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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.

Whenever I'm given a chance to support veterans' initiatives, I try to do that. Children and veterans - if they're involved, you can pretty much count me in.

I am very proud of my service, and by law, I am defined as a combat veteran.

Every veteran is a hero.

Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

There's been nobody who stays in more communication and listens to veterans more than I do.