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Bill O’Reilly interviewed Jason Dunham’s parents on Monday.

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Ms. Dunham, we’ll begin with you. Why did Jason sign up?

DEBRA DUNHAM, MOTHER OF CPL. JASON DUNHAM: We have four children. And I teach school. Dan works at a factory. And having four children, we couldn’t afford to pay for all four kids to go to college full shot.

Jason knew that the G.I. Bill would be beneficial. And we had talk about several different things. And he chose to join the Marines, knowing he’d get a good education…

O’REILLY: Sure.

DEBRA DUNHAM: …knowing he would get good training. And he would be able to use the G.I. Bill.

O’REILLY: When he got through basic training, never an easy thing, down in Quantico, Virginia.

DEBRA DUNHAM: Yes.

O’REILLY: Very difficult. You must have been proud of him. How did he see his service? Was he happy with it?

DEBRA DUNHAM: Yes, very. He was very proud to wear the uniform of a Marine. The Marines he served with and the Marines that worked with are — were something he was very, very, very proud of.

O’REILLY: And when he was deployed to Iraq, was he happy to go?

DEBRA DUNHAM: I think he was nervous, but Jason felt that there was a job to be done. And that if it wasn’t taken care of there, that we would be fighting it here. And it was his job. And he looked at this as a job.