May 20, 2024 • 51 mins
Bill Federer, American Minute creator, nationally known speaker, bestselling author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc. asks what would America be without Memorial Day? Would there even be an America? We must always remember the over 2.8 million causalities of war from 1775-2019. Not to be confused with all other military holidays, Memorial Day is the most solemn as it is a specific day to honor those and their families who have paid the ultimate price for our freedoms.
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FOURCY Radio. Well, hello andwelcome Bill Martinez here. Great to have
you with us as this is theweek we get prepared in thinking about Memorial
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Days. You know, this hasalways been a very special holiday for me
as a Vietnam era VET. Mytwo other brothers as well, one served
in combat in the army. Mydad course was the World War two VET.
Memorial Day always has been meaningful forour family. I think a rather
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hollow day, and when you thinkabout it, it's a Memorial Day,
the holiday that makes all America's holidayspossible. Now. Bill Vetter, the
American minut creator, nationally known speaker, best selling author, and president of
My Research, asked What would Americabe without Memorial Day? Bill Feederer,
welcome to show. Good to haveyou, hey, Bill, great to
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be with you. Well, that'supon some question. What would this country
be without Memorial Day? Bill,Well, we would not have a country.
And it's important for us to rememberthose that have given their lives.
And thank you Bill and your familyfor serving in the military. For those
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not familiar, Veterans Day is forthose that have served but are alive,
and Memorial Day is for those whohave died. And so it started in
America after the Civil War. Andso you had about a half million died
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in the Civil War on the Confederateside and on the Union side. And
so the story is that women andit began with Southern women placing flowers on
the graves of those who had died, both Union and Confederate. And so
numerous places claim to be the sourceof the first Memorial Day. Some of
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the ones are Warrenton, Virginia,Columbus, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia,
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Bolsburg, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, New York. So
those are all locations that have aclaim to possibly being the very first Memorial
Day. Interesting one is Charleston,South Carolina. Now, there was a
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mass grave uncovered of two hundred andfifty seven Union soldiers who had died in
a prison camp. And on Mayone of eighteen sixty five, former slaves
organized a parade led by twenty eighthundred singing black children, and they reinterred
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all those bodies in respectable grades.They read the Bible, they sang spirituals,
and they reburied the soldiers with honorand an act of gratefulness for their
ultimate sacrifice, for which gave themtheir freedom. That was Charleston, South
Carolina. You know, Bill,when you mentioned this, you mentioned the
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,
the loss to family. You know, we call them gold star families today.
Back then it was just they werefamily members. But that's significant,
and to me, they're as honorableas those that paid the sacrifice, because
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here it is, I mean,they're paying a sacrifice every day that they
miss that loved one at you know, special events, graduations, Father's Day,
you know, go on down theline. You know, that's an
incredible price for these families who havesurvived their loved one as a result of
you know, their loved one's commitmentto freedom. Yeah, and you know,
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I personally think that they get paidway too less. Here they are
risking their lives and living on verymeager amounts. I unfortunately get reports that
even to this day, soldiers areon food stamps. Yes, but here
they are risking their lives and theirfamilies are sacrificing, and the government is
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you know, not taking them asvaluable as they should be regarded. Well,
I think they should be tax free. I think that they should not
pay any taxes, and especially ifthere's been a death in the family.
I mean, look at you know, Palestinians and Arabs take better care of
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their people who die for the sakeof their jihad and their freedom, then
we our own soldiers. I meanyou think about that bill. Yeah,
you know, I just read areport today that said the government is wanting
to discourage legacy enrollment. And yougo, what's legacy enrollment? Uh,
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Where a soldier's father served and thegrandfather served and the great grandfather served and
they have this legacy. They said, those are the soldiers that are resisting
DEI yeah, the ectuality conclusion thatthey're wanting to keep the old ways,
they don't want to go woke.And so here with all the need for
recruitment, the military is specifically sayingwe want to stop recruiting legacy enrollment people
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that heritage. So there's a wargoing on inside. So years ago,
I was asked by Charlie Kirk,you know, we were doing an event
together, and goes, what doyou think it's the most serious threat?
And I go, it's the criticalrace theory in the military, basically chasing
out anybody that's patriotic. Historically,you had Lenin chased out people from the
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military that were faithful to the oldCzarist farm of government. You had Hitler
chasing out people that were part ofthe old faithful Weimar Republic. And so
this Diocletian even chased the Christians out, you know, in the fourth century
a d. And then once thetransition is made, then the military was
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used as an enforcement of a dictatorof their agenda on their own country.
Bill. Let me ask you this, I mean, because what you're touching
on something could have incredible ramifications inasmuchas that you've got a division within the
military. We saw this happen recentlywhere you had what I believe were significant
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quality flag officers being chased out ofthe branches of government. And I'm thinking,
what the heck is going on here? But to your point, it's
exactly that those officers they did notwant to go along, to get along
and put up with this DEI nonsense. They were given early retirement, you
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know, and they were forced outbasically. And what could very well happen
is these officers are there on thesidelines. They're observing how our freedoms are
being compromised with this modern, wokethought military that hasn't won a war in
what seventy years. Built. Yeah, I talked to a thirty year officer
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who's still in and he was oneof the few that did not want to
get the vacs, and so theytook him, with all of his years
of being on the front lines andyou know, Afghanistan, they put him
to be the guard at a shootingrange that he just you know, uh,
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they're specifically wanting to corner them offand demote him. And and he
said, I'm wondering if I wasto stay in or not. And it's
like well, you know, don'tleave any sooner than you feel led.
Because God, you know, hehad Joseph in pagan Egypt, and he
had began Babylon, and and soa lot of times God will have you
know, he had esther right andhere you have Persia and tis such as
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that exactly. But but I dothink Memorial Day, we we need to
honor those that have given their livesand risk their lives for the freedoms that
we enjoy, not for pronouns,not for diversity, equity and inclusion,
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 atwar against. You know, some would
say nationalism. You've written extensively onthat bill, how they've taken that word
and turned it into a pejorative whenthe fact of the matter is is American
nationalism is what we used to callpatriotism. Yeah. Yeah, It's like,
where did patriotism go in their lexicon? It's like, oh, we
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don't use that word anymore. We'regoing to use this word nationalists. Like
why do they call pro life peopleanti abortion? There's no pro life group
that puts anti abortion on their sign. The mainstream media always calls pro life
people anti, but why negative wordassociation? Exactly, called American patriots nationalists
negative word association. So I callus what we want patriots right exactly Lincoln's
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inaugural address, he said, intelligence, patriotism, Christianity are still competent to
adjust it in the best way.All our present difficult. Lincoln mentions patriotism
and Christianity right next to each other, and in inaugural there's nothing wrong with
being a Christian patriot. Ye.Well, as far as the left is
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
the left would want to say,but what you should be understanding, because
these are some of the things thatthey have failed to teach our children in
the public education and doctrination centers thatexists today. Bill Fetter, Well,
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you know, going back to thehistory of it, you have again after
the Civil War, there was aGeneral John A. Logan. He was
the commander of the veterans organization calledthe Grand Army of the Republic, so
it was a veterans organization, buthe called for a Decoration Day to decorate
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the graves of those and he pickedthe date of May thirty thirty and James
Garfield his only executive order when hewas assassinated after that, but his only
executive order was an eighteen eighty onewhere he gave government workers May thirtieth off
so they could decorate graves of thosewho had died in the Civil War.
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And then you have nineteen twenty onePresident Warren G. Harding. He had
the remains of a soldier killed inFrance during World War One brought to America
and placed in the Tomb of theUnknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. Arlington Cemetery
used to be the farm that belongedto Robert E. Lee, and it
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actually belonged to his father in law, George Washington Park Custis, who was
the adopted son of George Washington.And so that's arly on that. But
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier hasengraved on it her rests in honored glory,
an American soldier known but to God. And what a great story all
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that represents. The Tomb of theUnknown Soldier And how twenty one steps,
how that comes into play bill Ifyou can. We got plenty of time
today, so I really want torevisit the history of the you know,
of that special monument there and thatcelebration. Yeah, so it is guarded
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twenty four hours a day, threehundred and sixty five days a year.
I've talked to a friend of minehad been one of those soldiers, and
he would talk about the shift.Then they would go through the changing of
the guard and the formality that theywould follow, and then once they're on
duty, they would take twenty onesteps because a twenty one gun salute is
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the highest salute, and they wouldtake twenty one steps and then they would
turn and face the tomb for twentyone seconds and then return with the twenty
one steps. And they would dothis continually for their shift, and I
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
anyone to disrespect the tomb. Sothey were reguarding it, showing the honor
that America honors, not just thisone soldier we don't know his name,
but all the soldiers that this exactlypresents. Yeah, to me, that
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personifies in a spirit of Memorial Day, Bill, does it you? Yeah?
You know. Calvin Coolidge nineteen twentythree, in his Memorial Day address
said there can be no peace withthe forces of evil. Peace comes only
through the establishment of the supremacy ofthe forces of good. Yes, that
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way lies through sacrifice. And hegives a scripture, greater love hath no
man than this, that a manlaid out his life for his friends.
And so there are several assumptions.Number one, there's a good and there's
a bad. And number two,it's not coexistence, it's not all you
know, No, it's you havethe supremacy of the forces of you defeat
the enemy. None of this youknow, war on terror that you don't
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even know when it begins, whenit ends right right during the world one,
Bill, let me, let melet me interject here for just a
moment, because you touched on somethingreally significant here, and that is the
idea good and evil. What's reallyimportant and critical for us to understand there
is a difference. And because youdon'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
on the university campuses of this countryalone. I mean, it's clear they
do not understand the difference between goodand evil. What happened on October the
seventh, they're in Israel to fourteenhundred innocents. They are confused, and
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they bought in, just as youtalked about earlier, where they buy into
a narrative that's just basically a flatout lie. But you know, this
is what the evil one wants todo, is he wants to parade as
you know, as some confusing lightand misunderstanding. And here are young kids
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in our universities, these top universitiesacross the country, Bill are buying into
this lie because they don't understand thedifference between good and evil. Is that
fair to say? Yeah? Yeah, you know. In nineteen sixty three,
Congressman from Florida, Albert Herlong readinto the Congressional record forty five goals
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or tactics of the Communist Party totake over America. And they were things
like infiltrate the press, infiltrate bothpolitical parties. But one of them was
infiltrate the schools and transition them intobeing a transmission belts for communist propaganda,
the associations, and then the otherone 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
and so then you had Sallinski andhe was a community organizer in Chicago.
Hillary Clinton did her senior thesis onSalynsky. Obama was an Olinsky organizer in
Chicago. Salynsky says that you wantto foment your students to riot, but
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you cannot keep your followers at ahigh emotional level for an extended period of
time. So you need to keepswitching up the issues. So it's the
same people and they're rioting, butthere's new issues each time. And they're
useful idiots, they don't really know. And so you go from Occupy Wall
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Street where they set up pup tentsin downtowns, and then you go to
George Floyd Dry and then the SeattleAutonomous Zones and and I mean they're doing
you know, all these different rights. It's the same group of people.
Yeah, exactly, we can't leta good crisis go to waste. Bill
shouldn't matter that leaders like Hillary Clintonand Barack Obama community you know, Barack
Obama community organizer, Hillary Clinton,who was in a sense mentored by Saul
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Alinsky. Should it matter that theleaders of our government who were in high
office, that they they led ourcountry, and what contribution to those socialistic
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
Presents, the first one that talkedabout everybody owning in common. And it
sounds good till you think it throughsomebody else in the government handing out the
common stuff, and they're always attemptedto want to funnel a little extra to
their family and friends and then keepback from those they don't like, and
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it gets discretionary. And the sayingis he who holds the purse strings has
the power. Right attempt that everybodyowning everything equally always ends up with a
deep state bureaucracy passing out favors totheir friends. And so socialism is a
false promise. And I tell people, what if older fish could tell younger
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fish to stay away from shiny thingsdangling in the water like a hook,
But they can't. Every new generationthe younger fish, he's a shiny thing
that are attracted and caught. Socialismis a shiny thing dangling in the water.
Free food, free clothes, freeeducation, exactly, freeze attractive,
but there's a hook. You giveup control of your life. So exactly,
oh, we want socialist, wewant free stuff. It's like you're
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giving up control of your life andwhat the government giveth, the government can
take it away. If exactly Bill, It's almost like, you know,
we're back to that that crossroads whenthe children of Israel ask God for a
king and the prophet you know,was was disturbed and he felt rejected and
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goes to God and says, theywant a king, they want a human
king, and I feel like I'vebeen rejected. God says, no,
they didn't reject you, they rejectme. And then he warned him and
saying, look at if you wanta king, I want to give you
a king. But I want youto understand what's going to happen. You
know, the king is going totake the very best. He's going to
control your kids, you know,just right on down the line. He's
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going to tax your full head offand exactly everything that God warned the children
of Israel would happen when they,you know, for they decided to turn
their back on the King of kings, God Almighty and gave and embraced the
human king happened to them. AndI can't help but feel like some of
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that dying has occurred here in theUnited States of America. What do you
say, Yeah, you know whatmakes America great. America is an experiment
of people ruling themselves without a king. That's in the Declaration. It says
government from the consent of the governed. So you get to be in charge.
Lincolns Gettysburg address that this nation underGod shall have a new birth of
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freedom in the government of the people, by the people, and for the
people shall not perish from the earth. So it's not government by a king
ruled top down through fear thinking thatthey're smarter than you are. This is
where you trust the people and we'llget involved. And so what makes America
great is is you, the citizen, gets to be in charge. And
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so, you know, the Christiannationalists used to call Christian patriotism, and
it was this idea that you getto be in charge of your life and
then all those together in charge ofour country. And that's sort of a
good thing, you know. Gettingback to the Memorial Day World War One
poem was written named in flanders Fieldand by John McCrae, and he was
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from Canada. He was an expeditionarygunner and it was the classic. By
the way, in Kansas City,Missouri, there is the best World War
One museum ever. It's like enormous. But he describes the first use of
chlorine gas. So this is JohnMcCrae writing the poem flanders Field, World
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War One, the second Battle ofYepres, near Flanders, Belgium. For
seventeen days and seventeen nights, noneof us have had our clothes off,
nor our boots even except occasionally.In all that time while I was awake.
Gunfire, rifle fire never sees forsixty seconds. And behind it all
was the constant background of the sitesof the dead, the wounded, the
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main terrible anxiety lest the line shouldgive way, and then the course they
would bury him, and then theywould have poppies, which were these flowers
in the field and in flanders Field, the poppies blow between the crosses row
by row that mark our place.And in the sky the larks still bravely
singing fly scarce heard amidst the gunbelow. We are dead. Short days
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ago we lived, we felt,saw sunset glow, loved and were loved,
and now we lie in flanders Field. And then the next verse,
take up our quarrel with the foeto you from falling hands. We throw
the torch, be yours to holdit high. If you break faith with
us who die, we shall notsleep though poppies grow in flanders Field.
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And so it's this idea that youcarry on the fight for freedom exactly.
And what a great poem that's alwaysbeen one of my favorites. We're talking
with Bill Fetter is the American minutecreator, nationally known speaker, and best
selling author. Bill, you knowyou look back again this rich history of
ours, less than two hundred andfifty years, all things considered. But
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what a blessedation by God Almighty.Right. Yeah, when you unleash human
potential, that people get to pursuetheir dreams, they get, as Reagan
said, that we get to pursueour own destiny. That you have inventions
and ideas and innovations, and whereasyou know, and where there's a monarchy
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or their dictator, you invent something, they just take it away. Like
I spend hours in my garage andbasement coming up with a new invention.
If it's just gonna be stolen.But once you can say no, you
can get a patent on it.It's yours. Like okay, man,
I'm going to put in the time. You know some of the famous people
from Property was so key Bill right. I mean, it was so innovative
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and critical to this American dream becauseit put the power in the hands of
the people. Yeah. That,and I think that you know as unique
how America came to be. Wewere breaking away from the King of England.
He was a globalist. He wasa one world government guy. The
son never set on the British Empireinto Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong,
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British going on in Canada, Barbatospermuted Jamaica right, and America's founders
decided they did not like a globalistking telling us what to do, and
they broke away and flipped it andmade the people the king. So kings
have subjects who were subjected to theirwill. Republics have citizens. The word
citizen is Greek. It means coruler, co so co king. And
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so we pledge legiance to the flagin two that republic for which its sands.
We're basically pledging allegiance to us beingin charge of ourselves exactly. So
when somebody protests the flag, whatthey're saying is, I don't want to
be the king anymore. I protestthis system, or I participated ruling myself.
It's like, okay, somebody elsewill dictate your Oh yeah, if
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not you, then ooh right.And you know, one of the stories
from World War One is Sergeant AlvinYork. And so my wife and I
put together a book called Miracles inAmerican History, and this is a fascinating
one. He originally was a conscientiousobjector, but then he went ahead and
prayed and felt that he was supposedto go over there. And and so
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his group by the Chateel Cherai railline in France, and he's said the
machine guns were spitting fire, cuttingdown everyone around him, and all but
a small number of his group werekilled. And he was a country boy
from backwoods Kentucky, Tennessee, andhe was a sharpshooter, and so he
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would start picking off these machine gunturrets and then well you're picking them off
so much that they would lift uphis head and so he would make turkey
calls. He said, boom,he shoot him, you know, and
then uh, he turns and he'sbeing charged from behind, and he had
his revolver and he had like sixshots in his revolve and there's like six
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guys and he said, I shothim the way you shoot turkey. You
shoot the furthest away one first,because if you shoot the closest one,
the other ones will scatter. You'llnever get them. And then he turns
around and he says he could shootbetter standing up. And so he's standing
up making these turkey calls, andevery time they pop up their head,
Booby shoots them. And then alittle white flag comes up and down March
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one hundred and thirty two Germans,and the German commander says, well,
how many of you are there?And there's just Sergeant Alvin York and maybe
another guy who crawls out of thebushes like that. And he marches them
down and nobody's about to run awaybecause they know he's a sharpshooter and can
pick him off. And so hebrings them all captive and he gets the
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gold medal for them. And yearslater somebody was questioning the story. So
they sent somebody over to France tothis area with a metal detector, and
sure enough the spot that they did, this whole circle of spent shells right
around the one spot where he saidhe was at even still. Uh,
that's amazing that that's they were stillthere. Bill. And he comes back
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to America and he opens a Bibleschool, the York Bibles to do.
Gary Cooper doesn't move on it.And he says, some of them officers
been saying, I be in amountain, boy, done these things just
the right way by instinct. Buthe says, that can't account for the
way I come out alive with allthat heavy fire spitting fire on us,
and then all those bounds and thosemen charging me from behind. He said,
I only have one explanation that Godmust have heard my prayers exactly.
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And how many times did we hearof George Washington and the same thing.
But for the hand of divine providence, right, yeah, yeah, And
so you had Harry S. Trumanwas in World War One. Eddie Rickenbacker
he was more or less the foundingfather of the conservative movement in America,
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and he had a radio program,But before then he was a race car
driver and Illinois, and then hewas drafted in Indiana and he was the
driver for General Pershing. By theway, General Pershing wrote the foreword to
a new Testament published by the NewYork Bible Society that was given out to
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all the soldiers exactly I remember,yeah, right. And so Eddie Rickenbacker
sees he's plane flying and he decidesthat he wants to be a pilot.
So on the the middle of thewar, he just switches over learns how
to fly a plane, and oh, he shoots down. Can you imagine
I'm going to change my mos inmidstream? General, I'm sorry, you're
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 ninetyfourth Arrow squadron and they shoot down
like sixty nine planes and he getsthe metal for it. Unfortunately, one
of the pilots was Quentin Roosevelt.Teddy Roosevelt's son. Eddie Rickenbacker said he
was a great pilot and he was, you know, shooting up. But
then he was finally ambushed by theGermans and he was shot down. And
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Eddie Rickenbaker says, I'm not suchan egotist to believe that God saved me
because I'm I. He says,many other men that were more skilled and
more talented that I did died,And he says, the only explainace is
that God spared me because He hasworked for me to do, just like
he has worked for you to do. Exactly Later in life, he says
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that you know, when the candleof life burdens dim, I can say,
thank God, I've done my mostfor the country that's done the most
for me. What a testimony,Bill and see and the stories like this
that you and Susie have written aboutthey have bound I mean. And they
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were just a natural outpouring of lifeexperience of what they would probably define is
themselves as ordinary men, nothing special, just ordinary men and maybe you could
say in an extraordinary position. Andthey rose to the challenge, right Yeah.
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Another was Irving Berlin and he's creditedwith writing God Bless americamous song.
Ernest Hemingway Jr. R. Tolkienfought World War one C. S Lewis
War one. My grandfather, OrvilleWilliam Eperson, he was from the Ozark
Farm in Missouri and he was inthe three hundred and thirty eighth machine Gun
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Battalion, eighty eighth Division, andhe came back from the war and married
my grandmother and had three children,my mom and an aunt and then an
uncle. But I never met him. He was my mom's only brother,
and he died in World War Two. So you have d Day, part
of Operation Overlord, which saw amonth, and he was one of those
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that died. He was in aB seventeen shot down and they never saw
him again, but the tail gunner'sbody washed up on the shore and they
figured that's must have been where theplane went down. But his name is
over there on the the memorial therewhere they have the d DA Memorial of
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the soldiers. His name was OrbielWilford Eperson. Oh, but you had
family members served in the military,and you served in the military. And
I think that it's only proper thatwe give the respect and the honor to
those that have given the most paidthe highest price, so that we can
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have the freedom to talk and shareour viewers and else I believe to be
able to tell people the Gospel andhow much God loves them exactly. And
most men who've been in combat andbeen in this situation when you think about
it, Bill, you know,and I was looking at the numbers since
seventeen seventy five, I think,and they quote and these are the numbers
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through twenty nineteen, so we don'thave modern numbers yet, but something like
two point eight million casualties of warduring that period of time. And of
course you're talking family members. Again, they're not included, but yet they
are. They're the collateral damage ina sense of this ultimate price paid by
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their loved one, you know,on the behalf of freedom, because without
them, you know, that goesback to the first question we asked,
you know what happens if America doesn'thave Memorial Day? Then basically you just
have taken out the underpinnings of itsvery soul, haven't you. Yeah.
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You know a friend of mine,I'll bragg on. I'm Chris Long of
Ohio Christian Alliance. He was readingmy American Minute. I sent out a
little history email called American Minute,and I did one on World War Two
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
Memorial has five quotations mentioning God.Lincoln Memorial has the quotations mentioning God otherwise
do but not the World War TwoMemorial. So he got his Congressman Bill
Johnson, Senator Rob Portman, andthey put forth a bill. It took
ten years through the raised the millionsof dollars, and right next and all
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the approval processes that you have togo through. So about fifty yards away
from the World War Two Memorial isthe Circle of Remembrance and has Franklin Roosevelt's
d Day prayer on four bronze plaques. And frank Roosevelt was a Democrat,
so the Democrats voted for it theRepublican report. But Franklin Roosevelt gave this
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prayer June sixth, nineteen forty four. My fellow Americans, I asked you
to join me in prayer, AlbeightyGod, our sons, pride of our
nation. This day had set upona mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve
our republic, our religion. Whatreligion is he talking about? Well,
Franklin Roosevelt passed out Gideon's New Testamentsand Book as Psalms to all the soldiers,
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and he wrote the foreword. Ascommander Chief, I take pleasure in
commanding the reading of the Bible.And this time ninety three percent of the
country identified as Christian, exactly Protestant, twenty four percent Catholic. The cadets
in the military had to go througheither chapel. Service was mandatory and it
is either Protestant, Catholic, orJewish, and about a three percent of
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the country was Jewish anyway. Sohere's Franklin Roosevelt, our son's pride of
our nation. This day set upona might endeavor struggle to preserve our republic,
our religion, and our civilization.Give the strength to their arms,
stoutness, and their hearts steadfaster theirfaith. The road will belong. And
hard enemy is strong, may hurlthem back. We know that by thy
grace and by thy righteousness, ourcause our sons will triumph. And then
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he says some will never return.Race these father, and he says,
into and receive them, heroic servants, into thy kingdom. And so that's
what we do. We're acknowledging theseheroic servants. And Eisenhower put a soldier
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in the tomb of the Unknown Soldierfrom World War Two in the Korean War,
and it was Ronald Reagan that puta soldier in the World War two
memorial, the Tomb of the UnknownSoldier from the Vietnam War, right exactly.
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Bill, That's amazing to think thatworld War two we weren't that far
removed. I mean, you stillhad, you know, a dominant belief
system in God in America during WorldWar Two. Why would they omit God
from that memorial. All the designersleft it out. It just seems to
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me that was done on purpose.Yes, yes, And one of them
was even a quote from FDR wherehe said, we'll gain the inevitable triumph.
But you read the quote, itsays will gain the inefftable triumph,
so help us God, but theyso helpless God. Oh, we didn't
have enough space on the stone toadd that, and it's like, come
on, right and so that,but thank God we now have. They
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just dedicated it last year the Circleof Remembrance. It's the only place on
the whole mall in Washington, DCdedicated to a prayer. So if you
go up there, you have togo to that Circle of Remembrance and pray
for our country. You know,an interesting trivia that Reagan put the soldier
in the tomb from the Vietnam.Family had some suspicion that it could have
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been their son, and they spenta decade through the process of getting that
tomb unsealed and doing a DNA test, and sure enough, the Vietnam War
soldier was Michael Blassie, and heflew a A three seven B Dragonfly,
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a Dragonfly plane, and he wasshot down near Anne Locke, Vietnam.
He'd graduated from the Air Force Academyin nineteen seventy. Prior to that,
he graduated from Saint Louis University HighSchool in nineteen sixty six, which is
my alma mater. Oh wow,so I graduated in seventy six. He
graduated in sixty six from Saint LouisUniversity High School. And so they take
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took his remains out of the Tombof the Unknown Soldier and reburied them in
Saint Louis at in Jefferson Barracks Park. So that used to be a big
Civil War for Mount Park, butthey have a cemetery there. Did they
find another unknown Vietnam casualty to replacehim in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
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Bill? No, they said becauseof DNA testing that from now on
they'll be able to know who itis. So there's no more just the
Korean Wars the last person that wehave in there right. But in the
year two thousand, Congress passed theNational Moment of Remembrance Act, where on
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Memorial Day at three PM, citizensshould pause for a moment of prayer.
Quote. Congress finds that it isessential to remember and renew the legacy of
Memorial Day to pay tribute to individualswho have made the ultimate sacrifice in service
of the United States. Greater stridesmust be made to demonstrate appreciation for those
loyal people whose values represent their sacrificesare critical to the future of the United
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States. Encourage citizens to dedicate themselvesto the principles for which those heroes of
the United States died. Symbolic actof unity, to honor men and women
of the United States who died inthe pursuit of freedom and peace. As
a day of prayer and permanent peace. So well, that time we need
to mark on our calendars, youknow, from now to perpetuity three o'clock.
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You know, every Memorial Day wepause from prayer to commemorate and remember
those that sacrifice their lives for thefreedoms that we enjoy today. Right,
Bill, Yeah, you know afamous poem written by an army soldier,
Charles Michael Province, and you mayhave heard it, but it's worth repeating.
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It's short, the soldier, notthe minister, who has given us
freedom of religion. It's the soldier, not the reporter who's given us freedom
of press. It's the soldier,not the poet, who's given us freedom
of speech. It's the soldier,not the campus order who's given us freedom
to protest. It's the soldier,not the lawyer who's given us the right
to a fair trial. It's thesoldier, not the politician who's given us
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the right to vote. It's thesoldier who salutes the flag, served beneath
the flag, and whose coffin isdraped with the flag, who allows the
protesters to burn the flag. Butit's this recognition that if we had not
had the soldiers fight and defend ourcountry, what would be left. It
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was that gang war on a globalscale, and you basically a king is
a gang leader. You'd have aRussian gang leader, a Chinese gang leader,
a North Korean gang leader, anIranian gang leader, it will be
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 governmentwhere we're not ruled by a gang.
We're ruled by the people exactly,and it's job is in a sense,
So Bill, with his force inthis movement for a globalist rule,
aren't we setting ourselves up for someform or fashion of you know, you
know, a gang, you knowtyranny? Yeah, I think you know.
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Jesus says, wheat and terrors growtogether to the harvest. One of
the books I just finished a book. It's called Silence Equals Consent. But
I in the beginning of it gothrough how the default setting for human government
is gangs. If we were toget rid of all police tomorrow, you'd
have gangs. The gang leaders woulddemand loyalty. And the first recorded instance
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of this is Nimrod Tower of Babel. Right, So, the Noah's ark
lands and Mount air ra At downthat valley, Tiger's euphrates rivers the Fertile
Crescent Mesopotamia, and that's where civilization, according to most anthropologists, are originated.
And then from that point the languagesand the people migrated out, but
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that's where they were at, andNimrod wanted to build a tower so high,
according to Josephus, the Jewish commentator, that if God destroyed the world
again with a flood, you couldsurvive on top. So it had this
defiant, in your face attitude towardGod. And Nimrod made everyone baked bricks
and bring him or he would killthem. So it was oppress him over
man. God comes down. Sothe Tower of Babel was in a sense
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the first attempt at a one worldgovernment, and God comes down confuses the
languages and the people scatter into languagegroups that turn into nations. Right,
nations were God's invention to postpone aone world government. But every generation you
have a king that wants to conquerother nations, and if left unchecked,
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they'd have been happy to conquer thewhole world. So in that sense,
death is a blessing right. Andso these dictators, Nimron, Pharaoh,
Caesar's guys are They die off andthen the devil has to pick up where
he left off and find another greedy, ambitious person. But he can use
the latest military advancements, and soinstead of king killing able with a rock.
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.
Israel, when they first came outof Egypt for four hundred years was
an anomaly that you and people inno king. It's called the Hebrew Republic
until they asked for a king.But that period was what inspired the colonists
in America. So that's why theytaught Hebrew at Yale and Harvard, and
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so we were at more or less. The Puritans wanted to continue that Hebrew
Republic experiment. Right, have everybodytaught the law and accountable to God to
follow it. And so it unleashedthis country where people could pursue their dreams
and their visions. You could comeacross the border. We lived in Dallas,
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and there was this family that wasvery successful and the dad had come
across from Mexico, did not speakEnglish. He pushed a lawn more and
then he got a little cement mixerand he would put in driveways and patios,
and then he got a cement truck, and then a pickup truck,
and then a dump truck, andbefore 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
the family, they were putting ina section of this interstate six thirty five.
Oh my god, we're talking multiplelanes and bridges and highways and all
friends and am resid and the lawnmowerright, unbelievable only in English. And
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,
uh boycotting a Dollar General with theirlittle umbrellas thing, don't buy from the
Dollar General because they didn't use ourlabor. Write this. And my daughter,
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right, she's in grade school,she's like in a life. It's
like every day she drive by thesegrown men sitting there in front of a
Dollar General, is like, don'tbuy this Dollar General because they and we
come from Texas where you could startwith nothing and become successful. And she's
like, get up. So it'sthis idea that instead of you know,
if you get a bigger piece ofthe pie, you're taken away from me.
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But down there, it was nojust buy a new pie. Just
in a new industry. You knowright well, and that's uh. You
know, that's the provision of Godhimself. God doesn't give in such a
way bill that he takes from youto give to me. It comes from
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
where the conflict comes into play inthe paradox, because when you're with God,
you understand it's never ending. Butwhen you're with the evil one,
you don't understand the ways of Godand the ways of the Kingdom, do
you. No, No, youknow. Memorial Day, it's all throughout
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the Bible. The Passover is amemorial to remember how God delivered the children
of Israel from the Angel of Deathin Egypt. Noah Webster's eighteen twenty eight
Dictionary gives a definition of memorial thatwhich preserves the memory of something. A
monument is memorial of a diseased personor an event. The Lord's Supper is
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a memorial to the death suffering ofChrist. So in the very dictionary is
talking about a memorial, but it'stalking about we have a memorial, and
it's communion. We're remembering what Jesusdid. And you know, the Jews
remember pass Over. And so inExodus chapter twelve, the Lord tells the
childern of Visrals, speaking to thecongregation visual and the tenth day of the
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month, they shall take every mana lamb. According to the house.
Your lamb will be without blemish.She'll keep it till the fourteenth day.
The whole assembly of Israel shall killit. At the evening, take the
blood, strike it on the twodoor posts. I'll pass through the land
of Egypt and execute judgment. Andwhen I see the blood, I will
pass over you, and the plagueshall not be upon you, for this
shall be unto you. For amemorial memorial out your generations, an ordinance
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forever well. It is a truegift of God, isn't it? And
he he gives us things like thatto remember because we were in our own
humanness, it's so easy for usto forget. Bill right, We've got
a couple of minutes left, andI want you to I want to give
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you some time to kind of summarizeagain what we've been talking about. The
significance of Memorial Day, the holidaythat makes all America's holidays possible. Calvin
Coolidge summed it up best in hisMemorial Day address May thirty first, nineteen
twenty three. He gives a littlehistory, says settlers came here from mixed
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motives generally defined. They were seekinga broader freedom. They were intent upon
establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance withthe principles of self government. They were
it had been said that God siftedthe nations that he might send choice grain
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into the wilderness. And then Coolidgewas citing in a sermon by a famous
governor in Massachusetts, William Stawton,and he said God sifted the whole world
that he might send choice grain overinto the wilderness. In other words,
who came to America. It's prettycourageous people. Oh yeah, risk the
boat ride. Many of them,you know, mortgaged their homes, many
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of them fled from persecutions. Andso the people that came here were not
lazy, and they were not comingover looking for a welfare check. These
were people that said, look,just give me an opportunity and I'm going
to work hard. And half ofthem died Bill in the first year,
right, Yeah, the pilgrims.Yeah, Henry Wadworth Longfellow wrote A Courtship
of Miles Standish, but in therehe had lined God sifted three kingdoms to
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find the wheat for planting, andthen Ben Franklin Well Benjamin Franklin Morris,
he writes in eighteen sixty four,the persecution of the Puritans in England for
nonconformity, the religious agitations and conflictsin Germany by Luther and Geneva by Calvin,
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in Scotland by Knox were the preparatoryordeals in qualifying Christian men for work
of establishing civil institutions on the Americancontinent. God sifted in these conflicts a
whole nation that he might send choicegrain over to the wilderness, and the
blood and persecution of the martyrs becamethe seed of both church and the state.
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It was in these schools of fierytrial that the founders of the American
Republic were educated prepared for their grandChristian mission. They were trained in stormy
trials in order to prepare them establishingthe fundamentals principles of civil and religious liberty.
And then, concluding his address,Calvin cool had said they had a
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genius for organized society. On thefoundations of piety, righteousness, liberty,
obedience, law, Who can failto see in at the hand of destiny?
Who can doubt it was guided bydivine providence? And then the last
quote I have is from Douglas MacArthur, and he told the West Point Cadets
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
of danger and death, he disclosesthose divine attributes which is Maker gave when
he created man in his own image. No physical courage, no brute instinct,
can take the place of divine help, which alone can sustain him.
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However horrible the incidents of war maybe. The soldier who is called upon
to offer and to give his lifefor his country is the noblest development of
mankind. Well, Bill Feederick Cannoth, thank you enough for the history lesson
and you know setting us up forthis year's Memorial Day. It is an
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appointment that we will meet at threeo'clock in the afternoon on Memorial Day to
pause and pray and thank God andpray for those families that still carry in
their hearts the loss of the lossof a loved one who surrender it all
for our freedoms. Today, BillFetterer, thank you so much for being
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with us. Take care, myfriend. Thank you Bill, and thank
you ladies and gentlemen for sharing apart of your day with us. May
God bless you and keep you.May He make his face to shine upon
you. May He be gracious untoyou and give you his peace. Have
a great day. God bless
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FOURCY Radio. Well, hello andwelcome Bill Martinez here. Great to have
you with us as this is theweek we get prepared in thinking about Memorial
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Days. You know, this hasalways been a very special holiday for me
as a Vietnam era VET. Mytwo other brothers as well, one served
in combat in the army. Mydad course was the World War two VET.
Memorial Day always has been meaningful forour family. I think a rather
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hollow day, and when you thinkabout it, it's a Memorial Day,
the holiday that makes all America's holidayspossible. Now. Bill Vetter, the
American minut creator, nationally known speaker, best selling author, and president of
My Research, asked What would Americabe without Memorial Day? Bill Feederer,
welcome to show. Good to haveyou, hey, Bill, great to
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be with you. Well, that'supon some question. What would this country
be without Memorial Day? Bill,Well, we would not have a country.
And it's important for us to rememberthose that have given their lives.
And thank you Bill and your familyfor serving in the military. For those
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not familiar, Veterans Day is forthose that have served but are alive,
and Memorial Day is for those whohave died. And so it started in
America after the Civil War. Andso you had about a half million died
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in the Civil War on the Confederateside and on the Union side. And
so the story is that women andit began with Southern women placing flowers on
the graves of those who had died, both Union and Confederate. And so
numerous places claim to be the sourceof the first Memorial Day. Some of
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the ones are Warrenton, Virginia,Columbus, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia,
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Bolsburg, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, New York. So
those are all locations that have aclaim to possibly being the very first Memorial
Day. Interesting one is Charleston,South Carolina. Now, there was a
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mass grave uncovered of two hundred andfifty seven Union soldiers who had died in
a prison camp. And on Mayone of eighteen sixty five, former slaves
organized a parade led by twenty eighthundred singing black children, and they reinterred
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all those bodies in respectable grades.They read the Bible, they sang spirituals,
and they reburied the soldiers with honorand an act of gratefulness for their
ultimate sacrifice, for which gave themtheir freedom. That was Charleston, South
Carolina. You know, Bill,when you mentioned this, you mentioned the
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,
the loss to family. You know, we call them gold star families today.
Back then it was just they werefamily members. But that's significant,
and to me, they're as honorableas those that paid the sacrifice, because
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here it is, I mean,they're paying a sacrifice every day that they
miss that loved one at you know, special events, graduations, Father's Day,
you know, go on down theline. You know, that's an
incredible price for these families who havesurvived their loved one as a result of
you know, their loved one's commitmentto freedom. Yeah, and you know,
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I personally think that they get paidway too less. Here they are
risking their lives and living on verymeager amounts. I unfortunately get reports that
even to this day, soldiers areon food stamps. Yes, but here
they are risking their lives and theirfamilies are sacrificing, and the government is
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you know, not taking them asvaluable as they should be regarded. Well,
I think they should be tax free. I think that they should not
pay any taxes, and especially ifthere's been a death in the family.
I mean, look at you know, Palestinians and Arabs take better care of
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their people who die for the sakeof their jihad and their freedom, then
we our own soldiers. I meanyou think about that bill. Yeah,
you know, I just read areport today that said the government is wanting
to discourage legacy enrollment. And yougo, what's legacy enrollment? Uh,
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Where a soldier's father served and thegrandfather served and the great grandfather served and
they have this legacy. They said, those are the soldiers that are resisting
DEI yeah, the ectuality conclusion thatthey're wanting to keep the old ways,
they don't want to go woke.And so here with all the need for
recruitment, the military is specifically sayingwe want to stop recruiting legacy enrollment people
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that heritage. So there's a wargoing on inside. So years ago,
I was asked by Charlie Kirk,you know, we were doing an event
together, and goes, what doyou think it's the most serious threat?
And I go, it's the criticalrace theory in the military, basically chasing
out anybody that's patriotic. Historically,you had Lenin chased out people from the
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military that were faithful to the oldCzarist farm of government. You had Hitler
chasing out people that were part ofthe old faithful Weimar Republic. And so
this Diocletian even chased the Christians out, you know, in the fourth century
a d. And then once thetransition is made, then the military was
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used as an enforcement of a dictatorof their agenda on their own country.
Bill. Let me ask you this, I mean, because what you're touching
on something could have incredible ramifications inasmuchas that you've got a division within the
military. We saw this happen recentlywhere you had what I believe were significant
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quality flag officers being chased out ofthe branches of government. And I'm thinking,
what the heck is going on here? But to your point, it's
exactly that those officers they did notwant to go along, to get along
and put up with this DEI nonsense. They were given early retirement, you
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know, and they were forced outbasically. And what could very well happen
is these officers are there on thesidelines. They're observing how our freedoms are
being compromised with this modern, wokethought military that hasn't won a war in
what seventy years. Built. Yeah, I talked to a thirty year officer
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who's still in and he was oneof the few that did not want to
get the vacs, and so theytook him, with all of his years
of being on the front lines andyou know, Afghanistan, they put him
to be the guard at a shootingrange that he just you know, uh,
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they're specifically wanting to corner them offand demote him. And and he
said, I'm wondering if I wasto stay in or not. And it's
like well, you know, don'tleave any sooner than you feel led.
Because God, you know, hehad Joseph in pagan Egypt, and he
had began Babylon, and and soa lot of times God will have you
know, he had esther right andhere you have Persia and tis such as
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that exactly. But but I dothink Memorial Day, we we need to
honor those that have given their livesand risk their lives for the freedoms that
we enjoy, not for pronouns,not for diversity, equity and inclusion,
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 atwar against. You know, some would
say nationalism. You've written extensively onthat bill, how they've taken that word
and turned it into a pejorative whenthe fact of the matter is is American
nationalism is what we used to callpatriotism. Yeah. Yeah, It's like,
where did patriotism go in their lexicon? It's like, oh, we
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don't use that word anymore. We'regoing to use this word nationalists. Like
why do they call pro life peopleanti abortion? There's no pro life group
that puts anti abortion on their sign. The mainstream media always calls pro life
people anti, but why negative wordassociation? Exactly, called American patriots nationalists
negative word association. So I callus what we want patriots right exactly Lincoln's
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inaugural address, he said, intelligence, patriotism, Christianity are still competent to
adjust it in the best way.All our present difficult. Lincoln mentions patriotism
and Christianity right next to each other, and in inaugural there's nothing wrong with
being a Christian patriot. Ye.Well, as far as the left is
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
the left would want to say,but what you should be understanding, because
these are some of the things thatthey have failed to teach our children in
the public education and doctrination centers thatexists today. Bill Fetter, Well,
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you know, going back to thehistory of it, you have again after
the Civil War, there was aGeneral John A. Logan. He was
the commander of the veterans organization calledthe Grand Army of the Republic, so
it was a veterans organization, buthe called for a Decoration Day to decorate
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the graves of those and he pickedthe date of May thirty thirty and James
Garfield his only executive order when hewas assassinated after that, but his only
executive order was an eighteen eighty onewhere he gave government workers May thirtieth off
so they could decorate graves of thosewho had died in the Civil War.
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And then you have nineteen twenty onePresident Warren G. Harding. He had
the remains of a soldier killed inFrance during World War One brought to America
and placed in the Tomb of theUnknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. Arlington Cemetery
used to be the farm that belongedto Robert E. Lee, and it
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actually belonged to his father in law, George Washington Park Custis, who was
the adopted son of George Washington.And so that's arly on that. But
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier hasengraved on it her rests in honored glory,
an American soldier known but to God. And what a great story all
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that represents. The Tomb of theUnknown Soldier And how twenty one steps,
how that comes into play bill Ifyou can. We got plenty of time
today, so I really want torevisit the history of the you know,
of that special monument there and thatcelebration. Yeah, so it is guarded
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twenty four hours a day, threehundred and sixty five days a year.
I've talked to a friend of minehad been one of those soldiers, and
he would talk about the shift.Then they would go through the changing of
the guard and the formality that theywould follow, and then once they're on
duty, they would take twenty onesteps because a twenty one gun salute is
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the highest salute, and they wouldtake twenty one steps and then they would
turn and face the tomb for twentyone seconds and then return with the twenty
one steps. And they would dothis continually for their shift, and I
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
anyone to disrespect the tomb. Sothey were reguarding it, showing the honor
that America honors, not just thisone soldier we don't know his name,
but all the soldiers that this exactlypresents. Yeah, to me, that
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personifies in a spirit of Memorial Day, Bill, does it you? Yeah?
You know. Calvin Coolidge nineteen twentythree, in his Memorial Day address
said there can be no peace withthe forces of evil. Peace comes only
through the establishment of the supremacy ofthe forces of good. Yes, that
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way lies through sacrifice. And hegives a scripture, greater love hath no
man than this, that a manlaid out his life for his friends.
And so there are several assumptions.Number one, there's a good and there's
a bad. And number two,it's not coexistence, it's not all you
know, No, it's you havethe supremacy of the forces of you defeat
the enemy. None of this youknow, war on terror that you don't
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even know when it begins, whenit ends right right during the world one,
Bill, let me, let melet me interject here for just a
moment, because you touched on somethingreally significant here, and that is the
idea good and evil. What's reallyimportant and critical for us to understand there
is a difference. And because youdon'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
on the university campuses of this countryalone. I mean, it's clear they
do not understand the difference between goodand evil. What happened on October the
seventh, they're in Israel to fourteenhundred innocents. They are confused, and
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they bought in, just as youtalked about earlier, where they buy into
a narrative that's just basically a flatout lie. But you know, this
is what the evil one wants todo, is he wants to parade as
you know, as some confusing lightand misunderstanding. And here are young kids
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in our universities, these top universitiesacross the country, Bill are buying into
this lie because they don't understand thedifference between good and evil. Is that
fair to say? Yeah? Yeah, you know. In nineteen sixty three,
Congressman from Florida, Albert Herlong readinto the Congressional record forty five goals
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or tactics of the Communist Party totake over America. And they were things
like infiltrate the press, infiltrate bothpolitical parties. But one of them was
infiltrate the schools and transition them intobeing a transmission belts for communist propaganda,
the associations, and then the otherone 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
and so then you had Sallinski andhe was a community organizer in Chicago.
Hillary Clinton did her senior thesis onSalynsky. Obama was an Olinsky organizer in
Chicago. Salynsky says that you wantto foment your students to riot, but
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you cannot keep your followers at ahigh emotional level for an extended period of
time. So you need to keepswitching up the issues. So it's the
same people and they're rioting, butthere's new issues each time. And they're
useful idiots, they don't really know. And so you go from Occupy Wall
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Street where they set up pup tentsin downtowns, and then you go to
George Floyd Dry and then the SeattleAutonomous Zones and and I mean they're doing
you know, all these different rights. It's the same group of people.
Yeah, exactly, we can't leta good crisis go to waste. Bill
shouldn't matter that leaders like Hillary Clintonand Barack Obama community you know, Barack
Obama community organizer, Hillary Clinton,who was in a sense mentored by Saul
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Alinsky. Should it matter that theleaders of our government who were in high
office, that they they led ourcountry, and what contribution to those socialistic
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
Presents, the first one that talkedabout everybody owning in common. And it
sounds good till you think it throughsomebody else in the government handing out the
common stuff, and they're always attemptedto want to funnel a little extra to
their family and friends and then keepback from those they don't like, and
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it gets discretionary. And the sayingis he who holds the purse strings has
the power. Right attempt that everybodyowning everything equally always ends up with a
deep state bureaucracy passing out favors totheir friends. And so socialism is a
false promise. And I tell people, what if older fish could tell younger
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fish to stay away from shiny thingsdangling in the water like a hook,
But they can't. Every new generationthe younger fish, he's a shiny thing
that are attracted and caught. Socialismis a shiny thing dangling in the water.
Free food, free clothes, freeeducation, exactly, freeze attractive,
but there's a hook. You giveup control of your life. So exactly,
oh, we want socialist, wewant free stuff. It's like you're
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giving up control of your life andwhat the government giveth, the government can
take it away. If exactly Bill, It's almost like, you know,
we're back to that that crossroads whenthe children of Israel ask God for a
king and the prophet you know,was was disturbed and he felt rejected and
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goes to God and says, theywant a king, they want a human
king, and I feel like I'vebeen rejected. God says, no,
they didn't reject you, they rejectme. And then he warned him and
saying, look at if you wanta king, I want to give you
a king. But I want youto understand what's going to happen. You
know, the king is going totake the very best. He's going to
control your kids, you know,just right on down the line. He's
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going to tax your full head offand exactly everything that God warned the children
of Israel would happen when they,you know, for they decided to turn
their back on the King of kings, God Almighty and gave and embraced the
human king happened to them. AndI can't help but feel like some of
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that dying has occurred here in theUnited States of America. What do you
say, Yeah, you know whatmakes America great. America is an experiment
of people ruling themselves without a king. That's in the Declaration. It says
government from the consent of the governed. So you get to be in charge.
Lincolns Gettysburg address that this nation underGod shall have a new birth of
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freedom in the government of the people, by the people, and for the
people shall not perish from the earth. So it's not government by a king
ruled top down through fear thinking thatthey're smarter than you are. This is
where you trust the people and we'llget involved. And so what makes America
great is is you, the citizen, gets to be in charge. And
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so, you know, the Christiannationalists used to call Christian patriotism, and
it was this idea that you getto be in charge of your life and
then all those together in charge ofour country. And that's sort of a
good thing, you know. Gettingback to the Memorial Day World War One
poem was written named in flanders Fieldand by John McCrae, and he was
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from Canada. He was an expeditionarygunner and it was the classic. By
the way, in Kansas City,Missouri, there is the best World War
One museum ever. It's like enormous. But he describes the first use of
chlorine gas. So this is JohnMcCrae writing the poem flanders Field, World
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War One, the second Battle ofYepres, near Flanders, Belgium. For
seventeen days and seventeen nights, noneof us have had our clothes off,
nor our boots even except occasionally.In all that time while I was awake.
Gunfire, rifle fire never sees forsixty seconds. And behind it all
was the constant background of the sitesof the dead, the wounded, the
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main terrible anxiety lest the line shouldgive way, and then the course they
would bury him, and then theywould have poppies, which were these flowers
in the field and in flanders Field, the poppies blow between the crosses row
by row that mark our place.And in the sky the larks still bravely
singing fly scarce heard amidst the gunbelow. We are dead. Short days
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ago we lived, we felt,saw sunset glow, loved and were loved,
and now we lie in flanders Field. And then the next verse,
take up our quarrel with the foeto you from falling hands. We throw
the torch, be yours to holdit high. If you break faith with
us who die, we shall notsleep though poppies grow in flanders Field.
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And so it's this idea that youcarry on the fight for freedom exactly.
And what a great poem that's alwaysbeen one of my favorites. We're talking
with Bill Fetter is the American minutecreator, nationally known speaker, and best
selling author. Bill, you knowyou look back again this rich history of
ours, less than two hundred andfifty years, all things considered. But
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what a blessedation by God Almighty.Right. Yeah, when you unleash human
potential, that people get to pursuetheir dreams, they get, as Reagan
said, that we get to pursueour own destiny. That you have inventions
and ideas and innovations, and whereasyou know, and where there's a monarchy
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or their dictator, you invent something, they just take it away. Like
I spend hours in my garage andbasement coming up with a new invention.
If it's just gonna be stolen.But once you can say no, you
can get a patent on it.It's yours. Like okay, man,
I'm going to put in the time. You know some of the famous people
from Property was so key Bill right. I mean, it was so innovative
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and critical to this American dream becauseit put the power in the hands of
the people. Yeah. That,and I think that you know as unique
how America came to be. Wewere breaking away from the King of England.
He was a globalist. He wasa one world government guy. The
son never set on the British Empireinto Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong,
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British going on in Canada, Barbatospermuted Jamaica right, and America's founders
decided they did not like a globalistking telling us what to do, and
they broke away and flipped it andmade the people the king. So kings
have subjects who were subjected to theirwill. Republics have citizens. The word
citizen is Greek. It means coruler, co so co king. And
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so we pledge legiance to the flagin two that republic for which its sands.
We're basically pledging allegiance to us beingin charge of ourselves exactly. So
when somebody protests the flag, whatthey're saying is, I don't want to
be the king anymore. I protestthis system, or I participated ruling myself.
It's like, okay, somebody elsewill dictate your Oh yeah, if
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not you, then ooh right.And you know, one of the stories
from World War One is Sergeant AlvinYork. And so my wife and I
put together a book called Miracles inAmerican History, and this is a fascinating
one. He originally was a conscientiousobjector, but then he went ahead and
prayed and felt that he was supposedto go over there. And and so
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his group by the Chateel Cherai railline in France, and he's said the
machine guns were spitting fire, cuttingdown everyone around him, and all but
a small number of his group werekilled. And he was a country boy
from backwoods Kentucky, Tennessee, andhe was a sharpshooter, and so he
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would start picking off these machine gunturrets and then well you're picking them off
so much that they would lift uphis head and so he would make turkey
calls. He said, boom,he shoot him, you know, and
then uh, he turns and he'sbeing charged from behind, and he had
his revolver and he had like sixshots in his revolve and there's like six
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guys and he said, I shothim the way you shoot turkey. You
shoot the furthest away one first,because if you shoot the closest one,
the other ones will scatter. You'llnever get them. And then he turns
around and he says he could shootbetter standing up. And so he's standing
up making these turkey calls, andevery time they pop up their head,
Booby shoots them. And then alittle white flag comes up and down March
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one hundred and thirty two Germans,and the German commander says, well,
how many of you are there?And there's just Sergeant Alvin York and maybe
another guy who crawls out of thebushes like that. And he marches them
down and nobody's about to run awaybecause they know he's a sharpshooter and can
pick him off. And so hebrings them all captive and he gets the
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gold medal for them. And yearslater somebody was questioning the story. So
they sent somebody over to France tothis area with a metal detector, and
sure enough the spot that they did, this whole circle of spent shells right
around the one spot where he saidhe was at even still. Uh,
that's amazing that that's they were stillthere. Bill. And he comes back
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to America and he opens a Bibleschool, the York Bibles to do.
Gary Cooper doesn't move on it.And he says, some of them officers
been saying, I be in amountain, boy, done these things just
the right way by instinct. Buthe says, that can't account for the
way I come out alive with allthat heavy fire spitting fire on us,
and then all those bounds and thosemen charging me from behind. He said,
I only have one explanation that Godmust have heard my prayers exactly.
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And how many times did we hearof George Washington and the same thing.
But for the hand of divine providence, right, yeah, yeah, And
so you had Harry S. Trumanwas in World War One. Eddie Rickenbacker
he was more or less the foundingfather of the conservative movement in America,
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and he had a radio program,But before then he was a race car
driver and Illinois, and then hewas drafted in Indiana and he was the
driver for General Pershing. By theway, General Pershing wrote the foreword to
a new Testament published by the NewYork Bible Society that was given out to
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all the soldiers exactly I remember,yeah, right. And so Eddie Rickenbacker
sees he's plane flying and he decidesthat he wants to be a pilot.
So on the the middle of thewar, he just switches over learns how
to fly a plane, and oh, he shoots down. Can you imagine
I'm going to change my mos inmidstream? General, I'm sorry, you're
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 ninetyfourth Arrow squadron and they shoot down
like sixty nine planes and he getsthe metal for it. Unfortunately, one
of the pilots was Quentin Roosevelt.Teddy Roosevelt's son. Eddie Rickenbacker said he
was a great pilot and he was, you know, shooting up. But
then he was finally ambushed by theGermans and he was shot down. And
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Eddie Rickenbaker says, I'm not suchan egotist to believe that God saved me
because I'm I. He says,many other men that were more skilled and
more talented that I did died,And he says, the only explainace is
that God spared me because He hasworked for me to do, just like
he has worked for you to do. Exactly Later in life, he says
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that you know, when the candleof life burdens dim, I can say,
thank God, I've done my mostfor the country that's done the most
for me. What a testimony,Bill and see and the stories like this
that you and Susie have written aboutthey have bound I mean. And they
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were just a natural outpouring of lifeexperience of what they would probably define is
themselves as ordinary men, nothing special, just ordinary men and maybe you could
say in an extraordinary position. Andthey rose to the challenge, right Yeah.
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Another was Irving Berlin and he's creditedwith writing God Bless americamous song.
Ernest Hemingway Jr. R. Tolkienfought World War one C. S Lewis
War one. My grandfather, OrvilleWilliam Eperson, he was from the Ozark
Farm in Missouri and he was inthe three hundred and thirty eighth machine Gun
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Battalion, eighty eighth Division, andhe came back from the war and married
my grandmother and had three children,my mom and an aunt and then an
uncle. But I never met him. He was my mom's only brother,
and he died in World War Two. So you have d Day, part
of Operation Overlord, which saw amonth, and he was one of those
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that died. He was in aB seventeen shot down and they never saw
him again, but the tail gunner'sbody washed up on the shore and they
figured that's must have been where theplane went down. But his name is
over there on the the memorial therewhere they have the d DA Memorial of
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the soldiers. His name was OrbielWilford Eperson. Oh, but you had
family members served in the military,and you served in the military. And
I think that it's only proper thatwe give the respect and the honor to
those that have given the most paidthe highest price, so that we can
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have the freedom to talk and shareour viewers and else I believe to be
able to tell people the Gospel andhow much God loves them exactly. And
most men who've been in combat andbeen in this situation when you think about
it, Bill, you know,and I was looking at the numbers since
seventeen seventy five, I think,and they quote and these are the numbers
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through twenty nineteen, so we don'thave modern numbers yet, but something like
two point eight million casualties of warduring that period of time. And of
course you're talking family members. Again, they're not included, but yet they
are. They're the collateral damage ina sense of this ultimate price paid by
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their loved one, you know,on the behalf of freedom, because without
them, you know, that goesback to the first question we asked,
you know what happens if America doesn'thave Memorial Day? Then basically you just
have taken out the underpinnings of itsvery soul, haven't you. Yeah.
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You know a friend of mine,I'll bragg on. I'm Chris Long of
Ohio Christian Alliance. He was readingmy American Minute. I sent out a
little history email called American Minute,and I did one on World War Two
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
Memorial has five quotations mentioning God.Lincoln Memorial has the quotations mentioning God otherwise
do but not the World War TwoMemorial. So he got his Congressman Bill
Johnson, Senator Rob Portman, andthey put forth a bill. It took
ten years through the raised the millionsof dollars, and right next and all
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the approval processes that you have togo through. So about fifty yards away
from the World War Two Memorial isthe Circle of Remembrance and has Franklin Roosevelt's
d Day prayer on four bronze plaques. And frank Roosevelt was a Democrat,
so the Democrats voted for it theRepublican report. But Franklin Roosevelt gave this
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prayer June sixth, nineteen forty four. My fellow Americans, I asked you
to join me in prayer, AlbeightyGod, our sons, pride of our
nation. This day had set upona mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve
our republic, our religion. Whatreligion is he talking about? Well,
Franklin Roosevelt passed out Gideon's New Testamentsand Book as Psalms to all the soldiers,
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and he wrote the foreword. Ascommander Chief, I take pleasure in
commanding the reading of the Bible.And this time ninety three percent of the
country identified as Christian, exactly Protestant, twenty four percent Catholic. The cadets
in the military had to go througheither chapel. Service was mandatory and it
is either Protestant, Catholic, orJewish, and about a three percent of
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the country was Jewish anyway. Sohere's Franklin Roosevelt, our son's pride of
our nation. This day set upona might endeavor struggle to preserve our republic,
our religion, and our civilization.Give the strength to their arms,
stoutness, and their hearts steadfaster theirfaith. The road will belong. And
hard enemy is strong, may hurlthem back. We know that by thy
grace and by thy righteousness, ourcause our sons will triumph. And then
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he says some will never return.Race these father, and he says,
into and receive them, heroic servants, into thy kingdom. And so that's
what we do. We're acknowledging theseheroic servants. And Eisenhower put a soldier
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in the tomb of the Unknown Soldierfrom World War Two in the Korean War,
and it was Ronald Reagan that puta soldier in the World War two
memorial, the Tomb of the UnknownSoldier from the Vietnam War, right exactly.
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Bill, That's amazing to think thatworld War two we weren't that far
removed. I mean, you stillhad, you know, a dominant belief
system in God in America during WorldWar Two. Why would they omit God
from that memorial. All the designersleft it out. It just seems to
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me that was done on purpose.Yes, yes, And one of them
was even a quote from FDR wherehe said, we'll gain the inevitable triumph.
But you read the quote, itsays will gain the inefftable triumph,
so help us God, but theyso helpless God. Oh, we didn't
have enough space on the stone toadd that, and it's like, come
on, right and so that,but thank God we now have. They
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just dedicated it last year the Circleof Remembrance. It's the only place on
the whole mall in Washington, DCdedicated to a prayer. So if you
go up there, you have togo to that Circle of Remembrance and pray
for our country. You know,an interesting trivia that Reagan put the soldier
in the tomb from the Vietnam.Family had some suspicion that it could have
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been their son, and they spenta decade through the process of getting that
tomb unsealed and doing a DNA test, and sure enough, the Vietnam War
soldier was Michael Blassie, and heflew a A three seven B Dragonfly,
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a Dragonfly plane, and he wasshot down near Anne Locke, Vietnam.
He'd graduated from the Air Force Academyin nineteen seventy. Prior to that,
he graduated from Saint Louis University HighSchool in nineteen sixty six, which is
my alma mater. Oh wow,so I graduated in seventy six. He
graduated in sixty six from Saint LouisUniversity High School. And so they take
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took his remains out of the Tombof the Unknown Soldier and reburied them in
Saint Louis at in Jefferson Barracks Park. So that used to be a big
Civil War for Mount Park, butthey have a cemetery there. Did they
find another unknown Vietnam casualty to replacehim in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
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Bill? No, they said becauseof DNA testing that from now on
they'll be able to know who itis. So there's no more just the
Korean Wars the last person that wehave in there right. But in the
year two thousand, Congress passed theNational Moment of Remembrance Act, where on
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Memorial Day at three PM, citizensshould pause for a moment of prayer.
Quote. Congress finds that it isessential to remember and renew the legacy of
Memorial Day to pay tribute to individualswho have made the ultimate sacrifice in service
of the United States. Greater stridesmust be made to demonstrate appreciation for those
loyal people whose values represent their sacrificesare critical to the future of the United
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States. Encourage citizens to dedicate themselvesto the principles for which those heroes of
the United States died. Symbolic actof unity, to honor men and women
of the United States who died inthe pursuit of freedom and peace. As
a day of prayer and permanent peace. So well, that time we need
to mark on our calendars, youknow, from now to perpetuity three o'clock.
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You know, every Memorial Day wepause from prayer to commemorate and remember
those that sacrifice their lives for thefreedoms that we enjoy today. Right,
Bill, Yeah, you know afamous poem written by an army soldier,
Charles Michael Province, and you mayhave heard it, but it's worth repeating.
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It's short, the soldier, notthe minister, who has given us
freedom of religion. It's the soldier, not the reporter who's given us freedom
of press. It's the soldier,not the poet, who's given us freedom
of speech. It's the soldier,not the campus order who's given us freedom
to protest. It's the soldier,not the lawyer who's given us the right
to a fair trial. It's thesoldier, not the politician who's given us
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the right to vote. It's thesoldier who salutes the flag, served beneath
the flag, and whose coffin isdraped with the flag, who allows the
protesters to burn the flag. Butit's this recognition that if we had not
had the soldiers fight and defend ourcountry, what would be left. It
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was that gang war on a globalscale, and you basically a king is
a gang leader. You'd have aRussian gang leader, a Chinese gang leader,
a North Korean gang leader, anIranian gang leader, it will be
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 governmentwhere we're not ruled by a gang.
We're ruled by the people exactly,and it's job is in a sense,
So Bill, with his force inthis movement for a globalist rule,
aren't we setting ourselves up for someform or fashion of you know, you
know, a gang, you knowtyranny? Yeah, I think you know.
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Jesus says, wheat and terrors growtogether to the harvest. One of
the books I just finished a book. It's called Silence Equals Consent. But
I in the beginning of it gothrough how the default setting for human government
is gangs. If we were toget rid of all police tomorrow, you'd
have gangs. The gang leaders woulddemand loyalty. And the first recorded instance
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of this is Nimrod Tower of Babel. Right, So, the Noah's ark
lands and Mount air ra At downthat valley, Tiger's euphrates rivers the Fertile
Crescent Mesopotamia, and that's where civilization, according to most anthropologists, are originated.
And then from that point the languagesand the people migrated out, but
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that's where they were at, andNimrod wanted to build a tower so high,
according to Josephus, the Jewish commentator, that if God destroyed the world
again with a flood, you couldsurvive on top. So it had this
defiant, in your face attitude towardGod. And Nimrod made everyone baked bricks
and bring him or he would killthem. So it was oppress him over
man. God comes down. Sothe Tower of Babel was in a sense
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the first attempt at a one worldgovernment, and God comes down confuses the
languages and the people scatter into languagegroups that turn into nations. Right,
nations were God's invention to postpone aone world government. But every generation you
have a king that wants to conquerother nations, and if left unchecked,
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they'd have been happy to conquer thewhole world. So in that sense,
death is a blessing right. Andso these dictators, Nimron, Pharaoh,
Caesar's guys are They die off andthen the devil has to pick up where
he left off and find another greedy, ambitious person. But he can use
the latest military advancements, and soinstead of king killing able with a rock.
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.
Israel, when they first came outof Egypt for four hundred years was
an anomaly that you and people inno king. It's called the Hebrew Republic
until they asked for a king.But that period was what inspired the colonists
in America. So that's why theytaught Hebrew at Yale and Harvard, and
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so we were at more or less. The Puritans wanted to continue that Hebrew
Republic experiment. Right, have everybodytaught the law and accountable to God to
follow it. And so it unleashedthis country where people could pursue their dreams
and their visions. You could comeacross the border. We lived in Dallas,
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and there was this family that wasvery successful and the dad had come
across from Mexico, did not speakEnglish. He pushed a lawn more and
then he got a little cement mixerand he would put in driveways and patios,
and then he got a cement truck, and then a pickup truck,
and then a dump truck, andbefore 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
the family, they were putting ina section of this interstate six thirty five.
Oh my god, we're talking multiplelanes and bridges and highways and all
friends and am resid and the lawnmowerright, unbelievable only in English. And
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,
uh boycotting a Dollar General with theirlittle umbrellas thing, don't buy from the
Dollar General because they didn't use ourlabor. Write this. And my daughter,
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right, she's in grade school,she's like in a life. It's
like every day she drive by thesegrown men sitting there in front of a
Dollar General, is like, don'tbuy this Dollar General because they and we
come from Texas where you could startwith nothing and become successful. And she's
like, get up. So it'sthis idea that instead of you know,
if you get a bigger piece ofthe pie, you're taken away from me.
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But down there, it was nojust buy a new pie. Just
in a new industry. You knowright well, and that's uh. You
know, that's the provision of Godhimself. God doesn't give in such a
way bill that he takes from youto give to me. It comes from
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
where the conflict comes into play inthe paradox, because when you're with God,
you understand it's never ending. Butwhen you're with the evil one,
you don't understand the ways of Godand the ways of the Kingdom, do
you. No, No, youknow. Memorial Day, it's all throughout
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the Bible. The Passover is amemorial to remember how God delivered the children
of Israel from the Angel of Deathin Egypt. Noah Webster's eighteen twenty eight
Dictionary gives a definition of memorial thatwhich preserves the memory of something. A
monument is memorial of a diseased personor an event. The Lord's Supper is
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a memorial to the death suffering ofChrist. So in the very dictionary is
talking about a memorial, but it'stalking about we have a memorial, and
it's communion. We're remembering what Jesusdid. And you know, the Jews
remember pass Over. And so inExodus chapter twelve, the Lord tells the
childern of Visrals, speaking to thecongregation visual and the tenth day of the
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month, they shall take every mana lamb. According to the house.
Your lamb will be without blemish.She'll keep it till the fourteenth day.
The whole assembly of Israel shall killit. At the evening, take the
blood, strike it on the twodoor posts. I'll pass through the land
of Egypt and execute judgment. Andwhen I see the blood, I will
pass over you, and the plagueshall not be upon you, for this
shall be unto you. For amemorial memorial out your generations, an ordinance
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forever well. It is a truegift of God, isn't it? And
he he gives us things like thatto remember because we were in our own
humanness, it's so easy for usto forget. Bill right, We've got
a couple of minutes left, andI want you to I want to give
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you some time to kind of summarizeagain what we've been talking about. The
significance of Memorial Day, the holidaythat makes all America's holidays possible. Calvin
Coolidge summed it up best in hisMemorial Day address May thirty first, nineteen
twenty three. He gives a littlehistory, says settlers came here from mixed
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motives generally defined. They were seekinga broader freedom. They were intent upon
establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance withthe principles of self government. They were
it had been said that God siftedthe nations that he might send choice grain
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into the wilderness. And then Coolidgewas citing in a sermon by a famous
governor in Massachusetts, William Stawton,and he said God sifted the whole world
that he might send choice grain overinto the wilderness. In other words,
who came to America. It's prettycourageous people. Oh yeah, risk the
boat ride. Many of them,you know, mortgaged their homes, many
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of them fled from persecutions. Andso the people that came here were not
lazy, and they were not comingover looking for a welfare check. These
were people that said, look,just give me an opportunity and I'm going
to work hard. And half ofthem died Bill in the first year,
right, Yeah, the pilgrims.Yeah, Henry Wadworth Longfellow wrote A Courtship
of Miles Standish, but in therehe had lined God sifted three kingdoms to
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find the wheat for planting, andthen Ben Franklin Well Benjamin Franklin Morris,
he writes in eighteen sixty four,the persecution of the Puritans in England for
nonconformity, the religious agitations and conflictsin Germany by Luther and Geneva by Calvin,
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in Scotland by Knox were the preparatoryordeals in qualifying Christian men for work
of establishing civil institutions on the Americancontinent. God sifted in these conflicts a
whole nation that he might send choicegrain over to the wilderness, and the
blood and persecution of the martyrs becamethe seed of both church and the state.
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It was in these schools of fierytrial that the founders of the American
Republic were educated prepared for their grandChristian mission. They were trained in stormy
trials in order to prepare them establishingthe fundamentals principles of civil and religious liberty.
And then, concluding his address,Calvin cool had said they had a
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genius for organized society. On thefoundations of piety, righteousness, liberty,
obedience, law, Who can failto see in at the hand of destiny?
Who can doubt it was guided bydivine providence? And then the last
quote I have is from Douglas MacArthur, and he told the West Point Cadets
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
of danger and death, he disclosesthose divine attributes which is Maker gave when
he created man in his own image. No physical courage, no brute instinct,
can take the place of divine help, which alone can sustain him.
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However horrible the incidents of war maybe. The soldier who is called upon
to offer and to give his lifefor his country is the noblest development of
mankind. Well, Bill Feederick Cannoth, thank you enough for the history lesson
and you know setting us up forthis year's Memorial Day. It is an
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appointment that we will meet at threeo'clock in the afternoon on Memorial Day to
pause and pray and thank God andpray for those families that still carry in
their hearts the loss of the lossof a loved one who surrender it all
for our freedoms. Today, BillFetterer, thank you so much for being
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with us. Take care, myfriend. Thank you Bill, and thank
you ladies and gentlemen for sharing apart of your day with us. May
God bless you and keep you.May He make his face to shine upon
you. May He be gracious untoyou and give you his peace. Have
a great day. God bless
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