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Walz ‘Embellished And Selectively Omitted Facts’ About His Military Career: Retired National GuardsmenTraitor - a person who betrays a friend, country, principal, etc. I told someone I was thinking of getting a banner made about Tim Walz. They asked, "Are you going to make it yellow?" Last summer, as I stood over the grave of Staff Sergeant Greg Gorter paying my respects, I was humbled. Humbled by a Patriot, Soldier, and recruiter; who had quit recruiting as it was a non-deployable position so that he could volunteer to go to Iraq with the 1-151st Field Artillery Battalion. Following is a 2004 quote from SSG Gorter in regards to his decision to go from recruiter to Soldier in Iraq: "I wanted to do something different. This is my chance. It's something I feel compelled to do and I don't know how to explain it any more than that. I have vowed to uphold the constitution of the United States against its enemies, foreign and domestic. I felt this was the time for me to do it, because it's probably my last chance. I want to make the world a better place so my kid doesn't have to go through a 9/11." On 9/11, as I lowered the flags to half-staff at the Brewster Veterans Memorial, I gazed at the bronze likeness of Sergeant Kyle Miller, who was killed in action in Iraq on June 29th, 2006 at age 19, while serving with the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion. I wondered what that Patriot thought that day in 2001, a teenager in school. And I wondered what all the other Patriots who had joined the service after 9/11 thought on that day. When they joined, we were at war, which we still are, and getting the call to go is probably going to happen. What if everybody said, sorry I've got better things to do? We are the land of the free, because of the brave. We are not the land of the free, because of those who ran. The citizens of the state of Minnesota deserve to hear this side of the story, not just a slithery politician's version of what he wants people to hear. Sincerely, Thomas Behrends CSM USA Retired https://www.dailywire.com/news/walz-embellished-and-selectively-omitted-facts-about-his-military-career-retired-national-guardsmen View Less