 My name is Dali Darao and I'm on the ring. I volunteered for service in 1969 and served in Vietnam. We went out on the convoy of five under-personnel carriers, getting ready to cross a rice paddy as we started to turn. The first track went over the mine, nothing happened. When the 500-pound bomb was detonated, obviously the big explosion set off the field cells creating a huge fireball. There was eight of us. We all got burned from the period that I returned from Vietnam to the period that I got married. I wandered around without hope, without any direction, without any purpose in life. And I think a lot of the returning troops find themselves in that same predicament that I did. So I'd like to share a bit of myself, a little bit of my story with them, hoping that they too have that turning point, that they too find themselves, that they too are able to focus on their abilities rather than disabilities. I'm a veteran and my victory is seeing others believe in themselves.