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Crooked Minis

Reclaiming Patriotism | Intro (ft. Jon Favreau & Tammy Duckworth)

Crooked Minis

Crooked Media

Documentary, History, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

For July's Crooked Mini series "Reclaiming Patriotism", former Navy pilot and Congressional candidate Ken Harbaugh will be sitting down with a range of guests to discuss what patriotism means in the United States in 2019. In the first episode, Ken is joined by Jon Favreau who discusses his own sense of patriotism and how he saw Obama's love of country questioned during his time as president. Then, Senator Tammy Duckworth shares how patriotism informed her experiences serving in the military and in both the US House of Representatives and the Senate.

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0:00.0

My name is Ken Harball and this is a podcast about patriotism.

0:07.1

I want to find out what patriotism really means to us in the United States in 2019.

0:12.2

That's a hard question.

0:13.9

I don't know.

0:15.4

You know who?

0:16.4

Um, all of us are really hard on the answer.

0:20.9

I don't know.

0:21.9

I don't know.

0:22.9

I don't have any to know.

0:24.4

What does it mean to love your country?

0:26.2

Who gets to call themselves a patriot and doesn't even matter?

0:30.2

I grew up in a military family.

0:32.0

I'm the son and grandson of Air Force Combat Pilots.

0:35.1

I was raised on their stories of service and sacrifice and grew up believing that serving

0:40.0

in the military was one of the best ways to demonstrate your patriotism.

0:44.2

So when it was my turn to show up for my country, I joined the US Navy.

0:48.3

I became a pilot.

0:49.5

I led recon missions all over the Middle East and off of North Korea, China, and Russia.

0:54.7

After nine years, I got out, but I continued to serve by leading several veteran organizations,

0:59.8

co-founding the mission continues and serving as president of Team Rubicon Global.

1:04.2

I always took it on faith that my love of country spoke for itself, but I would soon learn

1:09.6

that my idea of love of country wasn't everyone's.

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