WEBVTT 00:03.220 --> 00:07.119 Pilots , prisoner of war hero . 00:07.920 --> 00:10.198 All right , but the most special to me , 00:10.198 --> 00:13.289 uh , is that he's my father . With that 00:14.199 --> 00:15.366 Yeah I think it is . 00:23.079 --> 00:26.809 The first week was the hardest . The 00:26.809 --> 00:30.719 first month was the hardest . The first 00:30.719 --> 00:34.639 year was the hardest . You couldn't 00:35.369 --> 00:38.709 Imagine that you were gonna be able to 00:38.709 --> 00:42.389 live that way . And then gradually it 00:42.389 --> 00:46.310 got to the point where it was a way of 00:46.310 --> 00:49.900 life . If they'd have kept me for 40 00:49.900 --> 00:53.279 years . I'd have still been saying . 00:54.270 --> 00:57.950 Yeah , one more battle one . I've been 00:57.950 --> 01:00.939 there one more year . I'm gonna make it . 01:01.270 --> 01:05.098 I'm gonna make it . My 01:05.098 --> 01:08.660 name is Rod Knutson . I'm a 01:08.660 --> 01:12.519 retired Navy captain . I 01:12.519 --> 01:16.400 had former enlisted Marine time of 6 01:16.400 --> 01:20.250 years . And then another 32 years in 01:20.250 --> 01:23.800 the navy . It sounded 01:23.809 --> 01:27.760 like somebody was poking holes 01:28.129 --> 01:32.019 in my airplane . And in fact 01:32.269 --> 01:36.059 they were . We had entered an area 01:36.059 --> 01:39.160 on a strike . Where they were shooting 01:39.160 --> 01:42.919 flack at us . And then also I was 01:42.919 --> 01:46.040 jumped while I was in the bushes by 01:46.040 --> 01:48.760 someone else who I never saw when I 01:48.760 --> 01:51.980 woke up I was laying on my back . They 01:51.980 --> 01:55.980 were using my own survival knife to cut 01:55.980 --> 01:58.739 off my parachute harness . 02:07.239 --> 02:10.960 When I was a kid , being tough was part 02:10.960 --> 02:13.559 of your life . If you got bucked off a 02:13.559 --> 02:16.610 horse , you get right back on again . 02:16.960 --> 02:18.570 I truly . 02:21.300 --> 02:24.860 was convinced that as a 02:24.860 --> 02:28.440 prisoner I was still A fighting 02:28.440 --> 02:32.440 warrior . I think 02:32.440 --> 02:35.919 the Navy does a very good job at trying 02:35.919 --> 02:39.309 to expose us to hardships , 02:39.600 --> 02:42.919 expose us to decision making . 02:43.729 --> 02:47.710 And therefore building up a reliance on 02:47.710 --> 02:51.250 our own . Of Depending 02:51.250 --> 02:55.039 upon ourselves and enjoy it for what it 02:55.039 --> 02:58.679 is . Work hard , makes the time go 02:58.679 --> 03:02.539 faster and You'll have a good time .