By Chad Livengood, Springfield News-Leader

Jefferson City -- Tommy Sowers spent his 24th, 29th and 30th birthdays deployed overseas in Kosovo and Iraq as a soldier.

On Tuesday, he spent his 34th birthday on a new mission to serve his country -- in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Rolla native is pursuing the 8th District congressional seat as a Democrat, billing himself as "a guy with a truck and a dog taking on an entrenched D.C. insider."

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