People know him as the TV guy. The veteran. The loud voice on Fox. But what they don’t always see is the man behind the uniform — the one who still carries the names of the brothers he lost in battle.
That day, it was Sergeant First Class Daniel Price, a man Pete had served under in Iraq, who was being laid to rest after a long, private battle with cancer. There was no military salute. No government honor guard. Daniel had no surviving family — only a distant cousin, and a pastor from the local VA.
whisper: ‘You saved me when I was a punk lieutenant. I never got to say thank you.’”
But the part that has stayed with everyone who was there — all six people — was what he did next.
After the service, Pete asked if he could read something. No one expected a speech. But what he pulled out was a letter Daniel had once written to his squad, during their last deployment — a letter meant to be opened only if something ever happened to him.
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