Zach Lahn

They sold their soul.

Yeah.

And so I don't get it.

And even as we're talking about it, I'm thinking about it.

I'm just like, how do you get it?

You talk about getting upset.

You know, I think back to growing up in the 2000s when we, you know, my friends, people went off to Iraq and Afghanistan.

And thinking about the $10 trillion we've spent on all of that.

And meanwhile, we don't even have programs for our veterans when they come home.

You know, my great-grandpa, when his brother was off in World War I, and then that ended, and then during World War II, my great-grandpa's a bit older, he would actually sign up locally to teach veterans how to farm when they came back from World War II.

And that just got me interested in, like, what was it like back then for veterans coming home?

Because they saw some just terrible things.

And I couldn't believe the extent of the programs that were in place to help them learn how to farm, apprentice paid, buy a farm.

We created thousands of farmers after World War II with our troops that came home.

And then I look at what's happened to my friends that came home and they're just dropped in.

And then we see, like, some of the highest suicide rates

That's what I talk to people in Iowa all the time.

It's like, look, in that time that we've lost 10,000 family farms in Iowa over the past 20 years, we've lost 10,000 of them.

The suicide rate amongst our farmers went up 50%.

And let me tell you, I don't know of any other politician in Iowa that's talking about it but me.