Fred Waggett Salute to Service Finalist

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00:00It is Veterans Day, and speaking of veterans, if I could ask our listeners to do something,

00:10if you're looking to salute a veteran today, Fred Waggett is a longtime Patriots employee,

00:16works here at the stadium, Patriots security team member. He's been here for, gosh, at least 15

00:23years. I've done Fred forever, yeah. Yeah. Proud veteran, served in both the Army and the Navy.

00:29He served in multiple branches, and he's been very committed to honoring fellow service members,

00:37including those who never returned home, and he has had a number of quiet gestures in his time here

00:44working for the team, and that includes placing flowers at the POW seat and chair as a tribute.

00:54He does that often, after almost every event here. That's something that he has quietly done

01:00for a very long time. Memorial Day, he makes sure that there are fresh flowers placed there,

01:07and when that north end zone was renovated, he was a part of that. He wanted to collaborate on that,

01:18and he secured that seat, and now there's a permanent display in Foxborough, and Fred's,

01:24Fred's, I'm telling you, take our word for it. Take Zoe's word for it, if you don't believe me.

01:28Fred's a winner.

01:29Just a tremendous guy, and we're proud to be his friend, but we're also now have an opportunity in

01:36front of us, all of us, to vote for Fred because Fred is the team's, what do you call it? Hold on,

01:44I'm looking at it right now. Salute to service award finalist. Wow. And there was this great

01:49video, Fred, who was surprised they brought him into Robert Kraft's office and presented him with

01:54that, but all you need to do is you can go to NFL.com and vote, and if you're looking, it's a long

02:00address, so you know what I did to find the easiest way to get to it? Go to NFL.com? No, I googled.

02:06I'll tell you what I googled, and it's the first result. Salute to service NFL vote. Oh, nice. Just

02:13do that, and you'll see it. It comes right up. It's the first thing you'll get, NFL salute to

02:18service award 2025, and you can click. You can click. Look at this, Zoe. Click it. Right there,

02:25there's Fred at the stadium. Boom. Submit. I voted. He's an excellent golf cart driver, too. It's a

02:32salute to service award presented by USAA, and we want to say happy Veterans Day to Fred

02:39and all the veterans out there. We've said it a few times today, but I wanted to point that

02:42out for Fred. You have a chance to vote for him. Yeah. He loves this team. He is just a solid

02:49guy, man. Huge listener of the show. He does a great job here. Works for Team Ops and Security

02:54here. It's been here a long time.