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Tom Barrett: “During that 20 year long span of the war on terror, we had…”

Featuring: Tom Barrett, Republican | U.S. House, Michigan, District 7

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Published | Video Starts at 00:48

And I appreciate the work that you're doing here to make that happen. And one thing that I think can give us some really focused motivation for this is there's statistics around this. Of course. During that 20 year long span of the war on terror, we had just over 7,000 troops die on the battlefield. Every single one of them is an absolute tragedy. I have friends and many of us who served have friends that were lost in that effort. (00:48–00:56)

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