he custom orders memorial benc, a ministry to families of amerin of american military veterans who have taken their own lives. >> and mom will sit on the bench and she will just are going like this. it means something o her. >> he collected donations to find and drive 60 custom-made benches to families across the nation in the last five years like marie, a bench honors her son, specialist brady hammer who who served in iraq and suffer from ptsd. >> i'm crying because it means . >> she says he's like family, en family, even holding a fence around her memorial garden and helped with other holding projects. >> i went up during covid and wk by myself in her backyard for 4. 4 days. >> his kindness makes her feel e her family and her son are not n not forgotten. >> it becomes through town and m not here he sends me a message and asked if he can come visit the bench and the garden to pay respect to brady. he has a big t and i really appreciate it. >> this one here has been across been across the country with me and by six times. >> he says the veterans travel with him, their photo stuck to his

i'm also writing right now i'm writing work to try to -- and i forgotra i'm published in amerin prison ands something. i'm a little overwhelmed by the story he just told and i'm not going to cry but that doesn't mean i'm not choked up diet. >> i myself plan to write in the future. i particularly plan on writing about trauma and i believe in what hemingway said that never write about a thing while you're in it so right now i'm just waiting and i'm processing everything around me so i can articulate it to where it's most effective to others. >> we are getting close to the hour. if i could ask a closing question just to highlight another dimension of this book because the book is also contains remarkable reporting about what you called the collective crime and the american crime of not just hollering at the structural racism and error wrenching stories in this book about how it's possible that prisoners would release to re-enter the world in debt and if there are is reedman and their families and they want to see for the last time the family member that they have lost they have to pay the

cotton, author of the upcoming book only the strong reversing the left's plot to sabotagesm cotton amerin power. senator , we hav e just overmillio four hundred million barrelsn left in this strategic petroleum reserve. the administration today made h it clear they have no planave nf stopping their release of more oil. explain why this is so dangerous. well, it's obvious why they're doing that, laura , because we4s had an election in thirty four days and the price of gas has gone up by a quarter in most places around the country, once again, touching up against four c and fiveount dollars a gallon. but i think you put it well and as i write in, only the strong the democrats plan is declines plan by design. we we don't have five dollarsallo a gallon gas in this country by accident. it's not an unintended consequence. it's nunintendit's not bad luckl machinations of oil company executives or opec. it's because joe biden and progressive democrats want gas to be that expensive. they wan t you to get out ofng suv your gas guzzling suv orr stopvaminin. they want farmers to have to thop using di

these are amerin cluster bombs that did not go off in iraq. these photographs are brought back from a former stude of mine. her's a high dud rate. so there's different types of munitions just think of port hudson and all the union unexploded ordnance. they're used. they're taken by insurgents use as an ied, improvised explosive device and attacked an american convoy with american weapons. so this is sort of the same idea that the confederate pts are using defending port hudson. taking unexploded shells and repurposing them to attack and defend the enemy. 1864. the photograph on the left is taken by me at the west point military museum basement. these were all the act of sea mines at the end of the war, or most of them that were intact were brought there in the basement. nobody will see these. this one is right here. this was used on the road to savannah, georgia. general sherman came in contact. his troops came in contact with these mines. and he was very unforgiving to his enemies. as you all know and several of his men were killed and maimed

he's waged waramerican on amerin energy. he's bungled the southern bee never seen'v before. so on issue after issue, s they're failing the democratarsw are still inil lock stepes and with him. >> they will not break with their extreme polic oury. and our candidates are offeringe a better vision. so i think we need to work hard over these next little less than two weeks. out to vote g outo be goin be go to vote . pet if we do our part and we get all like minded people and not just republicans,ell -- independents and some democrats, if we all do that id i think this will be one of the best midterm elections of>> our lifetime. >> i hope you're right.we we know usa today suffolk poll came out and the 16% of previously undecided people, they said almost all of them are breaking lastminute towards the gop. you hear joe biden becomes y president . and did you ever think thingsr h can get this bad thi os fast? forty one year high of inflation, record high gas prices, wide open borders,-open abandoningbo energy independencf all of these the no law order, o bail, defund, dismantle pol

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