... that's just so touching.

Amazing story.

So yeah, um, one of the biggest, most, uh, amazing operations I've ever been a part of was last year.

We went to Ukraine, uh, to just get, uh, uh, orphans out, because they were getting...

They were in the war zone, and people weren't taking care of them, and people were running away.

And we ended up working with Aerial Recovery, and you know, you know Brittany and Jeremy, uh, Locke, Tony, and, and we were able to move, with their leadership, uh, 6,000 women and children out.

But while we were there, we found a pedophile, uh, trafficking ring.

But tell them the story you did with, shared with me about this young child in Iraq.

[laughs]

... saying anything, but, um, uh, so I don't know if I'm getting ahead of anything you might say.

But I think the main, uh, connection I have to him and to things related to the outdoors and the trail, um, of course, growing up in, in Asheville, unrelated to him, we, we were always out hiking and-

Mm-hmm.

And then, um, uh, after he died, I don't think I real- I think it was, I was a little bit older when I, um, probably in high school or college, uh, uh, Ed Ballard wrote a, a memoir that he never published, but he wrote a, a memoir that, that we have copies of in the family and read.

And he wrote a lot about Maine, 'cause he had a very strong connection to Maine, uh, including when he was with the Park Service, um, survey teams going out and surveying, uh, uh, the area around Katahdin.

Just let all the wounds show.

It is a battle that will end.

And it's a battle we already know who won.

And a lot of people conjecture, was the FBI inside his Signal account, whatever else? But what if he accidentally changed his safety number, goofed up there, he rolled a body up in a Tesla specifically because a Tesla can drive itself up to the tower, and did what he did to send a message to expose this stuff and he's still alive out there somewhere?

But man, it's overwhelming when you think how much is done by families, by friends, by those in a trusted circle.

And especially when we talk about the fight against child exploitation and child sexual abuse, it's, it's off the charts of what is being done in the families.

Do you know what's the m- I don't know if I wanna say most disappointing, but maybe one of the most heartbreaking, is do you know the number one offender? Biological fathers.

And I would...