I mentioned at the top of the program that there was a book that I wanted to tell you about.

And it is, it's actually a source of great pride that I tell you about this book.

I want to go back to 2003.

May the 3rd of 2003.

I've told this story before, some of you who have been long time listeners have heard the story.

But it is worth hearing it again. It's May of 2003.

A couple of months earlier, we began the invasion of Iraq.

One of the first acts in the war on terror.

This was the war that was to remove and eliminate Saddam Hussein.

George W. Bush had spent a year and a half traveling the country explaining it,

gearing up support for it. It was a major, major conflict in the war on terror and our response to it.

And it had become controversial. Of course, the Democrats, the unity after 9-11-2001 lasted about two weeks.

And then that became politicized.

And on that day in May, early May 2003, I went home.

Well, I got in a note before I got home.

You have got to come straight home. You won't believe what just arrives FedEx.

I said, what is it? Just tell me. I said, no, you have to see this.

So I got home and I looked at what I had received.

And I was, I was floored. I was stunned. I'd never seen anything like it.

I didn't know these things happened. I was moved. I was blown away.

I felt small. I ran through all kinds of emotions.

I mean, in a lickety split fashion, what it was was an American flag properly folded inside a Ziplock bag.

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