Simple words like “sorry” were foreign to me when I came to America.
We were refugees from Communist Vietnam, and this new country was large and unfamiliar - but I knew even as a kid that it was the land of opportunity.
I couldn’t let the incredible second chance I got in America go to waste. I studied day and night to learn English, and by the time I was 18, I was enrolled in the Naval Academy.
Only in America could a little boy who didn’t know a word of English grow up to be an officer in the greatest fighting force in the world.
I didn’t get this far in life because of government handouts or political correctness. I worked hard, I had faith, and I never doubted that the American Dream was in reach - and that terrifies Nancy Pelosi.
I’m not oppressed or in need of the government’s help. I’m an American just like you. And right now, I’m fighting the radical Left to keep that dream alive for generations to come.
Nancy Pelosi thinks that all immigrants and minorities are too stupid to succeed without the government holding their hand. I’m living proof that that’s not true.
Hon. Brian Mast is a retired member of the U.S. Army. Use of his military rank, job titles, and photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement by the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense.
