The most important and unregrettable time of my life was the 12 years I spent in the Army. I became a bomb technician because I wanted to save lives and serve a cause greater than myself. I nearly gave my own life for that, losing both my legs and a finger when a roadside bomb detonated beneath me.
I remember the day I was injured — September 19, 2010 — very clearly. What I remember most, though, isn’t the bomb detonating. Instead, it’s hearing my fellow soldiers yelling “EOD is hit, EOD is hit.” I remember them rushing to my side. I remember seeing the world go by horizontally as they carried my stretcher across the terrain to load me onto a helicopter. And, I remember them rendering me one final salute as the helicopter took off. Their selfless acts of courage are the only reason that I am still here today.
One of the many lessons I took away from this experience is that nobody can do it all alone. The 2020 election is critical to the success, or failure, of our country — and there’s a huge target on my back from Nancy Pelosi and her special interest allies. But after being blown up, learning how to walk again and being elected to Congress as a Republican representative from Florida, I’m certainly not one to give up or back down from the fight.
To win, though, I need your help just like I needed the help of my fellow soldiers on that day in September 2010.
What Pelosi and the rest of the radical left underestimates is the strength of our conservative grassroots support! I know that if we work together, we can stop their brand of radical socialism from taking over our country and kick Nancy Pelosi out of power!
