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	Podcast:		The Brian Lehrer Show
	Episode:		Veteran, Democrat, Texan
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		0
	Publish Date:		2018-03-09 11:01:28
	Description:		Mary Jennings Hegar, veteran of three tours in Afghanistan and the author of Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front (Berkley, 2017), talks about her service in the Air National Guard, for which she was awarded the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device, and her upcoming runoff election for the Democratic nomination in Texas’ 31st Congressional district. She talks about her time serving on the front lines (she'd faced discrimination in the past, but surprisingly not on the front lines), her support for gun control measures but not a full assault weapons ban and more.
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