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Speaker 1: Seven forty fifty five kr s DE talk Station, We
Speaker 1: welcome back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show from
Speaker 1: the Clamont County Veteran Services Steve Bell.
Speaker 4: Oh it is great morning. The sun is up in
Speaker 4: cloud in the sky. Jennifer Ketchmark had nothing negative to
Speaker 4: say about this day. It's a good day.
Speaker 2: She never has anything negative to say.
Speaker 4: She said it was raining yesterday.
Speaker 2: Oh well, I don't know if I agree with that.
Speaker 1: Jensen the sales Department, and of course Steve is her account.
Speaker 1: So she takes wonderful care of Steve and the Clemont
Speaker 1: County Veteran Service Office. And you guys do great work.
Speaker 1: So let me start up by thanking you for the
Speaker 1: work that you do for the Clemont County veterans. It's
Speaker 1: such important work. And let us talk about Memorial Day.
Speaker 1: And because people often get Memorial Day and Veterans Day confused,
Speaker 1: and there's a substantial difference between the two.
Speaker 4: Daystes Day, let's let yeah, let's put the footstomp on
Speaker 4: substantial right, Yeah, absolutely there is. But you know, with
Speaker 4: less than two percent of the American public having served
Speaker 4: in the military, it's easy how the two could be
Speaker 4: merged together in their minds, especially when we tend to
Speaker 4: treat them the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think most people wish the American military,
Speaker 1: have good will for the American military, absolutely right. So
Speaker 1: anything having to do with military service or loss of
Speaker 1: life in connection there with I think that's why it's
Speaker 1: kind of merged together.
Speaker 4: Right it is, but there's also an education piece behind it.
Speaker 4: You don't want me going, Brian, it was great listening
Speaker 4: to you on some radio station you don't even belong to.
Speaker 4: You'd kind of go, you didn't.
Speaker 2: That would made me right? And so I had that happened.
Speaker 1: Actually I heard your endorse in the so and so,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, never spoke for them on their behalf.
Speaker 1: Ever in my life. That happens all. That's what happens
Speaker 1: all the time. It's like, what the hell were you
Speaker 1: listening to? You?
Speaker 2: Who I am? My voice is you can't discern me
Speaker 2: from somebody else. It's a compliment.
Speaker 4: However, it's in disguise because I did not understand your compliment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4: So with the memorial in Veterra's Day, Memorial Day created
Speaker 4: after the Civil War, did you know we really don't
Speaker 4: know the absolute truth of the creation of Memorial Day.
Speaker 4: Really there are three different locations who believed they started
Speaker 4: Memorial Day.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is like who's got the who invented
Speaker 1: the Phillies Chiefe Stake, California.
Speaker 2: Who's credit for it?
Speaker 4: Where's Waldo? And did he really exist? Right? So there
Speaker 4: was a an African American battalion down in South Carolina
Speaker 4: who after the war were decorating the graves of the soldiers.
Speaker 4: There's another place, I believe in Massachusetts, and one even
Speaker 4: I think Minnesota. So all of them, ten declaim were
Speaker 4: the origin of Memorial Day. And we really don't know
Speaker 4: the truth of where it started. It just happened to
Speaker 4: blossom organically and grow from there.
Speaker 1: So different cities or communities or organizations started honoring the
Speaker 1: fallen and then ultimately became a national holiday at.
Speaker 2: The right point.
Speaker 1: Correct, So the phenomenon caught on so much so that
Speaker 1: they decided to make it just one day. I suppose
Speaker 1: these were different events throughout the year. It never it
Speaker 1: wasn't a coordinated effort on behalf of a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of different groups that said we're all going to do
Speaker 1: it on this day.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So when it comes to the federal level, like Okay,
Speaker 4: let's let's recognize Ayday, right, But it was just happened
Speaker 4: to be communities doing what communities do for their veterans
Speaker 4: that especially have expired in the time of war, which
Speaker 4: is really when you think about the definition, it's Memorial Day.
Speaker 4: You went to Uncle Bob's memorial service before we committed
Speaker 4: him to the ground, So therefore Memorial Day has been
Speaker 4: honoring those who have sacrificed their lives for the freedom
Speaker 4: of this country.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and there's all kinds of you know, centuries old
Speaker 1: monuments that local communities established to honor their fallen dead.
Speaker 1: These are the war heroes from our county or from
Speaker 1: our community. So that's it's a nice thing that people
Speaker 1: are inclined to do that because they recognize the importance
Speaker 1: of military service and the ultimate sacrifice being paid.
Speaker 4: It is, but you can also you can also go
Speaker 4: wrong with Memorial Day.
Speaker 2: It's not just the but the barbecue. Girls.
Speaker 4: We can go to commercials all day long, but when
Speaker 4: how many church services have you been into? And the
Speaker 4: pastor says, all veterans rise, so we can thank you. Yeah, wrong, audience,
Speaker 4: wrong audience. But it's because the populace doesn't understand the difference,
Speaker 4: and we tend to treat the two holidays or remembrance
Speaker 4: days the same.
Speaker 1: Well, I think you've definitively pointed out the very very
Speaker 1: distinct difference between the two days. And we've got all
Speaker 1: kinds of events coming up, so we'll pause or bring
Speaker 1: Steve Belzer from the Climate County Veteran Service Office back
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about those events that are coming up.
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Speaker 1: Let us see Judgent of file time at eight thirty
Speaker 1: fl We're preceded by Shane Jenkins, former January sixth defendant,
Speaker 1: the director executive directors stand the gap as well as
Speaker 1: the real j six and we'll hear from Corey Bowman,
Speaker 1: who came in second second yesterday the primary in the
Speaker 1: meantime in studio St. Buza from the Clemont County Veteran
Speaker 1: Service off Us already defining the difference profound it is
Speaker 1: between Memorial Day and Veterans Day, and so honoring the
Speaker 1: fallen soldiers is what we do on Memorial Day. I
Speaker 1: know there's all kinds of events going on in. Steve's
Speaker 1: got a list of some of the things that's going
Speaker 1: on that are going on, so Steve, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks Brian. There is a lot of our Veteran
Speaker 4: Service organizations, we know them as a VFW, the American Legion,
Speaker 4: the dav and it just goes on and on. Right,
Speaker 4: many of them are hosting events at our cemeteries to
Speaker 4: recognize our fallen warriors by decorating the graves. So every
Speaker 4: county we support our Claremont County Veteran Service organizations with
Speaker 4: flags and markers to duly notate those graves and counter
Speaker 4: those individuals. So it's a great way for the community
Speaker 4: to get involved for Uncle Bob, aunt Joe, whoever it was,
Speaker 4: to just go out and help them decorate these grades
Speaker 4: of these wars.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I've observed about visiting grave sites,
Speaker 1: and I am not the kind of guy that's inclined
Speaker 1: to go do that.
Speaker 2: I'll be quite honest with you.
Speaker 1: I have instructions for when I die, you cremate me,
Speaker 1: put me in a plastic bag and take a tablespoon
Speaker 1: with you when you go someplace fun, and then sprinkle
Speaker 1: it where people are having fun because I figure a
Speaker 1: generation from now a nobody going to be showing up
Speaker 1: where I'm laid to rest, because they'll forget about me.
Speaker 2: And that's of course fad memories faded. I mean, I
Speaker 2: can't remember the name. Might you know?
Speaker 1: Certainly great great parents who I never knew. I knew
Speaker 1: some of my grant great grandparents, but I don't know
Speaker 1: where they're buried. I wouldn't be inclined to go. So
Speaker 1: are are you keep a list of veterans that sort
Speaker 1: of can be remembered by the community when they've their
Speaker 1: families have long since moved by and won't show up
Speaker 1: to remember them themselves.
Speaker 4: You know, we actually have volumes in my office from
Speaker 4: the Civil War of Claremont County veterans. That's great and
Speaker 4: it's just to read some of their actions. There was
Speaker 4: a gentleman I wish I could remember his name, actually
Speaker 4: did a book on World War One Claremont County veterans.
Speaker 4: There's some great reads in your county about individual families
Speaker 4: serving in the Great Wars. It's just I knew this family.
Speaker 4: I didn't know they had a relative that did X,
Speaker 4: Y or Z overseas for our nation. It's just so
Speaker 4: being able to go and locate these headstones and give
Speaker 4: them a moment of honor, it just keeps their their
Speaker 4: their name and that which they performed alive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, it's.
Speaker 4: Honoring our history as a nation we are. So I
Speaker 4: think it's it's fantastic. These organizations will gatter together, they
Speaker 4: have they'll have speeches, not long, but to talk about
Speaker 4: some of the veterans. Even the VVA, the Vietnam Veterans
Speaker 4: of America is going to meet at the I call
Speaker 4: it the Helicopter Park, Union Township Park and they're going
Speaker 4: to honor the Vietnam veterans from Claremont County there underneath
Speaker 4: the Huey Helllicopter. So it's just again on May twenty six,
Speaker 4: another great event of honoring those who have served our country.
Speaker 1: I know that the Governor's got the annual reef laying
Speaker 1: ceremony on the twenty first in Veterans Plaza to Ohio
Speaker 1: State House.
Speaker 4: I will tell you that is a very unique event
Speaker 4: in the If you've never been to the Veterans Plaza,
Speaker 4: it's on the backside of the State House and there
Speaker 4: is inlaid in the grass a stone of every county
Speaker 4: of Ohio, says eighty eight stones labeled with the county's name.
Speaker 4: That almost is a enclave to the very park itself,
Speaker 4: and it backs up to the backside of the State
Speaker 4: House where the species will go. And we will have
Speaker 4: service officers from every county. Oh wow, that will line
Speaker 4: their blocks.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool. It is a neat event. That's rue.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So and the government brings the government. The governor
Speaker 4: brings a great speaker every year to talk about event.
Speaker 4: That's Memorial Day. What it is a gold Star family.
Speaker 4: Let's not forget them who have sacrificed their loved one
Speaker 4: for your freedom. So don't look down on it and
Speaker 4: don't forget them, because they're the ones who need the
Speaker 4: greater support. We thank God for Johnny Susie who gave
Speaker 4: their lives for our freedom. I think also the families
Speaker 4: who lent them to us that we could fight these wars.
Speaker 1: That's a really important point you made there, Steve. And
Speaker 1: I know, of course the Union Township Veterans Memorial Park
Speaker 1: exists as well. There's going to be an event there
Speaker 1: May twenty six, two pm.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right, is.
Speaker 2: Five hundred crosses.
Speaker 4: Right, They will have the grassy, the grassy park. I
Speaker 4: won't use grassy Nolan because that always takes over running.
Speaker 4: We're waiting for this setup. But the grass that we
Speaker 4: filled with these crosses, it looks absolutely gorgeous. The Huey
Speaker 4: Hell is decorated as a medback flight, so it's it's
Speaker 4: it fits reminiscent of like MASH.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: So okay, you know MASH actually was an acronym.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mobile Army Surgical Surgical Hospital. Yeah, if you gave
Speaker 2: me about an hour and a half, I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: able to remember it.
Speaker 4: But your listeners don't have the time. Brian, this is important,
Speaker 4: it really is.
Speaker 1: Steve Belto Clement County Veteran Services. Yeah, veterans out there,
Speaker 1: consult your Veteran Service Office. Whether you're in Cymemond County,
Speaker 1: you can do that. Hamilton County has them. They're all
Speaker 1: over the place. Butler County, Warren County, they do great
Speaker 1: work on behalf of the American veteran But in this
Speaker 1: particular case, I'm sure that each of these veteran service
Speaker 1: organizations and each of the counties will have events going
Speaker 1: on Memorial Day events. Horen't of the fallen soldiers, the
Speaker 1: ones who gave the ultimate sacrifice and service to their country.
Speaker 1: So God bless each and every one of them, and
Speaker 1: make sure you pause for a moment at least give
Speaker 1: them some thought on Memorial Day as it fast approaches. Steve,
Speaker 1: thank you for the work that you're doing each and
Speaker 1: every day and for your service to our country.
Speaker 2: Brian, thank you for partnering and helping us. Hey you
Speaker 2: kidding me?
Speaker 1: Love love love being able to help the veteran on
Speaker 1: this program, folks don't go away. After the top of
Speaker 1: the hour, news former January sixth defender Shane Jenkins, executive
Speaker 1: director of Stand the Gap and The Real Jay six,
Speaker 1: joins the program, followed by Jude Jennal, Paulitano, and Corey Bowman.
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