WEBVTT - December 7th 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:15.160 James T. Harris here sitting in for the Jesse Kelly Show, 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:17.919 and boy, oh boy, do we have some things to 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.560 talk about. Even though the media is not reporting it. 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:26.000 The border, our open border is absolutely blowing up. There's 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.440 just hordes of people coming across the border from all 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.760 over the world. We're going to talk about that on 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:36.680 today's show. Is c in over. You know what, there's 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.839 some compelling information out there that could suggest that the 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.320 O C N as you've known it for the last 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.680 what ten years, maybe going by and bye, thank you, 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.880 Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon. Then I got a story 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.000 for you today about some some crazy indoctrine nation going 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.120 on in the Nation school that might be under your radar. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:01.760 But first, this is the ant that the eightieth anniversary 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.560 of Pearl Harbor, when the United States of America was 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:10.679 drawn into World War Two, and your host Jesse Kelly 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:15.080 has prepared a very exciting, I should see exciting, a 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:21.600 brilliant commentary on the importance of this day. Besem Us 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:31.720 nineteen forty one, a date which will live in infamy. 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:38.200 The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.640 by Nabel and their forces of the Empire of Japan. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.679 It's the Jesse Kelly Show. Let's have some fun. As 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.560 you know, I'm not here live tonight. James T. Harris, 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.640 my friend is stepping in for me. But I did 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.880 feel obligated to come on and say something about this 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.360 day before I take off out of here and head 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.920 off to my son's little band concert. I thought it 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.880 was important for December seventh to be honored the way 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.920 it should be said. This is the eightieth anniversary of 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.200 the attack on Pearl Harbor. A lot of people know 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.880 the high points on Pearl Harbor. I just thought it 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.120 would be appropriate to go a little deeper with it. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.639 What happened there, Why did it happen, Where did it 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.880 lead us? What's the aftermath for it? To just give 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.040 me one little segment here, Just give me a few minutes. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.200 Let's talk about Pearl Harbor. How did we get there? 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.519 Why would Japan attack the United States of America. Well, 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.639 the story actually begins in Japan and the eighteen hundreds. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.640 Just tang with me and the eighteen hundreds. Japan was 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.720 and I say this with respect because I actually love 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.760 Japanese culture and Japanese people. They were very backwards. They 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.520 were a very insular country. In some ways they still are, 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.200 but they were a very insular country and they just 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:57.840 didn't advance technologically like other nations. But Japanese people, Japanese culture, 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.680 you could describe but as fierce in a lot of ways. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.440 Now that can be good and it can be very bad. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.480 But they woke up one day. There's a little more 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.320 to the story than that. But they woke up one 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:13.320 day and looked around and decided, we are really really 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.359 backwards technologically, militarily, not their culture, but just these things. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.000 They weren't advancing the way other nations were, and they 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.720 got worried they were going to get taken over, they 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.680 were going to get conquered. This is still the age 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.360 of colonialism. So in a move that I really admire. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.120 I think it's incredible for a nation to be able 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.640 to do this. It's called the Meiji Restoration. They just 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.200 stepped up one day and said, you know what, we're 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.520 going to modernize, and they did. They just decided they 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.120 were going to change directions as a nation, and boom, 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:50.200 they modernized. And I'm not gonna act like it happened overnight, 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:55.680 but very quickly over the next year's decades. Really they 0:03:55.720 --> 0:04:00.320 became a very very modern country with a modern economy 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:07.320 and a modern military. A modern military, though costs money, 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:12.640 it takes resources. Militaries cost a fortune. And Japan, as 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:17.080 Japan advanced, started looking around and they got this fancy 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.919 army and you got this fancy navy. But Japan is 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.760 not only an island nation, it's a nation very very 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.520 poor in resources. There isn't rubber there, there isn't really 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.159 oil there. There is the natural things that we Americans 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.640 take for granted. They don't have those in Japan. You 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.600 have to import them. And so you got a big army, 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:41.200 you got a big navy. China's sitting right there across 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.440 the sea. Maybe you just go take some of their stuff. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.960 This is a historic period where China was very down. 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:51.320 The Communists were fighting the Nationalists for control of China 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.640 at the time, and so those two factions fighting each 0:04:55.640 --> 0:05:00.080 other made China uniquely weak. And Japan just kind and 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.080 have invaded not all of it, but they just invaded 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.640 huge portions of China. This is pre World War two, 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.240 we're talking in the nineteen thirties, and started taking it 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:14.480 over America, Britain and other nations around The world didn't 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:18.279 take too kindly to that, and we started telling Japan, 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.359 you need to get out of China. And Japanese people 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.159 back then and now, very proud people which can go 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.800 both ways good and bad, said no, I don't think 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:30.880 I will leave China. I think we like it here. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.040 We want these natural resources. We're a growing country up 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.279 yours America. Well, this continued for some time, and eventually 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:42.960 America and other nations got a bit more insistent, and 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.280 we told Japan, hey, you know all that oil we 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.760 get we sell you so your ships can run. You 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.920 know all that steel we sell you so you can 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.400 build said ships and other things, We're going to stop 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.800 sending you any of it. And Japan started to get 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.200 really nervous. They didn't know what to do. They couldn't 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.039 leave China, although they should have left China. If they 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:05.920 had done that, it would have made them poorer. That 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.400 they felt as if they were between a rock and 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.160 a hard place. We were giving them no choice in 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:17.920 their minds, and so they got together collectively when they 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.680 came up with the most insane destructive plan I've ever 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.240 seen a nation come up with. They decided that America 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.359 was soft. They decided they were going to send a 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.440 fleet over here and take out our Pacific fleet. Now, 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.400 contrary to what you probably learned in school, their plan 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.039 was not to defeat America at Pearl Harbor. Their plan 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.039 was simply to hamstring US long enough for them to 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.120 take over a bunch of islands in the Pacific, like 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.240 the Philippines, which they did right after Pearl Harbor, and 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.800 then fortify those islands and make it too hard for 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.960 Americans to take it back. They thought we were too 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.120 soft and weak, and the loss of life we'd take 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.520 taking the islands back would be something we wouldn't be 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:03.719 willing to do. So they parked their fleet north of Japan, 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:09.279 closer to Alaska really than anything else, and they set sail. 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.720 They headed towards Pearl Harbor. And the thing is about 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:18.240 Pearl Harbor. There was debate in Japan whether or not 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.640 they should declare war first. Japan was not naive to 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.679 the fact fighting US, attacking US, ambushing US at Pearl 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:31.440 Harbor before you've declared war would create a unique level 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.480 of anger. I would argue, they didn't quite get how 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.960 angry it would make Americans, but they were aware of that. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:42.520 They just felt as if they had no choice. They 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:46.120 felt if they had declared war first that they wouldn't 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.960 have found the situation they eventually found at Pearl Harbor. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.160 And what was that situation, Well, by the grace of God, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.240 our aircraft carriers, the most important ships in World War Two, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.240 they were already out to see they were out doing maneuvers, 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.200 and that's really what Japan wanted. But what they did 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:06.160 find was this, they found all of our battleships, not 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:10.960 just there, but tied up. They were docked. You see, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.360 a ship has a chance when it's out moving around, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.120 zigging zagging. When a ship is tied up at the docks, 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:23.080 war hasn't been declared, so there's no high alert, Well, 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.480 the ship has no chance at all. That and the fact, 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.040 even though we had radar and we did see the 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:35.160 Japanese planes coming on radar, it was dismissed, not understood, 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.360 and so Japanese planes showed up that day on a 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:43.559 quiet Sunday morning. And just try to imagine waking up 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.680 in Paradise, waking up in Hawaii on a quiet Sunday morning, 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:50.360 You're not at war with anybody, and all of a sudden, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:55.679 everything's on fire around you. Everything is exploding. And this 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.400 is the part, this is the part that really made 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.400 me want to do this today before I head off 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.640 for my son's little band concert and hand the reins 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:09.400 over to James T. Pearl Harbor is a day we remember, obviously, 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.480 but I do think it's important to understand what those 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.360 men went through on that day. You see, the men 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:21.760 who died at Pearl Harbor. The lucky ones were blown up, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:28.840 the others burned. Some of them went down with their ships. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:35.760 The power went out and they spent a day, two days, 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:40.200 three days and the dark draining the last of the 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.720 oxygen and whatever room they were in as the room 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:48.200 slowly filled up with water. I'm not saying that to 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:52.160 you to exploit what they went through. I'm saying that 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.680 to you to remember what this day actually is, in 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.120 who we honor on this day. And look, I could 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.839 sit and list for you so many heroes that day. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.040 You know, we do Medal of Honor Monday, every single 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.800 every single Monday. If you're interested, I would recommend looking 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.920 up some medals of honor from Pearl Harbor. They really 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:16.160 really are incredible. There are some great stories. Look up 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.800 the Medal of Honor citation. If you're interested, maybe read this, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.280 Maybe read this one with your kids. Maybe sit down 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.000 with your kids tonight and read the Medal of Honor 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:30.520 citation of A. Samuel G. Fuqua of Jackson, Paris, Thomas Reeves, 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:37.240 Robert Scott, Herbert Jones. There are other stories of heroism 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.680 out there. Remember the men who gave their lives that day, 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.640 remembers the Remember the heroes who fought that day, and 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:51.560 remember you can take pride as an American. You can 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.640 take pride in knowing that in the wake of Pearl Harbor, 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:00.480 your country did not kneel, It didn't weep, it didn't say, oh, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:05.400 we're defeated. It's over. America as a nation at that 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:10.000 time united and united against a common enemy, and spent 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:15.200 the following years investing untold amounts of blood and money 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.360 to make sure that enemy paid for what it did 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.880 to this country. And that is something you, an American, 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:27.720 can be dang proud of. So we remember the fallen 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.960 from Pearl Harbor. Cent per fidelis to all of them. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.840 I'm going to hand the reins now over to the 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:38.319 outstanding James D. Harris, who always kills it, and I 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.040 will be back in the chair doing the show live tomorrow. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.920 But first, have you bought gold yet from Oxford Gold Group? 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:52.719 You know you should. You've seen the destructive things politicians 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.160 have done throughout history. We just talked a lot about them. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.920 But right now they're making you poorer. 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My name is James T. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.600 Harris and filling in. I'm a radio talker, talk show 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.760 host from a Phoenix, Arizona. And while we talk about 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.120 what happened eighty years ago today it is a turning 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.840 point in our country. It's one of those great wars 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.000 that we find ourselves in every eighty two, one hundred years. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.520 And when you talk to the people who experienced it, 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.120 even when they were little kids, they have a vivid 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.880 memory of Pearl Harbor. And when we talked about ninety 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.240 eleven a few years ago, you had folks who are 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.920 from the greatest generation, the GI generation, is saying this 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.839 reminds me of Pearl and that would be correct. It 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.360 was a turning point in history. Jesse Kelly said, you know, 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.280 you should talk to people, talk to your your kids 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.840 about some of the heroic people who served our country 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.640 on that day. Well, I have a treat for you, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:36.920 gentleman named Battleship. Andrew. Andrew does a Tell is a 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:42.000 secretary of the United the uss Arizona Reunion Association. He 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:48.240 has the distinct honor of being friends with the survivors 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:52.960 from the uss Arizona that was attacked on Pearl Harbor 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:57.120 eighty years ago today, and he is right our next 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.200 guest here on the Jesse Kelly Show. And I know 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.280 you've been very, very busy, and you're both busy on 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.040 this day. Andrew, I know you've had speeches and presentations, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.320 but I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce the 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:14.280 audience of the Jesse Kelly Show to you and your story, 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.760 because you were put in the unique situation where you're 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.160 actually friends, where you actually are a host to some 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:27.840 of the survivors of the USS Arizona. Oh yes, thank 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.040 you for the privilege of being able to speak on 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:34.320 this for these amazing men. Twenty one years ago, the 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.800 survivors of the Arizona and their families welcomed me into 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.240 their midst and my highest aspiration was just to be 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.360 able to meet a few, but they welcome me in, 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.920 and year after year we would meet with the reunions, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.320 and I spend every moment I could with them, savoring 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.280 every conversation, and after a few years they became like 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:01.480 extended family, and something deeper, deeper just started to happen 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.600 that didn't expect when they started feeling like family, And 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.640 then as we started to lose them, it was more 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.080 powerful than losing even like a regular good friend. There 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:15.240 was something so much more powerful. And I cannot believe 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.360 we're almost at the end of an era, because twenty 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.520 one years ago there were still about about forty survivors 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.320 off the USS Arizona and now we're down just to 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.080 the last two and they both turned one hundred years 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.280 old this year. And I can't believe these amazing, amazing 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.120 men have almost have been lost to the ages, These 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.120 unbelievable men who would bristle at being called a hero, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:42.160 and yet they are. To me. They were ordinary men 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:47.520 who found themselves in the worst situation possible, and somehow 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.520 some of them just arose to just do amazing things 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:56.920 from ordinary men and women, the most incredible stories. And 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.160 I am the luckiest gen extra in the world to 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:04.040 have spent most of the last two decades with these 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.640 disappearing giants. As I would say, well, you know, you 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.040 say that their stories will be lost to history, but 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.520 the fact that the matter is, and this what makes 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.160 you unique, is that you've been capturing these stories as 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.280 a gen xer, listening to the stories of what Tom 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.840 procol I think it's properly called the greatest generation, the 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.160 generation that sacrifices itself, and we have still have Western 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.360 civilization or a simbilans of it because of their actions. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:33.560 You have their stories, and you've been telling their stories 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.600 for years. So when we talk about some of the 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.240 horrors that went on that day, and how some people 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.440 survived that the men that were on the USS Arizona, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:48.160 you can actually give insight into those actions because they 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.560 were told to you. One degree of separation I'm talking 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.640 about you were talking to the people who survived. Yeah, 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.520 there is just night and day difference. It's one thing 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.920 to be reading about it, as I did throughout my 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.800 teen years and into my twenties, and you know, seeing documentaries, 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.919 but when you hear it, you know, and more than once, 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.840 you know it took you know, after the first year 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.560 or two, I thought I knew I'd learned a lot. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.080 After ten years with them, it was like pieces of 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.320 a puzzle that kept on falling into place and got 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:24.400 bigger and bigger. And even once we hit the fifteen 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.480 year mark that I was with them, I was just 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:31.080 still realizing we have no clue just how horrific it 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:35.280 was in that ship. And it annurs me a little 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.720 bit when I hear people say, yeah, the Arizona was sunk, 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.920 and that doesn't seem to describe what happened. That ship 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:46.160 was destroyed. I mean the Forward magazines blew. I mean 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.720 it was over a million pounds of gunpowder that went 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.640 and then blew the res ammunitions and the fuel. It 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.800 was the most horrific explosion. And then the things they've 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.399 told me about what it was like on that ship 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.720 after the earthing blew. They've told me things have gotten 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:04.720 in my nightmares. And I think the one that brings 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.600 it home the most. And I don't tell this to 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.880 the younger kids, but like the high schoolers or adults, 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.800 Lauren Bruner, one of the men who has burned so 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.720 badly in the Foremast and the fore Tower and sky Control, 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.960 he says, he said that once that in the nineteen sixties, 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.800 when zombie movies became the craze, he said he refused 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.280 to see them. He couldn't because he said, I've already 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.800 seen the real thing. I've seen the Walking Dead, he said. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.560 And I still see them in my nightmares every night 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.520 for like seventy years, he says, And I do not 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.000 want to see that on the screen because I've already 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.720 seen the real thing. That's what it was like. These men, 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.679 just the men, the most horrific was the ones who 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:52.119 survived the initials explosion, but not for long. These horrific 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.280 stories of just and then over the next twenty minutes 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:59.800 on that nightmare, of a ship is what it turned into. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.679 We truly have no clue just how bad it was. Well, Andrew, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.359 I've been telling you for years that you need to 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.560 write a book, but right now I am just heartened 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.840 that you are actually going around and you are telling 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.040 the story of these World War Two veterans. The people 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.120 were on the USS Arizona when it was attacked by 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:25.720 the Imperial Japanese Army. Andrew, does it tell? I want 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.720 to thank you very much for appearing on the Jesse 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.040 Kelly Show. We are going to move on because we 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.040 have some big stories out there that we have to discuss. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.280 My name is James C. Harris. I am a talk 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.560 show host out of Phoenix, Arizona. Happy to be sitting 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:48.119 in for the Jesse Kelly Show side James T. Harris 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.560 fill again for the Jesse Kelly Show and being I'm 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:55.400 just happy to be doing that. I love Jesse Kelly's audience. 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.479 If you want to follow me, you could do that 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.919 on Twitter. Just follow me at James T. Also, I 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.439 am on Instagram at James T. Harris. I just spoke 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:06.879 to a man who I don't want to call him 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.919 an expert because he is a personal friend to many 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.320 of the sailors that were on the USS Arizona. He 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:19.000 has their stories, and their stories are riveting. I wish 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:20.760 I would have had the time. I could talk to him, 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.840 you know, for for hours and have about what happened 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:29.040 on that day and the people who survived the US Arizona. 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:34.360 And it's indicative of a generation, a generational spirit. When 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:38.360 the United States was attacked in Pearl Harbor, you had 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.720 people who were so incensed, people who are so patriotic 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:45.359 that they lied about their age to join up to 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:51.000 fight on behalf of America. My, how things have changed. 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.800 And the problem here is and that I think we're 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.600 due for another major conflict. I don't know if it's 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.439 going to be on the scale of what we experienced 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:06.480 in World War Two, but these things tend to come 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.800 around again. Who will be the generation that will step up? 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.399 Who will be the next greatest generation? Well, I would 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.960 say generation next, but we're already too old for it, 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:18.560 and the millennials are starting to get long in the 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.560 tooth as well. Who's coming next? That's the question that 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:26.679 people are asking, if we had to fight again, would 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.919 we be ready? And you know what, I think the 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:33.800 answer to that question is is no why, because so 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:39.600 much has changed, the family has changed. There is a 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:44.800 very interesting article that appears in the American Daily. I 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:49.240 believe it's called It's about the family, the state of 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:53.560 the family, and how the family over the years has 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:58.920 been attacked. It's been attacked by the radical left, It's 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:08.200 been attacked by progressive of philosophy, by the progressive, progressive agenda. 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:13.960 We've seen it attacked by the government. Back in World 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:16.960 War Two, when we were drawn into that war, you 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:19.400 had intact family. As a matter of fact, whether you're 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:23.440 talking about Americans of African descent, whether you're talking about 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:28.439 you know, white Americans, the two parent family, it was 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:33.960 the standard. We're talking about. Seventy eighty percent of children 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:37.480 growing up in the country had two parents in the home. 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:43.320 That is not the case anymore. And what people are 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:49.440 still having realized is that the two parent family, the 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:55.240 nuclear family, is the backbone of this country. The two 0:22:55.320 --> 0:23:00.359 parent family is what it teaches kids about, that values, 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:05.480 what teaches kids about sacrifice. The two parent family is 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:09.920 all about sacrificing one generation, sacrificing for the other generation, 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:13.760 hoping that they will do better than them, and trying 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:18.760 to make that possible, and that works best when you 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:22.440 have a mom and you have a dad in the household. 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:26.120 But you know what we're now in twenty twenty one 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:29.760 at a stage in our culture, well, we don't want 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:33.760 to identify a mom and dad. As a matter of fact, 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:39.119 we're confused about gender and gender roles. Back in the 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:43.240 nineteen thirties, forties and fifties, it was the father that 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:46.359 was the breadwinner. It was the mother who was queen 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:51.000 of the household. Our roles were defined. Now since the 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:55.600 nineteen late sixties, in the seventies, those roles have been 0:23:56.280 --> 0:24:02.640 well who viewed with disdain. It started out innocent enough, 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:05.720 remember that Chanelle commercial Back in the past. I could 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:07.560 bring home the bacon and fry it up in the 0:24:07.640 --> 0:24:11.040 pan and never never ever let you forget your own man, 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:16.000 because I'm a woman. Now what bring home the bacon 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:20.439 and Friday up? If I'm bringing home the bacon, what 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:24.679 are you doing? Well? How were you taking care of 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:27.280 the kids? And all of this is even reflected in 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:32.399 our commercials. Look at how the family, the two parent 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:37.119 family is depicted on our commercials. In our commercials today, 0:24:37.960 --> 0:24:42.359 well it's under attack. And look at the sitcoms that 0:24:42.400 --> 0:24:46.920 are supposed to celebrate the family. No, now we're into diversity. 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:51.000 We have redefined the family, and we redefined the roles. 0:24:52.800 --> 0:24:55.920 I know, I just jumped right up into it. I 0:24:55.960 --> 0:24:59.240 went from World War Two, where we had a generation 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:02.880 that then that was willing to lie about their age, 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:06.080 that understood what was at stake, and they fought. We're 0:25:06.080 --> 0:25:09.000 talking about the D Day, we're talking about you know, 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:11.639 I used to have conversations with people who were alive 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:14.560 during D Day, and how did you do it? How 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:16.159 did you get on the beach? How did you scale 0:25:16.200 --> 0:25:21.159 those walls? I think it was Richard O. Nine was 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:22.959 one of the people that was there on D Day. 0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:25.520 He said, what it was our job to do? And 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:29.240