 began to appreciate how lucky I was. What's the eraser story? Yeah, so the eraser story is I was in Iraq, so I enlisted in the Marine Corps, spent seven months in Iraq, and during a mission where we went to go do some assistance to a local school, I remember we were given some school supplies to pass out to the local kids, and I gave this eraser to a boy, and he grabbed it from me and smiled so big and held it aloft like a trophy and ran back to his family.