thank you, kix. i m dan wallrath. i m with operation finally home. i m the president and founder. we build mortgage-free custom homes for our wounded heroes. now, tonight, as kix said, we ve got a special guest here. we have sergeant stephen jackel. it would take me half a day to list all the medals that this young man has received. his team run over the vehicle he was in, they ran over an ied. stephen lost both his legs in that attack. the vehicle was on fire. and he saved his whole group. this is a real american hero right here. [ applause ] ladies out there, let me tell you, this is a strong woman.
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let me introduce a true american hero, sergeant stephen jackel. thank y all very much for your support. at operation finally home, we re not just building homes, we re rebuilding lives. if operation finally home did not do this for us, we wouldn t have the ability to go for our dreams in life. with this home here, now it s like i m actually striving ahead. i just started my own company. now we ll do it really slowly. because of the home, we were
kix, he s an amazing guy. he get what is we do. he understands. he believes in us. i m really glad to be a part of it. thanks for letting me. all right, guys. when we got there, we said a friend of ours, looks like he s going to be able to go backstage. would they like to go backstage? of course, they said yeah. still had no clue what was going on. hey, i ve got to stop for a second. i ve got to tell y all something. there s something really special going on here tonight. you know, i m a big fan of our men and women across the seas that are sacrificing themselves. i heard we had a true hero in the house tonight. sergeant jackel and his family are here. i thought you guys might like to say thanks to them.