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There we go Anyways, welcome to veterans talk with yours truly,
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DJ Magic Mic and we have a great show for your day.
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One of the things that I wanted to talk about was that as we all
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both we all know rather excuse me, I'm a little under the
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weather, so you have to bear with me here.
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Excuse me, I'm on new medicine and stuff From the from the from
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the. Beautiful VA and it's just
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making me a miserable mess. But as we all know, the.
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Veterans Taking Care of Veterans Act has been shelved.
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It has been put aside and there is no, there can be no, no, no,
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no. Blaming across the board the
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Republican, the Democrat, the liberal, the right, the left,
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the sideways, whatever. Be it the American Legion did
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their due diligence. Along with everybody else and
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you know it it's it it just there was too many people
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pushing back there was one pushing back on this because of
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this reason or whatever. If you didn't watch my show last
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week, I talked about it in depth and it was actually really,
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really, really good that we were able to have a bunch of people
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really just kind of just everybody go over it and figure
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out what the heck is what the IT probably won't be voted on this
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year. I hate to say it that way, but
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there's so much in that bill that would have helped veterans
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and Gold Star families, the love lives on act along with the
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Major Richard Star act and, and everybody was so hell bent and
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focused on tinnitus and sleep apnea.
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Well, here is the truth about those two things.
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They say, well, you're taken away from future claims.
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I talked about this in the last show last week and I I won't
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beat a dead horse anymore, but. You're not taken away from
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future claims. Here's the thing, VA
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compensation disability is not a social welfare.
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It makes me so angry that these veterans who are getting out of
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today's military are so hell bent on getting 100% before they
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even get out of the out of the military.
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I'm. Going to be 100%.
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I'm 100% before I even get out of military.
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What did you do? I was a desk jockey, man.
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I've got carpal tunnel now because all the damn forms that
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I had to fill out. So the Army owes that to me.
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The Air Force owes that to me. Nobody owes you nothing.
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It is painful for me to sit here and hear that.
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Excuse me. Some good old North Carolina
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tea. I'm lying.
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This is actually Alabama tea. It's really good.
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So it's a, it's it's it's. Kind of hurtful.
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It's kind of a a redundant to sit here and say future claims
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for veterans because here's the here's the reality of it.
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That claim or those claims for tinnitus and PTSD and sleep
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apnea, etcetera, etcetera aren't going to be harder to justify.
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It's not like it once was. Here's the thing, if you look at
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the history of the VA right, the VA got.
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So much backlash and everything like that because of the wars in
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Vietnam and in Korea and in in World War 2 even and stuff like
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that. So especially for Vietnam,
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right, They didn't do enough for PTSD.
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So then they had to come up with with a plan.
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They did. And then our nation went to war.
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And it was the very the, the, the, I want to say the most
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popular war, but the, the first war that was televised, right?
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And that was Desert Storm, Desert Shield in the 19 early
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1990s. And it was the. 100 and
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something day war or whatever with Norman Schwartz called
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Storman Norman and Colin Powell, right?
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And we were heroes and everything like that.
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Well, what about our veterans are coming home?
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Man, we, we salute you. We got to take care of you.
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We can't. Have it repeat like we did in
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Vietnam. So Desert Storm Desert Shield
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was not Vietnam was even close to Vietnam.
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It was an air campaign that we. Decimated the Iraqi armed forces
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even as they retreated back to their home of Iraq, down death
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alley or death highway. We we annihilated them to never
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fight again. Pretty much.
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Right? So then we all saw that.
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And then Iraq broke out, right? 2003 boom, we're in there.
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We are liberating Iraq, so we liberate Iraq from what?
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We were liberating them from Saddam Hussein, right?
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Bad person, very bad person. We liberated it from him and we
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kind of just reinvented Vietnam again.
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You see, guerrilla warfare is what Vietnam was, and that's
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what we were dealing with in Iraq was a type of guerrilla
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warfare. You see, in World Wars 2IN Korea
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and Vietnam, you know, I'm sorry, Korea in World War 2 and
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World War One and so on, those wars were fought in uniform.
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You knew that was the enemy. This was the the good people
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over here. You knew what color uniforms
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they wore or there was a lot of different things going on.
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Not always, but majority, right? And, and in Vietnam, you didn't
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know that. You didn't know who they are,
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that everybody would look the like everybody.
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You know, one minute they're sitting there waving at you and
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the next minute they had a freaking grenade in their hand,
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right? I mean, you heard about the,
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the, the babies. They would hand the GIS with a
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grenade in there and stuff like that.
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I mean, in Vietnam was just horrible and in Iraq it was the
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same thing. You know, they're sitting there
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with their squaw with their with their, you know, their, their
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dress on or whatever be it. And they got an AK47 right
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there. And you think it's just some
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lady in a black, you know, a job covered up in her face going to,
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you know, pray or something like that.
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She pulled out an AK47 and start shooting at you.
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So it was a lot of similarities there and there was really don't
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know why we are here. If they don't want us here,
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let's leave, you know, type of thing.
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And a lot of the insurgents and stuff like that, we're coming
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from Iran and had French, French documents on them, French I DS
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or French passports. But they were coming to Iran and
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then floating in from Iran into Iraq to fight for ISIS and the
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other different, excuse me, things.
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So a little bit of history there, so.
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Now we are here and we're in Iran, right?
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We don't have boots on the ground, Iran, but we still have
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casualties, as we just found out.
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We lost the lives of our service members who just came home.
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And, you know, we all who served in combat know that that that
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the military is a. Hazardous duty.
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It is a hazardous duty regardless of whether you are a
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finance officer or whatever. We got that.
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But, and here's my butt, and I know everybody hates it because
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I hate it when people say, but here's the reality of it is that
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tinnitus and back to what I was saying, tinnitus is sleep apnea
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will be judged or rated accordingly because they have
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not been changed since the 1940s.
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I'll say that again. Look it up.
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It's all on all on the Internet. I mean, you can, you can look up
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anything, any, any government document, right?
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And I talked about that last week.
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I went into numbers and what the government says and and what the
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rules are and what the law says. The stuff and laws are made by.
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Our senators, congressman's and our government, right?
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So this isn't the Internet that makes up these laws.
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This is this is this is voted on and it has not been talked
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about. the VA has not adjusted anything and nor will they
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adjust anything immediately. It's not like, oh, we're going
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to pass this bill and tomorrow tinnitus and and sleep apnea has
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gone away. It's not saying that.
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It's just saying that it has to be looked at a little bit
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deeper. Which I'm in total agreement
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for. Just like, just like what is it
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called fibromyalgia, right? There's no way to prove it or
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disapprove. I got fibromyalgia, my leg, and
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it's killing me and I believe it.
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I believe it. I believe it.
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But could you imagine that everybody in the military comes
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out and says, I got fibromyalgia or, or everybody, everybody in
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airborne school is now got C3 and C4 vertebra cracks, right?
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I mean, it's, it's, it's hard to do that and put a blanket across
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everything. But it's also hard at the same
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time to disapprove people who are generally right looking for
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it. Let's, let's take out the VA for
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a second and let's talk about just one thing.
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I just to give you an example, in the civilian world, right,
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when you can no longer work, it's called Social Security
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disability insurance, SSDI, right?
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Social Security disability insurance or whatever it, I, I
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call it insurance, but, but that's what it is, right?
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And that's until you reach the age of 65 or older, which you
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can get your full disability, right?
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Or you're, you're, I don't say full disability, but your
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disability. So there are so many people that
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applied for Social Security and get Social Security and do not
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work and get food stamps and EBT and whatever else you want to
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call it from the federal government.
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There's so many people and then they do their little side
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hustle, whether that's selling drugs or whether that's weaving
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hair or washing cars or whatever.
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That's a little side gimmick, right?
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Because everybody knows the $1800 that you get from Social
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Security because you probably never worked a day in your life,
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right? So I know a family who has
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children and each one of their children are on SSDI, Social
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Security disability insurance, right?
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So they can never work. They have some kind of a
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disability. Now all of their kids, all six
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of their kids all have the same thing.
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They have learning disability, they have tension deficit
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disorder, they have hyperactivity, They have all the
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same things, right? I, I, I don't understand how as
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veterans, we don't look at the big picture and, and try to
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figure this out. And, and it's, do you think that
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we should stop giving Social Security across the board to
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everybody? Just a question because I'll
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tell you, we, we shouldn't, right?
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Because there are people who really need Social Security and
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then there are people who just misabuse Social Security, right?
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So you have a veteran that loses both his legs in, in Iraq,
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Afghanistan, whatever be it, he goes and he gets his disability
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from the VA and then he goes and he says, Hey, I can't work.
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I'm missing both my legs and my left arm.
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Right. A triple amputee and you expect
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him to go out and work? Absolutely not really.
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Are you really do expect him to go out and work?
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I'm just asking you expect him to go out and work because
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because I have to say, it's a hard now, right?
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So this guy can't get a job or this gal can't get a job.
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They're a triple amputee. So now they apply for Social
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Security. Now they have another hoop they
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have to jump through to get Social Security.
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And now they're making about $5000 a month with four kids.
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Wife has to work, right? Who's taking care of the kids?
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Who's taking care of him, right? I mean, this is this is what I'm
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getting at. But let's spin another little,
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little scenario, if you will. A guy does 25 years in the
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United States Marine Corps, gets out, retires as a master
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Sergeant. Or I guess you guys call it
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Master Sergeant, We call it Master Sergeant Retires from
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Marine Corps as a master Sergeant.
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And then he goes out and he applies for disability through
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the VA. He gets it.
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So now he has his VA disability, his retirement, both paychecks,
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right? So now he's making about 9 grand
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a month. We'll just say 9 grand a month,
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right? That's about right.
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So he's making 9 grand a month. He's making 4600 from the VA
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disability or $4000 from the VA disability, whatever.
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And he's making another 2003, $1000 from his retirement,
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right? So whatever it is, it's like 7
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or $8000. I know my math isn't mapping,
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but here's something that's serious if that is true.
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Why would you not allow? And to top it off, he now works
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for a government contractor make 180 grand a year.
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So he's making 300 grand a year because he retired, he claimed
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his disability and now he's got a full time job.
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So this guy who is a triple amputee who can't work, you're
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going to tell him no, You got to suck it up and just deal with
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your your VA disability. It just doesn't make sense.
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So the major richest star Act is the one thing that was in that
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bill, along with the Live Lives On Act with a bunch of other
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great. Great, great bills, right?
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It was, it wasn't just one bill. It wasn't everybody focused on
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the tinnitus and the sleep apnea being taken away.
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And it's not being taken away. It's being relooked at,
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revisited, making it a little bit harder.
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And, and there's so many rumors out there and they put the, they
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put, not only did they put veterans against veterans, but
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they also put veteran organizations against veteran
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organizations. If you saw that the VFW was like
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oh. No, that doesn't get rid of this
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thing. And then the the American Legion
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was like, oh, listen, I've talked to 162 people from the
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American Legion. Every single one of them are not
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the most of them fair. Most of them are life members,
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but they're not going to go or participate in anything with the
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VFW. Listen, the VFW is a thing of
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the past. I'm telling you right now, if
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anybody from the VFW is looking at me right now, if you don't
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get your shit together, VFW will be a thing of pass because
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you're not really doing anything for the communities.
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Look at the American Legion. American Legion does things for
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the community with the Boy Scouts of America with, with,
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you know, community events and stuff like that.
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They're out there in the parades and stuff like that.
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I literally went to a function as a commander of a VFW.
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Went to a function where they literally sat there.
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And said. We would like to thank our
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American Legion for all that they do here, for the veterans
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and man, everybody looked at me like, man, they're not going to
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give you guys any kudos. I was a new commander, so I
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didn't know what was what, but it's so true.
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It is. It's so true because of the fact
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that the American Legion is always out there, always doing
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things. So I.
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Mean these guys. I mean, they, they, they didn't
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say anything bad about the, the law.
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They said, look, there's things that could be changed, but we
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think that it's a good start to it, right?
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We always come back and revisit it, but it's a good start to it.
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And this whole thing about, oh, you're taking away from future
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veteran disability. No, you're not.
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How, how, how are you taking away from future disability?
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Explain it to me. I've talked to three doctors and
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they all looked at me and shook their head and said, there's
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there's nothing that sleep apnea, tinnitus will continue to
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be. Something is just going to be
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harder to claim and which I think is right because remember
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sleep apnea and tinnitus, right? Tinnitus, nobody can hear me
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ringing in my ears, only I can. So everybody in the military is
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going to get sleep apnea and tinnitus.
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Sleep apnea alone is 50% and tinnitus is 10% each year to
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start with, maybe 30. So every single veteran getting
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out of the military is going to be 100%.
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So you're saying that even if you do four years in the
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military as a paper pusher, never leave the United States,
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you go out, shoot your weapon once a year to qualify, You
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think that person should get a disability benefit because they
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serve in the military? Me as an Iraqi veteran, I do not
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think that that that's right. That's just me, my personal
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thing. OK, so again, I know I'm beating
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this dead horse and everything like that.
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But if you're just joining us, the take care of of of a
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veterans act. The the taking care of veterans
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Act was shelved. It was put on the back murder,
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right? It was shelf put all the way
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back in the back. It probably will not be looked
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at again this year. They don't return from their
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Congress, doesn't return from their hiatus, if you will, until
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September. So the the chances of that being
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looked at this year and the major richest star act has been
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going on for years. The Love Lives On Act has been
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going on for years and stuff. That's something else I don't
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understand. You're telling a woman who just
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lost her husband to to get over it.
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Move on. But she can't because you were
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telling her she can never get remarried because she does, she
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loses her benefits. That's that's not fair either.
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So I mean, there's a lot of good stuff that was in there.
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I think it's very selfish of the VFW and every other veteran
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organization, excuse me, every other veteran organization, I
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think is very selfish of them that they sat there and they
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fought this bill over those two little issues.
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There's some really good stuff in here, but we're going to
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fight over these two issues. Why?
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Because your numbers are dwindling and you rely on those
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veterans that are coming home now to fulfill those numbers.
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Look at the statistics, man. Seriously, think about it.
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Leadership is everything. And I think the leadership right
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now that we have in some of these organizations like the
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DAVVFW and so on and so forth is lacking, is totally lacking.
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And, and I think that it would be behoove them to do an inner
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look and sit with themselves in a dark room for a little bit and
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think about this. But they won't, they won't.
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So with that being said, I have some really good news.
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So on another note. I got a phone call a couple
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couple weeks ago, or I think it was maybe a month ago or
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something like that from a friend of mine, a very dear
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friend of mine and we are trying to get him his Purple Heart.
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So the Army kind of pushed back on us with the Purple Heart
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thing and we got all the documents together.
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I printed them off. It was like $47 worth of
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documents I put together. I put together this beautiful
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thing using ChatGPT and put a letterhead on their professional
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and everything like that and sent it up to the Pentagon and
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put on there Mr. Secretary of War Pete Headset, right?
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Because that's what they're officially called now, Secretary
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of War. And I got a phone call and they
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are reviewing it and I got a little e-mail today and it was
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kind of unique. And the e-mail said something
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like this. I won't read it because of
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personal reasons, because I don't want to disclose who
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we're, you know, who this individual is because it's
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something that's. Near and dear to them, but it
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goes something like this, it says upon further.
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Review of the documentations we have.
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We have forward this to our Inspector General's office here
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at the Department of War. So that's moving in the right
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direction. So the Department of War took
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this packet because they denied us at the at the lower level of
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the army. I'll say the lower level but but
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it was some goon who never probably saw day in combat
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looked like. I can deny this, Yeah, I was
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trying to say, hey Sir, I need your signature.
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OK, here's my signature. Yeah.
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Yeah. Purple Heart.
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Yeah. Denied.
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OK, here you go. What?
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What's the reading for denial? OK, sounds good to me.
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Yeah, yeah. No, without looking at the
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evidence, without. And we, we, we, we researched
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this thing. I put it in Chat GPTI, put it in
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another AI program. I went and did the research on
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law and what the law says. And these, the Army's got it
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wrong. So thank God that Secretary Wars
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has referred it to the Inspector General's office at the
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Department Level 2. Investigate it and we can
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finally move on and get him his Purple Heart because there's no
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reason for him not to have it, right?
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The excuse they're given for his Purple Heart is absolutely
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bullshit. And you guys know I hate the
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curse on my show, but it is bullshit.
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So hopefully crossing my fingers this year before everything is
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said and done, I will hope to be in DC and witness this young man
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get his Purvar because that's where I want it pinned.
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I want the Secretary of War to pin his freaking Purple Heart on
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him. That's what I'm hoping for.
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And I will advocate for this little knucklehead until I the
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day I die. And there's other NC OS out
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there as well. They're trying to do the same
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thing. So we got your back and we love
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you. Hey, listen, it's 20 after the
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hour. You're listening to veterans
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talk on yours truly. Military broadcast radio had a
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control alt delete minute. We're going to take a quick
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break and right after the break we'll discuss some other things
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in the news. And you're back with veterans.
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Talk with yours truly, DJ Magic Mike and on the radio station
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that gives all of our vendors a voice.
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And that is military. Broadcast radio, going to my
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little comments here, Into the Weeds podcast jumped on here.
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Thank you so much for being here.
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By the way, if you're not watching Into the Weeds or Trace
23:57
Arounds or man, there's so many good shows out there now.
24:01
I watched one the other day that we have a military broadcast
24:03
radio. It's called Stogies and it is
24:05
phenomenal. So I know most of you are asking
24:08
me, so how's she doing? So I got a comment here, so I'll
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bring her up here. Come.
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Here, come here, come here, come here.
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Up, up, up, up here. Up now.
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She ain't doing up today. She's not doing up today, but
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she's doing good. She's getting old.
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She's getting Gray just like I am in my beard.
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So she's getting a little Gray and she's a little stiff in her
24:31
hips. But we got some joint medicine
24:32
medicine for her and she's doing good.
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Eva's doing great. So those of you who are asking.
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Out there. See if she come up.
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Come here. Up, up, up.
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There we go. There's Eva.
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There's my Eva Beva. Let's say hi.
24:44
Good girl. OK, there she goes.
24:47
She said hi. All right.
24:49
Good girl. So Eva is doing great for those
24:54
of you who are. Asking and we have a new
24:56
addition his name is Teddy and we'll we'll try to get him on
24:59
the show 1 day but he's a cutie patootie too.
25:03
So 1 white, 1 black, right? So Ebony and Ivory is what we
25:06
call them. But back to what we were talking
25:10
about in the show. I got a little bit of ADDADHD
25:12
with the medicine that I'm taking.
25:13
So I want to talk about something that's really serious
25:17
real quick for a second and that is sunscreen right?
25:22
So I am originally from Miami, FL.
25:25
Those of you know I am born and raised in Miami, lived there my
25:29
whole entire life. I have pictures of me in a crib
25:34
wear nothing but a T-shirt and a diaper with no sunblock on.
25:37
Blonde hair, baby blue eyed, just on the beach in Miami.
25:41
And so somebody had told me I needed to get something looked
25:45
at. I went and had it got looked at.
25:48
It was almost too late. How Too late?
25:50
OK, well I'll tell you if you see a brown spot anywhere on
25:55
your body and it just pops up and appears.
25:58
And I know with old age we get some.
25:59
Brown spots and stuff like that, but I had a little brown spot up
26:02
here on my head and. It was just a large little dark
26:06
brown spot. Looked like a little sunspot,
26:07
right? I didn't think nothing of it.
26:09
Somebody told me to go get it looked at.
26:10
And I never did. I just kind of like blew it off
26:12
or whatever. And then next, you know, I was
26:14
washing my hair one day and I felt a bump there and I'm like,
26:17
what the heck is this? So I went and had it looked at
26:19
and it was cancerous, A cancerous cell growing on my
26:23
head because of some cancer or skin cancer.
26:25
Sorry. So we all know the skin cancer
26:28
comes from the sun in the UVS and all that stuff.
26:30
And I was, I was hitting the tanning bed quite often, quite a
26:33
bit and stuff. And you know, we can't, we can't
26:36
blame that. We, you know, we can't blame any
26:38
of that. So even on a cloudy day like
26:40
today, make sure that you put sunscreen on.
26:43
Use your sunscreen. That is really.
26:45
Important So I have another appointment on July the 25th
26:50
with a dermatologist and they're going to go over my whole entire
26:55
body so. And then every three months
26:58
thereafter, I will have to continue to come back and stuff.
27:00
So it's very serious. Listen, you know, people think
27:03
of skin cancer is just like a little thing and they cut it out
27:05
and that's it. And.
27:06
It's over and done with, but it's not.
27:07
I've, I, I know quite a few famous people.
27:10
My old Colonel or my old major, I should say, had it.
27:15
And he, he had it very early on. He told me before he even told
27:18
his wife that it was cancerous. It was just a little tiny brown
27:21
spot on his nose he had cut out. It was like, holy crap.
27:24
And you know, he, he was, he was a great leader man, but I
27:27
remember him man, he, he, he would dip himself in a
27:30
sunscreen, bathing sunscreen and it was crazy.
27:33
So make sure you take care of each other.
27:35
Make sure you go and get your, your, your check UPS as you
27:40
should. Anyway, so, and that was that.
27:44
And one more thing I wanted to talk about because it was very
27:47
important is all the different shows that we have on MBR.
27:51
I talked and touch base a little bit about that and I just got a
27:53
comment. And again, my show is pretty
27:55
much me talking. I know I got that.
27:58
I know people want to see people coming on my show and have
28:00
guests on my show and everything like that.
28:02
And that's great. I personally would love to have
28:05
a Co host. I had a couple Co hosts, I had
28:07
some great Co hosts and I had some Co hosts that were like
28:11
crazy and we put them back out out there.
28:16
Crazy, crazy people, crazy people out there.
28:19
But yeah, we had to put put them back out in the street.
28:22
But if you're if you're looking for, you know, a starting
28:26
podcast and you want to sit here and and be a host of my show,
28:29
please feel free. I I'd love to have you.
28:30
And it goes for any of my colleagues on military broadcast
28:33
radio. It's not that I'm difficult.
28:36
It's not that I don't have content.
28:39
It's that due to my health and my schedule, I have to
28:43
constantly go to the VA and go to the VA and go to the VA.
28:45
As you guys can hear, the medicine that I'm taking right
28:48
now makes me very raspy and constantly having to clear my
28:53
throat, which doesn't help at all.
28:54
It helps none. 0 zilch. So and you know, one day I won't
29:01
be here and one day I'll need to have a legacy so somebody else
29:04
can be better in stock. Just can't use the name Magic
29:07
Mike. You have to think of another
29:08
name. So I know my producer hates when
29:11
my head is cut off, like when I get too close to the camera and
29:14
stuff. So I'll back up a little bit and
29:17
we'll try this a little bit better.
29:19
Originally I came on the show today to talk about the Veterans
29:22
taking care of Veterans Act and the Major Richard Star Act,
29:24
right? So I see a lot of posts online
29:28
on Facebook especially and Instagram and stuff and it says
29:31
pet past the Major Richard Star Act as a stand alone Bill.
29:34
That's a no brainer. That's a that's a, that's really
29:37
a no brainer to have that as a stand alone bill.
29:40
However, the Taking Care of Veterans Act had that in it
29:43
along with other great bills like why, why do we need a bill
29:47
for this and a bill for that and a bill for this and a bill for
29:50
that? Why not just have one bill that
29:52
has all of that in it? And that's what they did.
29:54
And it had had a lot of good Co sponsors in it and everything
29:56
like that. The only reason it was shot down
29:58
was because it started putting veterans against veterans.
30:02
And everybody was like, hey, so now I see a lot on Facebook and
30:05
stuff of people talking about, you know, hey, we're all
30:07
veterans, you know, at what point do we start going against
30:11
each other and stuff, you know, and.
30:12
And here's the thing, that's reality.
30:13
Everybody knows that. On my show, I talk about this a
30:16
lot. But politics were never meant
30:19
for the military. We never cared about.
30:21
It you know, the only thing I cared about was whether or not
30:26
you had my back and I had yours. That's all that I cared about.
30:29
That's I didn't care if you were gay, I didn't care if you're
30:31
straight, I didn't care what you did behind your closed doors.
30:33
I didn't care how many kids you had who you're married to.
30:36
When I joined the Army, I was told that we were all the same
30:40
color green, period, end of story green.
30:45
So for me to hear that a veteran went.
30:51
On and This is why I'm saying that because somebody just
30:53
emailed me and and I looked at it.
30:56
It asked me what I thought about this Air Force major that sat
30:59
there in uniform on the steps of the Capitol building and was
31:02
screaming down with this and down with that.
31:05
I think he should be punished under the Uniform Code of
31:08
Military Justice to the maximum extent of the UCMJ.
31:12
And This is why has nothing to do with freedom of speech, has
31:15
nothing to do with that. Matter of fact, the UCMJ says
31:18
you have freedom of speech. You can talk all you want, smack
31:21
all you want, it doesn't matter. Talk all you want, but don't do
31:24
it while you're in uniform. That's all.
31:26
Just don't do it while you're in uniform.
31:28
This guy was literally in his uniform.
31:32
So that says, hey, I'm representing the Air Force, and
31:34
that's not what you're representing.
31:35
You're representing yourself. We can go to protest.
31:38
Absolutely, unless it's forbidden by your command.
31:42
So remember, your command can make up the rules, right?
31:44
So there's and and and. Don't tell me.
31:46
Oh, that's horrible. No, it's not horrible.
31:48
It's actually. The same way in civilian life.
31:51
And what do you mean? Well, you have a city, you have
31:54
a county, and you have a state and you have a federal, right?
31:57
Sometimes. There's inbetweens of that.
31:59
So the federal government sets the standard, says this is the
32:03
way it is, this is the law. The state can then add to that
32:06
and says, yeah, and we want to add this.
32:09
They can't take away. And the city and the county can
32:11
do the same thing. They can add to but they can't
32:13
take away. So the commander can do the same
32:17
thing. The commander consider you, you
32:19
can get a letter from the doctor that says your plum crazy should
32:22
be kicked out of the military. And the commander goes, Nah, I'm
32:24
going to, I'm going to keep him. He is not responsible for you
32:29
and he has to answer for any crazy shit that you may do 9
32:33
times out of 10. They don't go against those
32:35
recommendations Every once in a while, like, I don't know, maybe
32:38
I was an option joking, bad joke, but they literally do not
32:43
go against the doctors. But they, they can, they
32:47
absolutely can. How many times were you in the
32:49
military that you've seen one of your buddies or one of your,
32:51
your partners in crime or whatever try to get a, a 24 hour
32:56
quarters right because they weren't feeling good or because
32:58
they drank too much the night before. 24 hour quarters and the
33:00
Sergeant goes as I've done it before when I was in NCOI, had a
33:05
soldier that I knew always try to get out of the field, always
33:08
try to get out of the field, Didn't want to go to the field
33:10
for no reason at all. He sat there, he said he had the
33:13
flu, wasn't feeling good, it's OK, no problem.
33:15
We took him in. He got seen by the doctor.
33:17
Doctor says 24 hour quarters, right, Because the doctor
33:19
doesn't care because it doesn't affect his M toe, it doesn't
33:21
affect his readiness, it doesn't affect anything.
33:23
So doctors like 24 hour quarters, that should help you
33:25
out. So I went up to his room and I,
33:29
I hear his music playing, like he's blaring his music and stuff
33:32
like that, right? Not laying in bed.
33:34
He blared his music. He's in civilian clothes, shorts
33:38
in his room blaring music. And I said, what are you doing?
33:41
He goes, oh, I got 24 hour quarters to hand me a slip.
33:43
I said, OK, good. Get in your military uniform.
33:46
Get in your uniform. We're going to the field.
33:49
Oh, but Sergeant, I got, I got, I've got, I've got, I've got
33:51
quarters 24 hours ago, Correct. And your quarters are out there
33:54
in the field. So you're going to be in bed out
33:57
there in the field being watched.
33:58
And we're going to watch you. We're going to make sure you're
34:00
taking care of, we're going to give you fluids, can give you 3
34:02
hots and a cot and you're going to be OK.
34:04
Oh, the look on his face. Oh, I want to go to IG.
34:07
Went to IG, filed in the complaint with inspector
34:09
general's office. You know, the inspector
34:10
general's son. He's absolutely right.
34:12
Your quarters are out there in the field.
34:15
This is this is something that soldier wound up getting kicked
34:17
out of the military for other things.
34:19
But that's that's that's I mean, those are those are the things
34:22
right And the reason I know I kind of went on tangent there,
34:25
but what do I think about people in uniform protest?
34:28
And I think it should be illegal just like it is in the year from
34:30
code of military justice. The uniform code of military
34:32
justice Article 134, which is kind of a catch all.
34:35
Article 134 says disobey A lawful order.
34:38
If you were given a lawful order by the president, by the lowest
34:42
ranking Sergeant, that's still in order when you took a oath, I
34:47
will obey the orders of those appointed over me and the
34:52
president, United States commander in chief.
34:55
I will obey the orders. You're disobeying an order.
34:57
The order says clearly that you will not protest while in
35:00
uniform. You're protesting.
35:03
You're protesting against something that you don't like.
35:06
Listen, I went to Iraq. I didn't like Iraq.
35:09
I had a soldier ask me, do you think this war is, is, is, is
35:12
correct? Do you think we're here for a
35:13
reason? You think that we should be
35:14
here? My opinion doesn't matter at
35:17
that point. It doesn't.
35:20
And I'll tell you what my answer was.
35:21
My answer was simple. We took a oath to protect the
35:24
Constitution of the United States.
35:26
In that Constitution, it gives our families, neighbors, friends
35:32
and people we don't even know the right to vote as a merit as
35:37
Americans. It gives you the right to vote,
35:38
to vote for who you think will be the best suited for the job
35:43
as president of the United States and commander in chief of
35:44
the armed forces. So it's not up to me whether I
35:48
like the president or not. It's up to me to follow his
35:50
orders. And I'm protecting the
35:51
Constitution that allows my family and friends to put him in
35:55
office. All this hogwash, Abbott.
35:58
The elections are rigged and everything like that.
36:00
Whatever, whatever your belief is, it doesn't matter.
36:02
He's still a commander in chief. If I was in the Army while under
36:04
Joe Biden, you wouldn't see me going on that old geezer, that
36:07
son of a gun. He's sleeping.
36:08
Look at him checking his watch as the bodies are coming off the
36:11
plane. No, he's the commander in chief.
36:14
Those little comments and stuff you're not entitled to anymore.
36:19
That is your boss. And for you civilians that like
36:23
to watch my show and don't understand this or somebody who
36:25
was in the military for a hot minute and doesn't understand
36:27
what I'm getting at. Wherever you work today,
36:30
McDonald's, Burger King, police officer, firefighter, nurse,
36:34
doctor, lawyer, I don't care if you're IT technician, go to your
36:38
boss and tell your boss you don't like something.
36:41
See how far that gets you. I'll get you as far as the
36:44
unemployment line or maybe not a raise next time.
36:47
So there's consequences. Sure, Certainly you could talk,
36:51
talk about them, talk to their face, disapprove your your like
36:55
of something they do. Absolutely.
36:57
Let's see how far that gets you. It's part of life.
37:03
So no, I think he should be held responsible for what he did.
37:06
I think he should be. His I, I think as an officer, I
37:10
think his status as an officer, I think his enlistment as an
37:14
officer should be revoked immediately.
37:16
I think he should be an E. 4 or E5 when they strip him from his
37:22
officer rank and I think he should be other than honorable
37:25
discharge out of the minute, not a bad conduct discharge.
37:27
BCD is reserved for somebody that murders somebody, does
37:30
something hideous like you know, rape or whatever craziness like
37:32
that. I think he should get it other
37:34
than honorable discharge though and I think he should be
37:36
chaptered out of the military ASAP. 100% Let him get paid his
37:40
little thing. Let him have his glory ASAP.
37:43
Gone. See you later.
37:45
Bye, period, end of story. I don't think he should be in
37:49
the military because you can't follow the simple orders and you
37:53
feel that harsh about what's going on, then your priorities
37:58
and your oath that you took means absolutely nothing to you.
38:00
And that's the problem that we have with today's military.
38:04
When you raise your right hand and you say, I do solemnly swear
38:07
to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United
38:09
States against all enemies, foreign domestic, bear true
38:12
faith and allegiance to the same and follow the orders of those
38:16
appointed above me and the President of the United States
38:20
and commander in chief. When you take that oath today,
38:23
it's just them reciting a point. It's just them saying words.
38:26
It's just like today when somebody says.
38:28
I love you. Hello, I love you too.
38:31
They're just words. The moral, the morals behind the
38:36
taking of the oath have gone awry.
38:38
They're they're, they're gone. That's I think the.
38:41
Biggest problem that we have with our military today, I think
38:45
when they they raised the right hand and like, yeah, I do.
38:47
Solemnly swear and uphold the federal Constitution.
38:49
Yeah. Yeah, I do.
38:50
I do. I do.
38:51
Yeah. Alright.
38:51
Congratulations. Yeah.
38:52
I can't wait to get to E5. Can't wait to get to E6.
38:54
Can't wait to be a 07. Can't wait.
38:56
That's what the problem is. And I think that that is in
39:01
itself a issue with us as human race and morally.
39:07
I will share something with you to have me today.
39:08
I thought it was really awesome. So as most of you know, I'm in a
39:11
big military community where I live at.
39:13
And I saw a van and I was walking Eva this morning and I
39:17
saw a German officer. Actually he was a Sergeant in
39:21
the military. He had his, you know, German
39:23
Bundeswear U1. It was really cool.
39:26
It was really cool. And I said, I said good morning,
39:29
which means you don't hey, good morning.
39:31
And those of you don't know, I speak fluent German.
39:33
And I said. He said oh, good morning.
39:35
And I said he was smoking a cigarette and I said where are
39:37
you from? And he said, oh, from Hanover,
39:39
you know, had a real heavy or proper, I should say German
39:42
accent. And I said, oh, cool.
39:44
I said, I spent a lot of time nine years in Germany in in
39:47
Bamberg. He goes, Oh, and I says, I was
39:49
the the translator for our unit that had the partnership with
39:52
English dot The Pioneers, which is the engineers.
39:55
And he said. Oh yeah, English dot yeah, yeah,
39:57
yeah. Well, as I'm walking, he
39:59
standing by a van, a little minivan.
40:00
There was a bunch of officers that are one of them was like a
40:02
Lieutenant Colonel, I think, and in a major and stuff.
40:04
They were all they had patches, colorful patches and stuff.
40:07
I had the one guy had a flight suit so I I assumed that they're
40:10
pilots and. I was laughing with him and
40:13
joking with him and stuff and I said, well, this is what a old,
40:16
old soldier. Looks like, and he said, well,
40:18
he says 30 years old is now the old soldiers.
40:20
He says it's, it's a young man's game.
40:22
And we laughed and, and we were talking to him for a little bit
40:24
couple seconds before they had to leave.
40:26
And I said, I got to share a story with you when I was in
40:28
Kosovo. I was handpicked by our, our
40:31
then acting general, Colonel Hoffpower, who said, can you,
40:36
can you go to the front gate? We have the four-star general
40:39
from Germany coming down. He's in charge of the NATO
40:40
troops and all this other stuff in Kosovo.
40:43
And I, I, I want you to be able to translate and greet him,
40:45
right. So, OK, so man, I have my
40:47
uniform with sharp looking up standing there at the gate and
40:49
everything. Here comes his entourage with a
40:50
bulletproof Mercedes and all that stuff.
40:52
And. I stood there, I saluted and he
40:54
rolled out his window and I said mine here.
40:57
He looked at me, smiled at me. He said in plain English.
41:01
He said the only thing missing from right now you say that is a
41:04
stiff arm salute. And I felt like an idiot because
41:09
my hair is from the old like marsh days, right?
41:13
Like when they say you know my hair, right, Sir, dear, Sir,
41:18
dear Sir, right. And today they say hair, which
41:23
is Sir and then they're rank Sir.
41:25
So it'd be sound like hair. Get it out right.
41:28
But his English was probably better than mine.
41:30
And he said the only thing missing from you is a stiff arm
41:32
salute. And he laughed.
41:33
And he drove through the gate, and I felt like, holy crap,
41:35
these guys laughed so hard. They laughed.
41:37
They said, yeah, it's OK, They said when we're with Americans
41:41
and we have to talk English. We have the same issues.
41:44
Sometimes we say improper things.
41:47
So I thought it was funny, it was cool.
41:48
But I share that story with you to remind you that something
41:54
else that I saw on TikTok that was really cool.
41:56
And actually it was on Instagram and it was a bunch of army
42:02
officers that were training with NATO and it was everything from
42:05
Lithuania to Poland to Czech Republic.
42:10
It was just, it was crazy. All these, all these officers
42:13
and it was like they're. Best friends they're best
42:15
friends coming up shaking each other's hands give each other
42:17
big hugs and taps you know DAP as we call it back in the day
42:20
and it was really cool it was really cool to see that because
42:23
it makes me realize that even though.
42:27
They are soldiers from different countries at one time that used
42:30
to be at war with each other that they have so much
42:34
similarities, right? These are the the decision
42:39
makers when it comes to soldiers in in war and stuff like that,
42:43
right? These are decision makers.
42:45
And it was so neat to see them hugging and and laughing and
42:48
joking and talking and explaining things to him and,
42:50
and I thought it was really cool.
42:51
And that goes a long way. And it also reminded me today,
42:54
talk with these German soldiers that.
42:57
The. The whole Esprit de cores isn't
43:04
just in the middle American military.
43:06
It goes across borders. I thought that was really,
43:08
really cool. So we're going to take a real
43:09
quick break. I'm going to get a little drink
43:11
and then we'll come back and we'll wrap some stuff up and
43:14
we'll talk about our next long, long journey, if you will.
43:19
It's going to be pretty cool. But yeah, we, we'll, we'll.
46:29
Dogs is that is that not a badass song?
46:30
Listen, it's Matt Oakley and it's called you can't take the
46:34
dogs. That's pretty good song.
46:37
I like that you can take the six string, you can take the
46:39
whiskey, but you can't take the dogs ain't meant to that.
46:41
Hey, listen, we're back with Veterans song on military
46:44
broadcast radio and I know I'm a little bit under the weather and
46:48
somebody just text me and said, hey, what's going on with you?
46:50
Don't sound the same for most of you.
46:52
Know that I am going through a lot of treatment and stuff
46:54
through the VA. And trying to get myself back
46:56
together I guess, if you will. And it's difficult, it is
46:58
difficult. I have my good days and my bad
47:00
days. But nonetheless, it's, it's been
47:04
a journey, the last I would say God.
47:15
Five months, 10 months have been probably the most trying, most
47:20
testing, most ridiculous of of my life.
47:24
So it has been a lot on my plate.
47:28
And you know, every day is different.
47:30
You know, last night I had a a blood pressure read of 161 / 110
47:35
and I'm like maybe I should go to the hospital so.
47:41
I just kind of rested a little bit, took a warm bath, which is
47:43
probably not a good thing to do or a great thing to do.
47:46
But another important thing, check your blood pressure.
47:49
You know, we're up in the ages and stuff like that.
47:51
Check your blood pressure. Try to watch what you eat.
47:54
Eat healthy. I had a salad last night.
47:55
Man, I'm on a journey of health. Although I did have a bowl of
47:58
cereal today, so I don't know how healthy that was, but it was
48:02
Raisin Bran. So I guess it's kind of 5050,
48:04
right? And it's 1%.
48:05
Fat milk that I used, Organic lactose.
48:11
Somebody give me a break, throw me a bone, tell me at least I'm
48:13
doing something right. I mean, it's difficult out here
48:16
to try to be healthy, you know, with.
48:17
All the good stuff we have to eat.
48:18
But the last thing that I want to talk about real quick and we
48:23
got like 10 minutes left in the show is about the soldiers or
48:27
the military that we lost. You know, we lost three very
48:33
innocent and young souls, Lieutenant and NCO and and and
48:38
so on and so forth and. It was, I know for a lot of us
48:42
did suffer from post traumatic stress disorder.
48:44
Or, or diagnose of PTSDI know that this war in Iraq and the
48:49
news and everything like that and what we see on the news and
48:51
stuff brings back a lot of memories, a lot of stirs up a
48:53
lot of dirt and sediment in the bottom of our ocean, if you
48:56
will. And I know it can be difficult.
48:59
They can be difficult, you know, and, and I know if you're like
49:01
me, I don't believe in the crisis line because I think it's
49:04
kind of garbage. But you know, we can always be
49:06
there for each other and, and try to buddy check, you know,
49:10
check on your buddy every now and then.
49:11
You know, H train is, you know, I've known him for over 20 years
49:16
and he and I serve and I rack together and, you know, he
49:19
checks on me and I check on him not as often as I'd like to
49:21
because I don't like to bother him because he has a lot on his
49:23
plate, but he's good people, right?
49:26
So he does check on me every now and then says, Hey, how's it
49:29
going? And I usually tell him it's
49:30
going OK or it's going good. And he, he talks with me.
49:34
So if you have a friend or a loved one or somebody out there,
49:37
turn off the news. Stop watching the news, man.
49:40
I, I used to watch the news religiously every morning when I
49:42
woke up, every night when I went to bed and stuff.
49:44
And I still watch every now and then, but if you turn on the
49:47
news right now, it just seems like everything is so, so
49:51
negative and so bad and so crazy and and the world is just an
49:55
array. But if you look outside the
49:57
window, there's no bombs going on.
49:59
There's no, I mean, we got a little.
50:01
Bit of overcast today but in Tennessee, but other than that,
50:04
it's it's not too. Bad.
50:05
So, you know, it's a, it's a beautiful day, It's a beautiful
50:09
morning, It's a beautiful night. And we need to enjoy each other,
50:13
enjoy life a little bit better. And stop watching the news, man.
50:18
Stop watching the news. Yeah, stop watching news.
50:23
It's a it'll, it'll change your life.
50:24
Seriously, do something constructive.
50:26
I started walking again, so I kind of have no choice, but
50:31
because I live in an apartment, but I have to walk and I have a
50:34
beautiful pool in my apartment. So I'm going to start swimming
50:38
and start trying to get myself back into order, back into some
50:41
kind of a routine of a healthy lifestyle, if you will, so I can
50:43
sleep better at night so that I can live longer, hopefully,
50:46
right? That's our all, all of our gold
50:48
is right to get healthy and live longer and to, to be with our
50:51
families and stuff like that. There there's something that I,
50:59
that I, that I read and it said and I wish I had it in front of
51:04
me, but I'll, I'll, I'll. Talk about it in the in the next
51:07
show next week. And I promise my show sometimes
51:10
are great and they're they're great.
51:11
And sometimes I'm just kind of like winging it and stuff like
51:13
that. And I apologize because again,
51:15
during the week, and it's no excuse because during the week
51:17
I'm so indebted with like all these.
51:19
Appointments that I'm going to and radiation and sitting in the
51:21
MRI and CT scan and this and that.
51:24
No, did you go here? Did you go talk to this person?
51:26
That person dah dah dah dah. So I literally set up.
51:31
I literally have really cool, I guess.
51:34
So I'm going to share with you, but those of you know me to know
51:37
that my father served in the United States Army, served
51:39
during Vietnam. And when my father passed away,
51:41
I was in Iraq. So I never really my dad wanted
51:44
to be cremated. That was his his choosing.
51:47
So he was cremated and my mom, you know, had him in this real
51:50
big urn. And my my mother didn't die a
51:56
year and a half later while I was deployed and my mother was
51:59
cremated as well. So upon conferring with my
52:02
brothers and my sisters and stuff, we have all decided that
52:06
we were going to intern them into a intern.
52:10
We were going to have a burial, if you will, and have them a
52:14
place that we all could go visit.
52:15
So my dad was originally from Northern Kentucky.
52:18
So we have a burial site set up. I reached out to the veteran
52:22
organization out there, the VA at the VA Run Cemetery, the
52:25
state-run cemetery as as you are, and it's beautiful.
52:29
It's an absolutely beautiful cemetery.
52:31
It's brand new. We already have the headstone
52:33
picked out and everything like that, you know, just like
52:36
military headstone. My mom's name will be on the
52:38
back of it, my dad's name on the front of it.
52:40
So it'd be really cool and really neat and we'll have a
52:43
place that we can all meet up and people can go visit and know
52:47
that mom and dad are there and you know their grandma and
52:49
grandpa and you know their aunt and uncle or whatever be it.
52:53
And I thought it was really neat.
52:54
So kudos out to the Northern Kentucky State Veterans
52:59
Cemetery. His name is Michael who runs it
53:02
and his staff there are phenomenal.
53:03
Have helped me along the way to get all the documentation.
53:06
One of the hardest documentations that I had to get
53:08
was the wedding certificate or the marriage certificate for my
53:11
parents because they were married in Germany and I had to
53:15
send out a letter and stuff. And they said, listen, the birth
53:17
certificate or I'm sorry, the death certificate will say on
53:20
their next of kin and it should say your mom's name on there.
53:23
And that's good enough for us. So I thought that was really
53:25
cool. And they waived the fee because
53:27
normally there's a $500 fee for a spouse to be buried with a
53:31
veteran and they waived the fee. So I thought that was really
53:34
cool. And again, hats off to the
53:36
Northern Kentucky state-run Veterans cemetery out there and
53:40
Memorial Gardens. Absolutely beautiful.
53:43
They've been with us the whole step of the way.
53:45
So stay tuned. I'll I'll let you guys know.
53:47
And they also said would you like military honors, which I
53:50
thought was cool as heck. Yeah, absolutely.
53:53
You know, so that's going to be pretty cool.
53:54
And, and I'll let you guys know how that goes.
53:57
Again, as promised, I promise to have more content and I promise
54:00
to go out there and really be a sticking, you know, trying to
54:08
think of the right words here. I just have a lot on my plate.
54:11
You guys trust me. If I, if I, if I open up my
54:13
book, my journal and showed you everything that I'm going
54:15
through right now, you'd be like, why you doing a show?
54:18
Because it's my therapy, Because even though I'm talking to
54:21
myself, it seems like it's still therapy.
54:23
It's my one follower right now. Thank you, whoever you are, I
54:26
appreciate you. God bless you.
54:28
I have literally one person viewing me right now.
54:31
See, this goes on the Internet and people can watch me
54:34
tomorrow. They can watch me tonight.
54:35
They can watch me while they're in bed or if they just want to
54:38
feel better about themselves and know that they have a great life
54:40
and watch my misery. Sure, they can watch it later
54:42
on. That's a joke.
54:43
So feel free to TuneIn every single Thursday between the
54:50
hours of four and five. Eastern Standard Time Veterans
54:53
talk, military broadcast radio. I have a couple guests lined up
54:56
and I haven't confirmed any of them.
54:58
They haven't confirmed with me, but I'll try to get a couple
55:00
guests on here. So for your amusement, it'll be
55:03
fun. I know my old commander, Michael
55:06
Payne, was he? He's just a phenomenal person
55:10
and I'd love to have him on the show.
55:12
And I might do that might just start reaching out to old
55:14
commanders and officers and see if they'll join me on the on the
55:17
show and if they say no And hey, first person I'd like to reach
55:20
out to is Pete headset. I know you weren't my commander
55:24
or anything like that, but man, you want to get on a show?
55:27
Man, I'd love to have you on a show.
55:28
Ask you a couple questions to have people TuneIn man, you, you
55:31
can make this show go crazy viral.
55:34
ANYWAYS, I love each and every one of you guys.
55:37
Remember, think of veteran and more importantly, ask them what
55:41
they do. And I saw this today from a good
55:43
friend of mine who's called the saluting Marine and he plays a
55:47
TikTok and he goes when you think of veteran, mean it.
55:49
Thank you for your service. What do you do now that you're
55:52
out of the service? If they're a painter or if
55:54
they're a plumber or if they own their own business and do
55:56
something that their own business their way.
55:58
Hey, you got a card on you employ a veteran, right?
56:00
We're so we're so hell bent on supporting our locals.
56:04
Always support our veterans too. Be safe to each other, love one
56:09
another, take care of each other, and we'll talk to you
56:11
next time on Veterans Talk on military broadcast radio.
56:14
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