Song.

This is the story of a soldier who operates your nation's Patriot

Missile Defense Systems.

It begins in California with a little girl raised by two moms.

Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality.

I like to think I've been defending freedom from an early age.

When I was six years old, one of my moms had an accident I left her paralyzed.

Dr. said she might never walk again, but she tapped into my family's pride to get back on her feet,

eventually standing at the altar to marry my other mom.

With such powerful role models, I finished high school at the top of my class,

and then attended UC Davis, where I joined a sorority full of other strong women.

But as graduation approached, I began feeling like I'd been handed so much in life, a sorority girl stereotyped.

Sure, I'd spent my life around inspiring women. But what had I really achieved on my own?

One of my sorority sisters was studying abroad in Italy, another was climbing Mount Everest.

I needed my own adventures, my own challenge.

And after meeting with an army recruiter, I found it.

A way to prove my inner strength, and maybe shatter some stereotypes along the way.

Enough, enough, enough, enough, I've had enough.

That was paid for by you. Welcome to the Manhood Hour, where we show you what the US Army is doing to recruit new individuals

to wear the cloth of the Republic. They are denying men. Yeah, because she has two mothers.

No father, just two mothers. I'm curious how that works biologically.

But we shall move on to the actual question of how this affects all men,

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