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Warning, you're about to enter the arena and join the battle to save America.

With your host, John Parnell.

Good evening America.

Welcome to the battle crew from sea to shining sea

and everybody in between.

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I have been really, really struggling, not in like, oh, I can't handle what happened that day. No, not like that.

I've been struggling with what happened on Saturday for a lot of different reasons. One, it's absolutely consuming me. I can't wrap my mind around how something like that could possibly happen.

If in the heat of the moment trying to find out where the shooters are,

where the fire was coming from.

My wife, on the ground next to me,

trying to use my body to shield her, because I knew that the rounds were coming from an elevated position and likely could have a plunging effect what you call in the military plunging fire.

In other words, rounds that are fired from an elevated

position and fall so even if you're taking cover even if you're laying flat on the ground the rounds can still

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