Jeff Tiegs

where again, you take out high altitude alpinist, you take out ballerina, and you put in special operations soldier.

I had been selected and trained with the best in the world.

I had seen angles of warfare that other people only touch upon or barely understand, the things that you see in movies, the spy game, the assault game, the conventional war, airborne insertions, everything that you imagine of warfare and then everything around it.

And I realized

I've been given much and much is expected.

I understand the potential of war.

And I think that's going to strike a lot of people as an odd statement.

But war is such a valid option to make huge changes in the world and to make life better for people.

We just haven't been using it that way of late.

So the potential of warfare kept me in for a while because of this ballerina.

Again, I've gone back and I've tried to find that episode with Charlie Rose, and I think I found it.

I think I recognized the ballerina, but she never says what I'm telling you she says.

So I don't know if it was cut out or whatever it was, but those two points in time,

Again, this is a long answer to one single question.

Those two points in time stand out in my mind where I began to understand myself and who I was and who my passion and purpose was and what it would take for the people that chose to love me or even sons who didn't choose to be around me.

My wife and I brought them into this world.

They were forced to be with me.

What it was that they would have to endure.

And then obviously

When it was time to retire, I couldn't get this idea out of my mind that I'm a protector.