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Speaker 1: Welcome to live special coverage of Memorial Day right here

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Speaker 1: on Real America's Voice. You were just listening to Steve

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Speaker 1: Bannon in his tremendous coverage of everything that happened at

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Speaker 1: Arlington National Cemetery. Happy Memorial Day to all of our

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Speaker 1: viewers who are spending your holiday with us, as we

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Speaker 1: honor American sacrifice and remember the fallen. Now, of course,

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Speaker 1: you just saw President Trump speaking at Arlington National Cemetery,

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Speaker 1: and today, folks, we reflect upon words like honor, duty, courage, sacrifice, heroism,

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Speaker 1: and patriotism and the idea that freedom is a gift

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Speaker 1: and that we have received immense grace by living in

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Speaker 1: this great United States. You just heard President Trump speak

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Speaker 1: about love moving the course of history always to freedom,

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Speaker 1: and I think that absolutely holds true. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: his speech, and today we honor sacrifice and we revere

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Speaker 1: the legacy of those who made the ultimate sacrifice and

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Speaker 1: paid with their lives. I'm here today in West Palm Beach,

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Speaker 1: and I'm joined by Steve Gruber, who's going to be

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Speaker 1: on the ground in Washington, d C. You've heard some

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Speaker 1: coverage here. Mike, just first of all, some just opening

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Speaker 1: remarks really about Memorial Day and what it means to

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Speaker 1: you personally.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, obviously, the people who were being honored today,

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Speaker 2: they paid the ultimate sacrifice to preserve the greatness that

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Speaker 2: is America. You know, there's many people out there, hundreds

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Speaker 2: of millions of people in this country, and the question

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Speaker 2: those people. I think that it is our duty to

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Speaker 2: ensure that we are electing leaders, you know, people who

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Speaker 2: to put our troops in our military first, these people

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Speaker 2: deserve the most people who serve the country. And then

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Speaker 2: obviously the people who didn't make it home. When they

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Speaker 3: And they did it anyway.

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Speaker 2: So I mean, these people are greater than any of

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Speaker 2: us because they truly, truly have something deep within them

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Speaker 2: that is special. So it was beautiful today to see

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Speaker 2: President Trump pay tribute, and it's beautiful to see Commander

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Speaker 2: I think, whether you're in the military or not in

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Speaker 2: you want to see our troops be put first above

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Speaker 2: all else. Those are the people who ensure that everything

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Speaker 2: else can fall into line in our society can continue

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Speaker 2: how it continues on a day in and day out basis.

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Speaker 2: So President Trump today's striking a serious cord. He was solemn,

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Speaker 2: he was serious, he was paying tribute. And I think

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Speaker 2: going to go to war if we need to. We're

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Speaker 2: have senseless death. We can honor those who died in

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Speaker 2: make sure that our troops in our military are honored

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Speaker 3: Bo. So a beautiful tribute today.

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Speaker 2: It always gets me when I see, you know, the

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Speaker 2: a sense of pride that every American should feel because

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Speaker 3: Families are amazing too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the gold Star families have been mentioned all day today,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's important, Mike, that something that often

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Speaker 1: President Trump honored several people there today whose ancestors or

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, I think it was jd

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Speaker 2: I think Jad Vants was saying, listen about it. Thanksgivings, birthdays, Sunday.

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Speaker 2: These are things that you know, we all do as

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Speaker 3: And it's the I believe it was.

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Speaker 2: The quote was it was the little moments that make

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Speaker 3: They have to.

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Speaker 2: Deal with that, They have to have that weight on them,

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Speaker 2: Those are very special people. We'll never know. If you're

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Speaker 3: I think that for the first time in years.

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Speaker 2: You know, the people out there who who were part

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Speaker 3: And I think you can feel the fact that Secretary Headset, JD.

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Speaker 7: just at our doorstep, inside our country today, and that's

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Speaker 7: the battle that we face.

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Speaker 5: So I look at I thank God for the reprieve

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Speaker 5: that we have, but I really look.

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Speaker 7: At twenty twenty six, twenty twenty eight and going forward

442
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Speaker 7: and our education system raising up the next generation.

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Speaker 5: That's partly why we homeschool our kids.

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Speaker 7: But to those that don't, you have to be involved

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Speaker 7: in your kids' schools, You have to be involved in

446
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Speaker 7: your local community. You have to start preaching freedom and

447
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Speaker 7: liberty and God's freedom and liberty that where our rights

448
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Speaker 7: come from to save this nation. And every single generation

449
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Speaker 7: has that fight. We just happened to be in it

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Speaker 7: right now.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I want to bring Mike Crispy back into this

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Speaker 1: conversation as well. And Mike, I'd like to touch on

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Speaker 1: something that Ben said earlier talking about how this country

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Speaker 1: was based upon a Judeo Christian foundation. We do have

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Speaker 1: a SOT. I want to play of Secretary defense Pete

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Speaker 1: Hegseth when he defended hosting a Christian prayer service at

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Speaker 1: the Pentagon. I think that sought six guys, if you

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Speaker 1: can play that real quick.

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Speaker 9: The question is I've got some criticism for hosts to

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Speaker 9: a Christian prayer service the Pentagon. Yesterday we said it

462
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Speaker 9: very publicly, we said it very proudly. Appealing to Heaven

463
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Speaker 9: to God is a long standing tradition in our military.

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Speaker 9: I'm very proud that we're starting a monthly voluntary service

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Speaker 9: at the Pentagon. George Washington was on bended knee with

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Speaker 9: the troops praying for God's providence and protection in that moment.

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Speaker 9: Chaplains and ministers and Christians and people of faith across

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Speaker 9: generations have prayed because of the business that we're in.

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Speaker 1: So, Mike, how interesting is it that our Secretary of

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Speaker 1: Defense gets criticized for merely appealing to the divine, which

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Speaker 1: has been done since the beginning of our country.

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you something.

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Speaker 2: There are obviously bad actors right now who are within

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Speaker 2: our government, who are the deep State, who are President

475
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Speaker 2: Trump is battling every single day, who we see every

476
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Speaker 2: single day facilitating the southern border invasion that Ben Berkwam

477
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Speaker 2: covers so brilliantly, the fact that these people despise America

478
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Speaker 2: and everything that was built on. You have these globalist

479
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Speaker 2: forces who don't like the country, who are opening up

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Speaker 2: the floodgates for illegals to pour in. They don't want

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Speaker 2: America to be America, and the pillar, the cornerstone of

482
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Speaker 2: America is that.

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Speaker 3: We are based on these Christian values.

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Speaker 2: We were built as a Christian country, Christian country, and

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Speaker 2: that is the only way in which our country can continue.

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Speaker 2: The ideals and the way in which people were raised,

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Speaker 2: in the way in which people went about their lives,

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Speaker 2: and the way in which they you know, really instilled

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Speaker 2: and implemented the values that they saw to be the

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Speaker 2: most important in their lives for success. These values are

491
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Speaker 2: getting attacked day in and day out. And while the

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Speaker 2: left does LGBTQ poetry, slam night back on the Davy

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Speaker 2: ships when they were at the helm, or you know,

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Speaker 2: doing celebrations of drag shows and other perverse things in

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Speaker 2: military facilities on military basis, on millitaryships, It's amazing to

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Speaker 2: me how Pete hetch that just brings back what was

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Speaker 2: done again over the last two hundred and forty nine

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Speaker 2: years to make this country great. And they criticize them

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Speaker 2: for it, and they criticize them for it because they

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Speaker 2: want the greatness of Americans to be ripped down. It

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Speaker 2: is an unfortunate reality. And I'll say one more thing

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Speaker 2: about you know, Memorial Day, and when I talk to

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Speaker 2: people who serve this country, who fortunately are still alive

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Speaker 2: to talk about their service. They always say the same thing,

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Speaker 2: I cannot believe. I never thought in my life it

506
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Speaker 2: would come to this, or we'd be so on the

507
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Speaker 2: brink of losing it all where we'd have people who

508
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Speaker 2: are running the country again the last four years under

509
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Speaker 2: the Biden regime, not an administration, but a regime, people

510
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Speaker 2: who were so intent on ripping it down, who are

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Speaker 2: doing things that are just so against again the Judeo

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Speaker 2: Christian values that built the country, just so against common

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Speaker 2: sense and law and order and securing our border and

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Speaker 2: you know, keeping the things and the christ centered ideals

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Speaker 2: that made our country our country. They're so outwardly and

516
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Speaker 2: overtly against it. You go, how do these people hate

517
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Speaker 2: the country? And the servicemen and women who are still

518
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Speaker 2: around who you can speak to about this, they always say,

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Speaker 2: I cannot believe it. This isn't what I fought and

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Speaker 2: almost died in many cases, and my friends died in

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Speaker 2: many cases to protect.

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Speaker 3: They've been astonished by it.

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Speaker 2: And I think, you know, American military, if you look

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Speaker 2: at the troops, overwhelmingly servicemen and women veterans. They voted

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Speaker 2: in a mandate for President Trump, and they overwhelmingly support

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Speaker 2: what Secretary Pete he accept is doing. And that tells

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Speaker 2: you everything you need to know. The best of us,

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Speaker 2: the people who put it all on the line, and

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Speaker 2: the gold Star families who gave it all, the ones

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Speaker 2: that were celebrating today, those folks are with President Trump.

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Speaker 2: Because President Trump and his entire administration and his cabinet,

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Speaker 2: they keep the ideals that built this country, particularly the

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Speaker 2: centeredness in Christ. They keep that first and foremost. And

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Speaker 2: that's why our troops back them. And tells us Bo

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Speaker 2: and Ben, it tells us everything we need to know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Ben put a book ind on this for

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Speaker 1: us because as we think about the Judeo Christian values

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Speaker 1: that just got attacked, as Pete hag Seth hosted a

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Speaker 1: prayer event there and what Mike was just talking about

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Speaker 1: in terms of where our military was over the last

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Speaker 1: four years. Rachel Levine, you know, taxpayer funded transgender surgeries.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's the best among us. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's as good as it gets. Army says, be

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Speaker 1: all you can be. I don't think that's what we're

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Speaker 1: talking about, is it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's.

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Speaker 7: Get the difference, the contrast between where we were and

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Speaker 7: where we are and the trajectory that that we're on now,

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Speaker 7: and you can't avoid it. This was a nation that

550
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Speaker 7: was heading towards suicide. This was a nation that was

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Speaker 7: heading towards self destruction. And now we are a nation

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Speaker 7: that's once again on the path towards liberty and freedom.

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Speaker 7: But this all comes back again to what happens going

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Speaker 7: forward twenty twenty six, twenty twenty eight and the people.

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Speaker 5: Of this nation.

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Speaker 7: That's why you see the attacks so heavy on President Trump.

557
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Speaker 7: That's why you see the attacks so heavy on DOGE

558
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Speaker 7: and all these other agencies of the government now that

559
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Speaker 7: are working to uncover the corruption, uncover the waste, and

560
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Speaker 7: working to protect those same.

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Speaker 5: People that were brought in illegally.

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Speaker 7: You have enemies within our nation that are working to

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Speaker 7: protect them, attacking ice and attacking the heroes of this nation,

564
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Speaker 7: attacking our military and attacking God. That's the divide that

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Speaker 7: we're in right now, and that should be our focus

566
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Speaker 7: going forward. If you honor this country, if you love

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Speaker 7: this country, if you want to protect this country, that's

568
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Speaker 7: what you're protecting. You're protecting the ability of this nation

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Speaker 7: to defend itself and to be the beacon of light

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Speaker 7: that it's been for the generations coming up on two

571
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Speaker 7: hundred and fifty years this year that we've been to

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Speaker 7: the world. That's what we fight for, and that's what

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Speaker 7: we have to continue to fight for. We can never

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Speaker 7: rest or else we'll lose it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Ben, and I think that we talk about

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Speaker 1: You've said it so succinctly, is something we have to

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Speaker 1: think about more today. Is the enemy within. Because we

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Speaker 1: are lucky enough to live in a relative peace time

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Speaker 1: where we don't face the bullets and bombs that we

580
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Speaker 1: used to, so we live in relative peace. But when

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Speaker 1: you have a tax from within, that's more insidious because

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Speaker 1: America is an ideal that you have to preserve. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's important to recognize that enemy within. We

584
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Speaker 1: can talk about China, I mean, there's always going to

585
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Speaker 1: be time to talk about foreign policy and those who

586
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Speaker 1: want to see us fail militarily, but the enemy from

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Speaker 1: within is just as important, if not more important, And

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Speaker 1: that's why it's important for us to pass this education

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Speaker 1: and legacy onto our next generation, which I personally feel for.

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Speaker 1: I know, Ben, with you and your kids, you probably do,

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Speaker 1: but you're a wonderful father who educates them in the

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Speaker 1: right ways. But I'm concerned. I'm concerned, Mike and Ben

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Speaker 1: about the next generation and on a day like today,

594
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Speaker 1: as everyone's out there having their barbecue and grilling their burgers,

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Speaker 1: that they don't really understand what's at stake.

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Speaker 7: Well, And that's why it's our job to educate them.

597
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Speaker 7: That's why it's our job to stand up. That's why

598
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Speaker 7: it's our job to broadcast this. And we haven't talked to,

599
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Speaker 7: you know, much about other media outlets out there that.

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Speaker 5: Weren't doing their job.

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Speaker 7: And the reason we exist and why it's so important

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Speaker 7: is our friend Lance Walna, who's part of Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 7: He talks about the seven pillars of society, the seven

604
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Speaker 7: mountains of society. And it's one thing to blame politics,

605
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Speaker 7: it's one thing to blame representatives.

606
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Speaker 5: But we have a part to play in that.

607
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Speaker 7: The media has a part to play in that, the

608
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Speaker 7: citizens have a part to play in that education. If

609
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Speaker 7: you're a private business owner, every single person has a

610
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Speaker 7: part to play in both the Kingdom of God and

611
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Speaker 7: the Kingdom on earth. Down here, we pray God's Kingdom

612
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Speaker 7: come as will be done.

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Speaker 5: On earth as it is in heaven.

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Speaker 7: But we have a part to play in our own government,

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Speaker 7: in our own society, and each one of us if

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Speaker 7: we don't call again, call that out where it is,

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Speaker 7: where you see it, be willing to stand up, stand

618
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Speaker 7: even if you stand alone. We're going to lose it

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Speaker 7: for our children, for us, for our children, for the

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Speaker 7: next generation. And once you lose it in America, you're

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Speaker 7: exactly right. Bo you know anything, and there, We're always

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Speaker 7: going to have enemies from without.

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Speaker 5: There is no government on this earth.

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Speaker 7: There is no adversary on this earth that can defeat

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Speaker 7: this nation. When this nation stands united on the pillars

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Speaker 7: that made this country, on God as our foundation, and

627
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Speaker 7: as we can when we come together as one people,

628
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Speaker 7: one nation under God, when we fight together for those

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Speaker 7: values that made this country to begin with, that have

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Speaker 7: sustained it, that have made it great, there is no

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Speaker 7: other adversary that can defeat us. But when we have

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Speaker 7: enemies within our own country, with our on our own government,

633
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Speaker 7: who are working to defeat us, that is the biggest

634
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Speaker 7: threat that we face, and we've got to stay focused

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Speaker 7: on that. We've got to continue to fight that every

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Speaker 7: single day, expose it, and my prayer got people like

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Speaker 7: Cash Betel and the FBI, some amazing patriots out there.

638
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Speaker 7: My prayer is that we can expose it, we can

639
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Speaker 7: confront it, we can prosecute it, and we can rid

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Speaker 7: it out of this nation and continue to do that

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Speaker 7: every single day, every single year going forward, as long

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Speaker 7: as we're on this earth.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Ben, and thank you for all your

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Speaker 1: hard work on the border, and and it's we have

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Speaker 1: this blessing and thank you for all that you do.

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Speaker 1: Been so right. We're in a spiritual warfare as well,

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Speaker 1: and I want to leave the viewers with just a

649
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: thought something to think about as we go to break something.

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Speaker 1: Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Edmund B. Whitman stated in eighteen sixty eight.

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Speaker 1: Think of that date. He said that nation which respects

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Speaker 1: and honors it's dead shall ever be respected and honored itself.

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Speaker 1: We've got to be worthy of that nation that we

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Speaker 1: have received. Think about that and we'll be back in two.

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Speaker 10: And God bless American.

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Speaker 1: And welcome back to Real America's voice in our very

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Speaker 1: special coverage today of Memorial Day to day when we

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Speaker 1: reflect and revere the fallen and honor their sacrifice President

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Speaker 1: Trump spoke at West Point, delivered a commencement address there

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Speaker 1: over the weekend, and I'd like to play a quick clip

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Speaker 1: there and talk with Mike on the other side of it.

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Speaker 5: But we're all celebrating.

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Speaker 11: The only country that wasn't celebrating was the United States

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Speaker 11: of America. And I said, isn't it amazing? We were

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Speaker 11: the ones that won the war and we were helped.

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Speaker 11: We were helped in some cases we had to help them,

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Speaker 11: but we were helped by some of the nations, and

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Speaker 11: we were struggling, helped by a couple of them.

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Speaker 3: But every one of them was celebrated.

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Speaker 11: They had victory Day. They called it Victory Day in Europe,

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Speaker 11: Victory Day all over and we weren't even thought about.

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Speaker 11: Nobody had a victory Day. And so I named that

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Speaker 11: special day and another special day from now on as

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Speaker 11: a holiday, but a holiday where we work, because we

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Speaker 11: don't have enough days. We're going to be having so

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Speaker 11: many holidays.

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Speaker 3: We're not going to be able to work anymore.

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Speaker 11: But I named it for World War two and a

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Speaker 11: separate day in November, as you know.

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Speaker 5: For World War One.

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Speaker 11: I said, you know, these countries that participated in the

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Speaker 11: war are celebrating. But the greatest country of them all,

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Speaker 11: and the country that won the war nobody even talked about.

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Speaker 11: And so we're going to be talking about it too

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Speaker 11: from now on, and I think you'll appreciate it. We

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Speaker 11: won the First World War, we won the Second World War,

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Speaker 11: and you know where we won them from, right here

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Speaker 11: at West Point.

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Speaker 5: West Point won the war. You won two World.

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Speaker 11: Wars and plenty of other things, but you were thinking

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Speaker 11: of it.

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Speaker 3: We don't want to have a third World War. But

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Speaker 3: we won the First World War.

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Speaker 11: We won the Second World War right here from West Point,

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Speaker 11: and that's something, and we're going to be talking about it.

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Speaker 3: You know, they can talk about it.

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Speaker 11: And in some cases, as you know, they didn't do

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Speaker 11: too much to help. They were ground down, but they

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Speaker 11: were celebrating victory. Now we're going to celebrate victory because

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Speaker 11: we're the ones that won that war.

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Speaker 1: And in just about thirty minutes or so, we will

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Speaker 1: be giving you live coverage of the Memorial Day Parade

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Speaker 1: which is happening in Washington, d c. Our very own

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Speaker 1: Steve Ruber is there and he'll give us an inside

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Speaker 1: look and first hand account. But Mike, want to bring

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Speaker 1: you back in just to reflect upon these words of

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Speaker 1: President Trump at the Military Academy in West Point. You know,

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Speaker 1: he speaks about how we won World War One and

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Speaker 1: World War Two, and I'm sure anybody that's listening probably

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Speaker 1: knows you've heard that. Someone say, you know, if it

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Speaker 1: wasn't for us, you'd be speaking German. And that's true.

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Speaker 1: And this whole notion of President Trump being a nationalist,

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Speaker 1: like that's a bad thing. If we weren't as exceptional

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Speaker 1: and brilliant as we were militarily, we would be speaking

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Speaker 1: a different language. And I don't think it's so bad

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Speaker 1: if we take a little bit of a victory lap

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Speaker 1: every now and then honor the fact that we won

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Speaker 1: World War one and two and we still are leading

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Speaker 1: really peacefully, peace through strength.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Mike, Well, you know President Trump

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Speaker 2: said it right there. He said, why are these other

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Speaker 2: countries celebrating their victory and having these victory days? Everyone

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Speaker 2: who did less than us, And we're not celebrating ourselves

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Speaker 2: to the most. So I think something very big about

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Speaker 2: President Trump. I've been following this guy and covering him

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Speaker 2: for ten years now, since twenty fifteen. The guy always said,

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Speaker 2: I want to be as the president of the United States.

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Speaker 2: He used to say this, I want to be the

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Speaker 2: biggest cheerleader for our nation. And that is past president

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Speaker 2: and future. The president's job is to promote the exceptionalism

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Speaker 2: of the nation in which he is the leader of.

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Speaker 2: If you think about it in a business lens, you know,

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Speaker 2: President Trump was the head of the Trump Organization, and

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Speaker 3: And stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Now he's in the promotion of America. And Trump looks

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Speaker 2: at it as a nationalist, as a man who truly

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Speaker 2: the last number of decades, nobody is learning about this stuff.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's celebrating in our children, okay, who were part of

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Speaker 2: the next generation, who haven't lived through any wartime. The

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Speaker 2: children of our society right now, they don't even know

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Speaker 2: about the heroism and the unbelievable feats of their forefathers, grandfather's,

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Speaker 2: great grandfathers. It's not remembered and it's not talked about.

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Speaker 2: And if you don't remember and talk about it into

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Speaker 2: the future, if you don't have a day that sparks

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Speaker 2: conversation and sparks celebration, then it gets lost. Then in

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Speaker 2: oh wow, I'm an American, this is exceptional. I'm proud

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Speaker 2: to be an American. It's the best country in the world.

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Speaker 2: That's what people in my generation think. Bo and what

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Speaker 2: you know, you think and everyone we know. But the

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Speaker 2: younger generation they're straying from that. You know, you say,

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Speaker 2: why is the younger generation if you ask them in polling,

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Speaker 2: you know, they renounce American you know, exceptionalism, and they

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Speaker 2: want to protest America and all this stuff.

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Speaker 3: It's lunacy, but it's by design.

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Speaker 2: That is because the bad actors, the globalist, the deep state,

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Speaker 2: they want to do everything they can to suppress American exceptionalism.

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Speaker 2: And one of the greatest things I think in President

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Speaker 2: Trump's legacy for the next fifty years is he came

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Speaker 2: in and he took the country. He saved country right

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Speaker 2: at the point where they were taking the death blow

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Speaker 2: to everything it meant to be an American. Barackusain Obama

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Speaker 2: undoing American greatness, going on the apology tour, all these

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Speaker 2: things that were demoralizing to the ethos of Americans and

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Speaker 2: the troops and Goalstar families saying, is this what we

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Speaker 2: fought for? President Trump took that, he reversed it. He

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Speaker 2: made the country great again, and he made great again

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Speaker 2: the celebration of what it means to be an American.

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Speaker 2: So that's going to be a very big thing into

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Speaker 2: the future with our next generation remembering it. That's why

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Speaker 2: I think bo this new holiday that President Trump has

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Speaker 2: declared will serve its purpose on and I think it's

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Speaker 2: brilliant and it's historic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and here's why it's important, Mike, and I know,

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Speaker 1: we'll go to the break in just a minute. This

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Speaker 1: is what I was just thinking about. You know, you

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Speaker 1: need to celebrate it for the following reason you mentioned

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Speaker 1: the younger generation. I have concerned about them. What just

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Speaker 1: happened recently. You have Harvard, you got people saying free Palestine.

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Speaker 1: You know, they want to have this enchantment with other

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Speaker 1: areas of the world that they know nothing about, that

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Speaker 1: America is not so great. So on our elite universities,

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Speaker 1: we're hearing free Palestine. The next time we heard free Palestine,

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Speaker 1: two Israeli diplomats are dead. So cause and effect. So

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Speaker 1: if all these protests are permitted and this sort of

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Speaker 1: a direct correlation. Why because that protest free speech went

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Speaker 1: into hate speech, which now two Israeli diplomats are dead.

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Speaker 1: What does that remind you of? Oh, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: maybe the third Reich Nazism in World War two. So

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Speaker 1: that's why it's important historically to connect this to that,

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Speaker 1: because it's little cells of ideology like that that give

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Speaker 1: Americans to think about that and why it is important

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Speaker 1: that we remember who won World War one and two.

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Speaker 1: That was the United States of America. If it weren't

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Speaker 1: have a strong America, if you don't have an exceptional America,

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Speaker 1: the same thing can happen. Again. Let's let our viewers

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Speaker 1: percolate on that, and we'll be back in just about

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Speaker 1: two minutes. Welcome back to our special coverage of Memorial Day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being with us here at

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Speaker 1: Real America's Voice. In a big shout out to our

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Speaker 1: control rooms all across the country. I know Ben Harris

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Speaker 1: set up and of course, we want to thank Parker

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Speaker 1: and Rob Sigg for their continued guidance and leadership. We

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Speaker 1: will be going to the Memorial Day. It's an annual

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Speaker 1: event that happens in Washington, d C. Every single year.

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Speaker 1: I've been fortunate enough to perform in it before. It's

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Speaker 1: a really special event. Looks like it should be good

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Speaker 1: weather out there. Steve Ruber is going to be there

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Speaker 1: to give you the latest. But I also want to

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Speaker 1: set up this next interview that I did for our

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Speaker 1: Memorial Day special that's airing later on tonight at seven

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Speaker 1: pm Eastern. I was able to interview Secretary of Veterans

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Speaker 1: Affairs at Doug Collins. You may know him because he

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Speaker 1: was a representative before. He also has been a chaplain

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Speaker 1: have lost so much. So here is Secretary Veterans Affairs,

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Speaker 1: Doug Collins. Well, mister Secretary. Firstly, we like to make

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Speaker 1: the distinction between Memorial Day and Veterans Day, but inevitably

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Speaker 1: Memorial Day operations heavily lean on your department and its

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Speaker 1: oversight of national cemeteries. First of all, mister Secretary, what

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Speaker 1: does Memorial Day mean to you personally?

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Speaker 12: Well, it means a lot because it means those who

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Speaker 12: of devotion to our country.

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Speaker 6: They gave all they gave.

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Speaker 12: They fulfilled the commitment that they made when they raised

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Speaker 12: think it's something that we should never take for granted,

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Speaker 12: and for me, especially thea we have the distinct privilege

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Speaker 12: place that they are resting in our cemeteries. But also

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Speaker 12: you know, it's one of those things, as you said,

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Speaker 12: we need to very much distinguish between Memorial Day and

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Speaker 12: Veterans Day. Veterans Day we get to start, we'll celebrate

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Speaker 12: all who's but on Memorial Day it's a very special

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Speaker 12: time in which we dedicate our commitment to those that

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Speaker 12: gave all for this country, to commit to ourselves that

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Speaker 12: will continue to fight for this country just as they gave.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely well, said Sir and mister Secretary. As I mentioned

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Speaker 1: your department oversees a great degree of the military commemorations

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Speaker 1: that will happen over Memorial Day. When you look out

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Speaker 1: at the vast hills of graves at a place like

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Speaker 1: Arlington National Cemetery, what do you think about.

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Speaker 4: I think about the stories.

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Speaker 12: I think about the stories behind them, and I think

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Speaker 12: this is the one thing that I want Memorial Day

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Speaker 12: to always be about. Is Yes, it's the you know,

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Speaker 12: we've unfortunately secularized it into the start of summer and

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Speaker 12: school getting out and everything else. But to those families

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Speaker 12: who have loved ones, and especially in the last twenty years,

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Speaker 12: our gy generation who have lost loved ones, you know,

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Speaker 12: those missing places at the table are still real. Those

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Speaker 12: missing ball games, for parents who are not seeing their

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Speaker 12: kids grow up or go to the prom or go

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Speaker 12: to graduation, those are still very real in their minds.

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Speaker 12: So for me, it's the stories behind it and just

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Speaker 12: seeing how normal, average people in America who stepped up

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Speaker 12: So it's just something, you know, I think when you

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Speaker 12: look at those grave films, when you look at the

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Speaker 12: the times we all often often say this a lot.

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Speaker 12: When I've been a pastor now for a number of years,

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Speaker 12: and I always used to say, it's funerals. You know,

873
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 12: we see a birth and we see a death date

874
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 12: on these stones. But it's not those two dates that

875
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 12: we should remember the most. It's what is in the

876
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,800
Speaker 12: middle that we should remember, and that is the dash

877
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 12: or the space in the middle, because that actually represents

878
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 12: the life that was lived.

879
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: The dash is so important. That's absolutely right, mister secretary.

880
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: And I actually wrote a song about that, so I'm

881
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: so glad you brought that up. You mentioned your work

882
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: as a pastor. I'd like to focus for a moment

883
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: on your past work as a chaplain to the military.

884
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: Soldiers see a great deal of injury and death, and

885
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: it has been your job to minister to these individuals.

886
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: What do you say to comfort those who have lost

887
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,240
Speaker 1: fellow brothers and sisters in battle or on patrol.

888
00:43:58,239 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 12: Well, I think it's a matter of how each your

889
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 12: dealing with it. Some people will, you know, go inside themselves.

890
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 12: They'll just internalize it. They don't want to talk about it.

891
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 12: You know, you need to get those people to a

892
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 12: place in which they're not hindering themselves or hurting themselves

893
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 12: by bottling up too much. You got some who are

894
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 12: very emotional. I think one of the biggest questions I've

895
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 12: always gotten in over the years, not only in the

896
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 12: Cevian pastor, but also in the military and overseas and

897
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 12: deployed was the question of why comes up and it says,

898
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 12: why did this happen? Why did my buddy happen? Why

899
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 12: did she die, or why did this happen? And I

900
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 12: try to turn them to a different question, and it's

901
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 12: not why, but what. Too many times will ask why.

902
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 12: There's not going to be an answer to why, but what?

903
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 12: What do we do now? What after this event can

904
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 12: we do now? What is going to be our next step?

905
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,959
Speaker 12: Is where I try them to focus, because too many

906
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 12: times in grief you can get stopped or paralyzed in

907
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 12: the moment. And what I'm trying to do is connect

908
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 12: them to the away from the why, which will take

909
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 12: time to answer, but to the what of what they

910
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 12: can do next.

911
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: That's a great response. I've never thought about it that way,

912
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: but people often question why. I I think that's a

913
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: reasonable question to have, but the what and what you

914
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: do after is incredibly important. Some of those headstones that

915
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,760
Speaker 1: we see Sir in cemeteries involved deaths of soldiers to suicide,

916
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: while Memorial Day honors those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

917
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: How do we create a better country where veterans can

918
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: live the rest of their lives without creating headstones much

919
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: too soon from suicide.

920
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 12: Yeah, there's many, many, many of those that are death

921
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 12: by suicide or painful reminders of a long injury that

922
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 12: happened when they were serving. For many of them, and

923
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 12: it was a culmination of not feeling they had hope

924
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 12: or they didn't see any future. We've got to do

925
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 12: a better job of welcoming people. We've got to do

926
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 12: a better job of understanding that PTS and traumatic brain

927
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 12: injury and other things, and just also just a general

928
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 12: you know, nature of being in the military and what

929
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 12: you see and how you go about it is something

930
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 12: that in our society we should actually do more to

931
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 12: just you know, sometimes it's a matter of just talking

932
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 12: to people. It's a matter of a cup of coffee,

933
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 12: it's a matter of saying, hey, I haven't seen you

934
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:57,359
Speaker 12: in a while.

935
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 6: How you doing.

936
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 12: So all the veterans out there and all those people

937
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 12: who served, I encourage you, you know, reach out to

938
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 12: your buddies, if you're not talked to him in a while,

939
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 12: get him a call, just say hey, how you doing.

940
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 12: It doesn't have to be a confrontational thing. It's just

941
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 12: keeping up, just as you would when you were in

942
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 12: a unit. Everybody is accounted for. We got to make

943
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 12: sure that our veterans, both civilian, are helpers and those

944
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 12: who have served with each other are making sure nobody's

945
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 12: left behind outside of the military as well.

946
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, mister Sigretory was in publics the other day and

947
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: I saw a guy who had his Vietnam apparel on,

948
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: and I talked to him for a little bit, and

949
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: he started talking about Agent Orange. He said, I don't

950
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: want to hold you up. I said, no, you're not

951
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 1: holding me up. I mean, if we can't take a

952
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: couple of minutes out of our date to talk to

953
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 1: someone like that who endures being spit upon when they

954
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,720
Speaker 1: came back, they deserve more than that. So I completely

955
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: agree with your sentiment, and I think people need to

956
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: get to know veterans more than just saying thank you

957
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: for your service. Well, Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Whitman said that

958
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: nation which respects and honors it's dead shall ever be

959
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: respected and honored itself in your estimation, sir, do we

960
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: respect and honor our dead and in turn command respect

961
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: and honor ourselves as a nation.

962
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,439
Speaker 12: I think we can always do better, and I think

963
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 12: it's something for those that served, and for those of

964
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 12: us who have lost of them or friends that we

965
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 12: know of, I think is something we can continually strive toward.

966
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 12: It's an interesting part. We are the nation in the

967
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,240
Speaker 12: world that does trive. We tried to leave no one behind.

968
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 12: We still remember our POWs and MIAs, which will always

969
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 12: be there until last accounted for. I think those are

970
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 12: the kind of things that we need a reminder of.

971
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 12: But sometimes, look, it is honest, and time will fade

972
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 12: and memories will fade, and it's not as prevalent as

973
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 12: it was maybe a few years ago. But remembering those

974
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:36,760
Speaker 12: in these monuments, remembering these in the cemeteries that you pass,

975
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 12: especially our veterans cemeteries.

976
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 6: These were folks who.

977
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 12: Served, many of them died in the action in combat.

978
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 12: They're there because they fought for something bigger than themselves.

979
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 12: And I think that's the bigger reason that we need

980
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 12: to do, is living for those who died.

981
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can always do better.

982
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 13: That's for sure.

983
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: It's a secretary. Now that you are running veterans affairs,

984
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: has it changed your perspective to oversee that department and

985
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: what that means in terms of how we honor our

986
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: fallen since even in peacetime we still have service member casualties.

987
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:09,919
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, it does.

988
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 12: I mean, I think it just makes it more personal

989
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 12: to me. I'm often said, and I've had several veterans

990
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 12: talk to me about it. I always talk in terms

991
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 12: of my veterans and my employees here because I personalize it,

992
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 12: because that's for me, makes it very real. So the veterans,

993
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 12: I don't care if you're serviced by the VA or not.

994
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 12: You're still a veteran. You're to me, you fall under

995
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 12: the VA, whether you take our services or not. So

996
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,839
Speaker 12: it's very important for me to look at it from

997
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 12: a perspective of how do we continue to engage the

998
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 12: veteran community and engage the veteran family, survivors, caregivers as

999
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 12: we go forward, and especially in the part that you

1000
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 12: mentioned and from our National Cemetery Administration where we actually

1001
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 12: I love their motto is is we have one chance

1002
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 12: to get it right. And for those family members and

1003
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 12: loved ones who come to that cemetery for their loved one,

1004
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 12: whether they died in service or in active duty, or

1005
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 12: they died you know, many many years later, it's still

1006
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 12: a very active of giving an act of sacrifice that

1007
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 12: they have given to this country and for us, it's

1008
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 12: our chance to make sure that that dignity is preserved

1009
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 12: and that basically respect for what is done for this

1010
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:12,760
Speaker 12: country is never forgotten.

1011
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why really the subtitle of this special

1012
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: is called Remembering the Fallen and Honoring their sacrifice.

1013
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 3: Sir.

1014
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 1: Lastly, if you could impart one sentiment to those who

1015
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: are watching today in terms of as a nation, how

1016
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,800
Speaker 1: we should treat Memorial Day and what our thought process

1017
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 1: should be like, what would you say.

1018
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 12: For every freedom you have, Memorial Day symbolizes the sacrifice

1019
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 12: that some gave for you to have that freedom here

1020
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 12: in this country.

1021
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: And that's so true. This interview is part of my

1022
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: special that will air later on tonight at seven pm Eastern.

1023
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: I just remind those that something that I took away

1024
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 1: from interviewing Secretary Collins was as his work as a

1025
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 1: chaplain and when he said that, often people ask him

1026
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: why why did this happen to my buddy, Why did

1027
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 1: this happen? I think that anytime someone loses someone too soon,

1028
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: that's a reasonable question to ask. But he turns that

1029
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: into a different question, which is what what will you

1030
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,399
Speaker 1: do next? Because we can't change the past. We can

1031
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: only change the future. And I know that on a

1032
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: day like Memorial Day, it's difficult because when you lose

1033
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: a loved one, especially in an ied in a suicide

1034
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 1: bomber attack, and these veterans that are lost might be

1035
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 1: so young, in their early twenties, it's difficult because there's

1036
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: a whole life ahead of them.

1037
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 4: And JD.

1038
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:26,800
Speaker 1: Vance spoke brilliantly about it, the empty seat at the table,

1039
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:30,280
Speaker 1: the sum total of all the moments that that soldier lost.

1040
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: But I think that if you know someone who's struggling

1041
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: with this today, and I would just encourage you as

1042
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:39,399
Speaker 1: they're asking why, to encourage them to ask what can

1043
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: I do for you? And what can you do next

1044
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: to change the trajectory of your own life and those

1045
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: who come after you.

1046
00:50:46,360 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 14: We'll be right back, Comrod this Saints first time, last

1047
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 14: time that a ride right ride, no death that stream

1048
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:10,479
Speaker 14: out game.

1049
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 15: Yeah back now just do it.

1050
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:23,720
Speaker 16: To stop the song show, the same Mabbage lo, same

1051
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 16: mobbage roadio, the same an.

1052
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 6: This rodeo.

1053
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:44,800
Speaker 1: And that's a live looking right now at the Memorial

1054
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: Day Parade, which is an annual event in Washington, d C.

1055
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: I've had the good fortune of being right there on

1056
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: that same street performing as well, and I've got to

1057
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 1: tell you it's a huge honor. It's a special event.

1058
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful event as we remember the fallen and

1059
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 1: honor their sacrifice. And joining me now is the CEO

1060
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: of your American Flag Store dot com, James Stockey. James's

1061
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: company makes hangable wooden flags. They're actually very beautiful. We

1062
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: have one here in our studio and they have a

1063
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: bunch of collections, including the Christian flag collection, a patriotic

1064
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: collection of course, a Second Amendment collection, and they also

1065
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 1: have a Memorial Day flag art set. James, thanks so

1066
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: much for being with us today.

1067
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 13: Thanks for having me. I appreciate it well.

1068
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:27,720
Speaker 1: James, tell us first a little bit about your business

1069
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 1: and how you started it, because I'm always interested. I'm

1070
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: on the musician side of art, but for you on

1071
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: the actually artistic side of art and bringing these flags

1072
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 1: to life. What made you do it.

1073
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 17: Actually it was my wife and I six year old

1074
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 17: son at the time, about eight years ago. He came

1075
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 17: into our garage when we were having a sporting event

1076
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 17: at our house and pitched me and my buddies on

1077
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 17: an idea where his dad, me is a carpenter, and

1078
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 17: his mom being an artist, would collaborate together create wood

1079
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 17: American flags. He and I would make them together, and

1080
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 17: his idea was that my wife and my daughter would

1081
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 17: team up to do some of the artwork on the

1082
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 17: flags together. We did, and as soon as we put

1083
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 17: them online and started kind of sharing them, the business

1084
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 17: took off. Within two years, we were able to get

1085
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 17: out of California and move here to Tennessee, and you know,

1086
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 17: literally we were living the American dream off this idea

1087
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 17: that our son had. And about three months after we

1088
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Speaker 17: moved here to Tennessee, that's when the well, the last

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Speaker 17: administration took office.

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Speaker 13: And within a day or two of that, on.

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Speaker 17: January January seventh, twenty twenty one, we were canceled.

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Speaker 1: All right, tell me about that, James, because this is

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Speaker 1: an interesting thing that probably most people washing wouldn't know.

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Speaker 1: They'd say, wow, this is a family affair, a great event,

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00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: A way to bring the family together, create art. How

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Speaker 1: in the world did PayPal freeze your funds and your

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Speaker 1: business e commerce account and Facebook and these other social

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Speaker 1: media counts are canceling. What happened?

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Speaker 17: Well, you know, I mean I wish I think that

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Speaker 17: they can just do whatever they want. These big tech

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Speaker 17: companies don't really operate by any rules. They really are

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Speaker 17: running their business in a gray area and.

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Speaker 4: Through it all.

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Speaker 17: What happened was that we had a customer ask us

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Speaker 17: to make a very custom flag of President Trump. We

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Speaker 17: did the customer, we shipped out to the customer. The

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Speaker 17: customer took a picture of it, posted it on social

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Speaker 17: media and tagged us in it. And when they tagged

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Speaker 17: us in it, Facebook picked it up our on their

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Speaker 17: algorithms and just started They deleted. I mean they deleted

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Speaker 17: our not just our you'd expect for a Second Amendment

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Speaker 17: flag to be canceled, but they didn't stop there. They

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Speaker 17: canceled not only our Trump flags and our Second Amendment flags,

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Speaker 17: which were obvious targets, but they canceled our Christian Cross flags.

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Speaker 17: They canceled our military flags, our first responder flags, our

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Speaker 17: melting Pot flag, which is a fifty to fifty flag

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00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 17: for immigrants that come here legally, do it the right way.

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Speaker 17: We make those families a flag so that the kids

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Speaker 17: growing up in those home can see, you know, the

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Speaker 17: pride that their family has.

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Speaker 13: In all of their heritage.

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Speaker 17: So to cancel a company like ours, you know, we're

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Speaker 17: a Christian family.

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Speaker 13: We work our butts off.

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Speaker 17: My wife and I rarely get.

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Speaker 13: A minute away from this business.

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Speaker 17: To have it all kind of taken from us. And

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Speaker 17: the worst thing was PayPal took over one hundred thousand

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Speaker 17: dollars of our money, held it for three hundred and

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Speaker 17: sixty I'm sorry, three hundred and eleven days. And at

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Speaker 17: the very end they when through our lawyer, Harmeitt Dillon

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Speaker 17: and the Center for American Liberty, they communicated to us

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Speaker 17: that they were willing to give us back our money,

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Speaker 17: but we had to sign a non disclosure agreement. Would

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Speaker 17: never be able to talk about them taking our money

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Speaker 17: for almost a year and almost bankrupting us. So we

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Speaker 17: did not sign that non disclosure agreement, which is why

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Speaker 17: I'm allowed to talk to it today, talk about it today,

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00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 17: and uh, you know, we're still we're still pushing forward,

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Speaker 17: trying to build our business back to what it was

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Speaker 17: before we were canceled.

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Speaker 13: But these companies are relentless.

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Speaker 17: We also we also have a legislation here in Tennessee

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Speaker 17: that would make it illegal for these companies to do

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Speaker 17: what they did to our family to do it to

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00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 17: other family. Anybody who owns a business, they know that

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Speaker 17: every single sale is a blessing when it's a family

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Speaker 17: business being. You know, when when another family buys from us,

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Speaker 17: these are all we we need every single sale to

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Speaker 17: make it. And uh when when these companies all I'm

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00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 17: not going to say the collaborate, but they all know

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00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 17: what each other is doing, so in in in essence,

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00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,839
Speaker 17: they'll shut down your banking, they'll shut down your advertising,

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00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:50,360
Speaker 17: they'll pull down your website, and all kind of act like,

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00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,240
Speaker 17: you know, hey, you know, we're just trying to protect

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00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 17: the community, when really what they're trying to do is

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00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 17: destroy family businesses. And here's a little fact that comes

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00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 17: along with that is that about everyone knows that roughly

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Speaker 17: fifty percent of families get divorced. What people don't know

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00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 17: is that about sixty percent of families who own a business,

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Speaker 17: when the business fails, that family ends up in a

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Speaker 17: divorce and a broken home and the kids end up

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Speaker 17: paying the price. So when these social media companies and

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Speaker 17: so called banking institutions like PayPal put their thumb on

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Speaker 17: this scale and really destroy a family business, they're not

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Speaker 17: destroying the only the business. Over sixty percent of the time,

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Speaker 17: they're destroying that family. So that's why my wife and

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Speaker 17: I have engaged in the legislative process and trying to

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Speaker 17: get laws to make sure that no family has.

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Speaker 13: To go through what we have had to go through

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Speaker 13: the last four years.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you did. That makes sense. I want

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Speaker 1: to bring in my colleague Mike Chrispy, who I'm sure

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Speaker 1: has some questions for you as well. Mike, take it away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, James, it's unbelievable to hear your story. I'm curious.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's many people out there that have I

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Speaker 2: think meant, you know, unforced over the last four years,

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00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 2: a similar fate where they get canceled or they get

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Speaker 2: banned or what have you. They get their debanking you know,

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00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 2: process going through on them, but they give up, they

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00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 2: give up, and then they get crushed. So it sounds

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Speaker 2: like you obviously didn't do that. You fought back. If

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00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 2: there's anybody out there that over the last four years

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00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 2: got crushed by this, you know, runaway rogue system of justice.

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Speaker 2: What's your message out there for any small business owners

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Speaker 2: right now that are maybe on the cusp. How did

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Speaker 2: you persevere to get through that during those hard times?

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Speaker 2: Because I'm sure there are people just like you who

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Speaker 2: just you know, got crushed by the weight of it

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Speaker 2: and never recovered.

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Speaker 3: So what's your message to them?

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Speaker 13: A message to them?

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Speaker 17: Would you know in this life that we live, people

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00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 17: can take away just about everything. They can take your home,

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00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 17: they can take your money, they can they can take

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00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 17: every they can take your business, they can take everything.

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Speaker 17: But they can't take away is your relationship with God?

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Speaker 17: And when the times were the worse for my wife

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Speaker 17: and I, that's where we turned. And when we did,

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Speaker 17: it's seemed like our life really started to change. Our

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00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 17: our luck, which you know, I don't really like using

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Speaker 17: that word. I think that it's more of a blessing.

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Speaker 17: When when we pray, God listens and God answered our prayer.

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Speaker 17: One of those prayers was uh being here on Real

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Speaker 17: America's Voice when we first went on She's Too.

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Speaker 13: Actually, I got a message from social.

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Speaker 17: Media today that it was two years ago today that

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00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 17: our first hit aired on Real America's Voice. So I

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00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 17: thank you all for that that on that uh interview,

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Speaker 17: the Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 13: I mean, i'd call them an army. Their audience is

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Speaker 13: an army.

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Speaker 17: When they found our business was struggling, we were being attacked,

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00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 17: we got an overwhelming outpour of support and calls and

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00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,400
Speaker 17: emails and messages on social media.

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Speaker 13: One of those.

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Speaker 17: Turned out to be a guy who lives out in

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Speaker 17: Arizona and he's a he's a very smart businessman. He

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00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 17: actually reached out to us and said, you know what's

1220
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 17: going on with your business. We told them that, you know,

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01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 17: they're just they're capital starving us. And he said, you

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01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 17: know what, I'm going to buy ten percent of your

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01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 17: business to get you guys back in your feast bridge

1224
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 17: this gap, get you guys back into a good workflow.

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Speaker 17: And that would never have happened without Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 17: So I would say, not only prayer, but get involved

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01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 17: in groups and start being around people that are like minded,

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Speaker 17: and build your new network inside of those networks, like

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Speaker 17: the Real American Voice audience.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing. Yeah, pretty unbelievable. That's unbelievable, Sorry, Bell.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it's okay, and it's a testament to

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Speaker 1: the rav army. You're a hundred percent right two years ago.

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Speaker 1: What a blessing to be able to come on here,

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01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: tell your story and to have that remedied. I want

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Speaker 1: to go back for a moment just on this issue

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01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: about why PayPal and these others did this. You mentioned

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01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: that they shut down your Christian flag as well, and

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01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 1: Harmeat Dillitt got involved. Harmit's great she understands all the

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01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: legislative and legal implications, and even your melting pot flag,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. I'm curious, even with the

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01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 1: Christian flag that you made, is this not Was this

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01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: not an infringement upon your religious liberty? Economically to crush that?

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01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: I mean, what was the aftermathod this. I know you

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01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: didn't sign the NDA and you got your money back,

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01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: but what happened in terms I mean, was was this

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Speaker 1: not a religious case?

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01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 17: It really Again, if we go back to how the

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01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 17: social media platforms work, they really dance between the laws

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01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 17: on whether they're reporting, whether the users are reporting, and

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01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 17: that allows them to really operate into a great area

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01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 17: and get away with what should be a violation of

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01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 17: our freedom of religion and our freedom of speech, to

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01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 17: be honest with you, So.

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Speaker 13: It could be, it should be.

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Speaker 17: But this is why we need to get involved with

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01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 17: this legislation because the legislation could could create that opportunity

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Speaker 17: for people in the future. If you're selling, you know,

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01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 17: a Christian product or any religious product for that matter,

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01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:05,400
Speaker 17: you will be protected on the social media platform. But

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01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:08,840
Speaker 17: currently they really do have a way. One advantage that

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Speaker 17: they have is that I learned, and this is a

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Speaker 17: this is a very hard truth for us to swallow,

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Speaker 17: was that we definitely had a case and a case

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Speaker 17: that in any normal court we would probably be you know,

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01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 17: a quick win. But unfortunately Facebook and PayPal are in

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01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 17: Silicon Value in Silicon Valley in California, a place which

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Speaker 17: we left because of the corruption and just the outrageous

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01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 17: corruption that was in California. Well, when you when if

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Speaker 17: we were to sue either one of those companies, we

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Speaker 17: would be suing them in the Silicon Value in the

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Speaker 17: Silicon Valley, in a court of which they have influenced.

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Speaker 17: And by that what I mean is that they have

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Speaker 17: made donations to political candidates who then have been elected,

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Speaker 17: who then appoint the judges who then I would be

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Speaker 17: sitting in front of and HARMEI was very honest with

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01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:04,480
Speaker 17: us and she said, look, we can do it, and

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01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 17: she was willing and able.

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Speaker 13: To fight for us all the way there.

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Speaker 17: But she said, James, what's going to happen is that

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Speaker 17: we're going to spend tens of thousands, if not hundreds

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Speaker 17: of thousands of dollars to get you there. The judge

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01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 17: is going to look at it and they're going to

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01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 17: throw it right out of court. It's a corrupt court system.

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Speaker 17: They and this is all and absolutely intentional in their

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01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 17: kind of.

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01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 13: Their business model.

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01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 17: They are allowed to do things to us and we

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01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 17: have no remedy to fight back.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're back in business and we're really happy about that.

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Speaker 1: We're going to go to a break in a moment,

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Speaker 1: but James, before we go, I want you to address

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Speaker 1: some of the flags that you have, including the Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day kind of special editions that you have. Let our

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01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 1: viewers know what you have and where to go to

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Speaker 1: get it, because this is a very special piece of art.

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Speaker 13: Well, you can go to.

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Speaker 17: Our website, your American flagscore dot com, and any flag

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Speaker 17: that anybody buys today, we're going to be donating twenty

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Speaker 17: percent of that flag towards our new foundation, which is

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Speaker 17: your American Flag Foundation dot org. That foundation, we take

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Speaker 17: donations and what we're going to be doing is providing

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Speaker 17: free flags for fallen officers and military families, American heroes.

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Speaker 17: We've heard from our customers that have lost unfortunately lost

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Speaker 17: a loved one and when we put these when we

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Speaker 17: make these flags for these families, they're completely custom for

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Speaker 17: that family, personalized for that family. And what we've heard

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Speaker 17: from the widow or the widower of these families is

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Speaker 17: that they're kids. Their kids go to this flag and

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Speaker 17: it's kind of a point in their home where where

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Speaker 17: they're lost parent, they can have a conversation with them.

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Speaker 17: We've heard that they kiss the flag on the way

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Speaker 17: out of the door to school in the morning. So

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Speaker 17: we just feel that these flags are just so important

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Speaker 17: for our first responders and our military families who have

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Speaker 17: lo Austin American hero to just give that family something

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Speaker 17: to put into their home where there's a presence of

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Speaker 17: that value of service to others will always be in

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Speaker 17: that home to influence those kids or to be a

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Speaker 17: part of influencing those kids, hopefully for generations to come.

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Speaker 17: Our flags are the highest quality flags They are handmade

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Speaker 17: from start to finish, all the stars, all the artwork.

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Speaker 17: There's an option where my wife actually paints everything by

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Speaker 17: hand and brush. So what we make is a piece

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Speaker 17: of art to be handed down for generations.

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Speaker 1: We know James's I think it's sometimes odd to say

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Speaker 1: Happy Memorial Day because you're trying to put a happy

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Speaker 1: spin on a death. But I will say that what

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Speaker 1: you're doing, especially with this foundation, honestly puts a happy

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Speaker 1: varnish on what could be a detrimental day. You mentioned

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Speaker 1: the fact that those children would kiss those flags on

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Speaker 1: their way out to start their day, which I think

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Speaker 1: is so important. So have a blessed Memorial Day, and

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Speaker 1: thank you for everything that you do and surviving and thriving.

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Speaker 13: Thank you all so much for having me on today, you.

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Speaker 1: Bet, Thanks James, and we'll be back in just a

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Speaker 1: few minutes.

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Speaker 10: The dignity, gearing, and devotion of the American military is

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Speaker 10: unrivaled anywhere in history and any place in the world,

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Speaker 10: as our brave waters have shown us from.

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Speaker 1: And welcome into our continued coverage of Memorial Day right

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Speaker 1: here at Real America's Voice. We're gonna be going live

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Speaker 1: in just a moment. To the Memorial Day Parade, which

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Speaker 1: is an annual event that happens in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: So then I've been very fortunate to be a part

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Speaker 1: of in years past. It's very special. It's something that

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Speaker 1: I think every family should actually see, particularly if you

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Speaker 1: are local to Washington, DC or if you maybe make

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Speaker 1: a trip there over Memorial Day. So let's take a look.

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Speaker 1: In now, believe we have Don Graves, a World War

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Speaker 1: Two veteran who is singing at the brave Let's take

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Speaker 1: a look.

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Speaker 18: Chairman Kain, members and representatives of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Ambassadors,

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Speaker 18: members of the Diplomatic Corps, Ladies and gentlemen. Today, as

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01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 18: we gather in solemn reflection, we honor the men and

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Speaker 18: women who gave their lives in service to our country.

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Speaker 18: Memorial Day is a time to remember the price of

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Speaker 18: our freedoms and courageous leadership and sacrifice that have guarded

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Speaker 18: our freedoms for generations. From the beginning of our armed

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Speaker 18: forces two hundred and fifty years ago to the conflicts today,

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Speaker 18: brave Americans from all corners of this country have answered

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Speaker 18: the call to serve. Many never returned home. These service

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Speaker 18: members were leaders, not just by rank or title, by

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Speaker 18: by action, they stepped forward and placed them elves with.

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Speaker 6: Duty above self.

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Speaker 18: Each generation faced its own trials, and each ordinary systems

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Speaker 18: ordinary citizens displayed extraordinary courage to defend the values we

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Speaker 18: hold dear. They led with integrity, They stood firm under pressure,

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Speaker 18: and sacrificed their lives not for recognition, but for the

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Speaker 18: belief that freedom was worth protecting. As we place flags

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Speaker 18: and flowers at their graves, let us not mourn their loss,

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Speaker 18: but renew our commitment to the ideals they died defending.

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Speaker 6: We may live our lives.

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Speaker 18: May we live our lives in ways that honor their legacy,

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Speaker 18: with gratitude and purpose, and with courage to lead in

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Speaker 18: our own time. On behalf of the Boeing Company, Thank

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Speaker 18: you to the American Veteran Center for making this parade

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Speaker 18: possible and for your continued commitment to supporting all veterans,

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Speaker 18: and to all of you, May we never forget.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, mister Simmons. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 19: Ladies and gentlemen representing today's reviewing officials from the Department

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Speaker 19: of Defense and the United States Military, please welcome the

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Speaker 19: nation's highest ranking military officers.

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Speaker 4: Is a big deal.

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Speaker 19: The Principal Military Advisor to the President, Secretary Defense and

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Speaker 19: National Security Council, The twenty second Chairman of the Joint

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Speaker 19: Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kine.

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Speaker 6: Thanks.

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Speaker 15: Thanks.

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Speaker 20: I realize as the parade comes forward, I'm the last

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Speaker 20: thing between them and you, and so I'll be short.

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Speaker 20: But ladies and gentlemen, my fellow Americans, and our guest today,

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Speaker 20: there's two things. I want to start off with a

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Speaker 20: round of applause for the people that put this parade together.

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Speaker 20: And Gary Sonise, if you'd come out here, I want

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01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:57,840
Speaker 20: to say thank you in person on behalf of two

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Speaker 20: point eight million members of the Joint Force. The impact

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Speaker 20: that you've had on families all over is unlimited, my friend,

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Speaker 20: and you just keep pouring in over and over and

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Speaker 20: over again.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 21: Yeah, God bless you too.

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Speaker 4: Good afternoon.

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Speaker 20: And as I stand here today, we reflect on a

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01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:21,559
Speaker 20: solemn truth. The truth is that freedom isn't free. More

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Speaker 20: than one million of our sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, sisters

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Speaker 20: and brothers, over the course of the history of this

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Speaker 20: great nation have donned the cloth and gone into battle on.

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Speaker 3: Behalf of us.

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Speaker 20: They gave their lives believing and defending our nation was

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Speaker 20: worth it, and you bet it really is. In their

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Speaker 20: service and sacrifice, they gave us the gift of a

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Speaker 20: perfect example. The perfect example flowed through their service and

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Speaker 20: into today. It echoes from the resolve that they had

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Speaker 20: at places like Valley Forge, the hollowed fields at Gettysburg,

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Speaker 20: the determination in the forests in Europe, and in the

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Speaker 20: courage of those who assaulted forward on the beaches of

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Speaker 20: Normandy and in the Pacific. And it continues to endure

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Speaker 20: in the memories of the quiet fortitude of those who

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Speaker 20: got after it in Korea, patrolled in the jungles of Vietnam,

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Speaker 20: and who faced uncertainty in the Middle East and yet

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Speaker 20: showed up day after day with courage and tenacity. What

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Speaker 20: binds them together is not the terrain that they fought on,

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Speaker 20: but the values and virtues that make America great. The honor, courage,

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Speaker 20: and integrity. Their sacrifice is borne by the families who

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Speaker 20: carry on, who every day show us what the enduring

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Speaker 20: pride of being an American gold Star family really looks like.

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Speaker 20: The courage to drive forward and give us the gift

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Speaker 20: of a great example. This day, my friends, belongs to them,

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Speaker 20: to the families of the fall to those who we remember.

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Speaker 20: They did not fall so we could look back. They

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Speaker 20: fell so we could look forward, free, united and with resolve.

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Speaker 20: Let us never forget how these Americans died, but more importantly,

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Speaker 20: let us never forget how they lived. My friends on

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Speaker 20: behalf of two point eight million members of the Joint Force.

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Speaker 20: God bless our fallen, God bless their families. God bless

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Speaker 20: our deployed Joint Force and their families. And may God

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Speaker 20: bless the United States of America. And without further ado,

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Speaker 20: let me get out of your way. Thanks for marching today,

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Speaker 20: for all these great folks.

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Speaker 22: Wow, the great Joint chiefs of Staff children. Well, I

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Speaker 22: love General Dan.

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Speaker 15: King, he's amazing.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: General.

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Speaker 22: You know that we were without a parade here after

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Speaker 22: nineteen forty two. They hadn't had a parade until the

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Speaker 22: World War Two. Monument was kind of in two thousand,

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Speaker 22: like guess what was it two thousands, Yeah, and they

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Speaker 22: had the Veterans Association, the American Veteran Association was tasked

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Speaker 22: but putting.

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Speaker 15: A little parade together.

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Speaker 22: And then with the pandemic twenty twenty and twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 22: we were off Constitution Avenue.

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Speaker 15: But you can hear it behind us.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, we're not anymore.

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Speaker 15: We're tanned, we're arrested.

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Speaker 22: We got the great military, the veterans, the active service,

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Speaker 22: the bands, they're all kind of gearing up, some of

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Speaker 22: these wonderful nonprofits that helped the veterans.

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Speaker 15: It's an exciting event.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be an amazing day.

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Speaker 22: Yeah, and I'm I'm hoping that all of you will

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Speaker 22: join us when we get to say these forwards for real?

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Speaker 15: Now, are you ready?

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Speaker 4: I'm ready?

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Speaker 15: No, No, they're still stopping.

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Speaker 22: I can't take it. This is killing me. I want

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Speaker 22: to get this thing on the because you're gonna love

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Speaker 22: this parade. And you know what I love is that

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Speaker 22: people get to cheer and they get to be patriotic.

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Speaker 22: They don't have to be shy about it. They get

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Speaker 22: to love our country. All right, we got it. I

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Speaker 22: got the official.

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Speaker 4: Que Oh man, are you ready?

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Speaker 6: I'm ready?

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Speaker 4: What the parade began?

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Speaker 23: When their country is called the Men and women of

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Speaker 23: the United States Military have answered. It began in seventeen

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Speaker 23: seventy five June fourteenth, as American militiamen besieged the British

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Speaker 23: in Boston, Congress ordered the creation of a New Army,

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Speaker 23: Continental Army the birth of the United States Army. Four

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Speaker 23: months later, October thirteenth, the Navy was born, and November

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Speaker 23: tenth the United States Marine Corps, declaring independents, Congress pledged

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Speaker 23: their lives, fortunes, and their sacred honor. And through the

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Speaker 23: Revolution and generations since, American service members have lived out

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Speaker 23: that pledge, and they have sacrificed. Eighty years ago World

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Speaker 23: War II, more than four hundred thousand loss to war,

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Speaker 23: thirty six thousand in Korea, fifty eight thousand in Vietnam,

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Speaker 23: and seventy five hundred fallen in operation. Since Memorial Day

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Speaker 23: is their day, the United States Military's most sacred day.

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Speaker 23: At the National Memorial Day Parade along Constitution Avenue, and

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Speaker 23: at parades and ceremonies around the country, we honor those

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Speaker 23: who gave their last full measure of devotion, and as

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Speaker 23: we commemorate the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the

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Speaker 23: United States Military, to all who have served, to all

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Speaker 23: who have sacrificed, we offer you our last ingratitude and

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Speaker 23: our pledge to always remember.

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Speaker 4: From Washington, d c.

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Speaker 19: On the beautiful and iconic Constitution Avenue, Welcome to the

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Speaker 19: twenty twenty five National Memorial Day Parade, presented by Boeing

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Speaker 19: and a special thanks to the one and only Tom

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Speaker 19: Cruise for kicking off today's show.

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Speaker 22: Please welcome Navy Vocalist Staff Sergeant Caroline Nielsen and the

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Speaker 22: Memorial Day Festival Chorus under the direction of Doctor Michael

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Speaker 22: martinacious fies.

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Speaker 15: It's for would testis S S. Grez?

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Speaker 24: What cool it.

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Speaker 15: F The C.

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Speaker 25: Shot the c.

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Speaker 5: O.

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Speaker 6: Wow, I got chills.

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Speaker 15: I still have kills.

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Speaker 6: Beautiful.

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Speaker 19: Thank you so much well from Washington, d C. Good

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Speaker 19: afternoon everyone. I'm John Rogers. The twenty twenty five National

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Speaker 19: Memorial Day Parade is coming to you from the heart

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Speaker 19: of our nation's capital, Constitution Avenue, the American Veterans Center

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Speaker 19: welcomes you to the nation's largest Memorial Day salute to

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Speaker 19: the men and women who've made the ultimate sacrifice for

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Speaker 19: our country.

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Speaker 22: Yes, indeed, welcome to all of you that are watching

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Speaker 22: us today, and you know what, we want to give

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Speaker 22: an extra great welcome to all youth service members watching

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Speaker 22: all over the world the American Forces Network.

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Speaker 15: God bless You're.

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Speaker 19: So grateful for your service well from the American Revolution

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Speaker 19: to the current generation guarding and fighting for our democracy.

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Speaker 19: Today's parade honors those Americans who've served and sacrificed throughout

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Speaker 19: our country's long history. Yeah, in keeping with tradition, members

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Speaker 19: of the Metropolitan Police Department, including an honor guard, making

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Speaker 19: their way down Constitution Avenue, signaling the official kickoff of

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Speaker 19: the parade.

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Speaker 22: Carrying the matter are a group of very special women,

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Speaker 22: gold Star Mothers.

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Speaker 6: Today.

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Speaker 22: Our hearts are with these mothers and their families, as

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Speaker 22: this day is our nation's collective remembrance and paying honor

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Speaker 22: to the children that they've lost while an active service

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Speaker 22: of the United States Armed Forces.

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Speaker 19: And here is the pride of Washington, DC's marching bands,

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Speaker 19: the Frank W. Blue Senior High School Majestic Marching Knights.

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Speaker 19: This award winning band with Hart and uses musicianship, hard work, discipline, dedication,

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Speaker 19: and compassion as tools to overcome all obstacles.

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Speaker 15: It's a great band.

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Speaker 22: And I've appeared on Good Morning America, the Today's Show.

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Speaker 22: They participated in the inaugurations of Presidents George W.

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Speaker 4: Bush and Barack Obama.

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Speaker 22: They've barched this Memorial Day break from a decade.

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Speaker 15: Let's listen to the soul of the Blue.

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Speaker 26: And goat this a salute to our fellen hero not.

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Speaker 26: The oldest military traditions in a full honor funeral is

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Speaker 26: that of the riderless horse.

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Speaker 19: It's a very powerful image wearing an empty saddle with

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Speaker 19: the rider's boots reversed in the stirrups. It honors the

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Speaker 19: warrior who will never ride again. A reminder of the

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Speaker 19: true many of the Memorial Day Hollywood.

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Speaker 22: We are honored to be joined by the National Memorial

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Speaker 22: Day Parades ceremonial honor Guard featuring marching joins from each

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Speaker 22: brash of the United States Armed Forces.

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Speaker 19: Twenty twenty five marks the two hundred and fiftieth birthday

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Speaker 19: of the United States Military. More than a year before

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Speaker 19: declaring independence, Congress created the Continental Army on June fourteenth,

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Speaker 19: seventeen seventy five. The Navy was born on October thirteenth

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Speaker 19: in the Marine Corps November tenth. As we celebrate our

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Speaker 19: military's birthday, these marching platoons join us in the spirit

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Speaker 19: of service and sacrifice. Here is the Army Band, popularly

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Speaker 19: known as the Band of the Nation's Capital. The band

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Speaker 19: started in eighteen eighty three and is the official musical

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Speaker 19: ambassador of the District of Columbia Army National Guard. This

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Speaker 19: band has played countless events of state and national importance,

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Speaker 19: including the burial of the Unknown Soldier in nineteen twenty

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Speaker 19: one at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Speaker 22: Joining us in the special opening tribute our platoons from

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Speaker 22: each branch of the Armed Forces.

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Speaker 27: Including the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Base Force,

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Speaker 27: and Coastguard.

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Speaker 19: We are honored to present the Grand Marshals of the

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Speaker 19: twenty twenty five National Memorial Day Parade, recipients of our

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Speaker 19: nation's highest award for valor, the Medal of Honor.

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Speaker 4: The Medal is awarded.

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Speaker 19: For gallantry and combat beyond the call of duty. Of

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Speaker 19: more than thirty five hundred recipients in our history, only

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Speaker 19: sixty one survived.

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Speaker 22: Today, as we commemorate the two hundred and fiftieth birthday

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Speaker 22: of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, these

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Speaker 22: heroes joined to represent all who will serve and sacrifice

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Speaker 22: through our history. A gracious thank you to representing sponsor

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Speaker 22: Boeing from making their participation possible, and thank you to

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Speaker 22: our Medal of Honor recipients. This fifty foot long this

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Speaker 22: giant stars and stripes is being carried by employee volunteers

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Speaker 22: from LDOS.

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Speaker 19: The organization was established in nineteen seventy four by returning

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Speaker 19: the Vietnam era veterans with a goal of addressing academic

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Speaker 19: needs of veterans in peer counseling programs. Their important work

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Speaker 19: continues today. Lidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the

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Speaker 19: world's most vexing challenges and national.

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Speaker 4: Security and health.

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Speaker 19: They're forty eight thousand employees collaborate to create smarter technology

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Speaker 19: solutions for customers in these critical markets.

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Speaker 22: From Rancio Kuka Manga in sunny California, Let's welcome the

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Speaker 22: Al Tahoma Entertainment Corps playing a John Phillip Sousa marsh.

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Speaker 22: This award winning band from Altahoma High School is making

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Speaker 22: their debut performance in the National Memorial Day Parade. We welcome,

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Speaker 22: Let's listen, and here is World War Two veteran Dave Yoho,

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Speaker 22: the Merchant Marines, who just a few years ago received

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Speaker 22: the Congression Gold Medal of Honor for extraordinary service. He's

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Speaker 22: joined by that Texan Congressman Jake Elzi of the sixth District.

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Speaker 22: US Navy F fourteen and F eighteen fighter pilot with

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Speaker 22: five combat deployments to a Rock and Afghanistan, and no

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Speaker 22: doubt he is a great champion of the National Memorial

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Speaker 22: Day Parade.

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Speaker 6: Got your loving beautiful car.

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Speaker 22: This car has always looked better when he got a

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Speaker 22: Medal of Honor winner.

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Speaker 5: And there.

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Speaker 22: We are truly honored to present living legends of history

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Speaker 22: serving as the honorary Grand Marshals. They are surviving veterans

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Speaker 22: of World War Two writing period vehicles from the Classic

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Speaker 22: Car Clubs of America.

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Speaker 19: Twenty twenty five marks eighty years since the Allied victory

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Speaker 19: in World War II. Sixteen million Americans served in uniform,

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Speaker 19: four hundred thousand made the ultimate sacrifice, and today fewer

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Speaker 19: than fifty thousand survive. So today these legends, all nearly

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Speaker 19: one hundred years old and older, but all looking great.

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Speaker 19: They're joining us to represent their entire generation.

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Speaker 1: And you're looking at a live look right now at

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Speaker 1: the annual Memorial Day Parade, which just kicked off in Washington,

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Speaker 1: d c our very own Steve Ruber is there on

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Speaker 1: site taking in all the festivities. And I want to

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Speaker 1: bring in Mike Crispy as well, who's been with me

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Speaker 1: over the past several hours. Mike there's a certain kind

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Speaker 1: of commemoration and celebration to this day in terms of

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Speaker 1: all the pomp and circumstance and everything that's going on

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Speaker 1: the decorum, if you will. I learned that it's the

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth birthday of our military, which I

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Speaker 1: think has to make this even more festive. As we

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Speaker 1: see the Army band, the Navy band, people singing our

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Speaker 1: national anthem, I feel like it's just maybe even more

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Speaker 1: celebratory than we've ever had before. Just based on that alone,

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Speaker 1: what do you think. I don't think we have Mike's

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Speaker 1: audio right now. Maybe we'll try to get that for

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Speaker 1: a moment. Hopefully he's not helping back. I got it ahead.

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Speaker 2: I was saying that I believe that right now, if

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Speaker 2: you're looking at the live shots of the parade, you

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Speaker 2: got to be enthused because the people who are in

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Speaker 2: the parade right now, well, I think they're excited about

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Speaker 2: the direction of this country. I think there's a renewed optimism.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a renewed spirit. I think that people

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Speaker 2: are excited because we have a leader back at the

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Speaker 2: Helm who's putting everybody involved in the chain of command

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Speaker 2: in the military they're putting them first, caring for our veterans,

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Speaker 2: getting to the bottom of the debacle that was the

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Speaker 2: Afghanistan withdrawal and pull out, and committing to do more

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Speaker 2: into the future. And that's doing more for our vets,

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Speaker 2: getting them the medical care that they need. And then

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Speaker 2: you know President Trump also ball I'm sure you saw

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Speaker 2: he's talking about doing the two hundred and fifty parade

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Speaker 2: for the military and bringing in like tanks and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that. They're actually already preparing for that military parade.

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Speaker 2: So this is just a kickoff of what I believe

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Speaker 2: is going to be a very festive year as we

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Speaker 2: turn the page on the last four years that were

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Speaker 2: very dark and grim and turn the page.

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Speaker 3: To something that's going to be exceptional.

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Speaker 2: Strongest military, strongest economy, strongest country, and a leader who

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Speaker 2: puts all these amazing people.

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Speaker 1: For Yeah, I agree, you're right, bringing tanks and that

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Speaker 1: can be pretty exceptional. And then, of course he mentioned

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Speaker 1: in this speech earlier today, we've got the Olympics coming

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Speaker 1: up next year, we have the FIFA World Cup coming up,

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Speaker 1: But I think the one that he thinks is the

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Speaker 1: most special is next year when we have the two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth anniversary, America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday,

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Speaker 1: which is going to be for sure a special one.

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Speaker 1: So we'll bring you more live coverage of the Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day Parade in Washingt SA in just a few moments,

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Speaker 1: so stay with us, stay tuned. And you're looking right

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Speaker 1: now at Garry Cinise of the Gary Sinise Foundation at

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Speaker 1: the annual Memorial Day Parade in Washingt d C. It's

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Speaker 1: a great affair. It's also celebrating uniquely our two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fiftieth anniversary as a military, the military's birthday, and

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Speaker 1: you're seeing Gary Cinesse on there right now, who does

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Speaker 1: so much for the military. This is Lieutenant Dan of

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Speaker 1: course from Forrest Gump as you know him, probably in

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Speaker 1: one of his most famous roles, which really caused him

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Speaker 1: to have an outpouring of support for our military community,

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Speaker 1: our veterans, and of course all of our fallen as well.

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Speaker 1: So right now, let's tune you back in to the

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Speaker 1: Momorial Day Parade right now with live coverage on Real

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Speaker 1: America's Voice for our Memorial Day special.

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Speaker 8: On their legacies and acknowledge with compassion their loved one's

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Speaker 8: painful losses. Together we honor our fallen heroes who gave

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Speaker 8: their lives to protect our way of life.

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Speaker 6: On behalf of the Boeing Company.

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Speaker 8: Thank you to the American Veteran Center for making this

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Speaker 8: parade possible and for your continued commitment to supporting all veterans.

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Speaker 28: The National Memorial Day Parade twenty twenty five, presented by Boeing,

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Speaker 28: is brought to you by Hey Serf Pro the Number

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Speaker 28: One Choice and Cleanup and Restoration Events DC, the Gary

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Speaker 28: Sinise Foundation, U HAUL John Deere, and by the American

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Speaker 28: Veterans Center. Join our mission to preserve their legacy at

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Speaker 28: American Veterans Center dot org.

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Speaker 29: In America cities and towns, today, flags will be placed

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Speaker 29: on graves and cemeteries. Public officials will speak of the

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Speaker 29: sacrifice and the valor of those whose memory we honor.

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Speaker 6: Hello.

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Speaker 21: I'm Major General Trevor braden Camp, the commanding General of

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Speaker 21: the Joint Task Force National Capital Region and the US

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Speaker 21: Armies Military District of Washington, and.

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Speaker 30: I'm commands are Major vern Daily The commands are major

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Speaker 30: of the Joint Task Force National Capital Region and the

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Speaker 30: United States Armies Military District to Washington.

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Speaker 21: Today, during our National Memorial Day Observance. We take the

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Speaker 21: time to remember and pay tribute to all service members

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Speaker 21: who gave their lives while serving for our country.

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Speaker 6: You are not forgotten.

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Speaker 30: The sacrifice of our fallen soldiers, marines, sailors, airmen, guardians

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Speaker 30: and coastguardsmen and dures a legacy of duty and their

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Speaker 30: dedication is worthy of national reflection. Freedom is not free,

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Speaker 30: and we must always remember those who bravely sacrifice their

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Speaker 30: lives so we can exercise those freedoms.

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Speaker 4: Today we are tasked.

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Speaker 21: With rendering honors for our fallen service members at Arlington

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Speaker 21: National Cemetery. We're just like today we remember the legacy

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Speaker 21: of those who've come before us. Thank you all for

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Speaker 21: joining us today for this special National Memorial Day observance.

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Speaker 21: Commands our major daily and I asked that you take

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Speaker 21: a moment to reflect and honor our fallen heroes who

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Speaker 21: made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

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Speaker 4: This will defend.

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Speaker 19: The National Memorial Day Parade twenty twenty five persented by Boeing,

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Speaker 19: is brought to you by SERF pro Parade twenty twenty

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Speaker 19: five percented by Boeing and moving on now this Memorial

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Speaker 19: Day thirty thousand US John Deere employees paid tribute to

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Speaker 19: the heroes who gave everything for our nation. John Deere,

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Speaker 19: an American blacksmith and inventor, founded his company in eighteen

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Speaker 19: thirty seven in Grand Detour, Illinois. For nearly twenty years,

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Speaker 19: John Deere employees have honored the brave men and women

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Speaker 19: who sacrifice everything in the name of freedom, and we

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Speaker 19: are forever in your debt.

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Speaker 22: Now, let's welcome the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Honor Guard.

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Speaker 22: They were established in nineteen eighty and they were the

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Speaker 22: first tribal honor guard in the state of Oklahoma. They

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Speaker 22: served to honor veterans at military funerals regardless of race

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Speaker 22: or color, at no cost, as well as community speaking engagements,

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Speaker 22: flag presentations, and powows.

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Speaker 19: New Haven, Connecticut, here is the James Hillhouse High School

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Speaker 19: Marching Band, representing one of their city's most historic high schools.

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Speaker 4: They make their parade debut today.

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Speaker 19: The man continues to cement their legacy of academic achievement.

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Speaker 4: And musical excellence.

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Speaker 19: Their honored to pay tribute to the brave men and

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Speaker 19: women who gave all for our country.

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Speaker 4: Let's listen.

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Speaker 22: We want to thank American Airlines for their sponsorship of

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Speaker 22: today's parade. American Airlines, the official airline of the National

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Speaker 22: Memorial Day Parade.

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Speaker 19: Let's next welcome the West Hempstead Rams Marching Band. These

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Speaker 19: Rams have been making waves by existently earning gold ratings

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Speaker 19: from the New York State Schools Music Association and celebrating music.

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Speaker 4: In our schools at New York State's Capital. Let's listen in.

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Speaker 22: We thank Extremity for their sponsorship of today's parade.

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Speaker 19: And thank you Stars and Stripes for their sponsorship and

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Speaker 19: participation in today's parade.

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Speaker 28: The National Memorial Day Parade twenty twenty five, presented by

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Speaker 28: Boeing is brought to you by American Airlines, official airline

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Speaker 28: of the National Memorial Day Parade, American Battlefield Trust, Code

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Speaker 28: of Support Foundation Men's Club, and by the State of

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Speaker 28: cutter Our tribute to the sacrifices of the American Revolution

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Speaker 28: is sponsored by Events DC Memorial.

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Speaker 31: There is a reminder individuals who gave their lives in

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Speaker 31: defense of our nation. It is a day to reflect

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Speaker 31: on their sacrifices, honor their legacy. They reaffirm our commitment

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Speaker 31: to the values they fought to protect. At events CC,

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Speaker 31: we are honored to partner with American Veterans Center to

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Speaker 31: support the National Memorial Day Parade, a moving triba that

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Speaker 31: brings our community together to remember, reflect and give thanks.

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Speaker 31: We honor the contributions of our veterans, sacrifices made for

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Speaker 31: all of us who remember.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 19: The next float is made possible by Events DC, the official.

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Speaker 4: Convention in Sports Authority of Washington d C.

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Speaker 19: EVENTCC creates unique experiences that results in jobs, economic impact,

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Speaker 19: and lasting memories for residents, torses, and guests.

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Speaker 4: As the official host of the nation's capital.

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Speaker 19: Events DC showcases Washington DC as a world class, family friendly,

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Speaker 19: globally recognized destination, welcoming visitors from around the corner and

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Speaker 19: around the world.

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Speaker 15: Thank you to.

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Speaker 22: President and CEO MGM Gates and Events DC for supporting

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Speaker 22: this year's parade and honoring our fallen heroes. You can

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Speaker 22: learn more about upcoming events by visiting EVENTSDC dot com. Oh,

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Speaker 22: look at this riding on the float. Guess who miss

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Speaker 22: America twenty twenty five Abby Stockard. She's a senior at

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Speaker 22: Auburn University. She's studying pediatric nursing. Abby is spending her

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Speaker 22: reign traveling the country advocating for the American Heart Association's

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Speaker 22: Go Rent for Women initiative, as well as Resistant five

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Speaker 22: Roses Research.

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Speaker 19: Let's welcome the Peninsula High School Tied Hawks ARTC from

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Speaker 19: Gig Harbor, Washington, making their first appearance in the National

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Speaker 19: Memorial Day Parade.

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Speaker 15: They're great.

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Speaker 22: They were established in twenty twenty one. This dynamic unit

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Speaker 22: has swiftly risen the prominence. Get this clinching the twenty

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Speaker 22: twenty five NJROTC Area twenty three Drill Championship in their

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Speaker 22: inaugural year.

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Speaker 15: Now, this is incredible because.

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Speaker 22: They were competing against twenty six programs across the Pacific Northwest.

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Speaker 22: The lasta Japan Guam Wow Wow. Welcome Peninsula High School

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Speaker 22: Tide Dogs. TAPS Tragedy Assistant Program for Survivors. They bring

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Speaker 22: us our next float featuring family members who have lost

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Speaker 22: loved ones that served in the Armed Forces.

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Speaker 19: TAPS provides hope, health and healing to all those grieving

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Speaker 19: the death of a service member. Riding on the float

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Speaker 19: is Bonnie Carroll, TAPS President and Founder, along with representatives

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Speaker 19: of the Washington Commanders, longtime supporters of TAPS and our

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Speaker 19: Armed Services.

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Speaker 22: The families that you see walking in the parade represent

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Speaker 22: over one hundred thousand members of the Taps family. These

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Speaker 22: families of the fallen are honoring their heroes by carrying

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Speaker 22: their photos with them as they walk the parade route,

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Speaker 22: and they represent the drue meaning of Memorial.

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Speaker 32: Death or a parade special. Here at Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 1: You're looking at the float for TAPS, which is an acronym.

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Speaker 1: It is for those who have lost service members, and

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Speaker 1: as you could see, they were holding up the pictures

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Speaker 1: of the service members that they have lost. Will continue

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Speaker 1: with more live coverage heare of the Memorial Day Parade

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Speaker 1: in just a minute, so stay with us. Man, Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to Real America's Voice live coverage of the Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day Parade special. You're getting a live look on that

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Speaker 1: in right now with some of our Native Americans who

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Speaker 1: are doing some dances and demonstrations. I want to bring

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Speaker 1: in Mike Crispy for just a moment as we return

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Speaker 1: to our coverage, just a moment. I guess we cannot

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Speaker 1: forget our Native Americans, Mike, who fought alongside us and

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Speaker 1: helped us defeat the British as well. I think that's

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Speaker 1: an important part of our history that we have to

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Speaker 1: acknowledge and really everyone, even Europeans, the French, you know,

1840
01:46:38,280 --> 01:46:42,240
Speaker 1: everyone that helped us basically create this great nation of ours.

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Speaker 1: We have to honor those and as has been mentioned

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Speaker 1: in many of the speeches today, Mike, we have to

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Speaker 1: go all the way back to Lexington and Concord and

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Speaker 1: those first soldiers who had no idea the country that

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Speaker 1: they would give birth to. We have to think about that.

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Speaker 2: You know, they were saying in the speeches today and

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01:47:01,360 --> 01:47:04,000
Speaker 2: the remarks from everybody pretty much that at the beginning,

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Speaker 2: America was an idea they were fighting for. It didn't

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Speaker 2: even exist back that they were fighting to create something

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Speaker 2: that has turned out to be the greatest country in

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Speaker 2: the history of the world. A lot of individuals with

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Speaker 2: a lot of fortitude, determination, just this dream of something

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Speaker 2: amazing that I think that people need to remember on

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Speaker 2: Memorial Day and every day. I think you said it earlier,

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Speaker 2: bo Is that Memorial Day really should be every day,

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Speaker 2: but particularly paying attention to all the different people from

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Speaker 2: all different walks of life who did at the beginning what's.

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Speaker 3: Persevered for two hundred and fifty years. It's incredible.

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Speaker 4: Both Yeah and I.

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Speaker 1: Just before we go back to the parade, Mic, I

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Speaker 1: want to just mention this historical fact. This is from

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Speaker 1: May fifth of eighteen sixty eight. The Grand Army of

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Speaker 1: the Republic, which was a powerful organization of Union veterans

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Speaker 1: led by Major General John Logan, issued General Orders Number eleven,

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Speaker 1: or the Memorial Day Act, and this formal ablished Memorial

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Speaker 1: d as a decoration day, which what it is used

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Speaker 1: to be known as, on which the nation would remember

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Speaker 1: its war dead and decorate their graves with flowers. And

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Speaker 1: the order stated, we should guard their graves with sacred vigilance.

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Speaker 1: Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent

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Speaker 1: visitors and fond mourners. Let no neglect, no ravages of

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Speaker 1: time testify to the present or to the coming generations

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Speaker 1: that we have forgotten as a people, the cost of

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Speaker 1: a free and undivided republic. Isn't that true? Mike?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a solemn day, but it's also a

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Speaker 2: day to pay tribute. And these people live lives that

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Speaker 2: were very strong, they were very powerful, They're very instrumental

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Speaker 2: and again the continuation of our freedom. So we should

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Speaker 2: not only be solemn, but also celebrate them and pay

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Speaker 2: tribute to them by showing off the.

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Speaker 3: Strength in which they lived with.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's a day obviously to be solemn,

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Speaker 2: but also day to celebrate the greatness that are just

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Speaker 2: these incredible warriors who have given us everything we have

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Speaker 2: to be thankful for both.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Mike. I think that's why we are celebrating today,

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Speaker 1: and it seems like a very celebratory affair in Washington, c.

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Speaker 1: We'll take you back to that live coverage right now.

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Speaker 19: On June fourteenth, seventeen seventy five, Congress adopted the Continental

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01:49:42,360 --> 01:49:46,000
Speaker 19: Army and placed George Washington as commander in chief. And

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Speaker 19: this year, the United States Army celebrates its two hundred

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Speaker 19: and fiftieth birthday, commemorating it's proud history of loyalty, duty, respect, courage,

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Speaker 19: and honor.

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Speaker 22: The giant flag of the United States Army that you

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Speaker 22: see here was officially adopted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Speaker 22: in nineteen fifty six and first denfrilled the Independence Hall

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Speaker 22: on the Army's one hundred and eighty first birthday. In

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Speaker 22: addition to the Army's birth here of seventeen seventy five,

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Speaker 22: look at the flag, it includes the Army's official motto.

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Speaker 4: This will defend.

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Speaker 19: And in honor of the Army's two hundred and fiftieth

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Speaker 19: Birthday from the third United States Infantry Regiment, a performance

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Speaker 19: from the famed Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps. We

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Speaker 19: thank Events DC for their sponsorship of today's parade. Now

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Speaker 19: please welcome Wounded Paw Project from Virginia. Wounded Paw Project

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Speaker 19: focuses on the prevention of animal abuse and the rehabilitation

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Speaker 19: of abused and rescued dogs like Elvis, who is rescued

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Speaker 19: from a drug house in Las Vegas, and his girlfriend Diva,

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Speaker 19: who is rescued from a landfill in Phoenix. Wounded Paw

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Speaker 19: Project is guided by the PAW principle, Protect, Advocate and

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Speaker 19: wag ployment that gives abused rescue dogs a second tale

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Speaker 19: in life to be the voiceless and report animal abuse.

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Speaker 15: It say thank you, thank you very much.

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Speaker 22: We also thank WTP for their support make way for

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Speaker 22: the Honesdale High School Marching Hornets. But again we just

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Speaker 22: greatly appreciate that support from w TOP. A wonderful station

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Speaker 22: here and these Honesdale High School Marching Hornets, they're spectacular.

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Speaker 4: They're from Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 22: Not only do they perform at every football game, they

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Speaker 22: also write their own halftime shows, showcasing their artistic and

1922
01:52:53,520 --> 01:52:54,479
Speaker 22: musical talents.

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Speaker 19: The performance from the Homesdale High School Band is dedicated

1924
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Speaker 19: to the memory of Honesdale High Band alumnus Jen W. Holbert,

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Speaker 19: who went on to perform with the famed Penn State

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Speaker 19: Blue Band of the nineteen sixty eight Orange Bowl before

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Speaker 19: serving in the US Army.

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Speaker 22: Now, let's honor a military union against too little recognition

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Speaker 22: for the tremendous good that they do for our uniform services.

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Speaker 22: Talking about the military chaplains, here are Air Force Chief

1931
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Speaker 22: of Chaplains Major General Trent Davis and Lisa Davis, Colonel

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Speaker 22: William Spencer and Heidi Spencer, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Ham and Genhhn,

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Speaker 22: and Captain Kevin Pugh and Pamela Peugh.

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Speaker 19: Dating back to the American Revolution, three hundred and seventy

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Speaker 19: eight chaplains have died while on duty with the United

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Speaker 19: States Army, including while tending to our service members on

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Speaker 19: the front lines of combat. So thank you to our

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Speaker 19: military chaplains for your unwavering service.

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Speaker 28: The National Memorial Day Parade twenty twenty five, presented by Boeing,

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01:54:49,600 --> 01:54:53,560
Speaker 28: is brought to you by Code of Support Foundation. Robert

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Speaker 28: Irvine Foundation Donor Outreach for Veterans Court.

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Speaker 1: And welcome back to our live coverage of the Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day Parade in Washington, d C. I want to bring

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Speaker 1: back in Mike Chrispy, who's been with me for the

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Speaker 1: past several hours and who's been a great on screen companion. Mike,

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you. I know you're in the

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, New York area, and just kind of some

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01:55:13,400 --> 01:55:16,160
Speaker 1: reflections on what you would do for Memorial Day. I

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Speaker 1: know that my fiance is from Long Island, she says,

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Speaker 1: it's really the unofficial hiccoff to summer that everyone kind

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Speaker 1: of goes east. So tell me a little bit about

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Speaker 1: what Memorial Day is like for you, kind of in

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Speaker 1: your family and what you would normally be doing if

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Speaker 1: you weren't here with me today.

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Speaker 2: Well, obviously there's nothing better than paying tribute to our

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Speaker 2: heroes on Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 3: But if it wasn't with you today, I probably because.

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Speaker 2: I am originally for the people who don't know that,

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Speaker 2: I am originally from Long Island myself, So there you go, Bell,

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Speaker 2: So originally from Long Island myself. I grew up there,

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Speaker 2: and so I would be out east. It is the

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Speaker 2: kickoff of the summer. Also for the you know, fashion

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Speaker 2: minded folks out there, it's also the first day that

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Speaker 2: you could wear a seersucker. I didn't wear the seersucker

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Speaker 2: on the air, but it's the first day of summer,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I think it was a secretary of

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Speaker 2: Colin said, you know, it's kind of become like first

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Speaker 2: day of summer and all that. So I think you

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Speaker 2: can you can celebrate that and acknowledge that it's summer

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Speaker 2: and have a good time to gather. But I think

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Speaker 2: you do that in paying tribute to our fallen heroes.

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Speaker 3: I think it's the perfect blood bo So we'd be

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Speaker 3: celebrating outside.

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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful day, and I think that hopefully everyone's

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Speaker 2: enjoying it. But as long as they remember how it's

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Speaker 2: possible they can enjoy themselves and have.

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Speaker 3: A good time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know we kind of touched on it earlier, Mike,

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Speaker 1: just in terms of generationally what this day means, because

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Speaker 1: I think the association, as you so aptly said, has

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Speaker 1: become just about oh, it's a long weekend, we get

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Speaker 1: to go have fun. And it's true. I'm sure a

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Speaker 1: lot of those troops who laid down their lives, said

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Speaker 1: I did this so that you could have that, because

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Speaker 1: they're such selfless individuals. But the truth of it is

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Speaker 1: is if we don't educate younger generations on what Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day is. And I've asked, you know, what's an activity

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Speaker 1: someone should do? And I think it's maybe kind of

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Speaker 1: like when I went out to southworda national cemetery and

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Speaker 1: just looked at an individual headstone and that person up

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Speaker 1: find out a bit of their story, because these are stories,

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Speaker 1: timeless stories that we don't know that are part of

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Speaker 1: America's history. It's just a chapter in someone's history, in

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Speaker 1: a chapter in America's history. So you know, what do

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Speaker 1: you think we should do?

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Speaker 3: Mike?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, in terms of passing on education

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Speaker 1: to another generation.

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Speaker 2: Well, you bring up a great point is that you know,

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Speaker 2: you think about Memorial Day cake off of summer. Families

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Speaker 2: are getting together today. I mean, probably the biggest thing

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Speaker 2: I did growing up was get together.

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Speaker 3: You have barbecues. The weather in the.

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Speaker 2: Northeast United States is finally starting to get above sixty

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Speaker 2: five seventy degrees, so it's one of your first weekends

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Speaker 2: to get outside. You throw some steaks on the grill,

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Speaker 2: you get your family over, and every family has I

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Speaker 2: think most families, probably the vast majority of them, have

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Speaker 2: people who served at some point in the military.

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Speaker 3: I know my family has.

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Speaker 2: So it's a great opportunity to have those conversations and

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Speaker 2: ask your parents or your grandparents, or whoever's fortunate enough

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Speaker 2: to still be alive and still being in your life,

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Speaker 2: to ask them stories about that individual serving. So it

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Speaker 2: really is my mortal day, and these days where we

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Speaker 2: can get together with this backdrop of this historical day,

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Speaker 2: where you can have those conversations and then celebrate the

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Speaker 2: fact that what they did was successful and what they

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Speaker 2: gave up was really so worth it because it's allowed

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Speaker 2: us to have all these things. So I think that's

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Speaker 2: the biggest thing bo is that we can have conversations

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Speaker 2: with our relatives, anybody who's fortunate enough to still be

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Speaker 2: with us, and they can continue on that legacy of

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Speaker 2: the Great American Military and everybody who is served. I

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Speaker 2: think most families have people who are still alive who

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Speaker 2: are vets, so you've got to get those stories out

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Speaker 2: of them while they're still alive.

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Speaker 3: I think it's so important.

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Speaker 2: So if you're out there and you're celebrating and you're

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Speaker 2: gonna go to a barbecue as that family member.

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Speaker 1: That yeah, not just that, And I think I am encouraged, Mike,

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Speaker 1: just before we go here to break is that throughout

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Speaker 1: the commercialization of today, you still see a lot of

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Speaker 1: American flag apparel. Me here, I'm wearing my American flag.

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Speaker 1: TI got my pocket square. But you do see it.

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Speaker 1: And I think, if nothing else, if someone were to say,

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Speaker 1: why are there so many American flags everywhere? Why is

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Speaker 1: that in the publics, Why is it in the grocery

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Speaker 1: store at CBS, It's because they're trying to remind you,

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Speaker 1: hopefully and even in the most commercialized way, that this

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Speaker 1: country has fallen, that we have to pay tribute to

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Speaker 1: And that's I think that's where the conversation can be pivoted.

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Speaker 1: Is what, you know, why do we got to wear

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Speaker 1: all this? You know, America? You know, it seems like

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Speaker 1: almost kind of to become arcane in a way. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it has. I think now that especially with

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Speaker 1: this president, we've seen kind of a new a renewed

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Speaker 1: sense of patriotism, which is a good thing. You know,

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Speaker 1: America first is not a bad thing. We've done a

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Speaker 1: lot of wonderful things in this world. So I think

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Speaker 1: throughout the commercialization of it, maybe there's a story to

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Speaker 1: be told, Mike just about Hey, you know the reason

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Speaker 1: why this flag is so prevalent is because you can

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Speaker 1: have a day like today, Micha. I'll give you a

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Speaker 1: final thirty thirty seconds to wrap that up in a

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Speaker 1: nice bow.

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Speaker 3: Anytime I see the flag, I'm proud.

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Speaker 2: I'm proud because I'm part of something incredible, and I'm blessed,

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Speaker 2: and I'm blessed that I was born into this country,

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Speaker 2: and I think everybody else out there we should feel

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Speaker 2: the same way.

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Speaker 3: We are so blessed and fortunate to be among.

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Speaker 2: The great people who serve this country, who gave their

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Speaker 2: life for this country, and to be together on a

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Speaker 2: daylight today in the greatest country in the history of

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Speaker 2: the world.

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Speaker 1: Bow Amen to that. Blessed is exactly the right word.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more coverage of the Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day Parade right here on Real America's Voice. Stay with

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Speaker 1: us and welcome back to our live coverage of the

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Speaker 1: Mooral Day Parade special right here in Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 1: We thank you for being with us today. Our viewers

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Speaker 1: who are spending your Memorial Day with us. You're getting

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Speaker 1: a live look right now in Washington.

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Speaker 6: D C.

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Speaker 1: At this Memorial Day parade. As I mentioned earlier, I've

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Speaker 1: had the wonderful opportunity to perform at this parade, and

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Speaker 1: it really is a special event. But I think it's

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Speaker 1: got even more significance because of the military's birthday. I

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Speaker 1: want to bring in Steve Gruber, who's been at the

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Speaker 1: Memorial Day parade, and he was also at Arlington National

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Speaker 1: Cemetery earlier. Steve, can you hear me?

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Speaker 6: I can bo well, but a little bit.

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Speaker 33: It's busy day out here, a lot of connection to

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Speaker 33: the world, so a lot going on. Beautiful Memorial Day.

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Speaker 33: By the way, the sun came out and it began

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Speaker 33: for us here in real America's voice over at Arlington

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Speaker 33: National Cemetery. It was spectacular day there as the President

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Speaker 33: came in delivered remarks along with JD. Vance, Secretary of

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Speaker 33: the Defense Pete haig Seth, and the General of the

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Speaker 33: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, all their giving remarks.

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Speaker 6: It was a remarkable day just to reflect on the foreigner.

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Speaker 33: And twenty thousand people buried at Arlington and This is

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Speaker 33: an extension of the day here in real America's voice,

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Speaker 33: celebrating our nation and the fallen here in the nation's

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Speaker 33: capital and the picture perfect weather.

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Speaker 6: Couldn't be much better, to be honest with you, Yes, Steve.

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Speaker 1: If you can hear me, and I know it's probably

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Speaker 1: difficult for you because it is loud there. If you

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Speaker 1: were there with you saw Secretary of Defense Pete haig Seth,

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Speaker 1: and especially jd Vance and President Trum. Jd Vance mentioned

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Speaker 1: that in nineteen fifteen that Woodrow Wilson set up that

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Speaker 1: memorial Amphitheater that you were president today, and there was

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Speaker 1: a copper box apparently buried there that held four items.

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Speaker 1: There was an American flag, a Bible, the Declaration of Independence,

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Speaker 1: and the Constitution. That those four relics are what they

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Speaker 1: wanted to pass down to future generations. I'm sure you

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Speaker 1: heard part of that speech, if not all of it. Steve,

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about what you took away

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Speaker 1: from jd Vance's speech and also President Trump's.

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Speaker 33: Well, I think it's remarkable if you look at the

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Speaker 33: country now, it's the Constitution, it's the Bible, it is

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Speaker 33: the founding documents of this country that we held so

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Speaker 33: sacred at least we did.

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Speaker 6: And I think we'll getting back to that. I've heard

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Speaker 6: you guys talk about that a little bit today.

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Speaker 33: You know, the younger generation to me is more conservative,

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Speaker 33: more patriotic, more America first than generations in quite some time.

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Speaker 6: And you see.

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Speaker 33: The people volunteering for the military.

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Speaker 6: Those numbers are way up.

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Speaker 33: As we're watching a bunch of cadets come by right

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Speaker 33: now from the Peninsula School District. And look, it's a

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Speaker 33: it's a different day in America. It really is different

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Speaker 33: day than it was for the last four years. You

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Speaker 33: can feel patriot doesn't You can feel that there's a

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Speaker 33: real energy and there really was an ardenten to day too.

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Speaker 6: And JD. Vance's speech, well, first of all, Pete heidkes

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Speaker 6: Outh and JD.

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Speaker 33: Vance both veterans, and so you know, to have people

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Speaker 33: in the highest levels now that have served. Jdvans across

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Speaker 33: the United States Marine who's served in combat, and that's

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Speaker 33: it's been a while since we had somebody that understands

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Speaker 33: the military as well as he does.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and also want to bring in Mike Crispy again.

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Speaker 1: Mike's been with us Steve for the past several hours

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Speaker 1: and He's provided some really great perspectives. So Mike, I

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Speaker 1: just want to turn it over to you now that

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Speaker 1: we have kind of a three way conversation here as

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Speaker 1: well well.

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Speaker 2: Steve, thanks for being down there. Looks like a beautiful day.

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Speaker 2: I'm just curious what's been the if you get hear

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Speaker 2: from me. I know it's live TV and it's a

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Speaker 2: lot of people down there. What's been the sentiment about

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Speaker 2: Secretary Headsip. I'm particularly fascinated by the way that the

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Speaker 2: military and the troops and the families have been receiving him.

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Speaker 3: It seems like there's like a.

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Speaker 2: Newfound energy with Secretary of hegset that the hell you know,

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Speaker 2: he's brought a prayer back into you know, the Pentagon.

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Speaker 3: He's doing things that I think are just boosting them Arale.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned in the recruitment numbers there, Steve, So, what

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Speaker 2: are some of the things that people are talking about

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Speaker 2: specifically with Hegseth, Because I think that they tried to

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Speaker 2: comfort him.

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Speaker 3: He's a rising star, he has a lot of support.

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Speaker 2: It seems like what are the people saying about he

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Speaker 2: set specifically?

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Speaker 33: I think your question is about Secretary Pete Hegseth. I'm

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Speaker 33: getting most of it. So I'll just say this. I

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Speaker 33: think that that crowd at Arlington, which obviously was gathered

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Speaker 33: there to remember the fallen, and there were families, extended families,

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Speaker 33: the widows, the children's, the wives.

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Speaker 6: The husbands of those that have died.

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Speaker 33: And one of the most point of moments this morning

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Speaker 33: is about the seventy nine year old that stood up

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Speaker 33: their mother had died in combat, and the whole place

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Speaker 33: stood up and gave them a standing of eight. But

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Speaker 33: Pete Haig Seth, you know, he had some time there

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Speaker 33: when many in the media were speculating about whether or

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Speaker 33: not he would remain in the position of Secretary of Defense.

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Speaker 6: I don't think there's any question about that. Today. I

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Speaker 6: think that he has proved himself well.

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Speaker 33: And at Arlington today, the people in attendance there are

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Speaker 33: supporters of Pete Haig Seth and JD. Advance and certainly

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Speaker 33: our President, no question about their sentiments there. And on

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Speaker 33: this Memorial Day, a glorious day and a new commander

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Speaker 33: in chief and a new direction from the American military

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Speaker 33: for America first and again, it's about teaching our children

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Speaker 33: about the greatness of this country and the people that

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Speaker 33: have come before US. One point three million Americans have

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Speaker 33: died in combat since seventeen seventy five, and you know

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Speaker 33: about half of those five hundred thousand and nearly half

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Speaker 33: of those died in the American Civil War to pretend

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Speaker 33: to defend this republic. So I think it's time to

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Speaker 33: teach the younger generation about the greatness of America those

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Speaker 33: that lay down their lives so that we could have

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Speaker 33: this conversation today. And it's an important conversation because it's

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Speaker 33: about free speech, religion, freedom to gather, freedom to speak

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Speaker 33: up and be heard. And that's what they laid their

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Speaker 33: lives down for people they didn't even know, for generations

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Speaker 33: to come they had never met, for an idea that

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Speaker 33: is America.

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Speaker 1: Steve, you, I believe you were at the commencement speech

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Speaker 1: that President Trump gave it West Point, and we did

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Speaker 1: play some shots from that earlier, specifically with regard to

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Speaker 1: our victories in World War One and two, which seemed

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Speaker 1: to get a very favorable reaction and just in terms

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Speaker 1: of taking literally a victory lap that we were responsible

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Speaker 1: for the victories in these two wars. Tell me what

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Speaker 1: it was like on the ground there watching this speech

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Speaker 1: and how you think President Trump resonated with these cadets.

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Speaker 33: He was also very well received at West Point for

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Speaker 33: the graduation on Saturday, one thousand and two cadets. And

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Speaker 33: for those of you keeping score at home, twenty five

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Speaker 33: percent of those graduates now are women. The first one

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Speaker 33: hundred and nineteen women went into West Point nineteen seventy six,

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Speaker 33: and now they make up about twenty five percent of

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Speaker 33: the class at West Point, the American Military Academy there

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Speaker 33: at West Point, New York, and Donald try very well

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Speaker 33: received there, and again it's a message about peace through strength.

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Speaker 33: As he has just concluded his tour through Saudi Arabia,

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Speaker 33: United Arab Emirates, Cutter and every.

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Speaker 6: Place he goes.

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Speaker 33: His comments are fairly similar in so far as it

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Speaker 33: is building the most powerful military in the world, maintaining

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Speaker 33: the most powerful military in the world, while hoping to

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Speaker 33: never open up Area sixty one or sixty two at

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Speaker 33: arl Inton National Cemetery Area sixty of course for the

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Speaker 33: Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, he hopes never to open up

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Speaker 33: any more ground there to prevent war, to avoid war,

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Speaker 33: and to mark that a Memorial Day is the most

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Speaker 33: poignant day to do.

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Speaker 6: That, of course, is we're here.

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Speaker 33: Marking the one point three million Americans that have given

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Speaker 33: their lives. But I think he was very well received

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Speaker 33: the young cadets there. Like I said one thousand and two,

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Speaker 33: very well received by the cadets, their families, and by

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Speaker 33: the military personnel in attendance there. Because again, if you

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Speaker 33: look at what happened at West Point, you look at

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Speaker 33: what happened today at our National Seminary. These are events

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Speaker 33: that ripple through the generations, that ripple through time because

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Speaker 33: it's grandparents and parents and children generational that are attending

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Speaker 33: the military academy, and generational because families have pride when

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Speaker 33: they know that somebody in their family served and they became.

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Speaker 6: A gold Star family.

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Speaker 33: These are things that resonate with Americans, and honestly they should.

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Speaker 34: Mike, you want to jump in, Yeah, No, I actually

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Speaker 34: on that topic, I want to ask about Afghanistan, you know,

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Speaker 34: talking about the gold Star families and some of the

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Speaker 34: most recent examples of you know, unfortunately families who become

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Speaker 34: gold Star families came with the Afghanistan withdrawal.

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Speaker 2: It was announced by the Trump administration that they're going

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Speaker 2: to start looking into that and open up a formal

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Speaker 2: investigation into it. What are some thoughts, Steve. Obviously you've been,

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Speaker 2: you know, around with the president the last couple of days.

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Speaker 2: I think he announced it and Secretary Hegseth Announce said

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Speaker 2: just prior what a is some insight you have on

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Speaker 2: some things to come on what they're going to do

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Speaker 2: to get to the bottom of Afghanistan, because obviously it

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Speaker 2: was a horrible thing that his President Trump said would

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Speaker 2: have never happened if he was the president, and unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: you know, young lives were lost that day, and I

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Speaker 2: think that those families probably above all else and everybody

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Speaker 2: else in the military, they want accountability for that. So

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Speaker 2: what can you tell us about that, Steve, of anything

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Speaker 2: you're hearing in your travels close to the president.

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Speaker 33: Yeah, there's still question that they want to have accountability

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Speaker 33: for what happened at Abby Gate.

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Speaker 6: We've all heard the stories.

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Speaker 33: We know that the suicide bombers were in the crosshairs

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Speaker 33: of military snipers. They never got the green light and

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Speaker 33: as a result, the bombs detonated thirteen American military person

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Speaker 33: will die their eleven marines thirteen in total, men and

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Speaker 33: women died there as a result of that botched Afghanistan exit.

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Speaker 6: And people do want answers on that.

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Speaker 33: Look, the only way we learned from mistakes like that,

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Speaker 33: and there's no question that was a huge mistake on

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Speaker 33: embarrassment to this country. And I shared this with Steve

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Speaker 33: Bannon earlier here on the network. I felt the same

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Speaker 33: way in nineteen seventy nine, nineteen eighty when I saw

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Speaker 33: the cover of Time magazine and there was a failed

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Speaker 33: rescue attempt of the American hostages in Tehran after the

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Speaker 33: Iranians had taken the embassy and taken fifty two Americans

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Speaker 33: for four hundred and forty four days. There was a

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Speaker 33: sense of weakness or hopelessness with Jimmy Carter then, and

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Speaker 33: then it changed when Ronald Reagan took the oath of office.

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Speaker 33: I feel there weren't a similar moment today. We've had

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Speaker 33: several years of weakness here and now Donald Trump comes

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Speaker 33: just in the nick of time to take America back

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Speaker 33: and put this military back on the track to being

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Speaker 33: the most powerful in the world, putting America first and

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Speaker 33: making sure that we're respected everywhere so we can avoid war.

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Speaker 33: Weakness begs confrontation. Strength begs peace, and I think that's

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Speaker 33: been the message. I think that's been very well received.

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Speaker 33: I think that people do want to know what happened

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Speaker 33: at Abbvigate. They want a full accounting because of course

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Speaker 33: we've never had it that happened of course in August

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Speaker 33: twenty twenty one. We want to have accountability, We want

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Speaker 33: to know what happened, what went wrong, and we want

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Speaker 33: to avoid those situations ever occurring as we go forward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Steve, just to kind of close us out

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Speaker 1: here before we go to break. When President Trump mentioned

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Speaker 1: in his speech, I wasn't sure exactly if he would

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Speaker 1: bring this up, but he did. But we talked about

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Speaker 1: it with ben Bergkwalm earlier. An unchecked border, the fact

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Speaker 1: that we've got a much safer border now and then

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Speaker 1: we had a hard four year So to your point

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Speaker 1: and to Mike's point about you know, Abbigate, finding a

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Speaker 1: resolution of these things, getting a better and stronger country,

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Speaker 1: a better stronger military, we may have passed that nexus,

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Speaker 1: that that pivot point where our country is in a

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Speaker 1: much safer place in terms of peace through strength. This

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Speaker 1: is not a president that wants to go to war.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen any indication of that. I don't think

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Speaker 1: you have either. But in terms of his speech today

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Speaker 1: at Arlington. It seems that he was willing to recognize

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Speaker 1: that we had a very difficult four years with a

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Speaker 1: lot of mistakes that he's aiming to curb. What did

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Speaker 1: you take from that, Steve?

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Speaker 33: I take that as well a weakness, and when you

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Speaker 33: have weakness, you invite folly from our enemies. Look, we

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Speaker 33: have a lot of catching up to do in some areas.

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Speaker 33: As it pertains to dealing with the Chinese military. The

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Speaker 33: Chinese made great advancements in the last three or four

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Speaker 33: years that we need to deal with. He understands that

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Speaker 33: we have allowed also into our country to that open border,

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Speaker 33: people that are openly sworn enemies of this country from

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Speaker 33: China and from a variety of other places. Because they

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Speaker 33: were never properly vetted. We've made America less safe by

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Speaker 33: leaving that door open and bring as many as twenty

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Speaker 33: million illegals in without properly vetting them.

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Speaker 6: We don't know where they are or what they're up to.

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Speaker 33: And they come from places and countries that hate America.

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Speaker 33: And so when you see the President go into place

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Speaker 33: like Saudi Arabian UAE and cutter and say that he's

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Speaker 33: one to have conversations with nations like Syria.

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Speaker 6: Syria has not been part of the of the conversation.

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Speaker 33: Of decent countries for twenty five years. To say we'll

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Speaker 33: have a conversation with them changes the tone. He says,

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Speaker 33: we'll have a conversation with Lebanon. Lebanon, of course, an

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Speaker 33: antagonist to the north of Israel, and they're willing to

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Speaker 33: have a conversation and bring these nations back into the

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Speaker 33: conversation of civilized nations. This is a different path forward.

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Speaker 33: It's a path forward where that we're offering an olive branch,

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Speaker 33: but if you don't want the olive branch, we'll come

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Speaker 33: with a hammer. And that's a different conversation than we've

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Speaker 33: had for a while. We have projected weakness for the

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Speaker 33: last four years.

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Speaker 6: That's over.

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Speaker 33: Donald Trump has made it clear he doesn't want to

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Speaker 33: go to war, butt if necessary, he will do whatever

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Speaker 33: it takes.

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Speaker 6: To defend this country.

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Speaker 33: And thank god he will, and thank god he doesn't

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Speaker 33: apologize like Barack Obama did on the world stage, or

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Speaker 33: just project weakness like Joe Biden did on the world stage.

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Speaker 33: Thank god, we've stepped into a new day in an America,

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Speaker 33: first day in America, projecting strength forever, and I think

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Speaker 33: that is the place that we've arrived here today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a day of course today, as I explained,

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Speaker 1: you know, we discussed with Mike earlier, it's a day

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Speaker 1: where I feel like it shouldn't be just today, it

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Speaker 1: should be three hundred and sixty five days a year

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Speaker 1: that we are America first, and we remember the sacrifice

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Speaker 1: of those who came before us. On that note, let's

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Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll be right back with

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Speaker 1: more special coverage of this Memorial Day Parade with Mike

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Speaker 1: Crispy and with Steve Gruber. Back in just a moment,

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Speaker 1: and we're back at the Memorial Day Parade special here

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Speaker 1: on Real America's Voice. Let's tune in right now, reverently

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Speaker 1: and silently as this gentleman plays taps.

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Speaker 25: Ah Ah, Mazy green, how sweet?

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Speaker 15: The sign.

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Speaker 24: That say Don rod lowas Lord.

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Speaker 15: Bond no fun wh ws belong Bard No.

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Speaker 22: Taps was played by Staff Sergeant Craig Bassarich from the

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Speaker 22: United States Army Bands.

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Speaker 19: Pushings own from here in the reviewing stand was powerful

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Speaker 19: to see the whole crowd is rise to that now.

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Speaker 19: Amazing Grace was sung by Staff Sergeant Caroline Nielsen Alto

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Speaker 19: vocal the United States Army Band, Pershing.

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Speaker 28: Zone gorgeous National Memorial Day Parade twenty twenty five presented

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Speaker 28: by Boeing. He is brought to you by Events d C,

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Speaker 28: State of Kuwait.

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Speaker 6: Robert Earth and.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to our special coverage today of the Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day Parade in Washington, d C. You've been taking a

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Speaker 1: live look at that. You just heard amazing grace sung

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Speaker 1: by a staff sergeant. And of course we're just passed

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Speaker 1: about twenty minutes past what was known as a national

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Speaker 1: remembrance moment, a moment of silence that always happens, and

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Speaker 1: it generally is designed so that wherever you are across

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Speaker 1: this great country of ours, that you remember the fallen

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Speaker 1: at three pm each Memorial Day. And I want to

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Speaker 1: bring back in Steve Gruber, who's on the scene there

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Speaker 1: at the Memorial Day Parade. In Mike Crispy, who's joining

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Speaker 1: us from the New York, New Jersey area. Gentlemen, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Steve, just give us a sense if

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Speaker 1: you were able to see that and hear that just

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Speaker 1: a moment ago, amazing grace being powerfully sung by a

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Speaker 1: staff sergeant. There and just this kind of moment of

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Speaker 1: reflection that was codified in Congress that we should think

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Speaker 1: about what happened before us, those fallen sacrifice. Since we

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Speaker 1: are just about twenty minutes past that.

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Speaker 4: Steve.

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Speaker 33: I was able to hear it on the replay through.

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Speaker 33: It's a ways down Constitution Avenue. Here, I just saw

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Speaker 33: Abraham Lincoln go by, though there's somebody to be said

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Speaker 33: for that, and that does reflect on it, well, you know,

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Speaker 33: it does reflect on the fact that this echoes to

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Speaker 33: the generations. Look, Abraham Lincoln was able to balance the war,

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Speaker 33: put his opponents into his cabinet, manage a war, and

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Speaker 33: the public sentiment.

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Speaker 6: Otherwise we wouldn't have a republic.

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Speaker 33: So you reflect on things like that, and you reflect

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Speaker 33: on the fact that Arlington was Robert E. Lee's home

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Speaker 33: until it was confiscated by the United States to be

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Speaker 33: used for a place to bury the war dead, and

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Speaker 33: it's expanded ever since become remarkable place and a place

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Speaker 33: that if you have never visited, you certainly should, you

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Speaker 33: should take your children there.

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Speaker 6: There's nothing more. I don't know. Stirring, I guess would

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Speaker 6: be the word I would use.

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Speaker 33: In Arlington National Cemetery, especially on a Memorial Day because

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Speaker 33: the laying of the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown,

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Speaker 33: which first happened in nineteen twenty one, and you reflect

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Speaker 33: on all of the history of this nation and the

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Speaker 33: people that have put their lives on the line, those

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Speaker 33: that came home in one.

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Speaker 6: Point three million that did not. That's what Memorial Day

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Speaker 6: is all about.

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Speaker 33: And it's great to see a nation come together because

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Speaker 33: as I watched this parade go by, I see all creeds,

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Speaker 33: all colors, all different sorts of people, and it's a

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Speaker 33: demonstration of what America is. Short, tall, big, small, black, white,

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Speaker 33: doesn't matter. It is the great melting pot is America.

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Speaker 33: And I guess that's what I see when I see this.

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Speaker 33: The parade is a reflection of what America is, which

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Speaker 33: is all these things that come together. And we need

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Speaker 33: more of that coming together, less divisive, more in common,

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Speaker 33: and more together. And that's what I see on this

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Speaker 33: parade route today.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Steve, you mentioned President Lincoln going by. The first

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Speaker 1: National Decoration Day as it was known, took place on

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Speaker 1: May thirtieth, eighteen sixty eight, at Arlington National Cemetery, and

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Speaker 1: that program included remarks by General Congressman and future President

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Speaker 1: James Garfield, and it had featured a recitation of the

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Speaker 1: Gettysburg Address, the famous Gettysburg Address and the Star Spangled banner,

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Speaker 1: And Mike, I got to bring you in because in

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02:20:35,400 --> 02:20:38,760
Speaker 1: eighteen seventy three, New York was the first date to

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02:20:38,840 --> 02:20:40,560
Speaker 1: officially recognize the holiday.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, obviously a lot of history here, and

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Speaker 2: I think even if you're in a place like New

2444
02:20:48,400 --> 02:20:51,680
Speaker 2: York or New Jersey, places that are known as blue states.

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02:20:51,720 --> 02:20:53,440
Speaker 2: I mean, there has been a shift to the right.

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02:20:53,760 --> 02:20:55,960
Speaker 2: But I think what Steve said just a moment ago

2447
02:20:56,440 --> 02:20:59,879
Speaker 2: talking about how no matter who you are, what you love,

2448
02:21:00,680 --> 02:21:02,600
Speaker 2: and what you stand for on either side of the

2449
02:21:02,640 --> 02:21:05,600
Speaker 2: political aisle, today's the day that we could all come

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02:21:05,680 --> 02:21:08,320
Speaker 2: together and say, look, we do have more in common

2451
02:21:08,400 --> 02:21:11,320
Speaker 2: than we have a part. And it is our collective

2452
02:21:11,400 --> 02:21:14,680
Speaker 2: spirit in that notion of having more together than we

2453
02:21:14,760 --> 02:21:17,800
Speaker 2: do a part, that has allowed us to come forth

2454
02:21:17,959 --> 02:21:21,080
Speaker 2: join together have the greatest fighting force in military in

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Speaker 2: the history.

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Speaker 3: Of the world.

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Speaker 2: And unfortunately some didn't make it back, but we continue

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02:21:25,879 --> 02:21:28,959
Speaker 2: to honor their legacy and make them the great heroes

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02:21:29,000 --> 02:21:30,600
Speaker 2: that they are and preserve their legacy.

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Speaker 3: And that's not a red thing.

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02:21:32,160 --> 02:21:34,920
Speaker 2: Or that's not a blue thing, that is an American thing.

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02:21:35,120 --> 02:21:37,040
Speaker 2: So I think that you know when it comes to

2463
02:21:37,879 --> 02:21:39,600
Speaker 2: whether you're in New York or whether you're in a

2464
02:21:39,640 --> 02:21:44,640
Speaker 2: place like Alabama, totally different politics, but deep down, when

2465
02:21:44,720 --> 02:21:48,160
Speaker 2: the fake news isn't trying to divide us along all

2466
02:21:48,280 --> 02:21:50,279
Speaker 2: these different lines, you can look.

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Speaker 3: At days like today.

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Speaker 2: You can look at the people out there who are

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02:21:54,560 --> 02:21:57,520
Speaker 2: celebrating the lives of these heroes. You can look at

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Speaker 2: people who are advocating for things that are cross party lines,

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Speaker 2: like services for our vets va Okay, getting medical care

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02:22:05,360 --> 02:22:09,360
Speaker 2: for people who unfortunately lost limbs, who almost died in

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Speaker 2: the line of duty but are still alive. These are

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02:22:11,879 --> 02:22:14,720
Speaker 2: things that can unify us. And I think that if

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Speaker 2: you love this country and you haven't totally become a

2476
02:22:17,480 --> 02:22:20,360
Speaker 2: zombie of the fake news, you look at a daylight today,

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Speaker 2: no matter where you are in our country, no matter

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02:22:23,400 --> 02:22:26,000
Speaker 2: what city you're in, no matter what politics you're part of,

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02:22:26,360 --> 02:22:29,160
Speaker 2: and you say, this is why we're America. This is

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Speaker 2: why we could even have these disagreements in these fights.

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Speaker 3: It's for these people.

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02:22:33,879 --> 02:22:36,080
Speaker 2: So I think that's the thing BO is that whether

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02:22:36,120 --> 02:22:38,320
Speaker 2: you're in a red state or blue state, I think

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02:22:38,400 --> 02:22:41,200
Speaker 2: that no matter what, ninety nine point nine percent of

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02:22:41,400 --> 02:22:45,119
Speaker 2: people are thankful today and that's something pretty amazing and wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Mike, you and Steve both brought this up,

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Speaker 1: and Steve, I want to get your thoughts on this.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's kind of a debate about the day's

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02:22:51,840 --> 02:22:54,400
Speaker 1: origins of Memorial Day in which community was first, whether

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Speaker 1: it's Columbus, Mississippi or Columbus Georgia. But it stood to reason,

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02:22:58,120 --> 02:22:59,880
Speaker 1: and I think the thing to take away is that,

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02:23:00,360 --> 02:23:03,080
Speaker 1: especially coming out of the Civil War, North and South,

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02:23:03,280 --> 02:23:06,600
Speaker 1: black and white, male and female, all wanted to commemorate

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02:23:06,720 --> 02:23:09,800
Speaker 1: the dead. And you think about a bitterly divided country

2495
02:23:09,879 --> 02:23:12,760
Speaker 1: at that time in the eighteen hundreds and how everyone

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02:23:12,840 --> 02:23:14,959
Speaker 1: wanted to come together no matter who you were, because

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Speaker 1: you were Americans honoring your dead. So Steve, I'm going

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02:23:17,840 --> 02:23:19,920
Speaker 1: to let you kind of take a lap on that,

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Speaker 1: just in terms of the fact that you mentioned that

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Speaker 1: no matter who you are, short, tall, black, white, young, old,

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02:23:25,360 --> 02:23:28,040
Speaker 1: that the point was we have to honor those who

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Speaker 1: laid down their lives and pay the ultimate sacrifice.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no question. Look, there's and I don't have this

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02:23:35,879 --> 02:23:37,320
Speaker 6: town off the top of my head.

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Speaker 33: But at the conclusion of the Civil War, ten thousand

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02:23:40,879 --> 02:23:45,320
Speaker 33: newly freed black slaves found a mass grave of Union soldiers,

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Speaker 33: and they excavated those graves and gave them proper burial.

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Speaker 33: So the first Memorial Day really was celebrated by the

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Speaker 33: newly freed black slaves and the soldiers of the Union

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Speaker 33: army that had died to set them free, to give

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02:24:00,200 --> 02:24:02,440
Speaker 33: that full measure of freedom has promised in the United

2512
02:24:02,440 --> 02:24:07,039
Speaker 33: States Constitution. So that's to me, the most poignant original

2513
02:24:07,240 --> 02:24:12,000
Speaker 33: Memorial Day. Of course, it's been moved to the day

2514
02:24:12,080 --> 02:24:15,120
Speaker 33: that it is now the last Monday in May or

2515
02:24:15,200 --> 02:24:18,480
Speaker 33: wherever it is, where you are, and so it is

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Speaker 33: that kind of coming together for me. It is that

2517
02:24:21,120 --> 02:24:25,400
Speaker 33: kind of coming together for me that you can celebrate America.

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Speaker 33: And I look around and this is America. I mean,

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02:24:28,000 --> 02:24:31,280
Speaker 33: I've got high school bands from all over this country. Alabama,

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02:24:31,520 --> 02:24:35,400
Speaker 33: New York, Michigan, Montana, it doesn't matter California.

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02:24:35,400 --> 02:24:38,960
Speaker 6: I just saw one go by. The country comes together.

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Speaker 33: I'd like it to be September twelfth more often, is

2523
02:24:41,920 --> 02:24:45,120
Speaker 33: what I'm driving at here. September twelfth, the day after

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02:24:45,160 --> 02:24:47,760
Speaker 33: the attacks, and the World Trade Center in America stood

2525
02:24:47,800 --> 02:24:51,200
Speaker 33: as won and we all raised flags and we said

2526
02:24:51,240 --> 02:24:53,240
Speaker 33: hello to our neighbors that we didn't know, and we

2527
02:24:54,720 --> 02:24:56,840
Speaker 33: we took the chip off our shoulder for a while.

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02:24:57,280 --> 02:24:59,160
Speaker 33: You know, there's a political chip on too many people's

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02:24:59,160 --> 02:25:03,200
Speaker 33: shoulders too long. I think that's certainly clear now. You know,

2530
02:25:03,280 --> 02:25:06,800
Speaker 33: with people that disliked this president, but hard to argue

2531
02:25:06,840 --> 02:25:09,960
Speaker 33: with the president and the address that he gave on

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Speaker 33: Saturday at West Point or the udssity gave today, recognizing

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02:25:14,000 --> 02:25:18,000
Speaker 33: those that had fallen and asking those that were there

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02:25:18,080 --> 02:25:20,640
Speaker 33: that had lost a family member or loved them to

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02:25:20,720 --> 02:25:24,000
Speaker 33: stand up and be recognized. It was a remarkable reminder

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Speaker 33: of who we are and what it's taken to save

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02:25:25,760 --> 02:25:27,600
Speaker 33: this republic time and again. And you look at the

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02:25:27,680 --> 02:25:31,000
Speaker 33: providence of what it's taken to get us here, whether

2539
02:25:31,120 --> 02:25:35,560
Speaker 33: it was Bunker Hill or the Battle of New Orleans

2540
02:25:35,640 --> 02:25:39,200
Speaker 33: in the War of eighteen twelve, or Midway or a

2541
02:25:39,320 --> 02:25:42,280
Speaker 33: thousand other battles that America had no chance of winning,

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02:25:42,320 --> 02:25:43,760
Speaker 33: and yet somehow we prevailed.

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02:25:44,000 --> 02:25:46,119
Speaker 6: That's providence. That's what brings us here.

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02:25:46,200 --> 02:25:50,680
Speaker 33: Providence, the input and the master plan of God in

2545
02:25:50,760 --> 02:25:53,840
Speaker 33: the estimation well of me and millions of others, and

2546
02:25:53,920 --> 02:25:56,320
Speaker 33: so that's an important consideration this day as well.

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Speaker 1: Steve. You're not too far obviously where the two Israeli

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02:26:01,160 --> 02:26:06,200
Speaker 1: diplomats were shot and killed recently. As you reflect upon

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02:26:06,320 --> 02:26:08,080
Speaker 1: that and knowing how close you are to that, know

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02:26:08,160 --> 02:26:10,000
Speaker 1: that here we are having a Memorial Day parade and

2551
02:26:10,080 --> 02:26:12,959
Speaker 1: honoring our fallen What does that mean for the stakes

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02:26:13,000 --> 02:26:15,760
Speaker 1: of this country When something like that happens and you

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02:26:15,879 --> 02:26:18,280
Speaker 1: have members of Congress who won't even condemn and act

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02:26:18,400 --> 02:26:18,600
Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 6: Well, that is shameful on their part.

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02:26:22,959 --> 02:26:27,040
Speaker 33: But we've had divisive actions in this country a number

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Speaker 33: of times.

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Speaker 6: That won't be the last. We have overcome that every

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02:26:32,240 --> 02:26:36,080
Speaker 6: single time, and I guess that's my hope for the futures.

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Speaker 6: We will continue to overcome.

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Speaker 33: We will continue to embrace this country in the greatest

2562
02:26:40,520 --> 02:26:45,440
Speaker 33: and we need to teach these children about it. It's

2563
02:26:45,440 --> 02:26:47,080
Speaker 33: a place we have failed. But I think that that

2564
02:26:47,280 --> 02:26:49,920
Speaker 33: is changing, and I talked about that earlier today. I

2565
02:26:50,000 --> 02:26:52,680
Speaker 33: think it's changing. And here's how I think it is changing.

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Speaker 33: I saw the students at the University of North Carolina

2567
02:26:56,280 --> 02:27:00,960
Speaker 33: and the University of Alabama that were tearing down the

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Speaker 33: flag that didn't belong and putting up the American flag

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02:27:04,640 --> 02:27:07,200
Speaker 33: and defending it and circling the flagpole so that the

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02:27:07,240 --> 02:27:11,240
Speaker 33: American flag was recognized and revered and protected. I think

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Speaker 33: we have a younger generation that's more patriotic, more belief

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02:27:16,520 --> 02:27:18,600
Speaker 33: in America than we've had on a very long time.

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Speaker 33: And I'm encouraged by it. I'm really encouraged by it,

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02:27:22,480 --> 02:27:23,039
Speaker 33: to be honest.

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Speaker 1: That's good and I think you're right. We are getting

2576
02:27:26,560 --> 02:27:28,600
Speaker 1: a more patriotic generation. We just have to make sure

2577
02:27:28,640 --> 02:27:31,720
Speaker 1: we keep them educated well. Steve and Mike, let's stay

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02:27:31,760 --> 02:27:34,080
Speaker 1: tuned here and hang on tight. We'll be right back

2579
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Speaker 1: with more coverage of the Memorial Day Parade special right

2580
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Speaker 1: here in Real America's Voice. Stay with us.

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Speaker 22: Were the heroes you made the ultimate price for our freedom.

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02:27:43,000 --> 02:27:46,359
Speaker 22: To all who have served as sacrifice to do their families,

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02:27:46,440 --> 02:27:49,840
Speaker 22: the Ti skeeky Ahrman, the Medal of Honor, recipients and

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Speaker 22: soldiers of.

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Speaker 1: Every day at Real America's Voice, Let's tune back in

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02:27:53,640 --> 02:27:56,400
Speaker 1: live now to the Memorial Day Parade happening in Washington,

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Speaker 1: DC on Constitution Avenue.

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Speaker 19: But in nineteen eighty two, roc Veteran Association of Greater

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Speaker 19: Washington is one of the biggest Chinese community organizations in

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Speaker 19: the Washington area with.

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Speaker 22: More than three hundred members. All of them are veterans

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Speaker 22: of Republic of China Taiwan and included many high ranking

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Speaker 22: generals who joined the United States courses and World War

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Speaker 22: Two providing against the.

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Speaker 6: Japanese of Asia.

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Speaker 19: In past years, the association actively participated in many activities

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Speaker 19: here with their friends of US Veterans groups to promote

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02:28:31,400 --> 02:28:33,879
Speaker 19: the mainstream events in the Chinese community.

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Speaker 22: The fifty foot Taiwan flag is brought to us by Chechquk.

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Speaker 22: It commemorates a very special partnership. During the Second World War,

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Speaker 22: the United States and the Republic of China forged a

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Speaker 22: friendship that continues.

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Speaker 4: To this day.

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Speaker 19: Today, the ROC known as Taiwan remains a steadfast and

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Speaker 19: partner in democracy and human rights. Today's flag is being

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Speaker 19: carried by members from the Veterans Affairs Council ROC Taiwan.

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Speaker 19: Here is REATHS Across America and its Mobile Education Exhibit.

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Speaker 19: This exhibit is a museum on wheels which travels the country,

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Speaker 19: bringing together communities and the military with education, stories and

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Speaker 19: interactive connections. The mobile museum is equipped with a twenty

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Speaker 19: four person screening room and three interactive digital stations. How

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Speaker 19: about that reachs across America's purpose is to remember, honor

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Speaker 19: and teach about service and sacrifice and the love of

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Speaker 19: our country.

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Speaker 22: Here comes is Stanley High School, Falcon Brigade and Diamonds

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02:29:48,680 --> 02:29:51,200
Speaker 22: from the state of Missouri. Now we've got to show

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02:29:51,280 --> 02:29:54,120
Speaker 22: mes sake more than a collection of reforms.

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02:29:54,160 --> 02:29:56,600
Speaker 15: This is a theim where dedication.

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02:29:56,320 --> 02:30:00,440
Speaker 22: Meets passion and students grow as people as much as

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Speaker 22: they do as performers. This daily van creates a legacy

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02:30:04,160 --> 02:30:09,480
Speaker 22: of mentorship and of passing down the valley the hard work, resilience, cooperation,

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02:30:10,160 --> 02:30:11,959
Speaker 22: and addition the musical skills.

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Speaker 4: Let's enjoy.

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Speaker 28: The National Memorial Day Parade twenty twenty five, presented by

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02:30:28,560 --> 02:30:32,760
Speaker 28: Boeing is brought to you by Code of Support Foundation

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Speaker 28: the City and.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to our special coverage right here on Memorial Day.

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Speaker 1: Want to bring back in Mike Crispy and Steve Ruber

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02:30:40,120 --> 02:30:42,920
Speaker 1: on the ground there in Washingt d C. Mike, you know,

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02:30:42,959 --> 02:30:46,000
Speaker 1: we were talking earlier about JD Vance's comments, and I

2631
02:30:46,120 --> 02:30:48,560
Speaker 1: took a lot away from it. We spoke about it earlier.

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02:30:48,600 --> 02:30:51,080
Speaker 1: He talked about kind of the sum total of the

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02:30:51,120 --> 02:30:53,760
Speaker 1: moments that are lost when a soldier lays down his

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02:30:53,959 --> 02:30:56,480
Speaker 1: or her life. That there's a totality to it that

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Speaker 1: we can't really quantify. It's you don't get to see

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Speaker 1: your child grow up, You don't get to walk your

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02:31:01,320 --> 02:31:04,240
Speaker 1: daughter down the aisle in that one last breath. That

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Speaker 1: last moment obliterates many many moments to come, special moments.

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Speaker 1: These are the stories of people we will never meet

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Speaker 1: and never know. But he said that we've been given

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02:31:15,360 --> 02:31:18,440
Speaker 1: a great gift and we hope that that makes us

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Speaker 1: worthy of it. That kind of stuck with me, and

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Speaker 1: I just kind of want to open this conversation up

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Speaker 1: to you both, starting with you, Mike, how do we

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02:31:25,120 --> 02:31:28,480
Speaker 1: as a country and as a nation become worthy of

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Speaker 1: what others have so selflessly done. I know that's kind

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Speaker 1: of an abstract concept, but as we think about those

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02:31:33,879 --> 02:31:36,520
Speaker 1: moments that are lost because of what's the sacrifice someone

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Speaker 1: else made, how do we become worthy of that?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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02:31:40,000 --> 02:31:41,600
Speaker 3: I think it's a great question. Bo I think it's

2652
02:31:41,600 --> 02:31:42,840
Speaker 3: a great thing to ponder on, you know.

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02:31:42,959 --> 02:31:46,160
Speaker 2: Jd Vance said that, and I think that it sets

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02:31:46,240 --> 02:31:49,840
Speaker 2: the tone for how we lead our lives next year.

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Speaker 3: Into the following memorial day.

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Speaker 2: You know, how did the people who gave the ultimate

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02:31:56,760 --> 02:31:59,960
Speaker 2: sacrifice in the line of duty, how did they see him?

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02:32:00,480 --> 02:32:03,520
Speaker 2: What compelled them to sign up and say, you know what,

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02:32:03,640 --> 02:32:06,600
Speaker 2: I'm willing to lose my life for this to defend

2660
02:32:07,160 --> 02:32:10,920
Speaker 2: this ideal. So what were those ideals? And if you're

2661
02:32:10,959 --> 02:32:13,119
Speaker 2: gonna sit there and you're gonna boil.

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02:32:12,920 --> 02:32:16,120
Speaker 3: It down, you're gonna say, that's what I want to

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02:32:16,360 --> 02:32:17,840
Speaker 3: do to live my life. I want to live my

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02:32:17,920 --> 02:32:18,400
Speaker 3: life like that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I doubt the people who are leaving it all

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02:32:21,440 --> 02:32:23,200
Speaker 2: on the line, who are willing to risk it all.

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02:32:23,480 --> 02:32:25,240
Speaker 2: We're saying, oh, we're going to have you know, chances

2668
02:32:25,280 --> 02:32:27,960
Speaker 2: in the streets and you know, chant the free Palestine

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02:32:28,000 --> 02:32:30,199
Speaker 2: and burn things to the ground like in the summer

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Speaker 2: or love.

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Speaker 3: No, that's not what these people died for. These people

2672
02:32:33,200 --> 02:32:35,760
Speaker 3: died for free speech and free expression.

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02:32:35,800 --> 02:32:39,720
Speaker 2: But they gave their lives so people could go to school,

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02:32:39,800 --> 02:32:43,119
Speaker 2: so people could raise families, so people could live in freedom.

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02:32:43,160 --> 02:32:45,800
Speaker 2: People could have a job and start a business and

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02:32:46,120 --> 02:32:48,760
Speaker 2: worship the religion that they want, and they could have

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02:32:49,080 --> 02:32:51,440
Speaker 2: family time, and they could have their freedoms, and they

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02:32:51,480 --> 02:32:53,360
Speaker 2: could have their Second Amendment, they could have all their

2679
02:32:53,760 --> 02:32:57,200
Speaker 2: constitutional liberties, and they could live life in a way

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02:32:57,879 --> 02:33:00,560
Speaker 2: that is honorable of the people who came before them

2681
02:33:00,879 --> 02:33:03,240
Speaker 2: and have a sense of community in their neighborhoods that

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02:33:03,640 --> 02:33:06,080
Speaker 2: is unlike any other place on the planet, where you're

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02:33:06,160 --> 02:33:09,279
Speaker 2: helping each other in communities around the country.

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Speaker 3: That is what I think. These people put it all

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02:33:12,680 --> 02:33:14,240
Speaker 3: on the line for and sacrifice for.

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Speaker 2: So when we reflect on them, then we reflect on

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02:33:18,000 --> 02:33:20,520
Speaker 2: how to honor them day in and day out.

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Speaker 3: I think that's what it is.

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Speaker 4: Bo.

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Speaker 3: I think it's looking back, what did they give it

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Speaker 3: all for?

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Speaker 2: And if you think about that, it's very easy to

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02:33:28,040 --> 02:33:31,600
Speaker 2: tell what we should be practicing day in and day out.

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02:33:31,800 --> 02:33:33,960
Speaker 2: And I think that will make us better Americans. And

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02:33:34,040 --> 02:33:36,600
Speaker 2: I think that will lead to stronger communities and a

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Speaker 2: stronger next generation following that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Steve, when I was in the grocery store

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Speaker 1: the other day, I was there with my family and

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02:33:44,720 --> 02:33:48,119
Speaker 1: there was a Vietnam veteran there proudly wearing his Vietnam

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02:33:48,200 --> 02:33:50,800
Speaker 1: veteran hats and attire. And he saw me and he

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02:33:50,840 --> 02:33:52,320
Speaker 1: came over and he said, you know, my son is

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02:33:52,640 --> 02:33:54,640
Speaker 1: fifty one. Now. I think this guy was about ninety

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02:33:54,720 --> 02:33:56,960
Speaker 1: years old or so, and He explained to me that

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02:33:57,040 --> 02:33:59,280
Speaker 1: he was a medic in Vietnam and he saw a

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02:33:59,320 --> 02:34:02,360
Speaker 1: lot of gore, lot of destruction. And before he even continued,

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02:34:02,360 --> 02:34:03,800
Speaker 1: he said, I'm sorry, I don't want to hold you up.

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02:34:03,800 --> 02:34:06,800
Speaker 1: And I said, no, sir, I said, go on. I mean,

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02:34:07,440 --> 02:34:10,480
Speaker 1: I feel like if I'm not giving that time to

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02:34:10,600 --> 02:34:12,520
Speaker 1: that guy to listen to his story. He talked about

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02:34:12,520 --> 02:34:16,480
Speaker 1: Agent Orange, he talked about being spit on coming back home.

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Speaker 1: If we can't take a minute to recognize that man's

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02:34:19,760 --> 02:34:22,320
Speaker 1: efforts and being a medic, then what are we doing

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02:34:22,440 --> 02:34:24,160
Speaker 1: so the same question I posed to you as I

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Speaker 1: posed to Mike, and becoming worthy of this If we

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02:34:26,680 --> 02:34:29,360
Speaker 1: can't take time out to listen to our veterans, to

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02:34:29,480 --> 02:34:32,640
Speaker 1: listen to people who have seen loss, who have seen gore,

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02:34:32,920 --> 02:34:35,640
Speaker 1: some of whom are dealing with tremendous PTSD and might

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02:34:35,680 --> 02:34:38,600
Speaker 1: even be suicidal, that I think to become worthy, Steve,

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02:34:38,680 --> 02:34:40,840
Speaker 1: We've got to listen to their stories and continue to

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Speaker 1: tell them.

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Speaker 33: There's no question these are the stories that have to

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02:34:45,920 --> 02:34:49,760
Speaker 33: echo through the generations. We need to share, and we

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02:34:49,879 --> 02:34:52,040
Speaker 33: need to share with this great cross section of America

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Speaker 33: like we see today at the twenty twenty five and

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Speaker 33: Role Day parade here in the nation's capital. Speaking of

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Speaker 33: diversity and cross section. Gene Simmons us walk by. You'll

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02:35:02,400 --> 02:35:05,360
Speaker 33: know him. He's the bass player from the band Kiss Swear.

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02:35:05,920 --> 02:35:07,960
Speaker 33: He just walked by, and Tony my photographers go, is

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Speaker 33: that really him?

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Speaker 6: One hundred percent?

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Speaker 33: And then you know, then you have Karana Michigan's marching

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02:35:11,959 --> 02:35:14,240
Speaker 33: band and Jean Simmons. I mean, talk about a nice

2733
02:35:14,320 --> 02:35:15,400
Speaker 33: cross section of the world.

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Speaker 34: There it is.

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Speaker 33: I have no idea what mister Simmons was up to,

2736
02:35:19,440 --> 02:35:23,040
Speaker 33: but he was walking head, you know, with rattlesnake boots

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02:35:23,080 --> 02:35:25,280
Speaker 33: and whatever else. Anyhow, it's a cross section of America.

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Speaker 6: It's good fun.

2739
02:35:25,879 --> 02:35:27,320
Speaker 33: But we do need to tell these storts. The story

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Speaker 33: of the medic is a great one. Look, let them

2741
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Speaker 33: tell their stories. You know, I knew some some Vietnam

2742
02:35:32,160 --> 02:35:36,240
Speaker 33: veterans that would never talk about their experiences because they

2743
02:35:36,320 --> 02:35:38,560
Speaker 33: didn't feel they were well. And let's be honest, they

2744
02:35:38,600 --> 02:35:41,880
Speaker 33: weren't treated right when they came home. Oftentimes they were

2745
02:35:41,920 --> 02:35:46,800
Speaker 33: treated terribly, spit on, yelled at, cursed. We don't do

2746
02:35:46,920 --> 02:35:49,680
Speaker 33: that anymore, thankfully we got past that. But you know,

2747
02:35:49,840 --> 02:35:51,879
Speaker 33: for a number of years we had a Vietnam hangover

2748
02:35:51,959 --> 02:35:53,600
Speaker 33: in this country. We need to get past that. We

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02:35:53,680 --> 02:35:56,160
Speaker 33: need to do, as Donald Trump said, when we fight

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02:35:56,240 --> 02:35:59,040
Speaker 33: a war, come with overwhelming force. When the war move on,

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02:36:00,080 --> 02:36:02,800
Speaker 33: overwhelming force, work for peace. But if you have to

2752
02:36:02,840 --> 02:36:06,360
Speaker 33: go to war, don't play games, don't mess right. You

2753
02:36:06,400 --> 02:36:08,840
Speaker 33: know in this Steve Manna point out today earlier and

2754
02:36:09,120 --> 02:36:15,360
Speaker 33: quite accurately, so the Korean War is not over. Nobody

2755
02:36:15,400 --> 02:36:19,440
Speaker 33: ever signed the deal. You know, that war, literally after

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02:36:19,520 --> 02:36:23,280
Speaker 33: all these years, is still going seventy plus years later,

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02:36:24,080 --> 02:36:29,440
Speaker 33: seventy five, I suppose now it is still technically legally

2758
02:36:29,520 --> 02:36:32,160
Speaker 33: a war. And we don't want to be in these

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02:36:32,240 --> 02:36:35,119
Speaker 33: protracted conflicts and these never ending wars.

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Speaker 6: We don't want to be there. We want to be

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Speaker 6: able to say with certainty that the war is over,

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02:36:39,200 --> 02:36:41,680
Speaker 6: like we did with World War One and World War Two.

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Speaker 6: We want to say with certainty that we've come with

2764
02:36:43,720 --> 02:36:47,959
Speaker 6: overwhelming force and American power and delivered a decisive victory.

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Speaker 6: That's what we must do.

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Speaker 33: We must Anything less is unacceptable to me and millions

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Speaker 33: of others.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you know, just as another story that I

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Speaker 1: learned even in some of my research for one of

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Speaker 1: the Medal of Honor, recipients that's buried down here in

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Speaker 1: Florida at the Florida National Cemetery. Speaking of Korea, Steve,

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02:37:04,600 --> 02:37:07,760
Speaker 1: when he fought in Korea, put his entire body over

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Speaker 1: a grenade to protect his fellow comrades in battle. He

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Speaker 1: lived through it, he didn't die. I had to ask

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02:37:13,920 --> 02:37:17,400
Speaker 1: one of my military friends, former director of Selective Service,

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02:37:17,560 --> 02:37:19,200
Speaker 1: how did he survive that? He said, some of them do.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that on his tombstone he didn't die

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02:37:21,959 --> 02:37:23,920
Speaker 1: in that moment of battle. That shows you what it

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02:37:24,040 --> 02:37:26,600
Speaker 1: is to lay down your life for others. That is

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02:37:26,640 --> 02:37:28,920
Speaker 1: the noblest of service. So on that note, let's take

2781
02:37:28,920 --> 02:37:31,000
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll be right back with more

2782
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Speaker 1: special Memorial Day coverage right here in Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to our special coverage. Welcome Memorial Day. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for being with us and spending your

2785
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Speaker 1: holiday with us. Let's return now to our live coverage

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Speaker 1: of the Memorial Day Parade in Washington.

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Speaker 4: D C.

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Speaker 19: Public of Vietnam Armed Forces from nineteen sixty five to

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Speaker 19: nineteen seventy three for the freedom of the Vietnamese people.

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Speaker 4: They especially to express.

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Speaker 19: Gratitude to the more than fifty eight thousand American service

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Speaker 19: men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for the

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Speaker 19: freedom of the Vietnamese people.

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Speaker 15: Thank you to Costco for being a parade sponsor.

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Speaker 19: Now let's welcome Fort Union Military Academy Marching Band from

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Speaker 19: Fort Union, Virginia.

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Speaker 4: Founded in eighteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 19: Pork Union Military Academy is known for its commitment to discipline, leadership,

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Speaker 19: and academic excellence. The band proudly wears the striking red

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Speaker 19: coats inspired by the commandant's own Marine Drummond Bugle Corps.

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Speaker 19: And leading the band today is Cadet Major Joseph Athey,

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Speaker 19: who is concluding his distinguished final year at Fork Union.

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Speaker 28: The National Memorial Day Parade twenty twenty five, presented by Boeing,

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Speaker 28: is brought to you by American.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to our special coverage of the Memorial Day

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Speaker 1: Parade in Washington, DC. You've been following it and reflecting

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Speaker 1: upon service and sacrifice, and I want to bring back

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Speaker 1: in Mike Crispy, who's been with me for the majority

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02:40:31,200 --> 02:40:32,840
Speaker 1: of the time. It's been wonderful to be able to

2810
02:40:32,920 --> 02:40:37,160
Speaker 1: banter with Mike and collect his thoughts on revering this day. Mike,

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02:40:37,280 --> 02:40:39,200
Speaker 1: you know, as I watched this parade. I think I

2812
02:40:39,400 --> 02:40:41,280
Speaker 1: mentioned it to you that I performed in it several

2813
02:40:41,360 --> 02:40:42,920
Speaker 1: years ago, and I did it as a result of

2814
02:40:42,959 --> 02:40:46,119
Speaker 1: a foundation called Purple Hearts Reunited, and it's a group

2815
02:40:46,160 --> 02:40:50,240
Speaker 1: that actually finds lost and stolen purple hearts and returns

2816
02:40:50,280 --> 02:40:52,760
Speaker 1: them to their rightful owners, many of whom are obviously deceased,

2817
02:40:52,800 --> 02:40:55,320
Speaker 1: because some could be killed in action or mortally wounded.

2818
02:40:55,400 --> 02:40:57,400
Speaker 1: Usually when they find these, it belongs to someone who

2819
02:40:57,520 --> 02:41:00,240
Speaker 1: is no longer with us. But it's a story, part

2820
02:41:00,280 --> 02:41:02,640
Speaker 1: of a story, and so I worked with the co

2821
02:41:02,800 --> 02:41:05,680
Speaker 1: founder to write a song about it, which is part

2822
02:41:05,720 --> 02:41:07,840
Speaker 1: of my special and the lyrics are pretty much he

2823
02:41:07,959 --> 02:41:10,320
Speaker 1: fought for his country, to keep it proud and free,

2824
02:41:10,600 --> 02:41:12,720
Speaker 1: and if it weren't for his service, there would be

2825
02:41:12,840 --> 02:41:15,360
Speaker 1: no you or me. Every time I tell his story,

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02:41:15,400 --> 02:41:17,840
Speaker 1: it never grows old. He had a heart of purple

2827
02:41:17,920 --> 02:41:19,920
Speaker 1: and gold. And that's just kind of what came to

2828
02:41:20,000 --> 02:41:22,600
Speaker 1: me because I think about the stories have to continue

2829
02:41:22,680 --> 02:41:25,360
Speaker 1: to be told lest we forget them. So as we

2830
02:41:25,480 --> 02:41:27,560
Speaker 1: kind of round up some of our coverage here, I

2831
02:41:27,680 --> 02:41:29,600
Speaker 1: just want to toss it to you and say, you know,

2832
02:41:30,240 --> 02:41:33,440
Speaker 1: the stories are so important. Each soldier's story is important.

2833
02:41:33,480 --> 02:41:35,600
Speaker 1: We'll never know them all, but we should try to

2834
02:41:35,640 --> 02:41:36,520
Speaker 1: learn a few, should we not?

2835
02:41:38,240 --> 02:41:40,920
Speaker 2: Absolutely bo and good lyrics by the way I like it.

2836
02:41:41,560 --> 02:41:44,280
Speaker 2: I think three things come to mind on how we

2837
02:41:44,360 --> 02:41:47,840
Speaker 2: should remember today. You know, President Trump set the tone

2838
02:41:47,920 --> 02:41:51,160
Speaker 2: with his speech earlier this morning, and is we should

2839
02:41:51,240 --> 02:41:55,480
Speaker 2: honor these people, obviously honoring their lives. We should celebrate

2840
02:41:55,560 --> 02:42:00,880
Speaker 2: their excellence. Just the absolute mental fordit to toughness, stamina

2841
02:42:01,000 --> 02:42:04,480
Speaker 2: to stare in the face of potential death and say, hey,

2842
02:42:04,560 --> 02:42:07,320
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do this because I'm going to defend, protect

2843
02:42:07,480 --> 02:42:10,400
Speaker 2: and preserve the ideals that are America so we can

2844
02:42:10,480 --> 02:42:12,960
Speaker 2: continue it on the fact that it's lasted for two

2845
02:42:13,080 --> 02:42:16,840
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty years and counting is nothing short of excellence.

2846
02:42:17,000 --> 02:42:18,000
Speaker 3: And then the last thing is.

2847
02:42:18,040 --> 02:42:21,360
Speaker 2: Obviously, there's a lot of talk today, deservingly so about

2848
02:42:21,400 --> 02:42:24,680
Speaker 2: the gold Star families, and the word that comes to

2849
02:42:24,760 --> 02:42:26,480
Speaker 2: my mind is resiliency.

2850
02:42:26,560 --> 02:42:28,959
Speaker 3: Okay, these people are so resilient.

2851
02:42:29,080 --> 02:42:29,240
Speaker 4: JD.

2852
02:42:29,400 --> 02:42:32,680
Speaker 2: Van's talked about it that every single holiday that comes

2853
02:42:32,760 --> 02:42:37,600
Speaker 2: and goes, Birthday, Thanksgiving, major life milestone, the family has

2854
02:42:37,680 --> 02:42:41,520
Speaker 2: to do that without the member of their family who

2855
02:42:41,640 --> 02:42:44,320
Speaker 2: gave it all up so we could enjoy lives with

2856
02:42:44,640 --> 02:42:47,360
Speaker 2: our family. So those are the three things that come

2857
02:42:47,400 --> 02:42:49,600
Speaker 2: to mind when I look at today. It's been such

2858
02:42:49,600 --> 02:42:52,720
Speaker 2: a great honor to cover these people and pay tribute

2859
02:42:52,760 --> 02:42:55,240
Speaker 2: to them with you Bo on Real America's Voice, and

2860
02:42:55,320 --> 02:42:57,840
Speaker 2: with Steve Gruber and with Ben Burk, Wwaman everybody else.

2861
02:42:58,120 --> 02:43:01,040
Speaker 2: And I think that again, this is a new age

2862
02:43:01,080 --> 02:43:03,160
Speaker 2: for the country. With President Trump back at the helm,

2863
02:43:03,560 --> 02:43:06,520
Speaker 2: I think that, as Steve pointed out, younger people now

2864
02:43:06,760 --> 02:43:11,160
Speaker 2: are actually starting to gravitate towards patriotism, and that kind

2865
02:43:11,200 --> 02:43:13,440
Speaker 2: of comes hand in hand with supporting Trump. The polls

2866
02:43:13,480 --> 02:43:16,680
Speaker 2: show that younger generations are starting to wake up way

2867
02:43:16,760 --> 02:43:17,400
Speaker 2: more than they ever have.

2868
02:43:17,879 --> 02:43:19,480
Speaker 3: So I think that we can pivot on this.

2869
02:43:19,640 --> 02:43:22,600
Speaker 2: We can use today as a day of remembrance, and

2870
02:43:22,760 --> 02:43:24,680
Speaker 2: we can go forth in the rest of the year

2871
02:43:25,040 --> 02:43:27,720
Speaker 2: and in this new golden age of the country, remember

2872
02:43:27,760 --> 02:43:30,360
Speaker 2: the people who got us here, and celebrate those who

2873
02:43:30,440 --> 02:43:33,080
Speaker 2: are going to keep protecting and expanding our freedoms and

2874
02:43:33,120 --> 02:43:33,680
Speaker 2: our values.

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Speaker 1: Bill yeah, Mike, And I also think about the fact

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02:43:36,440 --> 02:43:38,120
Speaker 1: he mentioned, you know, he's gonna have the World Cup,

2877
02:43:38,240 --> 02:43:41,359
Speaker 1: the Olympics, the two hundred and fifty anniversary of our country.

2878
02:43:41,720 --> 02:43:43,840
Speaker 1: He said, God worked it out that way, and I

2879
02:43:43,879 --> 02:43:46,520
Speaker 1: think President Trump has found kind of renewed sense of

2880
02:43:46,640 --> 02:43:49,960
Speaker 1: his Christianity, of his faith with especially after that bullet

2881
02:43:49,959 --> 02:43:52,520
Speaker 1: grazed his ear. That's something that you just don't look

2882
02:43:52,560 --> 02:43:54,680
Speaker 1: at and say, well, that was an accident. So I

2883
02:43:54,720 --> 02:43:57,840
Speaker 1: think we have to acknowledge that too, that freedom isn't free,

2884
02:43:58,320 --> 02:44:00,760
Speaker 1: but also we were here by the grace of God.

2885
02:44:00,959 --> 02:44:06,160
Speaker 2: Mike Amen, I mean, that day was unbelievable in Butler, Pennsylvania.

2886
02:44:06,440 --> 02:44:07,119
Speaker 3: I do agree.

2887
02:44:07,160 --> 02:44:10,480
Speaker 2: It is totally, in my opinion, got President Trump in

2888
02:44:10,560 --> 02:44:14,040
Speaker 2: a great way talking more openly about his faith. You know,

2889
02:44:14,280 --> 02:44:18,600
Speaker 2: God saved Trump, so Trump could save America. I totally

2890
02:44:18,680 --> 02:44:21,600
Speaker 2: believe that. And I think that the folks who serve

2891
02:44:21,680 --> 02:44:24,040
Speaker 2: our country now, I think that you have to, you know,

2892
02:44:24,160 --> 02:44:25,160
Speaker 2: have a level of faith.

2893
02:44:25,840 --> 02:44:28,680
Speaker 3: And I think that Pete Hegseth renewing that independagon.

2894
02:44:28,959 --> 02:44:31,560
Speaker 2: You know, we showed the clip earlier of Pete Hegseth

2895
02:44:31,760 --> 02:44:34,080
Speaker 2: talking about, you know, how he's proud to you know,

2896
02:44:34,560 --> 02:44:37,960
Speaker 2: lead that prayer service, and how that's now replacing what

2897
02:44:38,080 --> 02:44:42,000
Speaker 2: they were doing the demonic you know, drag queen performances

2898
02:44:42,040 --> 02:44:43,000
Speaker 2: at the military base.

2899
02:44:43,320 --> 02:44:44,120
Speaker 3: Those are gone.

2900
02:44:44,560 --> 02:44:49,040
Speaker 2: We're now honoring the fundamental pillar that has made our

2901
02:44:49,120 --> 02:44:51,760
Speaker 2: country our country, and that is our Christian values that

2902
02:44:51,920 --> 02:44:54,800
Speaker 2: built this nation. We don't have a country without great

2903
02:44:54,879 --> 02:44:58,200
Speaker 2: men and women having that faith. So I think that

2904
02:44:58,360 --> 02:45:02,080
Speaker 2: it's it's really a great day of reflection on multiple fronts.

2905
02:45:02,120 --> 02:45:05,800
Speaker 2: And again, really the word is blessed to be born

2906
02:45:05,840 --> 02:45:08,039
Speaker 2: in this country. You can be born anywhere on the planet,

2907
02:45:08,280 --> 02:45:10,879
Speaker 2: and if you're watching the show today, you know, good

2908
02:45:11,000 --> 02:45:13,640
Speaker 2: chance you're born in America, and you should be very

2909
02:45:13,959 --> 02:45:16,160
Speaker 2: very thankful that it worked out that way.

2910
02:45:16,760 --> 02:45:18,600
Speaker 1: Aim into that we are indeed blessed. Well, Mike, thank

2911
02:45:18,640 --> 02:45:20,440
Speaker 1: you so much for being with me for the past

2912
02:45:20,440 --> 02:45:22,160
Speaker 1: several hours. It's been an honor and a privilege. So

2913
02:45:22,360 --> 02:45:26,000
Speaker 1: happy Memorial Day to you. Freedom is a gift. It

2914
02:45:26,120 --> 02:45:28,000
Speaker 1: is absolutely a gift, and we have to remember that.

2915
02:45:28,120 --> 02:45:30,120
Speaker 1: And so for some final thoughts and to close out

2916
02:45:30,160 --> 02:45:31,520
Speaker 1: this hour, I'd like to toss it over to the

2917
02:45:31,560 --> 02:45:32,920
Speaker 1: great Steve Ruber.

2918
02:45:35,520 --> 02:45:38,000
Speaker 33: Both thank you for that two hundred and fifty years,

2919
02:45:38,600 --> 02:45:43,160
Speaker 33: one point three million lives on the battlefields, from Lectioning

2920
02:45:43,240 --> 02:45:45,720
Speaker 33: and Concord to the War of eighteen twelve to the

2921
02:45:45,760 --> 02:45:48,000
Speaker 33: Civil War, to World War One and World War Two.

2922
02:45:48,520 --> 02:45:50,520
Speaker 6: Pork Chop Hill in shan and Korea.

2923
02:45:51,879 --> 02:45:54,640
Speaker 33: That's what this day is about, bringing this country together,

2924
02:45:55,440 --> 02:45:58,400
Speaker 33: honoring those that have laid down their lives, given the

2925
02:45:58,480 --> 02:46:00,400
Speaker 33: last full measure of devotion to thosetry public.

2926
02:46:00,240 --> 02:46:01,920
Speaker 6: So that we could sit here and have this conversation.

2927
02:46:02,080 --> 02:46:03,360
Speaker 6: That's what Memorial Day is about.

2928
02:46:03,959 --> 02:46:07,000
Speaker 33: It's the unofficial kickoff for summer, and God bless them

2929
02:46:07,040 --> 02:46:09,760
Speaker 33: for that they allowed us to stand here and talk

2930
02:46:09,879 --> 02:46:13,040
Speaker 33: to you and have these conversations, You and I by

2931
02:46:13,120 --> 02:46:16,199
Speaker 33: laying down their lives and defending this nation against tyranny

2932
02:46:16,280 --> 02:46:20,440
Speaker 33: from Germany or Russia or China. Now, depending on who

2933
02:46:20,760 --> 02:46:26,520
Speaker 33: the enemy may be going forward, I'm optimistic and hopeful

2934
02:46:26,560 --> 02:46:28,680
Speaker 33: that Donald Trump will deliver a day in America that

2935
02:46:28,840 --> 02:46:29,519
Speaker 33: is still.

2936
02:46:30,959 --> 02:46:33,560
Speaker 6: The strongest country on earth, but hopefully with less.

2937
02:46:33,400 --> 02:46:37,160
Speaker 33: Wars, hopefully less people to put into Arlington National Cemetery.

2938
02:46:38,240 --> 02:46:40,880
Speaker 33: Hopefully we can find ways to solve our problems in

2939
02:46:40,959 --> 02:46:43,880
Speaker 33: this new age of the twenty first century where we

2940
02:46:43,920 --> 02:46:46,440
Speaker 33: don't have to kill as many people. Because if we

2941
02:46:46,520 --> 02:46:48,240
Speaker 33: go to war in the twenty first century, it'll be

2942
02:46:48,280 --> 02:46:52,080
Speaker 33: far worse than anything we've faced before. The weapons are

2943
02:46:52,120 --> 02:46:57,080
Speaker 33: so much more fierce and devastating that Arlington might not

2944
02:46:57,200 --> 02:46:59,720
Speaker 33: be big enough, let's hope and pray that doesn't happen.

2945
02:47:00,400 --> 02:47:01,960
Speaker 33: When it comes to the first Memorial Day, I do

2946
02:47:02,080 --> 02:47:03,920
Speaker 33: want to talk about what I mentioned earlier.

2947
02:47:04,720 --> 02:47:06,040
Speaker 6: It wasn't created by Congress.

2948
02:47:07,000 --> 02:47:12,480
Speaker 33: It was created by newly freed black Americans former slaves.

2949
02:47:12,680 --> 02:47:17,320
Speaker 33: May first, eighteen sixty five and Charleston, South Carolina, two

2950
02:47:17,440 --> 02:47:21,320
Speaker 33: dozen black volunteers atsumed the bodies of two hundred and

2951
02:47:21,320 --> 02:47:24,959
Speaker 33: fifty seven Union soldiers that had died in a prison camp.

2952
02:47:25,040 --> 02:47:30,080
Speaker 33: There ten thousand newly freed black slaves turned out for

2953
02:47:30,120 --> 02:47:33,160
Speaker 33: their reinterment, to honor those that had fought for them

2954
02:47:33,200 --> 02:47:36,360
Speaker 33: for freedom, and God bless American and that what we

2955
02:47:36,440 --> 02:47:39,600
Speaker 33: should do today, Come together, all races, black and white,

2956
02:47:40,440 --> 02:47:41,959
Speaker 33: to honor those that have fought for us.

2957
02:47:41,920 --> 02:47:42,840
Speaker 6: From every neighborhood.

2958
02:47:43,120 --> 02:47:45,360
Speaker 33: And when you look through Arlington and the stones of

2959
02:47:45,440 --> 02:47:51,320
Speaker 33: Saint New York and Maryland, Massachusetts, and Mississippi, Guam, American Samoa,

2960
02:47:51,840 --> 02:47:55,640
Speaker 33: all corners of this great country of ours have given

2961
02:47:55,680 --> 02:47:58,480
Speaker 33: that last full devotion, last full measure of devotion to

2962
02:47:58,560 --> 02:48:02,240
Speaker 33: who we are. And take a moment this Memorial Day

2963
02:48:02,240 --> 02:48:05,480
Speaker 33: and think about those who died so you could enjoy

2964
02:48:05,560 --> 02:48:08,800
Speaker 33: this moment. I'd like to leave you with a moment

2965
02:48:08,879 --> 02:48:10,680
Speaker 33: of silence. I'm going to step out so you can

2966
02:48:10,720 --> 02:48:14,080
Speaker 33: see the Washington Monument, which, by the way, this monument

2967
02:48:14,959 --> 02:48:17,720
Speaker 33: was a stump when Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office.

2968
02:48:18,920 --> 02:48:23,240
Speaker 33: It wasn't complete, but he completed it and he saved

2969
02:48:23,280 --> 02:48:26,400
Speaker 33: this nation. Thank god he did, and thank God for

2970
02:48:26,520 --> 02:48:28,760
Speaker 33: all those that served, one point three million that gave

2971
02:48:28,840 --> 02:48:33,720
Speaker 33: that their lives for this country. Enjoy Memorial Day, but remember,

2972
02:48:33,800 --> 02:48:37,400
Speaker 33: my friends, what it's all about. From all of us

2973
02:48:37,440 --> 02:48:40,119
Speaker 33: here at Real America's voice. May you enjoy this moment

2974
02:48:40,200 --> 02:48:40,680
Speaker 33: of silence.

2975
02:49:28,720 --> 02:49:35,160
Speaker 15: Oh, may any races have sweet.

2976
02:49:36,760 --> 02:49:37,080
Speaker 6: Sound.

2977
02:49:38,640 --> 02:49:52,680
Speaker 15: That's o rige lid highwanpo was launched.

2978
02:49:53,560 --> 02:49:54,400
Speaker 6: But down.

2979
02:49:55,760 --> 02:50:00,640
Speaker 15: And down wovens blind wood.

2980
02:50:01,040 --> 02:50:04,000
Speaker 6: Now I see.

2981
02:50:07,560 --> 02:50:13,520
Speaker 1: Twos greed that told my ball

2982
02:50:15,240 --> 02:50:20,520
Speaker 6: To feet and greets my feet.