that we're all the same. >> absolutely. i think it is getting to the core of what these holidays are about. hanukkah is about the story of the greeks religiously persecuting the jews 2,000 years ago and that persecution was a clash of philosophies. greeks said what is perfectly is the material, the military warrior. judaism said it's our morals and values and spirituality and bringing those ideas into the world brings light and goodness into the world and what we have to bring today. >> griff: rabbi and father, it has been so great to have you here. what an important moment it is for the coming together of the two religions and finding the common bond in a time that couldn't be more important. christmas eve. john roberts is next with "the

faulkner focus." >> john: thank you so much. christmas eve snowflakes set the holiday move falling on the tree in fox square this morning. this is "the faulkner focus" i'm john roberts . people in parts of the upper midwest and northeast will likely get a white christmas this year. the scenes, there is a flip side, could make travel a challenge. people at several airports across the country say it's already very busy. >> the check-in has been really long. atlanta is really busy this time of year. >> really busy and everyone on top of each other. >> wow, busy, traffic. a lot of people. >> usually this line has nobody in it and now it is rather long. >> i know the average is two hours. you need to come three or four hours. >> john: coverage now on what you need to know for your travel plans this christmas eve. fox business reporter jeff flock, of course, as always, out on the roads. but we start with fox news

meteorologist adam -- >> we saw an inch of snow in new york city. the most snowy christmas eve we've seen since 1998. this does not typically happen this early in the year around here. certainly there on christmas eve. it is a bit of a rarity and a lot of folks can enjoy it. the snow has moved off shore. further south it gets warmer and we talk more of a wintery mix. that's going to cause problems. you see the pink the wintery mix, rain, freezing rain, slushy snow. that really causes issues when you talk about driving locations. so far despite the system moving on through airport travel has not slowed down in a big significant way. some delays because of the weather but no big cancellations

and things for flights largely continue to look good. we have talked about a white christmas across portions of new york. it is the upper tier of the country, new england and portions of the upper midwest and back across the rockies are the areas where we typically see snow and where we're seeing it again. christmas eve, your forecast across the country. fairly mild in the middle of the country. spots climbing into the 50s, a little rain and then we continue to track that weather getting into your christmas day forecast where we're seeing just that kind of next winter storm system moving from the west sweeping across the country over the week. a white christmas, john. how about that? a little bit of a present here in new york city. >> john: always makes the season bright and puts the snow in the mountains of the rockies where it belongs and skiers will have a great time. thank you, merry christmas to you. aaa predicts it could set holiday records.

american airlines brief life had a ground stop this morning. that has been lifted and flights resumed. aaa says 90% of travelers are driving to their destinations this week. among them fox business's jeff flock is on the road where we typically find him on a holiday reporting from the king of prussia in pennsylvania. how is it looking on the roads? we saw the bmw that rolled over the guardrail and sitting on the bank. anything else like that? >> it got interesting this morning, john. you want a white christmas, it will get slippery, what can i tell you? the roads despite that have been fairly clear. i thought where will i find traffic? maybe i go to the famed king of prussia mall where it is one of the biggest malls in america. there may be people who have not yet got their christmas present

shopping done. there you go. there are supposed to be, though, 107 million people on the roads now, whether shopping or traveling or whatever you want to call it from various modes of transportation. so there you have it. we talked to the aaa about the best time it would be to be out on the roads this holiday season. they told us well, maybe the last time that you actually do want to be out on the roads. listen. >> the best times for the road are going to be on christmas morning. so if you have the opportunity to drive tomorrow, that is going to be the best time for those traveling on the roads. >> thanks a lot for that, huh? that's happy. i leave you from the parking lot in the mall. i'm usually on the express way. let's get off and see what the rest of the world is doing out here. >> john: hopefully you have gotten all your christmas

shopping done or otherwise just driving around the parking lot. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> be the first time. >> john: illegal immigrant under arrest and charged with murder in new york city. police say the suspect set a woman on fire on the subway in brooklyn and watched her burn. her horrifying death was caught on video. the brooklyn district attorney prosecuting the case said this gruesome and senseless act of violence against a vulnerable woman will be met with the most serious consequences. fox confirmed the 33-year-old suspect entered the country illegally in arizona back in june of 2018. days later he was removed from the country, deported and returned to guatemala. unclear when he re-entered the united states. no one knows. former acting homeland security secretary chad wolf says it speaks to a larger problem. >> he came back in as a gotaway and there has been over 2 1/2 million gotaways under the last four years because border patrol agents aren't out there on the

line patrolling the border . instead they're in border patrol facilities facilitating and processing illegal aliens. >> the "new york post" cover with this headline. up in flames. it also calls out new york governor kathy hochul. on sunday, the same day the crime was committed, eight hours later she took a victory lap boasting about lower subway crime rates. ritchie torres posted has there ever been a more tone deaf governor in the history of new york? tom homan with this. >> she has a green light law. ice and cbp can't work with law enforcement. shame on you, nothing you say to make it right in new york. >> john: congresswoman claudia tenney from new york with us now. so much about this case is outrageous. >> it just gets more outrageous every day. things will continue to happen until we have a new

administration that actually deals with this crisis, the border crisis. president trump promised to do that and tom homan. the green light was put the place by cuomo and they refuse to repeal it. the guatemalan with a criminal record deport evidence was found at the day's inn hotel on 36th street last year. he has been here getting food and shelter and cell phone, access to healthcare and probably would have been given some kind of tuition assistance as an illegal immigrant based on new york laws. kathy hochul is doing nothing about this. she recently did a victory lap saying how safe it is to ride on your city subways. who would you rather have? this guy running around setting innocent women on fire or a former marine daniel penny saving people seeing a violent person and protecting lives? thankfully he was found innocent by a jury of his peers.

this is the crisis that we face in new york. it is not just new york city. it is all over new york because these laws apply all over new york. it is a sanctuary state. as tom homan said the green light law prohibits police officers and different law enforcement agencies from working together. the exact opposite of what the 9/11 commission recommended after 9/11 to prevent any type of terrorist act or these types of acts coming in. when you have people here illegally and you allow them to be gotaways and have no vetting this is sadly what the american people get and it is really tragic. >> john: to the point you made a moment ago about daniel penny, we noted and has been noted on several of our programs, that there were a number of people who just stood by and watched what was happening. do you think that is potentially a penny effect, that people after what happened to him don't want to get involved? >> well, it certainly has a chilling effect. i don't know if it's a little

bit of new york city or people don't feel confident enough to help themselves. that's why we have to have dangerous people out of the way. that's the major role of government is to keep us safe. our streets and subways as we have a free society and that's why we have police and that's why this is -- all of the fallout from the defund police movement started by aoc and others, this is what you get. unsafe streets, unsafe cities, and demoralizing the police and making people think they are the enemy. and relying on good samaritans like daniel penny is not the answer. that's not the solution. look, i think that this is definitely, as you say, having a chilling effect. >> john: back to the issue of sanctuary cities. conservative legal group is putting sanctuaries on notice ahead of an expected mass deportation by the incoming trump administration. america first legal has notified 250 officials in jurisdictions which limit or forbid local law enforcement cooperation with ice

agents. new york leaders are among those 250. one of the -- they say the left wing politicians who create and run them and support them put our citizens at risk, undermine the constitution and dangerously erode the rule of law. it is one thing for a conservative watchdog organization to put folks on notice. but tom homan, the incoming border czar who has authority here says if anybody stands in the way of ice removal process when it comes to criminal illegal aliens, he is going to prosecute those people. >> i think that's an excellent idea. not to mention we should be defunding these cities that are perpetuating sanctuary city laws. those laws are defiance of law that is not upholding the rule of law. we can't have municipalities and some college campuses actually engaging in undermining and flaunting our laws. that's how you have a society. that's what our constitution is based on is upholding the rule

of law and making sure that those things are enforced. tom homan is going to enforce that. these jurisdictions and people attempting to obstruct the deportation of people who are here illegally should be held accountable and should be prosecuted. john then there is this issue, a lot of outrage over president biden's last-minute move to spare federal death row inmates after a record commutations granted just this month. 37 out of 40 people on death row. progressive squad member pressley is singing the president's praises. listen to this. >> state sanctioned murder is not justice. today what president biden did demonstrated moral leadership, compassionate leadership informed by his own faith and position he has held for a long time. wherever you fall on the issue of the death penalty one thing is for sure is that whether or not people think it is fair or unfair, it hasn't been applied fairly. it has had a desperate impact on

black and low income people. john critics are pointing to the victims. one killed 12-year-old in 2010. another took the lives of 8-year-old and 9-year-old girls near chicago in 2005. that same person later strangled 20-year-old naval officer amanda snell. i spoke with senator eric schmidt yesterday on "focus." >> i can only imagine the grief and shock that these families are experiencing as they get ready for the holidays. remembering the loved ones that were lost and now having to deal with this insult to injury. the outrage is real and justified. joe biden on his way out is cementing his status as one of our worst sentences. >> john: he didn't commute one who killed african-american worshippers at a church in charleston and the boston marathon bomber and one other.

the editorial board writes mr. biden's inconsistent conscious hasn't made the justice system better. biden showing mercy to these killers but they showed none to their victims. in particular lexus roberts t12 years old who watched as the killer killed her mother and then shot her four times and slashed her throat. >> these are heinous crimes that deserve the death penalty. i understand the sentiment people don't feel comfortable having the government put someone to death. this ms. pressley supports late term abortions, the sanctity of life is not something she holds dear. late term abortion is the rule of law in new york state and many liberal states in the country. it is kind of incidentally when the supreme court overturned roe

v. wade will leave it up to the states. some states are extreme like new york and others areing to have a little more of a similar law to roe v. wade. this is the problem. when you have the biden claims it is his catholic faith. how do you spare some and not others? just because they looked like they were politically motivated. if you believe in the death penalty or not believe in the death penalty you have to be consistent. joe biden is not consistent in this. i hate to say this but it is probably some marxist leaning democrats obama holdovers staffers. we know that joe biden is checked out and not even really doing the work in the white house. the whole other case for another show. the tragedy of that situation. also why is this guy still the president of the united states when he is incapable of doing this work and remember

something. president trump and even president bush, there were a couple hundred pardons. obama issued a number. 8,000 pardons under joe biden, one term president with 8,000 pardons. that's incredible and so many of them are so heinous and so inappropriate on this christmas eve, a time of joy and light. so this is just another reprehensible act as he walks out the door. >> john: a number of people wondered how joe biden had anything to do with this or staffers at the helm. don't need a reaction from this but this morning the president-elect donald trump posted his reaction to biden's commutations saying when you hear the facts of each, you won't believe that biden did this. makes no sense. relatives and friends are further devastated. trump added as soon as i'm inaugurated i will direct the justice department to vigorously pursue the death penalties. we'll be a nation of law and

order again. congresswoman, we thank you for being with us. not a conversation that lends itself to wishing you a merry christmas but i wish the best for you and your family this holiday season. >> thank you, merry christmas to you and your viewers. >> john: the power struggle on capitol hill is heating up. house speaker mike johnson facing pushback from both sides of the aisle. can he hang onto the gavel? weeks of unexplained drone sightings in the northeast and elsewhere and still no answers from the feds. lawmakers getting just as impatient as everyone. >> the lack of transparency for this administration for the last four years is a disaster. the american public is skeptical as to anything this administration does. >> john: law enforcement from more than a dozen states banding together to try to take matters into their own hands. ♪

john the mystery deepens. state officials -- the sightings have spread from new jersey and all the way out to california. some reported near airports and military insulations. state and local law enforcement in 20 states have formed a drone working group. they met for first time on friday in new jersey. people from the f.a.a., even the royal canadian mounted police were there. new york congresswoman with this. >> it was ludicrous and our

constituents can't get answers. if it's commercials, say it. if it's the government doing necessary activity to protect our national security. counter terrorism exercises, maybe testing of new equipment for law enforcement and military, just tell us. but the fact that we couldn't get any real answers and we still don't have real answers is very problematic. >> john: nate foye live in jersey city. >> i spoke with new jersey state police and say over the past nights they've had one reported sighting. down from 150 per night a short time ago. 20 law enforcement agencies and representatives from canada met at rutgers university last week to discuss the best protocol moving forward to deal with

drone threats and the interagency collaboration is set to continue with a follow-up meeting expected next month. while police say technology is largely responsible for the smaller number of drone sightings. >> i think the public plays a big part here, too and their ability to decipher between what's an actual flight and what is a drone. we saw recording drop drastically when we started asking the public to download the apps that do just that. >> john, the nypd deputy commissioner of intelligence and counter terrorism said she thinks reports went up as a domino effect with hobbyists flying their drones to look for suspicious ones. >> there is an investigation in new jersey that took place in the middle of november around a few drones that were unidentified. there are a lot of drones that are flying in a lot of different

places, not in a discernible pattern. they are being used for a wide range of activity in a benign context. >> the nypd is pushing for temporary flight restrictions over critical infrastructure to become permanent. the impacted locations here in new york and new jersey and we're outside a power station in jersey city that is one of the 22 critical infrastructure sites impacted here. what that means is drone pilots can't fly a drone within a nautical mile of here. if they do the drone can be taken down and pilot detained. >> john: we'll keep watching this during christmas into the new year. house speaker mike johnson could end up losing the gavel. three tries to beat the shutdown

deadline. it only passed when trump's demand to raise the debt ceiling was taken out of the bill. >> a lot of this is palace intrigue. i don't intend to get caught up in it. we need to back president trump. if he backs johnson i'm sure he will be the speaker. >> john: aishah hasnie in washington. is he in danger of not winning the vote on january 3rd? >> you have to wonder if he is thinking about all the numbers right now. when congress left town, he d not have the votes to become speaker again. so 219-215 majority. johnson can only afford to lose one republican. it is that close. right now congressman thomas massey has announced he will vote for someone else. that's one. congresswoman victoria sparks says she is undecided. the biggest problem could be house freedom caucus chairman

andy harris who is undecided and could open the door to other freedom caucus members revolting. >> i've talked to a few, you know, don't seem like they'll vote for him. you have to ask them. i won't betray any body's position. >> will you vote present. >> i will vote for somebody else. >> he says there are other people that might not vote for him. johnson survived a motion to vacate in the spring thanks to democrats. but they say they will not come to his aid this time. leader jeffries says no democrats will stand up to save johnson this time around. it is tricky. the numbers are tricky for him. john. >> john: may not be a happy new year for the speaker. see. aishah hasnie for us. president biden is dropping two student loan plans. it shows the debt relief push

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>> john: president biden is bailing on his student loan forgiveness plan. the administration plans to scrap two initiatives that would have erased the college debt of 30 million borrowers. critics say it is proof that the bail-outs were just to curry favor with young voters. fox business's grady trimble at the white house following this. >> president biden, before the election, said he would always fight to cancel student loan debt. it seems the administration has thrown in the towel, at least on two major student loan debt cancellation programs that, as you said, would have impacted some 30 million borrowers. there were a whole host of student loan forgiveness plans looked at by the administration. the ones they are dropping in this case are one called the plan b which was remember at the supreme court struck down the first attempt at student loan debt forgiveness.

this was the next one and then another smaller program that was part of this that the administration has called off, too. senator bill cassidy, ranking member of the senate health committee says biden's student loan schemes were always a lie. with today's latest withdrawal they are admitting the schemes were nothing more than a dishonest attempt to buy votes to transfer debt to taxpayers who paid their loans or didn't go to college. the education secretary says it is making this move because of operational challenges in implementing the proposals with time and resources running short in the last weeks of the current administration. democrats have previously praised biden's efforts to cancel student loan debt and even as late as this month, john, they pushed for him to forgive even more student loan debt especially for those borrowers they say were defrauded by for-profit colleges. >> they were deceiving them and defrauding these students.

i think the federal government was at least complacent, if not complicit in this happening to these students. that's why we have to step up and say to joe biden, you can't go back to delaware until you get this done, buddy. >> well, it sounds like he is going back to delaware without getting it done, at least for these two programs. john. >> john: and time running out to do anything else, too. all right. grady trimble for us at 1600 pennsylvania. thank you. brandon arnold, the executive vice president of the national taxpayers union and joins us now. was it all just an election year ploy? >> it was a big part. no doubt he was trying to curry favor with young voters by forgiving tens of thousands of student loan debt for many of these individuals. there is a bigger thing going on here, a bit of a santa claus mentality. the fact that biden can sprinkle tens of thousands of dollars of benefits to people not recognizing, of course, that's not his money, that is taxpayer money. and that, of course, adds to the

$36 trillion and growing national debt that he has helped to accumulate. it is really irresponsible and i think it really buys into the notion he thinks that is his money and can do with it as he pleases. >> john: to your point how much money spent. over the past four years the biden-harris administration has approved nearly $180 billion in student debt relief for 5 million borrowers. a fraction of what he wanted to do but a big pot of money. there are many people in the country who believe it is fundamentally unfair for someone who didn't go to a four-year college. somebody maybe they are a plumber and making a good living but didn't go to college to do it or a police officer and yet their taxpayer money is going to bail out greek philosophy majors and others. >> that is absolutely true. what about the people that went to college, took on a significant amount of student debt and made sacrifices.

worked their tails off and didn't go on vacation to pay off their debt and now what biden comes around they get nothing. maybe some people that weren't so responsible get the benefit that biden is providing here. that's unfair. >> john: i remember the famous confrontation in iowa with the gentleman who paid off his daughter's students loans and elizabeth warren do i get my money back? she said no, of course not. voters across the nation giving president biden's record a failing grade. 77% of people have a negative view of the economy. half say biden's economic policies from hurt them. former trump economic advisor steve moagrees. listen here. >> the real villain has been joe biden. he is the one who spent and borrowed $7 trillion in his presidency. he will go down in history as one of the most financially reckless presidents in history.

most people want to turn the page. let's bring in this new administration. there is so much hope and optimism and confidence. let's turn the trump era now and make some real changes. >> john: some of these changes that trump has already proposed cutting taxes on tips and social security and overtime and lowering the corporate tax rate on companies that make their products in the united states. the effect of trump's plans yet to be seen. we'll see those over the coming years. it would appear that biden fundamentally misread the impact that his economic policies were having on people across america. there were a lot of rose-colored pronouncements and rhetoric but it didn't translate down to the masses. >> we talk a lot about the national debt he helped to create. steve moore is right. 36 trillion in debt. what we don't talk about enough is the other debt crisis that he has helped to contribute to. that is the house hold debt crisis. nearly 18 trillion in household

debt now. mortgage debt, credit cards, auto loans, people have taken on so much debt. not to make extravagant purse and pay off the credit card bills but just to survive to pay for the basket of groceries that costs 200 to $300 and people are defaulting on that debt. a real crisis on our hands when it comes to household debt. i think we need much more responsible fiscal policy and tax policy to help people get their legs under them once again. >> john: biden said recently he has no regrets in his presidency. a lot of people are looking at that statement and saying wait a second. what do you think? >> i think biden has bought into the fact the economy is great. his advisors are whispering that in his ear every day. if you look at some of the big numbers, yeah, things have gotten a bit better since the pandemic. inflation started to come down and jobs started to come back but we have a long way to go. all it takes is conversations

with average americans to recognize the fact that even if the big picture numbers are starting to improve, people aren't feeling that yet at the grassroots level. people are talking about the gasoline and grocery prices and all the credit card and other types of debt they had to take other to weather the storm. biden doesn't get that and hasn't gotten it throughout the course of his presidency. >> john: thank you for joining us. appreciate your opinion. have a merry christmas. critics have been calling out the democratic party after its election thumping. >> a shift in the parties. republican party has become the party of the working class. democrats became a party of the coalition of minorities and coa coastal elites. >> john: even democratic voters now see the party as too woke, too far left and completely out of touch.

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>> john: an update for you, bill clinton, who was hospitalized with a fever at georgetown medical center in washington, d.c., has been released from the hospital, which is a good thing on christmas eve to be going back home. not clear what it was that was ailing him. flu apparently is what he had. it was concerning enough for the folks at georgetown medical center to keep him overnight. he is on his way home again and we hope that, like many other people in this country, he enjoys a very merry christmas. democratic strategists admit the party brand is in the toilet. that came out in a "new york times" written online conversation yesterday. communications strategist liz smith said many democrats who succeeded ran against the

democratic party brand. tim ryan of ohio with this. the dems got pinned as the status quo party. they failed to redefine themselves on the culture issues. here is what the former democratic leader of the california state senate has to say about it. >> i believe that in history, we are seeing a major inflection point. the complete collapsing of the democratic party. this party refuses to recognize that it has lost its way. it is a chapter, gone with the wind and basically we're seeing the end of this. whether a new party emerges that will wait to be seen. >> john: that's not good. "politico" with this headline. new research shows the massive hole the dems are in. even voters who previously backed democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites. our power panel now.

we're happy to hear the former president is feeling better and going home. but the party still seems to be ailing. is this just a temporary setback, doug, or is something really rotten in denmark? >> i think first of all we're happy that president clinton, who i worked for as you said, john, is going home. this is a systemic problem as the interviews you reported suggest. it is greater than just woke or dei. it goes to the economy. the cost of living, inflation, the budget. when bill clinton was president and i was working for him we cut spending, balanced the budget. ran a surplus. now the democrats have created the greatest deficit in history and it is ultimately what cost kamala harris and the democrats control of the white house and the congress. we need a fiscally prudent

democratic party that focuses on people's economic concerns, does a bipartisan deal on the border and immigration, gets tough on crime and makes it clear that we stand for traditional cultural values. unless we do that, the party's history is limited. >> john: i remember the end of the clinton administration the big discussion we have a plan to pay off the debt. what will we do when we stop issuing t-bills. they don't have to worry about that anymore. another exit from that "politico" piece. when asked to compare the democratic party to an animal, one participate compared the party to an ostrich because they have their heads in the sand and committed to their own ideas even when they are failing. another likened them to koalas who are lazy about getting policy wins we need. what animal would they be,

gabrielle? >> that's a good question. the democrat party, i cannot recognize it. i am a former democrat and i voted for hillary clinton and all about women empowerment and what she stood for and all of a sudden i cannot recognize what this party has become. latinos voted in this election with their wallets, not pronouns, we voted for our paychecks. we voted for safety. we voted with our catholic values. and the democrat party does not represent that. so it has become something we don't recognize and don't identify with and they have lost us. the party left us. >> john: democratic congressional chairwoman laid out where she thinks democrats need to focus looking ahead to 2026. listen to what she said. >> i think there are a lot of things we did right that we'll continue to build on. if republicans aren't willing to focus on the needs of communities that they aren't working to blue policies forward

to help our communities and country, our candidates are going to speak out and hold them accountable for that and so that gives us opportunities across the country. we want to reach voters where they are. make sure they are getting accurate information about where our candidates stand. >> john: she believes there are lots of opportunities for the democratic party in 2026 and preface it by saying never underestimate the party in power to screw up and the idea of mid-term election losses in a presidency. but unless they rebuild from top down do democrats have hope of winning things back? >> well, with what the head of the dnc said no, they don't. the republicans and trump, like it or not, are focusing on people's concerns about issues like crime, the border, deportations, and to just say we're going to listen to people, that's not enough. you made it clear, the

democrats' best asset is trump and the republicans overreaching or getting into an intramural squab will, our party needs a new agenda and need people to not leave the party, latinos and african-americans. we need an agenda that speaks to their real needs not generic concerns. i hope my party remembers bill clinton and remembers what needs to get done. >> john: in terms of what voters are looking for fox asked americans in new york city, houston, michigan, oregon and tennessee what is the christmas wish list for the country. some of what they said. >> what is on your christmas wish list for america? >> for america? peace. >> get the economy going. get rid of the crime and stop the open borders.

>> hopefully the cost of groceries will come down. >> walk out and not wearing about anything happening to us. >> affordable rent. >> healthy again. >> donald trump to have a successful presidency. to make america great again. >> john: all right, that's a big to do list for the incoming president but he is calibrated in that direction. >> so look, we need to fix the democrat cities are quite the nightmare. woman was just burned alive in new york city. i lived there most of my life. i cannot believe what is happening right now, what it has become. we need a transformation. we need safety. one of the reasons why we moved here is for safety, right? >> john: we are out of time. thanks for joining us, merry christmas and thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." i will see you at 1:00 for

"america reports." "outnumbered" is after the break. congressional medal of honor society recognizes valor beyond the call of duty. britt slabinski, a recipient of the medal of honor himself, sat down with fellow recipients to hear their stories from their military service to their transition into the veteran community. it■s nothing we won, right? we're pretty vocal on that, saying, look, i didn't win anything like we're a recipient of this. you're going to highlight me for the day. we're four guys get killed. never crossed my mind about receiving the medal of honor. never. i was told i was being put in for it the day after the battle. the highest level of valor. you want to understand, why did these people lose their lives? why aren't they in my place? can't refuse it. we don't have the wear if you don't want to. they feel you earned it. people think war ends the moment you get home. no. war sticks with you. for me, it was like i was in a fog.

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