Pete Hegseth: “It gives you a tiny sense of the depth of the sacrifice that is required to keep us free.”

“Because that, and if you add up that small little town in Winomingo, Minnesota, with all of Goodhue county, with all of southern Minnesota, with all of Minnesota, with all the upper Midwest and all of the country. It gives you a tiny sense of the depth of the sacrifice that is required to keep us free. And that's why I've always been a big believer in civic ritual in parades. And the flyovers will continue until morale improves.” (06:03–06:10)

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