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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from w o R now, the

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Speaker 1: w o R Saturday Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Here's Larry Minty.

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Speaker 1: We remember a hero from Staten Island, staff Sergeant Michael OLiS.

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Speaker 1: He died in action saving others in twenty thirteen, and

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Speaker 1: now he will posthumously be awarded the Medal of Honor

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Speaker 1: by President Trump. But first let's talk with Kim OLiS Loshivose.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we love you every day.

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Speaker 1: Let's do this man bring them all down? Will Okay?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Wow? You could tell Trump love that too.

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Speaker 1: And that person that was yelling we have on the

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Speaker 1: phone right now, Kim Alis Locchiavo, sister of staff Sergeant

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Speaker 1: Michael Alis. Kim, what came over you to describe that moment? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Just such validation. I was just so happy finally that

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Speaker 2: this country was recognizing the acts that my brother had

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Speaker 2: had put upon us for our freedoms in this country,

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Speaker 2: thirteen long years of finally the federal government finally actually saying, wow,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for for helping us stay safe

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Speaker 2: and helping us have the freedoms and the choices that

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Speaker 2: we have. And to me, that was really like the

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Speaker 2: most the profound and exciting moment of my life for

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Speaker 2: my brother. Oh, it's the least that we could have

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Speaker 2: done for him.

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Speaker 1: It was wonderful and through you, we were all able

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Speaker 1: to share that moment. That's what was so wonderful about it.

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Speaker 1: Did something just overtake you the moment and what you

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Speaker 1: were just talking about with your brother or is that

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Speaker 1: just you?

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Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit of both, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think. I mean, he's on my mind every single day.

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Speaker 2: You know, my family and I we worked so hard

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Speaker 2: to make sure that we're living like him every single day.

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Speaker 2: And my children, and you know, I'm a teacher, so

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Speaker 2: I'm constantly reinforcing Michael's actions to the world around me constantly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just told the story of how he died,

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Speaker 1: but I guess more importantly is how he lived. Tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit about your brother.

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Speaker 2: Oh, he was such a kind soul. He was a

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Speaker 2: helper since he was a little boy. He was full

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Speaker 2: of energy. The passion that he felt for the army

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Speaker 2: was since he could walk. My dad was a Vietnam vet.

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Speaker 2: He you know, he looked up to my dad talked

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Speaker 2: about Vietnam. He played the role of a soldier from

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Speaker 2: the time that he could walk, would be coming home

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Speaker 2: from high school from the bus. He would be jumping

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Speaker 2: out of bushes with his like fatigues on that we

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Speaker 2: received from a friend that was in the National Guard,

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Speaker 2: and he would he would just play army. It just

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Speaker 2: he fled green. That was that was his life. That

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Speaker 2: was his passion. I think that was his purpose on life.

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Speaker 2: And he was such a gift and he would constantly

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Speaker 2: help people as he you know, became a young man,

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Speaker 2: any aspects of the world. People parked on the street,

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Speaker 2: people in accidents on Staten Island. He would just you know,

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Speaker 2: pull up and help anytime that he could.

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Speaker 1: Well, you can tell from the story here, the story

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Speaker 1: of how he died, how he sacrificed himself to save others.

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Speaker 1: When you heard the story, I guess you weren't surprised

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Speaker 1: at all.

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Speaker 2: We were just, yes, not surprised at all. Obviously a

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Speaker 2: little disappointed. He had received the Audio Murphy Medal in

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Speaker 2: June of twenty thirteen, and his his you know bosses

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Speaker 2: and his supervisors were telling him that he was going

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Speaker 2: to be sent home earlier, and then it was just

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Speaker 2: getting delayed. He was they were pushing him off all

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Speaker 2: summer along. So, yes, we were not surprised. We knew

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Speaker 2: that it was in him to always be a helper,

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Speaker 2: but yet we wanted him back, right, We wanted him

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Speaker 2: to be able to come home early that year. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: so a little bit of jealous and you know, sadness,

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Speaker 2: but for all good reasons.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm sure you were devastated. But when when

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Speaker 1: you're thinking about it, you think, my god, my brother

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Speaker 1: is a hero, and this is exactly what he's. The

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Speaker 1: kind of man he is that he would do something

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Speaker 1: like this, and that had to give you a little

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Speaker 1: bit of solace. And I can't believe I have waited

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Speaker 1: this long to honor him with the Medal of Honor.

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Speaker 1: And so it took Donald Trump winning re election and

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Speaker 1: to do this for your brother. And in a way,

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Speaker 1: your support of him, your love of him, has paid

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Speaker 1: off because he got into office and he was the

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Speaker 1: only man that probably would have done this.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I agree. I think he's a leader of action.

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Speaker 2: We are very much my family. We're leaders of action

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Speaker 2: or doers. My parents always told us to serve other people,

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Speaker 2: to help other people, and he's that president since in

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Speaker 2: my lifetime that has really he is action. He says

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Speaker 2: he's going to do something. He's actually going to do it.

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Speaker 2: He's a man of he's where it's just like my

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Speaker 2: brother's for Trump Company in the Army? Was is the purpose?

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Speaker 1: Was the words? Are you looking forward to going down

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Speaker 1: there and meeting Donald Trump?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're thrilled, We're excited, We're nervous all the fields

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 1: Are we going to hear that again once you finally

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Speaker 1: meet Donald Trump? That kind of excitement.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure I'll be a little bit. I'll be

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Speaker 2: a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: Oh, please don't, please don't. We would love for you

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Speaker 1: to represent New York and Staten Island and to be

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Speaker 1: up there and just be as effusive as you were

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Speaker 1: on the phone, because everybody trusts me would understand.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That was wonderful and I'm so glad we got to

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Speaker 1: talk about your brother, and please would love to talk

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Speaker 1: to I have your back?

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Speaker 2: You have to plug his book. We have a book

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Speaker 2: by Tom Salao. Could I have your back? It was

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Speaker 2: published last year in Martin Spress is a publisher and

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Speaker 2: it's been selling out. Really, I have your Michael, Can

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Speaker 2: you and have your back? Tom Solaya?

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Speaker 1: And where can you buy it?

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Speaker 2: You can buy an Amazon, Barnes and Nobles. You can

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Speaker 2: go right to the publisher itself, se Burton's Press. It's

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Speaker 2: all over.

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Speaker 1: Kim Ola Soshivo, sister of National Hero and soon to

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Speaker 1: be Medal of Honor recipient. This has been a podcast

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