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Speaker 1: Upon Special Report.

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Speaker 2: It is Veterans Day in America, and we dedicate our

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Speaker 2: whole show to the men and women who served our country, and.

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Speaker 3: We speak with leaders of veteran organizations helping a hero

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Speaker 3: and Warrior's Choice.

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Speaker 4: We also speak with Lee Greenwood, who has a new

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Speaker 4: collaboration with his patriotic song God Bless the USA.

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Speaker 1: I'm betting you.

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Speaker 4: Guys have heard that before. Special Report starts right now.

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Speaker 5: You see.

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Speaker 3: You don't.

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Speaker 5: Pride in American and we stand.

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Speaker 1: What a wonderful song to start the show with. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what. I am proud to be an American.

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Speaker 1: Welcome in to Special Report.

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Speaker 2: I'm Michelle mackis alongside Foe, Davidson, Emily Finn in our

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Speaker 2: very own raph correspond at the Walking Encyclopedia, David's ear

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Speaker 2: who's in studio with us today. Welcome David, and Happy

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Speaker 2: Veterans Day to all of you at home that have served.

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Speaker 1: This is a very special day in BO.

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Speaker 2: I understand you have some special interviews in store.

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Speaker 6: Michelle, I do.

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Speaker 3: I had the unique opportunity to perform for veterans at

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Speaker 3: the West Palm VA Medical which is a phenomenal facility

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Speaker 3: right here in our backyard. I perform for a number

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Speaker 3: of veterans there and you can see them with a

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Speaker 3: full standing salute.

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Speaker 6: They served their.

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Speaker 3: Country proudly and it was just such an honor to

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Speaker 3: sing for them. And then I sat down with about

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Speaker 3: nine different veterans, young and old, male and female, and

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Speaker 3: in a number of our different theaters overseas, and I

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Speaker 3: want to start off with this one. When I interviewed

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Speaker 3: James L.

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Speaker 6: Perkins.

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Speaker 7: My name is James L.

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Speaker 6: Perkins, the third.

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Speaker 8: I'm in the United States Army one hundred and first Airborne,

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Speaker 8: second of the three to twenty seventh Infantry.

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Speaker 3: And James, tell me what it means to you personally

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Speaker 3: to be a veteran.

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Speaker 8: Well, today, it means that some gave all in all game,

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Speaker 8: and I'm glad I'm here to carry the one and

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Speaker 8: pay tribute to the guys. Every one others, no matter

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Speaker 8: whether you're in combat or what you were doing, everybody

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Speaker 3: As you think back to we don't have many of

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Speaker 3: them left World War Two veterans all the way up

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Speaker 3: to the current conflicts. Would you see those veterans and

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Speaker 3: they return home, because you've had that experience before, how

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Speaker 3: does it touch your heart? What do you see in

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Speaker 3: another veteran's eyes when they come back home?

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Speaker 8: Or relating to the World War II veterans, there are

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Speaker 8: a few left. The other day, as I was leaving,

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Speaker 8: I paid tribute to one talk to me, said, well,

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Speaker 8: you were in a war two and it touches my heart.

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Speaker 8: This VA touches my heart. The care the people here,

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Speaker 8: the professional attitude of people, and it means a lot

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Speaker 3: Tell me what the VA here, the West pom Via

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Speaker 8: Well, I've had mental kr here right now, I'm taking

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Speaker 8: radiation and without the VA, I don't know where I'd be.

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Speaker 3: And we think of Veterans Day. Americans who have not

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Speaker 3: And I think it's a shame a lot of times

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Speaker 3: So what does that day mean to you? What would

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Speaker 8: All gave some, some gave all, and you know it's

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Speaker 8: good that we can be thought of. Returning from Vietnam,

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Speaker 8: I was spit on, I was called a baby killer,

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Speaker 8: and many derogatory things, but you have to go with

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Speaker 8: the flow. Everybody has their opinion and everybody is entitled

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Speaker 3: How does it make you feel when you see people

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Speaker 6: It's disgusting. Uh.

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Speaker 8: The American fag is what we stand involved with freedom.

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Speaker 3: And finally, what would you how does it feel to

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Speaker 8: And Uh, without us, where would we be as a

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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 9: Wow.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was touching, you know, Michelle that he

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Speaker 9: Take a look, I was in the army. Uh the

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Speaker 9: specialist for I was working in avionis on Shino helicopters

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Speaker 6: Wonderful.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So Roger tell us what it means to you

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Speaker 9: Uh, being a veteran and for me is a bit

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Speaker 9: seven years has been in Bangkok, Thailand, and in my

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Speaker 9: Even had contact with some mercenaries along the way there.

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Speaker 9: But it's a step back in time, but not really

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Speaker 9: a very long step back in time, because we're kind

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Speaker 3: What would you say, since you were able to travel

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Speaker 9: It was fantastically greater than what it was when I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you could, and you don't mind share an

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Speaker 9: Well, I had kind of a double whammy there. I

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Speaker 9: came back on a MEDAVAC, so I was Letterman Army

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Speaker 9: Hospital in San Francisco, and I had adopted a boy

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Speaker 9: He was med back to the same hospital. The most

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Speaker 9: fearful day of my entire military career was Easter Sunday

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Speaker 9: sixty nine was the largest moratorium against the war. I

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Speaker 9: believe the front page photo on Life magazine was the

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Speaker 9: I'm obviously military, with the haircut and everything, and I

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Speaker 9: a good thing. And I asked my son, I said, Doug,

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Speaker 9: do you remember how we got in there? He looked

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Speaker 10: You don't remember.

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Speaker 9: We just walked round to the back of the compound,

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Speaker 3: And you had that boy with you, right, Yeah, And

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Speaker 5: He is now.

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Speaker 9: A retired master machinist in Central Illinois.

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Speaker 3: That's wow, that's an incredible story. I'm so moved by that.

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Speaker 3: So let's talk now more dobestically than you talked about

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Speaker 3: how the respect and admiration you probably received abroad. What

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Speaker 9: I've got a much better feeling about it. I lost

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Speaker 9: my eyesight five years ago, so my cousin's in Port

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Speaker 9: Saint Lucy brought me over here to the hospital. They've

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Speaker 9: pretty much recovered that. But all I had in my

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Speaker 9: can't say. I can't say that it's been a healing thing.

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Speaker 9: I'm not sure there is such a thing as healing,

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Speaker 9: but it was. It's an enlightening thing, and I'm much

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Speaker 9: more comfortable now going back. I'll probably go back to

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Speaker 3: And talk to us about what the VA here has

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Speaker 9: The VA here at West Palm is the first va

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Speaker 9: that's done anything for me at all. In fact, when

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Speaker 9: I went when I went back to Vietnam in eighty eight,

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Speaker 9: they had stopped my disability payments and it took the

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Speaker 9: they have broadened medical care healthcare here just that with

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Speaker 9: the whole health the whole health group back here. They're

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Speaker 9: doing acupuncture and tai chi, doing going to be even

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Speaker 9: doing cupping, but non traditional therapies that actually work. I

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Speaker 9: Between acupuncture and taichi, i am completely off of pain

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about, finally, Roger, the day of Veterans Day,

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Speaker 3: the actual day itself. What do you want people out

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Speaker 9: Boy, that's that's a tough one.

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Speaker 6: I'd say, just.

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Speaker 9: Talk to people and research. There's no way you can

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Speaker 9: You can't get it from a book. You can get

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Speaker 9: You can get it from from well, you can't get

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Speaker 9: it from Bob Hope anymore, but you can get it

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Speaker 9: from other entertainers that go traveling all over, whether it's

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Speaker 9: to entertain the troops and give us a boost. And

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Speaker 9: I tell you that's worth a million dollars.

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Speaker 6: I bet it is.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for your time that and

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Speaker 3: letting us know you're these incredible stories. I'm I'm very

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Speaker 3: moved by it, So thank you so much, sir.

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Speaker 2: Such powerful words there and fantastic work over at the

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Speaker 2: West Palm Via as well. Coming up, we'll speak with

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Speaker 2: the military hero who was gifted up home Helping a hero.

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Speaker 2: Dot Organ is now the national ambassador for the program.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more.

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Speaker 11: It means more to me. When I had just joined

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Speaker 11: But over time, as I have continued to sove, chosen

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Speaker 11: to sove reenlisted time and time again raise my hand

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Speaker 11: for different opportunities. That has cemented how I feel when

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Speaker 11: someone says thank you for your service, I could probably

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Speaker 11: say it's a pleasure to sove. Every time I deploy,

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Speaker 11: for more responsibilities, it's like, yes, a pleasure to serve.

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Speaker 11: When I think about any long hours that I spend

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Speaker 4: Why welcome back to Special Report this Veteran's Day, we

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we also want to recognize the organizations helping those

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Speaker 3: Empowering wounded heroes one home at a time is their

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Speaker 12: Yes, Silo, we want to share more about your story.

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Speaker 12: And after an explosion killed three of your four fellow soldiers,

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Speaker 13: I've just been extremely blessed in my recovery and I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Shela, we definitely want to hear more about that.

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Speaker 4: I must say, sir, your positivity is just so inspiring

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Speaker 13: Thank you, and God bless you.

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Speaker 2: Shiloh as national ambassador walk us through Hell helping a

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Speaker 13: Well, honestly, it's really easy. I'd go where I'm told.

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Speaker 13: This is one of those programs that they stick with

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Speaker 13: It obviously helped me and my family in so many ways.

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Speaker 4: Well, that is such incredible Workshallow. We truly thank you

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Speaker 1: Thanks again, Shiloh, Thanks she thank you.

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Speaker 4: Now, coming up later in the show, we'll speak with

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Special Report and our continuing tribute to veterans. Today,

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Speaker 3: we'd like to honor organizations dedicated to helping our veterans,

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Speaker 2: Warriors Choice aims to change how treatment for vets as

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Anthony.

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Speaker 7: This is Bourbon. He's he was my service dog from

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Speaker 7: The mission in the passion was just to kind of,

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Speaker 12: Yeah, and Anthony, my family has a house near you

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Speaker 7: So we've trained roughly forty four dogs at this point

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Speaker 4: That's fantastic and healing is so incredibly important. I understand

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Speaker 7: for it. We have the land approval, we're just waiting

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Speaker 7: on receiving some of the additional procurement capital to go

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Speaker 7: ahead and begin the execution of our second phase due diligence.

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Speaker 7: But everything else seems to be right on par with

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Speaker 7: where we.

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Speaker 6: Need to be.

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Speaker 3: And Anthony, you know, you probably saw some of the

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Speaker 3: interviews earlier when I went to the westbalm BA.

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Speaker 6: What do those veterans have?

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Speaker 3: Some really incredible needs your approach is a little different

454
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Speaker 3: to tell us about how your experience I believe was

455
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Speaker 3: arek in Afghanistans shaped why you use these dogs and

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Speaker 3: what needs the veterans have that the dogs will serve.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it gives the veteran the purpose right.

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Speaker 7: Our organization represents what are your needs? What do you

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Speaker 7: want to do to obtain them? And it's not like

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Speaker 7: just giving you the keys to a vehicle and saying hey,

461
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Speaker 7: you're good to go. Now that's you're on your own.

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Speaker 7: We look at it from a long term perspective of

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Speaker 7: what can we do to also cater to you long term?

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Speaker 7: So in the event something happens with the dog, I'm

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Speaker 7: on a ninety six hour flight window to where I'm

466
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Speaker 7: flying out there making corrections and doing other modifications that

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Speaker 7: need to be done just in the event that it's

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Speaker 7: not a good fit or we have other dogs that

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Speaker 7: we can back up for that and fill in where

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Speaker 7: they need to be filled in. So I guess for

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Speaker 7: to answer your question on the other side is also

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Speaker 7: it's you know, really, what can you do to adapt

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Speaker 7: to a person's individual needs that are willing to put

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Speaker 7: in the time and the effort to want to heal.

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Speaker 2: No, go ahead, And Michelle, you've just done such phenomenal

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Speaker 2: work with veterans, and I want to ask you what

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Speaker 2: advice would you get any veterans that are hesitant to

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Speaker 2: reach out or receive help.

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Speaker 7: Do your due diligence and don't be scared to ask

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Speaker 7: for help. We're here for a reason, you know. There's

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Speaker 7: there's too many people that I've known personally who who

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Speaker 7: have taken their life and you think everything is going

483
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Speaker 7: well until it's not, And just don't be that guy.

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Speaker 7: Please don't. There's a there's we have a large network.

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Speaker 7: There's a number of different avenues that you can go

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Speaker 7: versus the latter. So reach out to your family, reach

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Speaker 7: out to your friends, the network, and you know, just

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Speaker 7: just try to get the help that you need.

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Speaker 6: David Emiley, would you like to ask up.

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Speaker 12: The Yeah, Anthony, I just wanted to ask you. You know,

491
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Speaker 12: I was working with a camp Victory years ago where

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Speaker 12: families come home and joined the veterans and live with

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Speaker 12: them to reacclimate once they come back. Is that some

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Speaker 12: of the services that you guys provide to bring back

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Speaker 12: to families together.

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Speaker 7: Yes, that's one of the one of the verticals that

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Speaker 7: we'll be looking at doing once we actually have established

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Speaker 7: some of those programs on the non traditional side of it,

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Speaker 7: but yes, reintegration on a more of a holistic side

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Speaker 7: for us and having it, you know, more or less

501
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Speaker 7: a very posh kind of community where everything there is

502
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Speaker 7: engineered to provide into or produce something. So whether it's

503
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Speaker 7: the trees, the plants, it's the horticultural aspect and vertical

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Speaker 7: that we'd like to build out there, everything has a

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Speaker 7: need in purpose so that when the veterans are with us,

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Speaker 7: there's jobs and tasks that they're going to be able

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Speaker 7: to do, while we can also help them transition back

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Speaker 7: home to understand, hey, you may not be able to

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Speaker 7: get to this today, but it's okay for us to

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Speaker 7: do it tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Right. Are there any stories from all of the work

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Speaker 4: that you've done, all the time that you've spent helping

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Speaker 4: veterans that really stand out the most to you, anything

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Speaker 4: that you'd like to share with us that comes to mind?

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Speaker 7: They really they reach on so many different sides to

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Speaker 7: the it's just the effort that the individuals who we

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Speaker 7: work with and what they put into it and how

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Speaker 7: they're able to conceive what we're going for and the

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00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 7: goals that we put in front of them, and just

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Speaker 7: how well they've been able to obtain and just continue

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Speaker 7: to push on through a lot of these trying moments

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Speaker 7: where you know, we have a lot of people in

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Speaker 7: the community that are dying from cancers or you know, suicide,

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Speaker 7: whatever the case may be at this point. But the

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Speaker 7: fact is that they continue to lean into the progress

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Speaker 7: with the animal and or continue to contact us in

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Speaker 7: an event that they need additional services that we can

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Speaker 7: be able to help them or at least provide them

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Speaker 7: in the direction of you know, work, and they seek

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Speaker 7: remedy for that for that type of care.

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Speaker 3: Well, we haven't talked a lot about Bourbon, who's apparently

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Speaker 3: taking nap. Yeah, tell us a little bit, so talk

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Speaker 3: about Bourbon. How long have you had him and your

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Speaker 3: journey with Bourbon.

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Speaker 7: Yes, so I've had Bourbon now for eleven years. I

536
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Speaker 7: picked him out when he was three days old. That

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Speaker 7: I mean, that doesn't mean much for a little, you know,

538
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Speaker 7: little puppy that can't see it, can barely hear. But

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Speaker 7: you know, he taught me a lot of things in

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Speaker 7: essence to reactions and being able to go outside and

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Speaker 7: a lot of just my my behaviors and what I

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Speaker 7: needed to do to change for myself, and just being

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Speaker 7: out in public helping me kind of learn how to

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Speaker 7: cope with I don't want to say being overstimulated, but

545
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Speaker 7: being able to focus and put stimulation into something where

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Speaker 7: it was a brand.

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Speaker 6: It was a part of me.

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Speaker 7: It was a reflection of me. It was a reflection

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Speaker 7: of our work that we're doing together because we just

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Speaker 7: we we kind of hold our dogs to a different

551
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Speaker 7: standard than just letting him be a dog. At certain

552
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Speaker 7: points is like now it's his time where he's on

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Speaker 7: that verge of being able to just be a dog.

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Speaker 7: But until then, it's still, hey, we gotta shoot you out,

555
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Speaker 7: but we gotta go to work, We gotta do X,

556
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Speaker 7: Y and Z because I need you here. But it

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Speaker 7: is it is coming to that point at eleven years

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Speaker 7: old where we're gonna have to retire him pretty soon.

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Speaker 4: I think Michelle has a new best friend over there.

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Speaker 1: How adorable is this day of my life?

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Speaker 2: If anyone knows I love dogs, But speak a little

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Speaker 2: bit about him because a lot of people might think

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Speaker 2: that he's.

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Speaker 1: A German shepherd.

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Speaker 7: Yes, so he is a eleven year old Belgian mount

566
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Speaker 7: law and what's.

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Speaker 1: So significant about that breed specifically.

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Speaker 7: I just like them due to the temperament. They're going

569
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Speaker 7: to correct you if they if you need to interfected.

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Speaker 7: But they there's they're just their speed, the dynamics there,

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Speaker 7: I mean these athletes and it's they're on them par

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Speaker 7: with you in the event, Hey, you want to go

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Speaker 7: to the range, They're going to be right there with you.

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Speaker 7: It's like you can still do dynamic things with these

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Speaker 7: animals where it depends on who you are and what

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Speaker 7: you're looking for in the dog. And that's what's so

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Speaker 7: great about us and what we're able to do is

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Speaker 7: we can literally train what do you need for you

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Speaker 7: and we'll be able to try to provide that for you.

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Speaker 3: And just in the last ten to fifteen seconds or so,

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Speaker 3: remind people where people can go to find out about

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Speaker 3: Warrior's Choice and about this event.

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Speaker 7: Ye, you can check us out on our website at

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Speaker 7: ww dot Warriors Choice dot org or on Instagram at

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Speaker 7: Warriors Choice Foundation, and then we have a Facebook at

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Speaker 7: Choice Warriors.

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Speaker 6: We'll come just to look for pictures of bourbon.

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Speaker 1: I think if you ever need a babysitter, let me know.

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Speaker 4: The love of an animal is just so pure. Thanks

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Speaker 4: again for coming on our show.

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Speaker 17: Now.

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Speaker 4: Later on Country Legend, Lee Greenwood joins us to talk

593
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Speaker 4: about his hit God Bless the USA and how it

594
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Speaker 4: means more now than ever.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back.

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Speaker 3: Finally c with Veterans Day right here on our doorstep.

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Speaker 3: What does Veterans Day mean to you? It gets confused

598
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Speaker 3: a lot of times with Memorial Day, So over time

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Speaker 3: from your first day, first Veterans Day when you became

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Speaker 3: a veteran to now tell me what that's meant to

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Speaker 3: you and what Veterans Day means to you today.

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Speaker 10: That actually been a learning experience. I came at the beginning,

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Speaker 10: it was a day off of work. The second thing

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Speaker 10: was I felt like I was a part of a

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Speaker 10: big organization that meant something. But now after working with

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Speaker 10: PTSD and with some of the guys who went paid

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Speaker 10: the bigger price, it allowed me to notice some of

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Speaker 10: them Veteran Day is a little sad for them as

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Speaker 10: someone they lost someone. They say, why am I alive

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Speaker 10: when I lost someone very special? And they don't have

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Speaker 10: a chance to experience this. So the first thing I've

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Speaker 10: learned now is some of my very special veteran friends,

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Speaker 10: find out what they like to do, how they feel

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Speaker 10: about it, and join them there. Some of them don't

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Speaker 10: like you to say thank you for your service. They

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Speaker 10: find it to be a cliche instead of you don't

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Speaker 10: really know what that means. So sometimes if you don't

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Speaker 10: know what you're saying to me, I can't really accept

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Speaker 10: it a thank you for your service. But some of

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Speaker 10: the ones who really are true and really take this serious,

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Speaker 10: they appreciate if you know me a little bit, then

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Speaker 10: you can actually know how to approach me say thank you.

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Speaker 3: So talk to them, talk to a bet yes, set

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Speaker 3: to know them. Don't just say thank you for your serivience.

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Speaker 10: Get to really know, right because when you just say

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Speaker 10: and you don't know what they don't have been through

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Speaker 10: and they might be angry by something. Then if you

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00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 10: get a better understanding what they are dealing with, you

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Speaker 10: can then say, well, I hope you have a better day.

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Speaker 10: I hope things you find your way to what you're

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Speaker 10: trying to achieve. Just give them some hope to change

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Speaker 10: direction or to have a better approach and a better

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Speaker 10: outlook on what deare dealing with. Nikov When everybody got

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Speaker 10: something to look for and fight fight for it gives

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Speaker 10: you more of a push when times get hard.

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Speaker 17: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Some more words of inspiration from the veterans that we've

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Speaker 4: been hearing from throughout the show. A big thank you

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Speaker 4: to Bo Davidson for taking the time to speak with

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Speaker 4: these incredible heroes. We also want to take a moment

641
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Speaker 4: to honor the veterans near and dear to our real

642
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Speaker 4: America's Voice family. My grandfather. We are Polish, so we

643
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 4: call him Jaja. He's ninety nine years old. You heard

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Speaker 4: that right, ninety nine years old. He's a World War

645
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Speaker 4: Two veteran. He enlisted in the Air Force when he

646
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Speaker 4: was still a teenager, and the members of his squadrant

647
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Speaker 4: called him Junior. He's a Catholic and so he prayed

648
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 4: before every mission they flew, and David get this, His

649
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 4: fellow airmen wouldn't even get on the plane until he

650
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 4: wrapped up with mass He's been my inspiration for Fly

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Speaker 4: with the Little Girl.

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Speaker 8: Oh.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely a different generation, and I'm so happy that he

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Speaker 4: passed down the values to my generation as well. He

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00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 4: continues to be an incredible example of selflessness and service

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Speaker 4: to America.

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Speaker 3: We also want to honor our beloved executive producer. Trisha's

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Speaker 3: grandfather in law, Matthew Paatella, who served in the US

659
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Speaker 3: Army during World War One. Her father in law, Matthew

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Speaker 3: Patilla the second also served our great country and was

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Speaker 3: in the US Navy during World War Two.

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Speaker 10: Wow.

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Speaker 12: Well, patriotism is a family value passed down through generations,

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Speaker 12: and we thank all of our veterans who answered the

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Speaker 12: call to service to protect all of our American freedoms.

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Speaker 4: And a great way for our veterans to stay healthy

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Speaker 4: is to follow our next guest, John Jubilee and his

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Speaker 4: Energized Health Plan.

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Speaker 1: Hi John, Happy Monday. Thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 17: Well, hey, superstars, I'm honored to celebrate this day with you,

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Speaker 17: and I actually also have two amazing veterans. A thirty

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Speaker 17: eight year colonel who has now passed away, but my

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Speaker 17: eighty three year old mom is still rocking it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, my mom was a master sergeant in the Army

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Speaker 17: and yep, she wore combat boots. But you know what,

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Speaker 17: she is still working full time and she is rocking

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Speaker 17: the world because she's also a client. She's my mom,

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Speaker 17: but she's a client. She did the Energized Health Protocol

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Speaker 17: about twenty five years ago. And she'd been rocking it

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Speaker 17: ever since.

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Speaker 6: John, It's so great.

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Speaker 12: And since we're a veteran focused today, can you tell

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Speaker 12: us how energized health can help our nation's veterans?

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Speaker 17: Well, I really can. You know, they grew up in

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Speaker 17: an era when you know, there wasn't a lot of

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Speaker 17: the chemicals in the food you know that we had today,

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Speaker 17: And so that's why I'm excited. Your grandfather is ninety

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Speaker 17: nine years old. You know, back when we had a

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Speaker 17: lot more movement, we didn't have the chemicals that we

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Speaker 17: had today. But one of the things that energized health

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Speaker 17: can help to do is it creates a living river.

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Speaker 17: A living river. So even if you've got some bad

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Speaker 17: chemicals coming in, think about it. You know, where do

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Speaker 17: they even dump bad chemicals? You know, I'm not saying

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Speaker 17: I want them to do this, but they do right.

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Speaker 17: They dump them in a river because they know a

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Speaker 17: river will flush them downstream and flush them out. And

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Speaker 17: through our breakthrough science of intra salar hydration, it basically

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Speaker 17: does the same thing. Inside of a human body is

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Speaker 17: all of your toxins and your inflammation can be flushed

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Speaker 17: down river through your own healthy intra salar hydration.

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Speaker 2: Well, John, our outlook on the future is often influenced

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Speaker 2: by the political landscape or bank accounts, and the quality

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Speaker 2: of our health.

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Speaker 1: That's such a big one.

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Speaker 2: So how can people stay positive in spite of their

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Speaker 2: circumstances or health issues.

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Speaker 17: Well, it's it's fascinating, you know, and I'm going to

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Speaker 17: jump on you know, the grandfather's coattails, who used to pray.

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Speaker 17: You know, the Bible says in first John three too,

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Speaker 17: it says, beloved, I wish above all things, above all things,

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Speaker 17: that you be in health and prosper even as your

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Speaker 17: soul prospers. So even God ordained that the best way

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Speaker 17: to have joy, to have contentment, and have peace is

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Speaker 17: to have your health. Because if you have your health,

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Speaker 17: no matter what's going on in your life. And you know,

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Speaker 17: we've had hurricanes lately. I was in a hurricane when

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Speaker 17: I was a little and you know, my house moved

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Speaker 17: about six blocks down the street. Our address changed, the

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Speaker 17: house moved down the street, and we went and lived

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Speaker 17: in a horse trailer, you know, for several months, because

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Speaker 17: that's just what you did back then. You know. The

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Speaker 17: neighbors helped out. They had some horses. They let us

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Speaker 17: move into a horse trailer. But we had a great attitude,

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Speaker 17: and so it's possible to have joy, to have contentment,

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Speaker 17: to have peace. You know, they say, right, if you

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Speaker 17: don't have your health, you don't have anything. But the

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Speaker 17: flip side is, if you have your health, you actually

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Speaker 17: have everything, even the things that money can't buy, you

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Speaker 17: can still choose to focus on the positive.

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Speaker 6: Well, John, we got about a minute left.

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Speaker 3: Tell us how at any age, veteran, non veteran, civilian

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Speaker 3: that you can reclaim joy and maintain a healthy lifestyle

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Speaker 3: with energized health.

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Speaker 17: Well, you know what, you take an action step. You know,

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Speaker 17: if you don't make a change, nothing's going to change

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Speaker 17: when it comes to health. If I asked everyone a question,

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Speaker 17: if you don't do something different, what will happen? The

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Speaker 17: answer is not it will get better. The answer is not.

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Speaker 4: John, I apologize. I'm so sorry to cut you off here.

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Speaker 4: We are running out of time, but I need to

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Speaker 4: make sure my grandfather checks out energized health. He's ninety

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Speaker 4: nine years old now, but he needs to make it

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Speaker 4: to one hundred. Thanks for being with us today.

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Speaker 6: Thanks.

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Speaker 4: Another veteran that we want to mention is one of.

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Speaker 1: Our crew, Drew.

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Speaker 4: He's a US Marine and we are so happy to

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Speaker 4: have him here with us. Thank you so much for your service, Drew.

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Speaker 1: We love you, Drew.

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Speaker 3: Thank you to where this ridman?

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Speaker 5: And it's time we're staying its same.

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Speaker 3: Where's time.

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Speaker 5: Time Lado to there I can where it is din

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Speaker 5: over and I will forget the men who died who

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Speaker 5: gave that night to Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Back to Special Report on this Veterans Day.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest has been in support of veterans for

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Speaker 2: over forty years. His song God Blessed the USA has

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Speaker 2: always been a top ten but reached number one on

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Speaker 2: the Billboard charts in twenty twenty and has been a

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Speaker 2: staple during President Trump's campaign.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard it if you've been to any rally,

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Speaker 1: and that's why we are so happy.

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Speaker 2: It's welcome in, Lee Greenwood, Thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 2: Special Report.

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Speaker 17: Lee, You're welcome. Great to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to have you here.

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Speaker 2: And you were recently at President Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: Nonetheless, you sang God Blessed the USA for the crowds.

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Speaker 1: How was it being there with President Trump in Butler?

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Speaker 18: It was fantastic, of course, I wasn't there when the

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Speaker 18: attempted assassination took place, and that was a big crowd

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Speaker 18: they had before.

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Speaker 6: But this crowd with.

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Speaker 17: About three times that.

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Speaker 18: I don't know what the number that somebody said, around

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Speaker 18: thirty thousand, maybe more.

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Speaker 17: It was.

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Speaker 18: It was exhilarating. And to see the president calmly, confidently

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Speaker 18: walk out on stage to the you know, to my music,

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Speaker 18: and I'm standing there singing, looking at him, going, this

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Speaker 18: is my president.

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Speaker 17: This is the guy that's going to run the country.

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Speaker 12: Because he is not afraid.

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Speaker 18: And the crowd, I'm oh my gosh, as you saw

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Speaker 18: standing behind me there and I'm singing, and you know,

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Speaker 18: one of the things when I walked off stage, there

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Speaker 18: was a longer video and they were saying fight, fight, fight.

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Speaker 17: Remember that's what he said right after he got shot.

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Speaker 18: And of course it's my privilege to stand back and

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Speaker 18: salute the president. And I reached out to shake his

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Speaker 18: hand and he grabbed me. It gave me a bear hug.

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Speaker 17: He's so warm and genuine arizing.

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Speaker 1: I'm noticing too, he said something into your ear.

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Speaker 2: Did you guys have a chance to talk before after

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Speaker 2: the rally?

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Speaker 1: What were you guys talking about?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 18: I did have a chance to whisper something to him,

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Speaker 18: and I said, go get him, Tiger.

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Speaker 7: I love it.

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Speaker 4: That's fantastically I think you, without a doubt wrote the

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Speaker 4: most iconic patriotic song in America. You definitely fired up

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Speaker 4: that crowd with your song. But some people who have

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Speaker 4: written songs that Trump has used at his rallies, like

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Speaker 4: YMCA for example, the artists aren't really thrilled that he's

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Speaker 4: been using their music.

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Speaker 1: So why do you support Trump?

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Speaker 4: Why are you happy that he's using your songs at

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Speaker 4: his rallies.

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Speaker 17: Well, that's an interesting question.

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Speaker 18: I'm a conservative Christian and this is my when I

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Speaker 18: say it the r NC and I introduced the president.

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Speaker 18: It's not the first time I've done that. I go

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Speaker 18: all o Bay back to the Reagan days. That was

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Speaker 18: my fourth out of six r ncs, and so it

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Speaker 18: gives me a thrill to know that not only does

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Speaker 18: the public like my song for various reasons, but that

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Speaker 18: the president's four of them has endorsed the music in

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Speaker 18: order to fire up America and get their candidate. At

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Speaker 18: all of them dates they support elected as well.

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Speaker 17: So I'm I don't know. You can't scare me off.

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Speaker 18: The campaign like it did some of the other people

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Speaker 18: who dropped off ter in the twenty twenty election.

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Speaker 17: I just felt it was the right.

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Speaker 18: Thing to do. And when I leave my home, I

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Speaker 18: always have the sheriff watch my house and just to

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Speaker 18: protect us as well. But we've not really had any

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Speaker 18: threats of any kind. I think because.

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Speaker 17: My music isn't hostile.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 18: I have a whole album of songs called American Patriot,

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Speaker 18: and this is the fortieth anniversary of the release of

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Speaker 18: God Bless the USA. I recorded that album in nineteen

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Speaker 18: ninety two, the same year I married my wife, Kim,

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Speaker 18: so two good things I did that year. But the

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Speaker 18: fortieth anniversary is out now with an album with a red,

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Speaker 18: white and blue disc inside and released by Universal, and

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Speaker 18: that's on our website leadering with dot com. You can

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Speaker 18: find that.

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Speaker 6: Well, Lee, I want to ask you too. You mentioned

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Speaker 6: Ronald Reagan.

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Speaker 3: You've sung my belief for about five presidents or STI

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Speaker 3: if I'm correct. Obviously there was an attempt on Reagan's

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Speaker 3: life and now you've seen there was an attempt on

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump's life. You have performed for these men, ironically,

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Speaker 3: both Republican where there are people who want to take

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Speaker 3: these men's lives. And I'll point to your lyric. You know,

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Speaker 3: from Detroit down to Houston, New York to la there's

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Speaker 3: pride in every American heart. Are you concerned that there

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Speaker 3: are people out there that may not have that pride,

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Speaker 3: that want to take the life of two presidents that

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Speaker 3: you've summ for.

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Speaker 17: Well, you know, bo, this is a big country.

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Speaker 18: We've got a lot of people, and it would be

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Speaker 18: silly to assume that we don't have a lot of

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Speaker 18: people who go a little bit crazy and various levels.

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Speaker 18: But to take it to the fact that they would

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Speaker 18: actually get a weapon and try to kill the leader

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Speaker 18: of the country is absolutely absurd.

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Speaker 17: And all I can say is that we just really.

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Speaker 18: Because we needed to overhaul, of course the Secret Service,

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Speaker 18: but depend upon that branch of government entity that's supposed

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Speaker 18: to protect politicians, all of them, and just.

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Speaker 17: Do a better job.

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Speaker 18: I was confident that we had secret service that wouldn't

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Speaker 18: let that happen. But of course, after Butler Pennsylvania the

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Speaker 18: first time, I was actually shocked. And if you remember

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Speaker 18: the attack on Ronald Reagan's life, coming out of a

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Speaker 18: hotel and there was a man standing there with a

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Speaker 18: gun that's like, that's that's a secret service problem. That's

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Speaker 18: that's not necessarily an American problem. That's a secret service problem.

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Speaker 18: We depend upon them to do their job and they

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Speaker 18: didn't lee.

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Speaker 2: Through your interactions with fans that you see out on

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Speaker 2: the street, with neighbors within the community, what in your

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Speaker 2: opinion is the sentiment like right now in America leading

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Speaker 2: up to election day?

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Speaker 18: Well, you might you might guess that most of my

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Speaker 18: my audience is biased. And I mean, you know, when

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Speaker 18: are you talking about me singing for five presidents? At

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Speaker 18: the Reagan Library opening, I sang in front behind me

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Speaker 18: was Nixon, Carter, Ford, Bush.

887
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Speaker 6: And Reagan.

888
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Speaker 18: And then again at the Texas A and M hurricane

889
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 18: relief several years ago, in the audience in front of

890
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 18: me was Obama, Clinton, Harder, and both Bush presidents. So

891
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 18: I'm crossing the aisle. I mean, I respect anybody who

892
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Speaker 18: has the office of the United States of America and

893
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Speaker 18: going to dictate where our military goes and what kind.

894
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Speaker 17: Of policies we have.

895
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Speaker 18: But as far as you know what your question is,

896
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Speaker 18: all I can say is that I'm proud of what

897
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Speaker 18: I do and I try to make it for all Americans.

898
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Speaker 4: Well, that's great that you take pride. You're not only

899
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 4: a great musician, but you're also a great person. You've

900
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 4: truly been a hero your entire career, not only with

901
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 4: your music, but you've helped his organizations such as helping

902
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Speaker 4: a Hero tunnels to.

903
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Speaker 1: Tower Saint Jude.

904
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Speaker 4: Tell us what motivates you to work with all of

905
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Speaker 4: these organizations.

906
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Speaker 18: Well, first of all, my father joined the Navy right

907
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 18: after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. And I was born

908
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:45,720
Speaker 18: in nineteen forty two.

909
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Speaker 17: So now you know how old I am.

910
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Speaker 18: But my mother and father were divorced when I was

911
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 18: a year old. That's what happens in military families lot

912
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 18: at the time, they just can't seem to exist.

913
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 17: I didn't really meet my father tele I.

914
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Speaker 18: Was eighteen, and not that that has any bearing on

915
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 18: my belief that I'm a patriot. They are an awful

916
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Speaker 18: lot of people that aren't military and are patriots.

917
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 17: And I did not serve in the military.

918
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 5: I would have.

919
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Speaker 18: I think i'd been a good soldier how to follow orders,

920
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 18: and you can ask my wife, Kim, but I don't know.

921
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Speaker 18: When I was a drum major from a high school

922
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 18: marching band. Early on, I started doing USO tours. I

923
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 18: just fel an obligation to be involved. And as you

924
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Speaker 18: look at the history of my career, which started not

925
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 18: until nineteen eighty in Nashville, Tennessee, I had twenty years

926
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 18: behind me performing in Vegas with all of the people

927
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 18: I admired, and the stars of my era, the rat

928
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Speaker 18: Pack and Elvis Presley and many many acts who I admired,

929
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Speaker 18: and I said, I want to do that. As a

930
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 18: matter of fact, when Elvis sang the Trilogy in his show,

931
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 18: when I said, if I ever get my career in

932
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 18: country music, I'm going to use the Trilogy as my closer.

933
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 18: Lo and behold, I wouldn't know that fifteen to twenty

934
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 18: years later, I'd write my own anthem and that would

935
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Speaker 18: turn out to be my closer.

936
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Speaker 17: But did you see the military audience there on your camera.

937
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 18: I tell you there's something special, however, being abroad, being

938
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Speaker 18: somewhere outside the United States of America, being on location

939
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 18: in a base or in a war zone, and you're

940
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 18: singing and you're entertaining, but it's much more than that.

941
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 18: You're an ambassador for the country, and you're bringing the

942
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 18: best of America to those soldiers and that's what makes

943
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Speaker 18: it so special for me.

944
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Speaker 2: Well, Lee, let's talk a little bit more about your music,

945
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,720
Speaker 2: because you just released your latest album this past summer,

946
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 2: called American Patriot, and it came out on the fourth

947
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 2: of July. Tell us what kind of music is on

948
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 2: this brand new album and why do you decide to

949
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 2: put out an album like this.

950
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 17: Well, that's not the picture of it you're showing there.

951
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 18: That's our fortieth anniversary of DVD that's available on Leaguering

952
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 18: with dot com, by the way, and we gave away

953
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 18: two homes during that broadcast to soldiers. But what you're

954
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 18: referring to is the American Patriots CD, which was never

955
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 18: accorded on vinyl. So it's really interesting that forty years later,

956
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 18: Universal has made the decision. I think because of streaming

957
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 18: they know that the popular song with the President and

958
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 18: it is actually a thirty three and a third vinyl album.

959
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Speaker 17: And I don't have a picture of it here in

960
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 17: front of me.

961
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Speaker 18: I could actually show it to you, but you can

962
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 18: go on my website and see it and it says

963
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 18: American Patriot, but it's in vinyl instead of a CD.

964
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Speaker 3: Well, Lee, you also created a King James version of

965
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 3: the Bible. We've got it right here, called the God

966
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 3: Blessed the USA Bible. But it's not just a bible.

967
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 3: Tell us what else readers will find amongst its pages.

968
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 18: I don't know where you got that, but I'm glad

969
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 18: you have it, because I was about to show you

970
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Speaker 18: the one I have on my desk.

971
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Speaker 1: Makes sense.

972
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Speaker 17: This would maybe a little.

973
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Speaker 18: Bit more special than the one you have there because

974
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 18: you see who signed it, President Trump. But but yes,

975
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Speaker 18: in the back of this Bible, we have included, at

976
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Speaker 18: the request of the publisher, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution,

977
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 18: the Bill of Rights, and the Pledge of Allegiance. And

978
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 18: that's not necessarily a founding Father's document, but it is

979
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 18: important to Americas to all know what the Pledge Allegiance is.

980
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 18: And you can ask any immigrant who comes to this

981
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Speaker 18: country legally. They've done an awful lot of study about

982
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 18: our country. And so the Constitution and the Declaration of

983
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 18: Independence being in this book, that's very important the people

984
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Speaker 18: who understand how this country got started. It wasn't we

985
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 18: tried to run away from religion and I happen.

986
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Speaker 17: To be a Christian, but this does it.

987
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 18: As you see in the front cover, it says Holy Bible,

988
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,240
Speaker 18: and then underneath it it says God Bless the USA.

989
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Speaker 17: That is a phrase I do not own.

990
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 18: However, because I wrote the song, I included it, and

991
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Speaker 18: also I have a handwritten version of my lyrics in

992
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 18: the back that was requested as well. It makes it

993
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 18: kind of different and it beautifully leather bound, as you notice.

994
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 18: And you can find it on God Bless the USA

995
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 18: Bible dot com. That's God Bless the USA Bible dot com.

996
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 17: They said to say that twice just for.

997
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Speaker 1: Emphasis, and Bo has it up right.

998
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 3: Now.

999
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Speaker 1: I feel like Vana White, the price is right.

1000
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Speaker 2: That's not correct to look at that a right declaration

1001
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Speaker 2: of independence.

1002
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Speaker 1: We're big fans. Clearly we have our own copy. And

1003
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Speaker 1: of course, one more time for emphasis. Lee, where can

1004
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Speaker 1: people find.

1005
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Speaker 18: This Bible if I want, Yeah, you can go to

1006
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,919
Speaker 18: my website of course, Lee Greenwood dot com. But specifically

1007
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 18: it will send you to God Bless the USA Bible

1008
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Speaker 18: dot com.

1009
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Speaker 1: Pretty simple, Lee Greenwood, a living legend.

1010
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for spending your Veterans Day with us,

1011
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 2: and thank you so much for everything you're doing for

1012
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Speaker 2: a country.

1013
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Speaker 18: Let me just say that a very happy Veterans Day

1014
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 18: to all of those who have served our country and

1015
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Speaker 18: those who are currently serving our country in the United

1016
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Speaker 18: States Military.

1017
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Speaker 17: God bless them all, God.

1018
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Speaker 2: Bless thanks you Greenwood truly a living legend, and thank

1019
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Speaker 2: you to all of you for watching our show today

1020
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Speaker 2: this very special edition of Special Reports.

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Speaker 1: Please be safe and we will see you next time.