“I still get breakouts from agent orange. It looks like leprosy. I did two years and seven months in combat in Cambodia and Laos. I was a river rat and was in charge of seven boats when our commander was killed by friendly fire. We were coming in hot and about 40 people were killed. I was a heroin addict for 43 years, I have been clean for 14 after flatlining several times. The last time was on my birthday. I am in a wheelchair because I was crossing the street in Gulfport four years ago and a woman ran a red light and hit me and paralyzed my leg. The flag is upside down because this country and this nation is in distress. I am the seventh son of a seventh son and my mother was 100 percent Choctaw. I am a tough old bird.”