"19 Kids and Counting" patriarch Jim Bob Duggar is running for Arkansas state Senate
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Jim Bob Duggar, the father of the family featured in the reality TV show "19 Kids and Counting," announced on the Duggar family Facebook page Friday that he is running for a seat in the Arkansas Senate. Duggar previously served as a state representative before the start of his family's TLC show.
Duggar said he is running to represent the state's seventh district.
"Northwest Arkansas is my lifelong home," Duggar said on Facebook. "It's where my wife Michelle and I have raised our 20 children. It's where we've grown our small businesses. It's where we've built a life centered around our faith, family, and friends."
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.