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I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

Whenever I'm given a chance to support veterans' initiatives, I try to do that. Children and veterans - if they're involved, you can pretty much count me in.

I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.

I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

I'm a good little middle-class boy. I live in Gloucestershire or Kensington. I don't exist in the war zone, but it's certainly not far away. I grew up in an area where it is a war zone - south London.