Transcript "I want to talk about why we came to Kingman. Actually when we drove into Arizona, I drove overnight to get here in order to go to Bullhead, make a stop there, then we went to Golden Valley, had a beautiful ceremony in Golden Valley. And our ultimate goal was to get to Kingman. Well, why did we do that? And then have an escort out of here from Kingman to Lake Havasu. What's important that everybody understand is that we started this event from Day 1 with a Lake Havasu community event which included all those communities and the method that I chose to include all of those other communities was to go to Parisha and say, "I need your assistance on this." We're very much the same in many ways, we're both of the Cherokee Nation, just different parts of the Nation. But, we think alike, so when we sat and discussed this, we talked about the concept of the umbrella. And this is an umbrella, put aside all the petty differences that we go through, religion, politics, I don't know, whatever you want to argue about."
"Even among the veterans, they argue amongst themselves. And we just put all that stuff aside, and for a period of time, do the right thing as Americans and put the rest of it away. And so, that's the philosophy that we believe in very strongly, and so the short reason is the long reason for us participating in all of these communities, is Parisha. I mean that's why we did this, and that's why we continued all the planning and everything to be able to get here in time to do that before we came down to this location. We just happened to be sitting there, this is about the community, Lake Havasu community, not the city. And so, I guess if I had to characterize, I will characterize, we came to Kingman because of her, because of our personal friendship, our personal trust. We as Patriots, we work with those people that we trust and she is held in very high regard by us and so the reason we came here was because of her."
"And I need to also be clear, that should we go back there, it would be because of her. And I also want to be clear that I think it was insulting that ceremony that we attended, and busted our butt, and spent a great deal of money to get there, and whoever ran that ceremony didn't do us the common courtesy of even talking about that or giving us the opportunity to speak. They took the occasion of us being there, based on Parisha's friendship, and used it for their own purposes. They turned it into 'them' not the larger purpose. This is not about me, it's not about you, and it's certainly not about them. The cost of freedom is about all of the men and women that have come before us and given themselves. People do that, they make it about themselves. That's not what we are going to be about. And I was embarrassed for the community when they did that. They may have thought they were doing something wonderful and they may feel good about it but it was embarrassing to me. I don't have to speak, that's not what's important, but they didn't do the right thing. And so, however you chose to characterize that, that's my opinion. And short story, we came here because of Parisha, if we ever choose to come back there it will be because of her. And that's as simple as I can say it. And that's because she is a member of our family and will remain so." Don Allan
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