Transcript for Never Coming Home, Day 4: Luis Moreno.
Manny Moreno: First thing I do in the morning is I go to the cemetery. Cry a little bit … some tears.
I always took two beer. Put one on the ground, I took the other one. It's like I talk to him.
I don't know if dead people can listen. But sometime when I feel desperate, that's the only thing that, that I can do that make me feels better.
When I used to go to work I be like, "Oh, he going to call me later," like I waiting for that call, that would never get to my phone.
Saturday night I expected him to call.
He always call me and ask me, "Hey, what you guys doing?"
I be like, "Getting some beer, we going to a party, we was dancing last night, blah, blah, blah …"
He was like, "Damn, yo, I wanna go back."
I can wear any type of clothes, I don't care, but I never go out without these. And I don't let anybody touch it, if it's not on me. I believe this one was the one he was wearing at the moment.
When he told me that he will join to the Army, I was like, "It's a good idea so, go ahead and do it."
First of all, he was like, "Oh, I will enjoy because I'm going to learn a lot, then when I came back, I will get my citizenship, and then I will join the police academy."
All those troops, they still there. And they are going to send more troops. And no, I don't want nobody to be by the pain that I was.
Know what I am saying, it's hard. It's hard, man. 'Cause you know my brother, he was only 19 years old. He don't have a wife, he don't have son.
The same thing that happened with my brother is going to happen with others. That's what I don't want.
What I thought about the war is … that they have chemical weapon, biological weapon. … But we don't see none of that, and that was the main reason. So, now, what it looks to me, and most of the people, is that we are getting to war just for oil. That's all. It's no chemical weapon. It's no result. The only result that we have, is that we lost a lot of people.

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