"We came into Kuwait City and I remember a kid about 14-years-old; he held his hand up in the air and he looked at me and he said 'America is number one' and I'm thinking this young boy is telling me my country is number one," Montes says. "But what that young kid was talking to us about was a thing called freedom. Freedom isn't free. It was one young man or young woman that gave their life for this country (so) that we may have the freedom of today and that young boy taught me about freedom just by saying 'America's number one."