um uh yeah and how you got to the point where you wanted to run for office but i think it makes sense to break it up and at first tell us about like your upbringing and what led to you eventually joining the military and then we'll talk a little bit about your military service and before i forget i'll just say thank you for your service but but yeah we want to like who where do you come from and what put you to that place where you made the decision to enter the military

Well, let's start with my mother.

At age 19, I had three children, a miscarriage, a divorce.

Boom.

My father, my biological father, was a Pearl Harbor survivor and spent the entire four years of war in the Pacific Theater.

That's me.

I have two sisters, younger and older, and I was the only boy in my family until much later.

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