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I'm Lieutenant Commander Stephen Rogers, United States Navy Retired.

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Now, I'm going to switch gears a bit today. Yep, I'm going to make some changes with regard to

just today's broadcast because I'd like to share something with you that is going to be

an absolute, incredible historic event coming up from the America Out Loud News Network.

Now, the event I'm going to be sharing with you

about right now, I could tell you, is going to inspire and encourage American patriots from all

walks of life, especially the men and women serving in the United States Navy Coast Guard

and all of our armed forces, as well as their family members. Now, you know, it's best

always to convey a message to people by the originator. It's like when you look at a painting,

you know, you look at copies of paintings and this looks good, that looks good, but there's nothing

like looking at an original painting

that was actually painted by the painter who is displaying that bit of artwork. Get the point?

Same thing with documents, with books, with letters. All right, people can rewrite those letters, transcribe them, talk about them, interpret them.

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