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Colonel Jack Jacobs | Medal of Honor Recipient | 05-22-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Charge into summer with Twoey and secure your holiday today
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  Speaker 2: Three days before Memorial Day. Colonel Jack, welcome back, my friend.
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  Speaker 3: How you feeling well?
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  Speaker 4: If you know, considering how ancient I am, I'm feeling
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  Speaker 4: pretty good. Can you be talking about Imus? Go back
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  Speaker 4: decades a decade?
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  Speaker 2: I know you want to hear something odd. I recently
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  Speaker 2: re established a relationship with Imus's wife, Deirdre, and his
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  Speaker 2: son Wyatt, has now been on the show twice over
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  Speaker 2: the last month. You want to want you wouldn't want
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  Speaker 2: to feel old Jack. Wyatt is now twenty seven years old.
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  Speaker 4: That's I mean. I was up at West Point given
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  Speaker 4: the speech at the UH at the Jewish Chapel yesterday
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  Speaker 4: day before yesterday for the you know they're gonna have
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  Speaker 4: graduation here shortly on Saturday, and they had a commencement
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  Speaker 4: UH at the at the Jewish Chapel. I every speed
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  Speaker 4: and on the wall there's a list of Jewish Medal
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  Speaker 4: of Honor recipients and included it as a guy named
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  Speaker 4: Ben Kaufman received the Medal of Honor in the First
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  Speaker 4: World War. I looked up and I remember that after
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  Speaker 4: I was decorated, I met Ben Kaufman. I knew him
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  Speaker 4: quite well, and I thought he was the oldest guy
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  Speaker 4: in the world. I was very irritated to realize that
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  Speaker 4: when I met him, he was two years under than
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  Speaker 4: I am. Now talk about that funny.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny. I did get a text here from my
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  Speaker 2: friend Ross Sullivan. He says greetings to a true hero
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  Speaker 2: from a fellow. One hundred and ninety third Infantry Brigade alum.
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  Speaker 2: Colonel Jacobs was a battalion commander when I was a
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  Speaker 2: mere platoon leader at Fort Clayton, second and first lieutenant
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  Speaker 2: at the same time my friend Ross Sullivan, who went
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  Speaker 2: on to become a big time secret service guy who
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  Speaker 2: lives in Virginia. So people love you what Jack all
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  Speaker 2: over the world, and they should and I love you
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  Speaker 2: when Monday's coming up. And I told you this a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years ago. I went to Israel two years
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  Speaker 2: ago for their Memorial Day. They call it jo Maskrone.
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  Speaker 2: And what they do in Israel, I think you know
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  Speaker 2: this already, but they flip the switch at six o'clock
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  Speaker 2: at night. They switch from yo Mazikerne Memorial Day to
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  Speaker 2: Yom Hatsmiut, which is Independence Day. So they go from
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  Speaker 2: this very solemn day to this country party. And it's great.
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  Speaker 2: But they do that, I think because they want the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for folks to really pay tribute to the brave
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  Speaker 2: IDF soldiers, men and women who have died. So on
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  Speaker 2: that day, for example, all people do is they go
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  Speaker 2: to Mount Herzel, they go to cemeteries, they sit among
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  Speaker 2: family members. There's no barbecues, there's no beard drinking. It
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  Speaker 2: is a very solemn day. I remember leaving Jack Jacobs
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  Speaker 2: and saying, I wish it was like that in America.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think people here really appreciate, right, it used to.
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  Speaker 4: Be that way. I remember when I was young it
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  Speaker 4: was that way. We had Decoration Day. We remember the
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  Speaker 4: kids who didn't come back. I'm reminded of the fact
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  Speaker 4: all the time, and I think about Memorial Day. We
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  Speaker 4: lost almost half a million Americans killed in action during
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  Speaker 4: the Second World War, and we forget about their service
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  Speaker 4: and sacrifice and those who came afterwards at are great peril.
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  Speaker 4: We should never forget that this is Memorial Day, is
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  Speaker 4: a solemn day, and we should think about the kids
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  Speaker 4: who are out there right now in harm's way making
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  Speaker 4: sure that we have a good time. We don't have
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  Speaker 4: to make any contribution to that at all. We're sitting
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  Speaker 4: and enjoying it. We can't forget them.
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  Speaker 2: So well said and true. And I do think that
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  Speaker 2: I'm going send to get caught up in their three
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  Speaker 2: day weekend in the Hamptons. And they don't even know
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  Speaker 2: why they're up on one of them, no idea, but
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  Speaker 2: they're enjoying themselves when people died to make this work
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  Speaker 2: for them. The Old Guard soldiers placed two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: sixty thousand flags in Arlington.
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  Speaker 3: Just yesterday for some of these brave souls.
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  Speaker 2: And look right now, colonel, we're in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: a war, right Iran. We did lose some service members,
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  Speaker 2: thank god, not too many, but even one is a
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  Speaker 2: terrible loss. So we've got men and women all over
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  Speaker 2: the world. Some you read about, some you don't put
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  Speaker 2: some of this Iran conflict. But to a lot of
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  Speaker 2: our kids in danger.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we've got thousands, tens of thousands of troops in
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  Speaker 4: the region to protect us at our allies, and they're
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  Speaker 4: constantly at risk, and they're in a very bad neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: The Uranias are not going to stop until they I mean,
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  Speaker 4: they've said that they're the death to America, death Israel,
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  Speaker 4: and they're going to keep doing what they're doing as
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  Speaker 4: long as they possibly can. It's going to be extremely
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  Speaker 4: difficult to dislodge those guys, and it's long overdue that
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  Speaker 4: we do something about them. They've been absolutely awful since
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  Speaker 4: nineteen seventy nine. And there may be some glimmers of hope.
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  Speaker 4: It's possible that there are people in side the Republican
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  Speaker 4: guards will change their mind about who they're going to
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  Speaker 4: support inside, but that remains to be seen. But we've
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  Speaker 4: got kids out there in who are targets all the time,
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  Speaker 4: and we got to keep them in mind, especially on
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  Speaker 4: this holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Even the bases all around those Arab countries now have
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  Speaker 2: become Iran hits them, all of them. So you're right,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those kids are in peril. You know
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  Speaker 2: one more, Jack, You and I have had this conversation
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  Speaker 2: so often. You served in Vietnam, and no group of
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  Speaker 2: soldiers who were treated more poorly when they got home
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  Speaker 2: than you guys.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 2: It's still I still see guys, on the street here
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  Speaker 2: in New York, living on the street that have signs
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  Speaker 2: that say served in Vietnam. And I always ask you
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  Speaker 2: the same question, but I'm curious again, right before Memorial Day,
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  Speaker 2: do you feel like the country now appreciates you? Guys,
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  Speaker 2: the further you are removed from that war, do you
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  Speaker 2: feel like the country of appreciate you more?
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  Speaker 3: Or not? Really and quite boggy they forgot about you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh well, it's not all about me or any individual soldier.
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  Speaker 4: It's not even about my generation or any particular generation.
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  Speaker 4: It's the whole notion that we are lucky enough to
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  Speaker 4: have our source of defense of the republic to a
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  Speaker 4: very small number of young men and women who are
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  Speaker 4: willing to do it. And as a result of that,
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  Speaker 4: because we don't have to do anything, we get very
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  Speaker 4: complacent about what it takes to seize and preserve freedom.
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  Speaker 4: And so when you are complacent, you don't care. That's why,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we were concerned about the fact that, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there's nothing wrong with having a really good time. Everybody
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  Speaker 4: likes to have a good time, but we need to
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  Speaker 4: pause and think about what the costs are. Somebody went
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  Speaker 4: to ask me one time, what do you think about
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  Speaker 4: on Memorial Day, and I said the same thing I
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  Speaker 4: think about every day, the friends of mine I left
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  Speaker 4: behind on the battlefield, with out whom I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 4: survived myself.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: Final thirty seconds, Jock, do you think this country needs
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  Speaker 2: a draft?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, you're talking to somebody who believes in universal service.
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  Speaker 4: I think if you're lucky enough to live in a
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  Speaker 4: free country, Oh, it's something in the form of service.
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  Speaker 4: We don't have the political will to do it, but
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  Speaker 4: we need to do it. It's vitally important that everybody
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  Speaker 4: make a contribution to the defense of the country. And
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  Speaker 4: you don't have to serve for two years or any
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  Speaker 4: of that stuff, but everybody, everybody needs to serve. And
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  Speaker 4: until we have the political will induced something like that,
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  Speaker 4: I think we're going to be at risk. And it's
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  Speaker 4: too dangerous a world for us to be at risk
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  Speaker 4: with only a very small number of people making a
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  Speaker 4: contribution to our freedom.
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  Speaker 2: I have a huge guest list to a lot of
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  Speaker 2: very important people. I often just don't want to think
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  Speaker 2: about it. I'm not often humbled. I am by you,
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  Speaker 2: I hope for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Jock.
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  Speaker 2: Whether again you're on with I missed on with me
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  Speaker 2: a lot over the last decade or so. I want
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  Speaker 2: to thank you for your service on behalf of all
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  Speaker 2: Americans willly. I mean this sincerely. You're a wonderful guy,
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  Speaker 2: a real war hero. Thank you for everything. We'll be
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  Speaker 2: thinking about you too, not just the people that we
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  Speaker 2: lost on Monday, but.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody that is willing to.
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  Speaker 2: Serve and possibly possibly go through that ultimate sacrifice. So,
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  Speaker 2: Colonel Jack Jacobs, we love you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, love you back, Thanks you, Thanks
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  Speaker 4: so much for having me on the program. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you. Colonel Jack Jacobs. One of the finest
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  Speaker 2: men you'll ever ever meet, and I've had the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to meet him and him coming on the show is
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  Speaker 2: a big deal.
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