The last thing I ever said to Senator Lindsey Graham was “You’re a good man.” The way Senator Graham lived made it easy to tell him.

Lindsey Graham first attained national prominence in the late 1990’s as one of the floor managers (prosecutors) from the House of Representatives during the impeachment of President Clinton. He was elected to the Senate in 2002, and until the time of his death, was one of only two people (the other being Strom Thurmond) to hold that Senate Seat from South Carolina since 1956.

I first met Senator Graham, along with a very young Pete Hegseth and future Medal of Honor recipient David Bellavia, in 2007. While there were a lot of opinions on the Iraq War, the purpose of our visit to the Senator was to support the troops in Iraq and General Petraeus during the time of The Surge, a visit which was later successful and whose results overseas validated our efforts.

Supporting the military never was a question for Senator Graham, who later went to Afghanistan and Iraq as Colonel Graham in the Air Force Reserves, and he remained one of our biggest allies.

The next year, I........

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