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60 Years of the VFW Memorial Team · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Eight oh six.
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  Speaker 2: Here I fift about KERCD talk station. Happy Happy Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Of course it's Wednesday. Joejennena Poulton about him in the hour.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm so pleased to look up and see these
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  Speaker 2: two wonderful gentlemen in studio. They are retired chaplain aka
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  Speaker 2: Colonel Randy Fannin, and he was with the US Army
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  Speaker 2: Reserve but also spent four years in the Air Force.
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  Speaker 2: But I got some good stories about that Spain. Huh
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  Speaker 2: was Randy hah Spain? As a young man, I imagined
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  Speaker 2: that was a nice time. And he also in studio
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  Speaker 2: a dear friend of mine, one of the men I
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  Speaker 2: met during listener lunches, and this is one of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons I love listener lunch. So far, I've made so
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  Speaker 2: many great friends. And you know him if you listen
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  Speaker 2: to the Morning show regularly, I could call him Cribbage
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  Speaker 2: Mike and you would know immediately. I'm referring to Chief
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  Speaker 2: Warrant Officer Level four retired retired retired retired Michael Well
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  Speaker 2: where he is in studio as well. We'll call him
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  Speaker 2: cribage Mikes. Just Mike and Randy this morning to talk
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  Speaker 2: about and congratulations in sixty years helping out the American
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  Speaker 2: veterans in terms of their memorials when they pass away,
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  Speaker 2: the you guys do a wonderful ceremony southwest to high
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  Speaker 2: VFW Memorial Team. You've been around since for sixty years.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, the twenty fourth. There will be our sixth,
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  Speaker 3: actually our sixtieth anniversary this week.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what was the concept behind this, what was the
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  Speaker 2: how did the idea of showing up and helping out
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  Speaker 2: and performing a service at the funerals of these deceased
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  Speaker 2: military veterans? Whose idea was that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Brian, I think the idea has been around for
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  Speaker 3: quite some time because of World War Two and the
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  Speaker 3: various conflicts over the years. But in nineteen sixty six,
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  Speaker 3: four different VFW posts came together in Lebanon, Ohio to
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  Speaker 3: discuss forming a burial detail, okay, and it was decided
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  Speaker 3: that day that they would call themselves the VFW Memorial Team.
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  Speaker 3: Too easy makes sense, And actually my understanding is is
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  Speaker 3: that when the team was formed that for a person
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  Speaker 3: to be involved with this burial detail, at least fifty
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  Speaker 3: people from their post had to volunteer to be available.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, Well that didn't work.
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  Speaker 2: No, no kidding, that's a tall ass.
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  Speaker 3: That's obey.
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  Speaker 2: And when my listeners start hearing the number of requests
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  Speaker 2: that you get now every year, they're going to appreciate
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  Speaker 2: the fact that, no, you can't always have fifteen folks there.
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  Speaker 2: So was that arbitrary kind of number? Who decided, well
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be fifteen. No, No, I'm marging for twelve.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think that the person who came
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  Speaker 3: up with that is probably long gone.
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  Speaker 2: There You go, well, well, okay, fair enough, you tried
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  Speaker 2: and it didn't work, But now you are serving.
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  Speaker 1: This is a substantial group. It's the Southwest.
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  Speaker 2: I have the UfW Memorial Team, Claremont, Hamilton, Warren, Butler,
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  Speaker 2: Brown Counties in Ohio and Kenton County northern Kentucky. So
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  Speaker 2: you're drawing a lot of requests for funeral services memorial
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  Speaker 2: services from that large number, that large number of amount
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  Speaker 2: of real estate there. How many requests did you have
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  Speaker 2: last year alone?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we had two hundred and thirty seven requests last year,
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  Speaker 3: but we were able to say yes to two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and six, which was a record for us, and we
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  Speaker 3: had to decline thirty one just simply because we couldn't
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  Speaker 3: be in two places at one time.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And many days I heard you were talking about this, Randy,
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  Speaker 2: you double up, You'll do two services in one day,
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  Speaker 2: two or three, two or three, Okay, So I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: on this is almost almost a day to day occurrence.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you have a small window where you're not
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  Speaker 2: doing them, right.
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  Speaker 3: We usually we usually know a couple two or three
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  Speaker 3: days in advance, and sometimes, especially now that cremation has
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  Speaker 3: become more popular options for people, we may know a
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  Speaker 3: month in advance.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, yeah, Actually I believe that is a
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  Speaker 2: positive development, if I may call it that way. There's
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  Speaker 2: nothing great about someone passing away, but you know, a
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  Speaker 2: larger window of opportunity with cremation I think helps everybody
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  Speaker 2: deal with the you know, obviously the struggles you have
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  Speaker 2: when a loved one it passes away, but maybe getting
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  Speaker 2: others coordinated to be able to show up at the
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  Speaker 2: memorial service, getting you in line to be able to
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  Speaker 2: do it so you're not conflicted out So anyway, just
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  Speaker 2: my personal response to that, and I've gone to funerals
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  Speaker 2: though of exactly people who passed away several weeks prior
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  Speaker 2: and that never used to be the case, and.
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  Speaker 4: We've done some here recently where we did it at
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  Speaker 4: a private residence will really deceased veteran as a matter
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  Speaker 4: of getting as many people friends, family to attend the ceremony.
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  Speaker 4: And then Randy was contacted and the team provided and
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  Speaker 4: my own personal experience, my father united States Marine Corps
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  Speaker 4: World War Two veteran, and my uncle a United States
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  Speaker 4: Navy World War Two veteran. When they passed away in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twelve and twenty ten, I was not aware of
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  Speaker 4: the Southwest Ohio VFW Memorial Team. So just a year
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  Speaker 4: and a half ago, we got all my siblings and
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  Speaker 4: all my cousins together at Saint Joseph Cemetery in Price
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  Speaker 4: Hill and we held the same ceremony from my father
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  Speaker 4: and my uncle ten years after they passed, but bestowing
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  Speaker 4: the folding of the flag. Oh yeah, sounding attacked the
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  Speaker 4: rifle valley what every veteran deserves.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic. It's never too late, never too late.
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  Speaker 1: I love that now.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, with that in mind, someone says, hey, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know there was a Southwest Ohio a VFW Memorial Team.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know they performed these services out there. My
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  Speaker 2: father at World War II veteran passed away eight years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Would you do an event like that under those circumstances?
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  Speaker 2: I just clear in the air, Ran, you're looking at
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  Speaker 2: me shaking your head.
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  Speaker 3: Like absolutely you will, Oh, absolutely absolutely. It's like Mike said,
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  Speaker 3: it's never too late.
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  Speaker 1: Never too late.
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  Speaker 2: So perhaps remembrance on the anniversary of the passing or
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  Speaker 2: perhaps maybe another event. Well, that's a wonderful thing that
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  Speaker 2: you're doing. And how many people are actively involved with
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  Speaker 2: the Southwest I VFW Memorial Team regulars that will you
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  Speaker 2: can always count on at least being able to cover
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  Speaker 2: a service regularly.
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  Speaker 1: Brian.
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  Speaker 3: We currently have twenty four man on our team, and
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  Speaker 3: of those twenty four, about sixteen of those are pretty
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  Speaker 3: much available. We do have a handful that are still
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  Speaker 3: working that can help us out. Yeah, that can help
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  Speaker 3: us out when we have evening services, weekend services. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, to do it right, we have to have
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  Speaker 3: you know, eight to ten and usually we have as
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  Speaker 3: many as a dozen or so.
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  Speaker 1: That that's good and the mare.
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  Speaker 3: Some people may wonder, gee, whiz, you do two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and six services in a year. You must not have
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  Speaker 3: a life. But I'm very, very intentional about not making
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  Speaker 3: these guys feel guilty when they have to say no
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  Speaker 3: because they've got to takeing their grandkid to the zoo
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  Speaker 3: or something like that. We want people to have a life.
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  Speaker 3: But the camaraderie among these guys so strong that one
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  Speaker 3: of the unspokens is that they don't want to say
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  Speaker 3: no if they don't have to, because they don't want
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  Speaker 3: to be that guy who can't show up.
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  Speaker 2: Right, they're still serving, that is still that's just a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful thing. And you know it's an event obviously swirling
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  Speaker 2: in you know, sadness loss as we all experience when
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  Speaker 2: the loved one passes. But I can certainly appreciate the
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  Speaker 2: I want to call maybe psychological benefit that camaraderie you
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  Speaker 2: pointed out being engaged with and involved with and helping
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  Speaker 2: and giving back to someone who's passed. So that's really
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  Speaker 2: got to keep you, keep you. He can want to
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  Speaker 2: get out of bed in the morning kind of feeling well.
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  Speaker 3: I will say, Brian, what sticks in my mind is
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  Speaker 3: what one of our friends, Deegan tim Shooty from Gate
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  Speaker 3: of Heaven said at one of our recent meetings. Not
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  Speaker 3: that it's about us. We benefit by doing this, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: it gives us a sense of purpose. But what's really
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  Speaker 3: about it's our nation saying thank you to this family
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  Speaker 3: for the service that their loved one provided. Yea once
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  Speaker 3: upon a time, So it's all, you know, It's always
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  Speaker 3: about the person that we're there to honor. We may
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  Speaker 3: do this two hundred times a year, but it's two
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  Speaker 3: hundred individuals who earn the right to be the focus
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  Speaker 3: their service, to be the focus of our tension, their
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  Speaker 3: family's attention for those thirteen minutes yep, that we are
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  Speaker 3: with them that day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I can only imagine the sense of I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, maybe pride or joy at minimum a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of really your strangers to the deceitdent. You didn't know
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  Speaker 2: this person, and yet you are willing to dedicate time
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  Speaker 2: and commitment out of your day to show up and
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  Speaker 2: celebrate that person's life and give them the appropriate sent
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  Speaker 2: off they deserve. So out of nowhere a group shows
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  Speaker 2: up to remember, like my loved one, that would be
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  Speaker 2: a really an amazing thing and take the edge out
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  Speaker 2: of some of the pain.
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  Speaker 3: Providing military honors is authorized by law. Every veteran is
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  Speaker 3: authorized to have their service represented by at least two
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  Speaker 3: people to fold the flag, present sound taps. What our
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  Speaker 3: team does is that we were able to embellish that
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  Speaker 3: by offering tributes, a chaplain's prayer, we have rifle volleys,
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  Speaker 3: obviously the sounding of taps, but in addition to that, Brian,
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  Speaker 3: there's the personal touch. We make sure that as much
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  Speaker 3: as possible that we're reading the obituary of this person
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  Speaker 3: that we're going to honor. When the family shows up,
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  Speaker 3: we want to meet them, We want to give them
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  Speaker 3: a hug, We want to give them an opportunity, if
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  Speaker 3: they can do it, to tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 3: about their loved one. And I can't tell you how
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  Speaker 3: many times this we would be presenting a flag. Let's
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  Speaker 3: just say to the widow of someone who has passed
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  Speaker 3: that a widow will say he would have loved Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely wonderful reaction. Pause.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to bring these guys back. Randy, he's a chaplain.
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  Speaker 2: And of course Mike spend his time underwater six years.
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  Speaker 2: He tallied it all up. If you put it all together,
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  Speaker 2: back to back, Mike was underwater for six years, amazing
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  Speaker 2: eight sixteen. Right now, if you have krcit the talk
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  Speaker 2: stations don't know where're gonna We're gonna get talk station
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  Speaker 2: A twenty here I fifty about KRCD talk station. A
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  Speaker 2: very happy Wednesday to you, Judge Enna Pulatana coming up
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  Speaker 2: next meantime in studio, some really well respected retired veterans
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  Speaker 2: in the United States Military service, Chaplain Randy Fannin with
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  Speaker 2: US Army Reserve, preceded by four years in the Air Force.
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  Speaker 2: And my friend cribbage Mike. I just met Randy. I
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  Speaker 2: still call him my friend, but cribbage Mike and I've
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  Speaker 2: been playing cribbage at listener lunch for such a long
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  Speaker 2: time and really really have enjoyed getting to know him
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  Speaker 2: over the years and learning about what life was like
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  Speaker 2: in a submarine, and enjoyed the game of cribbage with
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  Speaker 2: him at listener lunch. And so I think in an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity time because you just mentioned he looked at the
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  Speaker 2: Snow's Lakeside Tavern website and said that looks like are
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  Speaker 2: you drove by it? Mike didn't, No, No, I look
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  Speaker 2: checked the website on the pictures. Yes, really looks like
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  Speaker 2: a great spot. I know snows is really looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to having us. That's May six, That'll be the next
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  Speaker 2: loction of lunch, and Mike says he is going to
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  Speaker 2: be there cribbage board in hand. Randy, if you free man,
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  Speaker 2: you can join us as well. Everybody's welcome and listening
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  Speaker 2: to lunch. They were talking about the Southwest Ohio VFW
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  Speaker 2: Memorial Team sixty years helping out American veterans families by
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  Speaker 2: providing this beautiful service at funerals. And you know, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: you said you weren't aware of the Southwest to have
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  Speaker 2: a Vfwmorial team when it came to your father.
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  Speaker 1: Early father and my father past. Yes, they were around,
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  Speaker 1: you just didn't know about them, Yes, sir, that's correct.
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  Speaker 1: And then they But.
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  Speaker 2: How are people I've lived in hearing about it for
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  Speaker 2: the first time here in the Morning show. Perhaps, but
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  Speaker 2: you've been around sixty years doing this. Who's referring the
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  Speaker 2: veteran families to the organization.
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  Speaker 4: Primarily it is our our friends at the different funeral
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  Speaker 4: homes that when the decedent family comes in preparing the
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  Speaker 4: service that and they find out there are veteran they
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  Speaker 4: let they offer that to the family and then the
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  Speaker 4: funeral home will contact Randy as far as scheduling, whether
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  Speaker 4: available or schedule the service.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well to the we have any funeral home employees,
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  Speaker 2: operators out there and the listening on its who weren't
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  Speaker 2: aware of the South Post to have a memorial team
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  Speaker 2: learn about them and let those military families know and
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  Speaker 2: let the VFW Memorial Team know and so they can
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  Speaker 2: show up and provide the service. So it's a growing
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  Speaker 2: demand though, is what I gather, Randy and Mike. So
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for additional help most of your folks, I
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  Speaker 2: guess you said the twenty one the team is average
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  Speaker 2: age is sixty nine years. That's why I mentioned retirement.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like I go to listener lunch, A lot
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  Speaker 2: of retire you show up with listener lunch because well
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  Speaker 2: they're retired, you know. I hear people all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Well I can't go because I gotta work. Good, you
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  Speaker 2: made the right decision. But if you've got some free
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  Speaker 2: time and you want to have this camaraderie and re
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  Speaker 2: engage and go back to serving, this is an ideal time.
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  Speaker 1: Sure it is.
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  Speaker 3: And I would want to point out that we are
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  Speaker 3: We're not the only Honor Garden town of course. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we cover mostly I would say center City in east
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  Speaker 3: and some north and some South there are other teams,
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  Speaker 3: so we would certainly encourage, Like if a person a
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  Speaker 3: veteran is a Westsider, I know that there's a team
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  Speaker 3: in Harrison. There are other teams in the area that
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  Speaker 3: I am sure would appreciate, you know, having the commitment
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  Speaker 3: of a veteran who's willing to you know, be on
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  Speaker 3: call every couple of days to go out and honor
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  Speaker 3: a brother or sister who served once upon a time.
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  Speaker 2: And get a tremendous benefit of it, because, like all charity,
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons, and it's an unspoken thing, it
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  Speaker 2: benefits the person providing the charity. It makes you feel better.
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  Speaker 2: It's a glorious thing to make yourself feel better, so
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  Speaker 2: it's not selfish to get some enjoyment out of helping
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  Speaker 2: other people.
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  Speaker 4: And usually after a service, assuming we don't have another
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  Speaker 4: service to go to, it's almost like a mini VFW
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  Speaker 4: or American Legion, because we do have American Legion members
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  Speaker 4: also a part of our team, even though our name
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  Speaker 4: of ours a VFW. It's a combination of both. But
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  Speaker 4: we'll go together to a local establishment and once again
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  Speaker 4: share those stories that we experience. But I can I know,
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  Speaker 4: I speak for myself and everybody on the team when
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  Speaker 4: you're in the midst of that ceremony. Just like I've
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  Speaker 4: told you about honor flight so many times, when I
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  Speaker 4: hear that sounding of taps and the hair does not
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  Speaker 4: stand up on your back and I it just immediately
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  Speaker 4: takes me back to my father's service.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned taps, and that's that's I react that way
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  Speaker 2: every time Soon mentions taps, because you're all, everyone who
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  Speaker 2: hears taps is connected emotionally with some point in their
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  Speaker 2: life when they heard it, like your father's funeral.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, and Randy is so gracious that usually, depending upon
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  Speaker 4: the branch of service of the deceased veteran, that he
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  Speaker 4: will have someone from that branch. And I've been so
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  Speaker 4: fortunate as the makes an easy choice for him because
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  Speaker 4: I am the only Navy member out of twenty six,
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  Speaker 4: which is odd.
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  Speaker 2: So come on, sailors, every single force is represented, with
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  Speaker 2: the exception of the Space Force.
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  Speaker 1: That's correct.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're a Space Force person out there, get
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  Speaker 2: involved with the Southwest of THEA memorial team because they
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  Speaker 2: need one of you so they can say every branch
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  Speaker 2: of the service is represented. Now comes the important part,
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  Speaker 2: how do people out there going. I want to help out,
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  Speaker 2: I want to bet, I want to donate, because you
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  Speaker 2: guys are not for profit, but you do accept donations
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  Speaker 2: for the services uh and covering team expenses which you
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  Speaker 2: do have. Let's give them the information, Randy, where do
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  Speaker 2: they go? What website do they go to? Who do
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  Speaker 2: they get in touch with?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you can go to our website, which is sw
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  Speaker 3: Ohio VFW Memorial Team dot org. That's Swohio VFW Memorialteam
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  Speaker 3: dot org.
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  Speaker 2: And I will have Joe add that to the website.
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  Speaker 2: Feel at fifty five CARC dot com. Can't remember to
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  Speaker 2: type that down, Just go a little bit later. Joe'll
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  Speaker 2: have it up and you can connect with them. Well
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  Speaker 2: on behalf of my entire listening audience, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: all the families that you performed services at the funerals
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  Speaker 2: for over the years. Thank you very much for what
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  Speaker 2: you guys are doing each and every day. What wait, wait,
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  Speaker 2: he's making curious hand jest. Say it out loud, Mink,
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  Speaker 2: it's the Morning show. He got no rules here.
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  Speaker 1: We brought gifts. You brought gifts, Yes we did.
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  Speaker 3: We have a very nice sixtieth anniversary Southwest Ohio VFW Memorial.
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  Speaker 1: Team mug with the website on it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, with the website and some of our pens here
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  Speaker 3: for you. And this is a military tradition ran whenever
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  Speaker 3: something the challenge coin. So we have our challenge.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta stand up and accept it the right way,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna call you out. Some day you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be buying me a beer. I'm gonna have a challenge
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  Speaker 2: point and you're gonna forget one. Randy, God bless you.
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  Speaker 2: I have accumulated a number of these and this, these
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  Speaker 2: things mean the world to me. Every time I look
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  Speaker 2: at one of the coins I've.
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  Speaker 4: Gotten to beat this four star am right here, buddy,
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  Speaker 4: bring it.
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  Speaker 2: Brother, bring it. My challenge coins is worth you more
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  Speaker 2: than yours. Mine's worth two beers. Thank you, fellas for
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  Speaker 2: everything that you do, for your service to our country,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: which my listening audience truly appreciates, and for this ongoing
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: work with the American veterans who've lost a loved one.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: You're gonna be there and you're gonna all feel great
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  Speaker 2: about it. Folks, get in touch with them, go to
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  Speaker 2: the website and engage guys. Thanks again, Thank you, Brian,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Thanks for your service. Eight twenty seven fifty five CARES
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