Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is honoring U.S. veterans this year on Veterans Day, November 11, with a 30-second television ad.
In the ad, called “Beyond Measure,” Blackburn says, “America is exceptional beyond measure but it couldn’t be that way, it wouldn’t be that way without our veterans.
“We owe our men and women in uniform everything for answering the call, for risking it all to protect us today and every day. May God bless the American Veteran and may God always bless the greatest country on Earth,” Blackburn added.
Blackburn’s new ad comes days after the incumbent senator won her reelection bid against Democratic nominee Tennessee State Representative Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville) by nearly 30 percentage points (63.8 percent-34.2 percent) on Tuesday.
As a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, one of the issues Blackburn ran her reelection campaign on was supporting American servicemen and women and their families.
“Marsha is committed to ensuring we keep our promises to those who fought to defend our freedoms,” Blackburn’s campaign website reads. “She is committed to improving the welfare and quality of life for our veterans and their families, our active-duty military members and their spouses, which includes everything from vocational training to medical care to addressing homelessness.”
This past year, Blackburn has worked to hold the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) accountable by introducing legislation to block resources from being used to provide taxpayer-funded health care to illegal aliens.
Blackburn also pushed back on the VA after the Department elicited nearly $11 million in “unjustified” bonuses to senior executives within the department.
In June, Blackburn had the honor of representing Tennessee by being among a bipartisan coalition of U.S. senators who visited Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by Allied forces during World War II.
There are more than 18 million living veterans in the U.S., representing about 6 percent of the country’s adult population.
More than 400,000 veterans live in Tennessee.
Watch Blackburn’s new ad “Beyond Measure” here:
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
