My name is Richard Andrew Pearson. Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy retired. SEAL Team 1. My childhood wasn't the normal you see on television. It was very, very sad. When I turned 17, I went to Houston, Texas and joined the Navy. The first uniform I wore when UDT. And throughout SEAL Team was a bathing suit. But in combat, I wore the same clothes that the enemy wore in Vietnam, which was just black pajamas. I had no education, but I knew how to work. And I always took the worst job available. I knew there was only one way to go. And that was up SEAL Special Forces Marine Recon, Air Force Special Unit. They all worked together, and I was just good. Because in my time, they wouldn't work together. We had a boat that we called the Mighty Mole. I was the Mortarman. But my legs were bad, so I had my friend Bob and he changed places with me. He took a round in the Mortar pit and was paralyzed. It should have been me. Children of all nations are good. This little boy tripped a booby trap showing us where his fiat con had run in Blue's Lego. I rushed him back to the hospital, Dr. Gatelock, the real hero. He put him back together, but he didn't have out of official legs, but we got crutches for him. He had a smile on his face. I took his picture with me. Tough. My coach, Pop won a football. My wife said they want you to come to the football game. Well, they surprised me with tons of toys, clothes, crutches. And we ended up taking all that to seal team and we built a wooden four by eight box. And we put it on our airplane when we went back and took it up there. I think the only thing that I would do differently, I would have paid more attention to the opportunities that the military provides for getting a formal education. The teachers that you have are just that. They're teachers. They're not authoritarian. They're getting all their information from books or papers or social media. You have to take it upon yourself to read the history of our country.