00:00If I just remember who we are, and I can't, well, when I left Scranton today, I wanted
00:10to go to the war memorial that has the names of all the Scrantonians who died in World
00:16War II, etched into a granite wall, because I wanted to see where my uncle, Uncle Bothy
00:23Ambrose J. Finnegan, where his name was etched. Back when D-Day occurred, and on Sunday, the
00:32next day, my mother's four brothers all went down to the recruiting station and joined
00:37the military. Every one of them volunteered. And my uncle, they called him Ambrose Brosy,
00:44they called him Bothy. My Uncle Bothy was a hell of an athlete, they'd tell me when
00:49he was a kid, and he became an Army Air Corps before the Air Force came along. He flew those
00:54single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones. He got shot down in New Guinea,
01:04and they never found the body because there used to be, there were a lot of cannibals
01:08for real in that part of New Guinea. And then my son volunteered to go to Iraq for a year,
01:14and he came back with stage four glioblastoma. And they gave, like many of you, risked their
01:22lives, and you know people who gave their lives for the country, for heroes. But one
01:27of the things that I, as I was doing that today, I was reminded of what my opponent
01:33said in Paris not too long ago. They asked him to go visit American grave sites. He said
01:39no, he wouldn't do it, because they were all suckers and losers. I'm not making that
01:46up. The staff wasn't acknowledging it today. Suckers and losers. That man doesn't deserve
02:00to have been the Commander-in-Chief for my son, my uncle. So folks, we got a lot of work
02:05to do, but I'm confident we can do it. And I mean it. I've never been more optimistic
02:10about our possibilities as a nation. So let's go out and get them.
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