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“Could never vote for Tim Walz as our Governor, when he abandoned his fellow soldiers like he did" - Tony Wenzel, retired Platoon Sergeant

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Al Bonnifield, who served under Walz, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune Walz had already started thinking about retiring after deploying to Italy during operation Enduring Freedom after Sept. 11th.

'Would the soldier look down on him because he didn't go with us? Would the common soldier say, "Hey, he didn't go with us, he's trying to skip out on a deployment?" And he wasn't,' he told the paper. 'He talked with us for quite a while on that subject. He weighed that decision to run for Congress very heavy. He loved the military, he loved the guard, he loved the soldiers he worked with.'

Veteran Joseph Eustice, who led the same battalion as Walz, called him a 'great soldier,' adding, 'When he chose to leave, he had every right to leave.’

DailyMail.com has reached out to the Harris-Walz campaign for further comment.

Walz' duties in a field artillery unit including firing howitzer cannons, a task that according to Walz led to hearing damage that required surgery.

The blasts, he wrote in an application for benefits, 'would knock us down and after firing I had ringing in my ears.'

 
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