Retired Afghanistan Special Forces officer Don Bolduc shares message for service members, vets

Retired Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, who served 10 tours in Afghanistan and led the "Horse Soldiers" special ops mission in 2001 after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, says U.S. service members and veterans' efforts in the country "were not in vain."

"…Our service members and the sacrifices that they made in the sacrifice their families made were not in vain because they did their job," Bolduc, who served in the U.S. Army for 33 years and is now running for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, told Fox News in an interview.  He continued: "We liberated Afghanistan in the first rotation. They wanted us to build a military. We built it. They wanted us to build a national police. We built it. They wanted us to help build their government institutions. We did it. They wanted us to help the Afghan people go back to school, get health care and open up small businesses. We did it. And they did it with honor, bravery, and they did it well."