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Rick Springfield stunned listeners on the Joe Rogan Experience with a haunting confession: in 1968, while entertaining troops in Vietnam, he accidentally killed someone by firing a mortar — a moment he still battles to process. As a young musician, he didn’t grasp the gravity of his actions, comparing it to a movie scene. The incident occurred during an attack when he was stationed in a radio shack, and only later did he learn his round had taken a life. Now 77, Springfield’s youthful appearance has gone viral, but this dark chapter remains the one burden he carries from war — a truth that lingers even decades later.

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