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Yes, I know that this episode is going out a little bit later here today, and there's also something that I'm actually recording this on the day that this episode is supposed to go out in the first place.

Except for that, I apologize, my friends.

I had been so behind when it comes to everything for the holidays,

for family, for activities, for everything that I have been doing.

And so if at any given point I mess something up like this,

I, again, I do firmly apologize.

But today's episode that we are getting into,

this is going to be a spicy one.

What we're about to cover here today is one of the most overlooked stories in the history of the United States military.

Now, it is a story that I'm saying this from the beginning will likely upset a few listeners, but I have to stress that what we were going to cover is sourced from numerous sources and will be a nonpartisan recollection of events as we know them.

This podcast has and never will be a political platform that is something that we are absolutely not going to do.

But there are things that happen that can't simply be ignored because of who did them.

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