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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast am on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: I come from a family of military people. My father

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Speaker 2: was in World War Two, was in the Battle of

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Speaker 2: the Bulge. Did not like to talk about it a lot.

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Speaker 2: I asked him many questions as a kid, and he

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Speaker 2: just kind of shied away. I always remember him being

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Speaker 2: very short when he was talking about things that I

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Speaker 2: asked him. And then my exposure was in high school

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Speaker 2: to the Vietnam War. Of course, we all saw what

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Speaker 2: was happening there, and we didn't give the troops a

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Speaker 2: warm welcome when they came home. We should have. It

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Speaker 2: was not their fault, it was not a just war.

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Speaker 2: We should never have been involved in Vietnam, in my opinion,

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Speaker 2: but we should not have blamed the troops for that

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Speaker 2: and should have given them the honor and respect that

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Speaker 2: they so duly deserved. And eventually I went into the

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Speaker 2: Navy and spent nine years. There is a full lieutenant,

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Speaker 2: which is like a captain in the Army and the

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Speaker 2: Marines and the Air Force and everything else. And in

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Speaker 2: a moment you're going to hear from Daniel Brinkley, who

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Speaker 2: is the founder of the not for profit Twilight Brigade

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Speaker 2: in the Brinkley Foundation, where his work focuses on the

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Speaker 2: veterans fighting after their return from war, helping hundreds of

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Speaker 2: veterans pass to the other side as well, making sure

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Speaker 2: they are not alone. Before we go to our break,

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Speaker 2: a special tribute to our men and women in the service.

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Speaker 2: Let's begin with the.

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Speaker 3: Army and.

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Speaker 2: Once again thank you to those of you who have

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Speaker 2: served in the Army or continue to serve in the Army.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for everything you do for us. And of

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Speaker 2: course let us never forget the Navy. Sh Thank you Navy.

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Speaker 2: And of course the Marine's celebrating two hundred and fifty years.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Marine, rah Marines. And of course let's never

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Speaker 2: forget the Air Force. Now, some in the media forget

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Speaker 2: one other branch, but we don't. The Coastcars. Thank you

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Speaker 2: all those of you who have served in the military

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Speaker 2: and continue to serve. Thank you.

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