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Happy Veterans Day – Because of Them

My charge for you today is to give a bit of gratitude, a little honor, raise our flag and show a small token of respect for a vet.

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Stephen here with the GunLife Coach and Happy Veterans Day to all my fellow veterans out there.

So, why do we celebrate Veterans Day? It’s Because of them, ones you may see on any given day, you pass them on a road, see their tag or in a store, wearing some badge of honor of their service or not? 

Really, They look like each and every one of us, they have wives and husbands, children and generations of grandchildren, families of all sorts, shapes and sizes and even some with none. 

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They work in all types of career fields and jobs across this land, in factories and restaurants wearing a badge, in real estate or sales, anything from blue to white collar jobs they’re among us.

They aren’t really that different from you or but you will find what separates us veterans from the many was an oath that started with “I do solemnly swear” and ended with “So Help Me God!

Some are even homeless, left with broken bones and broken hearts that don’t seem to mend, lost limbs and fractured families are only some of the scars they’ve been awarded for their service to us.

You might recognize ‘em by the way they carry themselves or how they live & speak and use words like courage, honor, respect and having a (what you may think is odd) but an inseparable brotherhood that lasts a lifetime, coupled with a passion for the cause of our country, they move on successfully with their everyday lives.

But, it’s because of them we can sleep soundly in our beds, go to beaches and barbeques, concerts and churches, hotels and holidays whether you may feel it or not, or believe it or not, it’s because of them.

You See it’s because of all of them current, past and very distant veterans of old from battles and wars since our Independence that we have the ability to take these liberties so freely. 

My charge for you today is to give a bit of gratitude, a little honor, raise our flag and show a small token of respect for a vet. it means more than you think, and just remember it’s because of them we are free.

May God Bless you, your family and this great country…. 

Happy Veterans Day… I’ll see ya next time.

Stephen D. Powell

The GunLife Coach

 

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Stephen D. Powell is an Air Force veteran with more than 18 years of combined federal, military & civilian law enforcement experience. Powell has been teaching professionally for over 25+years as a firearms Instructor for numerous organizations and agencies rated with the NRA, NM & TX DPS and a Sig Sauer Academy Master Instructor. His company, Patriot Outdoors, Inc, has been operational in the defensive training industry since 2004, starting a thousand acre training facility located in Eastern New Mexico. Patriot has provided crucial and relevant firearms training to DOD and SOCOM, state and local law enforcement and armed citizen students. Over the past several years, Powell has appeared on several Fox News, Sirius XM radio, various regional newspaper, radio and tv shows, promoting military veteran entrepreneurship and patriotism as well as educating the shooting industry on range development, media relations and key second amendment issues. Patriot Outdoors is currently operating out of the Phoenix Valley, Arizona and with a new channel of The GunLife Coach to inspire and motivate other in life and on the range!



 
 
 

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