

If you haven't seen this combat interview of William Wold Check it out, It really shows the chaos of urban combat.

https://youtu.be/Yfrr3kxzJtU

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http://timeofremembrance.org/soldiers/william-wold/

[u/razorbackgeek]

"It's a hell of a thing killin' a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have." -William Munny

[u/GuyInNoPants]

And...then he married Bristol Palin.

[u/Corndawgz]

@ 7:36

"If I can find a way to relate to him, in that moment, a man I'm taking his life, we all in America can find a way to connect to each other. If we don't connect with each other it's because we choose not to."

So fucking powerful. If this man is able to connect with a guy he is literally about to kill, there's no excuse for the rest of us.