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ONELEGUPALEX MEDIA OBSERVES MEMORIAL DAY FROM COOPERSTOWN TO QUEENS 5-25-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, well inside one leg up alex Media from
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  Speaker 1: Cooperstown to Hillcrest, Queens and to New York City and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: It was a busy Memorial Day weekend and I have
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  Speaker 1: a few folks to think. But first I want to
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  Speaker 1: thank our troops. I want to think those who have
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed their lives in the two hundred and fifty year
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  Speaker 1: history of our country to make sure we were free,
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  Speaker 1: we are free.
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  Speaker 2: And to help get us here to year two fifteen America.
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  Speaker 1: The thanks firstly belongs to all those who were dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to their country.
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  Speaker 2: And drafted and also fought gallantly.
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  Speaker 1: And bravely and courageously storm the beaches of Normandy, raise the.
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  Speaker 2: Flag in Ewojima. I mean, all these moments.
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  Speaker 1: In our American history are thanks to our brave men
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  Speaker 1: and women in uniform. And this Memorial Day we remember
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  Speaker 1: all those who sacrifice their lives for us so that
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  Speaker 1: we can be here to celebrate year two fifty.
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  Speaker 2: And to those continuing to serve, thank you. As always, we.
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  Speaker 1: Should always think the troops, not just on Memorial Day
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  Speaker 1: July fourth, their veterans say, but every damn day you
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  Speaker 1: see a veteran. That's how I feel about it. Here
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  Speaker 1: one look up Alex Media. But I also wanna thank
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  Speaker 1: Craig of the National Baseball Hall of Fame for allowing
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  Speaker 1: one look up Alex Media in to the Military Classic.
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  Speaker 2: As Media and Boyle Boy.
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  Speaker 1: We got some interesting sound bites, some great sound bites
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  Speaker 1: from the likes of Shane Spencer.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, I'm here with Shane Spencer.
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  Speaker 1: You know, everybody knows them from the Yankees, but one
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  Speaker 1: all those championships.
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  Speaker 2: But how special is today? I mean, is a rank
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  Speaker 2: up there or even beyond I didn't talk.
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  Speaker 3: About I mean, besides being soaked, wet and the rain, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was tough, but yeah, but representing the military for
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  Speaker 3: my family and the other guys that are here, the
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  Speaker 3: young guys, even the other guys that have had something
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  Speaker 3: to do with the military family, it's a great thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I was honored to be here. And what's like
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  Speaker 2: coming back to Brucetown.
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  Speaker 3: To be up here, Well, I've never given invited, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm way out of that league. But to be around
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  Speaker 3: guys that I played with and this great trending with
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  Speaker 3: the Wade Bogs and Todd Hillton, Scott Rolling, it's special
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  Speaker 3: for me.
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  Speaker 2: To like know that I played with those guests. Absolutely
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  Speaker 2: shame thanks for coming. Absolutely, I see you again, David Robertson.
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  Speaker 2: I see a lot of my friends and meet some
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  Speaker 2: new friends out here. And unfortunately the weather it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: great for us, so we weren't able to get most
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  Speaker 2: of the game. But I had a great time.
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  Speaker 3: And then the military today too, You say we did
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  Speaker 3: on the military, I mean, that's that's what this game
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  Speaker 3: is all about, and went, thank you for everyone's service
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  Speaker 3: and the reason.
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  Speaker 2: That we begin be here breathing played in this game today, Well,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much. Everything good. And Josh Reddick, I'm
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  Speaker 2: here with Josh Reddick real quick, what would say like
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  Speaker 2: I'm just playing ball again?
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  Speaker 1: What was that like? For just being here and showing
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  Speaker 1: our appreciation on first to the militaries. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: this whole thing is about to celebrate two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years and fifty.
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  Speaker 3: But it's being in Cooper's town then, like I said
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  Speaker 3: it all day to day, like I get all eatings
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  Speaker 3: and kidd here, I'm a.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball fan at heart. I'm just a little kid anyway,
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  Speaker 2: at almost forty years old. It's to come here and
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  Speaker 2: just to be in this building and being in this city.
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  Speaker 2: There's just a special aura around it. But you just
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  Speaker 2: feel because you looked around and all the.
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  Speaker 1: Greatest players in this game, and then you're gonna come
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  Speaker 1: back and hang out with all the guys that you
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  Speaker 1: played against, they're played with.
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  Speaker 2: And forget that.
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  Speaker 3: It's like we said today, it's like coming back, don't
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  Speaker 3: matter if you've been away for ten years and two
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  Speaker 3: two minutes, the boys come.
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  Speaker 1: Up together and everybody picks up that all's back at them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean three world champions and that was just a
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  Speaker 1: handful of those that were in attendance on Saturday at
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  Speaker 1: the Military Classic. I mean Halliday manager, Tony LaRussa, Scott
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  Speaker 1: Rowland of the third of the Phillies, legendary third baseman,
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  Speaker 1: Raley Fingers, Fergie Jenkins, Wade Boggs, Jack Morris, Todd zeal
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  Speaker 1: And at some point I'm gonna get him on. Actually
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  Speaker 1: a member of the LS Warriors baseball team. They're an
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  Speaker 1: amputee baseball team.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. And that was Kenny.
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  Speaker 1: Who plays on the l S Baseball war You'll hear
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  Speaker 1: from him later in the week. But it was just
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  Speaker 1: amazing because when we see these guys play Clay, we
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  Speaker 1: don't think about their family lives.
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  Speaker 2: Do we as much but roll when Larus.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Helton, all of them were talking about how their
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  Speaker 1: family was in the military. Charlie Morton was on the
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  Speaker 1: mound also had family in the military. I mean, all
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  Speaker 1: these baseball guys have family military backgrounds, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: they were there to thank the troops, only because to
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  Speaker 1: thank the troops because it was personal to them.
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  Speaker 2: It was extremely personal to them.
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  Speaker 1: And the tears in some of these guys eyes when
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  Speaker 1: they talked about their father was, you know, in the military,
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  Speaker 1: but they wouldn't talk about it until many years later
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  Speaker 1: in their nineties.
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  Speaker 2: The Greatest Generation truly.
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  Speaker 1: Just kept on going as if everything was okay, and
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  Speaker 1: they were stoic about it, and that's something we should
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  Speaker 1: never forget.
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  Speaker 2: How stoic the Greatest generation.
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  Speaker 1: Was this Memorial Day as we honor year two fifty,
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  Speaker 1: the Baseball Hall of Fame honors year two fifty and
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  Speaker 1: MLB will honor year two fifty. Well. I ended the
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  Speaker 1: weekend after began the air yesterday with Lucas and murder.
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  Speaker 1: I ended the weekend right down the hill from my
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  Speaker 1: house and Hillcrest Queens, reading the inscriptions of the monument
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  Speaker 1: by Hillcrest Post as.
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  Speaker 2: Ten seventy eight the American Legion. And here's what those
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  Speaker 2: inscriptions read. On Union Turnpike.
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  Speaker 1: The inscription reads, we shall keep the faith we cherish
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  Speaker 1: to the poppy, read that grows on fields where valor
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  Speaker 1: led that it seems to signal to the skies a
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  Speaker 1: blood of heroes never times but lent them muster to
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  Speaker 1: their venue. Flower that blooms above the head.
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  Speaker 2: In Flat Christy.
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  Speaker 1: From Moyna Michael, November nineteen eight, in honor of the
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  Speaker 1: men of this community inserved in defense of our country.
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  Speaker 1: An insigra memory of those who made the supreme secrets
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  Speaker 1: that's America to fifty. May God bless all of those
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  Speaker 1: that must their lives defending our freedoms.
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  Speaker 2: And may God bless all.
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  Speaker 1: Those continued to serve this country and protect us and
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  Speaker 1: keep us free and brought those who fought and served
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years. Thank you towards your sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: It's your dedication to this country that we are here
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years later.
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  Speaker 2: May God bless American