22 year retired veteran.

8 years government service, one tour in Iraq, three tours in AF, one tour in Bosnia, etc., etc.

Three daughters, two sons, 25th anniversary, married a farm girl from ND who got expert her first range in the Army.

It isn’t a “punishment” but the reason I get up and do my thing every day. I will never see my girls wrapped in a Burqa or my boys wrapped in a “vest” while air is still whistling through my lungs.