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know on the road again I am I running myself ragged am I no? No, but I enjoy the travel. I enjoy getting on and meeting people. I enjoy seeing people in the airports and on the streets and wherever we are, whether it's a maybe it's on Amtrak or whatever it is. So thank you for helping to build this community and make sure you please hit the like and the thumbs up. So I got to talk to you guys about some serious things.

You know what's going on with the war overseas.

And unfortunately, I don't have good news to start today with because the number of service members who have died in this war in Iran has gone from eight to 11 11 U.S. service members

killed and there are 140 or so who are wounded right now and we are about a little over a week

almost two weeks into this war so just last night here what happened. There were six U.S. crew members

who were aboard, but four of them who were on board with this group of six, crew members were

confirmed dead after their military refueling plane crashed in Iraq on Thursday while taking part in the Iran war operations.

That's what the U.S. military said. I think there was part of a refueling, obviously, as I said,

a refueling plane. So that's what they were doing when the plane crashed on Thursday.

So far, more than 1,270 people have been killed in Iran and at least 486 in Lebanon.

This is what UNICEF is reporting, that 1100 children have been killed or wounded across

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