Pete Hegseth and his wife, Jennifer, spent Thanksgiving with Sailors and Marines stationed at sea, where the Secretary of War delivered a message of gratitude from the pilot house of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford .

“Happy Thanksgiving from me, the Secretary of War. Happy Thanksgiving from the President of the United States. Happy Thanksgiving from a grateful nation,” the secretary told thousands of Sailors and Marines onboard the carrier.

Then, Hegseth punctuated the message by evoking news of the attack on two National Guard members in Washington DC, the day before:

They are a reminder like you of the bravery and the selflessness of Americans who put it all on the line in the prime of their life to dangerous things on behalf of the American people. Whether it’s in our natio

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