Hey, this is Buck Sexton and you're listening to the Tudor Dixon podcast part of the Clay Travers and Buck Sexton podcast network.

Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. I'm Tudor Dixon and I'm so glad you are joining me today for this very special

conversation on Memorial Day with Staff Sergeant Joey Jones. He is a Fox News contributor and the author of the

upcoming book Unbroken Bonds of Battle. Joey, thank you so much for coming on today.

Well, thanks for adding you. Thanks for asking me to be on on this special day and yeah, you know,

just like the book, I like to brag on my buddies and my heroes and Joey,

whatever minute of my service and like to talk about it. So,

Well, I'm glad. I saw that you said you were a little bit leery about writing a book at first

because you felt like there were already a lot of books out there about service and war and

that and you felt like, I'm gonna do I want to add to that, but yours is a little bit different,

isn't it? Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, people have told me for years or well,

for the years that I've been at, especially in media, they said, you know, you should write a book

or would love to read your story sometime and although I'm flattered by it, I feel like the war

stories are out there, you know, they're on a white book with a gold emblem. Usually it's a

tried it and from a Navy sale and that those war stories are bombastic and they're true, but

they're big and in large and life and they're movie worthy and for me, I just felt like, you

know, that my combat experience was had gravity to it and obviously it had some combat involved

in it, but I was writing another story in my life and my recovery and the people that was so

fortunate to be around before and after my injury and that was the story I wanted to tell, but I

didn't learn how to tell it. And so over the years, I've kind of organized those thoughts and

really what happened and I don't know if you are asking this question, but the way this book came

to be, my buddy Pete Egg Seth did this book called Modern Warriors where he detailed different what

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