Helping a Hero

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This is beyond confidence and now here's your

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host, div Park. Good morning
listeners, It's Tuesday, and I hope

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you had wonderful holidays and I want
to wish each and every one of you

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a wonderful rest of twenty twenty three
with a lot of joy and wonderful times

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with your loved ones. So today
we have a wonderful guest for you.

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It's about helping and kindness that we
stress upon so much, so I want

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to thank each and every one of
you who have got our box, whether

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it is Expert to influencer or the
Entrepreneur's Garden. Expert to Influencer will help

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you possession yourself to create meaningful impact. And it's just not about numbers and

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likes. It's about making that difference, even if it is a difference to

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one person. Always remember a one
person impacted is a circle impacted, because

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every person has their own circle.
And the Entrepreneur's Garden is going to help

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you build those meaningful relationships with time, yourself, with money and get results

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in your life and live the life
you deserve. And remember the kindness circle.

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Get that kindness going just one hour
a month help someone with no strings

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attached. And today we are going
to be talking about while that kindness is

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being exploded through our guests. Welcome
ed It, Hi, Debia, It's

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so great to be with you guys
today. I am so excited to introduce

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you to Staff Sergeant Daniel Gilliat.
He's one of our wounded warriors and Helping

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a Hero builds adapted homes for wounded
warriors, and I wanted Daniel to share

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It's a little bit of a story
so that your listeners could in viewers could

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really catch a glimpse of what our
heroes go through and how helping a hero

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is helping to solve their adaptation issues
in their homes. Absolutely, So first

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of all, thank you Madi for
sharing, and thank you Danielle for joining

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us at the last minute. And
I want to thank you from the bottom

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of my heart for the services you
have given, and thank you to you

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and all the veterans and all our
heroes and heroes out there. So welcome

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Danielle. Thank you. And one
of the things that we love to say

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is you are worth it. So
thank you for having me on this morning,

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I guess I'll jump right into it. Wounded or disabled individuals have lots

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of challenges between balance and just functioning
in a regular house with narrow doorways,

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with getting in and out of showers, or getting in and out of missing

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a leg. You either have to
sit on the side of the tub and

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kind of swing one leg over carefully
and then easier way into the tub,

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or you have to figure out a
way of being able to grab a hold

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of something stable and kind of hop
in, which is extremely dangerous. I

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mean, even putting a sock on
one leg is a bit of a challenge

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because you don't have the other leg
to stabilize you. Getting dressed, making

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meals, doing dishes. Said veterans
tend to not ask for help because they've

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been so conditioned to know, don't
ask a whole lot of questions, get

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it done, stay focused, overcome
all of your obstacles. Well, now

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you have this challenge and it can
defeat you. You can get mindsets that

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create limitations and disabilities and frustrations if
you allow it. And with these adaptive

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houses, it not only changes the
veteran's life, but it changes the family

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life. And I believe it will
impact generations. One of the things that

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it impacts the veterans life. For
instance, the veteran has a schedule where

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they get up early in the morning, they go, go, go,

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every single day. They've got a
set of what I call marching orders.

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They've got direction, they've got purpose, they understand their value according to the

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guys depending on them on the left
and the right. And then they end

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up combat wounded and one of the
things that they deal with is survivor's guilt.

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You know, me, why did
I survive or why did I get

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her? Why am I going through
all this? And that know, And

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so while they're trying to deal with
those thoughts in the hospital, then they

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get set free from or discharged from
the military, and then they're like,

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okay, now what And so now
they've got all this bottled up energy,

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they've got all of these things that
they were, you know, NonStop,

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and now a sudden life comes to
a screeching halt. And you compile that

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with possibly medications, you know,
pain issues, severely burnt lung issues.

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They can't deal with, bacteria and
infectious stuff and even drust in the home.

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You're dealing with you know, a
veteran trying to get up and get

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around take care of his family,
and he's got blisters on his stump,

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or he still has shrapnel that's cutting
into muscle and tissue and everything else.

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So I mean, these are just
some of the many things we could talk

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all day long about the challenges.
But the houses. The house gives the

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veteran and the family a sense of
security, a resting place, a place

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to recover, a place to really
sip through their thoughts. But at the

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same time it inspires them to go
out and pay it forward. Now,

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DEVA. One thing about Daniel is
he actually served in a rock and back

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in two thousand and six, he
was hit by an ied and lost his

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leg. And what's amazing is he
has actually raised a family and raised children.

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He's now a grandfather, you can
believe that. But when I met

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him, he lived in a nine
hundred square foot home with holes in the

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floor, and he had to hop
through every door and had to hop into

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the basement to get to his laundry
on one busess and none of his kids

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even had matching shoes, And he
had an ex wife trying to keep him

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from moving forward and being able to
help his family, and that's really what's

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amazing, because God has brought him
an incredible helpmate that for the last you

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know, fifteen years, has helped
him rebuild his life. And I think

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that helping a hero coming alongside them
now gives them hope and an opportunity to

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really think about the future. And
he has been going around our homes and

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setting up the displays as we presented
the keys. Even last Thursday, when

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we were in North Carolina, we
had another amputee married with three kids and

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they for the very first time,
have a home of their own after fifteen

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years of moving, moving, moving, moving, and going through rehab It's

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Daniel, I cannot thank you enough
from the bottom of my heart for what

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you have gone through and met it. I'm so glad that you're doing that.

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And listeners, it's that time of
the year. I mean, it's

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not just during the holiday season.
It's time to open up our hearts and

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help our veterans because the other reason
we breathe in this free air and we

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have all the freedom that we do, I mean, the sacrifices you'll make

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it just I can say that it's
I can't even imagine what you have gone

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through, Daniel. You know,
it just breaks my heart that our veterans

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have to go through this. We
need to have a better excuse me,

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we need to have a better system
where we can, you know, reintegrate

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you in the mainstream. Like you
said that the life comes to us creaching

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halt. It's super important to do
that well. And this is the beautiful

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thing about helping a hero because again
it's given direction, purpose value. A

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grateful nation stands behind helping a hero. The veteran gets to see the manifestation

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a grateful nation and it, like
I said, it gives them a new

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set of marching orders. And then
the spiritual side of it. I became

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a pastor and a chaplain after hearing
God's voice, and so I do the

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spiritual stuff behind the scenes. I
want to know how that veteran is soon.

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And it takes a veteran to talk
to another veteran, absolutely, because

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most veterans don't even want to thank
you for their service. So it takes

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another veteran to draw out what they're
truly going through. And that's kind of

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what I do behind the scenes.
And I'm so grateful for Meredith Eiler and

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helping a Hero. Since September,
We've done twenty thousand road miles, and

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I mean just praying for people and
speaking to people behind the scenes and then

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giving the house away or doing the
groundbreaking. I wouldn't change it for anything

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in the world. God literally took
the worst day of my life and turned

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it into the best day of my
life. And I'm so blessed working with

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Helping a Hero. If you'd have
told me twenty years ago this is what

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I'd be do and I would say
absolutely impossible. I see. So let's

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dive into a little bit into medit. Tell us how did Helping a Hero

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come into existence? Well, Helping
a Hero really got started because as a

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former congressional wife, I had had
the opportunity to save the USO from bankruptcy

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and kind of got a reputation as
a fix it person. And so about

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seven or eight years later, there
was an opportunity that General Tommy Franks had

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lent his name to a startup charity
and they had promised seven heroes a home.

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But nine months later they hadn't raised
any money, had no plan,

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and I got a phone call from
his office and said, Hey, one

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of these veterans is in Houston.
Could you help? And I said,

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of course. Now, six days
later Katrina happened. So had Katrina,

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I probably would have helped General Franks
build that one house and moved forward with

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all the other things I was already
doing. However, because Katrina happened,

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instead of getting that home funded for
a blind hero in about two weeks,

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which was my original plan, I
actually it took me about four and a

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half months. But we did get
him home for Christmas on December the sixteenth

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that year. And through that process
in Houston alone, I met a single

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amputee, a double amputee, a
triple amputee, a single arm amputee,

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a double arm amputee, a blind
hero, a burned hero, and someone

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who was really struggling with a TBI
and couldn't be left alone. So then

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it's like, do you do this
one house and move forward or do you

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try to help all these other people. So I went to our mayor and

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I said, look, you have
the US Conference of Mayors, I have

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access to our congressional spouses, both
of US bipartisan. Let's do this together

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and form a template in Houston.
So we did. We did the first

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fifteen houses in Houston, most of
them Daniels. Originally wasn't that. What

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was interesting in that process is what
we learned was these heroes don't want to

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take up a spot. So the
single amputee isn't saying give me a house.

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The single amputees saying, oh no, put me at the back of

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the line. The double amputee needs
it first. And so through that process

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we have now awarded over two hundred
houses in twenty seven states. And then

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this about two years ago, Johnny
Morris, the founder and CEO of Bass

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Pro Shops, said hey, we
want to help, and he agreed to

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fund ten homes. We were surprising
the very first hero. They were getting

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ready to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary at
Best Pro Shops and Johnny Morris on National

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TV said, do I have a
minute. We want to do more,

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and we want to challenge America that
we will fund twenty five percent of the

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next one hundred houses that Helping a
Hero is going to build. And so

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we have selected forty of those one
hundred and we've had just a month ago

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we did account. We had thirty
two houses in varying stages of construction in

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sixteen states. We have welcomed home
almost ten actually ten heroes. Just in

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the last forty five days, we've
done another half dozen groundbreakings, including a

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triple amputee last Monday in Miami,
Florida. And we're so excited that America

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is stepping up. And one of
the largest homebuilders, Leonar, they stepped

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up and said, hey, we
want to do ten houses and they're actually

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doing that home in Miami and they're
headquartered hometown. And we also have the

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opportunity to partner with MasterCard and Capital
One and Black Rifle Coffee, Richard Childress

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Racing from NASCAR, and Toyota,
and it's neat that each of those companies

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said we'll pay the other seventy five
percent, and that allowed us to surprise

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six heros at the Grand Ole Opry
that they were going to get a house.

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So we're just so thrilled that America's
stepping up. Individuals are stepping up,

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whether they can give ten dollars,
one hundred dollars, one thousand dollars.

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Some of our national ambassadors are Paula
Dean and most people don't know that,

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Yes, she's a salty chef,
but both of her parents were amputees.

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And she never knew a father that
had two legs because her dad lost

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his leg at sixteen years old riding
a bicycle to work. And the neat

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thing about celebrities like that who've lived
it is she watched her dad fall every

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single day of her life until he
died at forty. And so she gets

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the fact that these guys without us
and without America saying hey, we support

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you, We're going to catch you, and we're going to make sure that

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you thrive and don't just survive.
And so that's really what you and I

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are doing today because we have two
or three heroes that we're ready to surprise

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with the news they're going to get
a house if we just get more funding

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here at the end of the year. And we'd love to do it on

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New Year's Day. Oh absolutely,
so definitely. And do you think Danielle

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can tell us a couple of success
stories or if you you have some success

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stories, that would be awesome because
well has the journey, like you know,

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Danielle shared the journey of him,
how where he was and where he

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came. And I am positive that
our listeners are going to hold I know

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that once this show is over I'm
going I'm going to head out to helping

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a hero, right, That's where
I go and do that, because this

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has just touched my heart dumbs to, like, you know, emotionally.

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Yeah, let me tell you two
or three horcifics. Number one is one

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of my favorites. There was a
guy named Sergeant first Class John Wayne Walding

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born on the fourth of July.
He was a Green Beret, Silver Star,

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Bronze Star, Purple Heart. And
you know what, he fell in

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his shower multiple times. And he's
tough and he he literally taught sniper training

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after he got injured to police officers. This guy is tough, but he

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couldn't make it in an unadapted home
because without that adapted shower, especially when

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you're on one leg, add some
soap and water, and it's not safe.

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And so the government said, single
amputees, you don't need an adapted

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home. We're not going to even
give you a dollar. And finally we

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got them added to the list so
we could go in. We were the

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only charity building homes for single amputees
before the government stepped up and said we'll

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help some too, And so,
you know, that's what it's all about,

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is people coming together. But when
when Sergeant first class John Wayne Walding

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walked in his home for the first
time and saw his shower, his first

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words out of his mouth were,
this home feels like a bear hug from

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America. All isn't that need?
All has it just captured? And he

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says every single day, and he's
been in his house now for years,

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and every single day he goes,
America believes, just like Daniel said,

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my service was worth it. And
the heroes say, you are worth it

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because they're giving us the freedom they
volunteered to raise their hand and go and

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serve and place themselves in harm's way. So the battle didn't come to America,

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and we didn't have state side tragedies
like what we had on nine to

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eleven. And one neat thing to
tell you about is on nine to eleven

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we had a hero named Sergeant Jose
Rivera. He's a marine and he went

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to go board the train that morning
and he realized he forgot his badge.

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He happened to live with his cousin. They both worked on the ninety first

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floor of the World Trade Center North
All at home and got his badge and

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his cousin got on train one and
he got on train two, and when

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he got to the destination and came
upstairs, the towers were falling and landed

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on him, and he put him
into a coma for about four or five

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days. So his family thought they've
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when he woke up, he was
able to reach out to his family,

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and about three weeks later, they
found his cousin's finger and were able to

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positively identify him. And then what
did Jose do. He didn't say,

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Oh, I'm mad, I'm going
to go beat someone up. He said,

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Wow, God has given me a
second chance at life, and I

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want to live for both of us. I want to live for me and

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I want to live for my cousin. And so he joined the Marines.

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He went overseas, he took battle
to the enemy, and he wanted to

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make sure that his cousin's on was
defended. And then he lost a leg.

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And we have his house under construction
right now. Because you know why,

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for the last fifteen years he never
felt worthy of getting a home,

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because he was like, I already
got the best gift. I got my

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life, and the fact that God
has spared my life twice. That's enough.

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And I want other people to be
as selfless house I mean, they

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get this is as selfless as you
can come. And it takes find your

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head. If you look at regular
people like you and I I mean you

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are way ahead. You are helping
all these heroes. So kudos to you,

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Meredith. But on so many days, if the weather is not good,

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we'll be complaining. And here is
our hero saying that, oh,

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God has sped my life and that's
enough. So yes, we definitely need

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to hope. And these are the
heroes that you're able to help. I'll

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tell you one other story, and
by the way, this was probably my

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favorite story of the whole year,
is that last spring we had another wounded

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warrior and we'd already interviewed him,
we'd already approved him. He just didn't

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know it yet. Well, he
had gone out and spent his life savings

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to propose to his marine girlfriend of
five years, and he at the time

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was living with her, and he
had already planned it all, already gotten

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the rings. The night before he
was going to propose, she broke up

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with him. All of a sudden, his entire life looked devastating. He

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had these rings. He had no
money, he had no home, and

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he didn't know where to turn.
Fortunately, many heroes in that situation,

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that's when they tip on suicide because
they feel like there's no options and they

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don't want to admit that they failed. And so this hero luckily picked up

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the phone and called his parents and
said, Hey, Mom, I'm coming

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home. Didn't tell her what happened, just said I'm going to come stay

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with y'all for a few days.
Well, we were already planning a surprise

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award of the house in Colorado,
but when we found out he was in

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San Antonio, I quickly called bass
Pro Shops and I said, hey,

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could we surprise a hero tomorrow and
let him know that he's getting a house

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because we're breaking ground in ten days. And he didn't even know he's getting

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a house. And so we literally
got forty Americans who joined us with flags

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waving, and this hero comes down
the stairs from looking at kayaks with his

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parents, thinking he was there to
buy a kayak, and then he was

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like, oh my gosh, it's
so awesome to see all the flags.

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What's this for? And we said
it's for you. We want to give

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you a home. Tears rolled down
his face, which you don't see very

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often on marines, and as he
cried, he said, this is perfect

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timing. You'll never know, And
we didn't know until we got to the

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groundbreaking and he told us the rest
of the story. And he literally also

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told us that his best friend committed
suicide in front of him all day before

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his alive day. Oh, and
that was his best friend that was journeying

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through and they were keeping each other
on track. But he too said,

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I'm going to live for both of
us. And that's the only reason that

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even when this devastating thing happened again, losing his best friend was the first

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one. And he wrote a book
called From Guilt to Forgiveness because he had

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to forgive his best friend and he
had to forgive himself for not being enough

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to keep his best friend alive.
Oh, and then like, I'm not

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enough for this girl that I love. And now he has a beautiful home

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and an incredible future and he is
so excited because God took that person out

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of his life just before the blessing
so that he was not tempted or she

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might not have been tempted to just
marry him. For the house, or

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just to have this stability in their
lives right and God ex in mysterious ways.

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So Daniel Wu had mentioned about saying
that veterans do not open up easily

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because they've been trained to have that
mindset. So can you share a story

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where you have helped veterans come on
of that mindset and how they can seek

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help, because if any veterans are
listening, we want to let them know

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it's okay to ask for help.
Yes. Yeah, it's actually deeper than

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that. We have a level of
pride that's instilled in us that we go

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through as an honor of serving our
country. We don't expect even to thank

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you, and we feel like we're
the answer for when people are struggling that

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we want to be that example.
And then when your world comes crashing down

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and you start dealing with all of
these thoughts and all these doubts and these

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fears, the last person you're going
to talk to is somebody who wasn't there

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that can't understand. And through talking
to Vietnam vets and World War II veterans,

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I had this revelation that people don't
want to be judged by somebody who

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wasn't there and that's what it comes
down to. And then there's this level

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of pride that keeps you know,
men are supposed to be big, tough.

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Like Meredith said, rarely do you
see a marine weep unless you're around

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me. I don't have a problem. I get pretty emotional pretty quick,

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and I don't have a problem with
throwing that out there. But it really

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takes a veteran who's been there and
done that. And one of the gifts

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I've found is through talking about when
I meet these veterans that I can feel

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that they're struggling. First thing I
do is I open up and I talk

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about the things that I went through. I talk about my experience on the

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battlefield. I'm very wrong, very
open about it. I don't leave any

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stone unturned. And then they'll naturally
say, oh, man, you know

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this is what I went through.
And I've seen Vietnam veterans and World War

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Two veterans, people that have never
talked about their issues open up and start

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talking. And within the Bible,
it says that when you bring your issues

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into the light, those issues can
no longer hide. And when you have

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somebody that can say I've been there
and I've done that this is how I've

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got through it, gone through it. Let me walk this out with you.

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They light up because they feel like
they're all alone. Right. And

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these veterans, the young men and
women that have received houses with hell up

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being a hero, that work with
helping a hero, some of my best

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and dearest friends, they've had these
revelations. Also they see that they're the

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opportunity, that they're the they got
that second chance at life, that God

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is good, and they just want
to pay it forward. And they have

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the same revelation. You get around
some of these young men and women and

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they're just they're inspiring, and that's
what we wanted. We know that there's

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young men and women and children looking
up to us. We know that there's

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eyes on us at all times.
People we may not even know they're looking

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for inspiration. And we decided that
we were going to become that inspiration that

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we were looking for that we couldn't
find, And so we know that we're

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constantly being watched to see how we're
going to respond to things. We've got

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a gentleman named Alex del Rito del
Rio who was a United States Marine four

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three con lost both of his legs
below the knees. Right after he got

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his house, right after he got
healed in the hospital, he went right

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back to teaching special forces. Oh
wow, both of the legs. We

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have young men named uh Travis Strong
who has no legs and he benches over

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four hundred pounds. Oh wow.
And we've got veterans, got veterans all

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over the United States that watches YouTube
videos and then when they meet him,

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they're like, you're that guy.
You're the gun that turned me, did

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not commit suicide and continue to march
on. We have young lady named Sue

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Downs missing both of her legs below
the knees. They traveled eight hours down

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the side of a mountain through snow
to save her life, eight hours after

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her legs were blown off. And
just so many amazing inspirational stories. I

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could go on all day long.
Well, Daniel, I will say one

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thing. I'm so inspired. Just
getting goosebumps. Yes, I had tears

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and in my eyes and became emotional, but I can just kind of share

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at the same time, and we
open up our hearts. It's so so

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much inspiration. And as you said, when we look up to our heroes,

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it's not just in their service their
heroes and it's the mindset that when

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they come out that selflessness and it's
time for America to give them a bear

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hug as they mentioned, and definitely
we are behind you one hundred percent.

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So Daniel, if a young veteran
is looking for support, whether it's a

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hero or a hero, where can
they find that mental health support before they

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may be ready to just kind of
come out and connect with anyone. Are

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there any YouTube videos that they can
do it on their own? What are

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the resources and where they can get
well helping a Hero, you can become

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a volunteer with Helping a Hero,
you can go out and find a veteran

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to nominate to Helping a Hero to
receive a house. I throw my information

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out constantly. Anybody can find me
on the internet or on Facebook or on

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YouTube. I have people contact me
all the time. I'm happy to give

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my phone number out and I'm more
than and Debbia, let me respond to

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that if it's okay, is there
is a phone number that I will get

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to you. There are veterans manning
an eight hundred number twenty four to seven

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to prevent suicide. We have quite
a number of our heroes who serve on

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that phone support line, and that's
really the number we need to get out

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to people in crisis, because the
neat thing is that we don't know where

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people are and there is no one
shoe fits all, just like we all

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have different shoe sizes. But I
think the thing that's neat about you know,

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there are so many different organizations and
support groups, and I think the

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most important thing is that crisis help
for that first phone call, because it

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only takes one second to make a
decision to commit suicide, and yet so

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many times it's if you just look
around the corner, help and hope is

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there. We actually had a veteran
while we were building a home. He

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was four hours away saving another hero's
life from suicide. But his twelve year

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old daughter, who had epilepsy,
had been bullied at school for years,

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but when she transferred from elementary school
to middle school, the file didn't transfer.

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And this was only the second week
of school and this kid bullied her

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for over four minutes in the hallway
and she got in her mom's car crying.

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She literally said to her mom,
I'm not going to school tomorrow,

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and her mom is like, you
know, they talked about it, But

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then her mother had to go pick
up the sun from football, and we

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already owned the property in another school
district. We could have easily made one

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phone call the next day and gotten
her transferred and just the was going to

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have to, you know, driver, But she didn't know that. She

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didn't think about those dots, and
when her mom came home, she had

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hung herself in the closet. Oh
no, and she was twelve years old.

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And I think that that is just
an example of you know, here

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the heroes four hours away rescuing someone, and yet here in his own home,

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he thought he had it buttoned down. They thought they had the protocols

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from the leadership of the school.
And we passed something in Texas called David's

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Law that really gave people hope that
we can stop this because so many times

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the person is crying out, but
we don't realize how close they are to

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that decision. And so I think
it is very important that we listen because

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sometimes it's not going to be veteran
to veteran that's going to save their life.

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They do have things called lifelines,
and that's one thing that we in

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our organization try to make sure of
is that every one of our heroes has

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lifelines in place that at two o'clock
in the morning if they have any crisis,

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anything that they're struggling with, and
they have somebody to call. And

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if you agree to be a lifeline, you know you might get that middle

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of the night call. I've been
a lifeline for some other heroes, and

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I'm one of those who can get
that call at two am and be awake

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and address it immediately. So you
know, I think that we all know

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what our limitations are, and we
all know what we can handle. And

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sometimes the veterans don't know where that
line is because they're still trying to figure

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out how PTSD impacts me. They
might be able to deal with the physical

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injuries. We have so many single, double, triple amputees in our program,

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but sometimes it's harder to deal with
the demons that come at night,

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in the middle of the night,
or when you have survivals guilt and you

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go why did I live? Why
did my cousin die? Why didn't he

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forget the bat? Why am I
the one that forgot the badge and lived?

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And I think that when you deal
with that survivor guilt, we have

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another national ambassador of our program called
Shiloh Parris. He was a staff sergeant.

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He lost three young, young,
young soldiers and he says, why

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them? Why did they die?
And I live? And that's the question

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every day. Why did I live? Why did they die? And is

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the life I'm building worth their sacrifice? And I think that kind of goes

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back to where when you do live, you feel like there's an extra burden

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of success or an extra burden of
accomplishment that you're placing on yourself. So

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when you have failure, which everyone
does. We all have failure, whether

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it's in marriages or we don't feel
like we parented as well as we could.

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There's so many things we fail on
every day, but we have to

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forgive ourselves and allow other people to
also have forgiveness. We need to forgive

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and really have that olive branch instead
of holding onto those grudges or holding onto

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those perts that haunt us. Yeah, we can't even fathom what they're going

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through. So there may be people
in our listenership who may be thinking that,

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besides donating, how else can I
get involved? Can you share a

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few quick things? How sure?
Well? We love involved? Yeah,

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we absolutely love to get people involved. The good news is we've built houses

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in twenty seven states, so we
have heroes all across the country. We

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love it. Like we had a
little seventeen year old girl that at ten

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years old, her mom called and
said, my daughter wants to have a

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bake sale. Is that okay?
And we said sure, So we told

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her kind of how to do it, how to you know, send the

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check to the five oh one C
three and we provided them some materials so

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they could raise the money. And
every morning before school she would go in

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and have a bake sale for about
two months and then she would send us

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the money and she would do that
every year. And then when she got

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to be older, during COVID,
she actually said I want to have a

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virtual fun run and she actually raised
almost twenty thousand dollars in that fun run,

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and over the course from ten years
old to seventeen years old on her

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own, with just her sitting at
that table and doing all of that,

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she funded an entire home for a
wounded warrior before she was eighteen years old.

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Now, how I mean, how
awesome is that that we're parenting patriots

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that were helping each of us kind
of going back to World War Two,

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the government said, hey, can
you just save some foil? Can you

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bring it and we'll recycle it.
We'll get some money for the war.

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Can you just bake a cake for
someone in the hospital. Can you take

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them cookies? There's so many things
to do, but right now there's not

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really a call to action. And
after nine to eleven, they're like,

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hey, the best thing you can
do for America is to go shopping.

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And I think that if we just
would have said the best thing to do

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is look to your right, look
to your left. If you see a

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wounded warrior at Starbucks or at Black
Rifle Coffee or out and about it,

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Burger King or McDonald's, think about
buying them a hamburger. You know,

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just say thank you for your service. There's so many things we can do,

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but for our organization for helping a
Hero. We have groundbreakings and welcome

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homes in major cities across the country. Just in the last you know,

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two months, we've been in Florida, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina,

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Colorado, Arizona. We're everywhere.
We're getting ready to be in Ohio.

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We have two groundbreakings coming up.
We've got groundbreakings coming up in Idaho

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Washington state, so we're coast to
coast and we would love to have those

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who want to get involved. We'd
love to have them come out. We

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love to get volunteers to just help
us with these groundbreakings and welcome homes.

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We had a little bunko group by
a Grill for our hero that moved in

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on Thursday. So you know,
whatever it is that you want to do

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as a service project, we would
love to partner with you. And we

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have great partners like Ashley Furniture that
come alongside us and help provide furniture.

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But we need interior designers because that's
not our skill set that can come in

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and make it look beautiful and even
just giving them a few hours. You

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know, there's always something to do
and we love to get people involved.

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However, their skill set enables them
to help and that's amazing. So what

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I'm hearing is medi it's a you
can find your skill set and there's so

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many different ways to help a hero
and this has just opened my eyes my

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heart even more. And Danielle again, I want to thank you and every

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veteran and every shar and hero who
are in the active duty or off duty.

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Thank you, thank you, thank
you for being our heroes and chers

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so and thank you Edith for the
work you're doing. Thank you for joining

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and listeners. It's time for giving
and it's not just today. Throughout the

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year, let's open up our hearts
help out in whichever way you can.

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So the website is helping a hero
dot org and be sure to head out

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there and thank you everyone. Keep
the kindness going and we will see you

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next time. Until then, be
well, take care and as we step

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into the new year's let's start giving
lots and lots of bare out there.

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