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    Service to country: In Kentucky, the fight to bring more veterans to Congress

    Nov 05, 2018 5 minutes
    Scott Browder (r.) canvasses a neighborhood in Richmond, Ky., for Amy McGrath, a former Marine Corps fighter pilot running for Congress. The rookie Democrat produced some of her campaign signs in Marine red rather than in liberal blue. The Republican owner of this sign, a health care worker, strongly supports Ms. McGrath.

    You wouldn’t think that a Massachusetts Democrat would be of much help wooing voters deep in Trump Country.

    But that’s who retired Marine Corps fighter pilot Amy McGrath enlisted in her bid to win Kentucky’s 6th  congressional district, one of the most closely watched races in the country.

    Just days before the election, as Democrats bask in the aroma of chili and possible victory at the Bourbon County fairgrounds, Rep. Seth Moulton (D) of Massachusetts – a fellow Marine – steps up to the hay bales and pumpkins to make his pitch for Lieutenant Colonel (retired) McGrath.

    “I was just a dumb grunt as an infantry guy, slogging through the mud,” says Congressman Moulton, who served four tours in Iraq. “But I’ll never forget what it meant, what it felt like, when I heard jets coming. They had our back.”

    “And that’s the biggest thing about

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