Memorial Day-The Holiday That Makes All America’s Holidays Possible

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FOURCY Radio. Well, hello and
welcome Bill Martinez here. Great to have

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you with us as this is the
week we get prepared in thinking about Memorial

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Days. You know, this has
always been a very special holiday for me

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as a Vietnam era VET. My
two other brothers as well, one served

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in combat in the army. My
dad course was the World War two VET.

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Memorial Day always has been meaningful for
our family. I think a rather

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hollow day, and when you think
about it, it's a Memorial Day,

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the holiday that makes all America's holidays
possible. Now. Bill Vetter, the

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American minut creator, nationally known speaker, best selling author, and president of

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My Research, asked What would America
be without Memorial Day? Bill Feederer,

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welcome to show. Good to have
you, hey, Bill, great to

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be with you. Well, that's
upon some question. What would this country

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be without Memorial Day? Bill,
Well, we would not have a country.

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And it's important for us to remember
those that have given their lives.

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And thank you Bill and your family
for serving in the military. For those

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not familiar, Veterans Day is for
those that have served but are alive,

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and Memorial Day is for those who
have died. And so it started in

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America after the Civil War. And
so you had about a half million died

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in the Civil War on the Confederate
side and on the Union side. And

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so the story is that women and
it began with Southern women placing flowers on

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the graves of those who had died, both Union and Confederate. And so

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numerous places claim to be the source
of the first Memorial Day. Some of

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the ones are Warrenton, Virginia,
Columbus, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia,

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Bolsburg, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, New York. So

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those are all locations that have a
claim to possibly being the very first Memorial

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Day. Interesting one is Charleston,
South Carolina. Now, there was a

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mass grave uncovered of two hundred and
fifty seven Union soldiers who had died in

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a prison camp. And on May
one of eighteen sixty five, former slaves

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organized a parade led by twenty eight
hundred singing black children, and they reinterred

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all those bodies in respectable grades.
They read the Bible, they sang spirituals,

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and they reburied the soldiers with honor
and an act of gratefulness for their

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ultimate sacrifice, for which gave them
their freedom. That was Charleston, South

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Carolina. You know, Bill,
when you mentioned this, you mentioned the

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women and the way communities participated.
I think it also brings to life something

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that I've always connected with Memorial Day, and that is the family unit,

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the loss to family. You know, we call them gold star families today.

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Back then it was just they were
family members. But that's significant,

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and to me, they're as honorable
as those that paid the sacrifice, because

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here it is, I mean,
they're paying a sacrifice every day that they

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miss that loved one at you know, special events, graduations, Father's Day,

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you know, go on down the
line. You know, that's an

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incredible price for these families who have
survived their loved one as a result of

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you know, their loved one's commitment
to freedom. Yeah, and you know,

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I personally think that they get paid
way too less. Here they are

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risking their lives and living on very
meager amounts. I unfortunately get reports that

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even to this day, soldiers are
on food stamps. Yes, but here

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they are risking their lives and their
families are sacrificing, and the government is

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you know, not taking them as
valuable as they should be regarded. Well,

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I think they should be tax free. I think that they should not

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pay any taxes, and especially if
there's been a death in the family.

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I mean, look at you know, Palestinians and Arabs take better care of

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their people who die for the sake
of their jihad and their freedom, then

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we our own soldiers. I mean
you think about that bill. Yeah,

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you know, I just read a
report today that said the government is wanting

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to discourage legacy enrollment. And you
go, what's legacy enrollment? Uh,

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Where a soldier's father served and the
grandfather served and the great grandfather served and

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they have this legacy. They said, those are the soldiers that are resisting

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DEI yeah, the ectuality conclusion that
they're wanting to keep the old ways,

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they don't want to go woke.
And so here with all the need for

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recruitment, the military is specifically saying
we want to stop recruiting legacy enrollment people

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that heritage. So there's a war
going on inside. So years ago,

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I was asked by Charlie Kirk,
you know, we were doing an event

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together, and goes, what do
you think it's the most serious threat?

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And I go, it's the critical
race theory in the military, basically chasing

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out anybody that's patriotic. Historically,
you had Lenin chased out people from the

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military that were faithful to the old
Czarist farm of government. You had Hitler

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chasing out people that were part of
the old faithful Weimar Republic. And so

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this Diocletian even chased the Christians out, you know, in the fourth century

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a d. And then once the
transition is made, then the military was

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used as an enforcement of a dictator
of their agenda on their own country.

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Bill. Let me ask you this, I mean, because what you're touching

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on something could have incredible ramifications inasmuch
as that you've got a division within the

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military. We saw this happen recently
where you had what I believe were significant

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quality flag officers being chased out of
the branches of government. And I'm thinking,

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what the heck is going on here? But to your point, it's

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exactly that those officers they did not
want to go along, to get along

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and put up with this DEI nonsense. They were given early retirement, you

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know, and they were forced out
basically. And what could very well happen

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is these officers are there on the
sidelines. They're observing how our freedoms are

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being compromised with this modern, woke
thought military that hasn't won a war in

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what seventy years. Built. Yeah, I talked to a thirty year officer

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who's still in and he was one
of the few that did not want to

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get the vacs, and so they
took him, with all of his years

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of being on the front lines and
you know, Afghanistan, they put him

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to be the guard at a shooting
range that he just you know, uh,

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they're specifically wanting to corner them off
and demote him. And and he

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said, I'm wondering if I was
to stay in or not. And it's

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like well, you know, don't
leave any sooner than you feel led.

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Because God, you know, he
had Joseph in pagan Egypt, and he

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had began Babylon, and and so
a lot of times God will have you

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know, he had esther right and
here you have Persia and tis such as

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that exactly. But but I do
think Memorial Day, we we need to

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honor those that have given their lives
and risk their lives for the freedoms that

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we enjoy, not for pronouns,
not for diversity, equity and inclusion,

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you know, but for American values, American patriotism. And that's what they're

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they're at war against. They're at
war against. You know, some would

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say nationalism. You've written extensively on
that bill, how they've taken that word

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and turned it into a pejorative when
the fact of the matter is is American

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nationalism is what we used to call
patriotism. Yeah. Yeah, It's like,

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where did patriotism go in their lexicon? It's like, oh, we

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don't use that word anymore. We're
going to use this word nationalists. Like

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why do they call pro life people
anti abortion? There's no pro life group

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that puts anti abortion on their sign. The mainstream media always calls pro life

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people anti, but why negative word
association? Exactly, called American patriots nationalists

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negative word association. So I call
us what we want patriots right exactly Lincoln's

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inaugural address, he said, intelligence, patriotism, Christianity are still competent to

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adjust it in the best way.
All our present difficult. Lincoln mentions patriotism

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and Christianity right next to each other, and in inaugural there's nothing wrong with

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being a Christian patriot. Ye.
Well, as far as the left is

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concerned, there is a problem.
We're talking with Bill Fetterer, the American

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Minute creator and honoring Memorial Day.
The true meaning of it, not what

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the left would want to say,
but what you should be understanding, because

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these are some of the things that
they have failed to teach our children in

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the public education and doctrination centers that
exists today. Bill Fetter, Well,

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you know, going back to the
history of it, you have again after

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the Civil War, there was a
General John A. Logan. He was

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the commander of the veterans organization called
the Grand Army of the Republic, so

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it was a veterans organization, but
he called for a Decoration Day to decorate

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the graves of those and he picked
the date of May thirty thirty and James

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Garfield his only executive order when he
was assassinated after that, but his only

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executive order was an eighteen eighty one
where he gave government workers May thirtieth off

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so they could decorate graves of those
who had died in the Civil War.

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And then you have nineteen twenty one
President Warren G. Harding. He had

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the remains of a soldier killed in
France during World War One brought to America

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and placed in the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. Arlington Cemetery

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used to be the farm that belonged
to Robert E. Lee, and it

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actually belonged to his father in law, George Washington Park Custis, who was

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the adopted son of George Washington.
And so that's arly on that. But

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the tomb of the Unknown Soldier has
engraved on it her rests in honored glory,

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an American soldier known but to God. And what a great story all

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that represents. The Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier And how twenty one steps,

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how that comes into play bill If
you can. We got plenty of time

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today, so I really want to
revisit the history of the you know,

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of that special monument there and that
celebration. Yeah, so it is guarded

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twenty four hours a day, three
hundred and sixty five days a year.

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I've talked to a friend of mine
had been one of those soldiers, and

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he would talk about the shift.
Then they would go through the changing of

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the guard and the formality that they
would follow, and then once they're on

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duty, they would take twenty one
steps because a twenty one gun salute is

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the highest salute, and they would
take twenty one steps and then they would

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turn and face the tomb for twenty
one seconds and then return with the twenty

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one steps. And they would do
this continually for their shift, and I

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can't remember how many hours it is. But then they would do it in

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storm and rain and thunder and ice, in freezing and they would not allow

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anyone to disrespect the tomb. So
they were reguarding it, showing the honor

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that America honors, not just this
one soldier we don't know his name,

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but all the soldiers that this exactly
presents. Yeah, to me, that

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personifies in a spirit of Memorial Day, Bill, does it you? Yeah?

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You know. Calvin Coolidge nineteen twenty
three, in his Memorial Day address

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said there can be no peace with
the forces of evil. Peace comes only

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through the establishment of the supremacy of
the forces of good. Yes, that

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way lies through sacrifice. And he
gives a scripture, greater love hath no

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man than this, that a man
laid out his life for his friends.

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And so there are several assumptions.
Number one, there's a good and there's

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a bad. And number two,
it's not coexistence, it's not all you

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know, No, it's you have
the supremacy of the forces of you defeat

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the enemy. None of this you
know, war on terror that you don't

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even know when it begins, when
it ends right right during the world one,

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Bill, let me, let me
let me interject here for just a

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moment, because you touched on something
really significant here, and that is the

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idea good and evil. What's really
important and critical for us to understand there

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is a difference. And because you
don't know the difference, that's that's what

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gets you in trouble. I mean, for example, what's being manifest today

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on the university campuses of this country
alone. I mean, it's clear they

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do not understand the difference between good
and evil. What happened on October the

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seventh, they're in Israel to fourteen
hundred innocents. They are confused, and

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they bought in, just as you
talked about earlier, where they buy into

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a narrative that's just basically a flat
out lie. But you know, this

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is what the evil one wants to
do, is he wants to parade as

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you know, as some confusing light
and misunderstanding. And here are young kids

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in our universities, these top universities
across the country, Bill are buying into

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this lie because they don't understand the
difference between good and evil. Is that

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fair to say? Yeah? Yeah, you know. In nineteen sixty three,

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Congressman from Florida, Albert Herlong read
into the Congressional record forty five goals

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or tactics of the Communist Party to
take over America. And they were things

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like infiltrate the press, infiltrate both
political parties. But one of them was

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infiltrate the schools and transition them into
being a transmission belts for communist propaganda,

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the associations, and then the other
one was use Foeman student riots and use

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student riots to push the socialist's agenda. This is nineteen sixty three talking about

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and so then you had Sallinski and
he was a community organizer in Chicago.

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Hillary Clinton did her senior thesis on
Salynsky. Obama was an Olinsky organizer in

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Chicago. Salynsky says that you want
to foment your students to riot, but

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you cannot keep your followers at a
high emotional level for an extended period of

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time. So you need to keep
switching up the issues. So it's the

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same people and they're rioting, but
there's new issues each time. And they're

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useful idiots, they don't really know. And so you go from Occupy Wall

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Street where they set up pup tents
in downtowns, and then you go to

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George Floyd Dry and then the Seattle
Autonomous Zones and and I mean they're doing

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you know, all these different rights. It's the same group of people.

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Yeah, exactly, we can't let
a good crisis go to waste. Bill

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shouldn't matter that leaders like Hillary Clinton
and Barack Obama community you know, Barack

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Obama community organizer, Hillary Clinton,
who was in a sense mentored by Saul

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Alinsky. Should it matter that the
leaders of our government who were in high

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office, that they they led our
country, and what contribution to those socialistic

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ends did they fulfill? Yeah,
there's a false promise that you know.

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I wrote a book it's called Socialism, The Real History from Plato to the

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Presents, the first one that talked
about everybody owning in common. And it

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sounds good till you think it through
somebody else in the government handing out the

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common stuff, and they're always attempted
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their family and friends and then keep
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it gets discretionary. And the saying
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the power. Right attempt that everybody
owning everything equally always ends up with a

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deep state bureaucracy passing out favors to
their friends. And so socialism is a

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false promise. And I tell people, what if older fish could tell younger

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fish to stay away from shiny things
dangling in the water like a hook,

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But they can't. Every new generation
the younger fish, he's a shiny thing

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that are attracted and caught. Socialism
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Free food, free clothes, free
education, exactly, freeze attractive,

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but there's a hook. You give
up control of your life. So exactly,

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oh, we want socialist, we
want free stuff. It's like you're

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giving up control of your life and
what the government giveth, the government can

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take it away. If exactly Bill, It's almost like, you know,

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we're back to that that crossroads when
the children of Israel ask God for a

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king and the prophet you know,
was was disturbed and he felt rejected and

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goes to God and says, they
want a king, they want a human

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king, and I feel like I've
been rejected. God says, no,

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they didn't reject you, they reject
me. And then he warned him and

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saying, look at if you want
a king, I want to give you

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a king. But I want you
to understand what's going to happen. You

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know, the king is going to
take the very best. He's going to

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control your kids, you know,
just right on down the line. He's

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going to tax your full head off
and exactly everything that God warned the children

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of Israel would happen when they,
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their back on the King of kings, God Almighty and gave and embraced the

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human king happened to them. And
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that dying has occurred here in the
United States of America. What do you

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say, Yeah, you know what
makes America great. America is an experiment

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of people ruling themselves without a king. That's in the Declaration. It says

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government from the consent of the governed. So you get to be in charge.

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Lincolns Gettysburg address that this nation under
God shall have a new birth of

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freedom in the government of the people, by the people, and for the

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people shall not perish from the earth. So it's not government by a king

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ruled top down through fear thinking that
they're smarter than you are. This is

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where you trust the people and we'll
get involved. And so what makes America

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great is is you, the citizen, gets to be in charge. And

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so, you know, the Christian
nationalists used to call Christian patriotism, and

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it was this idea that you get
to be in charge of your life and

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then all those together in charge of
our country. And that's sort of a

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good thing, you know. Getting
back to the Memorial Day World War One

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poem was written named in flanders Field
and by John McCrae, and he was

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from Canada. He was an expeditionary
gunner and it was the classic. By

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the way, in Kansas City,
Missouri, there is the best World War

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One museum ever. It's like enormous. But he describes the first use of

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chlorine gas. So this is John
McCrae writing the poem flanders Field, World

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War One, the second Battle of
Yepres, near Flanders, Belgium. For

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seventeen days and seventeen nights, none
of us have had our clothes off,

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nor our boots even except occasionally.
In all that time while I was awake.

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Gunfire, rifle fire never sees for
sixty seconds. And behind it all

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was the constant background of the sites
of the dead, the wounded, the

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main terrible anxiety lest the line should
give way, and then the course they

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would bury him, and then they
would have poppies, which were these flowers

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in the field and in flanders Field, the poppies blow between the crosses row

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by row that mark our place.
And in the sky the larks still bravely

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singing fly scarce heard amidst the gun
below. We are dead. Short days

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ago we lived, we felt,
saw sunset glow, loved and were loved,

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and now we lie in flanders Field. And then the next verse,

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take up our quarrel with the foe
to you from falling hands. We throw

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the torch, be yours to hold
it high. If you break faith with

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us who die, we shall not
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And so it's this idea that you
carry on the fight for freedom exactly.

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And what a great poem that's always
been one of my favorites. We're talking

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with Bill Fetter is the American minute
creator, nationally known speaker, and best

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selling author. Bill, you know
you look back again this rich history of

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ours, less than two hundred and
fifty years, all things considered. But

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what a blessedation by God Almighty.
Right. Yeah, when you unleash human

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potential, that people get to pursue
their dreams, they get, as Reagan

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said, that we get to pursue
our own destiny. That you have inventions

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and ideas and innovations, and whereas
you know, and where there's a monarchy

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or their dictator, you invent something, they just take it away. Like

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I spend hours in my garage and
basement coming up with a new invention.

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If it's just gonna be stolen.
But once you can say no, you

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can get a patent on it.
It's yours. Like okay, man,

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I'm going to put in the time. You know some of the famous people

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from Property was so key Bill right. I mean, it was so innovative

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and critical to this American dream because
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the people. Yeah. That,
and I think that you know as unique

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how America came to be. We
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He was a globalist. He was
a one world government guy. The

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son never set on the British Empire
into Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong,

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British going on in Canada, Barbatos
permuted Jamaica right, and America's founders

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decided they did not like a globalist
king telling us what to do, and

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they broke away and flipped it and
made the people the king. So kings

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have subjects who were subjected to their
will. Republics have citizens. The word

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citizen is Greek. It means co
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so we pledge legiance to the flag
in two that republic for which its sands.

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We're basically pledging allegiance to us being
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when somebody protests the flag, what
they're saying is, I don't want to

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be the king anymore. I protest
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It's like, okay, somebody else
will dictate your Oh yeah, if

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not you, then ooh right.
And you know, one of the stories

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from World War One is Sergeant Alvin
York. And so my wife and I

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put together a book called Miracles in
American History, and this is a fascinating

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one. He originally was a conscientious
objector, but then he went ahead and

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prayed and felt that he was supposed
to go over there. And and so

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his group by the Chateel Cherai rail
line in France, and he's said the

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machine guns were spitting fire, cutting
down everyone around him, and all but

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a small number of his group were
killed. And he was a country boy

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from backwoods Kentucky, Tennessee, and
he was a sharpshooter, and so he

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would start picking off these machine gun
turrets and then well you're picking them off

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so much that they would lift up
his head and so he would make turkey

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calls. He said, boom,
he shoot him, you know, and

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then uh, he turns and he's
being charged from behind, and he had

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his revolver and he had like six
shots in his revolve and there's like six

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guys and he said, I shot
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shoot the furthest away one first,
because if you shoot the closest one,

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the other ones will scatter. You'll
never get them. And then he turns

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around and he says he could shoot
better standing up. And so he's standing

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up making these turkey calls, and
every time they pop up their head,

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Booby shoots them. And then a
little white flag comes up and down March

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one hundred and thirty two Germans,
and the German commander says, well,

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how many of you are there?
And there's just Sergeant Alvin York and maybe

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another guy who crawls out of the
bushes like that. And he marches them

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down and nobody's about to run away
because they know he's a sharpshooter and can

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pick him off. And so he
brings them all captive and he gets the

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gold medal for them. And years
later somebody was questioning the story. So

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they sent somebody over to France to
this area with a metal detector, and

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sure enough the spot that they did, this whole circle of spent shells right

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around the one spot where he said
he was at even still. Uh,

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that's amazing that that's they were still
there. Bill. And he comes back

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to America and he opens a Bible
school, the York Bibles to do.

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Gary Cooper doesn't move on it.
And he says, some of them officers

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been saying, I be in a
mountain, boy, done these things just

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the right way by instinct. But
he says, that can't account for the

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way I come out alive with all
that heavy fire spitting fire on us,

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and then all those bounds and those
men charging me from behind. He said,

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I only have one explanation that God
must have heard my prayers exactly.

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And how many times did we hear
of George Washington and the same thing.

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But for the hand of divine providence, right, yeah, yeah, And

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so you had Harry S. Truman
was in World War One. Eddie Rickenbacker

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he was more or less the founding
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and he had a radio program,
But before then he was a race car

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driver and Illinois, and then he
was drafted in Indiana and he was the

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driver for General Pershing. By the
way, General Pershing wrote the foreword to

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a new Testament published by the New
York Bible Society that was given out to

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all the soldiers exactly I remember,
yeah, right. And so Eddie Rickenbacker

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sees he's plane flying and he decides
that he wants to be a pilot.

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So on the the middle of the
war, he just switches over learns how

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to fly a plane, and oh, he shoots down. Can you imagine

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I'm going to change my mos in
midstream? General, I'm sorry, you're

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gonna have to find another driver.
I'm going I'm going to the air right,

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yeah. And so it's a ninety
fourth Arrow squadron and they shoot down

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like sixty nine planes and he gets
the metal for it. Unfortunately, one

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of the pilots was Quentin Roosevelt.
Teddy Roosevelt's son. Eddie Rickenbacker said he

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was a great pilot and he was, you know, shooting up. But

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then he was finally ambushed by the
Germans and he was shot down. And

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Eddie Rickenbaker says, I'm not such
an egotist to believe that God saved me

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because I'm I. He says,
many other men that were more skilled and

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more talented that I did died,
And he says, the only explainace is

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that God spared me because He has
worked for me to do, just like

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he has worked for you to do. Exactly Later in life, he says

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that you know, when the candle
of life burdens dim, I can say,

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thank God, I've done my most
for the country that's done the most

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for me. What a testimony,
Bill and see and the stories like this

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that you and Susie have written about
they have bound I mean. And they

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were just a natural outpouring of life
experience of what they would probably define is

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themselves as ordinary men, nothing special, just ordinary men and maybe you could

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say in an extraordinary position. And
they rose to the challenge, right Yeah.

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Another was Irving Berlin and he's credited
with writing God Bless americamous song.

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Ernest Hemingway Jr. R. Tolkien
fought World War one C. S Lewis

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War one. My grandfather, Orville
William Eperson, he was from the Ozark

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Farm in Missouri and he was in
the three hundred and thirty eighth machine Gun

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Battalion, eighty eighth Division, and
he came back from the war and married

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my grandmother and had three children,
my mom and an aunt and then an

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uncle. But I never met him. He was my mom's only brother,

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and he died in World War Two. So you have d Day, part

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of Operation Overlord, which saw a
month, and he was one of those

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that died. He was in a
B seventeen shot down and they never saw

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him again, but the tail gunner's
body washed up on the shore and they

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figured that's must have been where the
plane went down. But his name is

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over there on the the memorial there
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the soldiers. His name was Orbiel
Wilford Eperson. Oh, but you had

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family members served in the military,
and you served in the military. And

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I think that it's only proper that
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those that have given the most paid
the highest price, so that we can

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have the freedom to talk and share
our viewers and else I believe to be

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able to tell people the Gospel and
how much God loves them exactly. And

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most men who've been in combat and
been in this situation when you think about

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it, Bill, you know,
and I was looking at the numbers since

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seventeen seventy five, I think,
and they quote and these are the numbers

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through twenty nineteen, so we don't
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two point eight million casualties of war
during that period of time. And of

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course you're talking family members. Again, they're not included, but yet they

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are. They're the collateral damage in
a sense of this ultimate price paid by

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their loved one, you know,
on the behalf of freedom, because without

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them, you know, that goes
back to the first question we asked,

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you know what happens if America doesn't
have Memorial Day? Then basically you just

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have taken out the underpinnings of its
very soul, haven't you. Yeah.

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You know a friend of mine,
I'll bragg on. I'm Chris Long of

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Ohio Christian Alliance. He was reading
my American Minute. I sent out a

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little history email called American Minute,
and I did one on World War Two

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and on Franklin Roosevelt's D Day prayer, and that the World War Two Memorial

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in Washington, d we see,
had zero acknowledgments of God. The Lincoln

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Memorial has five quotations mentioning God.
Lincoln Memorial has the quotations mentioning God otherwise

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do but not the World War Two
Memorial. So he got his Congressman Bill

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Johnson, Senator Rob Portman, and
they put forth a bill. It took

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ten years through the raised the millions
of dollars, and right next and all

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the approval processes that you have to
go through. So about fifty yards away

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from the World War Two Memorial is
the Circle of Remembrance and has Franklin Roosevelt's

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d Day prayer on four bronze plaques. And frank Roosevelt was a Democrat,

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so the Democrats voted for it the
Republican report. But Franklin Roosevelt gave this

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prayer June sixth, nineteen forty four. My fellow Americans, I asked you

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to join me in prayer, Albeighty
God, our sons, pride of our

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nation. This day had set upon
a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve

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our republic, our religion. What
religion is he talking about? Well,

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Franklin Roosevelt passed out Gideon's New Testaments
and Book as Psalms to all the soldiers,

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and he wrote the foreword. As
commander Chief, I take pleasure in

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commanding the reading of the Bible.
And this time ninety three percent of the

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country identified as Christian, exactly Protestant, twenty four percent Catholic. The cadets

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in the military had to go through
either chapel. Service was mandatory and it

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is either Protestant, Catholic, or
Jewish, and about a three percent of

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the country was Jewish anyway. So
here's Franklin Roosevelt, our son's pride of

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our nation. This day set upon
a might endeavor struggle to preserve our republic,

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our religion, and our civilization.
Give the strength to their arms,

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stoutness, and their hearts steadfaster their
faith. The road will belong. And

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hard enemy is strong, may hurl
them back. We know that by thy

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grace and by thy righteousness, our
cause our sons will triumph. And then

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he says some will never return.
Race these father, and he says,

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into and receive them, heroic servants, into thy kingdom. And so that's

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what we do. We're acknowledging these
heroic servants. And Eisenhower put a soldier

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in the tomb of the Unknown Soldier
from World War Two in the Korean War,

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and it was Ronald Reagan that put
a soldier in the World War two

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memorial, the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier from the Vietnam War, right exactly.

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Bill, That's amazing to think that
world War two we weren't that far

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removed. I mean, you still
had, you know, a dominant belief

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system in God in America during World
War Two. Why would they omit God

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from that memorial. All the designers
left it out. It just seems to

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me that was done on purpose.
Yes, yes, And one of them

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was even a quote from FDR where
he said, we'll gain the inevitable triumph.

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But you read the quote, it
says will gain the inefftable triumph,

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so help us God, but they
so helpless God. Oh, we didn't

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have enough space on the stone to
add that, and it's like, come

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on, right and so that,
but thank God we now have. They

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just dedicated it last year the Circle
of Remembrance. It's the only place on

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the whole mall in Washington, DC
dedicated to a prayer. So if you

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go up there, you have to
go to that Circle of Remembrance and pray

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for our country. You know,
an interesting trivia that Reagan put the soldier

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in the tomb from the Vietnam.
Family had some suspicion that it could have

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been their son, and they spent
a decade through the process of getting that

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tomb unsealed and doing a DNA test, and sure enough, the Vietnam War

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soldier was Michael Blassie, and he
flew a A three seven B Dragonfly,

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a Dragonfly plane, and he was
shot down near Anne Locke, Vietnam.

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He'd graduated from the Air Force Academy
in nineteen seventy. Prior to that,

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he graduated from Saint Louis University High
School in nineteen sixty six, which is

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my alma mater. Oh wow,
so I graduated in seventy six. He

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graduated in sixty six from Saint Louis
University High School. And so they take

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took his remains out of the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier and reburied them in

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Saint Louis at in Jefferson Barracks Park. So that used to be a big

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Civil War for Mount Park, but
they have a cemetery there. Did they

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find another unknown Vietnam casualty to replace
him in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?

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Bill? No, they said because
of DNA testing that from now on

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they'll be able to know who it
is. So there's no more just the

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Korean Wars the last person that we
have in there right. But in the

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year two thousand, Congress passed the
National Moment of Remembrance Act, where on

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Memorial Day at three PM, citizens
should pause for a moment of prayer.

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Quote. Congress finds that it is
essential to remember and renew the legacy of

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Memorial Day to pay tribute to individuals
who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service

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of the United States. Greater strides
must be made to demonstrate appreciation for those

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loyal people whose values represent their sacrifices
are critical to the future of the United

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States. Encourage citizens to dedicate themselves
to the principles for which those heroes of

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the United States died. Symbolic act
of unity, to honor men and women

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of the United States who died in
the pursuit of freedom and peace. As

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a day of prayer and permanent peace. So well, that time we need

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to mark on our calendars, you
know, from now to perpetuity three o'clock.

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You know, every Memorial Day we
pause from prayer to commemorate and remember

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those that sacrifice their lives for the
freedoms that we enjoy today. Right,

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Bill, Yeah, you know a
famous poem written by an army soldier,

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Charles Michael Province, and you may
have heard it, but it's worth repeating.

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It's short, the soldier, not
the minister, who has given us

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freedom of religion. It's the soldier, not the reporter who's given us freedom

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of press. It's the soldier,
not the poet, who's given us freedom

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of speech. It's the soldier,
not the campus order who's given us freedom

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to protest. It's the soldier,
not the lawyer who's given us the right

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to a fair trial. It's the
soldier, not the politician who's given us

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the right to vote. It's the
soldier who salutes the flag, served beneath

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the flag, and whose coffin is
draped with the flag, who allows the

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protesters to burn the flag. But
it's this recognition that if we had not

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had the soldiers fight and defend our
country, what would be left. It

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was that gang war on a global
scale, and you basically a king is

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a gang leader. You'd have a
Russian gang leader, a Chinese gang leader,

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a North Korean gang leader, an
Iranian gang leader, it will be

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a gang war on a global scale. And America has pushed back against that.

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And we're this unique form of government
where we're not ruled by a gang.

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We're ruled by the people exactly,
and it's job is in a sense,

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So Bill, with his force in
this movement for a globalist rule,

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aren't we setting ourselves up for some
form or fashion of you know, you

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know, a gang, you know
tyranny? Yeah, I think you know.

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Jesus says, wheat and terrors grow
together to the harvest. One of

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the books I just finished a book. It's called Silence Equals Consent. But

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I in the beginning of it go
through how the default setting for human government

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is gangs. If we were to
get rid of all police tomorrow, you'd

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have gangs. The gang leaders would
demand loyalty. And the first recorded instance

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of this is Nimrod Tower of Babel. Right, So, the Noah's ark

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lands and Mount air ra At down
that valley, Tiger's euphrates rivers the Fertile

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Crescent Mesopotamia, and that's where civilization, according to most anthropologists, are originated.

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And then from that point the languages
and the people migrated out, but

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that's where they were at, and
Nimrod wanted to build a tower so high,

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according to Josephus, the Jewish commentator, that if God destroyed the world

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again with a flood, you could
survive on top. So it had this

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defiant, in your face attitude toward
God. And Nimrod made everyone baked bricks

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and bring him or he would kill
them. So it was oppress him over

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man. God comes down. So
the Tower of Babel was in a sense

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the first attempt at a one world
government, and God comes down confuses the

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languages and the people scatter into language
groups that turn into nations. Right,

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nations were God's invention to postpone a
one world government. But every generation you

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have a king that wants to conquer
other nations, and if left unchecked,

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they'd have been happy to conquer the
whole world. So in that sense,

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death is a blessing right. And
so these dictators, Nimron, Pharaoh,

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Caesar's guys are They die off and
then the devil has to pick up where

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he left off and find another greedy, ambitious person. But he can use

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the latest military advancements, and so
instead of king killing able with a rock.

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They can kill with a bronze weapon, an iron weapon of failing spirit,

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symmeter sword. The weapon improves,
but it's that same fall in nature.

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Israel, when they first came out
of Egypt for four hundred years was

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an anomaly that you and people in
no king. It's called the Hebrew Republic

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until they asked for a king.
But that period was what inspired the colonists

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in America. So that's why they
taught Hebrew at Yale and Harvard, and

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so we were at more or less. The Puritans wanted to continue that Hebrew

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Republic experiment. Right, have everybody
taught the law and accountable to God to

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follow it. And so it unleashed
this country where people could pursue their dreams

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and their visions. You could come
across the border. We lived in Dallas,

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and there was this family that was
very successful and the dad had come

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across from Mexico, did not speak
English. He pushed a lawn more and

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then he got a little cement mixer
and he would put in driveways and patios,

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and then he got a cement truck, and then a pickup truck,

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and then a dump truck, and
before you know what, he's putting in

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driveways, he's putting in streets,
he's putting in And so when we knew

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the family, they were putting in
a section of this interstate six thirty five.

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Oh my god, we're talking multiple
lanes and bridges and highways and all

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friends and am resid and the lawnmower
right, unbelievable only in English. And

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it all happened in one generation.
And then we moved from Texas back to

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Missouri, where I'm originally from,
and there were there were grown men,

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uh boycotting a Dollar General with their
little umbrellas thing, don't buy from the

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Dollar General because they didn't use our
labor. Write this. And my daughter,

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right, she's in grade school,
she's like in a life. It's

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like every day she drive by these
grown men sitting there in front of a

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Dollar General, is like, don't
buy this Dollar General because they and we

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come from Texas where you could start
with nothing and become successful. And she's

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like, get up. So it's
this idea that instead of you know,

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if you get a bigger piece of
the pie, you're taken away from me.

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But down there, it was no
just buy a new pie. Just

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in a new industry. You know
right well, and that's uh. You

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know, that's the provision of God
himself. God doesn't give in such a

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way bill that he takes from you
to give to me. It comes from

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his ever ending, you know,
sustenance and supply. That's God. Whether

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it's God's grace or God's provision,
it's never ending. But see this is

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where the conflict comes into play in
the paradox, because when you're with God,

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you understand it's never ending. But
when you're with the evil one,

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you don't understand the ways of God
and the ways of the Kingdom, do

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you. No, No, you
know. Memorial Day, it's all throughout

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the Bible. The Passover is a
memorial to remember how God delivered the children

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of Israel from the Angel of Death
in Egypt. Noah Webster's eighteen twenty eight

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Dictionary gives a definition of memorial that
which preserves the memory of something. A

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monument is memorial of a diseased person
or an event. The Lord's Supper is

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a memorial to the death suffering of
Christ. So in the very dictionary is

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talking about a memorial, but it's
talking about we have a memorial, and

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it's communion. We're remembering what Jesus
did. And you know, the Jews

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remember pass Over. And so in
Exodus chapter twelve, the Lord tells the

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childern of Visrals, speaking to the
congregation visual and the tenth day of the

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month, they shall take every man
a lamb. According to the house.

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Your lamb will be without blemish.
She'll keep it till the fourteenth day.

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The whole assembly of Israel shall kill
it. At the evening, take the

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blood, strike it on the two
door posts. I'll pass through the land

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of Egypt and execute judgment. And
when I see the blood, I will

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pass over you, and the plague
shall not be upon you, for this

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shall be unto you. For a
memorial memorial out your generations, an ordinance

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forever well. It is a true
gift of God, isn't it? And

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he he gives us things like that
to remember because we were in our own

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humanness, it's so easy for us
to forget. Bill right, We've got

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a couple of minutes left, and
I want you to I want to give

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you some time to kind of summarize
again what we've been talking about. The

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significance of Memorial Day, the holiday
that makes all America's holidays possible. Calvin

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Coolidge summed it up best in his
Memorial Day address May thirty first, nineteen

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twenty three. He gives a little
history, says settlers came here from mixed

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motives generally defined. They were seeking
a broader freedom. They were intent upon

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establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with
the principles of self government. They were

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it had been said that God sifted
the nations that he might send choice grain

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into the wilderness. And then Coolidge
was citing in a sermon by a famous

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governor in Massachusetts, William Stawton,
and he said God sifted the whole world

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that he might send choice grain over
into the wilderness. In other words,

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who came to America. It's pretty
courageous people. Oh yeah, risk the

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boat ride. Many of them,
you know, mortgaged their homes, many

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of them fled from persecutions. And
so the people that came here were not

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lazy, and they were not coming
over looking for a welfare check. These

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were people that said, look,
just give me an opportunity and I'm going

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to work hard. And half of
them died Bill in the first year,

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right, Yeah, the pilgrims.
Yeah, Henry Wadworth Longfellow wrote A Courtship

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of Miles Standish, but in there
he had lined God sifted three kingdoms to

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find the wheat for planting, and
then Ben Franklin Well Benjamin Franklin Morris,

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he writes in eighteen sixty four,
the persecution of the Puritans in England for

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nonconformity, the religious agitations and conflicts
in Germany by Luther and Geneva by Calvin,

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in Scotland by Knox were the preparatory
ordeals in qualifying Christian men for work

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of establishing civil institutions on the American
continent. God sifted in these conflicts a

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whole nation that he might send choice
grain over to the wilderness, and the

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blood and persecution of the martyrs became
the seed of both church and the state.

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It was in these schools of fiery
trial that the founders of the American

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Republic were educated prepared for their grand
Christian mission. They were trained in stormy

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trials in order to prepare them establishing
the fundamentals principles of civil and religious liberty.

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And then, concluding his address,
Calvin cool had said they had a

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genius for organized society. On the
foundations of piety, righteousness, liberty,

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obedience, law, Who can fail
to see in at the hand of destiny?

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Who can doubt it was guided by
divine providence? And then the last

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quote I have is from Douglas MacArthur, and he told the West Point Cadets

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May nineteen sixty two. The soldier, above all other men is required to

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practice the greatest act of religious training, sacrifice in battle and in the face

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of danger and death, he discloses
those divine attributes which is Maker gave when

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he created man in his own image. No physical courage, no brute instinct,

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can take the place of divine help, which alone can sustain him.

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However horrible the incidents of war may
be. The soldier who is called upon

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to offer and to give his life
for his country is the noblest development of

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mankind. Well, Bill Feederick Cannoth, thank you enough for the history lesson

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and you know setting us up for
this year's Memorial Day. It is an

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appointment that we will meet at three
o'clock in the afternoon on Memorial Day to

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pause and pray and thank God and
pray for those families that still carry in

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their hearts the loss of the loss
of a loved one who surrender it all

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for our freedoms. Today, Bill
Fetterer, thank you so much for being

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with us. Take care, my
friend. Thank you Bill, and thank

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you ladies and gentlemen for sharing a
part of your day with us. May

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God bless you and keep you.
May He make his face to shine upon

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you. May He be gracious unto
you and give you his peace. Have

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a great day. God bless