Thomas Drake
speaker
874 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Thomas Drake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
It's all out there at the Veterans History Project.
Some extraordinary interviews.
It's all oral.
They're primarily oral, but I videotape them.
And some of them go on for hours.
Some are shorter.
Some are longer.
And, yeah, they left me alone.
Remember, I paid a huge price.
My career was completely upended.
I
I gave up to say at this couple of million dollars in retirement benefits.
You know, I had spent, you know, I had over 15 at this point going on 20 plus years of total service.
I only need a few more years
about five to eight years or so to get a full retirement from the government.
I gave all that up.
I lost it all.
There's no pension at all.
I have a very small annuity just because of the time I had served as a senior executive, um,
So, yeah, I paid an extraordinarily heavy price, and I don't even talk about the personal cost or the health challenges I went through later because it was extraordinary pressure.
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