Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much.

Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. All right, good people. So today is Tuesday, November the 11th. Happy Veterans Day to all of you who serve.

I think I have shared with definitely my show community before. audience. All right, good people. So today is Tuesday, November the 11th. Happy Veterans Day to all of you

who serve. I think I have shared with definitely my show community before, but probably not the

podcast community. I think everybody in my family has served in the military except me. All my

siblings, my dad, my stepdad, my uncles. Yeah, pretty much most of the people in my, I'd say a

good 70% of my family has served in some way, shape, or form.

I have not because of my sentiments about things and you know how I am.

So by this point, that should not surprise anybody.

But I do have great appreciation for all of you who have literally put your life on the line so that people like me can be safe and talk a big game

and try to educate people and do things that I do here at home. Now, it's complicated for me

because I also have a lot of feelings about empire and what it means to be a part of the weaponized

arm of empire. But today's y'all's day until we're going to leave that conversation for another

day. Shout out to every single one of you. Happy Veterans Day.

And frankly, considering my father, who suffered greatly from the injuries, he incurred in the war,

both physical and I think mental, and to all the people who I know who were involved in military

service, because frankly, there was no other alternative for them.

And even for those who chose that because that was what they determined to be their life's purpose

and mission we appreciate you and we hope that today you are feeling honored

and respected even though your government is doing everything it can to

dishonor and disrespect you but again conversation for another day right now I

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