When I spent ten years in Yemen, that made me start questioning my ingrained beliefs, to be frank. Okay? So that put me on, let's just call it, ”notice,” mentally. My wife was not living over there, not getting this exposure. So, I probably got more exposure than she did during that time. So then, you know, we would bounce ideas off of each other. And she may not have understood my change in thinking about certain things. But as we moved around and especially when we went overseas, she really was awakened to most the world doesn't live like people in East Texas.

You know, I, I remember being in a Sunday school class in Minden, Louisiana with our teacher who wound up becoming a US senator. I'm not going to mention a name here. And he had asked me about the Muslims. What, what do you think about the Muslims? And I said to him, well, there's a whole lot of things that we can learn from them. You know, there's a lot of positives they have. He goes, what are you talking about? And I said, well, you know, they take care of their brother. They take care of each other. And if there's a stranger in their homeland, they embrace that stranger and they take it personal to protect that stranger. We don't do that in America. Even today, right? We don't, we don't treat strangers like, I will tell you, the Muslims treat their strangers in their homeland.

And he just couldn't believe that. He was shocked to hear that. Oh, you're telling me that the Muslims have more humanitary treatment toward strangers in their homeland than we do?And I, yeah, that is what I'm saying. So I've got probably a different perspective for sure than most of my peer group here in East Texas.