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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: And I love what you're doing today. Obviously, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about Veterans Day, but I certainly hope you
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  Speaker 2: got to talk to some veterans. I did.
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  Speaker 3: I did get to talk to some veterans. Hold on
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  Speaker 3: a second. Let's get her up there, Crash. Let's get
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  Speaker 3: the audio.
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  Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
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  Speaker 3: Take the other one.
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  Speaker 5: Can you hear me?
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  Speaker 3: Nope. Yeah, come over here. Can you hear me?
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  Speaker 6: That's so funny because my dad's always like, step back
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  Speaker 6: from the mic.
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  Speaker 5: You're so loud.
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  Speaker 6: But you couldn't hear me because the mic's not on.
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  Speaker 6: You can't hear me.
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  Speaker 2: You went to a third mic.
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  Speaker 7: I did.
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  Speaker 6: It was one, two, third time's a charm.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: I did speak to a veteran on the street, you know,
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  Speaker 6: doing the street interviews today. But it's Veterans Day and
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  Speaker 6: the annual parade is being held to honor the 250
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  Speaker 6: years of America, obviously. And it'll commemorate 25 years since
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  Speaker 6: the september 11th attack so what's considered the nation's largest
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  Speaker 6: veterans day commemoration will march up fifth avenue from east
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  Speaker 6: 26th to 48th streets so for anyone who's not a
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  Speaker 6: veteran are they thinking about it if.
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  Speaker 1: I get the day off maybe but i don't think
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  Speaker 1: i do so no no i.
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  Speaker 7: Don't have a day off so it's i just think
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  Speaker 7: about it as a way to remember the veterans.
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  Speaker 3: I have thought about it a bit.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I was thinking the other day that Veterans Day
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  Speaker 7: is different from Memorial Day, and that Veterans Day is
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  Speaker 7: more about honoring the people that have served and have
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  Speaker 7: sacrificed in one way or another.
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  Speaker 5: So, yes. It's very important, very important to honor these folks.
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  Speaker 2: So, see veterans, we need to honor them.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so with more than 2 million Americans in uniform
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  Speaker 6: on active duty or in reserve forces today, This Veterans
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  Speaker 6: Day is being marked amid an ongoing conflict or war
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  Speaker 6: with Iran. It has me asking people if they're seeing
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  Speaker 6: younger generations care a little bit more because of the
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  Speaker 6: ongoing war. I'm not certain about that.
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  Speaker 7: All I can tell you is the Lord's in the
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  Speaker 7: middle of it, and we don't have to worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: The system in which we navigate our wars and everything,
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  Speaker 1: it's very tough to deal with that as a New Yorker,
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  Speaker 1: and just as a person in America who's like, their
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  Speaker 1: money is going to things that they don't understand or
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  Speaker 1: things that they don't necessarily support, so I think it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to support a holiday like that when so much
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  Speaker 1: is under the black tape.
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  Speaker 5: But I do think that this war that Trump has
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  Speaker 5: gotten us into has made people perhaps a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more reflective about what it means to put soldiers and
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  Speaker 5: the military.
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  Speaker 7: In harm's way.
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  Speaker 6: You think it's almost brought it closer to home for us?
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  Speaker 5: I think this Veterans Day will be somewhat different because
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  Speaker 5: of that, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Probably.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the world's a scary place right now,
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  Speaker 7: and it's definitely not easy, so I imagine what's going
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  Speaker 7: on around the world definitely emphasizes what we have here.
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  Speaker 6: Now, you'll see hundreds, if not thousands, of uniformed military
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  Speaker 6: members roaming around the city today because of the Veterans
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  Speaker 6: Day parade. That includes Navy sailor Allison, a Long Island
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  Speaker 6: native who has returned home for the first time since
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  Speaker 6: going abroad, going overseas. She's got a message for anyone
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  Speaker 6: who may not be thinking about Veterans Day.
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  Speaker 4: Your support matters more now than ever. I think you're
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  Speaker 4: seeing the younger generation become the most involved that they
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  Speaker 4: have with politics this year. And I think because of that,
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  Speaker 4: the military as well, us younger generation, we're trying to
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  Speaker 4: come in and do just as much as we can
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  Speaker 4: all the way down from the bottom. So I think
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  Speaker 4: support matters more than ever. And I think we appreciate
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  Speaker 4: everyone that does support us.
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  Speaker 6: Did you always want to do this?
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  Speaker 5: I did.
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  Speaker 4: My dad was a Marine. So the second I got
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to join the Navy and travel the world,
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  Speaker 4: I enlisted. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And there's a lot of legacy in that, right? A
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  Speaker 6: lot of service members who I've spoken to over the
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  Speaker 6: years when we do these types of interviews, it runs
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  Speaker 6: in the family. It's generational. And some people who are
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  Speaker 6: just joining as well because they're inspired to serve their country. Now,
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  Speaker 6: Allison gave me a glimpse into her life in the
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  Speaker 6: forward deployed naval forces.
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  Speaker 4: It means you don't get to come home during holidays,
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  Speaker 4: you don't get to come home during birthdays, anything like that.
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  Speaker 4: So It just means, you know, being able to put
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  Speaker 4: in the hard work and, I guess, serve your country.
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  Speaker 4: It crosses your mind every day thinking about how everyone's posting,
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  Speaker 4: especially with social media, and you don't get to be there. But,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, at the end of the day, you make
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  Speaker 4: family with the people you work with.
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  Speaker 6: And that's a lot of what I've experienced over the
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  Speaker 6: years with people who I've interviewed. I remember a couple
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  Speaker 6: months ago, I interviewed a veteran who was talking about
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  Speaker 6: who he served with and how somebody had passed away
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  Speaker 6: and he gets arrested. together wow my words with his
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  Speaker 6: buddies from the armed forces and they honor that so
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  Speaker 6: there is a lot of there's a lot of um
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  Speaker 6: separation between who people are like what people are thinking
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  Speaker 6: and who is thinking about what today but i think
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  Speaker 6: that allison's story was sort of um It was just
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  Speaker 6: a little bit of insight into what veterans sort of
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  Speaker 6: have to sacrifice, you know, if they don't make the
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  Speaker 6: ultimate sacrifice just by sacrificing overseas.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, if you see the vets out there,
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  Speaker 3: they're always out there, Veterans Day and other patriotic occasions,
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  Speaker 3: selling the red poppies. It commemorates the deaths of so
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  Speaker 3: many Americans in World War I in Flanders. All that money,
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  Speaker 3: I can assure you. goes to supporting veterans in their
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  Speaker 3: time of need. So if you see them out there today,
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  Speaker 3: buy a little red poppy, whatever the donation, because it
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  Speaker 3: really goes to a great cause.
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  Speaker 2: I love the quote that that woman said at the
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  Speaker 2: end that serves. She said, I'm making family with the
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  Speaker 2: people I serve with. And I can't imagine that camaraderie
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  Speaker 2: when you're overseas going through a shared experience and you
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  Speaker 2: know that not everybody in this country is supporting you.
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  Speaker 2: Those bonds last forever.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And so, yes, God bless you. Thank you for your service.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you to everybody who is a veteran. And
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  Speaker 2: nice job, Natalie Migliore. I'll be back tomorrow at 7.50.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about the new star, Marco Rubio, after the
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  Speaker 2: 8 o'clock news.