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it actually is uh really

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important holiday because every day

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that we get to um have our

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freedoms and enjoy it and feel safe in

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our homes . It's a day that um we

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should stop and think are

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predecessors and everybody that came

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before us . And that went to foreign

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lens to fight so that we can feel safe

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and free here .

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My favorite veteran is um one of my

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chiefs are late in my career . He was a

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big um influence on me . So I was in

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about three or four years before I met

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him and then I realized what a

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good leaders should look like . And so

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he just took care of all his enlisted

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force and helped us all out like

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personally and professionally . And

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it's a Chief master Sergeant , Stephen

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Hanson from Arizona Air National Guard .

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He always advocated for education

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always . So showed us what the benefits

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that we actually have and constantly

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encourage us to use them . So up until

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this day I'm still working on the , my

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master's degree , but he was a huge

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advocate for education and he's the

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reason that one of the many reasons

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that I'm still continuing my education

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today ,

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I learned actually how to be an

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authentic leader . And I think that's

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one of the traits that I still strive

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for to this day . And it's mostly

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because I saw how he built authentic

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relationships with everybody in the

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unit so that our commander , other

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officers , enlisted all our peers and

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also his um airman