Fox News’s Harris Faulkner has made a major career move after spending more than a decade hosting her own show on the network and co-hosting the popular “Outnumbered” program as well.

The Emmy-winning newscaster disclosed to People Magazine that she is set to start production on her most personal project yet, a series exploring her upbringing influenced by her father, a former Army combat pilot in the Vietnam War. Titled “Footsteps of My Father,” Faulkner’s limited series premiered on Fox on May 16th and is now available for streaming on its website. In her discussion with People, she described how filming the series posed new challenges to her abilities as an on-air talent.

“This is the most personal I have ever been in front of the camera,” she said. “Trekking my dad’s combat trail in Vietnam was almost too much for my heart to take at times. I carried his burial flag with me in my backpack. When I landed in Vietnam there was a rush of emotions. I missed my parents more than ever.

“What I thought I knew about that war and his involvement ended up being just a tiny snapshot of the realities of fighting in a war that U.S. citizens would come to protest against. My father served two tours of duty in America’s mighty mission to preserve democracy in a faraway nation that was being swallowed up by the spread of communism,” she told the magazine.

“At home, our own nation was struggling with a violent racial divide. Yet, my father told his younger brothers and anyone who listened, ‘I chose to go fight for America because it was the best place on the planet to live. The U.S. Constitution clearly defines excellence and potential for America.’ He added, ‘The Civil Rights struggle is American freedom on the move.’ My father was a patriot,” she said.

Across three episodes, Faulker, 58, travels to Vietnam, where she speaks with residents who lived through the war and “now understand what America was trying to do.”

“While I felt their kindness and openness to me and my Fox Nation team, they are a communist nation. In my special, you’ll see visible remnants and reinventions of that kind of government. And, you’ll actually hear my dad’s voice telling stories of his survival and near-misses in the war,” Faulker explained, adding that her father died during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“My dad died Christmas Day of 2020. He was dressed for the day, looking sharp and at peace. The Lord has him now. Vietnam reminded me of my faith and my singular purpose to live a life that will deliver me to heaven to thank Dad with renewed vigor and understanding, for his service of our great nation,” she added.