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" I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier. "
Tammy Duckworth
Fact
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" I spent twenty years in the Army; of course it's going to color the things I talk about. If anyone spends twenty years doing anything, that's going to play a part in who you are as a human being. "
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