Rep. Tim Burchett
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So that's my proof that it's not ours.
I'd say...
I don't know, eight or nine, 10 maybe.
But I have to be real careful because I'm clearly somebody out there and I'm not backing down on it.
I'm not ashamed of it or anything.
You have no reason to be ashamed of it.
No.
Why would you be ashamed of it?
Well, that's what they try to do is they try to shame people.
Well, I have to be careful about the white flags, the stuff people bring me that's not real.
Yeah, well, that's it.
Yeah, and I've got these pictures, and I want to show you this.
I've got this, you know, I'm always afraid I'm going to end up in a refrigerator up in North Carolina, or a freezer in North Carolina somewhere, you know, because I'm not going up there and checking out some guy's finds he's got, you know, and I...
They tried to destroy their careers.
They did that to one of our guys, one of the very first person, the first hearing we had, if you remember, some weekly newspaper reporter found out that one of the guys suffered from PTSD because of his military career.
You know what?
In Tennessee, we embrace that.
My daddy fought on Palo Alto and Okinawa.
And to the day he died, I never woke him up over the top of him.
I always woke him up by his big toe because he might have woke up on one of those dadgum islands and pinned me up against the wall.