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Speaker 2: It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of the

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Speaker 2: Jesse Kelly Show. On a very special Memorial Day, as

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Speaker 2: we honor the fallen. I hope you are having a

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Speaker 2: wonderful day. I hope you have taken a moment to

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Speaker 2: welcome to sit around crying all day. Prayers for the

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Speaker 2: families who are hurting, uniquely hurting today. Prayers from us

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Speaker 2: to you here on the Jesse Kelly Show. Now, we're

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Speaker 2: gonna finish up with Korea Gere in a few and

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Speaker 2: then we're gonna move on start talking some Vietnam. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna do some more names because there are so many.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I'll get to some names here in a few.

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Speaker 2: Let's do another distinguished Sir of his Cross citation and

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Speaker 2: finish up Korea before I get to that. Because I

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Speaker 2: know we're going to do some Vietnam, We're going to

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Speaker 2: do some global War on terror stuff. I want to

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Speaker 2: caution you against something. It can be tempting. Whether you

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Speaker 2: fought in one of these or lost someone in one

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Speaker 2: It can be really really tempting to say things or

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Speaker 2: think things like what was it all for? What did

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Speaker 2: he die? Was it worth it? But it was it

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Speaker 2: or global war on terror, very very very common, very common,

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Speaker 2: And there's nothing wrong with questioning that stuff. But I'm

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Speaker 2: for for me, for one, and for two, it could

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Speaker 2: be the most unworthy cause in the world. That doesn't

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Speaker 2: at all change the sacrifice. That doesn't at all change

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Speaker 2: the bravery. We're here honoring the sacrifice and the courage

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Speaker 2: and what these men gave up today. I don't sit

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Speaker 2: say it was for nothing. That's garbage. Don't do that

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Speaker 2: to yourself. Don't do that to yourself, all right? Another

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Speaker 2: one from the Korean War, Thomas J. Barnes from Gasconade, Missouri.

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Speaker 2: I hope I'm saying that right. The President of the

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Speaker 2: United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross

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Speaker 2: posthumously to Thomas J. Barnes, first Lieutenant Infantry, US Army,

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Speaker 2: for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an

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Speaker 2: Infantry Division. First Lieutenant Barnes distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism

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Speaker 2: in action against enemy aggressor forces at Sakoga, Korea, on

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Speaker 2: the ninth of July nineteen fifty three. On that date,

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Speaker 2: Lieutenant Barnes participated in a counter attack to secure a

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Speaker 2: Obviously there are other parts of it, but that is

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Speaker 2: On that date, Lieutenant Barnes participated in a counterattack to

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Speaker 2: of hell right there. And how many of these names,

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Speaker 2: we take a lot of pride in. So we're going

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Speaker 3: In every generation since at Trenton and Yorktown, at Vicksburg

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Speaker 2: Amen, we were gonna, well, I have a long when

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna read MAC v SOG next Jesse Kelly.

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Speaker 1: Vaccian.

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Speaker 2: It is the Jesse Kelly's Show on a Memoor Day,

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Speaker 2: honoring as many of the following as we can get to,

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Speaker 2: Back then Frankly, the Vietnam War wasn't technically either way.

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Speaker 1: Feeling a little stocky, follow like and subscribe on social

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Speaker 4: We gather here to honor our very best gone in

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Speaker 4: story of the American warrior. He answered the call, fought

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Speaker 2: I wanted to play that because I wanted to talk

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Speaker 2: Vietnam things, specifically about the MIA. The missing in action

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Speaker 2: enough for families, but this portion of it is brutally hard.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the bodies don't come back, things happen in war,

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Speaker 2: Bodies get blown to bits taken lost. And even though oftentimes,

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Speaker 2: But the family that's already suffering doesn't even get the

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Speaker 2: You don't know. And I just wanted to say a

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Speaker 2: There are people out there right now listening to the

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Speaker 2: gone through this unknown. How hard is that unknown? They

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Speaker 2: don't even know who it was. Sometimes you can't identify it.

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Speaker 2: That's how it goes. It's not a clean or wonderful

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Speaker 2: thing at all. Let's do another Distinguished Service Cross Vietnam

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Speaker 2: for Eugene J. Connor, Cumberland, Iowa. The President of the

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Speaker 2: United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross

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Speaker 2: posthumously to Eugene Joseph Conner, Major Artillery, US Army for

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Speaker 2: extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with

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Speaker 2: serving with Advisory Team one hundred Capital Military District Advisory Detachment,

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Speaker 2: United States Army Advisory Group, United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam.

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Speaker 2: Major Connor distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions on the

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Speaker 2: thirty first of January nineteen sixty eight, while serving as

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Speaker 2: when he was informed that a truck carrying twenty military

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Speaker 2: and all the soldiers had been killed or wounded. Major

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Speaker 2: to assist in rescuing the trap victims. The Viet Cong

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Speaker 2: Completely disregarding his own personal safety, Major Connor led a

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Speaker 2: lead a sweeping force to clear the hostile positions. Intense

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Speaker 2: other man fearlessly charged the fortifications alone. As he neared

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Speaker 2: the building, he was instantly killed by a Viet Kong rocket.

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Speaker 2: His gallant and fearless leadership in the face of great

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Speaker 2: Major Connor's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty at the

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Speaker 2: his unit in the United States Army. We're gonna do

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Speaker 2: a couple more Vietnam ones here in just a moment.

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Speaker 2: Before I get to that, I want to do just

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Speaker 2: Corporal Mark Goyat, Chief Warren Officer IIE, Matthew Ruffner, Chief

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Speaker 2: Warren Officer two, Jared Yoder, Major Ray Estelle, Second Lieutenant,

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Speaker 2: Lieutenant Justin Sisson, Sergeant Bradley Cross, Private first Class Matthew Bertolino,

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Speaker 2: Staff Sergeant Michael Bach, Specialist Jesse Snow, Staff Sergeant Thomas

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Speaker 2: walk Up, Junior Captain Matthew Ferrara, Corporal David Sonka, Captain

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Speaker 2: Nick Razanski, Master Sergeant John Chapman, Specialist Ronald Windrick, Specialist

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Speaker 2: Pat Tillman, Junior First Lieutenant Jonathan Brostrom, First Lieutenant Jason Man.

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Speaker 2: We will do some more Vietnam, touch on some Global

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Speaker 2: War on tear things, and read some more names in

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Speaker 2: our final hour on Memorial Day. Hang on