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free while the cause is thelive same. everyone has a different reason for serving free.e ca. maybe they re following in their father s footsteps, orserv they felt a calling after terrorists tore down the twin towersa call. for me, it was a patriotictr parade or a series oiotif them f a small town memorial day and the 4th of july parades in a tiny farm town in southern minnesota where my parents grewm up. the whole town linedinnesota wh on the side of the tree lined main street, waiting for the veterans u to walk by. and when they came, older vets u and younger vets, the crowd clapped and salutes,d. the reverence that town had for the veterans made me say, wow, those men really did something special, somethingme did biggern this town, something bigger than themselves. these men were willing to put on a uniform and facet fo danger for me. a kid they never met. it was just a handful of veterans from one town. but rans from one town. gave men like that. out of sheer patriot
impact in communities outside of those that wear the uniform every day. can you share about one in particular that we enjoyed together ode just this week?shar well, amazing. so about a year ago, a little michael martinez fromm houston, texas. we flew him, his mother and his sister in, put them up inpu a hotel because we heard of his story about a year ago, goesp ia to school dressed as career day in a time where police officers are already under fire. he dresses as a police officer,d getsressesofficer, bullied and t thrown out of his wheelchair. and we wanted to show when it came to our attention how much little boys like michaeltion and little girls mean to us, that they re the reasons why. remembern every single day why we showed up that one day maybe the perceptions of police o officers being bad, it changes and they want to be like us one day. it was amazing to see this little boy with cerebral palsy. now nine years old, wearing a little uniform from his in texas, being giv