Welcome to the No Spin News Weekend Edition.

Pete Hegseth is the Defense Secretary.

He's busy this week.

He's going to meet with generals and tell him that he doesn't want the troops looking lovingly

and I guess some other stuff.

But more importantly, he is meeting today with the Gold Star Advisory Council.

Gold Star are the parents of fallen U.S. soldiers, Marines, naval, whatever may be.

Okay, this is the first time the defense secretary has met with the Gold Star families.

So we applaud Mr. Heggsav for doing that.

There is a, before I get to this, I just want to give you some stats.

In Afghanistan, the United States lost 2,300 U.S. personnel, and more than 20,000 were wounded.

In Iraq, 4,419 dead, about 32,000 wounded.

So that's a lot of folks, and that directly is in play right now. There's a book I want you to bring

your attention to. It's called Tragedy to Tribute. One father's grief fuels a passionate journey

to change the mindset of a nation. Book is written by George Lutz, who lost his son, Tony, was a corporal in the army,

to a sniper's bullet in Fallujah, Iraq.

Mr. Lutz joins us now from Norfolk.

Change the mindset of a nation.

How?

What do you want to do?

Sure. Bill, thank you for the opportunity to share with you.

Change the mindset of a nation. It comes down to apathy, really. You know, when my son was killed,

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