Doug Collins

And I walked up to the gate and she said, I said, where have you been?

I said, I haven't seen you here.

She said, sir, I'm a little bit late deploying with my troops.

I said, well, what was the reason?

And I figured, I said, you could, you know, I figured, why are you coming in three or four weeks later?

She said, well, sir, just about two months ago, I had my daughter.

And I looked at her and I said, and you came anyway.

I said, you know, you could probably got a deferment of that.

She said, no, sir.

She said, I'd go where my troops go.

I'd go where they go.

And she, that for the rest of the time I was there, we shared pictures of one growing up, a little one taking first crawls and moves and sharing it in the night sky over Iraq.

That is a veteran who serves because they want to serve others.

I remember an A1C who was on deployment, he came back and he said, I am now making big money.

He said, I can actually help my family and I can buy Christmas presents for those that didn't get any last year.

It's about the stories of those as a young man, and just a little bit young, because he's in his 80s, at one of our VA hospitals in hospice, who I walked in on him just the other day, and he was playing on a keyboard, just a closer walk with thee.

Veterans Day is about veterans that were not special necessarily when they came up, but they saw a vision and a calling, and they said, I want to be a part of our armed services.

So when they raised their hand, they made a choice to become one of our favorite in the world, and that is a veteran who serves this country.

So as we come to this day of service, this day of happy Thanksgiving for people who are willing to serve, I would just have one word from the half of this administration, and I want everyone to hear it clearly, whether you're in the media, Congress, or anywhere else.

I'm a little bit tired of people saying that veterans keep getting stuff.