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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Wednesday's Hero. Today's hero is Alan Lynch, Specialist,
fourth class US Army. Name of the story is pulling
the Men to Safety. Alan Lynch was bullied throughout his
school years. A loner, he was a poor student who
had few friends, so when he graduated from high school
in nineteen sixty four, he felt that he had to
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get away from Chicago and build a new life. He
enlisted in the Army that November. After three weeks of
basic training, he was invited to attend Officer Candidate school
at Fort Benning, Georgia. After four weeks, he dropped out.
He was reassigned to a unit in Germany. A year later,
he volunteered to serve in Vietnam. Upon arriving in Vietnam
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in the fall of nineteen sixty six, Lynch was assigned
to the twelfth cav where for several months he served
as a rifleman, then became his platoon's radio telephone operator.
In December nineteen sixty seven, his company was in the
Boonshan area of the Central Highlands. His unit had been
in almost daily firefights with the enemy for over a
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month and a half, and on December fourteenth, it was
ordered that he would go to the rear for rest
and recuperation. Well earned, but another company in the battalion
was ambushed the next morning, and Lynch's unit was quickly
reassembled and put back in During an air assault against
a large force of North Vietnamese regulars in viet Cong
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who were massing for the Tet offensive which would erupt
just two months later, the fighting was heavy throughout the morning.
Early in the afternoon, Lynch saw three wounded soldiers out
in the open who were under intense enemy fire. He
dropped his radio and went to help. Despite heavy enemy fire,
he reached the men and carried them one by one
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to a trench that offered some protection. The Americans were
separated from the enemy by a large hedgegove bamboo now
Lynch fired at the sound of the enemy's voices over
the next few hours, and he killed several of them.
Lynch's company temporarily pulled back because.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Of the intensity of the enemy fire.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Then he located counterattacking friendly forces and assisted evacuating their wounded.
He was in action for several more weeks before he
was ordered to the rear. In June nineteen sixty eight,
he was sent to Fort Hood, Texas, where he was
discharged in.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
April nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
One year later, one day before he was to be married,
he was returning home from his job as a UPS
delivery man when he saw that he was being followed
by a policeman. Now Lynch feared he was going to
receive a ticket, but the officer handed him a note
the telephone.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Number on it, and he was told to call it.
When he called, he was informed that he was going
to receive the Medal of Honor, which President Richard Nixon
presented to him on May fourteenth, nineteen seventy. A few
months later, Lynch took a job with.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
The Veterans Administration. Lynch graduated from Southern Illinois University with
a degree in healthcare administration. He also completed twenty one
years of service in the Army, Reserve and National Guard.
In November two thousand and five, he retired as a
chief of the Veterans' Rights Bureau for the Illinois Attorney General.
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Lynch now volunteers as the Chief Service Representative for the
Illinois State Council of the Vietnam Veterans of America. He
is also active in a men's Bible study and ministry
at the County Jail. Today's Hero is Alan Lynch born
October twenty eighth, nineteen forty five in Chicago, Illinois, where
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he lives today.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The name of the story pulling the Men to Safety.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And is Wednesday's Hero every Wednesday, little after ten eight him.
I really enjoy doing.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Those great job.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
By the way, thank you.
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Speaker 1 (04:19):
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From the steel of the twin towers. The love you're
gonna love Horse Soldier Bourbon does. I bring in my
buddy Roco with camp Hero. It's good to see Rocco.
How you doing, man, I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
If you went to uh straight out of acting, you
are you look like a Roco? There's no, there's no,
that's a Roco right there.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
If Central Casting.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Central Casting called and said they need a Rocco, I'm
saying I'm bringing you up.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah, yeah, I had to fit into my name. Now.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Now, if you want to if you want a Sergeant
Buttercup and I'm your God.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Rocco and Sergeant butter.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Hey, let's talk about turning your scars into stars because
you're a great example of this and doing good for
the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You served in the military.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yes, and.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
There was emotional and mental baggage from that exactly. Then
you come home, like all veterans do, and many veterans
go in law enforcement. You get into law enforcement, you
become a law officer. And I'm trying to recall the story.
We've been friends for many years, but at some point
you get ran over by a suspect and even dragged,
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and I think, and correct.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Me if I'm wrong on this.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Was it your video, your dash cam video or something
shown on a national one of these shows, you know,
Cops Worst Adventures?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
What it was?
Speaker 6 (05:44):
It was on the on bodycam on the ID channel. Okay,
So they actually reached out to me after the incident,
and since there was three body cameras there, two in
car cameras there, they wanted to be able to show
my story and I said, yeah, but I want to
be able to talk about how what happened afterwards.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
So you know, I was like you said.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I was in the military, got medically retired, became a
police officer in Shepherdsville, and was a police officer from
twenty nine to twenty seventeen. July third, twenty sixteen, I
stopped a vehicle they pulled into the circle k there
in Shepherdsville and ran the tag show they had a
suspended license. Come to find out, she had multiple felony warrants.
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And when I went to go get her out of
the vehicle, I got stuck between her and the steering wheel,
and she got it started and floorida and dragged me
about fifty feet might a rud hand turned. I rolled out,
hit the curb on my neck and upper back over
my legs.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Lucky alive.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, no, kidd right.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Well it goes with my side. I was big.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Then the doctor actually told me, he said if I
didn't have the muscle mass on my shoulders in back
that I'd probably either been dead or down. I jumped up,
ran to my car when after she ended up getting
forty years in prison. But I was dically retired due
to spinal injuries, and that brought on all the oh,
all the mental part of it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So let's now you can't do your job.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Let's talk about that though, Let's and let's talk about
how difficult when you have look I suffer from with
mental issues as well.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Okay, I didn't serve. I've got severe.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I was diagnosed in October severe PTSD, severe depression, and
moderate OCD. And I've dealt with this most of my life.
But men don't want to talk about depression. They want
to talk about mental issue.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You needed help, and there wasn't a whole lot of
options out there for you, right, correct?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Yeah, I was suppressed. I was suicidal. Fell look like
I no longer had a purpose because I felt like
my identity was being taken from me and my my
you know what I thought I was going to be
doing the rest of my life, you know. And I've
been putting this out a lot because June is Men's
Mental Health Awareness Month, so I've you know, I used
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my story to encourage others to let them know it's
okay to not be okay. Yeah, So when there was
nothing out there for first responders when I needed it,
I rely on my military mental health because I didn't
want to talk to someone I didn't think would understand it, right,
And I started getting back in the outdoors, and I
realized how beneficial it was to be out in nature,
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how naturally calming and healing it was, just to.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Be out in nature.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Yale actually did a study that well, one hundred and
twenty minutes a week, and that's a hard number. If
you spend one hundred and twenty minutes a week in nature,
then it actually changes the chemical balance in your brain,
gives you more positive outlook and reduces anxiety, depression and PTSD.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Ah, that's amazing because before Yale did that story, the
old thing was the sign on the business was gone fishing. Yeah,
and guys figured that out without a study, But that's
what they used to do without knowing that. And you knew,
you know when we knew, and Dwight, now we're doing mornings.
In two thousand and we were getting into that fight
again in Iraq. We've talked about all the Thomas is,
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we're not paying for the war. Now, it'll be when
these guys and gals come back. And boy it did.
But this is a great idea. So you decided you
went out and bought land exactly.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
My wife and I bought one hundred and sixty acres
just southeast of Lexton, Kentucky and Jackson County, and I
immediately started Campiro, started hosting vets and first responders out there,
and the idea was getting them out there, getting them
in nature, but then also getting these small groups together
to develop this peer support system, because the strongest support
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I've ever found from anyone were the other people that's
been through it and that deal with it because they
get it, you know, and you can sit there and
discuss things or thoughts and feelings and you don't have
to worry about being judged. You don't have to worry
about them thinking you need to be locked up somewhere
because they're experiencing the same thing. So I tell people,
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I can take five or six veter first responders from
around the country, never met each other in their life, right,
bring them down to camp. Within an hour, they're making
fun of each other. Within two hours, you know, they're
making fun of each other's families. But by the end
of the night, sitting around the campfire, they'll sit there
and talk to things, talk about things they won't even
talk to their families about because they know the person
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the left and the person of the right and get it,
and they understand.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
That's absolutely critical too when it comes to veterans because
and I didn't really understand this concept or either think
of this concept. Tony and I have a very dear friend,
Gunny Cole is what he goes by. He's retired Special
Forces and he's actually the president National President of Veterans.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Mc SO at the Louisville chapter.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I've been to their clubhouse many times, and one time
he has just explained it to me. He said, veterans
need other veterans to talk about issues because I could
talk to you all day long and you're not going
to comprehend and you're not going to connect with me
where I need to be connected with it. So that's
what Camp Hero does for veterans.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And first response, that's what you just said gave me
chills because it is. I don't think women have a
hard issue, uh with figuring out camaraderie, Like they don't
understand why guys love being around other guys and and
feeling that way.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I've always said it's why football players play too long.
It's not about the game, it's about being with the
boys and it's just being When you just described that
whole day.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yep, and they they feel like they're part of something again.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, yea. So one of the challenges with that, I
mean that that's not that's not something small, bro, I
mean you're you're starting to camp in Jackson County. That's
a lot too.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
It Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
The adjustment to try to do that, I bet was
a challenge.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
It was.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
And one good thing is I was able to use
my story and to help push the camp and that
that gave me a lot of credibility with vets and
first responders because there's a lot of about you know, nonprofits,
veteran organizations you know, ran by people who are not veterans.
But since I was able to use my story and
say hey, this is what I found, helped me, you know,
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and I bring them out there and be like we
were under you know, I don't advertisers come out here
and get therapy. I'm advertising, come out here, have a
good time, spend time with other vets. But the whole
time they're getting there.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Right, that's great. So how do we help you?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
We have our annual fundraiser coming up called Benefit for
the Brave. It's our fifth one and that is gonna
be at the Campbell House in Lexington on August ninth,
goes from seven to eleven. You can go to the
tickets are one hundred dollars each. You can get a
table for nine hundred for ten tickets. There's different sponsorship
options also, but we're gonna have live and solid auctions.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
We're gonna have raffles, We'll probably have.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Over thirty firearms there, gonna have it's all you can
eat barbecue, BFFE, gonna have an open bar. Mixed Or
is actually sponsoring our fundraiser and they're providing all the
whiskey for it all. And then we're also going to
have our special guest that's actually going to be speaking.
He's not a veteran first sponder, but his name's Josh
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Carney and he was thirteen years old and he got
shot by his dad turkey hunting. So he ended up
becoming paralyzed from the waist down from then. So he's
got his own story of trauma, dealing with that and
you know, overcoming that, and he's been huge in the
outdoor industry because from that injury of being shot, he's
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able to make any animal voice by just his mouth.
So he's been in the outdoor and he can make
duck elk everything else just by using his mouth.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Hey do a platypus?
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I mean, but but you know what's crazy is, you
know we're really good friends, and you know we use
what we dug have dealt with and what we're still
struggling with, especially with the spinal stuff. I've had nine
spinal surgery since then, and a lot of people think,
you know, spinal injury means your back hurts. You know,
your spine affects everything, you know, So so you know,
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we joke and stuff back and forth, and you know,
I'll joke with him with paraplegic jokes and he well,
he actually he'll make more paraplegic jokes than I could
even think of. But uh yeah, it's it's always a
good time. And he likes it because he fits in
with all the vets and first responders there at camp
because he's dealt with his own trauma. So you get
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people together that have dealt with trauma and they have
that kind of weird sense of humor, you know, and
and they're not easily.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Go ahead, compare your service, your police office ser days
in what you're doing now, because what you're telling me
is you found a new mission exactly, and to compare
the three in the satisfaction levels as as you are.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Yeah, as I miss policing for the action. But I
love what I do now because I see I've helped
more and more people by what I do now, and
those people have helped other people. And it's a ripple effect.
Almost all of our volunteers, because we're an all volunteer nonprofit,
we have zero paid people, so all the money that
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comes in actually goes to our program. Almost all of
our volunteers were participants at one time, and it gave
them that purpose to continue to help others.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Beautiful.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Okay, let's let's say that somebody's a veteran, somebody is
a first responder, and they're riding around they're here and
they say, Rocco, that's me, that's me too. You're talking
about how can they get in touch with camp Hero
and say, you know what, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yep, they can go right there at camp hero ky
dot org. It's our website.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
It's got the phone number, it's got the link, it's
got a you know email, Roco contact Roco link on there.
It also has a thing where you can click in
the news and it has all the stuff we've done prior.
And one of the events we actually have coming up
next week at Tom Wallace Park is we're having a
visually Impaired Veterans fishing event. So we worked with the
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VA Vista program and they had reached out to us
and he said, we have a lot of veterans that
are blind that miss fishing, they miss hunting, they missed
stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Is that something you can help out with?
Speaker 6 (16:26):
And I said absolutely, So we're going to have blind
veterans out there fishing. We'll have people helping them spot
and tell them, you know, you know, point them in
the right direction, smer cast, let them know when they're
getting a bite so they can experience all that you
know again And see them do that and see people,
you know, be able to experience something they thought was
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they'd never be able to do again.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
It's amazing.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
We did it last year in Lexington and then this
year we're doing it here in Louisville.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
If you're a corporate citizen and you're listening right now
and you say, hey, you know what, we don't have
a charity that we have adopted yet, and I gotta
recommend this one man because Roco we've been friends for
what six seven years? Some alongong that and what you
do is absolutely amazing, and one goes to help veterans
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and first responders. Hit the website again. There might be
a CEO, there might be a business owner and says,
you know what, we want to contribute to this cost
because it's a wonderful.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Cost that and if there, if you know somebody it's
a veteran that Amen, better appreciate this. Camp hero ky
dot org. Do you have a Venmo?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
We do.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
It's at camp Hero Kentuck. I think it's camp Underscore.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I'm going to look it up right now.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
So camp at camp Hero you think I pull it
up right now?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Check it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That's important because lazy people like me can go right
to Venmo and make it easy. Right now, I'm about
to send you some.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Money at camp Hero.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
That's it at Camp hero on Venmo. That's it beautiful.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Hang on one.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Second, Yes, Google, what is a Venmo there?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It is?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Oh okay, it's an app. Yeah, okay, all Venmo you
some today too?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Oh, I appreciate it, thank you do.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
A lot of we have a lot of these veterans
organizations on our show. But today you got me, bro Uh,
you just did. And I think it's a great story.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
And I think the biggest thing with this is when
I was going through therapy, you know, I felt like
I lost that identity. And my therapist told me, he said,
your identity wasn't that a sailor. Your identity wasn't that
a police officer. Your identity is a servant. And once
I hit that, that hit me and I was like, wow,
that's true, you know, because then it got that weight
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off my shoulders because I knew I was still serving.
I was still you know, I was still doing what
my purpose was, you know, and I didn't have to
have that specific title.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I got to ask you one more time, and I
say thank you too for talking about your mental health
and your depression and being suicidal, because it's quite important
to break down those walls. I held mine my entire
adult life. I held it close to the vest, never
sold anybody, not even my doctor. How beneficial is physical
fitness and being outdoors? How beneficial is that for your depression?
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Because for me, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
It's it's amazing.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Actually, I was told when I got hurt that I
wouldn't be able to work out again. Two years ago
in twenty twenty three, as I was recovering from a
spinal fusion in my lumbar, I was going to physical
therapy and we're doing some core exercises. My physical therapist
she was like, we were on a cable machine. I
was like, man, I'd love to be able to do
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some tricept pressed douts and she's like, we'll do them.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I was like, are you sure?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
She said, do them, and I started doing and I
just tears, like I'm tearing up now, tears that I
run down my face. For seven years, I never thought
i'd be able to work out again. She's like, and
she says, I want you you're getting emotional about it
right now.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Yeah, I mean I'm tearing up thinking about it. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
She told me, said, I want you to focus on
getting your core strong, and then I want you to get
a gym membership and start strengthening all the muscles around
your injured areas.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
And so I went and jointed to WHY and I
spent three and a half hours in there the first day,
as like I did everything I possibly could, but the
WHY I actually ended up highlighting me and the local
news LA X eighteen did a story on me being
able to go back to the gym and how beneficial
it was for the mental health because you know, working
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out it releases endorphins.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Yes, and a lot of times feel it.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Yeah, when people are dealing with PTSD and depression, you know,
they they start to get away from that. They'll do drugs, alcohol, stuff,
anything risky for endorphins. That's all they're They're seeking that
endorphin release, so you know, to try to mask that issue.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
But a healthy way to do that is exercise.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Exercise and by the way, the physical fitness that endorphin
rush it carries.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Throughout the day.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Absolutely, there's so many benefits.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Listen, right, and Dwight, he drinks that coffee, so he
does that flex That's how he gets his doorphins Rock
a great interview. Yeah, and yeah, let's send some money
his way, folks at camp Hero if you want to
give on venmo right now, because you know it's on
your phone.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
At camp Hero and Venmo. Listen, God bless you and
thank you for all that you do for our veterans
and our first responders. Camp Hero hit that website again
one more.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Time as well camp hero dot org.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
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Speaker 3 (22:32):
Hey, let's talk about what we're doing here. Lady, hey, ladies,
listen up. It's a firefighter's calendar, right. Let me see
this thing.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
You have it yet?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, let me see it? Yes, yes, I gotta see George.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
George, George George. They're closed, they're closed.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
No, some of them have a dog, so you could
have gone that route instead of your dirty little mind.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Here we go, all right, this is and women. It
is because there's culver looking like a badass.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Look at that photoshop is amazing. She is talented photoshop.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
That is so badass. Mustache, I gotta tell you, man,
I got mustache envy from I.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Found it in the parking lot behind a dumpster on
the way in. Nobody's using it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Are you also in that knockoff y m c A
or the village people?
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Man, Kyle will not let me bring the chaps in.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Okay, look at George Wiggins. WHOA the name of your
fire truck is bad, bitch, sorry the citizen.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Okay, okay, let's let's let's leave. Let's regroup, get the
muzzle over there for a second, please with a dirty joke,
here we go. This is for the Crusader, so it's
for kids, and these are great pictures. Some of these
firefighters are with their kids or their dogs. So this
is a nice calendar. It's not anything that Dwight is described,
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not at all. It's so tell us your inspiration.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
You know.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
I have worked for the Whas Cruches for Children as
a volunteer for probably twenty five thirty years now, and
I've gotten to know these men and women who who
serve in the Fire Service, and they are my heroes.
They really are, and they're the most time of people
on the planet. They're the most fun people on the planet.
And I wanted to find a way to honor them
use my photography skills and also to health the crusade.
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So this was my perfect thing. I did want to
do the calendar that Dwight is talking.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
About shirt list, but you know, I mean, it didn't
turn out that way.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
It didn't turn out that way, and this is a
great way to honor our men and women in the
Fire Service.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
This year.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
We've got Dana for you know. Jody was on earlier
with Kelly, and we've got Jana Frost. I got Dana Frost.
She was one of those metroca she's with Metro Safe.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
She was one of the calls.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
They are truly your first reserve, and so she answered
the call on that you know, old National Bank Day.
I've got the first female chief in Jefferson County at
in Kerrie Blevins in Feredal Fire. And then the rest
of my fabulous fireman's are in there rounding it out.
And like I said, it benefits the crusade for children
and it's functional. We've got fire safety tips in there.
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We've got reminders to check your your spunk detectors and
all the holidays of course, and some fire tips. Each
of the guys have presented me some fire tips and
their bios are in there, and it's just yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
They also have the bios of every single person in
this calendar.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
This is really cool.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Okay, I want to talk to George Wiggins for a second,
because this guy is huge. You got your own gym though, right, Okay,
but here's what I want to get if you want
to go to his gym if you want training.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
It's very easy to remember because the name of his
gym is w TF.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
He's my trainer.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It's light.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
Wtf's wigans training and fitness. I just took advantage of
the great last name.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Good job.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yes, and I don't want to work out with somebody
a chunky fitness instructor if you are not coot.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
I'm in a really good location. I'm next to Joe's
older than dirt. I can beat you up, make you
feel really tired, then go across the street and replenish yourself.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Uh so did they come to you or did you
go to them? Or Kyle is them?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Well, Kyle, I'm actually you know, I'm Kyle's trainer.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Did you ever think you were going to be in
a calendar?
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (26:25):
Not really had some guys last year at the academy
kind of volunteered me for it when I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You weren't there.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
I was on the other side of the academy, but
came back and they told me that I was going
to be in it and accepted.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I'm fascinated by your mustache. How long have you had this?
I want? This mustache is so rock and roll? Man,
Look at this thing, George.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You guys, you look we just had a conversation about
service and uh and it's a calling and uh that
that you have a service heart. You were tired. I
took we did a Facebook post together and I said,
you know, congratuate my friend for retiring. You're back at it.
I see Fern Creek Fire and Rescue on your.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Did twenty five years of Saint Matthew's head, a little
back surgery, took it out of your to recover, and
realized that I wasn't done right. Wow, come back to work.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
It takes a special kind of person to be a firefighter,
it really, it really does. And you went through it
for twenty five years. Why go back? Was it just
in your blood and you can't get it out of
there very much?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (27:28):
Yeah, I've got a daughter's boyfriends and now.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
In the business with me.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Middletown, Yes, Martin, I liked it so much, even volunteer.
I'm also at Pewe Valley. I'm the officer. So again,
it's it's in your system, it's in your blood.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
You love you doing what you do.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
You want other.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
People to love it as much as you. So that's
why I started doing the training out there with them,
and it's just.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Been a great time.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
What is your story?
Speaker 9 (27:51):
I had some buddies I worked with that at six
Flags and said, hey, you want to be a volunteer
firefighter and said, hell no.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
You don't get paid enough. Go to their houses. They
were all out. You guys run in makes no sense
to me.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Started hanging out with them, started volunteering and fell in love,
dropped out of college and got hired at Jaytown ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
And remember, whenever you set your clocks back or forward,
that's a reminder check the batteries and your smoke detector
and your marital aids.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
All right, Uh so, how many calendars have you done, Kyle?
Speaker 10 (28:23):
This is my third annual?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Uh and by the way, you are a photographer too, Yes, yes, sir.
These pictures are just great pictures of the guys that
have decided. And look, it takes guts to say, okay,
I'm going to be in a calendar.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
You took these pictures.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, she's amazing, she's amazing. I was going to have
her do our promo Tony and Dwight pictures.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
And we're ready.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I'm ready, We're ready, We're going to do it.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Can they be can they be tasteful? Nudes.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It's like I want to find where they put the
quarters in him and and take the bag of quarters
from whoever's feeding him. Uh.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
These pictures are amazing and I don't know how you
guys do it. We have a great photographer Mario that's
here today and he does. He takes the best pictures
I've ever taken of myself.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I'm like, that's the best for graph take taking. But
this one specifically, you go around town also, you want
to take a shot. So you have the Second Street bridge.
In June, you have the Second Street bridge and you
got the cutest picture of four firemen with their kids.
I assume that's on the top of the Humana garage.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
It's on the river front the Witherspoon garage. Yes, yeah,
well this were the gentleman from Lula the fire who
were the bridge rescue.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
That perfect.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
The Bryce on the on the left, he's in there.
He was the gentleman who went down on the repelling whatever.
And then the other two they were part of that crew.
Because that it takes a village. That was not just
Bryce who did that.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
That was right.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
I want to talk to call for for a second
because Nick elder of Pleasure Ridge Park.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
He's taxing your good man.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Second, it's all right, It's like I don't care.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
You look way better then him. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Right now, another fifty bucks.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
All what's going to wear that mustache? I mean he's trying.
I'm just saying, he's taxing your gig call.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Okay, those stashes.
Speaker 10 (30:09):
You all can't do beards right because the air fit
on the mask.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
So they also do these except for George can't even
do hair.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
No, George takes your shirt and pants off.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
It's but do have mustache?
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Is that just a thing?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Do you ever put your heads together and make an
ash out of yourself?
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Time?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (30:34):
The photo?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
All right, let's let's let's regroup here. We got about
a minute here left in the break. So this calendar
you can buy uh and and it goes for the
Crusade for children. How do they get one or how
they just give.
Speaker 10 (30:47):
WSHs Crusade dot org has it. There's a link on there.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
It goes to the secure page.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
It's fifteen dollars. If you want to bump up that
to twenty, that extra five more dollars to the Crusade
and thanks to my I do have to say thanks
to my Onster Bluegrass Roller in Shelbyville. They helped me
with the printing of it. And again, it's just a
great way to honor these men and women who literally
are the first to show up on our worst days.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And help us. And even if it's not a.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Fire, these guys are helping because they that's just what
that's who they are. It's in their hearts, it's it's
their in their makeup.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
And just so you know, the calendar is twenty twenty six.
We're not selling you a calendar that's halfway through the
early this is.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
That's something we would do.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
That's something we would do.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
But you also have little reminders at the top. You know,
keep mulch and dry landscaping at least eighteen inches from
your homes foundation summer heat can ignite it. I didn't
even know that, so I'm in on that. So you
have little reminders. Firefighters always have to remind you wanted
to make it functional.
Speaker 10 (31:41):
So all the guys gave me a fire tip that's
special to them.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
And yeah, and it looks like the fire tips are
all lined up with the month.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Sometimes sometimes yeah, yeah, listen.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
It's well done and these pictures are great. It's a
great calendar for a great cause.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
By the way, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
What did you if you're both I know you're married,
are you What did your wife's thinking I'm gonna be
in a calendar?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Babe? Did you use that?
Speaker 7 (32:05):
I don't even the ex wife knows about it.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
The lovely player smiled and sugar.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Head Claire is a saint and we all love her definitely,
no doubt. Gentlemen, We really thank you for your service
and what you do. Like you said, you guys run
in when everybody else is running out. Uh, And we
appreciate And Kyle with this idea and combining your talents
which is crusade for children, photography and uh and the firefighters,
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it was just a perfect match.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Curveball. Yeah, Kyle's with the zoo. Gotta ask you a
quick zoo question, do it? How fast does a platypus run?
Speaker 5 (32:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
She probably knows that.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
She probably knows that the zoo is a is a
is a Louisville gem. And we appreciate you. I we've
had annual passes.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
Forever, and thank you for being we.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
We are well. I hate to tell people because we
sound like mall walk right, but we go to the
zoo and walk instaday because we get bored to walk
into the neighborhood place. You have to talk to people.
At the zoo, you get to see animals, and you're
walking a couple of miles. It's perfect. Thanks guys for
coming in. Snakers might be next coy eligible Kyle.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
What's it like being around three heroes, two firefighters and
a guy that goes on with a broken achilles.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
It's amazing you.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Have a picture with me.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You got all right back after this.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Heay.
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Back after this on news radio eight forty w as
Welcome to Wednesday's Hero. Today's hero is Alan Lynch, Specialist,
fourth class US Army. Name of the story is pulling
the Men to Safety. Alan Lynch was bullied throughout his
school years. A loner, he was a poor student who
had few friends, so when he graduated from high school
in nineteen sixty four, he felt that he had to
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get away from Chicago and build a new life. He
enlisted in the Army that November. After three weeks of
basic training, he was invited to attend Officer Candidate school
at Fort Benning, Georgia. After four weeks, he dropped out.
He was reassigned to a unit in Germany. A year later,
he volunteered to serve in Vietnam. Upon arriving in Vietnam
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in the fall of nineteen sixty six, Lynch was assigned
to the twelfth cav where for several months he served
as a rifleman, then became his platoon's radio telephone operator.
In December nineteen sixty seven, his company was in the
Boonshan area of the Central Highlands. His unit had been
in almost daily firefights with the enemy for over a
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month and a half, and on December fourteenth, it was
ordered that he would go to the rear for rest
and recuperation. Well earned, but another company in the battalion
was ambushed the next morning, and Lynch's unit was quickly
reassembled and put back in During an air assault against
a large force of North Vietnamese regulars in viet Cong
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who were massing for the Tet offensive which would erupt
just two months later, the fighting was heavy throughout the morning.
Early in the afternoon, Lynch saw three wounded soldiers out
in the open who were under intense enemy fire. He
dropped his radio and went to help. Despite heavy enemy fire,
he reached the men and carried them one by one
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to a trench that offered some protection. The Americans were
separated from the enemy by a large hedgegove bamboo now
Lynch fired at the sound of the enemy's voices over
the next few hours, and he killed several of them.
Lynch's company temporarily pulled back because.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Of the intensity of the enemy fire.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Then he located counterattacking friendly forces and assisted evacuating their wounded.
He was in action for several more weeks before he
was ordered to the rear. In June nineteen sixty eight,
he was sent to Fort Hood, Texas, where he was
discharged in.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
April nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
One year later, one day before he was to be married,
he was returning home from his job as a UPS
delivery man when he saw that he was being followed
by a policeman. Now Lynch feared he was going to
receive a ticket, but the officer handed him a note
the telephone.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Number on it, and he was told to call it.
When he called, he was informed that he was going
to receive the Medal of Honor, which President Richard Nixon
presented to him on May fourteenth, nineteen seventy. A few
months later, Lynch took a job with.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
The Veterans Administration. Lynch graduated from Southern Illinois University with
a degree in healthcare administration. He also completed twenty one
years of service in the Army, Reserve and National Guard.
In November two thousand and five, he retired as a
chief of the Veterans' Rights Bureau for the Illinois Attorney General.
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Lynch now volunteers as the Chief Service Representative for the
Illinois State Council of the Vietnam Veterans of America. He
is also active in a men's Bible study and ministry
at the County Jail. Today's Hero is Alan Lynch born
October twenty eighth, nineteen forty five in Chicago, Illinois, where
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he lives today.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The name of the story pulling the Men to Safety.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And is Wednesday's Hero every Wednesday, little after ten eight him.
I really enjoy doing.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Those great job.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
By the way, thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And it's brought to you by brought to.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You by horse Soldier Bourbon, uh Bourbon that was created
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Speaker 3 (04:17):
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Speaker 1 (04:19):
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gonna love Horse Soldier Bourbon does. I bring in my
buddy Roco with camp Hero. It's good to see Rocco.
How you doing, man, I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
If you went to uh straight out of acting, you
are you look like a Roco? There's no, there's no,
that's a Roco right there.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
If Central Casting.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Central Casting called and said they need a Rocco, I'm
saying I'm bringing you up.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah, yeah, I had to fit into my name. Now.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Now, if you want to if you want a Sergeant
Buttercup and I'm your God.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Rocco and Sergeant butter.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Hey, let's talk about turning your scars into stars because
you're a great example of this and doing good for
the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You served in the military.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yes, and.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
There was emotional and mental baggage from that exactly. Then
you come home, like all veterans do, and many veterans
go in law enforcement. You get into law enforcement, you
become a law officer. And I'm trying to recall the story.
We've been friends for many years, but at some point
you get ran over by a suspect and even dragged,
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and I think, and correct.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Me if I'm wrong on this.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Was it your video, your dash cam video or something
shown on a national one of these shows, you know,
Cops Worst Adventures?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
What it was?
Speaker 6 (05:44):
It was on the on bodycam on the ID channel. Okay,
So they actually reached out to me after the incident,
and since there was three body cameras there, two in
car cameras there, they wanted to be able to show
my story and I said, yeah, but I want to
be able to talk about how what happened afterwards.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
So you know, I was like you said.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I was in the military, got medically retired, became a
police officer in Shepherdsville, and was a police officer from
twenty nine to twenty seventeen. July third, twenty sixteen, I
stopped a vehicle they pulled into the circle k there
in Shepherdsville and ran the tag show they had a
suspended license. Come to find out, she had multiple felony warrants.
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And when I went to go get her out of
the vehicle, I got stuck between her and the steering wheel,
and she got it started and floorida and dragged me
about fifty feet might a rud hand turned. I rolled out,
hit the curb on my neck and upper back over
my legs.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Lucky alive.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, no, kidd right.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Well it goes with my side. I was big.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Then the doctor actually told me, he said if I
didn't have the muscle mass on my shoulders in back
that I'd probably either been dead or down. I jumped up,
ran to my car when after she ended up getting
forty years in prison. But I was dically retired due
to spinal injuries, and that brought on all the oh,
all the mental part of it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So let's now you can't do your job.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Let's talk about that though, Let's and let's talk about
how difficult when you have look I suffer from with
mental issues as well.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Okay, I didn't serve. I've got severe.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I was diagnosed in October severe PTSD, severe depression, and
moderate OCD. And I've dealt with this most of my life.
But men don't want to talk about depression. They want
to talk about mental issue.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You needed help, and there wasn't a whole lot of
options out there for you, right, correct?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Yeah, I was suppressed. I was suicidal. Fell look like
I no longer had a purpose because I felt like
my identity was being taken from me and my my
you know what I thought I was going to be
doing the rest of my life, you know. And I've
been putting this out a lot because June is Men's
Mental Health Awareness Month, so I've you know, I used
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my story to encourage others to let them know it's
okay to not be okay. Yeah, So when there was
nothing out there for first responders when I needed it,
I rely on my military mental health because I didn't
want to talk to someone I didn't think would understand it, right,
And I started getting back in the outdoors, and I
realized how beneficial it was to be out in nature,
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how naturally calming and healing it was, just to.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Be out in nature.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Yale actually did a study that well, one hundred and
twenty minutes a week, and that's a hard number. If
you spend one hundred and twenty minutes a week in nature,
then it actually changes the chemical balance in your brain,
gives you more positive outlook and reduces anxiety, depression and PTSD.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Ah, that's amazing because before Yale did that story, the
old thing was the sign on the business was gone fishing. Yeah,
and guys figured that out without a study, But that's
what they used to do without knowing that. And you knew,
you know when we knew, and Dwight, now we're doing mornings.
In two thousand and we were getting into that fight
again in Iraq. We've talked about all the Thomas is,
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we're not paying for the war. Now, it'll be when
these guys and gals come back. And boy it did.
But this is a great idea. So you decided you
went out and bought land exactly.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
My wife and I bought one hundred and sixty acres
just southeast of Lexton, Kentucky and Jackson County, and I
immediately started Campiro, started hosting vets and first responders out there,
and the idea was getting them out there, getting them
in nature, but then also getting these small groups together
to develop this peer support system, because the strongest support
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I've ever found from anyone were the other people that's
been through it and that deal with it because they
get it, you know, and you can sit there and
discuss things or thoughts and feelings and you don't have
to worry about being judged. You don't have to worry
about them thinking you need to be locked up somewhere
because they're experiencing the same thing. So I tell people,
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I can take five or six veter first responders from
around the country, never met each other in their life, right,
bring them down to camp. Within an hour, they're making
fun of each other. Within two hours, you know, they're
making fun of each other's families. But by the end
of the night, sitting around the campfire, they'll sit there
and talk to things, talk about things they won't even
talk to their families about because they know the person
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the left and the person of the right and get it,
and they understand.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
That's absolutely critical too when it comes to veterans because
and I didn't really understand this concept or either think
of this concept. Tony and I have a very dear friend,
Gunny Cole is what he goes by. He's retired Special
Forces and he's actually the president National President of Veterans.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Mc SO at the Louisville chapter.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I've been to their clubhouse many times, and one time
he has just explained it to me. He said, veterans
need other veterans to talk about issues because I could
talk to you all day long and you're not going
to comprehend and you're not going to connect with me
where I need to be connected with it. So that's
what Camp Hero does for veterans.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And first response, that's what you just said gave me
chills because it is. I don't think women have a
hard issue, uh with figuring out camaraderie, Like they don't
understand why guys love being around other guys and and
feeling that way.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I've always said it's why football players play too long.
It's not about the game, it's about being with the
boys and it's just being When you just described that
whole day.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yep, and they they feel like they're part of something again.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, yea. So one of the challenges with that, I
mean that that's not that's not something small, bro, I
mean you're you're starting to camp in Jackson County. That's
a lot too.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
It Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
The adjustment to try to do that, I bet was
a challenge.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
It was.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
And one good thing is I was able to use
my story and to help push the camp and that
that gave me a lot of credibility with vets and
first responders because there's a lot of about you know, nonprofits,
veteran organizations you know, ran by people who are not veterans.
But since I was able to use my story and
say hey, this is what I found, helped me, you know,
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and I bring them out there and be like we
were under you know, I don't advertisers come out here
and get therapy. I'm advertising, come out here, have a
good time, spend time with other vets. But the whole
time they're getting there.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Right, that's great. So how do we help you?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
We have our annual fundraiser coming up called Benefit for
the Brave. It's our fifth one and that is gonna
be at the Campbell House in Lexington on August ninth,
goes from seven to eleven. You can go to the
tickets are one hundred dollars each. You can get a
table for nine hundred for ten tickets. There's different sponsorship
options also, but we're gonna have live and solid auctions.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
We're gonna have raffles, We'll probably have.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Over thirty firearms there, gonna have it's all you can
eat barbecue, BFFE, gonna have an open bar. Mixed Or
is actually sponsoring our fundraiser and they're providing all the
whiskey for it all. And then we're also going to
have our special guest that's actually going to be speaking.
He's not a veteran first sponder, but his name's Josh
(13:13):
Carney and he was thirteen years old and he got
shot by his dad turkey hunting. So he ended up
becoming paralyzed from the waist down from then. So he's
got his own story of trauma, dealing with that and
you know, overcoming that, and he's been huge in the
outdoor industry because from that injury of being shot, he's
(13:36):
able to make any animal voice by just his mouth.
So he's been in the outdoor and he can make
duck elk everything else just by using his mouth.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Hey do a platypus?
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I mean, but but you know what's crazy is, you
know we're really good friends, and you know we use
what we dug have dealt with and what we're still
struggling with, especially with the spinal stuff. I've had nine
spinal surgery since then, and a lot of people think,
you know, spinal injury means your back hurts. You know,
your spine affects everything, you know, So so you know,
(14:11):
we joke and stuff back and forth, and you know,
I'll joke with him with paraplegic jokes and he well,
he actually he'll make more paraplegic jokes than I could
even think of. But uh yeah, it's it's always a
good time. And he likes it because he fits in
with all the vets and first responders there at camp
because he's dealt with his own trauma. So you get
(14:32):
people together that have dealt with trauma and they have
that kind of weird sense of humor, you know, and
and they're not easily.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Go ahead, compare your service, your police office ser days
in what you're doing now, because what you're telling me
is you found a new mission exactly, and to compare
the three in the satisfaction levels as as you are.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Yeah, as I miss policing for the action. But I
love what I do now because I see I've helped
more and more people by what I do now, and
those people have helped other people. And it's a ripple effect.
Almost all of our volunteers, because we're an all volunteer nonprofit,
we have zero paid people, so all the money that
(15:21):
comes in actually goes to our program. Almost all of
our volunteers were participants at one time, and it gave
them that purpose to continue to help others.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Beautiful.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Okay, let's let's say that somebody's a veteran, somebody is
a first responder, and they're riding around they're here and
they say, Rocco, that's me, that's me too. You're talking
about how can they get in touch with camp Hero
and say, you know what, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yep, they can go right there at camp hero ky
dot org. It's our website.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
It's got the phone number, it's got the link, it's
got a you know email, Roco contact Roco link on there.
It also has a thing where you can click in
the news and it has all the stuff we've done prior.
And one of the events we actually have coming up
next week at Tom Wallace Park is we're having a
visually Impaired Veterans fishing event. So we worked with the
(16:17):
VA Vista program and they had reached out to us
and he said, we have a lot of veterans that
are blind that miss fishing, they miss hunting, they missed
stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Is that something you can help out with?
Speaker 6 (16:26):
And I said absolutely, So we're going to have blind
veterans out there fishing. We'll have people helping them spot
and tell them, you know, you know, point them in
the right direction, smer cast, let them know when they're
getting a bite so they can experience all that you
know again And see them do that and see people,
you know, be able to experience something they thought was
(16:46):
they'd never be able to do again.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
It's amazing.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
We did it last year in Lexington and then this
year we're doing it here in Louisville.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
If you're a corporate citizen and you're listening right now
and you say, hey, you know what, we don't have
a charity that we have adopted yet, and I gotta
recommend this one man because Roco we've been friends for
what six seven years? Some alongong that and what you
do is absolutely amazing, and one goes to help veterans
(17:13):
and first responders. Hit the website again. There might be
a CEO, there might be a business owner and says,
you know what, we want to contribute to this cost
because it's a wonderful.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Cost that and if there, if you know somebody it's
a veteran that Amen, better appreciate this. Camp hero ky
dot org. Do you have a Venmo?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
We do.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
It's at camp Hero Kentuck. I think it's camp Underscore.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I'm going to look it up right now.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
So camp at camp Hero you think I pull it
up right now?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Check it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That's important because lazy people like me can go right
to Venmo and make it easy. Right now, I'm about
to send you some.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Money at camp Hero.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
That's it at Camp hero on Venmo. That's it beautiful.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Hang on one.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Second, Yes, Google, what is a Venmo there?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It is?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Oh okay, it's an app. Yeah, okay, all Venmo you
some today too?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Oh, I appreciate it, thank you do.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
A lot of we have a lot of these veterans
organizations on our show. But today you got me, bro Uh,
you just did. And I think it's a great story.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
And I think the biggest thing with this is when
I was going through therapy, you know, I felt like
I lost that identity. And my therapist told me, he said,
your identity wasn't that a sailor. Your identity wasn't that
a police officer. Your identity is a servant. And once
I hit that, that hit me and I was like, wow,
that's true, you know, because then it got that weight
(18:41):
off my shoulders because I knew I was still serving.
I was still you know, I was still doing what
my purpose was, you know, and I didn't have to
have that specific title.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I got to ask you one more time, and I
say thank you too for talking about your mental health
and your depression and being suicidal, because it's quite important
to break down those walls. I held mine my entire
adult life. I held it close to the vest, never
sold anybody, not even my doctor. How beneficial is physical
fitness and being outdoors? How beneficial is that for your depression?
(19:14):
Because for me, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
It's it's amazing.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Actually, I was told when I got hurt that I
wouldn't be able to work out again. Two years ago
in twenty twenty three, as I was recovering from a
spinal fusion in my lumbar, I was going to physical
therapy and we're doing some core exercises. My physical therapist
she was like, we were on a cable machine. I
was like, man, I'd love to be able to do
(19:40):
some tricept pressed douts and she's like, we'll do them.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I was like, are you sure?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
She said, do them, and I started doing and I
just tears, like I'm tearing up now, tears that I
run down my face. For seven years, I never thought
i'd be able to work out again. She's like, and
she says, I want you you're getting emotional about it
right now.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Yeah, I mean I'm tearing up thinking about it. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
She told me, said, I want you to focus on
getting your core strong, and then I want you to get
a gym membership and start strengthening all the muscles around
your injured areas.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
And so I went and jointed to WHY and I
spent three and a half hours in there the first day,
as like I did everything I possibly could, but the
WHY I actually ended up highlighting me and the local
news LA X eighteen did a story on me being
able to go back to the gym and how beneficial
it was for the mental health because you know, working
(20:29):
out it releases endorphins.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Yes, and a lot of times feel it.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Yeah, when people are dealing with PTSD and depression, you know,
they they start to get away from that. They'll do drugs, alcohol, stuff,
anything risky for endorphins. That's all they're They're seeking that
endorphin release, so you know, to try to mask that issue.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
But a healthy way to do that is exercise.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Exercise and by the way, the physical fitness that endorphin
rush it carries.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Throughout the day.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Absolutely, there's so many benefits.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Listen, right, and Dwight, he drinks that coffee, so he
does that flex That's how he gets his doorphins Rock
a great interview. Yeah, and yeah, let's send some money
his way, folks at camp Hero if you want to
give on venmo right now, because you know it's on
your phone.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
At camp Hero and Venmo. Listen, God bless you and
thank you for all that you do for our veterans
and our first responders. Camp Hero hit that website again
one more.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Time as well camp hero dot org.
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Speaker 3 (22:32):
Hey, let's talk about what we're doing here. Lady, hey, ladies,
listen up. It's a firefighter's calendar, right. Let me see
this thing.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
You have it yet?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, let me see it? Yes, yes, I gotta see George.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
George, George George. They're closed, they're closed.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
No, some of them have a dog, so you could
have gone that route instead of your dirty little mind.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Here we go, all right, this is and women. It
is because there's culver looking like a badass.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Look at that photoshop is amazing. She is talented photoshop.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
That is so badass. Mustache, I gotta tell you, man,
I got mustache envy from I.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Found it in the parking lot behind a dumpster on
the way in. Nobody's using it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Are you also in that knockoff y m c A
or the village people?
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Man, Kyle will not let me bring the chaps in.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Okay, look at George Wiggins. WHOA the name of your
fire truck is bad, bitch, sorry the citizen.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Okay, okay, let's let's let's leave. Let's regroup, get the
muzzle over there for a second, please with a dirty joke,
here we go. This is for the Crusader, so it's
for kids, and these are great pictures. Some of these
firefighters are with their kids or their dogs. So this
is a nice calendar. It's not anything that Dwight is described,
(24:00):
not at all. It's so tell us your inspiration.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
You know.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
I have worked for the Whas Cruches for Children as
a volunteer for probably twenty five thirty years now, and
I've gotten to know these men and women who who
serve in the Fire Service, and they are my heroes.
They really are, and they're the most time of people
on the planet. They're the most fun people on the planet.
And I wanted to find a way to honor them
use my photography skills and also to health the crusade.
(24:24):
So this was my perfect thing. I did want to
do the calendar that Dwight is talking.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
About shirt list, but you know, I mean, it didn't
turn out that way.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
It didn't turn out that way, and this is a
great way to honor our men and women in the
Fire Service.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
This year.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
We've got Dana for you know. Jody was on earlier
with Kelly, and we've got Jana Frost. I got Dana Frost.
She was one of those metroca she's with Metro Safe.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
She was one of the calls.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
They are truly your first reserve, and so she answered
the call on that you know, old National Bank Day.
I've got the first female chief in Jefferson County at
in Kerrie Blevins in Feredal Fire. And then the rest
of my fabulous fireman's are in there rounding it out.
And like I said, it benefits the crusade for children
and it's functional. We've got fire safety tips in there.
(25:07):
We've got reminders to check your your spunk detectors and
all the holidays of course, and some fire tips. Each
of the guys have presented me some fire tips and
their bios are in there, and it's just yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
They also have the bios of every single person in
this calendar.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
This is really cool.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Okay, I want to talk to George Wiggins for a second,
because this guy is huge. You got your own gym though, right, Okay,
but here's what I want to get if you want
to go to his gym if you want training.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
It's very easy to remember because the name of his
gym is w TF.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
He's my trainer.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It's light.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
Wtf's wigans training and fitness. I just took advantage of
the great last name.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Good job.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yes, and I don't want to work out with somebody
a chunky fitness instructor if you are not coot.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
I'm in a really good location. I'm next to Joe's
older than dirt. I can beat you up, make you
feel really tired, then go across the street and replenish yourself.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Uh so did they come to you or did you
go to them? Or Kyle is them?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Well, Kyle, I'm actually you know, I'm Kyle's trainer.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Did you ever think you were going to be in
a calendar?
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (26:25):
Not really had some guys last year at the academy
kind of volunteered me for it when I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You weren't there.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
I was on the other side of the academy, but
came back and they told me that I was going
to be in it and accepted.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I'm fascinated by your mustache. How long have you had this?
I want? This mustache is so rock and roll? Man,
Look at this thing, George.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You guys, you look we just had a conversation about
service and uh and it's a calling and uh that
that you have a service heart. You were tired. I
took we did a Facebook post together and I said,
you know, congratuate my friend for retiring. You're back at it.
I see Fern Creek Fire and Rescue on your.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Did twenty five years of Saint Matthew's head, a little
back surgery, took it out of your to recover, and
realized that I wasn't done right. Wow, come back to work.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
It takes a special kind of person to be a firefighter,
it really, it really does. And you went through it
for twenty five years. Why go back? Was it just
in your blood and you can't get it out of
there very much?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (27:28):
Yeah, I've got a daughter's boyfriends and now.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
In the business with me.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Middletown, Yes, Martin, I liked it so much, even volunteer.
I'm also at Pewe Valley. I'm the officer. So again,
it's it's in your system, it's in your blood.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
You love you doing what you do.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
You want other.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
People to love it as much as you. So that's
why I started doing the training out there with them,
and it's just.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Been a great time.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
What is your story?
Speaker 9 (27:51):
I had some buddies I worked with that at six
Flags and said, hey, you want to be a volunteer
firefighter and said, hell no.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
You don't get paid enough. Go to their houses. They
were all out. You guys run in makes no sense
to me.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Started hanging out with them, started volunteering and fell in love,
dropped out of college and got hired at Jaytown ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
And remember, whenever you set your clocks back or forward,
that's a reminder check the batteries and your smoke detector
and your marital aids.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
All right, Uh so, how many calendars have you done, Kyle?
Speaker 10 (28:23):
This is my third annual?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Uh and by the way, you are a photographer too, Yes, yes, sir.
These pictures are just great pictures of the guys that
have decided. And look, it takes guts to say, okay,
I'm going to be in a calendar.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
You took these pictures.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, she's amazing, she's amazing. I was going to have
her do our promo Tony and Dwight pictures.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
And we're ready.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I'm ready, We're ready, We're going to do it.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Can they be can they be tasteful? Nudes.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It's like I want to find where they put the
quarters in him and and take the bag of quarters
from whoever's feeding him. Uh.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
These pictures are amazing and I don't know how you
guys do it. We have a great photographer Mario that's
here today and he does. He takes the best pictures
I've ever taken of myself.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I'm like, that's the best for graph take taking. But
this one specifically, you go around town also, you want
to take a shot. So you have the Second Street bridge.
In June, you have the Second Street bridge and you
got the cutest picture of four firemen with their kids.
I assume that's on the top of the Humana garage.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
It's on the river front the Witherspoon garage. Yes, yeah,
well this were the gentleman from Lula the fire who
were the bridge rescue.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
That perfect.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
The Bryce on the on the left, he's in there.
He was the gentleman who went down on the repelling whatever.
And then the other two they were part of that crew.
Because that it takes a village. That was not just
Bryce who did that.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
That was right.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
I want to talk to call for for a second
because Nick elder of Pleasure Ridge Park.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
He's taxing your good man.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Second, it's all right, It's like I don't care.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
You look way better then him. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Right now, another fifty bucks.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
All what's going to wear that mustache? I mean he's trying.
I'm just saying, he's taxing your gig call.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Okay, those stashes.
Speaker 10 (30:09):
You all can't do beards right because the air fit
on the mask.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
So they also do these except for George can't even
do hair.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
No, George takes your shirt and pants off.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
It's but do have mustache?
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Is that just a thing?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Do you ever put your heads together and make an
ash out of yourself?
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Time?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (30:34):
The photo?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
All right, let's let's let's regroup here. We got about
a minute here left in the break. So this calendar
you can buy uh and and it goes for the
Crusade for children. How do they get one or how
they just give.
Speaker 10 (30:47):
WSHs Crusade dot org has it. There's a link on there.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
It goes to the secure page.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
It's fifteen dollars. If you want to bump up that
to twenty, that extra five more dollars to the Crusade
and thanks to my I do have to say thanks
to my Onster Bluegrass Roller in Shelbyville. They helped me
with the printing of it. And again, it's just a
great way to honor these men and women who literally
are the first to show up on our worst days.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And help us. And even if it's not a.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Fire, these guys are helping because they that's just what
that's who they are. It's in their hearts, it's it's
their in their makeup.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
And just so you know, the calendar is twenty twenty six.
We're not selling you a calendar that's halfway through the
early this is.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
That's something we would do.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
That's something we would do.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
But you also have little reminders at the top. You know,
keep mulch and dry landscaping at least eighteen inches from
your homes foundation summer heat can ignite it. I didn't
even know that, so I'm in on that. So you
have little reminders. Firefighters always have to remind you wanted
to make it functional.
Speaker 10 (31:41):
So all the guys gave me a fire tip that's
special to them.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
And yeah, and it looks like the fire tips are
all lined up with the month.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Sometimes sometimes yeah, yeah, listen.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
It's well done and these pictures are great. It's a
great calendar for a great cause.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
By the way, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
What did you if you're both I know you're married,
are you What did your wife's thinking I'm gonna be
in a calendar?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Babe? Did you use that?
Speaker 7 (32:05):
I don't even the ex wife knows about it.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
The lovely player smiled and sugar.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Head Claire is a saint and we all love her definitely,
no doubt. Gentlemen, We really thank you for your service
and what you do. Like you said, you guys run
in when everybody else is running out. Uh, And we
appreciate And Kyle with this idea and combining your talents
which is crusade for children, photography and uh and the firefighters,
(32:35):
it was just a perfect match.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Curveball. Yeah, Kyle's with the zoo. Gotta ask you a
quick zoo question, do it? How fast does a platypus run?
Speaker 5 (32:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
She probably knows that.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
She probably knows that the zoo is a is a
is a Louisville gem. And we appreciate you. I we've
had annual passes.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
Forever, and thank you for being we.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
We are well. I hate to tell people because we
sound like mall walk right, but we go to the
zoo and walk instaday because we get bored to walk
into the neighborhood place. You have to talk to people.
At the zoo, you get to see animals, and you're
walking a couple of miles. It's perfect. Thanks guys for
coming in. Snakers might be next coy eligible Kyle.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
What's it like being around three heroes, two firefighters and
a guy that goes on with a broken achilles.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
It's amazing you.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
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