00:00Howdy everybody, I'm Neal McCoy and you're watching Life Minute TV.
00:08Here we go.
00:10I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
00:14People that know me have kept up with my Pledge of Allegiance for the last 10 years.
00:19And they had reached out to Allied Flag and told them about me saying the Pledge of Allegiance every day,
00:23obviously to AFLAG.
00:24So we started working together and they said, we know you've got your 10 year anniversary pledge coming up.
00:28And they said, can we get involved, maybe print up something, a special edition, limited edition?
00:34I said, yeah, that'd be great.
00:35There's a flag in it, three by five American flag.
00:38And the boxes, this is kind of their, we all came up with it together, put what we wanted to
00:43have on there.
00:44And of course, you know, you've got to have me on there somewhere.
00:48So I want you to go to nealmccoy.com.
00:49And of course, we're going to autograph the boxes before we send them out to you.
00:53It was January 2016.
00:56And, and I had already been on a bunch of USO tours, entertain our troops.
01:00So, and getting hands on to be able to see them and shake hands and hug on them and love
01:04on them.
01:05When Republicans and the Democrats were fixing to start working on nominating their presidential candidate.
01:10Of course, and they were already starting in on it.
01:12And I thought, I told my wife, who I've been married to for 45 years.
01:15So, I just thought, I told my wife, I said, I'm going to go say the Pledge of Allegiance because
01:20everybody's already at each other.
01:22And I said, I just going to see what happens.
01:24So she said, okay, well, good luck with that.
01:26So I went and I said it.
01:27We got a few comments.
01:28People would write a few comments on there.
01:30And then I'd been into about two or three months and it started just getting a huge groundswell.
01:36For a while, we got up to, we were up to reaching over a million people a day.
01:42And we're having three or four hundred thousand views a day.
01:45So we've got over, we've got over a million followers now, which is a big deal for a guy that
01:49hadn't had a hit in about 25 years.
01:52And this is going to sound like a corny, hokey answer.
01:56I really like it when I'm just on my phone and I'm at my ranch or just somewhere alone because
02:02I'm with all these people.
02:03And they, they want your time, you know, and they deserve your time because they've been supporting for a long
02:09time.
02:09So then you're just going to find me right here on my phone at 10 a.m. Central Time.
02:12And we're going to say it all together.
02:14And it's and they love that.
02:16They really love that because they get so into it.
02:19Early when I started doing it, I was just doing it because I just want to show my allegiance to
02:23our flag in our country and just let people know,
02:26no matter who's in office or administration, I'm going to continue to love our country.
02:29It is something that I'm really proud of, very proud of.
02:33My granddad was in the World War.
02:35My dad served and I didn't serve, but I am serving.
02:38I didn't serve in the military, didn't have to do some of the things they go through.
02:42But I think I'm still serving my country and dang proud of going over and visiting these troops.
02:48And I can go over and sing to them and visit with them and just bring them a little bit
02:52of hope at Christmas time or at Thanksgiving when they're not able to come home.
02:57And so that's how I did it. And it's just it's some of the greatest moments of my life.
03:01And we have a foundation my wife and I started called the East Texas Angel Network.
03:04So children with life threatening, life challenging illnesses, them and their family with expenses.
03:09And we started it, my wife and I, 31 years ago.
03:12We're still heavily involved.
03:13Our daughter is executive director of it.
03:16And we have raised in 31 years over 15 million dollars.
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03:25Food.
03:27Energy.
03:28You.
03:29You.
03:30I'm a professional.
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