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Speaker 1: Kelly Show. Another hour of The Jesse Kelly Show on

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Speaker 1: our three hour Memorial Day special, where we honor the fallen.

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Speaker 1: Hope you have honored the fallen today. Set a prayer

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Speaker 1: for their families. Baby reached out to somebody. If you

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Speaker 1: know they lost someone, let them know you're thinking about

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Speaker 1: them again. I want to make sure I remind you veterans,

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Speaker 1: today can be a difficult day. If you find yourself

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Speaker 1: thinking about brothers in arms you lost, it's easy to

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Speaker 1: get down today. Do not let that consume you. If

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Speaker 1: you need help, get some help. Pick up your phone,

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Speaker 1: dial nine to eight eight and press one. Veterans, if

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Speaker 1: you're feeling and need help, the shame is not asking

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Speaker 1: for help. That's the only shame there is, all right,

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Speaker 1: But this is a day where we honor the fallen.

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Speaker 1: The first hour was kind of a World War two hour.

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Speaker 1: Second hour will kind of be Korea, third hour will

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Speaker 1: be Vietnam. Just kind of how we're breaking it down today.

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Speaker 1: Some more names that were sent in sent in by you.

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Speaker 1: I told you I'd read as many as I possibly

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Speaker 1: could today. PFC James Edward Tobin Captain John D. Porterfield,

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Speaker 1: Specialist Donald R. Kenton, Sergeant Louis Pelisari, Sergeant James Armstrong,

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Speaker 1: Specialist William M. Bryant. We will continue on reading these

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Speaker 1: names throughout the day, but we are going to do

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Speaker 1: a little Korea overall story before we get into the

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Speaker 1: actual specific navy crosses, cross citations. We're gonna read from

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Speaker 1: Korea because Korea is not it's not widely taught, it's

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Speaker 1: not widely understood at all, and that is a very

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Speaker 1: sad thing. But it's it's like it's known as the

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Speaker 1: Forgotten War for a reason. It just kind of got

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Speaker 1: horrific conflict in the Middle. I don't know whether it's

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Speaker 1: know what the reasons are, but you could make an

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Speaker 1: argument fighting in Korea, the fighting up by Chosen Reservoir

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Speaker 1: was as miserable as any fighting in any conflict. Ever,

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Speaker 1: when you're in a situation where you have to pee

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Speaker 1: all right, Post World War Two, what happens in a

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Speaker 1: are during the course of World War Two, this country

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Speaker 1: spent an inhuman amount of money on the military, on

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Speaker 1: It's hard to explain now because you and I have

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Speaker 1: it's hard to explain now what America used to be like.

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Speaker 1: From the founding really all the way up to World

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Speaker 1: War Two. America was founded on well philosophically, militarily, they

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Speaker 1: me back to this MacArthur guy. MacArthur wants to keep

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Speaker 1: Long story short, Mao, he doesn't like what we're doing

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Speaker 1: That's a long way of saying, Mao packs up. No

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Speaker 1: And he says south, go, and Mao points them south

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Speaker 1: Let's do remember Mao wasn't like your nerdy communist college professor.

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Speaker 1: Mao was a gorilla warfighter. Maonew military. He knew strategy,

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Speaker 1: They just didn't know it yet. We'll finish up this

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Speaker 1: just a second. Hang on, Jesse Kelly, it is the

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Speaker 1: Douglas MacArthur and his generals are starting to get intel,

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Speaker 1: But people, when you're moving, when you're in combat and

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Speaker 1: you're scared and you're getting shot at, people are getting shot,

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Speaker 1: people are being wounded, and you have to make decisions.

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Speaker 1: You have to make decisions on bringing them along, giving

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Speaker 1: them to die. Well, we don't like to leave people

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Speaker 1: to die. Although it does happen, it happens a lot.

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Speaker 1: Think of the bravery, just merit aid for a few minutes,

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Speaker 1: on the bravery of heading back into the line of

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Speaker 1: fire to grab your men who are exposed and wounded.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll finish up with Korea. Then it's Vietnam time. Next.

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Speaker 1: The Jesse Kelly show. It is the Jesse Kelly Show,

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Speaker 1: honoring the fallen on Memorial Day today, or some more

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Speaker 1: names you have emailed in. Lieutenant Colonel Mario Corrizo, Corporal

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Speaker 1: Raphael Ruda, Sam Griffith, First Lieutenant Philip Neil, staff, Sergeant

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Speaker 1: Umberto Timatao, Sergeant Frank Carvill, Sergeant Ryan Dolts, Specialist Christopher Duffy,

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Speaker 1: staff Sergeant Kevin D. Davis, Lieutenant Colonel David Green, Mike Probst,

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Speaker 1: Corporal Kelly Groth, staff Sergeant Kobe Schwab, Pfc. David Bringman,

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Speaker 1: and we will keep reading those names you have emailed

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Speaker 1: in to honor the fallen throughout the show. Let's finish

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Speaker 1: up with a few more of these Navy Crosses here

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Speaker 1: and then we're going to do some Vietnam stuff next hour.

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Speaker 1: This Navy Cross is for A Lawrence Everett Let, the

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Speaker 1: President of the United States of America, takes pride in

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Speaker 1: presenting the Navy Cross posthumously to Corporal Lawrence Everett Let,

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Speaker 1: United States Marine Corps for extraordinary heroism in connection with

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Speaker 1: military operations against an armed enemy of the United Nations

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Speaker 1: while serving as a squad leader of Company I, third Battalion,

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Speaker 1: first Marin's first Marine Division in action against enemy aggressor

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Speaker 1: forces in the Republic of Korea on the twenty seventh

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Speaker 1: of October nineteen fifty two. Participating in an attack to

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Speaker 1: recapture a vitally important sector of the main line of

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Speaker 1: resistance which was previously overrun by the enemy, Corporal that

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Speaker 1: fearlessly led his squad through an intense enemy artillery, mortar,

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Speaker 1: and small arms fire to reach his portion of the

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Speaker 1: objective and single handedly charged several enemy bunkers, hurling hand

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Speaker 1: grenades and firing his rifle to route the hostile troops.

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Speaker 1: Although painfully wounded at point blank range by hostile machine

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Speaker 1: gun fire from one emplacement, he succeeded in completely destroying

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Speaker 1: the enemy position. When his men became separated from the platoon,

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Speaker 1: he gallantly continued in the attack until the enemy was

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Speaker 1: forced to withdraw, and then reorganized his squad to assault

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Speaker 1: a second objective. Throughout this action, he constantly exposed himself

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Speaker 1: to withering hostile fire, and, moving into an enemy trench,

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Speaker 1: courageously engaged three enemy soldiers in hand to hand combat

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Speaker 1: until he fell mortally wounded. By his indomitable fighting spirit,

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Speaker 1: valiant leadership and marked fortitude in the face of heavy odds.

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Speaker 1: Corporal Lette served to inspire all who observed him and

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Speaker 1: contributed in large measure to the success of his squad

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Speaker 1: in accomplishing its mission. His great personal valor reflects the

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Speaker 1: highest credit upon himself and sustains and enhances the finest

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Speaker 1: traditions of the United States Naval Service, and he gallantly

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Speaker 1: gave his life for his country. He was twenty years

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Speaker 1: old at the time. Also had added a silver star

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Speaker 1: to his resume. That goes back to remember when I

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Speaker 1: was talking about this is why I do the history

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Speaker 1: of them. First, the various positions you would have around

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Speaker 1: chosen reservoir. Well, remember, and they were normally numbered the hills.

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Speaker 1: So let's just make up a number here, hill two hundred,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm on hill two hundred. It's designated. They

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Speaker 1: get that number from the map, but set that aside. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So I'm on hill two hundred. My unit has Hill

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Speaker 1: two hundred, and we're fighting off the Chinese, and the

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Speaker 1: Chinese are sending wave after wave after wave after wave.

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Speaker 1: At US one it mentioned hand to hand fighting that

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Speaker 1: was very, very common in Korea for a couple reasons. One,

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Speaker 1: there was so many Chinese it was hard to kill

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Speaker 1: them all before they physically got to you. And two

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Speaker 1: many times they didn't have guns, so they would send

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Speaker 1: them up there with spears, knives, whatever they have, and

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Speaker 1: you end up you end up physically fighting them. There

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Speaker 1: are stories of men hacking at Korea. Dudes with their

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Speaker 1: ethel with their little mini shovels, with rocks, with whatever

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Speaker 1: you've got in your hands. I know it's just savage fighting.

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Speaker 1: But if you lost one of those hills, and it

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Speaker 1: happened several times, if you got run off one of

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Speaker 1: your hills, one of your strategic points, you have to

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Speaker 1: have that hill, you would reorganize and take it back. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's hard enough to fending that hill. Picture trying to

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Speaker 1: take that hill, charging uphill through the ice, in the snow,

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Speaker 1: in the freezing and the grenades coming downhill at you.

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Speaker 1: That was Korea. That's what these guys did. Navy Cross

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Speaker 1: for Arthur George Morrison, President of the United States of America,

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Speaker 1: takes pride in presenting the Navy posthumously to First Lieutenant

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Speaker 1: Anthony George Morrison, United States Marine Corps for extraordinary heroism

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Speaker 1: in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of

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Speaker 1: the United Nations while serving as commanding officer of Company E,

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Speaker 1: second Battalion, fifth Marines, First Marine Division, and action against

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Speaker 1: enemy aggressive forces in the Republic of Korea. On the

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Speaker 1: eleventh of November nineteen fifty two, during a night raid

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Speaker 1: on a strongly defended enemy position, First Lieutenant Morrison volunteered

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Speaker 1: to move to an exposed vantage point more than one

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Speaker 1: mile forward of the main line of resistance to more

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Speaker 1: effectively call in supporting fire. When the first squad of

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Speaker 1: the attack platoon contacted the enemy and suffered heavy casualties,

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Speaker 1: he personally led the two remaining squads in an assault

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Speaker 1: to aid the stricken unit in recovering their wounded and

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Speaker 1: in disengaging in an orderly manner regrouping his forces. He's

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Speaker 1: skillfully adjustest in supporting arms fire, which greatly reduced long

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Speaker 1: range enemy weapons, and again spearheaded the attack through devastating

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Speaker 1: hostile fire in a valiant attempt to envelop the objective.

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Speaker 1: Throughout the fierce engagement, he repeatedly exposed himself to withering

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Speaker 1: barrage of fire in order to encourage and exhort his

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Speaker 1: men to heroic endeavor in accomplishing the mission. When the

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Speaker 1: unit sustained several casualties and it became necessary to withdraw,

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Speaker 1: he directed his forces to the main line of resistance,

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Speaker 1: remaining with the rear guard to ensure that all his

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Speaker 1: men were accounted for. While helping carry a casualty back

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Speaker 1: to friendly lines, he was mortally wounded by an incoming

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Speaker 1: enemy mortar shell. By his exceptional valor, outstanding leadership, and

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Speaker 1: on waiving devotion to duty in the face of great odds,

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Speaker 1: First Lieutenant Morrison served to inspire all who observed him

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Speaker 1: and enhanced the finest traditions of the United States Naval Service,

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Speaker 1: and he gallantly gave his life for this country. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what's more impressive, volunteering to go a mile

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Speaker 1: away from your friends to call in supporting fire or

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Speaker 1: staying behind with the rear guard. Remember rear guard, guarding

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Speaker 1: while your men retreat, while your men move to a

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Speaker 1: different location. Rearguard is some of the most dangerous stuff

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Speaker 1: you can do, because you're alone, your friends are leaving you.

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Speaker 1: You volunteered to fight the enemy so your friends can live.

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Speaker 1: That is that's what today's about, right there, man. And

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Speaker 1: then you're carrying one of your guys back and mortar

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Speaker 1: round lands. And that's it, and that's what we honor today.

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Speaker 1: Heroism like that, we will move on and do some

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Speaker 1: Vietnam stuff for our final hour. Next bub bab b

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