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Sam Brown Discusses Book ‘Alive Day’ Chronicling Life-Altering Battlefield Explosion: ‘That’s Where I Found God’

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Nevada’s Republican U.S. Senate nominee, Ret. Army Capt. Sam Brown, joined Sirus XM’s Breitbart News Saturday, where he discussed his new book, Alive Day: Finding Hope and Purpose After Losing Everything, which chronicles the fateful day he was severely burned on the battlefield in Afghanistan and how he found meaning in the midst of it.

“An Alive Day is something that … I heard of out of the Wounded Warrior community,” Brown said. “And it’s the day that we all sort of celebrate that we could have, should have, you know, expected to die on the battlefield, but we didn’t, you know, either due to miraculous circumstances, or, our fellow service members getting to us and, either, in my case, smothering flames, you know; for others, it’s, you know, getting tourniquets on before they bleed out, or whatever. So it’s a type of a new birthday.”

“In the midst of that, at 24 years old, you know, laying there in the, in the desert, thinking I was about to die, actually wanting death to help me escape the pain, that’s where I found God,” he said. “And that’s that’s where I found a new life when my soldiers came to me and yelled out to me that you know that, ‘Sir, I’ve got you,’ and then put themselves in harm’s way to smother those flames.”

 
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"“One of the lessons I took off the battlefield was the life I live is not my own, and… that doesn’t appear to be a common perspective for some folks in D.C. as well as, you know, realizing that the mission is bigger than any individual,” Brown said. “We’ve got a mission to accomplish here, to serve our fellow Americans, to save this country, to be, you know, a leader in this world, to, you know, help the world find peace through strength, and so these are some of the things I distilled out and that I hope to be able to take to Washington, DC, on behalf of Nevadans after this election.”

AMEN Sam Brown, AMEN!
 
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