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We're not serious. Rhetoric is often used to pave the way for wars.
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We're doing a deep dive today with Matt Lohmeyer, who was an Air Force
Academy grad from two thousand and six, a former T thirty eight and F
fifteen pilot, former lieutenant colonel commander in the Space Force, and also the
author of a book whose title I need to read because I could not memorize
it, the twenty twenty book called Irresistible Revolution, Marxism, Goal of Conquest
and Unmaking of the American Military. Thank you so much, first of all
for being with us. We appreciate it. You sure, and we got
to know you because we played a couple of clips of you for our audience
on our morning show when you recently testified in front of Congress about d I
d E I and wokeism, uh, kind of infiltrating our military, which
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But your story begins obvious with distinguished service in the military and then an abrupt
departure, which we want to understand the details about because it seems very unfair
the circumstances around you're being released from command. Can you walk us through that
story? Yeah, let me try and hit some highlights. Thanks for having
me join you. And I don't do a good job with self promotion,
which is probably why a lot of people in the country wouldn't have heard of
me. I'm not offended in the least about that, but let me try
and hit some highlights. Feel free to interrupt me if it's useful. As
you mentioned, after I left the Air Force Academy, I was flying jets
for the Air Force, and then later went into the Space Force, and
on the whole, there was no overt politicization of the military workplace during the
entire time I served in the military. It didn't matter what your political worldview
was. That was kind of private. You went and voted if you wanted
to or not. Whatever your religious worldview was might have been known to your
friends, that wasn't discussed in the workplace. Didn't matter what your race was,
your socioeconomic makeup background, because they gave everyone the same ugly haircut in
the same beautiful uniform, and you all saluted the same flag, and you
swore the same oaths to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, period,
and so whatever your mission was in whatever branch of the military, you
happen to be serving in that's what you focused on, and that changed dramatically
come You can trace a line in the sand in number of different places.
I understand that. But when George Floyd died and we saw riots and activism
seizing upon the country in the spring and summer months of twenty twenty, the
same cultural revolutionary, spiritual impulse that we saw in the media that was taking
place across country was also happening in our military. And we had had a
small minority of left wing activists who were in senior leadership positions in the military,
and also the youngest of the people in the military, seizing the moment
to push certain very very hyper political talking points that were anti American, that
were demonizing our founders, that were demonizing the Constitution of all things Totally.
That's not acceptable in my view anywhere in this country. But we allow people
the freedom to do that. But it's illegal in the military workplace, and
at the time Donald Trump was president, and it's illegal for a service member.
It's against the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It's illegal for them to
publicly criticize their commander in chief, and that was happening in uniform and so
I tried to and here's where we get to the heart of the story,
and then I'll take a pause. I tried to explain what I was seeing
by overt politicization to my chain of command, to my immediate supervisor, as
well as all the way up the chain to the four star general who was
in charge of the Space Force, because I knew him well. I got
on the phone with him and talked with him, but he's he was a
member of the Joint Chiefs. Every service chief is a member of the Joint
Chiefs. The response I received was that they agreed with me that there was
a big problem, and they seemed rather powerless to do anything about it.
So I filed a formal written complaint. And there's reasons why they felt powerless
to do something about it, but that's besides the point for net for now.
I filed a formal written complaint with the Space Force Inspector General's Office,
detailing Marxist critical race theory that was being taught, how it was dividing the
troops, it was leading people to want to leave the service, as hurting
our recruiting efforts, so on and so forth. That was dismissed after Joe
Biden. They sat on that for three months, but Joe Biden came to
office, that was dismissed. And so I wrote a book, the book
that you've mentioned, Irresistible Revolution, that came out in May of twenty twenty
one, and I was fired from command in the Space Force for writing it.
Not because of the content of the book per se, but because senior
leaders were so afraid that someone they knew well, who had a good record
that was that people would listen to, had written a book about you know,
about Marxism and about the left politics. And it wasn't meant to be
overtly partisan. It was meant to call out our need for greater accountability in
the military workplace by eliminating partisanship and to allow young men and women to enjoy
the military workplace and do their mission. So I was fired. I've been
speaking around the country for the past couple of years ever since, and that's
why, ultimately, finally I was asked to come and testify in Congress about
you know, what impact have I seen in the last couple of years since
writing this book, and it's not gotten any better. So you said you
were fired, Like I mean like fired from the military, like no benefits?
Is that what happened to you? Like just because you had a glowing
record in the military, and they and then they just said you got to
go now because you wrote this book, Like I just it's astounding good.
Don't understand the process. How did they just writ How do they do that?
Well, A couple of different things to understand. I guess I did
have a good record, And in fact, in lead up to my congressional
testimony, I shared a number of things with the subcommittee that had invited me
to join them for the testimony, and one of those things was the summary
of my military record, and they posted that online. I didn't know that
was going to happen. I wasn't trying to get my military record in the
public, but they the night before the hearing, they posted not only my
submission of a written opening statement and hundreds of over one hundred pages of substantiating
attachments, but they posted my military record and people were retweeting that, I
don't know how you say it these days, re exing that they were sending
it up on next and so it was a little uncomfortable. I didn't intend
for that to be public, but it's good. I was the number one
officer in the Space Force of my peer group, promoted two years early to
lieutenant colonel. And so, to answer your question, Daisy, I was
in command as a lieutenant colonel. I was fired from my command, and
so I was no longer in a commander position after I was fired, but
I was still a lieutenant colonel in the military and in the Space Force.
But that lasted for about three months. There was an ongoing investigation to determine
if I had acted in some way that was unauthorized, illegal, unethical,
immoral, and I hadn't. I hadn't at all, and I wasn't found
guilty of anything. But at the time, you know, they'd wrecked my
reputation as a leader. They were the ones, meaning Space Force leaders,
that coordinated a story on military dot Com the very next morning after I'd been
fired, saying that they had lost their trust and confidence in my min my
ability to lead. That's the same thing they say about child predators, that's
the same thing they say about drug users. And it's like, well,
how do you if they're not going to specify the reasons for your firing.
The only thing that the American people know, and that now everyone in that
branch of in all branches of the military know about you, is that you
are no longer trusted to lead people. Wow. So I requested something that
is occasionally approved by Congress. It's called TERRA. It's the early Retirement Authority.
As long as you've had fifteen years at least in service, you can
technically, under certain circumstances, qualify for an early retirement. It's a certain
percentage of your full pension. And I requested that I had senators, you
know, Senator Tom Cotton and others writing letters to the Secretary of the Air
Force urging that they approved my early retirement since they had wrecked my reputation,
and they denied it. And so I voluntarily separated without my pension. Because
it was either stay in and keep your mouth shut about what's going on,
or get out and keep using your voice to try and inform people about the
woke revolution that's taking over the military. And so I chose to get out
and do that. And I just maybe someday, if Trump's back in office,
you know, or someone who cares about restoring the military, that you
start to see a restitution for some of these wrongs that have been done over
the past. They just wanted you to go away. They just wanted you,
in the truth, to go away, which is so gross. What's
too bad is that I had had a really good relationship with the senior leaders
in some of the senior leaders in the Air Force, and especially with some
of the senior leaders in the Space Force. We respected each other, We
didn't necessarily see things differently, but out of fear, they wanted to make
sure they stayed good with the regime. And that was all happened during the
whole COVID nightmare also part of it. So because I haven't had the opportunity
to to read your book yet, but I'm wondering if that, I know,
your focus was obviously Marxism and DEI and that that kind of thing.
Did did that come up in your writing at all? Do you feel Because
I remember Daisy and I talking a lot about all these forced separations from the
military from people who didn't want to take the vaccine, and now it's just
I look at you and I and I think about all of those service folks
who were forced essentially to get out because they wanted to stick by their convictions.
And I think those are exactly the kinds of people that we need in
the military right and now, like and I'm just looking what a waste of
you. I mean, not that you're what you're doing now is not important.
But when I wait about it, you know, but you know what
she means, like we know what right, you know what she means.
It's because I can't believe that you are not You're not able, that they
prevented you from being able to serve, and you're exactly who we want.
You're the poster boy for who we want. You want strong people. Think
about this. If you care about military strength, if you care about lethality,
if you care about readiness, if you care about winning or deterring wars,
you want strong men first and foremost. Right, exam words about this.
You want you want strong men, and ideally and common sensically, they
will love their country and be willing to die for it. Everything that the
DEI industry is seeking to do is demonize men. It's criticism of Western civilization,
demonization of our founders in this country. And you have you have people
on both sides. This is the interesting part. There are people on both
sides of the political aisle who hate what they're hearing, and so it disincentivizes
their service to the country. If they're let's say they're conservative, and they
don't buy into it, they know better and they think it's all propaganda,
they don't want to serve in a military that's pushing that narrative. First off,
if they're Christian and conservative, let's say, and they refuse to because
it's against their conscience to take the COVID shot, they push them out because
they're not politically compliant. But on the other hand, if you're leftist and
roughly speaking, let's say even and you like what you're being taught about the
evils of the country, and you like that you're being taught that it's not
redeemable, it's it's systemically racist. It's anymore. It is evil, frankly,
and we need to return to something that was far more lovely. But
if you're buying into all of that, that also disincentivizes the service. Why
would you be willing to lay your leftist neck on the line for an irredeemably
racist country when you can join the revolution right against Yeah? Right, yeah?
Do you still have, like I say, peers, I don't know
how that works in the military. Do you still have people who are kind
of on your I guess on your level. I don't. I don't know
how to say it, but that are still in the military that you have
contact with, and do they do you have a pulse basically on what I'd
like to be in the military right now. It's a good It's good that
you bring this up, because the people I talk to most often are the
ones feeding me information about what's going on currently. They send me emails or
text messages with policy memorandums that are coming out that are that are ugly things.
But it's important to point out also that I've got peers and others that
are not my peers that are having a good experience in the military. By
and large, they're not burdened by the stuff that we're talking about. I
meet parents sometimes when I go out and speak. They say, my son's
in the Navy. He's been in for four years, and I told him
I was coming to listen to you speak, and he says, I don't
know what he's talking about. And my response to those people, you know,
my initial impulse is like, well, he needs to wake the hell
up. But my other response is it's what I give them, is I
say, I'm glad he's having a good experience, because I genuinely think,
you know what, like maybe his unit is largely unimpacted so far by the
activism, and maybe the job that that person and does has has allowed for
an environment that this isn't like, this isn't a common weekly or monthly talking
point or training session. Maybe they do a one annual DEI training that they
check the box on and they move on. But it's kind of like you
in a decent school, like my daughter is in public school, and it's
like being in a decent school like here in Texas, but like the Department
of Education as a whole is a huge freaking mess. It's a big poble.
So and so yeah, I mean, you can be lucky in a
pocket, but perhaps the whole thing holistically is like a giant disaster right now.
So that's why I was wondering, if you talk to those people that
are still in there and they're like, we're in trouble, you know,
yeah, I still talk to those people. I could you know, I
have examples that start to just filter to the forefront of my mind because it's
a constant thing. And I've to be quite honest with you, what decent
person doesn't want to escape the ugliness of the present mond and to focus on
that which is lovely and beautiful and decent and good about the country and about
whatever your faith is, and and your family and all of that stuff.
And I've wanted so much to just escape to a private I mean, I
just I'm reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life.
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much fiction, and so I'm reading The Lord of the Rings. I'm reading
about the Shire and the Hobbit and and these Hobbits, and I just can,
like hear the music from the movies playing, and I think, like,
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want to have nice people around me who don't want government involvement in their life.
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the pursuit of happiness. That's what the like. In one very real,
tangible sense, the greatness of the American ideal was that through a virtuous limited
government, which virtue the virtue part can't last for very long. I should
say, limited government that you're filling by elections and for purposes of representation with
a decent and religious and moral people allows for the citizen their life and their
liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which is like, figure out what God's
will is for you and go pursue it, you know, and do that,
and tend to your garden, and tend to your family relationships, and
get involved in political office in the local school system if you'd like. But
we are constantly burdened by the impositions of an unjust government at the state in
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I mean, because it sounds like, at least from what I've read,
that you. It wasn't like you were writing this book covertly like stealth
and all being sneaky about it. You you were very open about your concerns.
You tried to go through the proper channels. You did all the things,
So did you when you started the book? Then? Did you think
to yourself, there's a risk that I'm taking here, and you did it
willingly and knowingly, or were you as were you surprised by the consequences of
writing that book. I would do it again. I don't regret anything I've
done. I'm I'm not interested in doing some big thing unless I feel compelled
that I'm obligated to do something like that. I was happy to be a
commander in the military. I would do it again. I was distracted by
the word that's on the black mug over your shoulder. I was gonna say,
what's that? What's that? What's on your mug back there? Oh?
That the yellow writing. It just is my nickname, Mocka. It's
not it's not that far. I think you thought, why do you find
this distracting? What on earth about this shelf would you find distracting? Dogs?
There's nothing distracting about It's on the monkey's chest. I thought, sorry,
says it, says mock on it. He's probably like, is there
a naughty word on there? Yeah, no, no, no, no,
I promise it's all on the up and up. But were you surprised
by what happened? Which, yeah, you were, so. I know.
I considered every possible outcome. I discussed that with my wife. We
went into that with our eyes fully open. However, I was still surprised
at how things played out. For example, my book was published in a
week later, I'm being fired on the phone by a three star general and
my chain of command for alleged political partisanship while acting in an official capacity,
which is totally false, and for publicly criticizing my chain of command. Those
are the exact words that were used. That was totally false. I didn't
do either of those things in my book. Yeah, I had never either
of those things in any public or official capacity. And I was always very
careful to make sure I was complimentary of my chain of command, my senior
leaders, although and frankly at that time, they were deserving of my trust,
respect, and even though they were unfortunately incapable of deciding quickly and for
themselves that we needed to take a stand against what we now so easily refer
to as wokeism. I thought, these are good people. They've served the
country for a very long time, and I get that they don't want to
get mixed up in the political fray. They want to go comfortably back to
the shire and retirement, as we're talking about they want, you know,
they're at thirty years something years of service and they're hoping this is a passing
phase in American political life. It's going to go away. And I didn't
view it that way one bit. I saw the writing on the wall.
I studied how Marxist revolutions take place, and everything was mounting, and I
see that this isn't going to change, and in fact, if we don't
change course immediately, the consequences of our current decisions will be difficult to unmake
and undo over the next five and ten years. So it has to be
talked about, right And so yeah, I was surprised that they fired me
quickly for false reasons, by the way, but it was out of fear.
And I was surprised that they refused to approve my retirement, given the
fact that they knew that they had under false pretenses, fired me, and
I don't regret any of that. Could you sue him? How do it
even work? And I think I could have. I don't know what the
statute statute of limitations is. I've even considered it. Since then, it's
been two and a half years. You totally should. This may will be
three years since I was fired. But the time in which I was separating,
the fall of twenty twenty one, in which it was like the most
it was the most sweet time to sue. Yeah, I remember thinking I
don't have a litigious soul, and this is a hard time for my family,
and I want to make our transition to civilian life as easy as possible.
And I end up in the news cycle all over again. Yeah.
But the fact that like I'm paying for Bauci's pension and like all these benefits
and like you don't get anything. I like, I that makes me crazy,
Like you shouldn't. It's mad, It makes me crazy mad. Yeah,
it's not right. Speaking of maddening, can we talk about that congressional
hearing, Because you were you were faced with some serious stupid and I there
was that moment where where you rightly lost your temper and you were like,
you guys don't know what you're talking about, and this is all bullshit,
and I was like, yeah, you go, and that's the clip that
we ended up playing for our audience. So how first of all, I
think was what two and a half hours? I think that you were probably
I think it was around that and and you had your your few moments.
And then of course, the way that those hearings work, you know,
I'm reclaiming my time or whatever it is that they do to interrupt your thought
process. My god. So but after all that, because you know,
so often we see these hearings where there's amazing people like you giving testimony that's
so important for the country, for the world to hear, and then it's
like we get all excited about what was said and the impact of those words
we know that they had on us, but doesn't do anything? Was there
an outcome? Is there ever any follow up? Like what was the Did
that help anything? You know what I mean? Or do you just feel
super frustrated like we always do when we watch those hearings. I felt frustrated
going into the hearing because I wrestled with that question. I thought, is
this just political drama? You know, is this a play? You know,
and everyone's up there playing politics, and so I thought, use my
time, well, prayerfully, sincerely, consider what it is that you need
to convey, you know, as a spokesperson for what you understand. Convey
that, be honest in how you answer questions, but try not to get
overly emotional. And I told my wife one of the greatest challenges I'm going
to have in that room is not getting emotional in my response, because I
knew i'd have like my body temperature go through the roof as I listened to
the same way. And so I'm sitting there listening to these guys, and
I can see the hate like coming off of some of the Democrats forces in
that room. They totally unwilling. It's like they want to preach to us
about diversity right right, And they've called another white male to sit right next
to me who absolutely loathes my view. And it's like, here's the perfect
proof right here at this table that just because we look the same doesn't mean
we think the same exactly. Oh my gosh, right, you could have
put up and in fact, what's funny about that? Yeah, General General
Tie Sigeley is his name. They couldn't pronounce his name the whole time.
He's got a funny name, but Ti Siguly. He sat right next to
me. We had a friendly in exchange, he and I before the hearing.
We had a friendly exchange after. We were enemies during the hearing because
we had a very different viewpoint to talk about, and we look exactly the
same, I mean kind of. But after it's all over, there's a
young black man who is sitting behind me in the peanut gallery who worked for
a certain organization. He came up and introduced himself, I mean totally to
the disproof of what they were saying up there on the stand. He comes
up and says, I agree with everything you said. You're sought on.
Here's my card. Let's talk. And I think see that this is the
whole point, Like the look doesn't matter. We need people that love their
country, who understand their mission, and who are interested in being lethal on
behalf of the American people. That's the whole point of a military right.
And the American people understand that. Yes, But for some reason in that
room, democrats did not want to understand that they wanted to talk. There's
no such thing we don't do racial quotas. There's no racial quotas. And
that's not true. It's just not just it's not true in the university,
it's not true in the military. It's not true at our military universities.
And so and I don't know if you heard the ranking member Garcia, after
he's from California, after all the witnesses got done and the whole hearing is
over, he's summed up for the room the views of me and the other
gentlemen who were called by Republicans to be the witnesses to be witnesses, and
ranking members summed up our comments, and it was totally a misstatement, totally
false representation of what we had said. He said we were advocating for what
he say. He said, you advocate for militias to overturn the regime.
And I just thought, what a liar. It's just crazy. And so
anyone in uniform that watches that charade is rightly angered by what they're seeing come
out of our Congress. But one more point, one more point, what
good does it do? I got an email a couple of days ago from
that committed and they wanted to follow up on my testimony. With a certain
list of questions that they wanted greater clarity on, and I said, oh,
good, like you want more information. I don't know. Good that'll
do, But let me see what you're asking. I open up the document.
I've not responded. I don't think I will respond. Like question number
one, tell us in your view, what are the origins of THEI number
two? In your view do you think the EI's wrecking military readiness? I
mean, it's like just a joke. What in the world world This is
from the staff of the right of the Chairman of the committee. And I
thought, how do you make any progress when when this is how we conduct
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the outcome that's important. And I think it's important for people that understand the
truth to speak the truth and whatever sphere of influence they occupy. Yeah,
and you know I shared at the very end of that testimony summation of what
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our recruitment if we pursue this agenda, which is totally true and it's happening,
and that we'll destroy ourselves as a country if we continue to do this.
And it was really important to me to be able to convey that witness
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not there's any positive, observable, tangible outcome from the hearing, yeah,
well, I mean we heard it. Yeah, we heard it, and
a lot of other people heard it, and I think that was that's the
best outcome, right, And we're hopefully more and more people will start hearing
that and maybe we can turn the ship around. Right, that's the need
to do that. You have to try always, even when things look dark.
I mean, you try your best. The voice is powerful. There's
a reason free speech matters a great deal. Yes, it is. The
It is a preventative of sorts for violence when people lose their ability to articulate
their views or even scream and shout them hatefully. Let's say one extreme like
you need to allow people to say hateful things because that's better than killing one
another. Right, And you start to label things hate speech, and then
there's certain things that are now off limits to say hatefully, you start to
walk a path back from free speech and towards the use of violence in order
to solve your problems. Yeah, that's a really interesting way to look at
it, because you constantly hear from Democrats, particularly that there's speech that incites
violence. And your point is well taken that sometimes the silencing is what incites
violence. So that's an interesting way to words can incite violence, and rhetoric
is often used to pave the way for wars. A great example of this
just my input for the day because I was thinking about it. You know,
we call this the Russia Ukraine War. It's rhetoric. I'm going to
start calling it something different. It's the NATO Russia War in Ukraine. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, it is. And the fact is a bunch of
Ukrainian people are suffering the most, but it is It's clear from the words
of our regime, from Biden and from Lloyd Austin, from members of Congress,
and from our NATO alliance that we view ourselves as at war with Russia,
and we're happy to do it in a land far far away from home
in order to destroy and bankrupt Russia. We're doing it to ourselves in the
process. But it's a it's a proxy war. Yeah, yep. One
final question before we let you go, and that is is it true that
you speak fluent Mandarin? It was true that I spoke fluent Mandarin. You
know, like any first off Mandarin, Chinese, if you're somewhat musical,
isn't as hard to learn as English. Really believe that. It's like you
can mimic sounds and you're up and burrow and it's a beautiful language. And
my first China exposure was in two thousand and five and the Department of the
Air Force had an exchange progret and with the People's Liberation Army Air Force in
chang Chu in China. And my annunciation and my pronunciation is still somewhat correct,
although my vocabulary is greatly diminished. But I went and slept in the
dorms with these young PLA cadets in their Air Force Academy north of North Korea
up in northeastern China. And recently, as a part of a movie that
I'm filming, which we can talk about another time. It'll be out the
summer, I was in Washington, d C. Actually it was the same
trip I think that I testified in Congress, but I did a walk and
talk on camera with my good friend Shei van Fleet Laden County mom, survivor
of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China, and she's a very outspoken anti Marxist,
anti communist, a commentator now and just came out with a new book.
But she's a wonderful lady. And we spoke in Chinese for like two second
sound bites at the time, because that was all the affluency I can muster
anymore these days. So you can't. Could you say, like, the
chicks are awesome? In Mandarin? How to say chicks? It might sound
like chickens. So the ladies, can you say ladies? The ladies are
awesome? Oh jeez, you put you got You got to give me a
warning about the stuffs. Ladies are great, the ladies run sure. How
boy, that sounds good? Sounds good. I don't know a Chinese person
would translate that is like, these females are are really awesome. I guess
these shoes are cooked. Yeah. Well, you know, I saw something
about this documentary about you coming out, and that would be a really fantastic
time to have you back. When that is is it going to be the
summer or fall, you know when it's coming. This is this summer,
it will come out awesome. Yeah, we would love to have you back
in preview that or totally give us the rundown. That'd be wrapping up filming.
Are you guys in Texas? I'm and she's going to be in South
Carolina pretty soon. She's in Indiana right now, but I'm filming in Texas
here in a couple of wear down to San Antonio, New Bronfels area.
I love that area. I love the New Brothels. I love New Brothels
especially. But we're about two hours. We're out right outside of Waco,
so we're pretty close to there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Waco. That's exciting that you're getting out a documentary. Everybody, Yeah,
Waco. But yeah, this summer is when it will come out. There's
a working title that was released by the Heritage Foundation that we said, hey,
take that away. We're not sure if that's the final title, but
we we expect to be finishing filming here in the next few weeks and then
hopefully maximum distribution throughout the country. Awesome, this summer, fantastic, Yeah,
thank you so much. For giving us the inside scoop on your story.
It's a fascinating one that everybody should be listening to and thinking of as
a warning. I mean, because it's not just about what happened to you,
it's about how important what you've done since is. I mean the fact
that you continue to speak out and make people aware of the dangers of what's
happening in our military. Everyone needs to be concerned about this, and we
appreciate you taking the time. Also, you're a model for speaking out.
People should never be afraid to exercise free speech and speak out and be strong
in doing so. So thank you for being one of those people who does
that. Yeah, thank you, Yeah, appreciate it.