Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back everyone as we head to the
Speaker 2: twentieth hour. And I think all of you who are
Speaker 2: regular listeners of Nightside know what the twentieth hour is
Speaker 2: all about, and that is the end of the week,
Speaker 2: and we try to just sit back and kind of
Speaker 2: take the edge off. Last hour I thought was quite
Speaker 2: interesting and again it's a book that I think it's
Speaker 2: one of those books that if you have if you
Speaker 2: need a good summer read, I think this is its
Speaker 2: Circus of Satan again, if you want to it's it's
Speaker 2: it's a historical novel and it is it's It's a
Speaker 2: book that I would highly recommend. I'm going to try
Speaker 2: to get a copy myself, and I think I'm going
Speaker 2: to enjoy it. So I don't know, maybe it's a
Speaker 2: little too heavy for you on summer reading, but that's
Speaker 2: okay to each his own. As we say, now, what
Speaker 2: I like to do in this hour is tell you
Speaker 2: an answer what I want to do, and then I
Speaker 2: just want to do a.
Speaker 3: Quick review of the week. Today is the.
Speaker 2: Eighty first anniversary of D Day and the men and
Speaker 2: women who won World War Two are called the Greatest Generation,
Speaker 2: and normally we get really light here in the twentieth hour.
Speaker 2: But tonight I realized that there was a lot of
Speaker 2: interest in publicity about D Day, the eightieth anniversary, and
Speaker 2: that probably, I don't know, maybe one of the one
Speaker 2: hundredth anniversary comes around nineteen years from now, it will
Speaker 2: also get some play, but there will be no survivors left.
Speaker 2: There are only a handful of survivors left from D Day.
Speaker 2: But I'd like to just open it up and give
Speaker 2: you an opportunity if you want to acknowledge a relative
Speaker 2: or a friend who's probably passed on. But when you
Speaker 2: think of the courage that the men and women, and
Speaker 2: primarily men who stormed the beaches at Normandy on June sixth,
Speaker 2: nineteen forty four, they got off those landing craft and
Speaker 2: walked into a hail of machine gun bullets. I've visited
Speaker 2: Normandy and had the honor of being there. Was up
Speaker 2: in the German pill boxes, which were high above the beach.
Speaker 2: It was a free fire zone, and I can't imagine
Speaker 2: the courage it must have taken for those young Americans
Speaker 2: and Canadian troops and British troops to get off those
Speaker 2: landing vehicles in the face of that fire. So what
Speaker 2: I'm hoping tonight is that as we move ever closer
Speaker 2: to the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding
Speaker 2: of this country, a life fourth uh and and and
Speaker 2: all that that it entails, the the declaration of independence
Speaker 2: and uh, the just everything.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: The we're in the in the year of the Battle
Speaker 2: of Lexington and conquered and uh, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 2: heartening to understand that we're benefiting from the sacrifices of
Speaker 2: generations that have come before us. And here we are
Speaker 2: with the we're approaching the not the vi centennial year,
Speaker 2: but the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary year. Uh. And
Speaker 2: I I know we'll talk a lot about that in
Speaker 2: the in the months ahead, and we certainly will talk
Speaker 2: as we approach the fourth of July, But just give
Speaker 2: an opportunity to talk about anyone who you knew from
Speaker 2: the greatest General said that that generation is passing, and
Speaker 2: it will be gone in a week of an eye,
Speaker 2: and there will be at some point in the not
Speaker 2: too distant future we will read about the last member
Speaker 2: of the armed forces of World War two and they
Speaker 2: will be gone. But without them, god knows where this
Speaker 2: country would have been if somehow the Axis powers had
Speaker 2: prevailed in the nineteen forties. So let me just as
Speaker 2: you think about who you'd like to make a comment about,
Speaker 2: and I hope you do, let me just review the
Speaker 2: week of the first week of June twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: that we've just finished here. We talked about on Monday
Speaker 2: night the Lowell Summer Music Festival thirty fifth festival, talked
Speaker 2: about some summer travel savings with Mark shield Drop of
Speaker 2: Triple A. Talked about the decline of mental health amongst
Speaker 2: us mothers, and talked about the Union Oyster House and
Speaker 2: that Orange lobster. We talked at the nine o'clock hour
Speaker 2: about the deportation arrest here in Massachusetts of fourteen hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty one illegals who have been arrested, including the
Speaker 2: young man, the eighteen year old from Milford who was
Speaker 2: described as a collateral arrest. Talked about for an hour
Speaker 2: the unh Pole on Monday night, possible problems in that
Speaker 2: poll for incumbent Democrats in Massachusetts, and we talked.
Speaker 3: About the.
Speaker 2: Attack by Ukraine on those Russian planes and that attack
Speaker 2: was a year and a half in the making, and
Speaker 2: tonight I was watching I think it was ABC News.
Speaker 2: This was one of those attacks that the trucks were
Speaker 2: driven into Russia by Russian truck drivers. They had no
Speaker 2: idea that they were transporting drones which were basically programmed
Speaker 2: to attack Russian airfields. Tuesday night, we talked about an
Speaker 2: event this weekend Repel Boston. Talked with the Adam Katz,
Speaker 2: the president of the Foundation to Combat Anti Semitism, talked
Speaker 2: with a professor about cancer prevention, and talked with a
Speaker 2: doctor about a prevalence of at home heart attacks. At
Speaker 2: nine o'clock, talked with Camillo von Saca of The Boston
Speaker 2: Globe about the dmula's market basket battle, which continues, and
Speaker 2: then we spent two hours talking about that anti Semitic
Speaker 2: attack in Boulder, Colorado last weekend. Wednesday night, talked about
Speaker 2: the Bill Walton collection being auctioned by Hunt Auctions. Talked
Speaker 2: with Jonathan Gulliver of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation about
Speaker 2: the work Zone Crisis Bill, which would basically allow blue
Speaker 2: lights to be used on some of the work zones
Speaker 2: where the danger is particularly obvious. Major Michelle Mastro but
Speaker 2: Teaster about the Blue Angels coming back to New Hampshire
Speaker 2: this September. September sixth and seven, talked with Sheila Goff
Speaker 2: about a piece of legislation that the American Kennel Club
Speaker 2: is not supporting it. They feel it is going to
Speaker 2: prevent puppies availability in America, that it is unnecessary, and
Speaker 2: that it will lead to the importation of puppies from
Speaker 2: countries around the world that do not have the higher
Speaker 2: standards that we have. We talked on Wednesday night at
Speaker 2: nine o'clock about the disagreement, the very public disagreement between
Speaker 2: Boston Mayor and Michelle wou and US Attorney Leah Foley
Speaker 2: here for the US Attorney of Massachusetts. We did talk
Speaker 2: on Wednesday night about the breakup the Donald Trump elon
Speaker 2: Musk breakup in Musk's criticism of the Trump tax bill
Speaker 2: last night to on Thursday night. Talked with Emily Sweeney
Speaker 2: about a fifty year old cold cave. Talked with a
Speaker 2: high school junior rising high school senior at Belmont High
Speaker 2: School as a program to help senior citizens deal with
Speaker 2: computers and electronic devices that perhaps they're not comfortable with.
Speaker 2: Talk with Mark Anastasio the Coolidge Corner Summer series, and
Speaker 2: talk with Captain Bree Baker about the Salvation Army Donuts giveaway,
Speaker 2: which of course happened today on National Donut Day. Talked
Speaker 2: last night at nine about President Trump trying to ban
Speaker 2: foreign students from Harvard. Talked about the new Trump travel
Speaker 2: band for a couple of hours last night, and tonight
Speaker 2: we talked about water safety this summer with the representative
Speaker 2: of the DCR. Talked about the spotted lanch and fly
Speaker 2: with a bug expert from UMass Amherst. Talked with David Condon,
Speaker 2: he's the Harbard Master in Yarmouth about safety in the
Speaker 2: boating season, and talked with Kathy Malone about the fiftieth
Speaker 2: anniversary of the Jaws movie, which is its such a landmark,
Speaker 2: a cinematic landmark. And tonight we talked about the ending
Speaker 2: of the Truck, the Trump Musk bromancee. And we talked
Speaker 2: last night with Attorney Jeff Convicts of California. He's an
Speaker 2: author as well as a great attorney in California, about
Speaker 2: his new book Circus of Satan about gangs, Jewish gangs,
Speaker 2: Italian gangs, Irish gangs and the development, the rise and
Speaker 2: fall of those gangs in most of the twentieth century,
Speaker 2: there certainly the early twentieth century. So what I'm going
Speaker 2: to do now is open up the phone line six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine three, one ten
Speaker 2: thirty Today's d day. It's impossible to put yourself into
Speaker 2: what the mindset of this country was eighty one years ago.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: There was no television, there was no internet, there was
Speaker 2: no immediate communication. There were people at home in towns
Speaker 2: like where you live and I live, uh, and who
Speaker 2: knew that their sons and daughters were on the front lines.
Speaker 2: They did not know exactly what was going on, but
Speaker 2: they knew that something was going on, and that the
Speaker 2: US invasion of Europe was about to begin June sixth,
Speaker 2: nineteen forty four. And uh, it's eighty one years ago.
Speaker 2: A big celebration a year ago for the eightieth anniversary.
Speaker 2: The Greatest Generation is slipping away. But that is a
Speaker 2: generation that I think clearly it's a better generation than
Speaker 2: my generation, which was the Baby Boomer generation. It's a
Speaker 2: better generation than any of the more recent generations, the Millennials.
Speaker 4: The.
Speaker 2: Diz's, and the x'es and the alphas and that have
Speaker 2: come along. So I just would love to have you
Speaker 2: take a moment to remember and reflect on someone from
Speaker 2: the greatest generation that you were fortunate enough to know.
Speaker 2: That's I'd like to keep it simple tonight, six seven thirty, six,
Speaker 2: seven thirty. We cannot forget the sacrifice that those people
Speaker 2: who survived at your depression and fought a world war,
Speaker 2: and that world war took a little over three and
Speaker 2: a half years. It was done from the moment that
Speaker 2: we as a nation hit the canvas after Pearl Harbor
Speaker 2: until there was VJ Day in August of nineteen forty five,
Speaker 2: a little more than three and a half years ago. Stunning,
Speaker 2: stunning that that generation could accomplish that after having survived
Speaker 2: the depression. You have the numbers, you have a phone,
Speaker 2: give us a call back on Nightside right after this.
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Speaker 1: It's nice Eye with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna go right to the phones.
Speaker 2: And I certainly want to remember my father tonight, who
Speaker 2: served two and a half years in China Bournman, India
Speaker 2: during World War Two. Certainly disrupted his life, in the
Speaker 2: life of virtually everybody in that generation. And he he
Speaker 2: came home. I can remember as a child hearing him
Speaker 2: at night reliving moments. He would be screaming down the hole.
Speaker 2: I can remember those screams, and my mother told me
Speaker 2: that it was things that he remembered, things that he
Speaker 2: had seen in what they called the CBI China burn
Speaker 2: in India, and I can't imagine. They never talked about it.
Speaker 2: They never talked. He would talk a little bit about
Speaker 2: being over there and talk about he didn't talk about.
Speaker 3: What I think he had seen. Let's go to Kevin
Speaker 3: and Falsk. Kevin. Welcome, Kevin, Hi Dan, how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Kevin, thanks for calling in. You can
Speaker 3: start us off.
Speaker 2: As I said, I mentioned my dad, who was a
Speaker 2: staff sergeant in the United States Army two and a
Speaker 2: half years in China, Burman, India. He came home, raised
Speaker 2: the family and lived a life. It was an amazing
Speaker 2: group of people, an amazing group of people.
Speaker 4: Dan I was on my father's side. There were eleven children,
Speaker 4: and remarkably, nine of them served between the Army, Air Force, Navy,
Speaker 4: and nurses in the Army. One of my uncles was
Speaker 4: captured at the Battle the Bulge. Another served up in
Speaker 4: the Aleutian Islands, which doesn't get a whole lot of
Speaker 4: historical perspective. And I had an an aunt that that
Speaker 4: was a nurse in England, then ultimately went over to
Speaker 4: the European theater and nursed pilots and air crews that
Speaker 4: had been shot down. Some of the stories that they
Speaker 4: did talk about were, I mean, you and numb listening
Speaker 4: to them because they were very they could be very graphic,
Speaker 4: and I just can't believe today when I go up
Speaker 4: to the cemetery to visit the graves, they're all there
Speaker 4: and the flags are flying and it's really quite a sight.
Speaker 4: So I just hope and pray that the next generation
Speaker 4: learns about this, because if this into the dock crack.
Speaker 4: So never being told, I think it'll it will really
Speaker 4: hurt our nation more than you might realize.
Speaker 2: Well, the funny thing about it is, when you think
Speaker 2: about it, there are history classes and Civics classes in
Speaker 2: high schools across the country that probably cover World War
Speaker 2: Two in ten minutes. You know, they had the history books,
Speaker 2: and you know how it was when you were in
Speaker 2: high school. They start the history book and they're about
Speaker 2: halfway through the history book and we're up maybe to
Speaker 2: the end of the Civil War, and it's May fifteenth,
Speaker 2: and they got to cover the next one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty years or whatever in the history book within like
Speaker 2: a week and a half before school was out. And
Speaker 2: we have more video tapes available to show kids in
Speaker 2: school and make them understand what World War two was
Speaker 2: all about. We see the rise of anti Semitism in
Speaker 2: this country and around the world. We talked about that
Speaker 2: earlier the day week. I don't know that the Holocaust
Speaker 2: is taught in school anymore. Again, if there are teachers
Speaker 2: out there or high school students who are listening, I'd
Speaker 2: love to hear from that story. But I'm concerned. I mean,
Speaker 2: World War two was an incredibly important period of history
Speaker 2: in this country from World War Two sprang the nineteen
Speaker 2: fifties and sixties, and we got bogged down in Korea,
Speaker 2: we got bogged down in Vietnam. Those wars were not concluded.
Speaker 3: But when MacArthur's on.
Speaker 2: The ship and the Japanese military leadership is signing the
Speaker 2: surrender documents on VJ Day, can you imagine what it
Speaker 2: must have been like in this country And people were
Speaker 2: only hearing about it on the radio. They didn't have television. Now,
Speaker 2: it's so frustrating to think that that this, this whole
Speaker 2: era might somehow be lost to history in the minds
Speaker 2: of young people. That's my concern.
Speaker 3: I think it's yours as well.
Speaker 4: And you know something, Dan, I'll let you go on
Speaker 4: this is that I went up to West Point. In
Speaker 4: the basement of the museum at West Point is a
Speaker 4: mark up of the atomic bomb, and I was shocked
Speaker 4: at how people looked at that bomb and had no
Speaker 4: idea of the devastation that it cost. It was. It's
Speaker 4: it just goes to show they have no idea what
Speaker 4: it represents.
Speaker 2: And thank god we had to use and Germany did
Speaker 2: not have it to use.
Speaker 8: On us exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: Thank you for bringing us up.
Speaker 2: My pleasure. I hope we get more response. Thanks, Kevin,
Speaker 2: appreciated have a great effect. You know, whenever I do
Speaker 2: something like this, you never know what people are going
Speaker 2: to react to it. Again, we can do some of
Speaker 2: the fun topics we do on the twentieth Hour. But
Speaker 2: I just knew today as I watched that there was
Speaker 2: not a lot of publicity about this at the anniversary
Speaker 2: of D Day. It's the most probably one of the
Speaker 2: most important days in the history of this country. If
Speaker 2: those soldiers had not taken that beachhead, which really started
Speaker 2: the success and the defeat of Nazi Germany, we might
Speaker 2: be speaking German today. Let me get real quickly here
Speaker 2: if I can before the break. Melissa in Portland, Oregon. Melissa,
Speaker 2: welcome back.
Speaker 8: How are you good?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 9: It's so nice to hear your voice. You know, I
Speaker 9: appreciate you bringing this up. My dad was in the
Speaker 9: latter years of World War Two. But what I always remember,
Speaker 9: and I because he was born in twenty eight but
Speaker 9: when I think of D Day, I always as a
Speaker 9: baseball fan, I always think of Yogi Bera. He was
Speaker 9: in the Navy and he was a I think it
Speaker 9: was a gunner or something on I don't know the
Speaker 9: military term, on one of the boats and did swarm Normandy.
Speaker 9: And I just that always sticks with me that he
Speaker 9: was young, so young, but then he was able to
Speaker 9: get out of the military and go on to have
Speaker 9: such a great career, and he was so humble about
Speaker 9: being a part of D Day, and I always thought
Speaker 9: that was really special. And the same with Warren Spot.
Speaker 2: You're a great baseball historian. I think he had ten
Speaker 2: World Series rings.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, Yes, he did.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 2: Nobody else has ten fingers ten World Series rings.
Speaker 3: We also should to.
Speaker 2: Get Hoyt Wilhelm talking about Major League Baseball players. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame pitcher who was wounded at the Battle
Speaker 2: of the Bulge.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And you know, Warren Spawn was in from I think
Speaker 9: the end of the forty two season. Of forty five,
Speaker 9: he came back in six.
Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm wrong it. But I think Spawn
Speaker 2: won about three hundred and sixty three games. I think
Speaker 2: that's the number I associate with him, and he won
Speaker 2: them all after the age of twenty five.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I thought it was three eighty nine, but you're right,
Speaker 9: maybe it is. Three sixty three to check it.
Speaker 3: I'm going to check it during the break.
Speaker 9: Okay, really's the winningest all time left handed pitcher. And
Speaker 9: what amazes me about Warren Spawn is that you know,
Speaker 9: he wasn't happy unless unless he was getting a complete game.
Speaker 9: You know, the game has changed so much.
Speaker 3: You know question.
Speaker 2: And he's the one who made the comment. He he
Speaker 2: pitched for the Boston Braves. You Spawn and Sane and
Speaker 2: pray for rain, and then Casey Stinkle was his manager,
Speaker 2: and of course Single then went on to, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: do so well as a manager with the Yankees. By
Speaker 2: the way, Spawn was three sixty three and two forty five.
Speaker 9: It wasn't okay?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then and then people forget that Spawn after
Speaker 2: his great success. Uh he he pitched for the Mets briefly.
Speaker 11: What and the Giants?
Speaker 2: Yeah right, Uh, but he had Stingle as a manager,
Speaker 2: and Spawn was was hurt to say, uh that he
Speaker 2: played for Yogi both before rather played for Casey both
Speaker 2: before and after Casey after Yogi.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's awesome, and I know that that the story goes.
Speaker 9: That was saying he would light up a cigarette with
Speaker 9: two outs and the dugout when when spawn was on
Speaker 9: the mound and have a cigarette waiting for him. So
Speaker 9: they were quite the quite the duo. So what I
Speaker 9: do think of those players and even Ted Williams and others,
Speaker 9: sure that you know they were they had to, you know,
Speaker 9: this vision of this pro career and everybody. There were
Speaker 9: many people whose lives were interrupted and it's just amazing
Speaker 9: to me that they were able to go on. And
Speaker 9: I'm to such great you know, baseball careers, and with Yogi,
Speaker 9: I kind of feel like his humility and grace is
Speaker 9: often forgotten when it comes to D Day. And I
Speaker 9: think a lot of those men they didn't speak about it,
Speaker 9: and maybe that was good or bad, I don't know,
Speaker 9: but they seem to have a lot of humility about
Speaker 9: what they were doing.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Again, for those who do not know, my friend
Speaker 2: from Portland, Oregon, but Melissa is a great baseball historian,
Speaker 2: has spoken and lectured at Cooperstown and other baseball venues
Speaker 2: around the country, and whenever we talk, it always goes
Speaker 2: back to baseball. But again, it does show that the
Speaker 2: connection between baseball and America as well.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and just did an interview when.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Ted Williams. Williams lost time both in World
Speaker 2: War Two and in the Korea career.
Speaker 12: He did.
Speaker 2: I don't know any other major League player who was
Speaker 2: called to service in both of those wars. And you
Speaker 2: think about how many home runs Williams might have hit
Speaker 2: if he had not lost the years, and.
Speaker 9: What do you have hit four hundred?
Speaker 11: Again?
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's what I always think about.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 9: I just did an interview with a former Major league
Speaker 9: pitcher and one of the things he said to me
Speaker 9: we were talking about the knuckleball. Ironically you mentioned White Wilhelm,
Speaker 9: and one of the things he said to me was
Speaker 9: baseball brings everything together, and his very sic cyclical. And
Speaker 9: I do think both the Negro league players and the
Speaker 9: Major league players, the then major league players that served
Speaker 9: in the war, I think that that's sometimes the wars
Speaker 9: that that sometime it is forgotten, right, and an NBA
Speaker 9: as well. And it's a different time. And I wonder
Speaker 9: in today's world if a player would do that. And
Speaker 9: I'm just I'm just curious because they do say, as
Speaker 9: they always it's the greatest generation, But to me, they
Speaker 9: were a different generation. I wonder the.
Speaker 2: Shining example in terms of Iraq and Afghanistan was the
Speaker 2: great defensive back for the Arizona Cardinal Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, and and don't forget Bob Feller as well. I remember,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, my dad came home on a troop ship.
Speaker 2: He was very proud of the fact that he had
Speaker 2: been on a troop ship with a guy named Norm
Speaker 2: Van Brocklin, who was a great quarterback in the NFL
Speaker 2: for the Rams. So yeah, we could go on and on,
Speaker 2: but I got to get out of the way of
Speaker 2: the news. Melissa, be well, stay safe and whenever whenever
Speaker 2: I can mention Hoyt Willhelm in a newscast on a broadcast,
Speaker 2: it's mine.
Speaker 9: That's what my presentation is on in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 9: So we love talking about the knuckleball.
Speaker 3: You're going to be great. You're going to be great.
Speaker 3: He was posted. Okay, thanks for listen, good night.
Speaker 2: All right, we have the news coming up, and I
Speaker 2: got a paucity of phone calls here. I'm looking for
Speaker 2: people to recall and remember, because eventually, if we don't,
Speaker 2: we will forget that greatest generation. Today is the eighty
Speaker 2: first anniversary of D Day. I can't imagine what this
Speaker 2: country went through after Pearl Harper and on full war footing.
Speaker 2: I mean nine to eleven was bad enough, There's no
Speaker 2: question about that. Okay, first time we were attacked on
Speaker 2: American soil, Hawaii at that point was not a state. However,
Speaker 2: that kicked off what they called the Great War, and
Speaker 2: there were a lot of people who I knew, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure some people who you knew, who served. And
Speaker 2: if you'd like to pay a slight tribute, either to
Speaker 2: an individual or to the generation, I don't care if
Speaker 2: anybody else calls. I'm willing to talk about it till
Speaker 2: midnight because I think it's important.
Speaker 3: Uh. And when we lose.
Speaker 2: Recollections and remembrances of things that are important, when we
Speaker 2: lose our history, we lose our nation. Six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Not intending to be a downer, intending to celebrate the
Speaker 2: Greatest generation.
Speaker 1: Back on Nightside Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: All right, let's keep rolling.
Speaker 2: You're going to go to Campy in Cambridge. I can't
Speaker 2: be How are you tonight?
Speaker 8: I'm wonderful, Dan, How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing just great.
Speaker 2: What's your recollection or thought you'd like to share with us.
Speaker 2: I think it's important that you're called right.
Speaker 8: I wanted to speak about a dear friend of mine,
Speaker 8: a gentleman who became a dear friend of mine from Cambridge.
Speaker 8: His name is Marvin Gilmour, and he's still alive. And
Speaker 8: he was on the beach in Normandy and still there
Speaker 8: was a book that I'm.
Speaker 2: Sorry he said, he's still alive.
Speaker 8: He's still alive. Ye, he's one hundred years old. There'll
Speaker 8: be one hundred and one September. Dan, if you ever
Speaker 8: spoke with this man, he's just such a charming individual.
Speaker 8: He was the owner and the creator of the first
Speaker 8: black owned bank in Boston, amongst other you know, very
Speaker 8: very entrepreneurial spirited conquests that he's established for himself over
Speaker 8: his lifetime. He used to own the Western Front, which
Speaker 8: was a nightclub on Western av in the in the
Speaker 8: heart of the black community in Cambridge. He always promotes
Speaker 8: black businesses and he was also one of the as
Speaker 8: far as crusading for peace. There the book written about him,
Speaker 8: it's called Mormon Gilmore Crusader for Peace. But he's been
Speaker 8: doing it all his life. He's been very very an
Speaker 8: uplifting soul to speak to. He's got a smile, a
Speaker 8: charming way about him. He's he was a drummer in
Speaker 8: the army. After he served at Normandy. His commanders saw
Speaker 8: his talents and they gave him a career in the army.
Speaker 8: And then after his career in the army, he went
Speaker 8: home and started businesses. He started a family. Two of
Speaker 8: his sons both musicians, very complished musicians, very successful musicians.
Speaker 8: And when you speak to this man, he's so much
Speaker 8: at peace. Dan it's it's to me, he's a hero.
Speaker 2: And he's one hundred and one years old.
Speaker 8: That is, it will be one and one September.
Speaker 2: Well, if you talk to him, I hope you get
Speaker 2: a chance to play your tribute to him by just
Speaker 2: maybe at some point when you're with him, pop up
Speaker 2: on the computer nightside undemand dot com and you'll be
Speaker 2: able to find your tribute to him, because sure he
Speaker 2: would be very much appreciative of the time you spend tonight.
Speaker 8: I can I can I share a quote with you
Speaker 8: that him and I often share with each other, usually
Speaker 8: reopen and close our conversations. As many millions of dollars
Speaker 8: that he's worth at this day, he always reflects back
Speaker 8: with me with a smile, and I was saying, is
Speaker 8: a smile can be worth a million dollars and it
Speaker 8: doesn't cost you a dime.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 2: I like that so well said. I think people are
Speaker 2: going to steal that. Thanks Campy, please give our appreciation
Speaker 2: to him the next time you see your friends.
Speaker 8: I certainly well, thank you, Dann, and thank you for
Speaker 8: all that you do. I love listening to your show.
Speaker 8: My first time calling in, but I.
Speaker 3: Was, oh, well, we gotta now.
Speaker 2: We way said, we got to give you a ride
Speaker 2: of the balls.
Speaker 3: It's always amazing.
Speaker 2: When we get first time callers. It's it's part of
Speaker 2: the thriller of the job, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much.
Speaker 8: The fact that you brought up this point is a
Speaker 8: tribute back to you. So I'm applauding you in my
Speaker 8: own hot and sol right now for the things that
Speaker 8: you do it for bringing up this subject because it
Speaker 8: is very important.
Speaker 2: Thanks Campy. My dad would never forgive me if I didn't. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 2: good night. Let me get very quickly here. We're gonna
Speaker 2: get James from New Bedford in James, you were next
Speaker 2: on NIGHTSAG go right ahead, damn.
Speaker 3: Hi James welcome. How are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can hear you fine.
Speaker 1: Hear me?
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, I can know yeah, James Montcmer Oh oh yeah.
Speaker 3: It wasn't sure what James was. James the Great blues Man,
Speaker 3: h James Hawaii.
Speaker 12: Well I'm fine, listen. It's it's such a great topic.
Speaker 12: That's you know. I remember my father landed in Okinawa,
Speaker 12: which was which is not a great day.
Speaker 2: No, that was he wasn't going to the beach in Okinawa,
Speaker 2: that's for sure.
Speaker 12: No, And uh, you know, he got the medal. He
Speaker 12: pulled the guy out of a burning tank. And I
Speaker 12: looked back at what my father did, and I was wondering,
Speaker 12: you know, okay, this is burning tank, it's getting ready
Speaker 12: to explode. When I have the courage to do what
Speaker 12: my dad did and and and pull pull a fellow
Speaker 12: serviceman out of there and save his wife. He got
Speaker 12: the medal for that. Meanwhile, my mother, my.
Speaker 2: Money would be on you, James. I think I know
Speaker 2: your character. I have no doubt that there go ahead.
Speaker 12: And my mother was the youngest whack in Europe. You know,
Speaker 12: she went over there and because she was young, and
Speaker 12: she was the first whack to serve in Europe. She
Speaker 12: became like a public relations uh they used to for
Speaker 12: PRU and she ended up she ended up broadcasting with
Speaker 12: Edward R. Murrow and uh, you know, honestly, you know,
Speaker 12: she used to say, oh my god, I was so
Speaker 12: upset when the war ended because she was like being
Speaker 12: whisked around in London and Paris and to this as
Speaker 12: Mi whack. And she was an inspiration to all these
Speaker 12: women to join the military. And she was on the
Speaker 12: cover of the Yank magazine with Edward R. Murrow and
Speaker 12: and underneath the caption that said Miss America. So I
Speaker 12: think she was the first Miss America because she was
Speaker 12: over there broadcasting with Edward R. Murrow and the Yank magazine.
Speaker 12: That's how they promoted her, you know, so that you know,
Speaker 12: said super imspiration to women to join the Women's Army Corps.
Speaker 2: James real quickly. Did your parents meet for the service
Speaker 2: by any chance?
Speaker 3: Or now.
Speaker 12: They met before the service and then they got together
Speaker 12: after the service?
Speaker 8: Where did you have a pig?
Speaker 12: I have a picture of her when Paris was liberated
Speaker 12: and she was the first of a group of wax
Speaker 12: the first one to march under the Arc de triumph
Speaker 12: when Paris is liberated. U.
Speaker 2: Where did your work take you tonight, James? And where
Speaker 2: will you be up hearing tomorrow night? See?
Speaker 12: Well, you know tonight I did, and I have that
Speaker 12: documentary about James Cotton that I produced him. So we
Speaker 12: showed the movie and then we had the show afterwards
Speaker 12: with a superstar line of Pristine Olmonds from the Saturday
Speaker 12: I Live and Joe Kaka's guitar player, one of these
Speaker 12: super bands that we put together. So so we did
Speaker 12: that to night and the Contuit Senate for the Artsists
Speaker 12: is wonderful. And then you know, tomorrow I'm playing in Newport.
Speaker 12: But but you know, I just think it's so important
Speaker 12: for people to understand what it takes to hold our
Speaker 12: democracy together. And that's why, you know, I look back
Speaker 12: at the sacrifices that that my father's generation made in
Speaker 12: World War Two, and and I just hope that we
Speaker 12: understand that democracy is fragile and and that we have
Speaker 12: to be vigilant, and that we have to make sure
Speaker 12: that we uphold the constitution in this country. And it
Speaker 12: just I mean, people died to uphold our constitution, and
Speaker 12: to me, you know, I just want to make sure
Speaker 12: that that wasn't in vain, all the lives that were
Speaker 12: given during World War I you that we understand that
Speaker 12: that they did that so that we can any position
Speaker 12: to protect our democracy. That's all. They were the greatest generation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, well said James. Hopefully I'll see at some
Speaker 2: point early this summer. My friend will talk soon. Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you.
Speaker 12: Got the best show in the business you got. I
Speaker 12: listened to you every night occasion I call him. But
Speaker 12: but you're you're my You're my shotgun passenger and every
Speaker 12: trip off from get him.
Speaker 2: Uh that that's an honor to me to be any
Speaker 2: anywhere need.
Speaker 8: James, let me tell you.
Speaker 3: All right, buddy, we'll talk soon. Okay.
Speaker 2: Give me give me your website for people who look
Speaker 2: at to catch up where you're going to be in
Speaker 2: the next few weeks.
Speaker 3: Give us the.
Speaker 12: Website, tell me a while to come up with jameson
Speaker 12: commy dot com. And that is my head so planned.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's okay, that's okay, that's a good one.
Speaker 3: That's that's easy.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to make sure I gave out the
Speaker 2: right information. James, I gotta screwed, gotta run.
Speaker 3: We'll see you soon. Okay, thanks Pat.
Speaker 12: Thank you, right back at you.
Speaker 3: Good night, pal, good night.
Speaker 2: Coming back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: So I just got a text from my daughter, who's
Speaker 2: no longer listening to the show.
Speaker 3: However, she writes to my.
Speaker 2: Family, we're in an ubert and the guy has dad on.
Speaker 2: So I wrote her, did you probably claim your lineage
Speaker 2: and thank the driver for listening to Nightside? Ha ha.
Speaker 2: I was about to, but I gave him a nice
Speaker 2: tip nonetheless. Okay, thanks Kate, appreciate that. Let's go to Eileen. Eileen,
Speaker 2: we're getting a little tight on time you're up. Go ahead, Eileen,
Speaker 2: thanks for calling in.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 11: I actually called I probably a year ago about my
Speaker 11: uncle David, who was drafted into the army in nineteen
Speaker 11: forty one and he was a navigator in the Air
Speaker 11: Corps they called it, and his plane was his plane
Speaker 11: was shot down in April of nineteen forty four and
Speaker 11: he was the only survivor and he suffered terrible, terrible
Speaker 11: they called it shell shock. It's now known as PTSD. Yes,
Speaker 11: but he was my very favorite uncle and I he
Speaker 11: did he he talked to me quite a bit about
Speaker 11: his experience in the Air Force. And so you ask
Speaker 11: for people, A lot.
Speaker 2: Of great people, a lot of great people. I lean.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I got a couple of more folks.
Speaker 2: I want to sneak in here. Thank you as always
Speaker 2: for calling, and I thank you for reminding us of
Speaker 2: your uncle David and uh again of this greatest generation.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: We'll talk soon and have a great weekend.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you you too.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, gonna get Neil and Watertown and then Ginea, New Jersey. Neil,
Speaker 2: you've called late. You go right ahead. You gotta be quick, buddy,
Speaker 2: go ahead, all right.
Speaker 10: I just want to say I have nothing original to say,
Speaker 10: but I do acknowledge Memorial Day and Veteran's Day and
Speaker 10: everything of that nature. Acknowledge it formally day today and
Speaker 10: today's in D day. Yeah, it's funny. I think of
Speaker 10: Robert Kennedy today with so good great But that's all
Speaker 10: I'm saying. I mean, I'm taking the time to acknowledge
Speaker 10: it formally.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, Neil. I do appreciate you
Speaker 2: taking the time to call in. I know you're a
Speaker 2: regular listener and if we talked to you occasionally. But
Speaker 2: thank you very much. Hope all is well with you,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk again, talk to you.
Speaker 10: Thank you tonight.
Speaker 3: You're very welcome. Let me go to Jean in New Jersey. Jane, welcome.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever had you on the
Speaker 2: show before, but if I have, great if I'm welcome,
Speaker 2: particularly warm, welcome, go ahead.
Speaker 11: Jean, thank you. Two years ago, I think I called
Speaker 11: probably Veterans Day to acknowledge my brother. And I'm of
Speaker 11: the greatest generation at my age.
Speaker 9: But anyway, he did.
Speaker 11: He was with the Army eighty second Airborne. He did
Speaker 11: go in the Norman the invasion. He survived the Normandy invasion,
Speaker 11: and then he went on into the next operation. They
Speaker 11: went into that operation Market Garden when they invaded and
Speaker 11: tried to liberate Holland. And he was killed in Holland.
Speaker 11: And he's buried in Holland in the American Battleground Cemetery,
Speaker 11: And we have an adopter and adoptive program there. They
Speaker 11: take care of the graves of our boys and girls.
Speaker 11: And it's eighty seven hundred souls resting there in Margaret
Speaker 11: in Holland. So I just acknowledged him. He was my brother,
Speaker 11: and I'm sorry to say we lost him, but he
Speaker 11: was a wonderful guy and you a hero.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know absolutely.
Speaker 2: You know I'm not of the greatest generation. I'm a
Speaker 2: baby boomer, but my generation, I know, is in awe
Speaker 2: of what the generation be for us accomplished so well.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 11: I keep keep his memory alive too with the family.
Speaker 11: They know about his uncle, and I know what happened,
Speaker 11: and they appreciate, so we do try to keep it alive.
Speaker 2: Well, you kept you kept his memory alive tonight in
Speaker 2: a lot of radios and a lot of homes across
Speaker 2: the country and audibobiles. Thank you, Thanks Jean, we'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: Thank you much for listening.
Speaker 11: Thank you Dan for all you do. Okay, welcome, bye bye,
Speaker 11: thank you bye.
Speaker 2: Good some real quality calls tonight in the eleven o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: I want to thank everyone who called during the eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock hour. We had done for the night. Think about
Speaker 2: a veteran this weekend, I would ask you to do that.
Speaker 2: Today's the eighty first anniversary of D Day. We can
Speaker 2: never forget. We can never forget. My name's Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: This is a Nightside. Want to thank Shane and Rob
Speaker 2: back in the control room. Want to thank Karen Buscemi
Speaker 2: who worked on the show with me today. I'll be
Speaker 2: back on Monday. I hope all of you have a
Speaker 2: great weekend. All dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven.
Speaker 2: That's right, pal Charlie ray Is who passed fifteen years
Speaker 2: ago in February. That's where all your pets are who
Speaker 2: have passed. They loved you and you love them. I
Speaker 2: do believe you'll see them again. Hopes see again on
Speaker 2: Monday night. Everyone, please tell you friends about Nightside. My
Speaker 2: name's Dan Ray.
Speaker 3: Have a great weekend. All