50 Cent Talks About Performing For Vets At BRAVE Concert!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:33 pm

"It was intense, man. There was an intensity there," he said,
eyes moving toward the ceiling. "A lot of [soldiers] write these death
notes before they go on missions, they write these notes that they want
their loved ones to read. ... They're in this environment where death
is everywhere."

"A lot of the people I met [in Mosul] had been there since my first
record came out — they'd been there since '03 — and you could tell,
man. There was an intensity there," he said. "It was eye-opening. It
was like, 'You think you've had a tough time? ... These people have a
tough time.' They're in this environment that's more intense than
anything you could imagine.

"I don't think there's any way you can understand it unless you've been
there and seen it," he said. "When they come back and realize that
everyone went on with their lives, you know?

"They've got an energy. You gotta come hard, you know!?

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