December 10, 2025 • 25 mins
Realizing what Hannukah stands for is explained how we navigate hurriances' wrath. WWII shows the resilence of the "cause" and the Hammer lends us bravery.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
And welcome back Harventeranswie Radio showing Rolph Nathan Oko.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And Patrick McAllister of dear friend Patty and Cindy and
I in World War Two Hanikah and hurricanes. And remember
you're gonna be laughing at me right now. But remember
next year you're in Florida or you hear about Florida hurricanes,
(00:35):
you're gonna remember hanekah, the big age goes along with
the hammer. Go to it, my friend.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Patty with the hammer. But remember we're out in the
Pacific right now, so they're called typhoons.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We left things with the combined Japanese fleet headed by
the first Air Fleet, the dreaded Keto Bhutai. The very
fleet had delivered such a crushing blow to America at
Pearl Harbor just six months earlier, is bearing down on
(01:10):
the Midway Atoll now. Admiral Chester Nimitz and others could
have worked this a few ways. On One end was
to preserve the American's Pacific Fleet and Army Air Forces
limited assets by withdrawing them and then letting the Japanese
(01:33):
waltz right onto Midway and then turn around and take
it back later when the new ships, planes, and men
arrived Okay in the middle there was staging for a
strictly defensive fight at Midway, but on the far end
(01:55):
of risk there was going in for an all out
offensive fight to the finish to declaw the Keito Bhutai
and put the Japanese on the defensive. That was by
far the riskiest move, which would be the most expensive
(02:17):
in machines and men, and a defeat at Midway stood
to set America back probably a couple of years in
the war, depending on how Americans responded to that defeat. Now,
at the recent Battle of the Coral Sea, the US
(02:38):
fought to a tactical stalemate with Japanese, but it was
an operational win in that we prevented the Japanese from
further solidifying their offensive position in the South Pacific. But
we paid a price. We lost one of our then
(03:00):
precious few carriers, the Lexington, at the Battle of Coral Sea.
The York Town was heavily damaged. Two that left in
the entire Pacific fleet, the Hornet and the Big E
the Enterprise two count of two aircraft carriers. According to
(03:24):
Defense Media Network's historiographer Chuck Oldham, the Japanese were steaming
toward Midgway with four fleet and two light aircraft carriers,
eleven battleships including the supership ya Yamatol, twenty two cruisers,
(03:47):
sixty five destroyers, and twenty submarines. Nimics could muster two
healthy fleet carriers along with the injured York, one light
and seven heavy cruisers, seventeen destroyers, and twelve submarines, and
(04:09):
the Americans had the Midway a toll going into the battle.
So the Americans had a slight numerical advantage in aircraft,
totally overwhelmed in terms of ships, but a good number
of the American aircraft, such as the F two to
A buffaloes, they were obsolete compared to what they were
(04:31):
going up against, and our torpedoes at that time were
notoriously unreliable, both the Mark thirteen that the airplanes carried
and the Mark fourteen that the submarines carried. The pilots
who were going to climb into those obsolete planes knew
that their job was to distract the superior Japanese planes
(04:57):
to give our more modern planes a better shot. Now,
flying them into battle against the Japanese was near certain
death for those pilots, and indeed, the casualty rate for
the American pilots at the Battle of Midway was in
the neighborhood of fifty percent five zero. Half of the
(05:21):
pilots who went into the battle would not come out
of the battle alive. Now, I'm not going to narrate
the incredible stories of risk taking, loss and luck on
the American side. We know the ending Japanese admirals made
several bad assumptions before and bad calls during the battle
(05:46):
that allowed for a startling and overwhelming American victory. By
all rights, though the US should have lost at Midway
many times over, but Japan ended up paying a higher
price than it had extracted out of US at Oahu
(06:08):
and Pearl Harbor six months earlier. It paid with four
of its ten carriers, two hundred and forty eight planes,
and nearly thirty one hundred sailors and pilots killed or captured,
almost all of them killed. Many of those were the
experienced pilots and mechanics needed to make good use of
(06:32):
their advanced tech. In the wake of the defeat, many Japanese,
who had previously believed they could win against an industrially
superior foe by warrior spirit bending manufactured steel. Now realized
a coming American victory was inevitable, and had Japan played
(06:57):
things smart, it would have sue for a company peace
in June of forty two on the grounds that there
had now been about equal losses and the killing needed
to stop. Americans might have been inclined to think Midway
had avenged Pearl Harbor, since we just sunk four of
the six carriers involved in the surprise attack, and Americans
(07:19):
might have been eager to avoid further war. But Japan,
steeped in an authoritarian nationalism and an obsolete deaficult didn't
play things smart. It was now full on in a
defensive war. It could only lose with an unconditional surrender
(07:44):
to the Americans, and of course that happened in August
of nineteen forty five. I believe, and again I am
not Jewish, but I believe that the same spirit that
Judah the Hammer had, that that led him and and
(08:05):
the men with him to defeat a militarily superior opponent.
I believe it's the same spirit that Admiral Chester Nemts
had when he's decided we're going all out at midway, I.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Think that we have a new uh. We're going to
coin a new nickname. Uh to uh. Admiral Nimitz. He
was the Hammer. He did what the Hammer did with
the Judean Crians. What was was he the bulldog Nimits?
(08:44):
What was his nickname?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
No, that that was.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
What did he did he have? I don't think he
had a nickname, or did he but he does not, not.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
That I'm aware of, believe, but I believe it was
the same spirit. Now you know the other story I
had picked to tell by I just don't think we
have time to give it justice. And we really should
tell the stories on the air sometime. Alexander Sandy nine
(09:18):
injer Ju junior. He was a Florida boy. He grew
up in Fort Lauderdale. He was the first recipient of
the Medal of Honor in World War Two, and his
story in the Battle of Baton is is just it's
(09:38):
an amazing story.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Time. We're only in the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Okay, let's try to rush through this then, Okay. Within
hours of the attack of the military bases at Owahu,
Japanese forces launched a multi pronged invasion on the Commonwealth
of the Philippines, and US and Philippine forces were quickly swamped.
(10:05):
Within days, the US and Filipino forces pulled into a
defensive position on Baton Peninsula in hope to hope for
rescue that was not going to come. But while their
fight was hopeless, the American and Filipino fighters tenacity showed
(10:26):
Japanese slowed Japanese war plans for the entire South Pacific,
and that helped to thwart Japan's chance to ever get
out of World War II with anything but an unconditional
surrender to the United States. Okay, Nininger kind of jumping
(10:47):
ahead in the story here for time. Nininger he graduated
from the Military Academy at West Point in May of
nineteen forty one. He was near the top of his class,
so he could have picked just about any assignment he wanted.
He requested duty in the Philippines, knowing full well that
Japan was already making a lot of war and was
(11:08):
getting increasingly aggressive towards the US, and most figured the
Philippines was the place where a war between Japan and
the US was going to happen. Now, it wasn't that
Knightinger wanted war. He was known for his respectfulness, indeed
reverence toward everybody and every culture he interacted with. He
(11:32):
even wrote admiringly about the Japanese and about his hope
that the US and japan would come to admire each
other's cultures. And he shipped out to the Philippines to
join the fifty seventh Infantry Regiment the Philippine Scouts, and
Nininger served alongside Filipino officers and enlisted, who all accounts
(11:57):
say loved this American. The Japanese they invaded the Philippines
on December eighth, nineteen forty one, the Army's Far East
Air Force had to make a run to Australia to
live another day, and that doomed the ground forces to
(12:17):
certain defeat. As a post as a platoon leader, thick
in the fighting, Ninninger he very quickly earned a Purple
Heart and a Bronze Star. Then, come December twenty three,
or around December twenty three, the US and Philippine forces
(12:38):
were backed into the Baton Peninsula for a strictly defensive
fight the Japanese. They were coming in hard and heavy,
and a National World War II Museum article picks up
this story so let me tell as they do.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Quote We're going to take a break, perfect, perfect, take
a break. We get back. Well, we'll pick up the
story from Patty our Veterans Voice Radio. Happy Hanekah, Happy
Michael Lenz, and happy Hurricanes. We'll be read back.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I'm doctor tim Iinitas at Treasure Coast Dermatology. At Treasure
Coast Dermatology, we believe in the prevention and early detection
of skin cancer. We are medical doctors and we focus
on the medical aspects of dermatology. You don't need a
sales pitch for botox, collagen or wrinkle creams. You need
a doctor that cares about you and the health of
your skin. We feel by not trying to do too much,
(13:35):
we can do more for our patients.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Caul Tolfree eight seven seven eight seven zero dirm that's
eight seven seven eight seven zero three three seven six.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Meet Norma Howell, patient of Florida I Institute.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
My sight to me is top priority because you lose
your sight, you lose all of the independence and so
with me, it was scary. At the meeting Doctor Schuem,
I had a joy. I knew I was going to
be okay. My life is just one hundred plus percent.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Are you ready to experience truly exceptional patient care Florida
I Institute.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Hey, did you hear the latest about our Florida High Woman?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
No?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
What?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
There's a new High Woman art gallery in Vero Beach.
Really where eighteen seventy two Commerce Avenue?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
When's it open?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Seven days a week? Called ninety five four five five
seven six two two six for an appointment any time,
No kidding, Just call for your appointment ninety five four
five five seven six two two six and then go
to eighteen seventy two Commerce Avenue.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
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your I text dollars are welcome and welcome back on
Arbor on SCIS Radio show.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So we're going to pick up a story from the
National World War Two Museum. And who is going to
be our narrator, our storyteller, A highlighter, mister.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Penny There I am. So we were on the Baton Peninsula.
It's January of nineteen forty two. The American ground troops
and the brave Filipino fighters. They know this battle is lost.
They are feeling down, they're feeling dejected, and in one
(15:31):
night of fighting. A bunch of Japanese snipers were able
to get through the lines and set up to snipe
at American soldiers all day long. Right, so everybody is
feeling down like the world is ended. Nininger and others,
(15:55):
they volunteered to become sniper hunting teams, and he led
one of those teams. Nininger. They were out on patrol.
He spotted and he shot one of the Japanese snipers.
Now that made him an instant target for the other
(16:17):
Japanese snipers, and so they shot at him, and that
in turn revealed their positions to him. Let me read
his Medal of Honor citation quote. In hand to hand
fighting which followed, Second Lieutenant Nininger repeatedly forced his way
(16:38):
to and into the hostile position. Though exposed to heavy
enemy fire, he continued to attack with rifle and hand
grenades and succeeded in destroying several enemy groups in foxholes
and enemy snipers. Although wounded three, he continued his attacks
(17:02):
until he was killed after pushing alone far within the
enemy position. When his body was found after the recapture
of the position, one enemy officer and two enemy soldiers
lay dead around him. End quote. Now, other soldiers were
(17:25):
able to exploit nine injers attack on the Japanese to
rally and reestablish the defensive line, and Nininger, it's estimated,
killed about twenty enemies in that charge. He continued his
charge even after running out of ammunition, and Colonel George S.
(17:45):
Clark assessed that nineingers and I'm quoting the colonel now
nineingres action acted like a tonic on the men around
him and added greatly to the success of our counter attack,
ending the quote. His company commander opined that had it
(18:06):
not been for Nininger's patrol action enabling the counter attack
and inspiring the troops quote, the entire Baton campaign would
have ended in January instead of three months later. In
other words, for the price of twenty kills and his
own life, Nininger likely saved uncountable thousands from prolonged war.
(18:31):
And I'm happy to tell you that Fort Lauderdale honored
its favorite son with a statue on the riverwalk. Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
has honored him by naming the fourth State Veterans Nursing Home,
the Alexander Sandy Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home and that's
in Pembrooke Pines. The Army Reserve Center in Fort Lauderdale
(18:56):
is named after him too, And I really believe that again,
in the same spirit of Judah the Hammer and Honikah,
I believe that same spirit was infused in Sandy Nininger
that day.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It's sad but beautiful when we talk about this, and
it's always the sacrifice of a few for hopefully the
success in life life of the many. And we've witnessed it.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And I want to tell everybody, all of the people
who've never celebrated Honkah before, who are now excited, you
know that you understand this is a this is a
holiday that marks the resistance of tyranny and the and
a celebration of the human spirit and longing for freedom.
(19:51):
You have a chance to celebrate Honikkah. Yes, I'll tell
you how. The Haabad Jewish Center of Martin and Saint
Duc Counties is hosting it's twenty eighth annual Community Hanika
celebration on Sunday, December fourteen at Tradition Square in Port
(20:12):
Saint Lucy's area, and that is right next to the
Tradition Town Hall. So all you have to do is
put into your phones map Tradition town Hall, it'll drive
you right there. The event is free to attend. There's
a whole lot of stuff going on, including rock of
(20:32):
rock climbing. There's going to be live music by an
artist that I understand is pretty well known in the
Jewish community, and I wish I could remember his name
right now, but I'm not going to try to. Donations
will be accepted. The celebration will be three thirty to
(20:53):
five thirty PM, and Rabbi Shlomo Ummanner has told me
everybody is urged to attend. It's not just open to all,
it is wide open to everyone. The HBBAD Center they
love sharing Hanukkah with the entire community.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Is that area around with that? Are you the world's
largest heart monument?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Is no idea?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I know it's tradition. If you're moderately familiar with Port
Saint Lucy, you know exactly where it is. And again,
very easy to put into your your phone, your phone maps.
Just put in Tradition town Hall, Port Saint Lucy and
it'll take you right there. And they're going to be
doing a gelt drop from a fire truck.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
By the way, all of you parents, all of you
Christian not Jewish parents, don't tell your children about hanka
because for eight days, like we have Christmas. At Christmas
Day for gifts, Jewish children get gifts for eight days. Now,
go ahead and tell your kids about Hanekah. See how
they respond. Now they're going to Now you're going to
(22:11):
be obligated for eight days of Hanakah, gifts, gelt, money, chocolate,
wonderful and the baking is terrific. And then ten days
later Merry Christmas and another day of gifts. But it's
a joyous location, it's historical, uh and the hammer really
portrays what the courage of a few for the benefit
(22:35):
of the many. So at this holiday time, we want
to wish everybody a happy Hankah and a little bit
at a time, a happy holiday season, Merry Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Lieutenant Colonel Rand Gregory Goldstein Army.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Bartholomew William McDonald, Marine.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Corps, George Edward Chismarck, Junior Air.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Force, Lieutenant Commander Edwin Harrison Stone.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Navy, Anthony Douglas Shup Army Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
James Llewellyn Navy, And to all our other fallen heroes,
those that we have named, and all those many others
that we have not been able to name in public.
All of them, all of our fallen heroes, there are
our brothers and sisters. They're your brothers and sisters. Without them,
(23:41):
I couldn't put my right hand over my left lapel
right now, which I'm doing because that's where my American
flag is. The greatest two things cisco in the United States,
the American the country, the Constitution, and the American flag.
And that's what all our our fallen heroes have sacrificed
(24:02):
their lives for so we can be free. We may
not be the best, the most perfect country in the world,
but we are certainly, absolutely barnan the best country in
the world. And everybody please appreciate the fact and use
the word respect. We are Americans, we are one. We
(24:25):
are the hammer. Thank you, Thank you are not to
all our brothers sisters for your service. We proudly salute you.
Rest in peace forever, Big
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Big
And welcome back Harventeranswie Radio showing Rolph Nathan Oko.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And Patrick McAllister of dear friend Patty and Cindy and
I in World War Two Hanikah and hurricanes. And remember
you're gonna be laughing at me right now. But remember
next year you're in Florida or you hear about Florida hurricanes,
(00:35):
you're gonna remember hanekah, the big age goes along with
the hammer. Go to it, my friend.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Patty with the hammer. But remember we're out in the
Pacific right now, so they're called typhoons.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We left things with the combined Japanese fleet headed by
the first Air Fleet, the dreaded Keto Bhutai. The very
fleet had delivered such a crushing blow to America at
Pearl Harbor just six months earlier, is bearing down on
(01:10):
the Midway Atoll now. Admiral Chester Nimitz and others could
have worked this a few ways. On One end was
to preserve the American's Pacific Fleet and Army Air Forces
limited assets by withdrawing them and then letting the Japanese
(01:33):
waltz right onto Midway and then turn around and take
it back later when the new ships, planes, and men
arrived Okay in the middle there was staging for a
strictly defensive fight at Midway, but on the far end
(01:55):
of risk there was going in for an all out
offensive fight to the finish to declaw the Keito Bhutai
and put the Japanese on the defensive. That was by
far the riskiest move, which would be the most expensive
(02:17):
in machines and men, and a defeat at Midway stood
to set America back probably a couple of years in
the war, depending on how Americans responded to that defeat. Now,
at the recent Battle of the Coral Sea, the US
(02:38):
fought to a tactical stalemate with Japanese, but it was
an operational win in that we prevented the Japanese from
further solidifying their offensive position in the South Pacific. But
we paid a price. We lost one of our then
(03:00):
precious few carriers, the Lexington, at the Battle of Coral Sea.
The York Town was heavily damaged. Two that left in
the entire Pacific fleet, the Hornet and the Big E
the Enterprise two count of two aircraft carriers. According to
(03:24):
Defense Media Network's historiographer Chuck Oldham, the Japanese were steaming
toward Midgway with four fleet and two light aircraft carriers,
eleven battleships including the supership ya Yamatol, twenty two cruisers,
(03:47):
sixty five destroyers, and twenty submarines. Nimics could muster two
healthy fleet carriers along with the injured York, one light
and seven heavy cruisers, seventeen destroyers, and twelve submarines, and
(04:09):
the Americans had the Midway a toll going into the battle.
So the Americans had a slight numerical advantage in aircraft,
totally overwhelmed in terms of ships, but a good number
of the American aircraft, such as the F two to
A buffaloes, they were obsolete compared to what they were
(04:31):
going up against, and our torpedoes at that time were
notoriously unreliable, both the Mark thirteen that the airplanes carried
and the Mark fourteen that the submarines carried. The pilots
who were going to climb into those obsolete planes knew
that their job was to distract the superior Japanese planes
(04:57):
to give our more modern planes a better shot. Now,
flying them into battle against the Japanese was near certain
death for those pilots, and indeed, the casualty rate for
the American pilots at the Battle of Midway was in
the neighborhood of fifty percent five zero. Half of the
(05:21):
pilots who went into the battle would not come out
of the battle alive. Now, I'm not going to narrate
the incredible stories of risk taking, loss and luck on
the American side. We know the ending Japanese admirals made
several bad assumptions before and bad calls during the battle
(05:46):
that allowed for a startling and overwhelming American victory. By
all rights, though the US should have lost at Midway
many times over, but Japan ended up paying a higher
price than it had extracted out of US at Oahu
(06:08):
and Pearl Harbor six months earlier. It paid with four
of its ten carriers, two hundred and forty eight planes,
and nearly thirty one hundred sailors and pilots killed or captured,
almost all of them killed. Many of those were the
experienced pilots and mechanics needed to make good use of
(06:32):
their advanced tech. In the wake of the defeat, many Japanese,
who had previously believed they could win against an industrially
superior foe by warrior spirit bending manufactured steel. Now realized
a coming American victory was inevitable, and had Japan played
(06:57):
things smart, it would have sue for a company peace
in June of forty two on the grounds that there
had now been about equal losses and the killing needed
to stop. Americans might have been inclined to think Midway
had avenged Pearl Harbor, since we just sunk four of
the six carriers involved in the surprise attack, and Americans
(07:19):
might have been eager to avoid further war. But Japan,
steeped in an authoritarian nationalism and an obsolete deaficult didn't
play things smart. It was now full on in a
defensive war. It could only lose with an unconditional surrender
(07:44):
to the Americans, and of course that happened in August
of nineteen forty five. I believe, and again I am
not Jewish, but I believe that the same spirit that
Judah the Hammer had, that that led him and and
(08:05):
the men with him to defeat a militarily superior opponent.
I believe it's the same spirit that Admiral Chester Nemts
had when he's decided we're going all out at midway, I.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Think that we have a new uh. We're going to
coin a new nickname. Uh to uh. Admiral Nimitz. He
was the Hammer. He did what the Hammer did with
the Judean Crians. What was was he the bulldog Nimits?
(08:44):
What was his nickname?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
No, that that was.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
What did he did he have? I don't think he
had a nickname, or did he but he does not, not.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
That I'm aware of, believe, but I believe it was
the same spirit. Now you know the other story I
had picked to tell by I just don't think we
have time to give it justice. And we really should
tell the stories on the air sometime. Alexander Sandy nine
(09:18):
injer Ju junior. He was a Florida boy. He grew
up in Fort Lauderdale. He was the first recipient of
the Medal of Honor in World War Two, and his
story in the Battle of Baton is is just it's
(09:38):
an amazing story.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Time. We're only in the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Okay, let's try to rush through this then, Okay. Within
hours of the attack of the military bases at Owahu,
Japanese forces launched a multi pronged invasion on the Commonwealth
of the Philippines, and US and Philippine forces were quickly swamped.
(10:05):
Within days, the US and Filipino forces pulled into a
defensive position on Baton Peninsula in hope to hope for
rescue that was not going to come. But while their
fight was hopeless, the American and Filipino fighters tenacity showed
(10:26):
Japanese slowed Japanese war plans for the entire South Pacific,
and that helped to thwart Japan's chance to ever get
out of World War II with anything but an unconditional
surrender to the United States. Okay, Nininger kind of jumping
(10:47):
ahead in the story here for time. Nininger he graduated
from the Military Academy at West Point in May of
nineteen forty one. He was near the top of his class,
so he could have picked just about any assignment he wanted.
He requested duty in the Philippines, knowing full well that
Japan was already making a lot of war and was
(11:08):
getting increasingly aggressive towards the US, and most figured the
Philippines was the place where a war between Japan and
the US was going to happen. Now, it wasn't that
Knightinger wanted war. He was known for his respectfulness, indeed
reverence toward everybody and every culture he interacted with. He
(11:32):
even wrote admiringly about the Japanese and about his hope
that the US and japan would come to admire each
other's cultures. And he shipped out to the Philippines to
join the fifty seventh Infantry Regiment the Philippine Scouts, and
Nininger served alongside Filipino officers and enlisted, who all accounts
(11:57):
say loved this American. The Japanese they invaded the Philippines
on December eighth, nineteen forty one, the Army's Far East
Air Force had to make a run to Australia to
live another day, and that doomed the ground forces to
(12:17):
certain defeat. As a post as a platoon leader, thick
in the fighting, Ninninger he very quickly earned a Purple
Heart and a Bronze Star. Then, come December twenty three,
or around December twenty three, the US and Philippine forces
(12:38):
were backed into the Baton Peninsula for a strictly defensive
fight the Japanese. They were coming in hard and heavy,
and a National World War II Museum article picks up
this story so let me tell as they do.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Quote We're going to take a break, perfect, perfect, take
a break. We get back. Well, we'll pick up the
story from Patty our Veterans Voice Radio. Happy Hanekah, Happy
Michael Lenz, and happy Hurricanes. We'll be read back.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I'm doctor tim Iinitas at Treasure Coast Dermatology. At Treasure
Coast Dermatology, we believe in the prevention and early detection
of skin cancer. We are medical doctors and we focus
on the medical aspects of dermatology. You don't need a
sales pitch for botox, collagen or wrinkle creams. You need
a doctor that cares about you and the health of
your skin. We feel by not trying to do too much,
(13:35):
we can do more for our patients.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Caul Tolfree eight seven seven eight seven zero dirm that's
eight seven seven eight seven zero three three seven six.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Meet Norma Howell, patient of Florida I Institute.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
My sight to me is top priority because you lose
your sight, you lose all of the independence and so
with me, it was scary. At the meeting Doctor Schuem,
I had a joy. I knew I was going to
be okay. My life is just one hundred plus percent.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Are you ready to experience truly exceptional patient care Florida
I Institute.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Hey, did you hear the latest about our Florida High Woman?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
No?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
What?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
There's a new High Woman art gallery in Vero Beach.
Really where eighteen seventy two Commerce Avenue?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
When's it open?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Seven days a week? Called ninety five four five five
seven six two two six for an appointment any time,
No kidding, Just call for your appointment ninety five four
five five seven six two two six and then go
to eighteen seventy two Commerce Avenue.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Wow, that's good news. A member of the ITEX trading community,
your I text dollars are welcome and welcome back on
Arbor on SCIS Radio show.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So we're going to pick up a story from the
National World War Two Museum. And who is going to
be our narrator, our storyteller, A highlighter, mister.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Penny There I am. So we were on the Baton Peninsula.
It's January of nineteen forty two. The American ground troops
and the brave Filipino fighters. They know this battle is lost.
They are feeling down, they're feeling dejected, and in one
(15:31):
night of fighting. A bunch of Japanese snipers were able
to get through the lines and set up to snipe
at American soldiers all day long. Right, so everybody is
feeling down like the world is ended. Nininger and others,
(15:55):
they volunteered to become sniper hunting teams, and he led
one of those teams. Nininger. They were out on patrol.
He spotted and he shot one of the Japanese snipers.
Now that made him an instant target for the other
(16:17):
Japanese snipers, and so they shot at him, and that
in turn revealed their positions to him. Let me read
his Medal of Honor citation quote. In hand to hand
fighting which followed, Second Lieutenant Nininger repeatedly forced his way
(16:38):
to and into the hostile position. Though exposed to heavy
enemy fire, he continued to attack with rifle and hand
grenades and succeeded in destroying several enemy groups in foxholes
and enemy snipers. Although wounded three, he continued his attacks
(17:02):
until he was killed after pushing alone far within the
enemy position. When his body was found after the recapture
of the position, one enemy officer and two enemy soldiers
lay dead around him. End quote. Now, other soldiers were
(17:25):
able to exploit nine injers attack on the Japanese to
rally and reestablish the defensive line, and Nininger, it's estimated,
killed about twenty enemies in that charge. He continued his
charge even after running out of ammunition, and Colonel George S.
(17:45):
Clark assessed that nineingers and I'm quoting the colonel now
nineingres action acted like a tonic on the men around
him and added greatly to the success of our counter attack,
ending the quote. His company commander opined that had it
(18:06):
not been for Nininger's patrol action enabling the counter attack
and inspiring the troops quote, the entire Baton campaign would
have ended in January instead of three months later. In
other words, for the price of twenty kills and his
own life, Nininger likely saved uncountable thousands from prolonged war.
(18:31):
And I'm happy to tell you that Fort Lauderdale honored
its favorite son with a statue on the riverwalk. Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
has honored him by naming the fourth State Veterans Nursing Home,
the Alexander Sandy Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home and that's
in Pembrooke Pines. The Army Reserve Center in Fort Lauderdale
(18:56):
is named after him too, And I really believe that again,
in the same spirit of Judah the Hammer and Honikah,
I believe that same spirit was infused in Sandy Nininger
that day.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It's sad but beautiful when we talk about this, and
it's always the sacrifice of a few for hopefully the
success in life life of the many. And we've witnessed it.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And I want to tell everybody, all of the people
who've never celebrated Honkah before, who are now excited, you
know that you understand this is a this is a
holiday that marks the resistance of tyranny and the and
a celebration of the human spirit and longing for freedom.
(19:51):
You have a chance to celebrate Honikkah. Yes, I'll tell
you how. The Haabad Jewish Center of Martin and Saint
Duc Counties is hosting it's twenty eighth annual Community Hanika
celebration on Sunday, December fourteen at Tradition Square in Port
(20:12):
Saint Lucy's area, and that is right next to the
Tradition Town Hall. So all you have to do is
put into your phones map Tradition town Hall, it'll drive
you right there. The event is free to attend. There's
a whole lot of stuff going on, including rock of
(20:32):
rock climbing. There's going to be live music by an
artist that I understand is pretty well known in the
Jewish community, and I wish I could remember his name
right now, but I'm not going to try to. Donations
will be accepted. The celebration will be three thirty to
(20:53):
five thirty PM, and Rabbi Shlomo Ummanner has told me
everybody is urged to attend. It's not just open to all,
it is wide open to everyone. The HBBAD Center they
love sharing Hanukkah with the entire community.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Is that area around with that? Are you the world's
largest heart monument?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Is no idea?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I know it's tradition. If you're moderately familiar with Port
Saint Lucy, you know exactly where it is. And again,
very easy to put into your your phone, your phone maps.
Just put in Tradition town Hall, Port Saint Lucy and
it'll take you right there. And they're going to be
doing a gelt drop from a fire truck.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
By the way, all of you parents, all of you
Christian not Jewish parents, don't tell your children about hanka
because for eight days, like we have Christmas. At Christmas
Day for gifts, Jewish children get gifts for eight days. Now,
go ahead and tell your kids about Hanekah. See how
they respond. Now they're going to Now you're going to
(22:11):
be obligated for eight days of Hanakah, gifts, gelt, money, chocolate,
wonderful and the baking is terrific. And then ten days
later Merry Christmas and another day of gifts. But it's
a joyous location, it's historical, uh and the hammer really
portrays what the courage of a few for the benefit
(22:35):
of the many. So at this holiday time, we want
to wish everybody a happy Hankah and a little bit
at a time, a happy holiday season, Merry Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Lieutenant Colonel Rand Gregory Goldstein Army.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Bartholomew William McDonald, Marine.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Corps, George Edward Chismarck, Junior Air.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Force, Lieutenant Commander Edwin Harrison Stone.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Navy, Anthony Douglas Shup Army Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
James Llewellyn Navy, And to all our other fallen heroes,
those that we have named, and all those many others
that we have not been able to name in public.
All of them, all of our fallen heroes, there are
our brothers and sisters. They're your brothers and sisters. Without them,
(23:41):
I couldn't put my right hand over my left lapel
right now, which I'm doing because that's where my American
flag is. The greatest two things cisco in the United States,
the American the country, the Constitution, and the American flag.
And that's what all our our fallen heroes have sacrificed
(24:02):
their lives for so we can be free. We may
not be the best, the most perfect country in the world,
but we are certainly, absolutely barnan the best country in
the world. And everybody please appreciate the fact and use
the word respect. We are Americans, we are one. We
(24:25):
are the hammer. Thank you, Thank you are not to
all our brothers sisters for your service. We proudly salute you.
Rest in peace forever, Big
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Big
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