May 30, 2022 • 11 mins
A day to honor those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country - OUR country. I hope that you spend some part of this day remembering and honoring all those incredible men and women. ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast. It is a
day to honor the families who have lost loved ones.
(00:22):
It is a day to remember. It is a day
to thank God for those people in their service. It
is a day to be generous in your heart and
with your time. Memorial Day Weekend, just just those words.
Memorial Day Weekend used to be a knife to my heart.
(00:43):
Used to be a knife to my heart because a
little over thirty years ago, my brother, Matthew Mark Luke,
yes that was his real name, and his wife Anne
uh disappeared in a plain accident over Memorial Day Weekend.
It was a tragic, tragic time. And then a couple
of days after his plane crashed, one of the search
(01:03):
planes looking for him crashed and all the people on
board perished. It was the biggest nightmare you can imagine,
because we did not find the wreckage for years. For
my brother's plane, it was just an open wound that
could not heal. There was no closure, there was no peace,
and so every time I would hear Memorial Day Weekend,
(01:25):
my heart would go back to that tragedy, and that's
been a long time and God has healed that. And
now when I hear Memorial Day weekend, I think and
memorialize my brother and his wife and all the other
men and women. He did not die in service to
our country. He was in the Air Force, but he
did not die in battle. But I think of all
(01:47):
the people over the last two plus years who have
given the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. And that is
why we have Memorial Day weekend. Spend today, if you're
driving home, spend some time ingratitude or in solemn thoughts
or in prayers for those people who have lost loved
(02:08):
ones in the service. And if there's somebody like that
in your family, thank them. Hi, Welcome to the Delilah Show.
Who is this Dave Steve? What can I do for
you tonight? Well, I've had kind of a depressing day
and I thought maybe you could take a song that
would pick up a bit. We'll tell me what's going
(02:30):
on in your day so I can figure out what
song will lift your spirits. Today was day one of
my retirements from the military after twenty eight years of service. Wow,
good for you. I salute you well. You're depressed because
you don't know what to do with yourself now, pretty
much after spending your whole life in the service to others,
(02:53):
what are you supposed to do? Yeah? I actually have
a few ideas. I thought about the big brothers. Got
a few soup kitchens this come. I'd like to help
out that I just right now is the matter of
getting my work life up and running. And that way
I can get a schedule where I can do that.
(03:15):
So you got plenty on your plate. Yeah, it's just
not in uniform, not anymore. My son is picking up
the tour chieftain Technical School in the Army. He finished
basic training in the spring. So Dad has established a
legacy of serving our country. Me and my brother. My
brother was the marine. Well, God bless you both. Let
(03:36):
me play a song for you and for everybody who
has ever worn a uniform and raised their hand and
said I'll do it, I'll go, I'll serve, I'll take
a bullet for our nation. Well I've done that a
couple of times too, really, Yes, in what war? In
desert storms? Wow? And you you still were able to
(03:59):
return active duty? Yeah? And I volunteered went to Iraq
twice in Afghanistan once, so I've I've done three different
wars in three different countries in three different decades. Yeah,
I know you are going to miss it. If you
were that dedicated and that willing to continue to put
(04:20):
yourself at risk, you are definitely going to miss it. Yeah.
Probably not as much as you're going to be missed though,
by by those who have grown to love know you,
and love you and work with you. On my last day,
they came up and just spent most of the time
rehashing memories and talking about then said, we've done places,
(04:44):
we've been. By the end of it, there wasn't not
rye in the room, least of all yours. Yeah. Well,
thank you, Steve, Thank you for serving, thank you for
deciding to spend your time volunteering. Thank you for passing
that torch onto your son, and let me play a
great song for you. Yesterday I got to go to
(05:11):
an event sponsored by the military to meet family members
of men and women who are serving in the Armed
forces and to talk about staying connected. And while I
was there, I met a gentleman named Mr Wright, who um,
who had I don't know a lot of stripes on
his arm and something shiny that looked like a star.
But you know who the biggest star in his life is,
(05:33):
he said, his wife, Donna. They've been married twenty nine
years and have two kids, and he said, I just
wanted to say I'm so in love with you, Donna.
Thanks for the twenty nine years together. I'm looking forward
to spending time with you after I retire, and that
will be in just a few years. Thank you for
being dependable. You have quiet strength. I love you, Donna.
(05:58):
From your husband. I don't know which touched me more,
seeing that room full of people who are proudly serving
our country or meeting this one man who, after twenty
nine years, is so stinking in love with his wife. Hi, William,
what can I do for you? I just want to
(06:20):
salute in phrase male and female military personnel. Definitely. Let's
let's just do right now, the little military salute to
these heroes. There we go. I've been in for twenty
one years. I retired and two months after I got out,
they sent my unit. I tried to get back into
it and go over. They would not let me. So
(06:41):
your heart was there with your comrades And are they
all okay? Well, one's gone nine got hurt. One's badly
badly burned. He's back though he's he's driving a car.
I mean, they're all well. And when I when they
first went over there, I was in contact with them
all time, and I asked them what they needed, and
(07:02):
they said they could not get Folgers coffee, Folgers coffee.
And I sent them a total of seventy two boxes
over there, just not just of coffee. Oh, they must
have looked forward to those like nobody's business. A lot
of people send a lot of stuff over there, but
they never finished all the coffee. It went to the
next group. Well good, because there are certainly enough of
(07:24):
them over there right now that could use a cup
of Folgers coffee, could use a good magazine, a book
to read, could use a nice sweet letter or a
card just saying we love you, we're praying for you,
we thank you for your service. That's that's what I did.
You know, here's the thing, whether you agree or disagree politically,
whether you agree or disagree with anything that's going on,
(07:45):
everybody has to know these men and women are heroes.
They are wonderful, courageous, brave heroes that deserve our love
and respect and support. Yes, ma'am, and I listened to
your your radio show every night that I did at
the garage and in my garage and listen to your
radio show. I love it well you stay tuned. Thank
(08:06):
you for sending the seventy two boxes of fulgiers and
let me find a song for those men and women.
Thank you. I received this letter from a listener who says, Delilah,
I have three wonderful children, one daughter and two sons.
I get to see my daughter and youngest son as
often as I can, but my oldest son is serving
(08:27):
his second tour. I have stickers and magnets on my
vehicles American flags, Marine Corps emblems my son is US Marine,
proud parent of Marine, and a yellow ribbon magnet that
says please support our troops. I was sitting at a
red line the other day listening to your show, and
the woman next to me motion for me to roll
down my window. I did. She simply asked to tell
(08:50):
my son thank you. This is not the first time
this has happened. When people find out my son is
serving in the Marines, they often asked me to tell
him thank you. What moved me about the woman of
the red light is. She looked like she was going
to cry when she asked me to tell him that
my request to you, with your vast knowledge of songs,
is to find a song to play to all the
(09:11):
people that keep saying thank you in support of our
troops as my thank you back to them from Jan
a proud mom, sister, and aunt Debbie. Hi, thank you
for calling the Delilah Show. What can I do for you? Well?
Thank you for taking my call. I just wanted to
share a story with you about how my husband and
I met. I wrote a letter to whom it may
(09:33):
concerned and mailed it to an air Force base in Texas.
He answered it, and we've been married thirty four years plus.
You send a letter to an air force base that
said what it was five pages of just whatever, Um, Hi,
this is me, this is what I do. I'm in
this in school. You know, I'm in different extracurricular activities
(09:56):
that I was in in my job and that type
a thing, and just who I was and where I
was from. And so you sent this letter off in
the hopes that you would get a pin pal, that
you would meet somebody what with? I sent it with
my girlfriend's letter to her fiance. I stuck it in
the envelope and at mail call, he just asked if
everybody wanted to write a gal from St. Louis. And
(10:17):
my husband says, yeah, my folks don't write me. So
and he took it and we had three dates and
he came home for Christmas and he got angry with
his parents, so he broke up and he took off
and he called me on Valentine's Day and asked me
to marry him, and I said it was a collect call.
I think about it if he'd pay for the callow.
So that one letter sent off in the hopes of
(10:40):
meeting just a friend of pinpal has turned into a
lifetime of love. Oh yeah, absolutely love and every minute
of it. I think we're more in love now than
we've ever been. So this is awesome. Who knows. Maybe
I'll encourage other single people to send a letter to
one of the military bases around Well. I would like
to say one thing about marriage that no screaming, fighting, hollering.
(11:03):
You sit down, you have a conversation. You may make
the wrong choices, but if they're wrong, you just do
it again. You have to compromise and keep your line
of communication open, and with that you can get through anything.
I still hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share
more with you each weekday on Hey it's Delilah
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast. It is a
day to honor the families who have lost loved ones.
(00:22):
It is a day to remember. It is a day
to thank God for those people in their service. It
is a day to be generous in your heart and
with your time. Memorial Day Weekend, just just those words.
Memorial Day Weekend used to be a knife to my heart.
(00:43):
Used to be a knife to my heart because a
little over thirty years ago, my brother, Matthew Mark Luke,
yes that was his real name, and his wife Anne
uh disappeared in a plain accident over Memorial Day Weekend.
It was a tragic, tragic time. And then a couple
of days after his plane crashed, one of the search
(01:03):
planes looking for him crashed and all the people on
board perished. It was the biggest nightmare you can imagine,
because we did not find the wreckage for years. For
my brother's plane, it was just an open wound that
could not heal. There was no closure, there was no peace,
and so every time I would hear Memorial Day Weekend,
(01:25):
my heart would go back to that tragedy, and that's
been a long time and God has healed that. And
now when I hear Memorial Day weekend, I think and
memorialize my brother and his wife and all the other
men and women. He did not die in service to
our country. He was in the Air Force, but he
did not die in battle. But I think of all
(01:47):
the people over the last two plus years who have
given the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. And that is
why we have Memorial Day weekend. Spend today, if you're
driving home, spend some time ingratitude or in solemn thoughts
or in prayers for those people who have lost loved
(02:08):
ones in the service. And if there's somebody like that
in your family, thank them. Hi, Welcome to the Delilah Show.
Who is this Dave Steve? What can I do for
you tonight? Well, I've had kind of a depressing day
and I thought maybe you could take a song that
would pick up a bit. We'll tell me what's going
(02:30):
on in your day so I can figure out what
song will lift your spirits. Today was day one of
my retirements from the military after twenty eight years of service. Wow,
good for you. I salute you well. You're depressed because
you don't know what to do with yourself now, pretty
much after spending your whole life in the service to others,
(02:53):
what are you supposed to do? Yeah? I actually have
a few ideas. I thought about the big brothers. Got
a few soup kitchens this come. I'd like to help
out that I just right now is the matter of
getting my work life up and running. And that way
I can get a schedule where I can do that.
(03:15):
So you got plenty on your plate. Yeah, it's just
not in uniform, not anymore. My son is picking up
the tour chieftain Technical School in the Army. He finished
basic training in the spring. So Dad has established a
legacy of serving our country. Me and my brother. My
brother was the marine. Well, God bless you both. Let
(03:36):
me play a song for you and for everybody who
has ever worn a uniform and raised their hand and
said I'll do it, I'll go, I'll serve, I'll take
a bullet for our nation. Well I've done that a
couple of times too, really, Yes, in what war? In
desert storms? Wow? And you you still were able to
(03:59):
return active duty? Yeah? And I volunteered went to Iraq
twice in Afghanistan once, so I've I've done three different
wars in three different countries in three different decades. Yeah,
I know you are going to miss it. If you
were that dedicated and that willing to continue to put
(04:20):
yourself at risk, you are definitely going to miss it. Yeah.
Probably not as much as you're going to be missed though,
by by those who have grown to love know you,
and love you and work with you. On my last day,
they came up and just spent most of the time
rehashing memories and talking about then said, we've done places,
(04:44):
we've been. By the end of it, there wasn't not
rye in the room, least of all yours. Yeah. Well,
thank you, Steve, Thank you for serving, thank you for
deciding to spend your time volunteering. Thank you for passing
that torch onto your son, and let me play a
great song for you. Yesterday I got to go to
(05:11):
an event sponsored by the military to meet family members
of men and women who are serving in the Armed
forces and to talk about staying connected. And while I
was there, I met a gentleman named Mr Wright, who um,
who had I don't know a lot of stripes on
his arm and something shiny that looked like a star.
But you know who the biggest star in his life is,
(05:33):
he said, his wife, Donna. They've been married twenty nine
years and have two kids, and he said, I just
wanted to say I'm so in love with you, Donna.
Thanks for the twenty nine years together. I'm looking forward
to spending time with you after I retire, and that
will be in just a few years. Thank you for
being dependable. You have quiet strength. I love you, Donna.
(05:58):
From your husband. I don't know which touched me more,
seeing that room full of people who are proudly serving
our country or meeting this one man who, after twenty
nine years, is so stinking in love with his wife. Hi, William,
what can I do for you? I just want to
(06:20):
salute in phrase male and female military personnel. Definitely. Let's
let's just do right now, the little military salute to
these heroes. There we go. I've been in for twenty
one years. I retired and two months after I got out,
they sent my unit. I tried to get back into
it and go over. They would not let me. So
(06:41):
your heart was there with your comrades And are they
all okay? Well, one's gone nine got hurt. One's badly
badly burned. He's back though he's he's driving a car.
I mean, they're all well. And when I when they
first went over there, I was in contact with them
all time, and I asked them what they needed, and
(07:02):
they said they could not get Folgers coffee, Folgers coffee.
And I sent them a total of seventy two boxes
over there, just not just of coffee. Oh, they must
have looked forward to those like nobody's business. A lot
of people send a lot of stuff over there, but
they never finished all the coffee. It went to the
next group. Well good, because there are certainly enough of
(07:24):
them over there right now that could use a cup
of Folgers coffee, could use a good magazine, a book
to read, could use a nice sweet letter or a
card just saying we love you, we're praying for you,
we thank you for your service. That's that's what I did.
You know, here's the thing, whether you agree or disagree politically,
whether you agree or disagree with anything that's going on,
(07:45):
everybody has to know these men and women are heroes.
They are wonderful, courageous, brave heroes that deserve our love
and respect and support. Yes, ma'am, and I listened to
your your radio show every night that I did at
the garage and in my garage and listen to your
radio show. I love it well you stay tuned. Thank
(08:06):
you for sending the seventy two boxes of fulgiers and
let me find a song for those men and women.
Thank you. I received this letter from a listener who says, Delilah,
I have three wonderful children, one daughter and two sons.
I get to see my daughter and youngest son as
often as I can, but my oldest son is serving
(08:27):
his second tour. I have stickers and magnets on my
vehicles American flags, Marine Corps emblems my son is US Marine,
proud parent of Marine, and a yellow ribbon magnet that
says please support our troops. I was sitting at a
red line the other day listening to your show, and
the woman next to me motion for me to roll
down my window. I did. She simply asked to tell
(08:50):
my son thank you. This is not the first time
this has happened. When people find out my son is
serving in the Marines, they often asked me to tell
him thank you. What moved me about the woman of
the red light is. She looked like she was going
to cry when she asked me to tell him that
my request to you, with your vast knowledge of songs,
is to find a song to play to all the
(09:11):
people that keep saying thank you in support of our
troops as my thank you back to them from Jan
a proud mom, sister, and aunt Debbie. Hi, thank you
for calling the Delilah Show. What can I do for you? Well?
Thank you for taking my call. I just wanted to
share a story with you about how my husband and
I met. I wrote a letter to whom it may
(09:33):
concerned and mailed it to an air Force base in Texas.
He answered it, and we've been married thirty four years plus.
You send a letter to an air force base that
said what it was five pages of just whatever, Um, Hi,
this is me, this is what I do. I'm in
this in school. You know, I'm in different extracurricular activities
(09:56):
that I was in in my job and that type
a thing, and just who I was and where I
was from. And so you sent this letter off in
the hopes that you would get a pin pal, that
you would meet somebody what with? I sent it with
my girlfriend's letter to her fiance. I stuck it in
the envelope and at mail call, he just asked if
everybody wanted to write a gal from St. Louis. And
(10:17):
my husband says, yeah, my folks don't write me. So
and he took it and we had three dates and
he came home for Christmas and he got angry with
his parents, so he broke up and he took off
and he called me on Valentine's Day and asked me
to marry him, and I said it was a collect call.
I think about it if he'd pay for the callow.
So that one letter sent off in the hopes of
(10:40):
meeting just a friend of pinpal has turned into a
lifetime of love. Oh yeah, absolutely love and every minute
of it. I think we're more in love now than
we've ever been. So this is awesome. Who knows. Maybe
I'll encourage other single people to send a letter to
one of the military bases around Well. I would like
to say one thing about marriage that no screaming, fighting, hollering.
(11:03):
You sit down, you have a conversation. You may make
the wrong choices, but if they're wrong, you just do
it again. You have to compromise and keep your line
of communication open, and with that you can get through anything.
I still hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share
more with you each weekday on Hey it's Delilah
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