Since the beginning of this country, actually since before we were actually a country,

from the Revolutionary War all the way to present time, there have been approximately 1.1 million American service members who have died for what we call America today.

That's our freedoms that a lot of us take for granted.

It's our well-being for the safety that we have in this country, for people to come here and live the American dream.

And if you take that 1.1 million and you turn that into a percentage of just today's population. There are an

estimated 366 million American citizens living in the United States today.

If you just took the 1.1 million from the conception of this country until now, not including all the people that

have come and gone and lived in this country passed just today, it would only

be less than 0.3% of the population.

That should be our most cherished,

honored class of people to ever exist in America.

Think about that.

1.1 million men and women service members have died for what we have today.

And tell you a story. for what we have today.

Tell you a story.

It was late September 2005.

I want on my first deployment to Afghanistan.

I was with SEAL team two.

This was just three months after June 28th.

For those you that don't know,

June 28th was Operation Red Wings.

It was the biggest loss the seal teams had ever experienced in that specific moment in time.

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