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Thank you so much for being here Debora Mackenzie its really an honor. I was really delighted to read your book. Is the first book ive ever written. Amazing, its also been challenging to create an account of a pandemic while his ongoing, can you tell me about that process. I understand why it has not happened yet, i am writing about the things we can write about now, i deliberately took a step back and i am not writing about things untold and about government, im not talking on that level auto i suppose it will be acquitted by that, im standing by and saying why now and thats something i could do really quickly. I like many other people have been writing a book for a few years and weve been saying this is going to happen, these are the viruses we need to worry about this is what we need to do, is already so obvious that the predictions were right on and we have not done a lot of the things that we needed to do, this is kind of the moment to repeat all of that stuff at a time when peopl
Of the true heroes of. In the Society Today sadly. Of the two warriors on the topic these gentlemen have been battling this topic ther their e careers and their entire lives. Both sacrificed greatly as i like to quote with their lives and military service. There wasnt quite enough to get up for the country i and that ty wanted to u then go even further and give the gift of their time and talent and sacrifice in our congress fighting on the issue, fighting communism. I wanted to use as the wife of a former senator there are issues you can take on and be a hero and issues you caner take on a takes courage and fortitude and personal sacrifice. This issue is an issue that if you are going to takeue this on, your family is going to be hit, your family, you will be hit personally on a daily basis. That is the beginning of things that are going to happen as you take on thepe issue that these o courageous men have taken on and so thats why it is truly an honor to get to introduce two of the br
So excited to be here today with two of my personal heroes. You know i always think about as a mother of five young children, three boys that someone mustve really thunk these words when these boys were young men that freedom is not free because they have taken at the heart. Two of the true heroes on the topic of battling the marxism that has been dated our society today, sadly, i just could not be in the presence of two greater warriors on the topic. And they are not johnnycomelatelys on this topic. These gentlemen have been battling this topic their entire careers. Really their entire lives. Both sacrificed greatly, as i like to quote with their lives in military service and then decided that wasnt quite enough to give up for a country that they wanted to then go even further and to give the gift of their time and their talents and their sacrifice and our congress fighting on the issue of fighting communism, hiding the ccp. Im going to tell you is the wife of a former senator from mi