Vietnam War (1954 -75), a conflict between the North Vietnam and South Vietnam because they didn’t want to unite, the US intervened making the war last longer. the same Country, the same people, the same brothers and sisters.

      What leads a country to divide itself and to destroy lives insanely? And when a war becomes a giant threat. The whole world is also divided, and they take sides like the Olympics where the strongest and the smartest win. 

“When all industrial centers of power are dominated within themselves, with broad movement towards the legitimate good then war will be banned from the planet.”

    ----May I ask your name?

      “Robert Cross, Military Gunner Sargent Robert Cross.”

      ----Where were you born?

      ----“I was born in North Carolina, I lived there when I was a little boy,I was a toddler that time. Then, I moved to the State of Virginia with my family.”

      ----Sargent Robert, do you Give me your permition to share this interview with Others?

      “Yes, I don t mind, glad you asked.”

      ----Tell us a little about your childhood.

      “Well, my mother had twelve children, seven brothers and five sisters, only three alive, I practically grow up in Virginia, went to public school but graduated high school in Newark, New Jersey. I left home when I was fifteen years old and at age nineteen, I sign up for the US Marine Courtin in 1969. I served the Marine Court for eight years.”,

      -----Any memory from that time you served the country?

      “Yes... I have a lots of memories...but, right now... I don t want to talk about it...”

      ----Did you participed in any war?

      “Yes, That is what I did, it was my job, Vietnam war. I got up from Vietnam in 1974 and I got out of Marine Court in 1976.”

      ----Did you got hurt while in Vietnam?

      “Yes, I was constantly diving and crawling, trying to save myself, and  because of that I got poison nerves on both my legs, bilateral damage nerves.  

      ----After you served the Marine Court, what s happening?

      “After that, when I left Marine Court I applied for a civil service job. I went down to Virginia and aplay for the Unite State Department of Nave. Worked in Shipyard abord craft carrier, nucleon power submarine, destroyers, missile cruisers, barges, I did also pipe fitting job (plumber). I became a Certified WG10 pipe fitting journeyman mechanic. And then, after pipe fitting with US Nave, in 1989 I was transfer to Governor Island, worked as coast guard from 1989 to 1994.”

      ---And where do you living now?

      “I live in the streets now, like a lots of veterans.”

      ---How come? Don’t you get a pension from the government?

      “That is why I m in the streets right now, I’m going to a process about doing some adjustment to what I’m entire to, from the time I was in the Military until right now.”

    -----How about Family, how was yours  relationship with them?

      “Beautiful, gorgeous, fantastic, both my parents are deceived now, but they training us the property family values, taught us how to do onto others as we had them do to us. That is what we all did.

      ------Religion?

      “Holiness – Pentecostal is my faith.”

      ------Something that you remember from your childhood.

      “When I was a little boy I did a lots of dangerous things, That was what gave me the mentality to go to Marine Corps verses Army or Nave or Air force. I use to climb trees, jump too one tree to another, holping that I won’t miss the limb and fall, go for a swimming in the river, I use to take the risk, everything is a risk.”

      ----How long have you waiting to receive the peison that you well deserved?

      “I m waiting for 48 years, since I go out  from Marine Corps. You see, I have being to five courts appel down to Washington, I have four MRI doan to prove my conditions,the condition is here, MRI is not going to lie. They are in the processe now to detail another refer from a doctor to contest agains my evidence. I told them ‘help yourselves”. I play by the rules, the longer they wait, more money they got to pay me. That is why Im in the streets now. I thank God for the wonderful food- trock, thanks for all of you and no body can bless you but God.”

      -----Don t you have no one that could help you get out of the streets?

      “Well, I got three childrens, my son is a cop in South Caroline, my daughter works for Nasa in Virginia and my Other son in Queens. I Always took care of myselfe and what belongs to me. I don t want to reflect on them, I m independed tipe of person. Family lots of time is exacerbate, they through back to your face. I do my own Thing.”

      ____How hard has being for you living in the streets?

      “Marine Court has a saying: ‘Simplify, do or die’, I livid in the jungle for three years in Saigon, here in the streets is nothing. I was in the open fire, in the jungle and God bless me to survive there, HE broth me back home safe, covered me with His blood… over there at night,  you couldn’t t see a hand in from of your face, nights after nights… I made from death; I will make here too by the grace of God.”

      -----What was the worst Thing that happening to you while living in the streets?

      “The worst that happining to me? nothing that I know, because when I first came home in 1976, I was shell shocked. I been training by US Marine Corps not to fite, but to battle to the last breath, we Where training to kill and I don t want to get like that in America because I will be trail for morder. Over there was our job, the Enemy try to kill you and you havve to battle back, in your defence. I got everything you need to defend this Country and to protect yourself.”

      ----What was, so far, the most beautiful Thing that has happining to you in the streets?

      “The most beautiful thing happening to me in the streets is when people say ‘Thank you for your service’, and when someone else say, ’take this and by yourself a cup of coffee, by some burgers, by some sandwich’. I don t have no resources or anything, I only have myself and I have God inside of my heart, to love one another, to put love in action, unconditional love. When somebody bless me is a beautiful thing. The American people are the best. This is the best Country in the planet Earth, USA!”

      ---Who is the most important person to you?

      “The most important person… that is tough… one comrade of the Marine Corps.”

     ----Do you have any dreams?

      “No Dreams. I have flash back, like I m still in the jungle...  that is why you see me try to keep smiling, to get over that... But the Thing that keeps me going is the word of God and leasting Loud music, that is terapy to my mind, to my conscience... and think positive, always...”

      -----What could you say to the young generation?

      “I like to say to them: Fix you heart and make up your mind to serve this Country. As a President J. Kennedy sad, Is not quite what the Country can do for you but what you could do for the Country, for US marine Corp, or any military corps, give back to the Country, mike a life of yourself, put yourself way from drugs and  out of  the streets or you will drestroy yourself.