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Magic Mike, where what's important to you is important to
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I'm your host, Magic Mike, and today we're diving deep into
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something close to my heart, how sharing your story and getting
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behind the mic can be a powerful form of rehabilitation, whether
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you're fresh out of service years into civilian.
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Life 20 years it's been 20 years since we saw each other in Iraq
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and he. Looks older and.
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Personal. Now, we're not all poets or
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motivational speakers, but you'd be amazed at how therapeutic it
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can be just to talk. One thing I've learned is that
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every story has value. Doesn't matter if you were on
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the front lines or behind a desk.
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Your experience is worth sharing and trust me, somebody out there
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needs to hear it. Broadcasting gives us a way to
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say, hey, this is who I am and this is what I've been through.
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It bridges gaps, builds community and creates new
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purpose. Oh, I don't know how that
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happened, but yeah, we're live here.
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All right. Hey, you still here?
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H Train. Yeah, I'm here.
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I'm here. OK, OK, hey, we're live here
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with veterans, talk with yours truly, DJ Magic Mike.
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I was over here trying to fix the camera because it looked
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cattywampus and awesome. Bam, I was I was on the air.
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But hey, listen, great program. We have a pre Memorial Day show
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for your day. A lot of different things.
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I'm coming to you live from one of the VF WS veteran foreign war
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in North Carolina. It's called post 30 ought 6
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those you don't know 30 ought 6 caliber they used to use back in
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the day. How many shooters hunter still
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use it etcetera, etcetera. But yeah, post 30 ought 6.
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It has a history that is in lineage that is absolutely
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crazy. And those of you do know I love
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history. The the post was started in 1941
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October 22nd of 1941 history. We were not even a we weren't
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even A at war yet World War 2. So this is founded on veterans
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actually from World War One. Amazing, amazing people here.
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We're going to be interviewing some of the people as we go on.
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We have the Travis Manion Foundation coming up Memorial
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Day. They're going to be doing so
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many great things around the country honoring the Marine
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Corps Lieutenant Travis Manion and and the foundation of his
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parents and sister are are still today running.
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And those of you know, Memorial Day is there's there's no happy
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in there. So when you see somebody, don't
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say, hey, have a happy Memorial Day.
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Yeah, have a safe Memorial Day. Or, you know, thinking of those
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loved ones on Memorial Day, but never happy.
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And and I share that with you guys.
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And then not to get on Tandrum, but we got a great show and it's
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going to be a positive show. But we want to shed light on
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some of the, you know, true veterans that gave the ultimate
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sacrifice for their country. You know, these are the Captain
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Khans, the Isaac Nieves, Connor, Sergeant Webb, just to name a
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few. You know, from our unit, that's
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just from our unit, from Joel of my unit when we were in Iraq,
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Froelich, You know, there's so many, so many great soldiers
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from First ID. You know, we took a big hit in
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2004 as people know, but I got a letter in the mail the other day
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from Mopar and I I hope somebody takes this and sends it to
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Mopar. It literally said, let me just
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this might cause drive me crazy. It literally said, hey, I
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everybody knows I I drive a Dodge right a Dodge Ram so don't
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hold that against me and it says hey, Mopar has a sale.
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Happy Memorial Day now for an organization as large and as old
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as Ram and Dodge is right and they are you know, symbolic of
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our country as a United States. The fact that they even decided
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to send me a card that said Happy Memorial Day made me throw
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up. I wrote immediately to CEO and I
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let them know that that is not acceptable, especially from an
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organization as large as Ram and Dodge.
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So again, you know, we're gonna have a great show here.
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I just want to let you guys know there is no Happy Memorial Day.
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And yeah, that's about all I got to say.
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What about you there H Train? No, I'm, I'm sitting here
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looking through some notes because you sent me something
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and I'm trying to get it loaded on.
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So that's what I was currently doing.
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But you know, I used to get really upset with that, but now
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I hardly get upset with it at all just because for a simple
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fact that most people and most people are kind of going with
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emotions as it is now. You know, people don't really
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respect what we go through because they haven't experienced
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it yet. And that's what we're trying to
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do. We're we're trying to show the
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experience now. Yeah, we're trying to get the
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commander set up here. He's we got, we got wardrobe
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malfunction here. There we go, there we go.
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And there. So I have with me just an
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individual I got to know over the last few months, a great
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individual, a Desert Storm. Is that correct?
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Commander Desert Storm veteran Army veteran.
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So that's why he's on my show, not a Marine.
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It's it's pretty awesome. I am I am at an all listening to
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a story. Everything he's done, how he's
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gone through the VFW veterans before war in different officer
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positions and to be and he was the commander before and
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commander again of 30 ought 6 Again, those of you don't know,
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it's the history of it is, is is amazing.
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Hudson Tatum Miller Miller Tatum.
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I'm sorry, commander. And they were all veterans and
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and we're here in the hall that they have and they have just so
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many great things that they do for the community and a lot of
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the young veterans don't understand that.
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Again, Commander Jim Fox of the 30 ought 6.
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Hudson Miller Tatum, 30 ought 6 or 3006IN North Carolina
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fascinating things that they do and and I asked him if you would
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mind being on the show H train. So commander, tell us a little
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bit about yourself, what you serve, what you did.
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Obviously you're a Desert Storm. So you got that, That 24 karat
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gold Kuwaiti metal, I'm sure hanging somewhere at home, but
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take it away. My we've lost sound.
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We lost sound. Yeah.
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Is that my? There you go.
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Is that my fault or your fault? How about now?
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No, I can hear you now, OK. Can you hear him?
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Not really. Try try a little bit closer to
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that one. Central IN town called Anderson
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in between Indianapolis and Marion.
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You know where that's at H Train.
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Say that again. Anderson IN.
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Anderson IN. He's from Cocoa, yeah.
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Better know. Where?
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Anderson. Yeah.
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He says, yeah, I know what that says.
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Yeah, yeah. Now H Train is our producer.
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He and I served in Iraq together.
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He was one of the greatest soldiers I had.
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He was injured in Iraq, suffered a TBI and his his foot was all
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jacked up and we hadn't seen each other for 20 years.
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So I just wanted to give the commander a little insight so I
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know more about him than he does me.
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But go ahead. I'm sorry, Commander.
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So you're from. So you're from Anderson IN what
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brought you to North Carolina? Well, my mom heritage is in
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Marion, NC, OK, but in 1980 due to unemployment rates in our
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hometown, I joined when active duty.
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Well, when I was at the Mets in Indianapolis, they said, well,
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your test scores are great to get you any job you want, but
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you're either going to have to do one or two things, go to
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Germany for two years without your newlywed wife, or go to
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jump school and get stationed to Fort Bragg.
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So I went to jump school and I've my wife's been with me for
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45 going on 46 years now. Wow, wow.
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So and what's your wife's name? Teresa.
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Teresa. And you guys been married for
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how many years? 46th in September.
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All right, So just to let you guys know out there in H train,
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just to let you know I have the honor and position know his
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wife, meet his wife, an Angel sweetheart, just a sweetheart of
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a lady. And I mean 46 years, I tell you
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46 years a long time. So so so you came here
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originally with the Army to North Carolina, but your
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heritage is from here. Well.
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My mom's from marrying up in the mountain.
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OK, OK. Let's put it this way.
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I wasn't happy with the economic situation up in the Midwest, so
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we stayed in North Carolina when I got out in 92 thanks to Bill
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Clinton's drawdown. Oh, that's right.
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So, so those of you don't know, in 92 Bill Clinton did a huge
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drawdown and if you were AE 5 or above, they would buy you could
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15 years. Was it 15 years or something
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like that? They would.
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You could retire, No. What that wasn't that eligible
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in that time, they paid you either an annual payment or lump
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sum payment for your retirement for you to go ahead and get on
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out. Yeah.
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Yeah. And they really wanted you to
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keep you in the reserves, National Guard, something like
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that to help keep their strength.
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Right, right. I wound up retiring now the Army
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reserves here in the area. OK, OK, so then so then you
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retired from the Army. You were in the 82nd Airborne.
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I know that. So all American, trust me, I've
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never seen. Listen, I hate when I see guys
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with 82nd Airborne. I go, I go Airborne and they go,
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oh, thank you. Like you were never airborne.
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I mean, come on. What's the reply If you were in
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the 82nd, your reply is all the way right airborne all the way
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right. So, yeah, Jim is the commander.
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May I call you Jim? So Jim is truly, I'll call you
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commander out of respect 'cause you're on the show at your at
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your pros. But the commander is truly a
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soldier, soldier. And it's great you retired as a,
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a Sergeant first class staff Sergeant, staff Sergeant.
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And and trust me, he he is a true staff Sergeant there H
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train. He retired.
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He, he, he runs this post with the utmost respect for everybody
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because they have an auxiliary and they do so much in the
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community. They, they do scholarships.
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They, you know, they go out and they do different things
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tomorrow or I'm sorry, Saturday. They have a huge event on
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Saturday and you want to talk about the event you got doing
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going on this Saturday? This Saturday, hundreds of
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volunteers will be putting flags on the graves at the National
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Cemetery here in Salisbury and the annex.
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For some of you that don't know about the National Cemetery
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history in Salisbury, it is on the site of a former prisoner of
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war compound for the Confederacy.
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There were a lot of Union soldiers that died there.
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Their best guesstimate is around 11,000 Civil war veterans buried
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in I think 11 mass graves. Wow.
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Now, this is the, the actual cemetery, not the annex, cause
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'cause there's two different ones.
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There's the annex, which is the big pretty one, looks like a
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little miniature Arlington. And then the actual cemetery is
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down here off of Military of Maine, right close to right
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around there, Monroe or whatever it is.
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Yeah. By the way, both of them are
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phenomenal. Just absolutely beautiful places
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to visit. Very humbling, very somber.
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So they're gonna be out there volunteering to put flags on the
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graves and stuff like that in honor of Memorial Day and then
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after that. Dale that was invited over here
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for a sausage and pancake breakfast.
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My post along with the Veterans county roving county Veterans
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council are feeding them. We've had some corporate
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sponsorship from Walmart and Sam's Club, so yeah, it's just
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our volunteers are being here flipping pancakes and sausage to
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feed everyone and. Hey, are you on your way there?
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H Trained. I'm working on.
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It, he said he's working on it. So I, I got to go in here and
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see. I don't have my glasses on.
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You're going to have to read the comments there.
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It says hello everyone from into the PA.
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What's going on into the weeds? Kuwait gold.
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Yeah. Kuwaiti gold.
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Yeah. So she remember, or so those of
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you don't know, I, I made a comment about his medal.
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So in Desert Storm, the the president of Kuwait awarded or
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came up with a medal and he awarded it to every American
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soldier, every soldier, actually, a coalition forces
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that helped liberate Kuwait. And it was supposed to be like
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24 karat gold in the middle of it and, and stuff like that.
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That's how you knew if you got a real medal or if you went to the
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PX and bought 1. So that's that's kind of fun.
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So this is a this is a picture I took earlier today.
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This is the annex and it is absolutely magnificent,
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beautiful rolling Hills, North Carolina.
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I was up there. I was able to take a picture
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real quick. So they're going to be putting
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flags on every single one of those graves out there on excuse
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me, on Saturday, this Saturday in, in memory of, of the
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soldiers in Memorial Day coming up on Monday.
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And this veterans of Foreign War post 300630 out six as you guys
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call it is going to be sponsoring along with the
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veterans, you said Rowan Veterans Council, correct?
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Rowan Veterans Council will be sponsoring it as well.
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So the Veterans Council is made-up of all different kinds
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of American Legion veterans of foreign wars, Disabled American
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Veterans, so on and so forth. And it, it, it really is to help
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veterans. Is that is that correct correct?
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They work on helping to order, organize veteran's day parades,
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any a lot of the parades that are military oriented here in
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the county. They've done a lot of good
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things in the past. They spun off the Rowan County
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Veterans Honor Guard that does military funerals for
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individuals from Rowan County at the at any cemetery in Rowan
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County and within the surrounding area, as long as the
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individuals from Rowan County, the.
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Now, where's Rowan County in in conjunction with, I mean,
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because I, I know a lot of our viewers are all over the world,
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all over the country and stuff like that.
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Like H trains in Colorado. I know some are in Missouri and
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Florida. We got them all over.
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Where is Rowan County in like what is the biggest city near
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Rowan County? We are.
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Approximately 30 miles 4030 to 40 miles north of.
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Charlotte OK about. 50 miles South of Winston Salem and about
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6075 miles southwest of Greensboro.
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OK. So we're in the Piedmont area of
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North. Carolina OK, they call this the
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Triad, right? That no, that's not Triad.
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OK, Raleigh. Durham, Chapel Hill.
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Oh, OK, OK. The rich areas, I'm sorry, I'm
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sorry. I will tell you this though, I
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started I, I started drinking this.
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I tried this right here. I'll give you guys a little
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close up of that. This is only found.
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Well, I don't want to say it's only found, but it's brewed
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here. Is that correct?
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Cheerwine, They call it Cheerwine, not cherry wine.
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Cheerwine. It's not alcoholic.
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So it's not alcoholic. It's kind of like if, if I can
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be honest to my viewers out there and I hope Cheerwine sees
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this. It sponsors the VFW 3006.
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This is exclusively made right here in Salisbury, NC.
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They have a Cheerwine festival as well every year and if I had
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it, it started since 1917. And if I had to tell you what
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this tastes like it this is the original Cherry Coke, ladies and
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gentlemen, this is where Cherry Coke got their stolen from.
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This is really good stuff. I'm addicted to this stuff.
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I'm going to get a couple cases H train.
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I'll send you a cup back to the a couple of cases to the studio
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so you can try some of this. This is good stuff, man.
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It's called Cheerwine. There's no alcohol in it.
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It just, that's just the name of it and it's a, it's a cherry, a
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cherry soda. It's really good, really good.
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But a lot of good things here. This, this VFWI tell you what,
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just talking to the commander and listening to all the great
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things that they do. They did, they have the buddy
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poppies. I see them all over there on the
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table. So everybody knows what the
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buddy Poppies are. They have the, the buddy
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poppies. His, his lovely assistant can
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hand us a couple of those so we could show people what those
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are. So we have the buddy poppies and
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every VFW has these and they sell them.
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I know you guys, when you, a lot of younger people or older
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people like me, I should say, remember going to the, the store
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and stuff like that. And you know, people would hand
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these out for a small donation or whatever.
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And it's a, it's a poppy and, and what is the story behind
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the, the buddy poppies? The buddy.
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Poppy During World War 1A Canadian found a field in Europe
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and he wrote a poem about it. She and the Buddy Poppies don't
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ask me to decide it because I know Doctor Edwell.
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They called it Flanders Field. OK, I've heard of that Flanders
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field. A poppy.
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Yeah, sure. OK, was.
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A doctor. I'm trying my cheer.
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So sorry about that. I know what producer's shaking
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his head right now going Jesus, Mike, but.
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The poppy would have been adopted by just about every
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veterans organization that I know of in one way, shape or
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form. Whenever we distribute Buddy
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Poppies, we'd like to have donations.
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We don't ask for the donations. That's up to the individual
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involved. But the money from the Buddy
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Poppies does not go to help run the post.
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The money from the budding poppies has to go to support
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veterans through Veterans Relief Fund.
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You know, it doesn't matter if I find a place that's willing to
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donate $10,000. It all has to go into the post
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Relief Fund and it cannot be used for anything from the post.
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It has to be used. It's.
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Just veterans, that's pretty neat.
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So the VFW is more, you know, we, we grew up a commander and,
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and we talked about this. Very often on my show, but, you
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know, VFW and American Legion and stuff like that was, you
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know, it was, it was where, you know, the Vietnam Veterans all
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kind of hung out, right? That's where they went and they
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drank and smoked and, you know, told war stories.
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And it's so much more than that, right?
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I mean, it's so, so much more. There's, I mean, legislation
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that I was just on Capitol Hill yesterday, you know, I flew up
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there and flew back and, and we were there representing the
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54,000 American soldiers that were injured in combat and
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forced to medically retire early.
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And they have, we call it the veteran tax or the combat
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wounded tax. And we're trying to do away with
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that. And, you know, it's the VFW does
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so much more than that. They do, they do all kinds of,
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of, of, of things like legislative helping out the
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homeless veteran coalition and so on and so forth.
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And, and, and I I think the veterans don't really realize
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the magnitude of what VFW does. I mean, there's a tons of great
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organizations, but they also help, and I found this out
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through you, commander, was that they help and they're like the
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the biggest people leading the, the, the, the charge.
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They help veterans get their disability upgraded and just
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started and and really like puts all their stuff.
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So they have huge VS OS. Is that correct?
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Yeah. Every state has a Veterans
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certified Veterans Service officer.
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They have generally have 2-3 or four, maybe even a few more.
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But those service officers, you want to talk about some of the
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most tight fit people you'll ever meet, It's them.
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They cannot talk about their cases because of the medical
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history. Right, the hippo hippo laws,
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right? Right with all that.
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Yeah, I'll tell you what, I'm a member of the VFW.
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I'm a member of DAV. I've been a member of the
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American Legion and Ambass. Yeah.
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I don't care what veterans organization you join.
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Just join because these veterans or, you know, you as an
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individual cannot go to Tom Tillis or anyone like that and
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say, well, this is what I want. Well, you ain't going to matter.
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But when our national commanders go up to Washington, DC and
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start telling people what they want and start threatening their
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vote, you know, that's what you're going to get, you know,
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So, but it's just a matter of, it's just a matter of for the
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veterans, you know, be a member. We'd love to have you help out.
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But if you can't, you know, that's fine.
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Just join and let us provide here your number to help us
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control those, for lack of a better term, idiots in
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Washington DC. Yeah, you said that right.
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Look, look, look at this. I got, I got an official VFW
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hat. Check that out H Train.
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Yeah. Pretty cool desert.
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I like the desert color. That's pretty neat.
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Thank you for that, Commander. Yeah, we, we definitely agree on
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that. You know, there's, there's so
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much work to be done when it comes to veterans.
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You know, that we're, you know, it's, it's great to have people
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fighting for Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security
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and, and, you know, reproductive rights and, and abortion, all
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that stuff. Those are all great issues and,
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and important issues, right, for the American people.
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But let's not forget the the people who defend that, right,
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to be able to vote on those things, which are the veterans,
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right, you know, which are the military, then the Army, the
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Navy, the Air Force, the Marines and stuff like that.
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And, you know, the Coast Guard, Sorry, I have Space Force.
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I know I'm leaving everybody out of there, but, you know, yeah, I
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think that's really important. I can't thank you enough,
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commander, for being on the show.
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This is, I mean, this is really awesome.
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We're going to take a quick commercial break.
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My special guest today is commander of the veterans of
29:22
Foreign wars here in North Carolina.
29:24
Post thirty O 6. I love saying that, man, it just
29:26
sounds kind of cool. Thirty O 6.
29:28
You know, it's because I grew up around guns and stuff like that.
29:30
Thirty O 6 like that's it. That deer is gone, but great
29:34
post. You also have the auxiliary
29:36
before we went on the break. I want to talk a little bit
29:37
about the auxiliary when we came back.
29:39
So you also have an auxiliary, correct?
29:41
So how do you join the auxiliary and what's what's that about
29:44
this? Is it like us is?
29:47
Family members, combat vet or boots on the ground vet, either
29:55
sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, brothers,
29:58
sisters, mother, father, grandma, grandpa.
30:02
OK, those are the direct relationships to joining
30:05
auxiliary. Our auxiliary goes over to the
30:10
VA hospital and plays bingo, probably, I believe about once a
30:15
month trying to spend time with the patients there.
30:21
Our district, which covers Rowan County, Cabarrus County, the
30:24
standing county, does what we call a district picnic where we
30:28
go buy food from a local restaurant and go in there on a
30:32
Saturday, play bingo with them and just have a good time with
30:37
them and everything. We also, I believe, go to the
30:41
state home, which on this VA camp in North Carolina has a
30:45
state home over there and they go in and play bingo over there
30:49
as well. So the Auxiliary supports us and
30:55
everything we do. They don't in a lot of places.
31:00
I've seen where the Auxiliary has tried to run Rushdod on the
31:05
organizations, but the organization sponsored the
31:11
Auxiliary. So without the organization, the
31:14
Auxiliary would be forced to collapse.
31:16
Gotcha. Gotcha.
31:17
So they're, they're kind of like the support, if you will.
31:19
So they're the the the S3, if you will.
31:24
HA trains laughing. Oh boy, here we go.
31:27
That's pretty cool. So you've got the auxiliary.
31:29
They do so much for the community.
31:31
Again, you've got the VFW, the auxiliary you guys give away.
31:35
I I know that the VFW gives away scholarships or part of the
31:38
scholarship to the, to the, the high school kids, right?
31:41
Yeah. We just got the word that the
31:45
scholarships for the coming year will be the same as last year
31:49
their their scenes so to say. The middle school students 6-7
31:58
and eighth grade write a essay on the theme and the winner of
32:07
the nation can earn $5000 for winning with a.
32:12
For his education, the high school does an orientate or
32:19
oratory that has to fall within certain parameters.
32:25
You know, I believe here in North Carolina.
32:28
The winner of North Carolina earns $5000 toward their
32:33
scholarship and when they get moved into national with VA
32:37
National VFW National, they can win $30,000 plus.
32:42
Wow, that's a lot of money. That's pretty.
32:45
So definitely a community, community oriented organization.
32:49
VFW is that I guess that's safe to say not only one of the
32:52
oldest. So you know, everybody knows
32:54
that I'm a history buff and stuff, so I did the research on
32:56
it. So one of the found one of the
33:01
namesakes for the VFW here was a doctor, prominent Dr. here in
33:06
Salisbury went overseas to Germany to be, to be, you know,
33:11
was drafted. I don't know if he was drafted
33:12
or he volunteered to be a doctor in the army as a, in the army.
33:15
He was a a, a major or Colonel and, and was killed in Germany
33:19
during World War 2. So it's, I mean, it's there's a
33:21
lot of history here. One was obviously World War One.
33:25
I guess that's the first picture there.
33:26
And then there's happy Hudson. I mean, this is crazy.
33:30
I mean, the, the, the, the amount of history that's here in
33:33
this area is just phenomenal. You know, it's, it's just truly
33:38
great. I ask everybody this on on, you
33:41
know, our upcoming Memorial Day and it's something that I I
33:44
would be remiss if I didn't ask you, commander, what does
33:47
Memorial Day? I mean, at the beginning of the
33:49
show, I, I kind of, I always have like a little tyrant that I
33:52
go on and H train hates it because he remembers when I was
33:54
in NCOI used to go on my tyrants all the time, But he's, he's
33:59
like me now. You know, Mopar sent me out a
34:03
letter and it said, you know, happy Memorial Day.
34:05
And I wrote the CEO immediately and I said that is not
34:08
appropriate. Whoever does your, you know,
34:10
whoever does your, your public, public, you know, publicly your,
34:15
your promotion and stuff like that, obviously should be fired
34:17
because there's no happy Memorial Day.
34:19
And I ask everybody this and, and on the on Memorial Day, I
34:24
will be out putting the flags on as well, volunteering, but I'm
34:26
also going to videotape and, and, and ask questions.
34:30
There's a lot of organizations and stuff like that.
34:33
What does Memorial Day mean to you?
34:34
I mean, you're a combat veteran. You served in combat, you serve
34:37
our country. What does Memorial Day mean to
34:40
you? Memorial.
34:43
Day, the last in the 15 years, means a lot more to me than it
34:50
did in the past. I was on active duty, basically
34:56
the real on the the veterans on Memorial Day.
35:01
Everybody was in their backyard having a BBQ cookout.
35:05
You know, it just had fun because they had three or four
35:09
day weekend. But I've come to realize that
35:13
I've been over there with them, put the flags on the graves.
35:18
My grandsons were in the Cub Scouts several years ago and
35:24
their scout group went up there and as a group they put flags on
35:29
the graves. There are approximately 10,000
35:35
veterans buried in the National Cemetery in single raves or
35:40
double rays with spouse. For those that don't know, that
35:47
only will be buried in a National Cemetery.
35:50
Your spouse can be buried with you as well, and I mean
35:52
literally with you buried on top of you or underneath of one or
35:57
the other so they don't get take up space spent for a better.
36:03
But when somebody wishes me a happy Memorial Day, I'm like,
36:08
Sir, you know, this is a solemn holiday.
36:10
This is not. We're here to honor those that
36:16
come before us, those that are with us now and those after.
36:23
With all the loss we've had throughout some years where we
36:27
won two. Vietnam, you know, Desert Storm
36:32
does a shield, Kosovo, Panama, Grenada, you know, Afghanistan,
36:38
Iraq. These veterans paid the price
36:45
for the freedoms that we have and most of our country has
36:49
forgotten that. You know they granted I've seen
36:55
more welcome home and everything from Desert Storm Desert Shield
37:00
and stuff than Vietnam Veterans, but these people deserve the
37:11
thanks of the patient our politician divorce and in DC
37:19
couldn't do what they've been doing if it wasn't for the
37:22
veterans get over giving them the freedom to do it.
37:30
These three gentlemen, Hudson, Diller and Tatum up till a few
37:34
years ago happened. Hudson, his granddaughter was a
37:38
member of our auxiliary here many Robowski, I believe is her
37:43
name and she just she passed away a few years back.
37:49
But I would tell you that little lady, she was packed with
37:52
dynamite. You could not mess.
37:54
This is her post because of her father, her grandfather.
37:58
And there's a lot of people that have that same feeling.
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We have, you know, lifetime memberships.
38:08
I have what's called a Gold Legacy life membership.
38:15
When anything ever happens to me, my contribution to this VFW
38:21
will still go on I believe for 20 years, so I can report it'll
38:31
go to this post for 20 years. They have gold, silver, bronze,
38:39
and regular life memberships. It's still when I meet somebody
38:48
in a grocery store or anywhere else and they're wearing, you
38:52
know, disabled veteran hat, Army, Navy, Desert Storm,
38:59
Vietnam, Desert Shield, and I see somebody wearing that hat
39:03
and I have to talk to them. Thank you for the service and
39:06
everything. Ask them if they're a member of
39:08
the veteran organization. They tell me no, I don't have
39:11
the time. Well, would you like the
39:14
benefits you get? They're like, what do you mean?
39:17
You know these ventures groups fight your benefits?
39:22
What for the ventures groups? You guys being SOF?
39:27
Shucks out of luck, in case you guys are wondering what that
39:29
means. It VFW was originally founded in
39:36
1899 start 125th anniversary. So we were founded basically
39:46
from the members of the Spanish American War and moved on from
39:51
there. So we have a lot of a lot of
39:57
history. We had a member of our post back
40:01
in the 1960s or 70s. I can't say for sure who was the
40:05
commander for the State of North Carolina and State of North
40:10
Carolina. He had a national commander,
40:17
Billy Ray. He got dressed his soul.
40:23
He was the first Vietnam veteran commander for the Veteran of
40:26
Foreign Wars, so he really did a lot.
40:34
So, so the VFW is not just organizations, it does community
40:38
organizations, it does community, benefiting the
40:41
community, giving back to the community.
40:43
What what is one of the greatest I I guess attributes as a
40:48
commander? What is the one thing that
40:49
charges you and keeps you going as a commander of VFW?
40:55
Here this post built this building back in 198889.
41:06
I want to see this building continue on into the future, but
41:13
I also want to see us become irrelevant because I don't want
41:21
any more people injured in a war scenario.
41:25
I know it's going to happen. It's happened throughout the
41:28
city, but yeah, I want this building to be here, this
41:33
organization to be here. Them this place gives them a
41:38
place to go be with their peers and talk about things.
41:44
There's a lot of, you know, a lot of the veterans have PTSD or
41:49
TBI and they can come in and talk to somebody who's going
41:54
through or been through the same thing.
41:55
They're in now. You know the old 22 a day, way
42:03
too many. Yeah, yeah, it's definitely I'll
42:06
tell you one thing that I love about the VFW is it's definitely
42:09
a a speed of corps. You know, the battle buddy whole
42:12
thing is still there. It's it's definitely something
42:15
that's pretty important and and pretty, pretty amazing.
42:19
I again can't thank you for taking time out of your busy day
42:21
to come here and join me on the show.
42:23
It's it's definitely an honor to have you here, commander.
42:25
I hope to see you again and, and you know, like I said, anybody
42:28
else that ever wants to be on the show there, they've got an
42:30
open invitation here. We would love to get the word
42:32
out not only just about your post, but also veterans of
42:35
foreign war. And you know, I, I again, thank
42:38
you so much for being here. Really appreciate it.
42:40
It's wonderful having a member of this organization like you.
42:43
Appreciate that cares. So much about this fellow, but I
42:50
didn't have any of this program until I met you.
42:54
You H train or. Freight train H either, Either
42:58
or. They're both.
42:59
It depends on what day it is. H train, so yeah.
43:01
H Train, yeah. Thank you what you do and keep a
43:05
nice. To check, oh, he does do that.
43:08
There's definitely, definitely does that.
43:09
Thank you. I appreciate it, Commander.
43:12
And we look forward to, again, if you're listening to us out
43:14
there, we also have a phone number on there.
43:16
We have a QR code I'll put up there on our website.
43:18
I have a QR code you can scan if you want to get involved if
43:22
you're in the area. If you're not in the area and
43:24
you're in another state, there are national cemeteries all over
43:27
the country that you can you can volunteer to put flags out on
43:30
Memorial Day as well as the day after Memorial Day to, you know,
43:32
do the cleanup and stuff like that.
43:34
This VFW right here in North Carolina is supporting that
43:38
effort by feeding over 200 people volunteers.
43:43
It will be placing those flags on those graves.
43:44
So again, you know, it's, it's truly amazing.
43:47
This Saturday, the 24th are the placing of the flags both in
43:51
Arlington National Cemetery and as you you all can see here.
43:55
Let me put this up real quick. I forgot how to do this H train,
44:06
HH train went and took a break real quick.
44:08
But anyway, we had the flag. We had the flag up there.
44:10
I can add it again, but if, if you're in an area that has a
44:15
National Cemetery, if you're not, do me a favor, go to your
44:18
local cemetery or local Memorial Gardens and, and find a
44:23
veteran's grave. They're distinctly marked and
44:26
place a front flag on there. You know, there's a, there's an
44:28
old superstitious saying that, that a person dies twice when
44:32
they die and they're laid in the grave and then when their name
44:34
is read for the last time. I have a habit every time I go
44:38
to the, the Arlington National Cemetery to pay respects to 1st
44:41
Sergeant Rafferty and, and you know, my soldiers, Isaac Nieves
44:44
and, and stuff like that. I have a habit of always walking
44:47
by different graves and saying the names of the, of the grave
44:49
that I walk by, you know, make sure those soldiers and those
44:52
veterans are never forgotten. Do it on this Saturday, Be a
44:56
volunteer. Go out there and, and give back
44:58
to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice of, of freedom for
45:01
this country. That that's what that's what
45:03
Memorial Day is about. Again, Commander, thank you so
45:05
much. We're going to take a quick
45:06
break and then we come back from the break.
45:08
We'll talk a little bit more about other organizations as
45:11
well as what's going on Saturday, Sunday and Monday,
45:14
this Memorial Day weekend, right?
45:15
It's not just about barbecues or anything like that.
45:17
And you're going to have to forgive me.
45:18
I am really this old. I've got to put glasses on.
45:24
Let's see. Here he wrote, he wrote BRB,
45:33
I'll be right back. And he and he disappears.
45:35
I, I don't know what that's about, but we're going to take a
45:37
quick break, Commander. Thank you again.
45:39
We'll see you soon, but I don't. Mind at all?
45:56
I'll see what I got at home for VFW.
45:59
Sure. All right.
49:34
Detail attention. First call.
49:40
The service member's name is called out loud in the context
49:44
of a unit. This is meant to ensure all are
49:46
present and accounted for. Second call.
49:50
The name is called out again louder to confirm that the
49:53
service member is indeed absent. Third call.
49:57
The name is called out for a final time, followed by a
50:00
statement indicating that the service member is not present
50:03
and accounted for, signifying their death.
50:06
The final roll call serves as a symbolic gesture to respect and
50:10
remember their service. Sir, I don't.
50:19
I don't know how to tell the story.
50:22
Well, you got the joke. You telling their people what
50:25
these men did here? How much hoopers died?
50:55
Hey everyone, thank you for tuning in to MBR today as we pay
50:59
tribute to Air Force veteran Master Sergeant Charles Richard
51:02
Rory, age 75 of Arlington, TX. Charles, or Rick as he was known
51:08
by his friends, was born on February 21st, 1939 in
51:12
Bridgeton, NJ. Rick enlisted in the US Air
51:15
Force in 1956 at the age of 17 as a radar operator.
51:20
One of his first duty stations was Japan.
51:23
Some of his other assignments were Greenland, Hickam Air Force
51:26
Base, Hawaii and recruiting duty in Mount Holly, NJ.
51:30
At his duty station at Herbert Field, Florida, he trained to be
51:34
a programming technician. His last duty station was
51:38
Shepherd Air Force Base, Texas where he retired with 20 years
51:42
of service on October 31st, 1976.
51:46
He was a whiz with computers, a dog lover, a talented Pinnacle
51:50
player, a true Dallas Cowboy football fan, the Texas Rangers
51:54
baseball fan, and he loved telling jokes.
51:57
Rick passed away on January 23rd, 2015 with family by his
52:03
side. He was a loving father,
52:05
grandfather, brother and friend. He is preceded in death by his
52:09
wife Esther and his parents Charles and Annie.
52:13
Is survived by his daughters Deborah Sulio and Teresa
52:16
Caledonia and his son Michael, as well as his grandchildren
52:20
Tiffany, Jennifer, Robert, Michael, Joseph and Tony, his
52:25
sisters Catherine and Mary Ann, and extended family and friends.
52:30
We here at MBR would like to thank you, Rick Glory, for your
52:34
service and dedication to our country.
52:36
You'll leave a legacy of love and courage.
52:39
Our prayers are with your family, friends and those who
52:42
served alongside you. You are truly missed.
52:46
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In welcome are those of the speakers and do not necessarily
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the web at NB radio dot. So we're back here with Veterans
58:14
talk. Thank you so much for this
58:15
special Memorial Day. You know, I hate saying
58:21
celebration. I don't want to ever say
58:23
celebration. That's horrible.
58:25
But there's a there's another organization is doing some stuff
58:29
coming up in a talk a little bit here.
58:31
I got a couple minutes. So I just want to read it some
58:33
read something to you guys. It's something that I wrote many
58:36
years ago and I hope everybody shares it.
58:38
If you want a copy of this, please e-mail me at DJ Magic
58:44
Mike. It's just Magic Mike.
58:47
I'm sorry, don't forget the DJ part.
58:49
Just magic e-mail me at Magic Mike. e-mail Magic Mike at MB
58:54
Radio dot US. Is that correct?
58:58
I say that right? Yes, yeah, yes.
59:00
There we go. So.
59:03
Don't you have business cards? Don't you have business cards?
59:06
I. Don't know, I'm all jacked up
59:07
today. I'm just, I'm just like, anyway,
59:10
organization, the organization is called the Otter Project.
59:14
They have these little tokens here.
59:15
It's called the Otter Project for the Travis Manion Foundation
59:19
has a bracelet in there and some other stuff.
59:21
Their their motto is, is really important.
59:24
It's called if not me, then who? And just give you a little
59:26
rundown. Travis Manion was a Lieutenant
59:28
in the United States Marine Corps, was killed in Iraq.
59:31
His family did an amazing job and they they do an amazing job
59:36
with the Gold Star families. They really do.
59:38
And I've had the opportunity to be very close to this
59:41
organization, but more importantly what they do.
59:45
So the Otter project is they take these cool little tokens
59:47
right here and you can go online to their website and we have
59:50
that. I sent it to H train.
59:52
He'll post it here as a little QR code if you guys want to
59:54
volunteer as well. What they do is they put this
59:56
little token on top of a loved ones headstone, if you will, at
1:00:02
at the cemetery for the veterans and and they honor your veteran.
1:00:07
So, you know, let's say you're in Texas and you have a uncle
1:00:10
that was buried Arlington or maybe buried here in North
1:00:13
Carolina or here in Florida or wherever you're at, they'll go
1:00:16
out there and they'll go ahead and place one of these tokens on
1:00:19
the. On the grave and send you a
1:00:21
picture and let you know and then there's like I said, if
1:00:23
you're a volunteer, they got shirts and all kinds of stuff
1:00:25
and they're they're looking for volunteers and so on and so
1:00:28
forth. So I'm going to read you guys
1:00:30
something I I wanted to share with you.
1:00:31
Let's see if I can make this happen real quick without going
1:00:34
offline. So here it goes so I'm going to
1:00:38
attempt to read this with glasses.
1:00:40
I'd probably do a better job without them, but we'll, we'll
1:00:43
see. You ready for this H train?
1:00:47
Sure. I don't know really what I'm
1:00:49
doing. I'm I'm I'm.
1:00:50
I'm trying to put that one image up for you.
1:00:52
No worries. So those of you out there, so
1:00:55
again, if you want a copy of this, please let me know.
1:00:57
I'll send it to you. And I'd love to do something I
1:01:00
wrote many, many years ago, probably about 20 years ago.
1:01:03
So something that's near and dear in my heart.
1:01:06
So, and it goes like this. One day each year we recognize
1:01:09
and acknowledge the debt that we owe to the men and women who,
1:01:12
because they so cherish peace, they chose to live as warriors.
1:01:17
Could anything be more contradictory than the lives of
1:01:21
the military? The love America, y'all have to
1:01:28
excuse me for a second. I have to do something real
1:01:30
quick because this is going to drive me crazy.
1:01:32
I'm digging all over the place. One day each year we rock.
1:01:36
We acknowledge the debt that we owe to the men and women who,
1:01:39
because they so cherish peace, they chose to live as warriors.
1:01:43
Could anything be more contradictory than the lives of
1:01:46
our military? They love America, so they spend
1:01:50
long years in foreign lands far from her shores.
1:01:53
They river freedom, so they sacrifice their very own freedom
1:01:58
that we may be free. They defend our right to live as
1:02:01
individuals, yet they yield their individuality in that
1:02:04
cause. Perhaps the most paradoxical of
1:02:07
all is they value life and they so bravely ready themselves to
1:02:13
die in the sacrifice and service of our country.
1:02:16
For more than 250 years, our military has provided a bast on
1:02:21
against our enemies and that in that time our world has changed
1:02:26
and our armed forces have changed with it.
1:02:28
But the valor, dignity and courage of the men and women in
1:02:32
uniform remain the same. From Valley Forge to Desert
1:02:35
Storm, from San Juan Hill to Operation Iraqi Freedom and
1:02:38
Enduring Freedom, the fighting spirit of our American military
1:02:41
permeates the history of our actual nation.
1:02:45
The founders of the America in the United States understood
1:02:47
that the military would be the rampart from which America would
1:02:50
guard its freedom. The cost of that vision has been
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tremendous for the periods of peace our country has enjoyed
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our few. The longest time of complete
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tranquility for our armed forces was the 23 years, believe it or
1:03:04
not, between World Wars One and Wars 2.
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Since the Revolutionary War, more than 50 million men and
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women have served in the American and more than 650,000
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of those dauntless selfless warriors died in combat.
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But why did they so seemingly willing to fight and if need be,
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to die? Well, the answer to that
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question is as simple and yet it's complex as a soul of
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America itself. You see, we fight because we
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believe. We believe not that war is good,
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but it's sometimes it's necessary.
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Our military fight and die not for the glory of war, but for
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the price and the prize of freedom.
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The heart of the America is freedom for ourselves and all
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nations willing to fight for it. Yes, the price is high, but the
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freedom is a wealth that no debt could ever encumber.
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So we choose to remember the past because the payment for
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forgetfulness is dear sacrifice, service, duty, and many times
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injury and death pay by gallant, heroic men and women.
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Only a fool would elect to forget.
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So an expensive lesson. As I continue, I want you guys
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to think about this, please. But what of the warriors whose
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lifeblood has bought the liberty of our nation?
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They are all different, yet share a sameness that is deeper
1:04:28
than the uniform that we wore. We are black, we are white, we
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are man, women, Hispanic, Indian, Asian, Catholic,
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Protestant, Buddhist, Muslim, and 100 other variations and
1:04:39
combinations. But I'll tell you what's most
1:04:41
important, regardless of your race, your creed, your color,
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gender, or even who you believe in, is that we are all American.
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On April the 4th of 2023, Sergeant First Class Smith was
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engaged in a construction of a prisoner war holding area when
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his task force was violently attacked by a company sized
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enemy force. Realizing the vulnerability of
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over 100 fellow soldiers, Sergeant First Class Smith
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quickly organized a hasty defense consisting of two
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platoons of soldiers, 1 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and three
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armored personnel carriers. As the fight develops, Sergeant
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First Class Smith braved hostile enemy fire to personally engage
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the enemy with hand grenades and anti take weapons and organized
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evacuation of three wounded soldiers from an armored
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personnel carrier struck by a rocket propelled grenade and a
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60mm mortar round. Fearing the enemy would overrun
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the defense, Sergeant First Class Smith moved under
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withering enemy fire to man A50 Cal machine gun mounted on a
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damage armored personnel carrier and total disregard for his own
1:05:43
life. He maintained an exposed
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position in order to engage and attack the enemy for during this
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of action he was mortally wounded.
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His courage actions helped defeat the enemy attack and
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resulted in as many as 50 or 50 enemy soldiers killed while
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allowing the safe withdrawal of numerous wounded soldiers.
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Serving First Class Smith extraordinary heroism, heroism
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and uncommon valor keeping with the highest traditions of the
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United States Army reflect the greatest credit upon himself.
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Third Infantry Division rock in the morning and the United
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States Army let you know Sergeant First Class Smith was a
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friend of mine. He served in the in the engineer
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unit that we served in. And he was also the first man to
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be received posthumously, posthumously the Medal of Honor.
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And it's because of brave men and women like Sergeant First
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Class Smith that I am here today.
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So I want you to, I want you all to hear me and I want to leave
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this with you. These courageous men and women,
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each so different in their heritage and background, share
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the camp common bonds of the armed forces, duty and
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sacrifice. We all reach a moment in our
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lives when race, religion, creed, the color make no
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difference, who your political affiliation makes no different.
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What remains is the essence of America, the fighting spirit
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proud, the glorious people. They are warriors who paid the
1:07:09
price of freedom. As we remember these brave
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warriors and their comrades in arms, our comrade in arms, on
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this Memorial Day, we must look to the future as well as the
1:07:20
past. And in today's world, freedom,
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as you guys saw in the news, comes cloaked in uncertainty.
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America still relies on her sons and daughters to defend her, to
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defend her liberty. The cost of independence remains
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high, but we are willing to pay it.
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We do not pay it gladly, but we pay it with a deep reverence and
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thanks to those who have sacrificed their lives for
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America today. We know that in the years to
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come, more brave souls will sacrifice their lives for
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America, and we include them in our thoughts and prayers today.
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Like to thank everybody for the special edition of Veterans Talk
1:07:57
on military broadcast radio. And as I always say, lest we
1:08:01
forget, let's never forget. Memorial Day is about them.
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veteran's day is about us. I'd like to thank everybody and
1:08:09
my guest today and the Travis Manion Foundation, Cheerwine out
1:08:14
of North Carolina and the VFW Veterans of Foreign War for
1:08:18
having me. And I want everybody have a safe
1:08:20
Memorial Day. And let's remember those Isaac
1:08:24
Nieves, those Sergeant Webs, Specialist Connor, Captain Con
1:08:30
for Sergeant Rafferty. I want you to all to to take
1:08:34
time out of your busy schedules this weekend.
1:08:36
Just remember those people who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
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As always, thank you so much for joining us here.
1:08:44
H train put up the, the, the, the QR code for the Travis
1:08:48
Manion Foundation. If you guys want to get out
1:08:50
there and, and, you know, volunteer putting up the flags
1:08:56
or whatever, be it if you're in the neighborhood or if you're in
1:08:58
the area, you feel like giving back.
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I think that's one of the biggest things that America's
1:09:02
missing right now is, is just that we're just not giving back
1:09:05
as much as we should. H Train, thank you for your
1:09:08
service. Thank you for your sacrifice as
1:09:10
well. I've, I don't say that enough.
1:09:12
Thank you for everything you do, man.
1:09:14
You're, you're truly an inspiration to everybody,
1:09:16
especially to me. And thank you for MBR Military
1:09:19
broadcast radio has given me so much.
1:09:21
They have done so much for me and I, I will never ever be able
1:09:24
to repay them. All my guests and all of you
1:09:29
listening out there, Terry Red into the Weeds podcast.
1:09:33
We have so many great shows here.
1:09:35
Thank you all. I want you all to have a a very
1:09:37
safe Memorial Day weekend. I know all of you will be
1:09:40
thinking about your loved ones and your your brothers and
1:09:43
sisters in arms this this week here on Veterans Talk.
1:09:47
We'd like to thank you again for joining us.
1:09:49
And as always, military broadcast radio.
1:09:52
We're here for you, not giving our veterans a voice.
1:09:57
Boy, look at that. We're with it today, aren't we?
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H train. I love you, brother.
1:10:02
Be safe and have a safe Memorial Day, all right?
1:10:04
You too and. We'll talk at you guys next
1:10:07
week. We'll be here and I'll be
1:10:08
bringing some Clippers of me being in the DC for the Major
1:10:12
Riches Star Act, which we're pushing heavy and hard on.
1:10:14
We'll talk to you all later. Take care of yourselves and each
1:10:16
other. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you
1:10:21
for tuning in to Military Broadcast Radio.
1:10:25
As we wrap up today's show, we want to remind you that the
1:10:29
podcast of today's episode will be available right after we go
1:10:34
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1:10:36
show or want to listen again, be sure to check it out.
1:10:42
And remember, we're here to support and honor our veterans.
1:10:48
Your stories and experiences matter, and we are committed to
1:10:52
giving you a platform to share them.
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