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Speaker 1: was in the Korean War. He was, oh, tell me,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, he was stationed at Fort Ord. He was

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Speaker 1: a swimming instructor, he said. But it came into handy

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Speaker 1: But he did service like so many other men and

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Speaker 1: dropped at any moment in the midst of the Cold War,

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Speaker 1: and how many many women were assigned to guarding that

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Speaker 1: And that all came to me because I remember, I

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Speaker 1: remember the scenes of the guard towers, the trenches, the

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Speaker 1: death strip that separated East from West because The Communists

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Speaker 1: were worried that so many of their people each day

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Speaker 1: for freedom. Some of the buildings actually were partially on

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Speaker 1: after the wall came down. I was that nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: It was part of Gorbachev, you know, with the weinstain

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Speaker 1: by the time I got there organizing Guardian Angels. In Berlin,

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Speaker 1: is this is the American Way graffiti. But I will

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Speaker 1: tell you this, how many men and women served there,

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Speaker 1: how many were killed and attempting to flee a DMC

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Speaker 1: that existed. I think this is a pretty good idea

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Speaker 1: that Zelenski has to end this carnage and think about it.

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Speaker 1: Think about it, and think about all those men and

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Speaker 1: women who continue to serve in including those men and

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Speaker 1: when our commander in chief gives them the word. Right

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Speaker 1: here at your place to be, our number is eight

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Speaker 1: hundred three two one zero seven ten. That's eight hundred

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Speaker 1: station that maybe you're discovering for the very first time

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Speaker 1: in a long time. This is the station you should

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Speaker 1: be listening to from now on. Is I and my

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Speaker 1: wife Nancy will be joining me. They eleven o'clock hour,

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