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Friend,
As a former Navy SEAL and combat veteran, I’ve seen my fair share of battle. Between my and my wife’s service to our country, we’ve sacrificed years of our lives to make America a more safe and prosperous nation and to protect our God-given freedoms and liberties. We served so that our children and yours might grow up to realize their own American Dreams.
Duty to country. Service and sacrifice over self, those are the traits that define me. I’m proud of the work we did for our country. That said, the events of August 2021 rocked me to my core and ultimately led me to launch a campaign for the United States Senate last June.
In August 2021, I was putting out wildfires in California by day as part of the aerial firefighting company that I run; by night, my colleagues [many veterans like me] and I were working the phones trying to get our friends and allies out of Afghanistan before the takeover by the Taliban. I remember vividly that at one point I was trying to help an ally sneak through a tunnel to get him and his family to the airport so that they could be evacuated on a U.S. military aircraft. The Taliban wanted these high-value targets dead; they wanted their families dead.
This continued for days. Throughout the entire process, “I kept thinking to myself, “The adult will come in the room and say, ‘Hey, this is a disaster; we’re going to stop this.’”
Every day it got worse.
Every day it was a disaster.
The adult in the room never materialized.
Then, 13 Americans were vaporized at the gate to Kabul’s airport. Billions of dollars in military and human assets were left behind – all so Joe Biden could get a press conference saying that he’d pulled the country out of an “endless war.”
I had sat in the homes of the families that we were frantically trying to get out; I had promised them that we weren’t going to leave them behind. So, you can imagine the dishonor that I felt because of the promises we weren’t able to keep to the people who’d sacrificed so much to help us combat evil.
If you're thinking this email is on the longer side, you're right. If you're short on time and unable to finish reading to the end right now, please do me a quick favor and confirm that I have the correct information on file for you; my opponent and his allies will not make winning this seat easy.
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