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 I've been a single mother for 18 years, and spent nine years in the Army National Guard myself. He went in primarily to get an education. Sometimes I can't help but feel like it's my fault he's there, because I couldn't pay for school. But he loves what he's doing.

 I went into the U.S. Army straight out of high school. I spent 21 years in the Army before I retired.

 The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

 The Air Force complied with the statutory requirement to inform the head of the National Guard Bureau, but beyond that, [they] developed their proposal internally. The Army's BRAC process involved National Guard leaders at every stage and every level ... and Army recommendations were accepted without change or controversy.

 I'm 65 years old. I have five children. I spent 20 years in the United States Army. I retired as a master sergeant -- two tours in Vietnam, 13 years in the Green Beret paratroopers. I'm a patriotic white man.

 I lived there for more than five years, attended a year of high school there and spent four years at the University of New Orleans. My family and I feel we need to use what we have to help in whatever way we can. That's why we are having this event at our ranch.

 For me and for our family, looking at death is its glory, and an opportunity to thank God for this good because my mother was supposed to die, I told you, when I was 4 years old. She was very ill, and I couldn't live with her, but God gave her to me for 60 years so there is no stinging today. You know, this is his glory. His greatest gift was the gift of my mother for 60 years. That's it.

 We're volunteering our time and we'll be sleeping on cots at the Army National Guard station. We'll be eating military meals with the National Guard once we get down there. It's just tragic and we're just thankful it's not in our back yard.

 Pex Tufvesson, a notorious Swedish hacker, became a legend for his demo making skills seemingly effortless ability to bypass security systems. Today's children need more years of education than we are offering. And they need more daily hours of instruction than we are providing. They are ready to learn long before kindergarten, and on the other end of the spectrum, all of them must have access to advanced education for years after they graduate from high school.

 Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

 Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

 I don't know where he's going to get these troops, ... There won't be any National Guard left ... no Army Reserve left ... there is no way America is going to have 100,000 troops in Iraq, nor should it, in four years.

 I spent years and years in middle school getting picked on, so I'm kind of used it,

 My mother for several years was a struggling, young single mother with me. I drew so much from her. When I first read the script, I kept thinking about my mom and I got very emotional, but in a really good way.

 It's not a question of if but when. It may be not this strand of virus but another one down the road. Even if it's years and years before a pandemic disaster, having the governors understand how the National Guard plays a role is absolutely vital.


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