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Insurance dot com for more info.Hey, it's Uncle Mike and joining me
in the studio this week. Ortwo people I'm blessed to have in my
life. I learned last time fromFrank Castella not to call him an old
friend because he resents that he's notold longtime friends. But they're both longtime
friends and they're both heroes of mine. First of all, Richie Lay who
was the chairman of the Purple Hearthholeof Honor Mission. Richie, how are

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you, buddy? Very good,sir, very good, pleasure of seeing
you again. Richie is a marineVietnam veteran. Thank you for your service.
Thank you. And my buddy FrankCastella, he conceived, designed and
built the Warrior Wagon and we worktogether on the Veterans Appreciation Project featuring the
Warrior Wagon. Frank and morning,Good morning Mike. You're happy I didn't
call you an old friend this time. Well, you got it right this

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time. Stopped me last time becauseI don't like that, he says,
I'm not old. But I thoughtit was really important, you know,
having recently just celebrated Independence Day,and both of your organizations are all about
freedom, you know, the homeof the Home of the Free, because
of the brave. Yes, obviously, the Purple Heart is all about that,
the original badge of merit. AndFrank, what you and I have

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been doing for years now is tryingto just honor, thank and respect our
veterans with the Warrior Wagon and withthe Veterans Appreciation Projects. So before we
get started, I always like togive a little background on the voices behind
the microphone. Richie, I'll gowith you first, just give a little
bit of your background and how yougot involved with the Purple Heart Hall of
Honor mission. Thank you, Mike, and again I have to mention to
you right now and along with Frank, the spirit of patriotism and respect for

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the veterans continues with the both ofyou, as you said, you've been
a long time supporter of the ofthe organization. I'm a I'm a combat
veteran from Vietnam. I served thebeginning of the Tet offense of nineteen sixty
eight right into nineteen sixty nine.I was a platoon radio man, and
I'm also Purple Heart recipient. Ireceived my Purple Heart in July of nineteen

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sixty eight, and when I cameback, like every other veteran nowadays,
we never got involved in any ofthe veterans organizations. We did exactly what
you know our fathers we're doing.The young kids from a Rack and Afghanistan
are doing exactly what we did toour fathers. We never joined any of

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the organizations. We never felt welcome. We got on with our lives.
Now that that World War two generationhas passed on, they passed that baton
to us. A number of us, excuse me from Vietnam are picking up
that mantle and running. One ofthe organizations that involved with was the National
Purple Heart Hall of Honor, whichwe morphed in to a couple of years

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ago, the National Purple Heart onour Mission. Can I just explain what
that is here? Once we didthe phase one for the hall in on
Temple Hill Road in the WINDSA.We completed phase one, we updated the
we gutted the museum, updated it, and then the state came. We
did that through private funds. Wedid that private fundraisings, and you were
involved in that in the very verybeginning. Then it once we completed that,

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the state did phase number two andthen we changed our mission, tweaked
it a little bit. We stillsupport the hall, but we started three
years ago with the Purple Heart onour mission and the Purple Het on a
mission. We take one veteran fromevery state and the Union, similar to
the on a flight, and theon a Flight helps us out with this,

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and we bring them into New York. We bring them down to It
was a three day stay completely paidfor by private donations. The last one
that we had, which was twoyears ago, was we changed it to
a five day event and we boughtthe Iraq and Afghanistan veterans down to the

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World Trade Center Monument, and webought the Vietnam veterans to the Vietnam Memorial
on the fifty five Water Street andMike and Frank, I gotta tell you
right now. The impact of themwalking down, both Vietnam era veterans and
also the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans wasabsolutely cathodic. You saw a grown men

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cry from Vietnam because it was like, this is where we belong. But
the impact of the Iraq Afghanistan veteranswas absolutely this is why we did it.
We're at that sacred site and ournext mission is coming up September the
eighteenth, the week of the Septembereighteenth of this year. We already have

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the people that are accepted into theon a flight and we're in the process
now of making the plane, youknow, reservations and also the hotel reservations.
One guy approached me last last yearin um at the Purple Heart Annual
Convention, who was out in SouthDakota, and he said to me,

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I want to come. I says, by all means, put in your
application. He said, okay,but just remember where I'm coming from.
And I thought he was gonna sayHawaii. He's coming in from Guam.
So so it's up and running inWe're working on it, and that's what
keeps him busy. And that's thePatriot Project. Actually, yes, it
is yes it is, and it'sit's an amazing I've been blessed to be

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part of it the last couple oftimes and it's just an amazing From the
very first one you I think youpoadcast live from the Armory and we return
home. We'll do it again thisyear of course, here you go.
But what a what a you knowwhen you're when you're there and the first
one you had, they usually havea Medal of Honor winner as the keynote
speaker, and I was so impressedbecause we're in the Armory with a decent

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crowd in there and a medal ofhonor. You know, got a winner.
I forgot his name now. Hewas um Paul Boca, Paul Paul
Buka and he started speaking and aboutthirty seconds in he was like, you
know what, he turned around,I'm going to talk to these guys.
I'm not talking to the crowd.I'm here, and he spent his entire

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speech talking to the winners that wereon stage, and it was so moving.
Everybody in the crowd understood it.But I thought that was a really
amazing move because he started speaking andhe was like, I can't have my
back to these guys. These guysare all heroes. And he turned around
and he spoke to them. Yeah, and he's on the board of directors
also, he serves still starts withus, so but that it's an amazing

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event. And uh, from fromstart to finish, the the the energy
is incredible and these are guys,this is this is living history that's on
stage, you know, and andthey and they all appreciated it. Tell
him about the walk in. Oh, well, we had to walk in
through that like a canyon of heroes. Yeah. Yeah, people, people

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were both sides. Uh, youknow, the public was on both sides
as they walked into a standing overand they absolutely felt so um, they
were humbled by it. We hadagain grown men and women thought in the
cry saying wow, this really Andit's similar to the to the on a
flight where they yes, it's thewelcome home that they never got, especially

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the Vietnam guys never got welcomed home. And now fortunately with the on a
flight or in the Vietnam era,most of the you know, out of
the eighty people that are on theflight, more than sixty or more plus
or Vietnam guys, Vietnam guys andwomen and they are just I just said
one thing, um, to showyou the way that that progression is happening.

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Keeping to that point, one ofthe honorees this past uh, who
is going to be on this flight, Russ Vernon? Who has who we
been to Colonel Russ Vernon, UMcall him up to thank them for the
for the you know flight uh.And he was absolutely absolutely blown away.
He was a World War Two marineon Iwo Jima. Oh my god,

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and he said, thank you veryvery much. And Russ got the call
about two days later. He passedaway, but he passed away saying as
he concluded the interview, he said, God willing, I can't wait to
be on that flight. And hepassed away two days ago, but his
family had had passed along to us. He was so humble and honored.

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And after World War Two he comeback to be the police chief of I
can't remember what state anyway, goodAnd that happens a lot with the honor
flight, especially with the World Wartwo. You know, they have two
weeks before the flight, they havea meet and greet because a lot of
them don't know their guardians, sothey have a chance from the meet and

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talk to each other and get toknow each other. And we've had every
flight, at least one or twothat go to the meet and greet and
don't make it to the flight,and two weeks time they're gone. But
I will tell you that every flight, I broadcast live from the airport in
the morning when they leave, andI'm there at night when they get back,
and I always get a veteran offthe flight to come on the last
break with me on the air andI know every time what they're gonna say,

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but the hair still stands up.They'll sit there and tell you it
was the greatest day of my life. It's I can't believe that a crowd
like this actually thanked us for whatwe did, and you wouldn't think that
was possible in this country. ThatI've never happened before. But these guys
just never got thanked. Unfortunately,what we hear on the news is the

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sensationalism of things going bad. Yeah, right, and we don't pay enough
attention to the things that are doneright, the young people that are doing
things right, the young people inthe services. And it's unfortunate, but
that's the way society has grown overthe years. You know, if it's
not something sensationalized, the news meterdoesn't pick it up, and then they

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only will pick up things that theywant to pass along and we'll forget about
the things that are more meaningful tomost of the good, honest, heart
working people in the country. Unfortunately, hopefully we give a little representation to
them. So Frank, give itjust a little bit now that your bridge
version of your background and how youended up with it, because your story

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with the wagon is really cool,and Katie's boys, you got to tell
that part of it. Well.It goes back to some time around two
thousand and ten eleven. The localtown fathers had asked me to bring my
hitchwagon. We used to show asix horse hitch at Pertron Horses at the
horse shows and fares around the country, and it was a family operation with

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some friends involved as well. Butthey asked us to bring a six horse
hitch to a parade in Pleasant Valleyexcuse me, which I believe was a
Memorial Day parade if I remember correctly, and we did, but with the
big hitch wagon, I made aplatform for the people to get up onto
the wagon. And they called meup a few days before the event and

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said you know, we got acertain amount of politicians we'd like to have
right on the back of the wagon, and I kind of didn't feel like
I wanted to do that, tobe honest with you, I didn't want
to get politically involved, and thoughtabout it a little bit. I made
a couple of comments that I won'trepeat right now, but I said,
why don't you go to the VFWAmerican Legion get some veterans. We could

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probably fit eight of them on theback of the wagon, and I'd be
more than pleased to do that.So that's what they did. But Dave
Teeter comes to mind as one ofthe guys who I think Dave has passed
on from that he's still in ahome. I was still in a nursing
home, premature in that aspect.Veteran, yes, And Dave was my

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agent for the Cooperative Extension because Ido have a horse farm in Pleasant Valley
and I knew Dave. But whenthese we met at Trevor Roads School to
get in the lineup for the parade, And as the fellas started getting going
up the ladder and getting on theplatform and getting back of the wagon,
there was two guys that was noway they were going to get in,

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and I'm thinking, I can't leavethese two guys behind. So I got
on the phone. I called upthe rescue squad, told him it's not
an emergency, but get some helpover here. Told him that we needed
to get help and getting a coupleof guys onto there, and when we
get back, we'd appreciate the helpgetting them off. Well, at night,
it ate away at me and Ikept on thinking, God, there's

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got to be a better way totake these fellas and gals on a wagon
presentation type of thing, and Istarted getting ideas about building the Warrior Wagon.
Originally it was the war Wagon,but I guess after I was pretty
well into the build. I startedbuilding it in two thousand and twelve and

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completed it in two thousand and fourteen. But as I started working on it
and getting towards the end of it, and I actually even looked at the
movie The War Wagon with John Wayne, and I didn't like the connotation of
war wagon, so discussed it withmy wife and my family, and somebody
said, well, why don't youjust call it the Warrior Wagon. I

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said, that's great. I likethat it fits, and we dedicated it
to the crew of a B seventeenbomber that got shot down over in Germany,
my wife's father, my father inlaw, who was very close and
a dear friend of mine. Wededicated it to the crew of Katie's Boys

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and they got shot down. Ikeep I think it was March of nineteen
forty three or forty four, andnow I'm forgetting. I have a plaque
on the side of the wagon withthe crew's name and everything on it.
But we dedicated it to that crew, but we also dedicated it to each
branch of the service. On theWarrior Wagon. On each side of it,

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we have the emblems of the fivebranches of the Service at the time.
I know we have another one now, but h and they're all lined
up in the order in which theywere formed and built this wagon the first
time I had it out, andbelieve it or not, we were still
putting parts on it the night before. At the World Pertron Show in twenty
fourteen in October Springfield, mass wehad about seven hundred competitors up there and

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with a coliseum full of people,we went out for our first honest ceremony
and thanks to Uncle Mike, He'salways been very supportive of us. I
think he's been at ninety nine pointnine percent of our events. It's very
moving anybody who's seen one of theseevents. We did participate in Duchess County

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Fair for a number of years.We don't do that anymore, but kind
of slowed down a little bit withthe Warrior Wagons. Since two thy fourteen,
we've honored a little over six hundredveterans and public service personnel. Yeah,
first responders, fire department, policedepartment, and UH. It's it's

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a pretty moving experience and it's beena way for me to give back to
my country. And my family hasbeen involved in support of UH. If
I can't bring my own horses,my daughter and my son in law will
bring their horses. Uh. My, my family always participates in getting the
horses ready, and you and I. You and I even did an event
in Connecticut. We had Oxen pullingthe Remember, yes, that was an

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that was an Oxford, Connecticut.Yeah, no, no, I'm sure
it wasn't Oxford. It was,oh, I can't think of the name
of the town was down along theshore and we did an event down there,
an honest ceremony and they wanted touse. One of the members down
at the club down there had Oxen, because because I remember you called me

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up to see if I could go, and I said sure, And it
was just you and I went byourselves and I said, what about the
horses. Don't worry about the horses. I got to cover. Then we
got there and they had Oxen toldhim a day off. How I see
you. Well, it's a sixthousand pound wagon, right. We had
the opportunity to weigh it on aset of scales up at the horse pull

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at the fair and it was sixthousand, one hundred and sixty six pounds,
and I happened to weigh one hundredand sixty six pounds. So we
put a little bild on the sideof the wagon. When when it's full,
we've had as much as it's probablyten thousand pounds on there. We've

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got the big shows. We usefour horses. I don't have four that
are working any longer, but Istill have two that are working. I
can get more when I need him. It's it's been a very rewarding experience.
The thing it's amazing about it isit's a World War two surplus wagon
in theory gear, the running gear, the running gear that somehow he bought

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it up in Alaska. And I'mnot going to tell you how he got
a from Alaska to New York becauseit was ingenious how he did it,
and he had some help from theArmed services to get it here. We
did, but we got it here, and then once you had to run,
you built everything on top of it. Yeah. Well, we cut
off all the excess steel. Therunning gear itself had a de icing unit

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on it who was up in Alaskaon the air base and got I guess
it got surplus. They probably gotsomething new or more modern. They did
take the pump and the tank offand I got it transported to California.
From California to Berethesa, Maryland,and from Berethesa, Maryland, we got
a trucker to bring it up tomy farm and I probably cut off a

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couple of thousand pounds of excess steel, maybe more, and scrapped it and
started with the basic wagon. Andhad a concept in my head which I
sketched out. And I had ayoung fellow that was working for me that
was a pretty accomplished artist, andhe took my idea and put him on
paper. We still have that.It's it's part of our archives and just

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started building it and designed it aswe went along. So if you've never
seen a Warrior wagon, we're hopingto get out a lot more now.
We we finally got our self establishedas a nonprofit and everybody listening to us
it was always said they wanted tohelp us and contribute. We're a nonprofit
now, so we can use thehell. We can use the help.
We can use the money. That'sdefinitely, definitely. Could I just mention

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one two things about that. Isn'tyour uncle a Purple Heart recipient from my
father law? Yeah, that's Imet the same because you had a plaque
in your office. Yes, whenyou're own the printing company. But Um
Frank reached out and he got theCatholic war veterans from Orange County. Um
and I he you reached out tome, Mike, and I passed it

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along to Joe Farina. Joe Farinawas a founding member of the Legacy Group
for the Purple Heart, along withSenator Bill Lokin, Everett Smith, and
Lieutenant General um Don Hughes. Sothey had that was their vision to build
this up. So I passed italong to Joe, and Joe called up
every one of the members and hesaid, you will be up in the

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Duchess County and they said, butwe have you will be up there.
That's just the way he was.Joe Farina was the He was General Douglas
mccarthur's morse key operator in the SouthPacific during World War Two. The finest
patriot you could ever mean. Twoevents in his life that he raved about

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was I took him on the ona mission he didn't want to go,
and we were walking through Washington andthe young kids were running up there waiting
for flights, so to alluding towhat you were saying. We're walking down
the aisle and everybody was cheering andhe was so humbled and I'm laying back
and this little kid runs up tohim and he goes, hey, way
to go, Joe. And helooks and he says to me, how

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the hell did you know my name? I said, well, maybe g
I Joe. That was the thing, and I said, the fact that
you have this big, tremendous nametake on the front of you. And
maybe they did it with that.But um. The second thing was he
always talked about was the trip onthe wagon, because when we get up
there, you had said to me, why don't you get up, and
I said, no, take himup, and he sat up front with

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you as we rode through the fair. He felt so honored, you know.
So yeah, I still I stillremember that phone call because you know,
Frank had had me called to confirmand I got he answered the phone,
and I had several conversations yea,yeah, and I said, we
all He says, we'll be there, sir, They'll all be there,
and I was like, I believeyou, and I knew they were gonna

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be there. I guess I wantedto say. One of the things that's
very meaningful ful to me is everreal strong memories of how badly the guys
coming home from Vietnam we're treated anduh spit on people throwing things at him,
you know, bad news reporting anduh Jane Fonda being real negative against

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our guys, and it just it'sstuck in my mind to this day how
bad they got treated. But whenwe take those people on the Warrior Wagon
and we thank them for their service, many of them have said, you
know, this is the first timesince I've been back from Vietnam that anybody
has said thank you to me,and I got goose pumps every time.

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Yeah, right now, it justyou know, politics aside the government gets
us into things that we shouldn't bein. There's things that go on that
or anti humanity in all respects.And it's been that way since society is
formed, and we've had records ofit going way back. But when I

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look at the fall of the RomanEmpire, and it's one of the subjects
that I paid particular attention to asa young person, and I look at
where we are today and I seeso much parallel with corruption and moral decay,
respect and just for human spirit.It worries me, right. But

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then I went to a ceremony lastweek where my granddaughter was honored for her
participation in her excellence in school,and I looked at a lot of those
young folks that were being honored andin the audience and on the stage,
they were dressed well, respectful.I think we only hear from the news

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media. Again, I'll go backto that sensationalism. You know, who
killed who, how many people gotshot, blah blah blah. But there's
so many good young people that.I have hope that when the right people
start to run this country again,we're going to be on the right track.
I think we will, sure,I think so. I look forward
to that before we run out oftime. Frank, how do people get

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a hold of you? And peoplethat want to donate? Now we have
the ability to do this. Wehave a nonprofit just to contact you directly.
I guess that would be the bestthing. Maybe email email might be
the best. It's as Charles AdamSam and then the word diesel like in
diesel fuel d I e sel ataol dot com. What we would like

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to do at this point is toput enough money aside to get a trailer
specially built for the Warrior Wagon sowe could transport it to some big events
throughout the country. I have friendsall low over the country, right from
California up through New England that anybig events where they have the draft horse

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shows, and I mean some ofthose shows are massive, Colorado or the
stock shows a big one. Myambition right now is to get it to
some of these big shows. Itwon't be necessary for me to bring my
own horses. I've got people ata clamoring to take the Warrior Wagon and
do an event on a ceremony atthe big shows, each opening event of

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the show. So that's that's myambition right now. We need to put
together enough money. I'll draw upthe plans and uh, I pretty much
have in my head at this point. And I think you probably saw some
of the sketches I made Mike uhto build a trailer and uh, and
I think we'd be able to gettrucking companies to help us move it.

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You know. If not, wecan run a truck. And I know
Mike and I both have license todrive the big rigs. I'll put Mike
back to work, yeah, orhook them up and have him pulled too
much anymore. So at CS Diesel, at AOL dot com. You got
it. And and of course youcan always get a hold of me.
I am the voice of the WarriorWagon, and Frank and I are together

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all the time. So but wereally need to raise some money and try
to get this. Frank's not gettingany younger. We all funding on this.
Thus far, five percent of it'sbeen out of my pocket. Now
I've been retired a couple of yearsand my funds are being depleted quite rapidly.
One of the things that happened isI have a horse and carriage service

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where I do weddings and events withthe horses, and it's a paid service.
And that extra money that I madewith that I was able to pour
into the Warrior Wagon project. Andnever mind that I enjoyed doing I love
doing what I do. But withthis COVID, in the last two years,
ninety five percent of the work thatwe did hasn't been coming in.

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Yeah. Right, So it's hopefullyit's going to start picking up again.
But right now it doesn't look realpromising. But we'll see how things go.
You know, next year, I'mthinking we're going to come out of
this, you know, maybe afterthe next election will come out of it.
So I hope so Ritchie real quickly. So the Honor mission are the
Purple Heart Mission? Um, firstof all, how did they get a

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hold of you and help with thatsituation? And then let's really talk quickly
about the Patriot project coming up.There's a there's a Facebook page National Purple
Heart on a Mission inc. Theycan go on there. They can either
donate end or what we were askingbecause all of the all of the course
is bared out basically by the public. There's no government money. We probably

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wouldn't accept it anyway, but Iknow one organization in um Sullivan County.
They actually the VFW Coalition. I'msorry, the Veterans Coalition through the VFW,
donated to sponsor one veteran coming in, so we designating the money.
It's not operation expenses, it's justfor one program. Yeah yeah, and

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it's again I can't tell you enoughabout how humble they feel, as we've
been discussing all morning to be honoredthis way. So that could be a
way of donating if you specifically wantto do one for from each state,
so be it. But um,you have my contact information that could be

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the CAUD again. You know,we could plug that in. But that's
the best way to get in touch. All right, and we only have
about a minute left, but Ireally wanted both of you gentlemen on.
You know, this country has gonethrough so much over the years, and
believe it or not, we've beenin worse shape than we are now.
I know it seems like maybe not. And you guys are older than I

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am, so you've seen more longtime friends. Remember you're enough older that
you've seen probably harder times than Ihave. You know, I never forgot
my father when I asked him aboutthe depression, he says, you don't
understand. We were so poor.We didn't even notice that. We were
already knew how to survive, andeverybody was that. I remember well during

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the Korean conflict war that my fatherused to go around to gas stations and
try to get used tires for hiscar. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
but we always had food on thetable. That's right. We always yep
and close on our back. ButI think the message that I was really
hoping for and having you both onis that you've been you've been down that

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road before, and it's still thegreatest country on the planet, and we've
always been able to rebound and fightback. And I think we're going to
do it again. I feel likewe are. Yeah. I think I
pray we will. Yeah. AndI have a lot of confidence in the
youth in this country. There's alot more good youth that we don't hear
about. Yeah. And that's anda number of those Iraq and Afghanistan veterans

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are stepping up, you know,to turn around and say this is not
right. We have a vision wefought you was for you. Let's turn
our own country back to where itwas so I too see it. And
one of the things before we closehere, you know, we live in
a in an incredible area here inthe Hudson Valley. So much history happened

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here. You have a National PurpleHeart Hall of Honor Museum right here in
New Windsor. And I bet youeighty percent of people listening to us have
never been there. Three seventy fourTemple Hill Road and the Windsor. So
put your kids in the car andgo there and spend a day because it
is an eye opening experience, verymoving. Yes, and every time I
go, I find something that Ididn't see before. To be honest with

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you, definitely, and it's it'sit's and and to your point, both
of your points. We need toget our children to understand why they have
the freedom they have, and thisis one way of doing it. When
you see the history of what happen. It's up to the parents, and
it's up to the organizations like yours. It all starts at home, There's
no question about it. Things thatgo on the school system today that are

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just mind boggling. Yeah, therewas a I took a young neighbor who
would missed them of the grand opening. Um. I took him and his
brother, you know, to thewhole after we had the softope and it's
out of the mouths of babes.He was walking through and he actually said
to me, so you have apurple heart, and I said yes,

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and he looked at me very quizzically, and he said, did it hurt?
And I thought he was talking aboutthe day I got wounded. And
I said, well, yeah,yes it did. And I fumbled around
for the words. And he said, but did it hurt when they put
it in? And I stopped fora second. I said what he said,
the purple heart when they put itinto your chest. But you gotta
love it, you know. Butagain, it was the innocence that was

(30:32):
going on. Well, Richie andFrank, thanks so much for spending some
time with me. We'll have youguys back again any time. For you
uncle, let's keep it going.I hope you enjoyed this week's episode of
clear View Hudson Valley, and Iwant to remind you that all the episodes
are available on a clear View HudsonValley podcast, available at iHeartRadio dot com.
Hi'm Uncle Mike, and if Idon't see you out and about,

(30:52):
I'll catch you on the radio.Have a great week everyone,
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