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🎙️ In My Own Voice: A Proud American on Memorial Day · Uncensored Objection

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  SPEAKER_00: Memorial Day is Monday,
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  SPEAKER_00: and like every year,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sitting with memories I didn't ask for,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I can't let go of.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't serve in Vietnam.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was too young, but several of the young men from our neighborhood did.
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  SPEAKER_00: One story never leaves me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was about 9 or 10 years old,
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  SPEAKER_00: sitting in the kitchen when our neighbor,
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  SPEAKER_00: a widow,
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  SPEAKER_00: came to the door.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had just gotten the news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her son was killed in Vietnam.
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  SPEAKER_00: I remember my mom reaching out and wrapping her arms around this woman.
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  I remember the crying and hearing this woman tell my mother
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  that she was going to
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  SPEAKER_00: be all alone now for the rest of her life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I remember the silence between the sobs.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I didn't understand then...
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  SPEAKER_00: but I do now, is that grief becomes part of the furniture.
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  SPEAKER_00: It never leaves the room.
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  That young man died fighting for democracy,
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  for decency,
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  for something bigger than himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now,
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  SPEAKER_00: in 2025,
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  SPEAKER_00: I look at what Donald Trump and his enablers are doing to this country,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I think about that young soldier.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think about all the families just like his.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I feel sick.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sick to my stomach.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because what Trump is doing to this country isn't just politics.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's desecration.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gutting our Constitution while waving the flag like a prop.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's cutting deals for personal gain while veterans sleep in shelters.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all sound and fury and not a whisper of service.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I mentioned earlier, I didn't serve in the military.
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  But I did become a lawyer for many of the same reasons that
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  soldiers pick up arms.
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  SPEAKER_00: for the people,
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  SPEAKER_00: for the rights,
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  SPEAKER_00: to hold the bad guys accountable,
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  SPEAKER_00: and for the promise of something better.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now I find myself fighting a different kind of war,
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  SPEAKER_00: a legal,
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  SPEAKER_00: moral,
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  SPEAKER_00: and civil one,
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  SPEAKER_00: against authoritarianism,
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  SPEAKER_00: against corruption,
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  SPEAKER_00: against a president who,
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  SPEAKER_00: because of imaginary bone spurs,
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  SPEAKER_00: doesn't know the first thing about sacrifice,
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  SPEAKER_00: but never misses a tea time.
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  SPEAKER_00: After the 2024 election and Trump's executive orders began rolling in,
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  SPEAKER_00: I knew I couldn't just sit on the sidelines.
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  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't pretend it was business as usual.
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  SPEAKER_00: I raised my voice then,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I'm raising it now,
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  SPEAKER_00: because staying quiet in the face of this isn't neutrality.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's surrender.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let me say this plainly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm doing all I can to stop him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not out of rage, but out of duty.
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  SPEAKER_00: Out of a deep, unshakable belief in this country and its ideals.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if it's not enough,
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  SPEAKER_00: if the lies keep getting louder,
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  SPEAKER_00: the cruelty more casual,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Constitution more shredded,
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not go numb.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not fold.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not water down my values and principles just to keep the peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: I refuse to call what we're seeing acceptable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump doesn't speak for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He hasn't earned the right.
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  SPEAKER_00: He hasn't earned the power he clings to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not pretending otherwise for anyone's comfort.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm grieving what we're losing,
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  SPEAKER_00: our unity,
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  SPEAKER_00: our credibility,
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  SPEAKER_00: our moral compass,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I'm not frozen in that grief.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm moving,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm working,
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  I'm resisting because silence is complicity and we've already
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  had too much of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: For all of these reasons, that's why I write uncensored objection.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why I show up in court.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why I'm in your ears today.
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  SPEAKER_00: because this moment in time demands clarity, not comfort.
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  SPEAKER_00: Action, not apathy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We owe that to those who never came home.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're listening,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you've been watching all of this unfold and thinking,
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  SPEAKER_00: surely this can't be normal,
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  SPEAKER_00: you're right,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's not.
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  And no amount of shouting from Fox News or gaslighting from
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  loyal MAGA mouthpieces
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  SPEAKER_00: and Trump enablers can change that truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: The damage being done is real and
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  It's lasting and it's being signed into law one executive order
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  and bill at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's not kid ourselves.
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  Trump's idea of service doesn't even belong in the same
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  conversation as the men and
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  SPEAKER_00: women we honor this weekend.
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  While others laid down their lives,
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  he claimed bone spurs and ducked responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sacrifice?
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  SPEAKER_00: He skipped it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the spotlight?
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  SPEAKER_00: He chases it like oxygen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the price of that performance?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, we're the ones paying for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our children, our future, and our country.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today, I'm remembering that young man who died in Vietnam.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm remembering all of the soldiers that made the ultimate sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm remembering that mother's grief and I'm remembering what he died for,
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  SPEAKER_00: fighting for truth,
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  SPEAKER_00: freedom,
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  SPEAKER_00: dignity.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can't bring him back,
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  but we can make damn sure his sacrifice and the sacrifice of so
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  many others wasn't
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  SPEAKER_00: in vain.
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  SPEAKER_00: This weekend,
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  SPEAKER_00: remember the fallen and be their voice,
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  SPEAKER_00: be their courage,
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  SPEAKER_00: be their defense,
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  SPEAKER_00: because this is not the time for silence.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the time to stand up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll be here writing,
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  SPEAKER_00: speaking,
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  SPEAKER_00: fighting,
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  SPEAKER_00: and litigating until we reclaim what's been stolen from us.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are no options, only actions.