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Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves

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Speaker 1: from cone hunting to trot lighting and just general country living.

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Speaker 1: I want you to stay a while as I share

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Speaker 1: my experiences and life lessons. This Country Life is presented

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Speaker 1: All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate.

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Speaker 1: I've got some stories to share Heroes. This week is

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Speaker 1: a little different than our regular offerings here at This

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Speaker 1: Country Life. But after celebrating the anniversary of the Declaration

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Speaker 1: of Independence last week, I got to thinking about all

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Speaker 1: the folks that are referred to during that time as heroes.

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Speaker 1: That led me to thinking about the ones referred to

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Speaker 1: that now and.

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Speaker 2: Who really qualifies.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my thoughts on it, but first

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you a story. This story is right

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Speaker 1: on theme for this week's topic and comes from This

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Speaker 1: Country Life mailbag. Send in by Jesse Crawford down in

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Speaker 1: Laurel Hill, Florida. That's in Okaloosa County. Laurel Hill has

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Speaker 1: a distinction of being the northernmost incorporated city within the

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Speaker 1: Great State of Florida. If you had a slingshot that

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Speaker 1: could fling a rock fifty miles. You could stand on

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Speaker 1: the beach in Destin and hum a rock due north,

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Speaker 1: and have folks in Laurel Hill rubbed knots on their

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Speaker 1: heads and ducking for cover, all five hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: four of them. I'd like to have me one of them.

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Speaker 1: But without further delay. In Jesse Crawford's words.

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Speaker 2: In my voice, here we go.

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Speaker 1: It all started when we had a day off from

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Speaker 1: school and decided to take my dad's jet ski to

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Speaker 1: the lake. We were young, but old enough to be

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Speaker 1: trusted to some degree, and we were taking turns running

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Speaker 1: It's normally a busy place for water sports, but today

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Speaker 1: it was just us and one other boat. After my

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Speaker 1: a frantic woman that was freaking out so bad you

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Speaker 2: So we got to try and help the.

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Speaker 1: Husband, who was being helped to stay afloat by my

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Speaker 1: Now, after managing to get him back in his boat,

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Speaker 1: Stay safe out there. Good night, Nurse Jesse. That's some

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Speaker 2: My friend, y'all saw a need and you took action.

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Speaker 1: Nice job, man, and according to Jesse Crawford of Laurel Hill, Florida,

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Speaker 1: that's just how that happened. Heroes what constitutes or qualifies

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Speaker 1: someone as a hero? To Webster says, a hero is

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I hear that term thrown around a lot these days,

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Audie Murphy was a pint sized seventeen year old from

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Speaker 1: What if there had been no witnesses to his feats

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Speaker 1: Are they not heroes? Well, I believe they are, along

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Speaker 1: But the definition, remember, isn't just for courage. It's also

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Speaker 1: But it only lasted a little while in the grand

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Speaker 1: Remember I only jumped four out of the five, and

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Speaker 1: stay cool until next week. This is Brent Reeves signing off.

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