The Spartan Pledge

I will not I will not I will not take my own life by my own hand until I talk to my battle buddy first my mission my mission my mission my mission is to find a mission to help my warfighter family I'm Boone Cutler and I'm the author of the Spartan Pledge so the Spartan Pledge is a battle drill it's a plan it's what to do when you don't know what to do and it's a promise to say no matter how bad things get I'm gonna reach out I'm gonna reach out I'm gonna contact you it's also a promise to do something on behalf of the warfighter community and maintain a mission because a warfighter without a mission is a dead warfighter but a warfighter with a mission is a deadly warfighter when I told Carl Monger he's a good friend of mine he runs an organization called Gallant Few he's a mentor to me he's an advisor to me when I told him what me and my buddies were doing he was like Boone I think you got something I think you really got something here this is something we should promote from his networks guys started taking it one-on-one guys in groups and then from there now Soldier Hard picked it up he's doing it at concerts once Boone told me about the Spartan Pledge I wanted to promote it in the best way that I know how you know what I do how can I incorporate the Spartan Pledge into music how can I do that every warfighter knows about taking the oath we take oath very seriously well why not invite warfighters in the audience to come up on stage and take the Spartan Pledge so every show that I did no matter where I went is it's always been part of my show so far since this entire journey has started the the most humbling thing I've seen is for someone to say I want to contribute to this but when Danny Prince got into the picture an FDNY firefighter he had in his possession actual metal from the World Trade Center I'd honor many trips going to Walter Reed we met so many different people one of them was Steve Dan Luke and he had introduced me and told me about the Spartan Pledge and they were telling about how there's 22 vets a day that are committing suicide and how that's just totally unacceptable I mean immediately immediately the pledge resonated with me so talking with Danny we felt that you know hey you know let's do something with the steel so we said why don't we make a sword out of the steel from 9-11 and just the reverence and the importance of that steel would mean so much more to these service men and women so that's what we did you know and contacted a couple other guys they did some research found a swordsmith down in Texas and you know it wasn't very long at all it was a couple months later we had the final product which was a sword we're talking about the same thing that every warfighter joined in this current era is there because of what happened at the World Trade Center in the Pentagon on 9-11 and so we come full circle now by creating a sword out of that tragic event that inspires people to live that's not that's that's humbling that's something that touches your heart when people touch that sword it's like connecting with all the souls we lost people ask me Boone what are you going to do with the Spartan Pledge next I'm just the author I'm not doing anything with the Spartan Pledge next because it belongs to the community so the question is what are you going to do with the Spartan Pledge next I will not take my own life by my own hand I will not take my own life by my own hand until I talk to my battle buddy first until I talk to my battle buddy first my mission my mission is to find a mission is to find a mission to help my warfighter family to help my warfighter family