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With your host, John Parnell.

Welcome to Battle Ground Live.

It's great to have you here.

We've got an amazing show for you today.

It's absolutely packed. I mean we always cram, well say

we, but I always cram way more than we can handle in this show and sometimes we go over the

hour but there's just so much

happening and there's so much that I want you to know. But today was a crazy day, both of my kids,

back in school, which frankly I think is a little bit early but a couple

things I want to tell you about that I'm real proud of both of my kids all my kids

their names begin with E so we'll just call them the three E's from now on, but my oldest

Had an experience is obviously nervous going back to school going to a new school today

And I thought about that because I ended up going to a new school as well when I was a junior.

I ended up going from a public school to a Catholic school and there was something for me about

braiding my faith with my education that was incredibly important to me and

gave real truly meaning to what I was learning in school, but my oldest went from a Catholic school to a public school, so it was a little bit different, but he was nervous.

I remember thinking back to those times where I had a new school or maybe I went to basic or then to

airborne school or to ranger school and each and every one of those times I was I

was really nervous I was scared I mean the first time this drill sergeant storm on the bus in basic

training is a pretty intimidating moment. And I remember not having any friends to begin with.

So I tried to explain that to him, but he got back from school.

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