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If you are with us, I 28 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,200 don't know whether we will take calls or not, so 29 00:01:19,359 --> 00:01:21,000 let me just give you the number just in case, 30 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,079 eight hundred and eight for eight nine two two two. 31 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:25,640 But we have a pack schedule, so we may not 32 00:01:26,519 --> 00:01:32,840 with us today, my friends, is one of my all 33 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:37,680 time favorite people in the world. He is the former 34 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:42,040 web producer for the Russian limbo show, one of them. 35 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:45,319 In addition to that, he's a brilliant columnist. In fact, 36 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:49,040 I have his Memorial Day column here and I also 37 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:54,159 have here his Tom Cruise movie review, which I was 38 00:01:54,159 --> 00:02:00,519 a little surprised that he runs a website historyauthor dot com. 39 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:04,000 And if you love history, he's the guy. His name 40 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,280 Dean Carrianus and he is our official historian here. And 41 00:02:08,439 --> 00:02:12,199 before we even hi, Dean, how are you hey? How 42 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:12,599 are you? 43 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 6: Thanks for welcoming me on, And there's always a great introduction. 44 00:02:16,719 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 5: Well, I'm always glad that you can appear, Dean. Before 45 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,680 we delve into into memorial Dane the meanings of that, 46 00:02:23,759 --> 00:02:26,199 I just want to touch on a story real quickly 47 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,120 for the audience that I need to do Charles Wrangell 48 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:37,520 passed away. Charles Wrangel, Democrat, a Democrat that I very often, 49 00:02:38,479 --> 00:02:44,319 very often disagreed with on some policy matters. There were 50 00:02:44,439 --> 00:02:49,039 a few policy things that Charlie Wrangele used to talk 51 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,360 about back when he was a member of Congress. He 52 00:02:51,479 --> 00:02:55,719 served goodness. I think he served twenty fourth three. He 53 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:02,759 served twenty three terms in Congress, which you know, Yetta, 54 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:07,039 that's a long time. Became the first African American to 55 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,159 head up the Ways and Means Committee, which used to 56 00:03:09,199 --> 00:03:15,479 mean something back when committee chairs had real power in Congress. 57 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,520 Represented Harlem, part of the New York the Gang of Four, 58 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,800 the Big Four, Basil Pattison, Charlie Wrango, Percy Sutton, David 59 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,800 Dinkins of African Americans that actually had political power. But 60 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:38,560 Charlie Wrangle was. Charlie Wrangle was a man who served 61 00:03:38,599 --> 00:03:44,479 his country and heroically as well. In the Korean War, 62 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,840 he won the Purple Heart and the Soul Star for bravery. 63 00:03:47,879 --> 00:03:50,360 I mean, this guy led his troops out of a 64 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:56,759 situation with an unexpected attack from North Korea that just 65 00:03:56,919 --> 00:03:59,879 really could have killed them all. He was wounded in 66 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,879 that process. He's a high school dropout who later went 67 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:08,560 back after serving in the military and applied himself became 68 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,840 not just a college college graduate, but then went on 69 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:17,240 to get his law degree. And at a time this 70 00:04:17,439 --> 00:04:23,399 was a difficult time in America when Charlie Wrangell rose 71 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,839 to power. Wasn't the most difficult time in America, but 72 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:33,399 it certainly was. We were still dealing with the Jim 73 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:39,399 Crow Democrat apartheid system in America that Democrats set up. 74 00:04:40,759 --> 00:04:43,560 And again, there's a lot that I want to say 75 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,160 about Charlie Wrangele. I don't want to spend the show 76 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,319 doing it. Perhaps I'll have more time to talk about 77 00:04:48,399 --> 00:04:53,360 him Saturday. I disagreed with him on so many things, 78 00:04:53,879 --> 00:04:59,439 but I always had a fondness for Charlie Wrangell, a 79 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:04,800 fondness that also recognized his service to this country in 80 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:11,160 the military and his passion. Of course, he ran into 81 00:05:11,199 --> 00:05:15,439 some ethics problems with the Democrats later in life, which 82 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,279 is one of the reasons why he decided not to 83 00:05:18,399 --> 00:05:21,480 seek reelection in twenty seventeen. But I don't even want 84 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,600 to focus on that. At the time, when he was 85 00:05:23,639 --> 00:05:27,439 being censured, he said that his legacy's not going to 86 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:30,600 be or his story's not going to be defined by that, 87 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,519 but by the story of his life, and he led 88 00:05:33,639 --> 00:05:38,720 an amazing life, and I felt a sense of loss today. 89 00:05:39,519 --> 00:05:45,040 And yes, I disagreed with him profoundly on so many things. 90 00:05:45,519 --> 00:05:53,040 But I always had a very fond view of Charles B. Wrangle, 91 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,079 who passed away at age ninety four, who did a 92 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,279 lot for the city of New York and for Harlem, 93 00:05:57,759 --> 00:05:59,519 and so I just wanted to take a few minutes 94 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,199 and also give condolences to his family into all of 95 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,720 those in New York who knew him. And I think 96 00:06:06,759 --> 00:06:09,199 that Charlie Wrangle, I think that it would be fair 97 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,800 to say that he had a great life, Dean, would you. 98 00:06:14,199 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I'm making notes as you talking nodding, because 99 00:06:20,879 --> 00:06:24,439 he was one of those old school politicians. 100 00:06:24,439 --> 00:06:27,439 Speaker 6: And I guess maybe every carry generation thinks that in 101 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:29,800 those days, but I don't think so in this case. 102 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,399 I think Charlie Wrangle was somebody where you say, he 103 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,079 just had a different instinct. I wrote about this recently 104 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,560 in The New York Sun about the example between John 105 00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:43,399 Kerry in that one town hall and he starts borrating 106 00:06:43,399 --> 00:06:45,360 the guy did you wrote for Bush? Are you a Republican? 107 00:06:45,759 --> 00:06:48,160 And I remember thinking at the time and saying to 108 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,439 Rush the time that the thing about this clip is 109 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,680 if that's a Bill Clinton, that's a Charlie Wrangle, if 110 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,839 that's a Donald Trump, They've they've lived for those moments 111 00:06:56,879 --> 00:06:58,879 and they say, hey, you may maybe you are a 112 00:06:58,959 --> 00:07:00,639 Republican and you know, I'm I'm not gonna ask you. 113 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,399 It's a private matter, but I want your vote this time, 114 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,199 and here's why. And that person leaves there feeling like 115 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,160 a million bucks instead of getting booed by a crowd 116 00:07:09,319 --> 00:07:11,800 like in that John Kerry count Hall. And then people 117 00:07:11,839 --> 00:07:14,879 identify with that little guy. And I think I have 118 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,600 a couple of stories and stories by proxy from when 119 00:07:18,639 --> 00:07:21,120 he used to come by Fox News Channel. Charlie Wrangle 120 00:07:21,199 --> 00:07:24,920 and Brian from the old Rush TV show once was 121 00:07:24,959 --> 00:07:26,920 saying to him, Oh, can I can I get your car? 122 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,519 And he says, nah, I drove myself here, Brian, and 123 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,360 he said, wow, you drove yourself and he said, yay. 124 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,879 You know, Congressman could do all sorts of things. We 125 00:07:36,959 --> 00:07:44,560 can drive cars, I could go to the supermarket. Just 126 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,839 to him, it seemed like, you know, always on, you know, 127 00:07:47,959 --> 00:07:51,199 with that thing not getting pupped up, didn't demand a 128 00:07:51,319 --> 00:07:54,000 car just yeah, I can drive and do my own things. 129 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,079 I'm not just because I'm in Congress doesn't mean I, 130 00:07:57,199 --> 00:07:59,439 as I said of William McKinley, had his ears so 131 00:07:59,519 --> 00:08:02,000 close to the ground that he had grasshoppers in it. 132 00:08:02,399 --> 00:08:05,079 And that's the kind of person I think, before Twitter, 133 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:09,120 before all of these consultants, that that Charlie Wrangle was 134 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,240 and you met him and he knew and you and 135 00:08:12,319 --> 00:08:15,079 I had different experiences with that. But of course sometimes 136 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,399 you'd meet somebody, they'd know that you worked for RUSS 137 00:08:17,759 --> 00:08:19,519 and then they would they would go right to you, 138 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,560 like if you know what cats are like, they go 139 00:08:21,639 --> 00:08:23,600 right for the person that that doesn't like them for 140 00:08:23,759 --> 00:08:26,240 this to try to seduce them a little bit and 141 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,199 to try to be friendly. And I think especially since 142 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,919 as you said, he was a real partisan guy, he 143 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,960 was a dedicated Democrat, but that didn't mean that he 144 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:40,720 had to be a nasty, hateful person, and that he 145 00:08:40,759 --> 00:08:43,960 could be somebody where you would see him. And we've 146 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,320 met a million people over the courses of our career, 147 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,120 not to name droppers say things, but somebody who had 148 00:08:49,159 --> 00:08:52,159 real gravitas, and you'd say, yeah, I'd like to I'd 149 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,480 like to hang out with that guy and have a beer, 150 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,679 and I'd like to just hear what he thought. And 151 00:08:57,679 --> 00:08:59,879 and as you said, great service to the city of 152 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,320 New York, a real understanding of New York. New York 153 00:09:02,399 --> 00:09:04,960 was never just a stepping stone to something else. And 154 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,240 or was his military service you think of being surrounded 155 00:09:08,279 --> 00:09:12,080 by the Red Army, by the yes, communist Chinese Army there, 156 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,720 I mean, this wasn't just oh he was in the Ditcheny. 157 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,000 He exaggerated his service and oh he served four years 158 00:09:18,039 --> 00:09:21,759 and came home and earned the earned the Purple Heart 159 00:09:21,759 --> 00:09:24,799 which always say earned, and the Silver Star. This was 160 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,559 a moment that that was really the stuff of movies. 161 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,360 And I think he may even have featured in a 162 00:09:30,399 --> 00:09:31,279 movie at one point. 163 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, he had. It was remarkable how he led his 164 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,559 men out of harm's way being surrounded in North Korea. 165 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,600 It was studying. And what a great thing to talk 166 00:09:43,639 --> 00:09:47,720 about on this Memorial Day. You have a column here today. 167 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,519 In the past, we talked about the origins of Memorial Day, 168 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:53,279 and if you want to do that, if we wanted 169 00:09:53,279 --> 00:09:55,279 to bring people up to speak, because there are people 170 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,240 on social media. I saw clips of people who had 171 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,279 no idea why we even celebrate right Memorial Day. I 172 00:10:02,279 --> 00:10:04,720 don't think any of those people are in this audience, 173 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:11,679 but you have a column today. First of all, Dean, seriously, 174 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:18,519 Tom Cruise, Final Mission really, really really Dean, so well, 175 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,759 you're really Dean, really Dean. 176 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 6: He'st from New Jersey. I'm from New Jersey. There's a 177 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,320 certain level of mutual respect we have to give to 178 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,240 each other. And hey, when you go see it, I'm 179 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:32,759 telling you that. 180 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,799 Speaker 5: I'm not going to see it. I'm not going to 181 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:39,279 see m I five. I'll wait for it on TV. 182 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,559 It delivers the movie magic Hollywood's been missing. That's Dean. 183 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:50,279 Carryanis uh on Tom Cruise's new movie and The Final 184 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:55,440 Mission Impossible. Apparently Dean thinks it's a great movie that 185 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:56,080 was yesterday. 186 00:10:56,159 --> 00:10:59,639 Speaker 6: Enjoyed the heck out of it. Exciting and it was fun, 187 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,440 and it was It's nice to see the US military 188 00:11:02,519 --> 00:11:06,480 portrayed as people who are are confident and tip of 189 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:08,879 the spear and not always own we don't want to 190 00:11:08,919 --> 00:11:11,480 do anything. I like that part of it, and I 191 00:11:11,519 --> 00:11:14,279 think that your audience would like that part of it. 192 00:11:14,279 --> 00:11:17,200 It's nice to see them the general is not always 193 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:21,159 the evil guy, and I thought that's some birds expectations 194 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,159 and yeah, it's it's silly and it's implausible, as I 195 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,080 write in the column, and defies the laws of physics 196 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,080 and common sense a lot of times. But he really 197 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,120 cares about movie making, cares about the audience. And you know, 198 00:11:34,519 --> 00:11:36,600 the only other person that I could think of that 199 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,639 cared about the audience in recent memory was Rush, who 200 00:11:39,639 --> 00:11:42,679 says I do the audience thanks to the audience. This 201 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,399 guy does not, you know, he's not out there. They 202 00:11:45,399 --> 00:11:47,279 asked him to comment on the tariffs. He said, I 203 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:49,960 want to keep the focus on the movie. Who does 204 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,480 that anymore? Everybody just wants to start to ramble off 205 00:11:53,519 --> 00:11:56,720 their politics at the moment. He does those little thank 206 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:59,440 yous before the movie, thanking the audience for coming, thanking 207 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,919 them for seeing it an imax, for the privilege of 208 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,440 being able to make movies. I mean what I just 209 00:12:04,519 --> 00:12:07,360 I just think, wow, he deserves all the praise. 210 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 5: That's impressive. What do you say? Wait a minute, Carlos, 211 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:11,080 was it there? 212 00:12:11,759 --> 00:12:13,519 Speaker 8: I read an article. I don't know if mister k 213 00:12:14,039 --> 00:12:17,720 saw that. He apparently lied to a rival studio. When 214 00:12:17,759 --> 00:12:20,399 they called him, they were like, we have stuff production, 215 00:12:20,519 --> 00:12:24,200 and he said, we're doing our movie regularly during COVID, 216 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,240 and that scared out their studios and they made them 217 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:29,440 continue making movies during COVID. 218 00:12:30,799 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I read that too. Carlos. He went around 219 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:36,159 and told people to try to keep them working. And 220 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,879 when COVID hit they were shooting in Italy, he rented 221 00:12:38,879 --> 00:12:41,559 a cruise ship so that all of the old cast 222 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:44,279 and crew would have someplace to stay and I wouldn't 223 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,279 just be thrown out on the street because they of course, 224 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:50,080 everything shot down overnight for COVID. And so I think 225 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,159 all of that is really something makes me want to 226 00:12:54,159 --> 00:12:56,200 support the guy and go and see these movies. And 227 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,720 I also wrote something good about the previous one that 228 00:12:58,879 --> 00:13:01,360 was Part one, and I I never really watched these movies. 229 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,759 I of course I'm old enough to watch the TV 230 00:13:03,799 --> 00:13:07,120 show Mission Impossible, but I never watched these films. My 231 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,960 late father in law, Ed was a big fan of them, 232 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,080 and my wife liked to go watch them with them. 233 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:14,720 So then I started watching them, and yeah, I think 234 00:13:15,159 --> 00:13:16,639 I think he deserves it when they call him the 235 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:17,519 last movie star. 236 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 5: Wow. 237 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, so a little so now I have a 238 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,120 deeper understanding of why we're getting pro Tom cruise, final 239 00:13:30,159 --> 00:13:34,840 mission impossible columns from history author Dean carry Onis. 240 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 5: Folks, stay right there because when we get back. Dean 241 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,360 has an amazing column today from Memorial Day eighteen seventy five, 242 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:48,440 A call for sweet reconciliation echoes today. This is a 243 00:13:48,519 --> 00:13:51,320 really interesting I had to read this column twice, Dean, 244 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,679 because at first I was a little confused, to be 245 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,519 quite frank with you, I was like, what, why'd her? 246 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,879 And then when I reread it, I'm like, WHOA. You 247 00:14:02,519 --> 00:14:07,759 chose a very interesting angle, a historical angle, for today's 248 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:09,799 column on Memorial Day, and I want you to explain 249 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,840 to the audience why you did it and what's in this. 250 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:17,679 James Godlan Snurly, Jan Carryannis, historian from a web producer 251 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:22,000 with Russe Lombaugh, historyauthor, dot com head and columnist for 252 00:14:22,039 --> 00:14:24,919 The New York Sun is with us. James Golden is thoughly. 253 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,519 James Carriannis is with us. You're with us. It's Memorial Day. 254 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:33,919 Stay right here, honoring those who fought for our country. 255 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:42,159 Speaker 4: Thank you for our freedom. The Rush Hour with James 256 00:14:42,159 --> 00:14:45,000 Golden on the Red Apple Podcast Network. 257 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 5: The Rush Hour with. 258 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 4: James Golden entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network. 259 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,759 Speaker 5: We will never forget the brave. Today we honor all heroes. 260 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:10,360 James Golding is thirty, Dean Cary andis is here? Dean? 261 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,399 Why did you okay from Memorial Day eighteen seventy five? 262 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,080 We have only about a minute here. We'll go into 263 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,240 it and more definitely come back. But tell us why 264 00:15:18,279 --> 00:15:21,039 you decided that this was the approach that you wanted 265 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:22,480 to use for your column today. 266 00:15:24,679 --> 00:15:28,639 Speaker 6: Well, I wanted to write something that was uplifting and 267 00:15:28,679 --> 00:15:31,159 that connected us, because, as you were saying before, a 268 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,600 lot of people don't have a lot of people don't 269 00:15:33,639 --> 00:15:36,480 have that direct connection. They don't really think about what 270 00:15:36,519 --> 00:15:39,799 we are doing today. People sometimes say happy Memorial Day. 271 00:15:39,799 --> 00:15:42,559 It's not meant to be a happy occasion. Although over 272 00:15:42,639 --> 00:15:46,879 time it's become something to celebrate the contributions, it's always 273 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:49,519 a little jarring, and so I wanted to think about 274 00:15:49,519 --> 00:15:53,000 what was the Civil War generation saying in eighteen seventy five, 275 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,039 which was a year before the centennial. Next year is 276 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,519 the next year is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary? 277 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,159 What did they have to say to us? So that's 278 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,679 what I covered, and that's just a great take. So 279 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,399 we were folks a decade, just a little more decade 280 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,639 from the Civil War, and Dean went back and looked 281 00:16:11,639 --> 00:16:15,440 in history. What were people talking about on Memorial Day 282 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,440 as America approached its one hundredth birthday. Here we are 283 00:16:18,759 --> 00:16:21,360 ready to approach our two hundred and fiftieth. We're going 284 00:16:21,399 --> 00:16:22,960 to go into that in more depth. So keep it 285 00:16:23,039 --> 00:16:25,279 right here in Memorial Day edition. 286 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,919 Speaker 4: The Rush Hour with James Golden on the Red Apple 287 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:31,200 Podcast Network. 288 00:16:34,559 --> 00:16:35,919 Speaker 5: The Rush Hour with. 289 00:16:36,039 --> 00:16:41,279 Speaker 4: James Golden Entertaining and Informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network. 290 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 5: We will never forget the Brave. Today we honor all 291 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:57,200 heroes with me. Dean carrianis historyauthor dot com, a New 292 00:16:57,279 --> 00:17:01,320 York Sun columnist. All right, Dean, Today's by the way 293 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:05,440 quick reference. Lady Benedict texted me. She wants to know 294 00:17:05,799 --> 00:17:09,119 is this the final mission for Mission Impossible or the 295 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:10,519 final final mission? 296 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 6: I don't claim to have any inside knowledge of Okay, 297 00:17:17,039 --> 00:17:21,119 I don't, I don't. I don't want to give any spoils. Well, 298 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:22,519 let's put it this way. I think if they want 299 00:17:22,559 --> 00:17:24,559 to do another one, they can. 300 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 5: Do another one. 301 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 6: And I think that they probably will know that Tom 302 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,720 Cruise started. I'm going to mix it in with the Beatles. There, 303 00:17:36,599 --> 00:17:38,759 what did he do today? 304 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 5: He started that franchise. 305 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,799 Speaker 6: It was it wasn't quite three years ago today, but 306 00:17:44,839 --> 00:17:46,759 I said, because but it was start. It's been going 307 00:17:46,759 --> 00:17:47,640 for a long long time. 308 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:52,599 Speaker 5: Yeah, it has going in the nineties. Yeah, all right. Now, 309 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:55,599 So you decided to look back at one hundred years now, 310 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,200 this was the period after the Civil War and obviously 311 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,279 the Civil War, you know, you said, so you wrote 312 00:18:01,319 --> 00:18:04,079 something in your column, Dean that kind of blew my 313 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,640 mind and I had never even thought about it. You 314 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:14,000 mentioned that it the death hole in the Civil War. 315 00:18:14,599 --> 00:18:17,079 You say, at least six hundred and twenty thousand people 316 00:18:17,319 --> 00:18:20,559 died in the Civil War. That's about two percent of 317 00:18:20,599 --> 00:18:23,240 the population. Now, if we had a war and we 318 00:18:23,279 --> 00:18:27,119 put it on in today's numbers, what two percent of 319 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,279 the American population would be, that would be equal to 320 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:35,359 six point eight million people dying. 321 00:18:35,599 --> 00:18:39,599 Speaker 6: Yeah, the population of Massachusetts. So everyone in that poppy. 322 00:18:40,079 --> 00:18:44,079 Speaker 5: Wow, And I had never even that is stunning and jarring. 323 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,799 So you look back and what did you find when 324 00:18:46,839 --> 00:18:50,559 you look back one hundred What America was talking about 325 00:18:50,599 --> 00:18:55,279 on Memorial Day? As we've prepared to celebrate the hundredth 326 00:18:55,359 --> 00:19:00,279 anniversary of this country was. 327 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,839 Speaker 6: A surprise that it was a time of real optimism. 328 00:19:02,839 --> 00:19:04,519 And I like, if I look back at those dates 329 00:19:04,599 --> 00:19:07,039 and just see and this is a period, this is 330 00:19:07,039 --> 00:19:10,920 about midway point and reconstruction. So something that I always 331 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,200 keep at the forefront of my mind is that for 332 00:19:13,319 --> 00:19:16,920 Ken Burns to tell that beautiful story that everybody likes, 333 00:19:17,599 --> 00:19:20,359 with the exception of me, I guess he has to 334 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,160 cut out the fact that that beautiful picture of Gettysburg 335 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:28,039 and shaking hands of old veterans across the hedge was 336 00:19:28,079 --> 00:19:32,519 done by selling out the freedmen and leaving the formerly 337 00:19:32,599 --> 00:19:38,200 enslaved people in the Southern States in many cases completely disenfranchised. 338 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,359 Even if they well, and often they couldn't even vote. 339 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,960 It wasn't much better than slavery. And that's often cut 340 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,160 out of those stories. So I wanted to look at 341 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,160 eighteen seventy five, what is our thinking. We're still electing 342 00:19:49,559 --> 00:19:53,200 civil war generals, all these civil war republicans as president 343 00:19:53,519 --> 00:19:56,359 and looking to them. Ulysses Grant has made his war 344 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,480 against the kukuks Klan, the militant wing of the Democratic 345 00:20:00,519 --> 00:20:04,519 Party at the time, trying to reassert their dominance and 346 00:20:04,839 --> 00:20:09,279 white supremacy over those same freedmen. But this is such 347 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,559 a high watermark for that dream of equality. In eighteen 348 00:20:12,599 --> 00:20:17,839 seventy five, we've just elected a senator or they've appointed. Right, 349 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,839 it's mostly the Republicans. 350 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:20,759 Speaker 5: Go to the South. 351 00:20:20,799 --> 00:20:24,559 Speaker 6: They reconstruct those Southern states and their governments. We have 352 00:20:24,839 --> 00:20:27,759 six black Republicans also serving in the House of Representatives. 353 00:20:28,319 --> 00:20:30,759 You mentioned Charlie Wrangel earlier, and now he's the head 354 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:33,559 of the Ways and Means Committee. This back then, they 355 00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:35,640 probably thought this is going to be the norm, and 356 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:37,880 of course it ends up not being the norm. There 357 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,559 ends up being a long period of time where there 358 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:45,200 aren't any more black representatives in Congress and so. But 359 00:20:45,279 --> 00:20:47,759 to me, it was interesting that because the war had 360 00:20:48,039 --> 00:20:52,440 been so brutal, the South had been so soundly defeated, 361 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,519 that you had people saying who had been on the 362 00:20:55,559 --> 00:20:58,359 defeated side, who'd been generals. I quote one of them here, 363 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,559 General Clement and Slim Evans. You can you can hear him, right, 364 00:21:02,599 --> 00:21:04,240 I was. I was thinking of my head hearing it 365 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,880 in the fog worn leghorn voice. Try not to say 366 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:11,079 it like that, General Evans, U and the New York 367 00:21:11,079 --> 00:21:14,000 Sun of the time described what he said as as 368 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,119 embodying the true reconstruction spirit. And he said, let us 369 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,359 do nothing to keep alive the passions of war. To 370 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,400 study its lessons is prudence, to profit by its teaching 371 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:28,759 his wisdom. But to stir up the own animosities is madness. 372 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:33,279 And he said, the Confederate Confederacy was buried and utterly defeated, 373 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:37,720 and we dismissed our resentment. And I compared that to today, 374 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,680 and I said, we're so many people want to hold 375 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,079 on to resentment, whoever they are. I'm not speaking of 376 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,720 any one group. It's so easy for all of us 377 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,319 to hold on to resentment. But they had paid that 378 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,000 massive price that you just described. They'd seen farms destroyed, 379 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,960 people had lost their sons, entirely people. This is not 380 00:21:56,079 --> 00:22:00,000 six hundred and twenty thousand figure is on the low end, probably, 381 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,759 And it doesn't even count the shambling people that lost eyes, 382 00:22:03,839 --> 00:22:06,920 that lost limbs. This was such a brutal war that 383 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,599 people had just had enough of it. This was something 384 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,160 William to come to. Sherman said, the Great Union General 385 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,680 the South has chosen war. Well, let's give it to 386 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,599 them until they're sick of it. And that's indeed what 387 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,240 they did. And by eighteen seventy five, ten years after 388 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:26,480 the surrender at Appromatus Courthouse, that's what people are thinking of, thinking, 389 00:22:26,519 --> 00:22:29,720 you know, let's never have this happen again. Let's go 390 00:22:29,799 --> 00:22:33,079 back to settling things that are in the using the 391 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,640 tool the Constitution gives us, as I guess what I write, 392 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:40,000 and so they avoid that, whereas today people talk about 393 00:22:40,039 --> 00:22:44,119 another civil war and you're met with nods, you know, 394 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,599 these knowing nods that if fatalism is somehow enlightened, as 395 00:22:47,599 --> 00:22:51,279 if this nihilistic view that oh, sure of course people 396 00:22:51,319 --> 00:22:53,079 are just going to start shooting each other. We just 397 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:53,880 accepted nothing. 398 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:54,319 Speaker 5: We can do. 399 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 6: Well, if you live through that civil war these people 400 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,240 did in eighteen seventy five, they wanted none of it. 401 00:23:00,559 --> 00:23:04,160 They wanted to move on. They accepted Lincoln's vision, even 402 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,079 though he passed away Grant, of course, enforced it at 403 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,079 the point of a bayonet, at the point of a gun, 404 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,720 which is what it also required for us to do, 405 00:23:11,839 --> 00:23:14,400 not sify Germany, for us to get rid of the 406 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:18,720 war lost in Imperial Japan, very similar to what Israel 407 00:23:18,759 --> 00:23:20,200 will have to do if they don't want to end 408 00:23:20,279 --> 00:23:22,640 up having to do to deal with Hamas again in 409 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,920 another twenty years. And that was the idea of reconstruction. 410 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,240 And as I said, you even add in Arkansas you 411 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:36,000 had former black Federal soldiers marching alongside former Confederates under 412 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,839 the one United States flag, not one side carrying a 413 00:23:39,839 --> 00:23:42,960 different flag. It was the Confederate flag force that would 414 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,559 have been. So that to me was an amazing time 415 00:23:46,599 --> 00:23:49,640 to check in on them where they were saying, let's 416 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,119 do better, let's never again for all this we hear 417 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,799 about the South shall rise again, and we I don't 418 00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:57,000 know if people still hear that at all today, but 419 00:23:57,039 --> 00:24:01,079 occasionally you'd hear someone someone say that the North and 420 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,640 South wanted to find ways to avoid that ever happening again, 421 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,400 because they the nation just went crazy and to war 422 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,400 against itself and had this horrible bloodlust. And so I 423 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,480 thought that looking ahead to our two hundred and fifty, 424 00:24:15,519 --> 00:24:18,480 if we could draw some inspiration from that and set 425 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,160 our goal also to create a more perfect, more just. 426 00:24:21,319 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 5: Union, well that is quite the inspirational. And that I would 427 00:24:25,519 --> 00:24:27,720 urge people to look for your column, jan Where can 428 00:24:27,759 --> 00:24:29,079 they find your column number one? 429 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 6: They can go see me at history Dean. I won't 430 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:37,039 ask anybody to learn to spell Carrie Annis. But also 431 00:24:37,079 --> 00:24:39,119 I put it up on substack. This is my first 432 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,480 substack post Historydean dot substack dot com. Even though I 433 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,640 think substacks are blogs for people who are too pretentious 434 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,359 to say they have blogs. I decided to put it 435 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,480 up there because it was something I went back and 436 00:24:51,519 --> 00:24:53,799 forth with a little bit trying to figure out what 437 00:24:53,839 --> 00:24:55,640 to do with it. And I said, I really just 438 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,240 want to get it out there because it was very 439 00:24:57,279 --> 00:25:00,000 personal to me, and that substack seemed like a good 440 00:25:00,079 --> 00:25:01,880 place for it. But and you were kind enough to 441 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,279 tweet it out, So thank you for doing that. And 442 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,279 you can see a picture there by the way of 443 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,359 those those six African Americans who served in Congress at 444 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,039 that period, and think a little bit about what might 445 00:25:12,079 --> 00:25:14,119 have been if we if we've been able to keep 446 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,559 our foot on the on the gas and keep our 447 00:25:16,599 --> 00:25:17,839 foot on the Yeah. 448 00:25:17,759 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 5: If it had, if Lincoln's vision for a reconciliated country 449 00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:26,400 without malice had been followed through America, would be quite 450 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,960 different than it is today. There's no question about it. 451 00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 2: Dean. 452 00:25:30,319 --> 00:25:32,559 Speaker 5: I got to thank you again and thank you for 453 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:35,039 always being here for us on these very important days 454 00:25:35,039 --> 00:25:37,519 in American history. I cannot tell you how much I 455 00:25:37,559 --> 00:25:41,640 appreciate that. Again, folks, you can find his website historyauthor 456 00:25:41,759 --> 00:25:47,519 dot com, Dean carrianas History Dean and Dean. We'll look 457 00:25:47,559 --> 00:25:50,200 forward to we need to do figure out something special 458 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:51,519 for the two hundred and fifty Dean. 459 00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 6: Yeah, that would be great. 460 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,599 Speaker 5: We should definitely do that, Okay. 461 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 6: Lets yeah, thank you connection. 462 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,319 Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Jane. We appreciate it. Folks. We 463 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,039 are going to end today, thank you. We're going to 464 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,039 end today with Pete hag Seth. Now, Donald Trump made 465 00:26:11,079 --> 00:26:14,279 great speech. He released a statement, but I thought Pete 466 00:26:14,319 --> 00:26:16,960 hag Seth's speech today as the Tomb of the Unknown 467 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,519 Sol was incredible. We want to leave enough time so 468 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,880 you can hear it. So coming up Secretary of Defense, 469 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:32,200 Pete Hegseeth. His speech today just simply incredible. Coming back, 470 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:33,480 do not go away. 471 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,400 Speaker 4: To those who fought and gave their lives for this country. 472 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 5: Thank you. 473 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,839 Speaker 4: The Rush Hour with James Golden on the Red Apple 474 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:54,119 Podcast Network. The Rush Hour with James Golden entertaining and 475 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,279 informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network. 476 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:05,799 Speaker 5: We are forever grateful who served. James Golden sternly. Time 477 00:27:05,839 --> 00:27:07,480 is running out. I want to get to this speech 478 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:13,759 today by Defense Secretary Pete heigsth Folks, you'll understand why 479 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,519 I thought this. If you haven't heard it, why I 480 00:27:16,559 --> 00:27:17,279 thought you should. 481 00:27:17,759 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 10: President Trump, Vice President Vance, Chairman Kin, Gold Star, Families, ladies, 482 00:27:25,039 --> 00:27:27,559 and gentlemen, thank you for joining us today to remember 483 00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:33,039 our fallen warriors. We gather here to honor our very 484 00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:37,640 best gone in their youth. To properly do so, we 485 00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:42,359 understand who they are and what they fought for. It 486 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,240 is our simple duty to them. You know, throughout time, 487 00:27:46,279 --> 00:27:50,440 civilizations have honored the powerful, the well connected, and the 488 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,680 well born. Emperors and kings have built magnificent shrines to 489 00:27:54,799 --> 00:27:59,640 their own royal greatness. Yet in America, with our great 490 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,200 experien in self government, it is fitting that the most 491 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,759 honored and closely guarded tomb in the land is that 492 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,400 of an anonymous soldier of an unknown rank. 493 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:14,880 Speaker 2: When the first unknown. 494 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,599 Speaker 10: Soldier was selected for burial in nineteen twenty one, he 495 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,839 laid in state at the Capitol Rotunda. Throngs of Americans 496 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:27,720 paid their respects when the tomb was dedicated on November eleventh, 497 00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:33,200 Veterans Day. The unknown received the Medal of honor. It's 498 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:38,039 a uniquely American tradition that we honor anonymous sacrifice above 499 00:28:38,079 --> 00:28:43,480 worldly greatness. While we don't know the Unknown's identity, race, or. 500 00:28:43,359 --> 00:28:48,799 Speaker 2: Creed, we know his story. It's the story of every soldier, 501 00:28:49,759 --> 00:28:55,240 every warrior. It's a simple story as old as war. 502 00:28:56,519 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 10: A young man with hopes and dreams and loves who's 503 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,240 called by his God country leaves behind his hometown, his parents, 504 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:08,599 his siblings, his sweetheart, all that he knows to go 505 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,759 fight a war that he may or may not understand. 506 00:29:14,079 --> 00:29:17,279 He's called to go through helen back, to sleep in 507 00:29:17,319 --> 00:29:19,720 a trench, to eat out of a tin cup, or 508 00:29:19,759 --> 00:29:22,599 on the hood of a hum v to pray as 509 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:28,119 bullets and bombs thunder around him, to fear for the 510 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,160 bullet or the mortar, or the ied or the RPG 511 00:29:32,839 --> 00:29:38,680 with his name on it. He does it willingly and 512 00:29:38,759 --> 00:29:43,000 stoically because he loves his country, his brothers in arms, 513 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,799 and his family. This is the story of the Unknown, 514 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,000 the story of the fallen soldier who we have gathered 515 00:29:50,039 --> 00:29:54,319 today to honor. It is the story of the American warrior. 516 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,480 He answered the call, fought and died for this republic. 517 00:30:00,359 --> 00:30:03,759 Speaker 2: The ultimate sacrifice of a free people. You see, the. 518 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 10: American soldier fights not because he hates what's in front 519 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:12,599 of him, but because he loves what's behind him. 520 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 2: We honor his. 521 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 10: Self for sacrifice, his courage, his duty, and his love, 522 00:30:20,319 --> 00:30:23,400 as Jesus taught his disciples, Greater love hath no man 523 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,200 than this, that a man lay down his life for 524 00:30:27,319 --> 00:30:31,799 his friends. This love is a gift given freely. And 525 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,920 yet this gift comes with responsibility to those living. 526 00:30:35,839 --> 00:30:38,279 Speaker 2: We owe a duty to those who have fallen in war. 527 00:30:38,599 --> 00:30:41,279 Speaker 10: They have paid a debt we can never repay, and 528 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,599 for that we owe gratitude and remembrance. 529 00:30:46,799 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 2: We owe at least this. 530 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 10: To remember their sacrifice and honor their memory year after year, 531 00:30:54,960 --> 00:31:00,079 salute after salute, ceremony after ceremony, parade after parade, pray 532 00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:04,920 after prayer, that by our remembrance we keep lit the 533 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,119 eternal flame of their heroic deeds in defense of our nation. 534 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:16,319 And we owe eternal vigilance, eternal vigilance the price of freedom. 535 00:31:16,759 --> 00:31:21,119 These men died for something, the hope of a free, secure. 536 00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 2: And peaceful republic. 537 00:31:22,039 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 10: That is our inheritance, and we must steward it and 538 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,519 hand it down to our kids. 539 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 2: And our grandkids. We must live worthy of it. 540 00:31:34,839 --> 00:31:37,039 Speaker 10: These men dreamt of a future in which their children 541 00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:40,519 would not fear of attack. No enemy could threaten their peace, 542 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,200 no war could require them to take up arms. The 543 00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:48,720 duty we owe these men is peace, which only can 544 00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:52,720 be achieved through strength. And because we strive for peace, 545 00:31:53,759 --> 00:31:58,359 we must prepare for war. That's the job of the 546 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,440 Chairman and I and so many others at the Defense 547 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:05,000 Department each and every day. We will never on behalf 548 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:06,839 of those who've given so much. 549 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:13,119 Speaker 2: We will never be complacent. We owe these men nothing. 550 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 10: Less our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. So 551 00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:22,720 on this Memorial Day, in honor of the unknown soldiers 552 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:29,720 and the known, let us rededicate ourselves to God and country, 553 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,559 to our great Republic two hundred and forty nine years on. 554 00:32:33,799 --> 00:32:38,319 We stand on the shoulders of great men, and on 555 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,799 the shoulders of those great men in those graves. 556 00:32:40,839 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 2: And may we live worthy of it. 557 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 10: Thank you, God bless our warriors, and may God bless 558 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,640 our fallen and Amen, Amen. 559 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:59,279 Speaker 5: And amen. And on this Memorial day, what I would 560 00:32:59,359 --> 00:33:01,720 just like to do add to that is say God 561 00:33:01,759 --> 00:33:08,079 bless all of the men and women who have sacrificed 562 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:16,720 their lives so that we can be the beneficiaries of 563 00:33:16,799 --> 00:33:20,960 a freedom that changed the world and the direction of 564 00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:27,359 the world, and that we can call ourselves proudly American citizens. 565 00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:33,599 Because if you go back, this did not come easy. 566 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:41,319 It does not come easy as God intended. May God 567 00:33:41,359 --> 00:33:43,839 bless and protect each and every single one of you, 568 00:33:43,839 --> 00:33:46,440 your family, your loved ones. Love and gratitude my friends 569 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,119 always for your being here with me and allowing me 570 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:53,079 to be with you. We're here, God willing for the 571 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:57,880 Tuesday edition. Until then, my friends, I bid you, I 572 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:02,799 do Happy Memorial Day. Bye. 573 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,559 Speaker 11: Thanks for listening to Bo Snrdley's Rush Hour. You can 574 00:34:07,599 --> 00:34:11,440 hear Bo Snirdley's Rush Hour weekdays at four on seventy 575 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:15,199 seven WABC. If you like the podcast, share it with 576 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:19,119 your friends and listen anytime at WABC radio dot com 577 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:22,840 and download the WABC Radio app. Hit that subscribe button 578 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,440 on all major podcasts platforms. Plus, follow WABC on social 579 00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:31,800 on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X see you next time 580 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,639 for a new episode, so you never have to wonder 581 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,519 Speaker 5: What the heck is going on here