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Amen.

That's the first thing.

The second thing is my wife and family, my beautiful wife who if...

Amy, at home, if you're watching, love you, sugar.

But, uh- That is absolutely my wife and family making sure that every single day I have that compass to look forward to and say thank you.

And the third thing that made me wanna always continue to lean forward and fight hard is you, Americans, great Americans that get it.

Thank you.

I'll let you, I'll let you, John Wayne, talk about how we basically made Range Valley Ranch happen right after COVID.

Yeah, so if you go back to the COVID time, there was this obviously major lockdown that happened, you know, March to about, you know, September or something like that, right? And then it was a few months and everybody got tired of being home.

So they opened up the restrictions a little bit.

And to Buggy's point, that's when I met Donnie at a speaking engagement in Utah that was bringing NFL players, special operations veterans, and just great American patriots together.

to talk about that, God, family, country, right? And from that friendship that Donny and I made at that point, he obviously got me introduced with Buggy and we had the first stronghold up here at 10,000 feet.

We had just travel trailers that were getting shipped all the way up this, you know, again, 10,000 foot mountain.

It was, now that we've been up here enough, I can't believe that we were able to get, you know, four or five trailers up here.

So I would just like to take a minute to talk about it at the end if we can.

And

so my grandma, I was in the backseat of that.

And I never will forget.

We had to stop because there was a chain of convicts, just like you'd seen the movies, you know, the orange jumpsuit all chained together.

They were walking across the parking lot.

And there, behold, whenever we stopped, I looked up.

My dad was staring at us.

And with you, I think about... losing the leg and since then the amount of people that you've had the opportunity to talk to inspire encourage like it's in the tens and tens of thousands and none of those opportunities would have happened without losing the leg so like the way that god does that over and over and over again is is unbelievable

They knew you were coming? Yeah,

they did.

So that's a good question because when we got there, same thing with hunting.

You never want it completely silent, but you never want a whole bunch of wind either.

You want just enough movement to where the animals aren't just always on edge.

And it was the same thing whenever we landed.

It was just silent.

I'm not, yeah.

Carry

... up the mountain.

There's only 10 of us on the mountain, right? So do the math, right? There's that, uh, we're, there's no way we're gonna get up, so now we gotta come back down.

And, uh, you know, that's where I came back and, and initiated, you know, what I thought was Operation Human Shield, basically, right? Catch the bullet so the medic can keep them alive.

And, uh, Ron, the medic, did a great job.

Uh, he's an absolute stud.

I, you know, um, he actually received a Medal of Honor, uh, for his heroism, um, for his, his just combat under fire, courage under fire, you know, for, for keeping us alive that day.

Yep.