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• Developer: Broken Rules
• Publisher: Broken Rules
• Genre: Adventure
• Release: May 17, 2017
• Platform: PC
• ESRB: Everyone

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Old Man’s Journey Walkthrough & Guide – Level 1 to 15

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Old Man’s Journey Walkthrough & Guide – Level 1

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Old Man’s Journey Walkthrough & Guide – Level 5

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Old Man’s Journey Walkthrough & Guide – Level 6

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Old Man’s Journey Walkthrough & Guide – Level 7

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Old Man’s Journey Walkthrough & Guide – Level 9

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Train journey, green pastures, rolling wheels, more wheels, balloon ride, falls and sheep, final destination, old man's journey.

Game Details:  Adventure, 2017

Links:   Moby Games , Steam , Adventure Gamers

Walkthrough Updated:  10/9/2021

Suggested Listening:   Caught Up in the Panic ( Ash 25 )

After reading the letter, walk to the right over the hills towards the house in the distance. Click on the couple on the roof for a memory to end the scene.

Drag the hills up and down so you can make your way up to the stairs on the left. Climb the stairs to the top and sit down next to the cat, then click on it. Raise the blue hill so you can get over to the cat again. Lower the next hill and make your way up to the houses, then raise the blue hill to reach the high roof where the cat is waiting.

Drag down the hill with the wooden rail. Head up to the hotel and you will sit down. Click on the guitar player for a memory to end the scene.

Raise the brown hill so you can go to the far right, then lower it to get to the green ledge on the left. Raise the bottom right hill and you should be able to make it there. Walk over to the roof of the building. Lift up the dark green hill and make your way to the waterfall.

Walk on to 2 more waterfalls to end up on the rocky surface below. Continue left. Lower the small green hill so you can reach the metal platform on the left. Now walk on to this waterfall to reach the railing below. Walk to the right and click on the welder for a memory to end the scene.

Adjust the left green and red hills so you can reach the red hill. Step on the rocks next to the waterfall, then adjust the left red and purple hills so you can reach the left side of the bridge above. Turn the crank here so you can cross the bridge. Lower the green hill so you can get to the bricks. Walk on to the waterfall to fall to the large red hill, then head to the right.

Raise the flower-covered hill and drag the boat left so that you can jump onto the boat. Drag the boat to the far right, then get off at the jetty. Climb up towards the lighthouse and you will sit down on the bench. Click on the bell for a memory to end the scene.

Board the green train carriage and the train will start moving. During this section you need to quickly drag the sections of train track up and down before the train reaches them. Once you can see inside the train, click on the newspaper for a memory to end the scene.

Exit the train and walk to the right. There will be some sheep on the pasture in front of you. This is the easiest way past them:

• Click on the sheep to move them right, then walk close to them.
• Click on the sheep to move them right, then walk close to them (on the next section).
• Click on the sheep to move them to the grassy patch to the right.
• Walk to the grassy patch on the green hill in the background.
• Click on the sheep to move them to the grassy patch to the left.
• Walk past the sheep to the far right.

Walk to the darker green area in the background. Drag the other 3 areas to create a path down to the stone walkway. Make your way down towards the path, and you will sit on the bench to the far right. Click on the large ship in the water for a memory to end the scene.

After the boat trip, head to the right. Drag the orange area up and the yellow area down, then make your way up to the base of the pink hill in the background. Now drag the top-left green area up so that it reaches the right side of the waterfall. Go there, then drop the green area back down and step on to the right side of the waterfall. There are 2 groups of sheep you need to pass this time:

• Walk to the right grassy patch on your starting hill.
• Click on the top group of sheep twice, so they are to your left.
• Adjust the hills to create a path from the right sheep to the grassy patch above you on the yellow hill.

Sit on the bench, then click on the flickering light above for a memory to end the scene.

Get off the boat and walk to the stone archway. Adjust the hills so you can reach the top of the stone structure. Now raise the hills so you can reach the orange hill on the right. Now adjust the next few hills so you can make it to the bottom right. There will be 2 large wheels in the next area. Raise the orange hill in the background, and the far wheel will destroy the stone wall. To dislodge the other wheel, you need to raise and lower the green hill repeatedly; eventually it will roll to the left. Now make your way up to the flag. Click on the flag for a memory to end the scene.

Drag up the hill with the stone wall, then move on to it. Now drag up the yellow hill with the wheel so that it rolls off to the left. Lower the yellow hill and get back on to it. Adjust the hill with the wheel so that it rolls right and breaks the wall. Drag this hill back up, then head to the green hill on the left to reveal a new area.

Lower the right side of the hill with the wall, then lower the hill with the wheel. Wait for the wheel to go to the right, then raise the right side of the hill with the wall, and the wheel will break the wall. Now use the hill in the background so you can reach the left orange hill. Drag the background hill down and make your way to the waterfall. Drop down both waterfalls, then walk to the right.

Lower the hill with the left wheel to break the left wall. Lower the hill with the right wheel, then raise the right side of the hill where it rests. Walk over to the rock on the far right, then lower the right side of the hill with the wheel, and it will end up to your left. Walk to the higher hill, then adjust the angles of the lower two hills so the wheel rolls left, then breaks the wall below. Now walk to the windmill. Click on the campfire for a memory to end the scene.

Walk to the hill behind you. Click on the right group of sheep, then raise the blue hill as far as it will go. Walk to the blue hill, then click on the left group of sheep. Now you can walk up and over the bridge in the background. Continue over the second bridge to the right, then climb onto the small metal platform. Now you need to get past the sheep:

• Lower the orange hill and raise the white hill.
• Click on the right group of sheep, then the left group of sheep.
• Walk down to the left side of the white hill.
• Click on the left group of sheep, then walk to the right of the white hill.
• Click on the right group of sheep.

You can now head up to the waiting hot air balloon. Get inside, then click on the pilot. A memory will automatically start to end the scene.

Walk over towards the edge of the waterfall. Click on the two groups of sheep (left, right, left, right), then drop down the waterfall so you are to the right of the sheep. Continue down the next waterfall. Walk to the rocks on the right. Lower the yellow hill so you can walk down onto the rocks between the 2 waterfalls. Now drop down the right waterfall.

Lower the orange hill so you can climb up it to the rocks on the right. Now raise the orange hill and walk across to the brown hill on the far left. Drop down the left side of the waterfall here to land on a square rocky ledge. Now drop down the next two waterfalls. A memory will automatically start to end the scene.

Walk to the right to reveal more of the scene and make your way down over a series of hills, dragging the shipwrecks out of the way. Once a large green hill covers most of the screen, backtrack to the yellow hill in the background. Drag the green hill down so you can reach the blue hill. Drag the green hill down further so you can reach the waterfall. Drag the green hill down yet again so you can drop down the waterfall.

Drag down the green, blue and orange hills to the very bottom to reveal a locked gate. Bring the blue and green hills back up so you can reach the green hill. Lower the blue hill until you can reach the orange hill. Lower the green hill again and click on the padlock twice for a memory to end the scene.

Walk onto the darker hill in the background. Raise the green hill, then walk on to it. Raise the darker hill, then walk on to it. Repeat this until you can reach the orange hill at the top right. In the next area, make your way up to the yellow ledge on the left. Head to the orange hill in the background, then gradually raise it and the green hill to reach the yellow ledge on the right. You will sit down on a bench for a while, then a truck will arrive. Climb into the truck.

Make your way over the roads in the truck. Several times, you will need to backtrack onto bridges to adjust the hills ahead. Once the view zooms in, click on the drink can for a memory to end the scene.

Climb up to the blue hill. Now drag the pink hill up, the yellow hill down, and the pink slope to the left up, so you can reach the left roof. Lower the hill at the top and walk to the far right. Drag the green slope down and the yellow slope up so you can reach the street above. Go up and sit down on the bench, then knock on the front door.

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Old Man's Journey

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Old Man's Journey , a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, reconciliation, and hope. Entrenched in a beautifully sunkissed and handcrafted world, embark on a heartfelt journey interwoven with lighthearted and pressure-free puzzle solving.

A visual narrative about life's precious moments, broken dreams, and changed plans, uncover stories of the old man's life told through beautiful vignettes of his memories. Interacting with the serene and whimsical environment, solve playful puzzles by shaping the landscape, growing the hills to create the old man's path forward.

During this compact gameplay experience, you'll be transported to a vibrant and wishful world, exploring life's complexities through the old man's eyes. Meditatively delightful and reflective, Old Man's Journey invites you to immerse yourself in quiet and inquisitive puzzles, and experience the old man's heartache, regret, and hope.

• A powerful and emotional narrative told only through imagery
• Gorgeously whimsical landscapes with hand-drawn art and frame-by-frame animations
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• Unique delightful landscape-shaping mechanic
• A compact game experience perfect for a wanderlust-evoking escape
• Original and emotionally compelling soundtrack by SCNTFC
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Old Man’s Journey review

by Colin Campbell

“May the road rise up to meet you” is the first line of an ancient Irish prayer on behalf of travelers. It goes on to wish for a journey of warm sunshine, soft rain and a fair wind.

Old Man’s Journey is like the video game version of that old blessing, in which the mutability of the road traveled is the focus, rather than the traveler.

At the beginning of this game, the old man of the title receives a letter at his home, which concerns him greatly. He sets off on what looks to be a long journey. There’s no dialogue in this game, but he’s taking a large backpack and a walking stick.

He soon comes to a point where the road seems to stop, but pleasant hills grace the background of his two-dimensional landscape. So I point and click on one of those hills and line it up with the old man’s position. And so, he is able to hop onto the new hill and proceed along his way.

This is, essentially, the entire game’s activity. It’s a series of puzzles in which I figure out how to move ridges and slopes so that they create a path forward. The hill on which the old man stands cannot be moved, so sometimes I have to point and click him someplace out of the way, while I line up the land.

There is no tutorial. No text whatsoever. Whenever I get stuck, I point-and-click my way through the puzzle. If I see something that looks interesting — a bell, a bike, a bucket — I click on it, and am sometimes rewarded with cute audio or cheerful animation.

Vienna-based developer Broken Rules is best known for And Yet It Moves , a 2009 game about paper shapes and environmental manipulation. In Old Man’s Journey , it has introduced interesting variations that illuminate this theme, such as sheep who serve as obstacles that must be wrangled out of the way.

Later puzzles add a nice dash of complexity, including large wheels that are sent crashing down steep hills in order to bulldoze stone walls. There are also sections in which a train and a truck serve as rapid transportation, requiring almost arcade-like responses to the landscape in order to progress. These are less successful, but add a welcome change of pace.

In a way, this game is like a platformer, in which the platforms are the variable item, and the protagonist is almost incidental, at least insofar as the action plays out. I focus on tilting and shaping the landscape, rather than conquering it. It’s a curiously creative feeling, even though it’s basically mechanical.

Old Man’s Journey successfully presents a 3D world constructed from two-dimensional materials. Many surprises appear once hills and mountains are moved around. As a result, the relatively straightforward puzzles managed to hold my interest for the duration of this short game.

At the end of each chapter, the old gent takes a rest and we are treated to a memory of his past, a story that adds up to regret, love and redemption. The story is told through lovely images that bristle with color, energy and meaning.

A simple mechanic and a basic tale are really only augmentations to Old Man’s Journey ’s main attraction, which is its beautiful rolling pastoral. This is a wonderfully pretty game.

Presented in a hand-painted style, it conveys the simplicity of a children’s book, with the complexity of a layered world, based on an idyllic French countryside. The old man ventures through quaint villages, hardy country roads and breezy seaside lanes that offer wheeling vistas and outdoor scenes. He is assailed by weather and he comes across ominous ruins of an ancient land.

Lovely images that bristle with color, energy and meaning

Sometimes he stops to do a bit of people watching — young lovers, a working man, a bad tempered old woman — and as often as not, these remind him of his own past, and off we go to the land of bittersweet memory.

Through these vignettes, the simply drawn old man becomes a whole human being who has lived his life and made his own choices, not all of them wise. Throughout the story, it’s not clear how much of his life is a source of regret, and how much is an acknowledgement that he is who he is, that character is destiny. This gives the game an added feeling of narrative depth.

The result is a game that reminds me of a picture postcard, or maybe a whimsical poem written by a friend on a long vacation. Old Man’s Journey is sweet, meandering and undemanding, a pleasant while-away that’s full of feeling, at least for as long as the wandering lasts.

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Earlier this week, it was reported that the legendary actor and stuntman would be performing an "epic stunt" as part of the closing ceremonies.

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Cruise, 62, is known for taking stunts to the next level, and given that Los Angeles will be hosting the 2028 Olympics , it was assumed that someone representing the city would be in attendance to take the Olympic flag, as is tradition. Here's how the stunt went down live.

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The 62-year-old rappelled down from the top of the Stade de France, greeting Olympians after landing safely.

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'The Old Man' Season 2 Trailer Sends Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow on a Rescue Mission

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To what extent would you go for love? In the case of FX's The Old Man , sacrifice is the measure of love. It's been well over two years since the first season concluded, and now the second season of The Old Man is set to premiere in September. Now, ahead of what promises to be an intense second outing, FX has released an all-new official trailer for the confrontation to come. The trailer begins with Bridges' former CIA agent Dan Chase ( Jeff Bridges ) coming to the realization that his daughter, Emily Chase ( Alia Shawkat ), had been kidnapped. Without waiting for the government to intervene and rescue her, Chase conscripts John Lithgow 's former FBI Assistant Director, Harold Harper, to aid him. Home and abroad, the stakes are high, and the atmosphere is intense, but this old man is ready to do what is needed for the mission.

The first season of The Old Man introduces us to Dan Chase, a man living off the grid in isolation with his two dogs. A former CIA agent with secrets dating back to his time in Afghanistan during the 1979 Soviet invasion, Chase is soon flushed out by his old friend, Harold Harper. Soon enough, Chase realizes that he can't run from the past anymore, and must reconcile it to move forward. A man who trades in secrets, Chase is stunned to learn that Harper's protégé, Emily ( Alia Shawkat ), is actually his daughter. Season 2 will see that narrative even further muddled when Faraz Hamzad, a formidable Afghan tribal leader , portrayed by Navid Negahban , claims Emily as his and kidnaps her.

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The Old Man was created by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine , and based on Thomas Perry’s bestselling novel. Executive producers on the show include Steinberg, Dan Shotz, Warren Littlefield , Levine, Bridges, David Schiff, Craig Silverstein, and Jon Watts . The series endured a difficult journey on its way to print as it was hampered along the way by several challenges. Announced in 2019 , the series had gone halfway through filming before the COVID pandemic saw it shut down. Despite resuming later in 2020, The Old Man had to take another break when star Bridges was diagnosed with lymphoma, and had to undergo treatment. With Bridges' cancer in remission, filming resumed in 2022 and the first season premiered later that year. The joint SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes of last year delayed the start of production after the series scored a second season renewal .

As tension builds, Chase and Harper look to rescue Emily from Afghanistan and The Old Man will see Gbenga Akinnagbe and Jacqueline Antaramian reprise their roles from the first season as Julian Carson and Khadija, Hamzad’s sister and trusted advisor respectively. The series is produced Judd Rea .

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In a military career that spanned three decades, Tim Walz achieved one of the highest enlisted ranks in the Army. Some peers took issue with the timing of his retirement.

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In the 1980s, the U.S. military was in the middle of a transformation. The Vietnam War was over, and a force once staffed with drafted troops who had fought and died in the jungles of Southeast Asia was transitioning to ranks filled solely with volunteers.

In Nebraska, Tim Walz was one of those volunteers.

Mr. Walz, now Minnesota governor and the presumptive Democratic candidate for vice president, raised his hand to join the Army National Guard just two days past his 17th birthday on April 8, 1981. In a career in the military that spanned three decades, he battled floods, managed an artillery unit and achieved one of the highest enlisted ranks in the Army. He also navigated a full-time job teaching social studies alongside his part-time military occupation as an enlisted combat arms soldier, a role that trained him for war.

Mr. Walz never went to war. Most of his service covered a period when America was bruised from foreign entanglements and wary of sending troops into combat overseas for long stretches. And it ended when Mr. Walz was 41, as the military ramped up for war after Sept. 11.

Since being picked as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate this week, he has found himself facing allegations previously aired by Minnesota Republicans and newly amplified by JD Vance, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate.

Those criticisms center on Mr. Walz’s decision to retire from the Army in 2005, the year before his artillery battalion deployed to Iraq. He was thinking seriously about a run for Congress and spoke with other soldiers about being torn between his loyalty to his fellow troops and his desire to move on with his life. At the time, there were vague expectations that the unit might deploy, but actual orders came several months later.

The unit deployed to Iraq for more than one year beginning in 2006. During that time, soldiers in the unit provided security for transportation convoys and other tasks common in a combat zone.

Supporters say he served honorably for 24 years and had long since earned the right to retire from the Guard when he chose.

“In talking with him, it was a hard decision,” said Joseph Eustice, a soldier who served under Mr. Walz until his departure. “The guy I knew in the Guard, I’d walk through a wall for.”

But Thomas Behrends, a retired command sergeant major in his Guard unit, took Mr. Walz’s place for the Iraq deployment and said Mr. Walz was a “sell out” to his unit. “Whatever reason he had, he’s never explained it,” said Mr. Behrends, who wrote an editorial in 2018 speaking out against Mr. Walz during his campaign for governor.

In 2006, when Mr. Walz first ran for Congress, one critic who served in the Minnesota National Guard claimed that he was misleading people into thinking his record included a combat deployment. Mr. Walz pushed back strongly.

“There’s a code of honor among those who’ve served, and normally this type of partisan political attack comes only from one who’s never worn a uniform,” Mr. Walz wrote that year in a letter to the editor of The Winona Daily News, a newspaper in the district.

Even his most vocal opponents in the Guard agree that Mr. Walz was a respected soldier — someone who did his job dependably and could be counted on to take care of his troops.

Mr. Walz was drawn to the military the same way many Americans are: It was a family business. His father was a veteran, and his older sister had joined the military three years before him. His father died of lung cancer soon after Mr. Walz enlisted.

“I think it was instilled in us. It was just something that I think was more of an expectation,” Mr. Walz said in a 2009 Library of Congress interview. “I never really thought of a time when I wouldn’t join some branch.”

On the day he enlisted, the 17-year-old Walz was picked up after a high school track practice. After going to a nearby town, passing cornfields and flat roads, he met a lieutenant in charge of the local Guard unit. From there, he said in the 2009 interview, his 24 years of military service began.

Mr. Walz’s first job in the Nebraska Guard was in the infantry. In the 1980s, that meant Private Walz quickly learned how to fire an M16 and shoot, move and communicate in small units as he completed his training between junior and senior year of high school at Fort Benning in Georgia.

With the threat of war with the Soviet Union still present, Army recruiting commercials highlighted a modernizing American military: Newly formed Ranger units descended from Black Hawk helicopters and Apache gunships buzzed the ground, all with the Army’s famous motto “Be all you can be” blaring in the background.

As Mr. Walz climbed through the lower enlisted ranks, he bounced around the Midwest and the South, taking jobs in Texas and Arkansas before settling on his career path as a teacher. He figured that teaching left ample room in his schedule to train with the Guard. Those requirements frequently called on those in the Guard to show up for one weekend a month and a few weeks a year (sometimes in the summer months and sometimes for longer stretches of time).

“For many of us in the National Guard, there was an awful lot of teachers,” Mr. Walz said in the Library of Congress interview. “It was a very compatible profession. It felt like there was a lot of crossover and skill sets that worked there.”

Throughout the 1990s Mr. Walz performed the standard duties called upon by National Guard units — flood cleanup and recoveries from forest fires and tornadoes. In 1996 he changed jobs from the infantry to artillery and joined 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery in the Minnesota National Guard after he married and moved to Mankato, Minn. A year later he was in Norway on a training exercise.

“He was a good soldier,” said Bill Kautt who was Mr. Walz’s battalion commander during the short deployment to Norway. “I think he was a respected member of the Guard and he did his job.”

Mr. Walz was the chief of one of the unit’s howitzer batteries and joined the exercise as the battalion’s operations sergeant in the command group and worked closely with Mr. Kautt. In their downtime, he recalled connecting with Sergeant Walz as both were social studies teachers at the time. And, they both coached school athletic teams.

“I was very impressed with him,” Mr. Kautt said. “I would consider him energetic. He was dependable and he was willing to do whatever we asked him to do.”

But his time in an artillery unit came at a cost to his health, despite not seeing combat. The deafening booms and shock waves from howitzer barrels and their projectiles, which sound like freight trains as they fly overhead, left Mr. Walz with hearing loss and tinnitus in both ears, according to a 2018 report from Minnesota Public Radio . In 2005 he underwent corrective surgery to alleviate the problem, the report said.

As Mr. Walz navigated the duties, training and health issues common in any military unit, especially those in combat arms like field artillery, he managed to keep his dual roles — soldier and teacher — separate.

“He was a coach and a teacher first,” said Noah Hobbs, a student of Mr. Walz in 2005 at Mankato West High School. He added that Mr. Walz did not boast about his military service, nor bring it up frequently in the classroom.

But the fact that Mr. Walz was in the military was common knowledge among the student body.

Mr. Walz’s relatively peaceful time in uniform — having never been deployed as part of operations in Grenada in 1983, Panama in 1989 or the Gulf War in 1990 — changed on Sept. 11, 2001, when the terrorist group Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, the Washington, D.C., area and Pennsylvania during a brazen strike on American soil.

Emily Falenczykowski-Scott, 41, saw the attack unfold on a television in the lobby of Mankato West High School and remembers Mr. Walz running by. He stopped when he saw her. “Emily, thousands of people have already died. This is war,” she recalled him saying.

In the twilight of his time in the Guard, before he retired in 2005 to run for Congress, Mr. Walz deployed to Vicenza, Italy in 2003. His artillery battalion was charged with guarding entry control points at Air Force bases that were supporting the war in Afghanistan as U.S. forces sought to capture or kill Al Qaeda’s leadership there.

After that deployment ended in 2004, Mr. Walz made the decision to leave the Guard as he considered the run for Congress and as rumors swirled about a potential deployment to Iraq. He had been promoted to command sergeant major — a rank few soldiers reach.

But in the end, he retired as a master sergeant because he never completed the coursework — which would have taken 664 hours online and 86 hours in person to complete — required to keep the rank of sergeant major.

Republicans have accused Mr. Walz of inflating his credentials, reviving a dispute from his past political campaigns over which designations Mr. Walz should be entitled to use as his exit rank.

On the Harris campaign site, he is described as a “master sergeant.” But on his governor’s page bio , he has kept the mention of “Command Sergeant Major.”

An earlier version of this article misstated the number of people killed on Sept. 11 in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. It was nearly 3,000, not more than 3,000. The article also misspelled the last name of a retired command sergeant major who served in Tim Walz’s Guard unit. He is Thomas Behrends, not Behrands.

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