 I started a nonprofit and did work for my community. That's what led me to run for state house because I saw politicians who were sitting on the job and not actually doing the work. And I thought, hey, maybe I can be a part of the solution. And it was really 9-11 that drove me, like so many Americans, to enlist in the military. And that first deployment to Iraq changed my life. I served in a medical unit where every day I was confronted with