Jesse honors the fallen and tells war history

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from WR the Jesse Kelly Show.
Let's Honor the fallen on a Memorial Day. It is Monday,
it is Memorial Day, and today is a day where
we dedicate the entire show to the people who died

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in service of this country. We are going to talk
about combat history. I'm going to read citations, distinguished Service,
cross and Medal of Honor, and we'll talk some Korea,
We'll talk some Vietnam, some Global War on tear, maybe
even some World War Two. We have more names that

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I may be able to get to during the show
of names you emailed in of people you want honored,
and I'm going to try to chop away at all that.
But this is not like our normal shows, as you
can probably already tell, where we goof off and talk politics.
There won't be any of that today. I may play
some comments from Trump or Vans or heg Sech just

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because they had some wonderful things to say. But I
wanted to make sure you knew as a reminder, maybe
even this is your first time tuning in that today
is a sacred day. I believe it's sacred. We believe
we have a responsibility here on this show to honor
those who gave their lives for this country on this day.

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And so that's why we come in. We do a
special Memorial Day show. There won't be any ads, well,
I mean, there'll be commercial breaks, but there won't be
any live reads. There'll be nothing but history and honoring
the fallen. And if I may really quickly, I want
to speak to the families, the families who may be

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hurting today. In fact, Trump actually had something wonderful to
say about that, the.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Families of the fallen. You feel the absence of your
heroes every day, and the family. He's a great families,
He's a wonderful families in the familiar laugh no longer heard,
the empty space at Sunday dinner, or the want of
a hug or a pat on the back that will

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never come again. Every goal star family fights a battle
long after the victory is won. And today we lift
you up and we hold you high. Thank you, thank you,
thank you for giving America the brightest light in your lives.
It's what you've done. We will never ever forget our

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fallen heroes, and we will never forget our debt to you.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I want to talk to you if you're one of
those family members, and I know we have many gold
Star families who listen to the show because you know,
I heard, for the longest time in my life, I
had heard people say around different holiday it's like Christmas
for example, that this day, please remember, this day can

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be heavy for people. And I'll be frank with you,
I got what they were saying, and I never argued
with it. But it didn't Actually I didn't fully realize
what they were talking about until this past Christmas when
my father was gone, and all of a sudden, it
was the first Christmas without my dad. Memorial Day to

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people who have lost a family member or a close friend. Yes,
it's a day where people gather and celebrate, but this
is a painful, heavy day for a lot of people
where yes, they like it and they respect it, but
they look around everywhere with the flags and the celebrations

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and the tombstones and the stories even that I'll tell tonight,
and it hurts because it is a reminder of what
you gave up, of what the person you lost gave up,
and what you gave up. You gave up your husband,
your kids gave up their father, you gave up your son,

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and you don't get to enjoy them ever again on
this earth. And that hurts, and for them who gave
their lives. It's been said before by others, but I'll
say I'll repeat my own version of it. It's about
what they gave up. I'll tell you it hits me hard.

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Like this morning, actually yesterday morning, got up and I
took my sons to waffle House, just something dumb, and
we were awake and we were hungry. Let's go get
some waffle House. And I knew Memorial Day was coming up,
and I thought about guys. I knew my age guys
I was with who are gone now and they don't

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get to go to waffle House with their sons. And
it really, I know I probably shouldn't have, but it
made me feel a little bit guilty in a way,
a real bad case of survivors guilt. Here I am
with my two sons and my buddies gave it up.
They don't get to do that. If you are one
of those family members today or close friends who are

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hurting today, just know that the prayers of the Jesse
Kelly Show family, all of us here, everybody listening, we
are with you. And I know that maybe a small comfort,
but it is the only comfort we can give on
a day that hurts. So respect to you and respect
to the fallen. So again a heads up as to

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how this show is gonna run. We're gonna talk a
lot of war history. I'm kind of getting I'm gonna
do a fairly basic War one oh one history on
these different conflicts to try to give some concept of
what was happening and what these men give up their
lives for. We're gonna read some Distinguished Service cross citations tonight, Vietnam, Korea,

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Global War on tearor other things. Yes, Chris, Chris is
warning me about the volume of names we have. Remember
I told you to email in the names of the fallen, name, rank,
and conflict, because we want to try to read all
them on air and honor them. There are a lot.

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The show has grown quite a bit over the six
years we've been doing it. It may be hard, okay,
but I'm going to try to get to every single name.
The emails like this, Jesse, my great uncle, Melvin Thomas Wyndham,
my grandfather, told me his body finally made it back
to Shelby County, Texas. His mother didn't believe it was

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his body. It was common for pieces or parts to
be sent back, so on and so forth. Again that's
a common thing. Emails like this one. Fred D Smith,
sergeant from Wisconsin, Vietnam War. Fred worked with me in
a large rural cemetery readying it for nineteen sixty eight
Memorial Day services, mowing and clipping around the headstones and

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placing the American flag at the veteran's graves. I was
a junior and he was a senior. He enlisted in
the army and went to Vietnam a few months later.
I would be taking care of his grave for the
next few Memorial Days. And there were several other men
in my high school that luckily made it back. So

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guys like fred D Smith or who we're going to
honor today. Now let's begin Russia, going to begin with
the Korean War. And before I get to these citations
and start reading off names, I want to give a
recap again for people who know history or who listen
to this show. A lot some of this stuff may
be basic and stuff you know, but a lot of
people don't know, and a lot of schools don't provide

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a decent historical perspective. So let's just talk Korea and
how we ended up in that terrible, terrible war known
as the Forgotten War and men who gave their lives
over there during that Forgotten War. I know we have
Korean vets who listened. So first, post World War two,

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it's a very fascinating time in the world. Just think
for a moment what the world is going through. After
it gets to breathe a sigh of relief, Japan finally surrenders,
and the world has just thought a global war. Think
of all the death, all the destruction, all the all

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the financial ruined in various parts from Russia to the
UK to Japan. They're rebuilding cities all across Europe and Africa,
crazy amounts of rubble and lives lost and families lost
and refugees. Okay, so this is really terrible period of
time during and post World War two where the world

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is trying to figure things out. How do we rebuild,
how do we pay for everything? What do we do?
And the world's trying to figure out how to structure itself,
and it's trying to fare out how to structure itself.
And there are other there are different things at play.
You have Stalin running the Soviet Union, so look, he's

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not as nostalgic about the entire thing. He wants to
grab territories, So you're fighting against that. Just okay, there's
a lot going on, and part of a lot going
on is the world starts to unload its militaries. Militaries
are extremely expensive. I mean, look at our budget, our

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budget right now. They're proposing a trillion dollars for the military. Loan.
Armies now and always are expensive. It costs a lot
to raise them, to pay them, to equip them, to
feed them. Militaries are very very expensive things. They're a
luxury only wealthy countries really can share the burden of

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and countries couldn't afford it, including US after World War Two.
So everyone starts dumping their military. Let's disband, let's dispand
get rid of this, get rid of this, get rid
of that. But there's trouble brewing over there in Korea,
and we'll talk about that next catch. It is the

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Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Memorial Day. As
we sit here and we talk about the conflicts and
the men and the things they gave up and we
are honoring the fallen for three hours to day. And
right now we're about to talk a little bit about Korea.
I'm going to try to give as a brief or
recaped on these conflicts as possible, just because there's so

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much to get to. But I want people to understand
the conflict itself and what was happening in the world
post World War Two. The world is broke, the world
is in rubble. They're drawing down their militaries. They can't
afford nobody can afford it anymore. No one wants these
large standing armies. We're figuring out what's going on. But
in Korea they've got a problem. You see, in Korea,

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the northern part is governed and dominated by an evil communist.
It's the Kim family in case you're wondering, Just to
spoil it for you, and surprise, surprise, the communists in
North Korea are looking at South Korea and saying to themselves, well,
I want it. I think I'll go take it. I

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don't want half of Korea, I actually want all of Korea. Now,
the world, I said, the world was going through some things,
and I said that to say this World War two
was so awful as men, especially men who are getting
older and grayer like I am. As men, we tend

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to to lies and lion eyes World War two, and
I am the most guilty of that. I'm not pointing fingers,
but we do lose sight sometimes of the fact that
it really was the most horrible thing the world has
ever gone through. Ever. I don't know that there's ever
anything that happened that brought that much death and misery

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and destruction and sadness and just awful things in the world.
When it hurts like that, once, to make sure it's
very common, Once to make sure it will never have
to hurt like that again. You know how many times
have you heard you know, it's not just a post
Holocaust rallying cry for Jewish people, never again, you know,

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that's a rallying cry very common. That's a common rallying
cry for human beings whenever they go through something terrible.
Never again, Never again, can we allow this to happen?
Because it hurts so badly, And so you're looking around
the world. World's looking around, and they want to make sure,
how do we ensure that never again are we going

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to have to fight this global horrible thing. Well, we
need a couple things. First. We need a group of countries,
like the nice countries, that's the civilized countries. They'll come
together and they'll they'll they'll mediate everything, you know, United Nations,
time Baby, and something else. On top of this group

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of countries, we need to make sure nobody is ever
allowed to invade another spit of ground on the planet, ever,
for any reason at all. That was, that was It's
a mindset that we very much share to this day
with the Russia Ukraine stuff. But that was the mindset.

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Then no country can raise an army and cross the
borders of another country and invade. If that happens, it
must be stopped at any cost. If it's not stopped,
it will end up like Hitler storming through Europe. Again,
an over reaction, but an understandable reaction to a world,

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or by a world that had just suffered the way
this world suffered. North Korea invade South Korea, and the
United Nations decides, hey, it's time to get involved. We
have to put a stop to this. But putting a
stop to this it's not letters, it's not speeches. If
there's a standing army with guns and bombs, and men

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willing to kill. Then you are going to need guns
and bombs and men willing to kill to stop it. Surprise, surprise,
the United States of America was looked to to shoulder
this load. They looked to the United States of America
and said, hey, the United Nations kind of mostly America,
you need to go help. America sent the troops. We

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didn't have the troops. Remember, remember we were busy unloading
our military as well. So a lot of these men
when I read some of these things, these guys are
freshly in. Some are World War Two veterans, some are
freshly in. But we were so short on troops for Korea.
Marines were finishing Marine Corps boot camp on the ships

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on the way over to Korea. That is the definition
of green. You don't know anything when you finish boot
camp except how to tie your boots. You don't know
squat and you were going into hell. So North Korea
by now had invaded South Korea and they were pushing
the South Koreans clear down towards the tip. And then

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Douglas MacArthur had a good idea. Again, everyone thinks I
hate MacArthur's got It's not true. It's not really true, Chris.
He had a good idea, a very common idea in combat.
His idea was, well, why don't we land behind them,
land behind them, cut off their sup Not only do

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you cut off your supply route of your enemy when
you land behind them, but you are now behind them.
I know that kind of sounds like an obvious point,
but you have created for him a two front war.
Now he has enemies to his front, and now he
has really powerful enemies to his rear. And we land

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behind them, and we start stomping the Koreans and we
start running them up north. And now military brass MacArthur
and those types, now they decide, well, we have an army.
It's here. We've got these dirty communists on the run.
They're heading back north. There aren't that many of them.

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Why don't we go after them into the north and
smash them completely. Maybe we'll even sniff around China, which
is just north of North Korea. Except Mao was running
China at this time. Mao was already angry with America
for our backing of the nationalists he had previously defeated

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in Korea, and Mao was understandably nervous about an American
army making its way to the Chinese border. So Mao
decided to get involved, and this is when Korea really
turned into a living hell for our guys. Hang on,
it is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Memorial Day.

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Just to remind you that, uh, there's a lot of names.
There's a lot to get to today. I'm trying. I'm
gonna try the best I can to get to all
of it. But because there was so much to get to,
I am only going to play taps one time this show,
and it's going to round out the show. It's going
to be at the end of the third hour, We're

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going to play taps to honor all of these fallen
men we're talking about, and then we will sign off
for the day. Back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow,
back to Korea. Before we start reading some of these citations,
it's one of the creepier things in combat, or things
that I've read about in combat. And I'll put it

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to you this way. When you think there's not somebody there,
and then you start to sniff that there may be
someone there, and then you start to get the idea
that maybe there's a lot of people there and a
lot more coming. As we ventured into North Korea, our
military units, Army Marine Corps, we started to find Chinese soldiers.

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We started to take Chinese prisoners. Some of them had
been captured, some of them had simply gone a wall
and tried to escape. And our military starts to get
intelligence from these men that there are a lot of
Chinese soldiers pouring into North Korea. At first we were

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getting numbers like one hundred thousand, two, three hundred thousand,
numbers so big the numbers weren't believed. In fact, it
went clear up the chain of command to MacArthur, who
was running things, and he and his guy said, but
that's crazy, no way, there's no no way, except it
was true. Remember, Maw, as big of a piece of
trash as he was, was a seasoned, experienced fighter. He

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knew America had air power which he did not have,
and so he waited until nighttime to bring his men
in waves down into North Korea. During the day, they
would do things like sleep in tunnels where they found them,
or tie themselves to trees so the planes flying overhead

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couldn't see our guys were heading up into We don't
know a number four hundred and five hundred thousand Chinese
troops and our guy are heading into the frozen mountains,
the frozen mountains, and there aren't very many ways up there,
and there aren't very many ways back. As our guys

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pour into the mountains of North Korea, the Chinese Communists
are coming in waves and they are surrounding our men. Now,
up to this point in time, I don't want to
be dismissive of what the fighting was like, but up
to this point in time, it was standard fighting, and
it was about to be as bad as anything you've

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ever seen or heard. In fact, let's read a couple
of Distinguished Service Cross citations, shall we. This is for
a John S. Carson of Washington, d C. The President
of the United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished
Service Cross posthumously to John Spencer Carson, second Lieutenant, US
Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations

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against an armed enemy of the U United Nations, while
serving with Company A, first Battalion, first Provisional Marine Brigade,
Reinforced Fleet Marine Force Pacific in action against enemy aggressor
forces near Tangsen, Korea, on the third of September nineteen fifty. Pause,
real quick, just a heads up. All these Korean citations

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are going to reference the United Nations. Try not to
sneer too hard. That's the way the citation had to
be written, because technically it wasn't us, it was the
un okay, all right. During an attack on an enemy position,
Second Lieutenant Carson, acting as a tank liaison officer, I'll
explain that in a moment, observed that the platoon commander

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and platoon sergeant of a supporting tank platoon were seriously wounded. Unhesitatingly,
he assumed command of the platoon and skillfully continued in
support of the attack. Shortly afterward, when the tank was
hit by enemy anti tank fire and began to burn,
Lieutenant Carson and grabbed a fire extinguisher, and, disregarding his

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own personal safety, fearlessly and courageously climbed out of the
tank in the face of intense hostile fire and extinguished
the blaze, thereby saving the tank in the lives of
the crew. In his intrepid action, he was struck in
both legs by enemy small arms fire, which knocked him

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from the tank to the ground. Despite his severe and
painful wounds. He refused to be evacuated, and, crawling forward
to the high ground, he directed the devastating fire of
his tanks against enemy positions until he was mortally wounded.
The dude was shot in both legs, and he just
crawled on top of a mountain and directed fire until

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they killed him. I just want to explain something about this,
A couple things about this armor. Tanks, well, i'll say tanks,
so it's easier to understand armor by its self. On
the battlefield, they're just a bunch of sitting ducks. I
know that sounds weird, and I know people, if you're
not aware of this kind of stuff, you may wonder, well,

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why don't we just gather up one hundred tanks and
put everyone in the tanks and just drive the tanks
forward and kill everybody. We'll see tanks are unbelievably vulnerable
to anti tank minds. They'll create anti tank minefields, and
there's all kinds of anti tank weapons available out there

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that can take out a tank. Now pause on that vice.
Versa infantry without armor, me, you just flesh and blood
human beings without armor obviously extremely vulnerable. I don't know
about you. Bullets don't bounce off my skin. Trapnel tends
to hurt quite a bit. Also extremely vulnerable, but when

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you combine armor and infantry, that can be very advantageous.
If you have to sell assault a machine gun position, well,
you get in behind the tanks. Machine gun bullets are
bouncing off the tanks, the infantry is using the tank
for cover. You approach the machine gun position, bub bub bub,

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maybe even the tank gun takes it out vice versa.
The anti tank weapons that are out there. Oftentimes it's
RPGs type things, rocket launchers, that type of stuff. The
infantry can spot it and infantry can take it out
before it takes out all of your armor. You use

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each other to protect each other. And if you ever
read Korean war stories, there are endless Korean War stories
of infantry guys saving tank guys, tank guys saving infantry guys. Else.
When I was this is not about me, but when

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I when we were going into Iraq and we were
we were two weeks I think into Iraq and we
were approaching Baghdad. My company, first Battalion, seventh Marines, Alpha Company.
They snatched us from our battalion and they attached us
to a tank unit because they couldn't have a tank
unit going into Baghdad without infantry support, and they didn't

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want an infantry unit going into Bagdad with that tank support.
You see. So that's how it works. But as we
talked about so many times before, tank guys, they're not
only not safe. They burned a death a lot. I
lost a friend of mine in Iraq. Lance Corporal Rodriguez.

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Simplify my brother and sempify to his family if they're listening,
he didn't burn a drown dust storm. You can't stop.
Stopping is not an option. Had to cross a bridge,
couldn't see. I remember that dust storm like it was yesterday,
right into the river, died there. It's a dangerous thing.

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It's not a safe thing. Don't think it's a safe thing.
It's a dangerous thing to be in a tank. What
do you think everyone's shooting at? What do you think
everyone wants to take out? If you're pulling guys out
of tanks and getting shot to pieces and crawling forward
to help, it's an awesome thing. John S Carson. In fact,
I'm going to read a couple more from Korea. Then

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we're going to try to move on to some other
things in just a moment is the Jesse Kelly Show
on a Memorial Day talking a little bit of Korea,
now doing some Korean War Distinguished Service Cross citations, and
just another update on the Korean War. Remember, as we
went up into North Korea, the Chinese surrounded us. The

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Korean War became a battle for survival. We were up
there thinking we were going to invade, and really reality,
we were being surrounded, outnumbered beyond believe in this frozen
mountainous area. It became a battle for mountain tops, hilltops,
I should say frozen hilltops. You have to grab them,

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you have to hold them, and you have to know
that the Chinese will be coming in waves. And the
Korean War is one of the wars where you constantly
read stories about guys who are dug in. Let's say
they're in a defensive perimeter. They're dug in, and the
Chinese start blowing whistles. That's how they signaled things. That's

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how they that's how they communicated for the most part,
blowing horns and whistles. Imagine it's the middle of the night,
it's thirty below zero, you're on a hilltop, dug in
freezing you can't fill your hands with your friends, and
the horns start blaring and the whistles start going, and
somebody shoots off a flare, and like a scene out

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of a freaking horror movie, you look down and there
are thousands of Chinese running up the hill with guns
and bayonets to kill you and all of your friends.
You start killing them as fast as you possibly can.
They're landing in your trench with you your hand to hand fighting,

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and at one point they get through your lines. This
happened all the time in Korea because there were so
many of them. They get through your lines. So you
have to do the unthinkable and grab your weapon and
turn it around and fire inside of your lines because
there are Chinese troops all over the place, and you

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find yourself praying to God as I have watched. In fact,
I watched this in a documentary as I watched a
Korean War veteran describe he prayed to God as they
were all around him dying, his friends dying, then dying,
and all he prayed was God, let me see the
sun one more time. Then we read citations like this

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for a Joseph O'Donnell from Kings, New York. The President
of the United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished
Service Cross posthumously to Joseph T. O'Donnell, first Lieutenant Infantry,
US Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations
against an armed enemy of the United Nations. Whilst serving

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with Company A, first Battalion, thirty eighth Infantry Regiment, Second
Infantry Division, First Lieutenant O'Donnell distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism
and action against enemy aggressive forces at Mundungni, Korea, on
the thirteenth of October nineteen fifty one. On that date,
Company A launched an assault on a strategic hill strongly

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defended by a determined enemy. Lieutenant O'Donnell led his platoon
until they were halted by a heavy barrage of enemy
small arms and mortar fire. Unhesitatingly and with complete indifference
to the intense fire, he placed himself at the head
of his platoon and led them at a renewed assault,
during which he charged and destroyed an enemy position and

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killed its occupants with his rifle and grenades. Although wounded
by an enemy grenade, he continued to lead his men
in the attack, knocked down by a second grenade, He
immediately arose again and continued to direct his men in
the assault. In the patoon's final charge, he was fatally
wounded by mortar fragments. His bravery and spirited leadership were

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an inspiration to all who witnessed his actions and contribute
immeasurably in the success of successful completion of the mission.
Let me pause for another moment and read some names
of the ones that got sent in. I haven't read
any yetnam way behind. These are from some miscellaneous conflicts,
so I'll name the conflict the others. I'll do it

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by it in the name of the conflict. Specialist Jerry Daves,
Panama or Davies. Sorry, I don't know. Private first Class
Martian Denson, Panama. Corporal Richard Villa Hermosa Via Hermosa are
probably Panama. This is this one's called blue on blue.
That would be friendly fire. That's very, very common in combat.

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I just said, sometimes you have to turn your weapon around,
and sometimes accidents, but it's very common. It's no less heroic.
Sergeant Carson Holme Quist terrorist attack. That one in Chattanooga.
Airman Trevor Mackie training accident, Lance Corporal George Dramas Berroot.
These two are from the Revolutionary War Stephen Crosby both

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captains Captain Stephen Crosby, Captain Herman Cummings Senior. These are
from the Civil War. Private la Lafayette Bray Civil War,
Tim Perkins Civil War, Riley Perkins Civil War, Robert mcmhnmon
Civil War. These are from World War Two. Private William Moore,

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Private Abner Spear, Private Argil Axford, Private William Buell. This
is from World War Two. Staff Sergeant Salvatore Luciano, Private
Gail Charles, Staff Sergeant Virtral Brown, Corporal Leo Foursier, Corporal

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Edwin Wurtz, Major Jack Mathis, Private Alton Cook, Staff Sergeant
Elmer Hessman, Staff Sergeant Bobby Midwarry Sergeant Roy good Paster,
Junior Tor Piedeman's mate for one, James Jones, Private Joseph Lessi,

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Captain Charles Tinley, Technician five rankin Kellogg, Clayton or Gunner's
mate first class Clayton New and drop. Then we'll get
to more, and just a little bit, I want to
get to more of these Dissinger Service Cross citations. President
of the United States takes Pride in presenting the Distinguished
Service Cross posthumously to George Andrew Davis, Junior Major, US

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Air Force, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations
against an armed enemy of the United Nations, while serving
as commander of the three hundred and thirty fourth Fighter
Interceptor Squadron, fourth Fighter Interceptor Wing, fifth Air Force, on
the twenty seventh of November nineteen fifty one, during an
engagement with an enemy aircraft near Sininju, Korea, while leading

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a group formation of thirty two F eighty six aircraft
on counter air mission, Major Davis observed six MiG fifteen
aircraft heading southward above the group. With exemplary leadership and
superior airmanship, he maneuvered his forces into position for the attack.
Leading with great tactical skill and courage. Davis closed to

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eight hundred feet on a MiG fifteen over Namsi, and
he fired on the enemy aircraft, which immediately began burning.
A few seconds later, the enemy pilot bailed out of
his aircraft. Continuing the attack on the enemy forces, Major
Davis fired on the wingmen of the enemy flight, which
resulted in numerous strikes on wing roots in the fuselage
as Mayor Davis broke off his relentless attack on this

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MiG fifteen, another MiG fifteen came down on him. He
immediately brought his aircraft into firing position upon the enemy,
and after a sustained barrage of fire, the enemy pilot
bailed out. Although low on fuel. He rejoined his group
and reorganized his forces to engage the approximate eighty enemy aircraft,
making the attack against overwhelming odds. Major Davis group destroyed

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two other MiG fifteens, probably destroyed one, and damaged one other.
We continue next.

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