{"id":302628,"date":"2012-11-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/the-final-mission\/"},"modified":"2012-11-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:00:00","slug":"the-final-mission","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-final-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly a decade of service, Navy Seal Adam Brown said goodbye to his wife and family for his final mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2012-11-09.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"30.49M","filesize_raw":"31972049","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2822],"tags":[4829,4698,2955],"podcast_series":[7910],"cwp_profile":[3147],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-302628","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing-in-your-faith","tag-courage","tag-manhood","tag-military","podcast_series-fearless","cwp_profile-kelley-brown","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/302628\/the-final-mission","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/302628\/the-final-mission","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4v7l0EnkSk\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-final-mission\/\">The Final Mission<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-final-mission\/embed\/#?secret=4v7l0EnkSk\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;The Final Mission&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"4v7l0EnkSk\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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mission.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2012-11-09.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 When you are a military wife and your husband is deployed, every time the doorbell rings, you wonder.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Kelley Brown:\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 Around 8 PM that night, the doorbell rang.\u00a0 It immediately sent me into this\u2014just my heart sank because I know what a doorbell means; but at that point, thankfully, it was just our neighbor\u2019s child.\u00a0 But at that moment my heart just sank, and I just couldn\u2019t shake this feeling I had.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt that point I put the kids to bed, and I went to bed just with images just like funerals and stuff.\u00a0 \u201cThat would be awful\u201d was what I was thinking.\u00a0 I was like, \u201cKelley, this is ridiculous.\u00a0 Stop this.\u00a0 Quit and just go to sleep.\u201d\u00a0 So, I did.\u00a0 I fell asleep.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t been asleep that long, and the doorbell rang.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Friday, November 9<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey.\u00a0 I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 Kelley Brown joins us again today to tell us about her husband, Adam, and his sacrifice.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Thanks for joining us on the Friday edition.\u00a0 I did not serve in the military.\u00a0 In fact, I remember growing up in a time when to serve in the military seemed like a foolish thing to do.\u00a0 Everybody was trying to avoid it, rather than trying to sign up for it.\u00a0 And I was just kind of a product of the time, and I shouldn\u2019t have been because my dad served.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy dad was in World War II.\u00a0 My dad was in Korea, but I didn\u2019t have a sense of the honor, the dignity, and the nobility that goes with the men and women who sign up and say, \u201cI will protect and defend our country and put my life on the line.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, anyone who has been listening this week knows we\u2019ve been featuring a story about somebody who did just that\u2014put his life on the line, ultimately gave his life on behalf of our country.\u00a0 His name was Adam Brown, and we have his widow here in the studio with us, Kelley Brown.\u00a0 Kelley, welcome back to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks for having me.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Kelley and Adam were married 12 years.\u00a0 They have two children, Nathan and Savannah, and live near Hot Springs, Arkansas.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve been saying all this week, Bob, \u201cIn the history of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, <em>Fearless<\/em> holds a distinct spot in terms of any book we\u2019ve ever offered because it has authentic, SEAL language.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking about the fish or\u2014is a seal a fish?\u00a0 It\u2019s a mammal, I think.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is a book that takes you inside a Navy SEAL team.\u00a0 To have altered the language would have been to sugar-coat the story, and this is not a sugar-coated story.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been hearing this week, Kelley, about how you and Adam met, how you married, about Adam wrestling with drug dependency, about his heroism\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014on the battlefield, about him losing his eye and getting right back into action, and about all of the deployments.\u00a0 Adam was deployed how many times?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, gosh.\u00a0 I\u2019d have to count them all up\u2014probably, at least, eight times\u2014eight, nine, maybe more.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Take us to the last deployment and your processing that and the picture that you asked the guard to take.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m getting a little choked up here.\u00a0 You know this was his last deployment.\u00a0 We had looked at this as\u2014Nathan was getting ready to start middle school.\u00a0 That was our agreement in the beginning.\u00a0 We want to be home.\u00a0 He wants to be an engaged father.\u00a0 The life of a SEAL, especially that command, did not make that easy.\u00a0 So it was his last deployment, and we were going to move home.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>So, we kind of had all these ideas in our head and all these things we were planning to do.\u00a0 So, with him deploying, it was just like, \u201cOkay, just go do it, and then just come home.\u201d\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t worried about it.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t\u2014there wasn\u2019t any apprehension.\u00a0 It was like, \u201cBaby, just go do your job and come home.\u201d\u00a0 <br><br>So, that night, though, dropping him off at the Command, February 26<sup>th<\/sup>\u2014I\u2019ll never forget it.\u00a0 I spent the whole day with him.\u00a0 We went and had lunch with the kids at school, and I didn\u2019t know that would be the last lunch he ate with them.\u00a0 So it is very special when I think about it.\u00a0 We played basketball and\u2014so, dropping him off that night, we went and ate\u2014he loves Chili\u2019s, the restaurant, because he loves their queso dip.\u00a0 So, that was the one thing he had to have before he left.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we went and had dinner, and I\u2019d spent all day with him.\u00a0 Then we dropped him off.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what came in me, but I saw him picking up the kids.\u00a0 The sadness in my children\u2019s faces and the sadness in Adam\u2019s eyes\u2014I knew at this point he didn\u2019t want to go anymore.\u00a0 He wanted to stay, even though he was very devoted to his job and he was proud of what he was doing and he knew he was doing a good thing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo I, for some reason\u2014I\u2019ve never done this in the past, but I was like, \u201cAdam, please, there\u2019s a gate guard right here.\u00a0 Do you mind if I ask him to take one picture\u2014just one?\u00a0 I just want one of us dropping you off.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have one.\u201d\u00a0 The gate guard did.\u00a0 He was so nice, and he took that picture.\u00a0 I\u2019m so thankful I have that picture now because that was the last time we saw him.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey say a picture\u2019s worth a thousand words, and there\u2019s so much truth to that\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014because that was the last time we said our goodbyes.\u00a0 I just remember holding his face, and he promised me he\u2019d be home.\u00a0 He promised me he\u2019d come home, and I believed that.\u00a0 He was tough.\u00a0 He was invincible.\u00a0 So I was like, \u201cOkay, just go knock this out.\u00a0 Come home.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to move back to Arkansas.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to start enjoying our life with our family.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo March 17<sup>th<\/sup> I\u2019d sent him an e-mail I thought he should respond to, but I hadn\u2019t heard from him.\u00a0 Around 8 PM that night, the doorbell rang.\u00a0 It immediately sent me into this\u2014just my heart sank because I know what a doorbell means.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen it\u2019s 8 o\u2019clock at night and your kids are small and it was dark, it just\u2014I just didn\u2019t know who it would be; but at that point, thankfully, it was just our neighbor\u2019s child.\u00a0 He was bringing over what I had bought from his fundraiser; but at that moment my heart just sank, and I just couldn\u2019t shake this feeling I had, this huge overwhelming sense of sadness.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI went to bed just with images of funerals and stuff.\u00a0 \u201cThat would be awful\u201d was what I was thinking.\u00a0 I was like, \u201cKelley, this is ridiculous.\u00a0 Stop this\u201d\u2014like, \u201cQuit and just go to sleep.\u201d\u00a0 So, I did.\u00a0 I fell asleep, and that\u2019s when I started hearing\u2014I thought it was my dream, but I heard knocking.\u00a0 I started coming to, and the doorbell rang.\u00a0 So, that\u2019s when I immediately knew.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 So, I started making this walk to our door, our front door, and I just stood there.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to open it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to open it, but I did.\u00a0 I had to open it, and I had to accept it or see what was about to happen.\u00a0 Then, I see\u2014you know I hear them talking, but I wasn\u2019t listening to any of the words.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I can even understand them; but I saw our friends.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen, my\u2014I heard my kids.\u00a0 I guessed kind of\u2014my knees got weak maybe, and they just kind of held me up.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t how I was going to tell them.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know what to say.\u00a0 I was in shock, and I couldn\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 This was Adam Brown.\u00a0 This was my husband, and he\u2019s not supposed to leave me.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow I have to tell our two children.\u00a0 So, I just sat them in my lap, and I told them, \u201cDaddy\u2019s gone to Heaven.\u00a0 He\u2019s with Jesus now.\u00a0 So his eyes are good.\u00a0 His hand is good.\u00a0 His leg is good, and he doesn\u2019t feel any pain.\u00a0 He\u2019s in a very happy place.\u201d\u00a0 They just screamed out.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t understand.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, the whole night was a lot of chaos.\u00a0 I just remember a lot of chaos; and that night, somebody had to notify his parents.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to tell them by telephone.\u00a0 So, I asked them to stop by and grab their pastor from their church to have somebody they recognized\u2014you know a familiar face.\u00a0 So, they were notified about 6 AM the next morning.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Kelley, I cannot imagine telling your kids.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s something I never thought I would have to do.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s not something you prepare for.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, no.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 There are not the right words to say.\u00a0 You know that they know, but you have to verbalize it.\u00a0 You have to validate it, and I was not prepared for what that was going to take me on\u2014the rollercoaster that would take me on even these last couple years.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You learned later what had happened on the battlefield.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tell us.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was considered to be an audacious mission in the first place.\u00a0 No American had been where they were going.\u00a0 They were going after some really big guys that were hurting a lot of people.\u00a0 So, I know that Adam was probably thrilled about going.\u00a0 But something that\u2019s so tender about him leaving on that final deployment was right before he left it was his birthday.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy kids thought it would be so funny\u2014we were walking around in Target, and we found these adult sized Batman Underoos type thing.\u00a0 So, they just started laughing.\u00a0 They\u2019re like, \u201cI wonder if Daddy would\u2014this would be so funny\u201d\u2014whatever.\u00a0 So, it was more of a gag gift than anything.\u00a0 So, we 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guys that were running through the building.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey needed somebody to breach a certain way.\u00a0 That\u2019s where Adam said, \u201cI got it.\u00a0 I got that.\u201d\u00a0 They had already done surveillance.\u00a0 They thought they knew where all their targets were, and they were\u2014Adam had eyes on them, but what they didn\u2019t know was there was a little animal pen right beside this wall, this ledge, where my husband was standing.\u00a0 The person that was inside there got lucky.\u00a0 He just started\u2014it had just a small roof on it.\u00a0 He just kind of started just shooting in the air.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>The first volley hit Adam in his leg.\u00a0 Then, a second volley came around, and that\u2019s when Adam was shot fatally.\u00a0 These men were able to get the bad guys.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 To finish the mission?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 The mission was finished.\u00a0 It was completed, and Adam was able to call out locations and stuff.\u00a0 Then even hearing this story from these men, they make nothing out of it.\u00a0 They don\u2019t tell me about what all they had to go through just to get him out of the compound.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, yes, and how far they had to carry him.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 How far they had to carry him\u2014I didn\u2019t know any of this, and part of me questioned, \u201cWas it his eye?\u00a0 Was it something he couldn\u2019t see?\u201d\u00a0 They were like, \u201cAbsolutely not.\u00a0 It could have been any one of us.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014\u201cWe\u2019re promising you.\u00a0 It was not that.\u00a0 It was just something that we did not see.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Kelley, Adam was buried seven days later at a small cemetery, and his buddies, Navy SEAL Team Six, weren\u2019t there.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, they weren\u2019t.\u00a0 There were a few there, the ones that actually flew to Dover and met me.\u00a0 Kevin Houston, John Faas, and Brian Bill, they stayed with me by my side for probably a good month after Adam\u2019s passing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 They escorted me everywhere.\u00a0 They stood in front of me\u2014even like during the viewings and stuff, they were there for me.\u00a0 There were three that were present that night that were with me.\u00a0 I\u2019m so thankful for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They were able to come back, though.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 They did.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014at a later time?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, after they finished their deployment, Kevin and John and Brian had also gone ahead and met back up with them.\u00a0 They all came home.\u00a0 So, at this point all of Adam\u2019s troop returned to Arkansas\u2014not just the troop.\u00a0 It was pretty much the whole command.\u00a0 They wanted to perform a funeral.\u00a0 Adam\u2019s last wishes were that people knew the story of the Resurrection and make sure people understood Jesus Christ and what He had done for him.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>So\u00a0 his father, in front of all these command members and SEALs, told them about Christ, shared Christ with them and said that was what had redeemed and restored Adam and that he can do the same for any of you.\u00a0 He was just trying to make that wish for Adam granted.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Here\u2019s the thing that impacted me.\u00a0 These men had seen Jesus Christ in Adam, in inconceivable circumstances.\u00a0 I mean incredibly tough, tough stuff.\u00a0 They were his friends, his fellow warriors.\u00a0 In your book, I moved from weeping to laughter at what these guys did to honor Adam.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Back to Highway 70.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 Back to Highway 70.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Back to Highway 70 Bridge\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 They did.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014that Adam had jumped off of from a moving convertible as a 16-year-old.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 So, what is that--20 years later maybe?\u00a0 The guys of 2-Troop\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 How many guys are we talking about?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about maybe\u2014oh, gosh, I\u2019d have to count\u2014I want to say about 12 of them.\u00a0 Then, there were other command members and staff, but the actual Troop came home, and they spent some time with us\u2014spent a couple days in Hot Springs.\u00a0 They wanted to see what this Hot Springs, Arkansas was all about because that was all Adam talked about was Arkansas and the Razorbacks and all that stuff.\u00a0 So, they wanted to see where he was from.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey loved the lake.\u00a0 They spent so much time on the lake.\u00a0 They were riding jet skis.\u00a0 It was just a good time of remembering Adam.\u00a0 Then, on the final day\u2014actually the day before, I\u2019m sitting there on the back of a jet ski; and I just start seeing all these men walking across the bridge\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s a high bridge.\u00a0 We\u2019ve already established it\u2019s either 50 or 60 feet tall.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, it\u2019s a pretty tall bridge.\u00a0 So, cars were honking at this point.\u00a0 You just see them.\u00a0 It was such a presence.\u00a0 They all lined up on the bridge, and they spread their arms out to knuckle punch each other.\u00a0 They all pounded fists and said, \u201cFor Adam.\u201d\u00a0 Then they jumped off into the water.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo all of them did it, and it was so inspiring.\u00a0 It just made my heart swell with such pride that my husband served with men like these, men that loved what they did.\u00a0 They were passionate about their friend, their teammate.\u00a0 They were demonstrating it on such a level that meant so much.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo they did, and the very next day, pretty much the whole command flies into Hot Springs, and we had kind of a command funeral for Adam out at the cemetery.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 There is no way to express what undoubtedly our listeners are feeling for Adam and for you and your son and daughter for protecting us.\u00a0 I know many have said thank you, but I feel compelled to say it one more time.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 (Tearfully) You know that\u2019s all I need to hear is a thank you because Adam believed very much in what he was doing, and I supported that.\u00a0 So, a thank you to me just lets me know that you are grateful that we have this country we live in because of men like Adam and also the men of that troop that\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAll of the men that were with my husband the night of his mission, all of the men of 2-Troop, the ones that came back and paid the tribute to Adam off the bridge, they all perished August 2011, August 6<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 It was the Chinook that went down.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, Brian Bill and Kevin Houston and John Faas\u2014I could just list the names.\u00a0 I could list them, and I had to tell my kids again\u2014again, and they just started calling off names to me, and I was like, \u201cHe\u2019s gone.\u00a0 He\u2019s gone, and he\u2019s gone.\u00a0 All of them\u2014Uncle\u201d\u2014they called a friend of ours, Kevin\u2014they called him \u201cUncle Juicy.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the thing about that is I kept telling myself, \u201cGod, why Adam?\u00a0 Why Adam?\u00a0 Why did you take him?\u201d\u00a0 Now, I realize that Adam had to go first.\u00a0 He had to go first because they learned\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They heard.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 They heard the story of Jesus.\u00a0 They saw his love through Adam, and there was a friend of ours, Kevin, Uncle Juicy\u2014this big tough guy that we had invited to church for years and years and years, and he came.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t start off so eloquently or whatever.\u00a0 He\u2019d come to church, and he\u2019d be chewing his dip and spitting in the cup.\u00a0 You know it\u2019s just what it is, and I was just glad he was there.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was like, \u201cOkay, you know it\u2019s wrong; but you know\u201d\u2014his wife was working on him.\u00a0 She was praying for him, and Kevin, May 15, 2011 walked to the front of our church\u2014and because of Adam\u2019s life, he humbled himself and dropped to his knees in front of our church\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014with his hands raised up high and asked the Lord to come into his heart.\u00a0 Little did he know he was going to die two months later.\u00a0 So now I feel like I know why he had to go first because if not, Kevin would not be in Heaven.\u00a0 I know that.\u00a0 And there\u2019s such an eternal significance to Adam\u2019s life and the testimony that he has and he can share.\u00a0 It\u2019s reaching people in places where it\u2019s not traditionally reached.\u00a0 I\u2019m thankful for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you know what?\u00a0 This book isn\u2019t any traditional book either.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is not.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s a salty book.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s a salty book.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And it\u2019s going to go to some places because people are going to say, \u201cI know a friend who needs to hear the message.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 When you say salty, there is authentic, Navy SEAL language.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 Language, that\u2019s all.\u00a0 That\u2019s all there is.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, but it\u2019s not varnished.\u00a0 It\u2019s the real stuff.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 We wanted it to be\u2014I didn\u2019t want to paint this picture that everybody we surrounded ourselves with was perfect or that\u2014I don\u2019t claim to be perfect.\u00a0 Adam never claimed to be perfect.\u00a0 Adam was genuine.\u00a0 But through Christ, we know that God can change and He can perform miracles in your life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Well, you need to know, Kelley, your book is the first in 20 years on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> where we have offered a book that has been this authentic.\u00a0 (Laughter)\u00a0 <br><br><strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 Part of me wants to say, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, no, no, no, because of the message of your life, Kelley\u2014yes\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kelley:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014the message of your life and Adam\u2019s life.\u00a0 The story needs to be told, and you\u2019ve done a great job of telling it.\u00a0 The book needs to be read, and it will be.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s the assignment to the listener: Get this book and give it to the person that you know who is farthest from God.\u00a0 Yes, really.\u00a0 Think about somebody you know, the most irreligious person you know.\u00a0 Give them this book.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We\u2019ve got copies of the book, <em>Fearless<\/em>, in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center.\u00a0 Go to FamilyLifeToday.com to request a copy.\u00a0 Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com; or call toll-free at 1-800-FL-TODAY, 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That\u2019s 1-800- \u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then, the word, \u201cTODAY\u201d.\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, this week, we have been making available to folks who help support the ministry of 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