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Our shirts. instead, we'll rerelease the design. >> joining us now, founder of ceo of forged thread works, mike sours and samantha bonilla. i hope i said it correctly. welcome. did you ever imagine when you made this shirt it would be in headlines everywhere and create this kind of controversy. >> not in this way, for sure. i mean, it's just crazy to think about somebody texted me in the morning and i thought this is a joke. it was one of my friends, sent it to me. i was like you've got to be kidding me. it's totally ridiculous. if you look at the shirt, it's an american flag on the shirt that...

Was inspired by martin luther king, junior. >> really. >> we have that quote, the true measure of an individual is not how they act in a time of triumph but rather how they act in a time of tragedy. which is a fantastic statement that everyone should be embracing this. >> right. i don't know if you know many white supremacists that wear a shirt quoting martin luther king, junior. that's absurd to me. >> probably not a whole lot. >> i guess they didn't do their research. shocking. >> definitely not good marketing for them, that's for sure. >> let me ask you, mike and sam, thank you for your ser...

People? >> i believe it is. to me, fighting for the flag, just like you, we are out there in the battlefield and it means a lot to us and it's just crazy for me to think right now in this country that wearing an american flag could be considered as racist. patriotism can be confused with racism. i don't just understand that. i don't grasp that. >> mike, with the little time we've got here, why did you start this company? >> actually, when i got back from my last deployment in iraq in 2007 we had a teammate of mine who was critically injured and a bunch of us in the platoon got together and dec...