Doug Collins

It's about the veteran who walks through our door.

Without the veteran, we have no job.

The VA now understands that we do nothing else except take care of the veteran and do things for them.

And under that direction from the president, we have lowered backlogs.

We have increased wait times.

And yes, Mr. President, we get them to community when they want to go to the community to see those doctors.

And that's all just in the first nine months.

But the best part of this is that there is something to understand.

The Veterans Day, unlike the others we celebrate, is about everyday people doing extraordinary things.

Veterans Day is about men and women who come from small towns, hamlets, villages, and big towns.

And they make a decision in their life to raise their right hand and say, I'm committing to something bigger than myself.

I am stepping forward where many will not.

I am raising my right hand and committing myself to service to a country, as I said just the other day, to make and ensure

that our military is the biggest and baddest in the world.

Our veterans make that possible.

It comes from people all over, as I served with in Iraq.

What I love about Veterans Day is it tells the story of a young girl.

She was in her early 20s.

I met her on the fields in a wind just like this in the desert of Iraq.

She had showed up late, and I was on the night chaplain run, and I'd always saw everybody else, but I didn't recognize her.