September 5, 2025 • 25 mins
The Ft. Pierce Elk's and Purple Heart Cane Project join together for an Oct. 19, 2025 Antique Car show to benefit the Cane Project.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
You're listening to Evergreen Media Network. I am Sydney Schwartz
and this is our Veterans Voice radio show with your host,
Ralph Nathan.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'll go hello everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I hope you're having an absolutely wonderful day and a
wonderful weekend coming up. We have in the studio with
us two dear friends, and we're going to share so
much good news with you that when you get through,
you're not going to be able to sleep tonight because
you're going to be busy tomorrow. And of course we're
talking about today, Saturday, October eighteenth, and whether you're listening
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to us at eight in the morning or at six
and afternoon or both, you're not going to be able
to literally sleep all night because you're going to be
seeing so much. What are we talking about, Well, we're
going to jump start the day by telling you today,
but instead of my telling you, we're going to have
the actual trouble makers tell you what trouble they're going
(01:06):
to cause for you tomorrow in Fort Piers. This is
one of my listeners calling, so I'm going to just
mute them and we'll call them back later. We have
with us my dear friend Lloyd Lasmbie and if you remember,
we've had them, I think like every couple of years.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Every couple of years.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, that's about it. Can handle them, right uh? And
doc Lloyd, what are you most famous for?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm president and founder at the Purple Heart Cane Project.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
God bless you forth by the way, we uh.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Hand carved canes and we present them at no charge
once a year to combat wounded venters and gold Star families.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Now you just this year you had what's the presentation
with January February?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It was January and at the Seal Museum, right uh,
and we present sixty knes. We had about five hundred
and fifty people in attendance.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So what do the four hundred and ninety people do
without a cane? Sorry?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I got a laugh, ning, don't quit your day job. No,
it's it's a worthwhile project. It's something I feel deeply about,
as does Bill. Bill is a marine veteran. Sorry about that.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
He always good for that.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, you know what, why don't we tell people who
Bill is? Bill? Do you want to tell us who
Bill is? Yes?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
My name is Bill Minogue. I'm former marine. I guess
I'm always gone. Yeah, that's what they say. And I
have I do antique car shows throughout the Trie County,
and Lloyd he comes to all of them to take
care of all my other veterans that we deal with
and for the pal and whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, he loves junkers. I know that. I got that
look everybody like, I'll see it later.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Lloyd came to me, he goes, you know, I want
to do a car show. Well, I came back a
couple of weeks later. I'm a member of the Elks
fifteen twenty and fourth pairs and they want to do
it for him. So I was like, okay. He goes
to me, what do I have to do? I said,
just help me get the word out. We'll take care
of the rest.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I got a funny story to tell you. When I
was a teenager, I wanted a gold ring. I had
about the much money to buy a gold ring as
I do a case of cokes. Anyway, So my uncle
gives me an Elks ring. I don't know if you
know if the old Elks ring it's literally the head
of an Elk, I mean protruding from the ring and
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after it in blue let and blue whatever you call that,
and the letter B Poe. Well, I could never remember
the name for. But what were my uncle and aunt's name?
Bernie pick or Elsa. That's the brotherhood of the Alex
Bernie pick or Elsa. That's I remembered it. So whenever
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I hear Alex, it miss something special. Unfortunately, I had
some bad times in college. I sold it for the
gold so I could pay my villa. Yeah, I never
forgot that. Maybe someday I'll find them like similarly.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, you know, it's funny how we associate things you
with abbreviations. Uh, Marine, M A R I N E.
A man arriving in rusty Navy equipment.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I say nothing as I like.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
To be a marine in the Civil War. Oh, that
was good job, and I could quit it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
The Marine Corps was two things to me. One the
hardest thing I've ever done in my life going through
that camp, getting through that. But the best thing was
today it says you are a marine. Now there's no
other feeling. Nobody has it. There's only the few in
the prout.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I see that to him all the time because he's
not part of the few in the prout.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Wow, Navy, right, I was Army, Thank you very much.
Whoa man am I glad I wasn't the merchant.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I did a tour of Vietnam with the one hundred
and first Airborne Division as infantry squadron. I got out,
went back into three year Special Forces. So okay, that's enough.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Oh were you involved with jumps? Obviously? Complans? Yeah, how
many did you? Seriously?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I didn't have a dozen jumps? I mean it was
fifty five dollars a month. Ralph, come on, that was
big money back then.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
To pay for parachutes.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Ralph Wilburn, Norville where the pilots.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Okay, that's that precedes Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I was much later after that.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
The reason I asked is because I've remember my friend.
He just passed away within the last year. He was
a sergeant in the army, a twenty year career, and
he was a paratrooper. He had ninety nine and he said,
I can't leave unless get the hundred right, the right
because he wanted to retire with a hundred. Apparently it
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was meant more in benefits still for some reason, I
don't remember what, but he was so proud of the
fact that an old man of twenty years in the
army got to jump one more time.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
He was so proud of it. I bet, yeah, that would.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Be it's And I think I've told you in times past.
Seventeen years ago I went up to and drove up
to Fort Benning, Georgia, and took my old jump wings
and pinned him on my eldest grandson.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Oh that must have been You must have pulled your
eyes out on that.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, I don't cry my eyes sweat.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Is that you would think I was going to remember
that one?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No, you would think he was a marine? Yeah? Where much?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
But this is why we don't call our short interview.
We call it a conversation. This is everything off the cuff,
nothing rehearse. Didn't say it like you told me to. Yeah, okay,
I just want to make sure.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Okay, So Bill, how long were you in the military?
All total? Five years? Five and six six years? Okay?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Four active too? Inactive?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Now did either one of you stay like in the
reserves or whatever afterwards?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Or I stayed after I get out of the regulars
about a year in the reserves.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Once in the military, all the people that I have
to share with everybody in case I never told you,
But nineteen sixty six. I'm a junior in college in
Des Moines, Iole at Drake. My brother in law is
already practicing attorney, says, and my draft numbers getting there.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You just know it. This is Ralph. You got two
choices waiting. We call you.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Go to Vietnam and get the jungle or in enlist.
They'll put you an officers candidate school. By the time
you get out of it, chances are you'll be behind
the people shooting in the jungle.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So I go in and the list. They give you
a battery of mental tests.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
They found me sane, I don't know how, and then
they put me through the physical and I cannot describe
on the air what it's like forty going through the physical. Well,
all the guys, all the guys, I said, anyway, so
I f like they. I still have my eight and
a half eleven yellow sheet of paper with a like
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one inch let a rubbish stamp rechecked.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So when I started doing our.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Veterans' Voice for radio about thirteen or fourteen years ago,
didn't think about it. Then I realized, you know, I'm
glad I didn't have to serve in Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I'm sorry, Lloyd but then I knew my friends.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
All of them came back, thank god, but I always
felt guilty like they kind of wasted some time in
their lives. I mean wasting sarcastically when I was still
not in the military, and I found and I realized
that this is my way, our veterans voice radio of
giving back. So that's why you're helping me feel better.
(09:10):
So thank you for giving me.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
That chank you.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's our pleasure.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Okay, now time what we go? This is wonderful. See
the time there.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You see the nine minutes at twelve, we stop and
take a break three times, and the fourth time is
the last quarters, fourth quarters, So we got plenty of time.
So now let's tell everybody what is Jumpstart Antique Show?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Do you want?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
From the beginning.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
From the beginning nineteen.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Ninety three, I'm working at a multi dealership card place.
Chrysler Hate came out with some new training things called
Customer One. Part of the Customer one was doing clinics
for new car buyers, which they named the jump Start
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Car Clinic.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Well, the first couple they were good, but they were boring.
So I was thinking, well, let's get some cars out there.
So now we could call it the Jumpstart Car Show
as well as clinic. That was nineteen ninety three. The
first show we did had seven cars. By fifteen years
later they were up to four or four fifty, four
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hundred and fifty cars, three hundred cars.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
New cars are antique cars, and it just grew. What
qualifies to be an antique car, well.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
They say now thirty years, twenty five years. But the
key is we also like specialty cars. We don't hold
it to just antique cars. We like the specialty cars
as well roads, right, exactly, exactly, So about well, we've
done many shows for the Indian River Veterans Council. We
do shows for the police because I'm a first responder.
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Not my son is with the Sheriff's department.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Oh good, So.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
We got to take care of our own. And there's
nothing better than veterans and kids, the pal in Fort
Pierce and the Pale and Saint Lucie County. We got
to take care of these people because they're working with
the kids.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And we go from there.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And I mentioned the car show, and of course I've
been to many of Bill's and he says, just stand
by and watch, and he's taken it and this is
our first one with conjunction with Jumpstart Elks and the
Purple Heart, and we're hoping for a good turnout. I mean,
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we present these canes at no charge, and we do
it out of our love and admiration for veterans. It
still costs us money, definitely. We use bass wood, which
comes out of Ohio in the northeast, and I use
bass wood because it's relatively easy to carve, it's strong,
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and most of my carvers are new carvers. I mean
a year, two years carving, that's it. Uh no, uh,
they just got interested in it. And my saying is
if you can peel a potato, I can teach you
to how to carve.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's fantastic. Well, we're going to take a perfect break. Everybody.
We're talking about Jumpstart. We haven't told you yet when.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
So when we get back, make sure you've got a
piece of paper or your calendar or lipstick or a
pen or something. We're going to give you the date
and location and then we'll give you some descriptions what's
going to be taking out inside and outside at Jumpstart.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Antique Car Show. We'll be right back. Everybody, our Veterans
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Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, sure, hey, Cindy, that's for Lloyd and for Bill
to keep him awake, right yeah, or stop from kicking me.
So everybody, thanks for being with us. What we're about
to share with you is, I guess with be the
first of hopefully many in the future car shows. But
it's not just any car show. It's a jumpstart antique
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car show which built Uh yeah, Bill just told us
a little bit about.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
But what's the purpose of this whole thing? Why are
you doing this?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Of course, you want to get veterans out, You want
does American people show up. You want the public to
join the community and you're going to have a I
guess he'll be a contest who's got the best so
certain categories and the antique and miscellaneous cars.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
But what's the main goal of the event. What do
you think to accomplish?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Well, there's actually two purposes. One is to benefit the
Elks for membership, and two is to raise some funds
for the Purple Heart Cane project. We use bass wood.
We use butternut, which is the wood we use for
making the canes, and it comes out of the Northeast.
I mean, I can't have new carvers trying to carve
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oak or mahogany.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's tough.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yeah, that'd be dangerous. So we use we're a five
oh one c three and everything that we make, no
one's paid. Everything goes straight to supplying the wood and
the glass eyes and the leather leashes and so forth
for the canes.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Okay, Now, do you have more than one fund raiser
a year? Lloyd for the Elks, I mean for the canes?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Not really?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
No, do you accept donations all year? Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yes, yes, I go out and my gift talks to
different groups.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
So that's me, I might interject there, they'll have more,
all right, I'm planning two a year for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
And see the Army says doesn't need the Marines.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Huh, I just tell them what they'd be there, you
know where the Navy seal gets hold of the out
side exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
The main thing that works so well with this partnership
is that he needed a place. He wanted to get
something done. He just didn't know what The Elks they
want a membership drive. They want people to come in
see what they're all about and get to know what's
there because a lot of people don't understand it. They're
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one of their things. They have like three or four
different major points they want to get across charity, love,
community and friendship and the charity. It's unbelievable sitting in
their meetings. We sponsor a bus going back and forth
to the VA Hospital in West Palm. They came to
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us yesterday morning. The bus broke down by last or
I'm sorry, that was two days ago. By seven o'clock
at night. They had a check to get it fixed.
They're all about giving and veterans. We have a meeting
on the tenth of every month just about what are
we going to do for the veterans this month. This
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happened to be when we talked the day before that meeting,
so they just jumped on board. This is perfect.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But I've been watching the look, Lloyd.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I think the very first time I think I met
you was probably at a veterans show at Jetson's Important. Yes, yes, yeah,
that's gotta be fourteen to fifteen years ago. It was
a while ago, and now we're younger better look at yes.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Both there that then. Yeah, now I only.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Remember meeting you at the forour dealership in US one.
But how did you get involved, of all things, the
purple heart canes? I mean, was this such a thing
universally already in motion?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Was this a brand new idea?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
It apparently started in Oklahoma. They would carve a caine
give it to a wounded veteran. I found out about
it through one of the carving magazines, and someone from
Michigan came down, and I said, that's wonderful. Florida's number three, California,
Texas and then US for the number of veterans in
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the area. And we're a very pro veteran.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Here, yes we are.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And I said, what a wonderful idea. And so we
started doing it, and then we were doing five or
six canes, and you know, not a big And I
got in touch with Ran and Andy Brady from the
Seal Museum and he says, well, why don't you do
it here military? Ok, I says, wonderful. And that year
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I said how many? He asked me how many chairs?
I said, I don't know. Thirty forty, Well, thirty is
all he had. But I had Rudy Warsowski and I'll
remember him to my last breath. He was with the
band of brothers. He was World War Two. Remember the
name Rudy Warsowski. Heck of a nice guy. And when
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I was doing his cane, because the canes all have
the ribbons and date wounded, et cetera, and I says,
when was the first time you were wounded? He had
been wounded twice, he said, d Day. And there was
a gentleman that lived right up here at Vista Royale,
Stephen Gabriel, and his cane is hanging in Missus Max station.
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Now he passed, but he jumped in with eighty second Airborne.
So these are some real heroes.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
And really, uh, you all.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Agree that's the shoulders we stand on. And the place
was packed and the Seale Museum goes, Okay, that's it. Oh,
they're going to throw us out, and they said, no,
everything's outside now. And the last one we did, we
had I think we rented five hundred chairs and we
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had people standing room only knacking of.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
What everybody that's magnificent. You said something I have to
kind of expound. Then you said heroes. I'll never forget
the interview they had with the military person who was
I forgot. I think it was World War two and
they were talking to him and kind of just having
a conversation in the interview, and the question was how
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do you feel like being part of a group known
as veterans that are heroes? And the veterans looked at
him and said, I think you got it wrong. The
heroes are still back there exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Sorry if I'm tearing up, but I'll never forget that
as long as I live. We're all heroes in different
ways maybe, but when you sacrifice and you don't come back,
that is truly one hundred heroes.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Yeah, there's fifty eight thousand names on that wall. They're heroes.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Oh, which reminds me that's interesting. Thank you for bringing
that up. You're welcome. The traveling Walls. Hasn't it been here?
And via in Treasure in the Treasure Coaster in Melbourne? Melbourne?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
There it was?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Is that? Was it like because of the airfield or what?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
They have an all veterans reunion up there and they
bring the moving wall there.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Okay, and they have it once a year on an
annual basis. And when we're think, I.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Don't know, I haven't not been up there, I don't
know six years.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
They do it at one of the parks up there.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
The one that I went to was Winning the Melbourne
I can't remember the name of it. And it was
in the park.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Was it like set like like central Melbourne towards the
water now it was over right off of us one Wi.
Yeah that's where I went.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
In fact, we had we knew General Bill for a while.
Now he's retired. I think he went up to what
New Hampshire or something. What if anybody deserved to be
a general? What a nice man.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You'd never know who's a general?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Anyway, I know he was Air Force. I understand.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I do have to share one more thing and we
Cindy and I have talked about this with every veteran
that we can think of. You know, when you're serving
and you're in Vietnam, you're in a bar and here
come the Marines or the Air Force or the Navy,
your enemies.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I mean, you gotta beat the daylights out of each
other if you could on occasion.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
But now you walk out of that bar, even if
while you're still in the service, woll to the person
who attacks any military brands.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
We're all there, You're all brothers.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And I'll get back with that when we get back
from break.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Okay, first of all, let me give you my phone
number everybody, in case you want to call me for
any reason whatsoever, whether it's about Jumpstart antique car show.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
We haven't given you the date yet, and you know why.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
The longer you wait and anticipate, the better it's a
chance you show up the next on literally the next day,
not today because today's Saturday, but tomorrow Sunday.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
My phone number is nine five to four five five
seven six two two six, preferably daylight hours, seven days
a week.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Give me a call.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
My name is Ralph, and with us we have Lloyd
and Bill, we're talking about Jumps Start Antique Car Show
that we'll be in Fort Piers so we can we'll
be back from the upbreak. We're going to give you
the information, the location, the directions and all the information
and especially the date. We'll be right back everybody, and
thanks for being with us
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Dourra and Big and sil
You're listening to Evergreen Media Network. I am Sydney Schwartz
and this is our Veterans Voice radio show with your host,
Ralph Nathan.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'll go hello everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I hope you're having an absolutely wonderful day and a
wonderful weekend coming up. We have in the studio with
us two dear friends, and we're going to share so
much good news with you that when you get through,
you're not going to be able to sleep tonight because
you're going to be busy tomorrow. And of course we're
talking about today, Saturday, October eighteenth, and whether you're listening
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to us at eight in the morning or at six
and afternoon or both, you're not going to be able
to literally sleep all night because you're going to be
seeing so much. What are we talking about, Well, we're
going to jump start the day by telling you today,
but instead of my telling you, we're going to have
the actual trouble makers tell you what trouble they're going
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to cause for you tomorrow in Fort Piers. This is
one of my listeners calling, so I'm going to just
mute them and we'll call them back later. We have
with us my dear friend Lloyd Lasmbie and if you remember,
we've had them, I think like every couple of years.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Every couple of years.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, that's about it. Can handle them, right uh? And
doc Lloyd, what are you most famous for?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm president and founder at the Purple Heart Cane Project.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
God bless you forth by the way, we uh.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Hand carved canes and we present them at no charge
once a year to combat wounded venters and gold Star families.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Now you just this year you had what's the presentation
with January February?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It was January and at the Seal Museum, right uh,
and we present sixty knes. We had about five hundred
and fifty people in attendance.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So what do the four hundred and ninety people do
without a cane? Sorry?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I got a laugh, ning, don't quit your day job. No,
it's it's a worthwhile project. It's something I feel deeply about,
as does Bill. Bill is a marine veteran. Sorry about that.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
He always good for that.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, you know what, why don't we tell people who
Bill is? Bill? Do you want to tell us who
Bill is? Yes?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
My name is Bill Minogue. I'm former marine. I guess
I'm always gone. Yeah, that's what they say. And I
have I do antique car shows throughout the Trie County,
and Lloyd he comes to all of them to take
care of all my other veterans that we deal with
and for the pal and whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, he loves junkers. I know that. I got that
look everybody like, I'll see it later.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Lloyd came to me, he goes, you know, I want
to do a car show. Well, I came back a
couple of weeks later. I'm a member of the Elks
fifteen twenty and fourth pairs and they want to do
it for him. So I was like, okay. He goes
to me, what do I have to do? I said,
just help me get the word out. We'll take care
of the rest.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I got a funny story to tell you. When I
was a teenager, I wanted a gold ring. I had
about the much money to buy a gold ring as
I do a case of cokes. Anyway, So my uncle
gives me an Elks ring. I don't know if you
know if the old Elks ring it's literally the head
of an Elk, I mean protruding from the ring and
(03:46):
after it in blue let and blue whatever you call that,
and the letter B Poe. Well, I could never remember
the name for. But what were my uncle and aunt's name?
Bernie pick or Elsa. That's the brotherhood of the Alex
Bernie pick or Elsa. That's I remembered it. So whenever
(04:07):
I hear Alex, it miss something special. Unfortunately, I had
some bad times in college. I sold it for the
gold so I could pay my villa. Yeah, I never
forgot that. Maybe someday I'll find them like similarly.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, you know, it's funny how we associate things you
with abbreviations. Uh, Marine, M A R I N E.
A man arriving in rusty Navy equipment.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I say nothing as I like.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
To be a marine in the Civil War. Oh, that
was good job, and I could quit it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
The Marine Corps was two things to me. One the
hardest thing I've ever done in my life going through
that camp, getting through that. But the best thing was
today it says you are a marine. Now there's no
other feeling. Nobody has it. There's only the few in
the prout.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I see that to him all the time because he's
not part of the few in the prout.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Wow, Navy, right, I was Army, Thank you very much.
Whoa man am I glad I wasn't the merchant.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I did a tour of Vietnam with the one hundred
and first Airborne Division as infantry squadron. I got out,
went back into three year Special Forces. So okay, that's enough.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Oh were you involved with jumps? Obviously? Complans? Yeah, how
many did you? Seriously?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I didn't have a dozen jumps? I mean it was
fifty five dollars a month. Ralph, come on, that was
big money back then.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
To pay for parachutes.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Ralph Wilburn, Norville where the pilots.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Okay, that's that precedes Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I was much later after that.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
The reason I asked is because I've remember my friend.
He just passed away within the last year. He was
a sergeant in the army, a twenty year career, and
he was a paratrooper. He had ninety nine and he said,
I can't leave unless get the hundred right, the right
because he wanted to retire with a hundred. Apparently it
(06:20):
was meant more in benefits still for some reason, I
don't remember what, but he was so proud of the
fact that an old man of twenty years in the
army got to jump one more time.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
He was so proud of it. I bet, yeah, that would.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Be it's And I think I've told you in times past.
Seventeen years ago I went up to and drove up
to Fort Benning, Georgia, and took my old jump wings
and pinned him on my eldest grandson.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Oh that must have been You must have pulled your
eyes out on that.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, I don't cry my eyes sweat.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Is that you would think I was going to remember
that one?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No, you would think he was a marine? Yeah? Where much?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
But this is why we don't call our short interview.
We call it a conversation. This is everything off the cuff,
nothing rehearse. Didn't say it like you told me to. Yeah, okay,
I just want to make sure.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Okay, So Bill, how long were you in the military?
All total? Five years? Five and six six years? Okay?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Four active too? Inactive?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Now did either one of you stay like in the
reserves or whatever afterwards?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Or I stayed after I get out of the regulars
about a year in the reserves.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Once in the military, all the people that I have
to share with everybody in case I never told you,
But nineteen sixty six. I'm a junior in college in
Des Moines, Iole at Drake. My brother in law is
already practicing attorney, says, and my draft numbers getting there.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You just know it. This is Ralph. You got two
choices waiting. We call you.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Go to Vietnam and get the jungle or in enlist.
They'll put you an officers candidate school. By the time
you get out of it, chances are you'll be behind
the people shooting in the jungle.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So I go in and the list. They give you
a battery of mental tests.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
They found me sane, I don't know how, and then
they put me through the physical and I cannot describe
on the air what it's like forty going through the physical. Well,
all the guys, all the guys, I said, anyway, so
I f like they. I still have my eight and
a half eleven yellow sheet of paper with a like
(08:33):
one inch let a rubbish stamp rechecked.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So when I started doing our.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Veterans' Voice for radio about thirteen or fourteen years ago,
didn't think about it. Then I realized, you know, I'm
glad I didn't have to serve in Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I'm sorry, Lloyd but then I knew my friends.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
All of them came back, thank god, but I always
felt guilty like they kind of wasted some time in
their lives. I mean wasting sarcastically when I was still
not in the military, and I found and I realized
that this is my way, our veterans voice radio of
giving back. So that's why you're helping me feel better.
(09:10):
So thank you for giving me.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
That chank you.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's our pleasure.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Okay, now time what we go? This is wonderful. See
the time there.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You see the nine minutes at twelve, we stop and
take a break three times, and the fourth time is
the last quarters, fourth quarters, So we got plenty of time.
So now let's tell everybody what is Jumpstart Antique Show?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Do you want?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
From the beginning.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
From the beginning nineteen.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Ninety three, I'm working at a multi dealership card place.
Chrysler Hate came out with some new training things called
Customer One. Part of the Customer one was doing clinics
for new car buyers, which they named the jump Start
(09:57):
Car Clinic.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Well, the first couple they were good, but they were boring.
So I was thinking, well, let's get some cars out there.
So now we could call it the Jumpstart Car Show
as well as clinic. That was nineteen ninety three. The
first show we did had seven cars. By fifteen years
later they were up to four or four fifty, four
(10:20):
hundred and fifty cars, three hundred cars.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
New cars are antique cars, and it just grew. What
qualifies to be an antique car, well.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
They say now thirty years, twenty five years. But the
key is we also like specialty cars. We don't hold
it to just antique cars. We like the specialty cars
as well roads, right, exactly, exactly, So about well, we've
done many shows for the Indian River Veterans Council. We
do shows for the police because I'm a first responder.
(10:52):
Not my son is with the Sheriff's department.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Oh good, So.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
We got to take care of our own. And there's
nothing better than veterans and kids, the pal in Fort
Pierce and the Pale and Saint Lucie County. We got
to take care of these people because they're working with
the kids.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And we go from there.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And I mentioned the car show, and of course I've
been to many of Bill's and he says, just stand
by and watch, and he's taken it and this is
our first one with conjunction with Jumpstart Elks and the
Purple Heart, and we're hoping for a good turnout. I mean,
(11:33):
we present these canes at no charge, and we do
it out of our love and admiration for veterans. It
still costs us money, definitely. We use bass wood, which
comes out of Ohio in the northeast, and I use
bass wood because it's relatively easy to carve, it's strong,
(11:55):
and most of my carvers are new carvers. I mean
a year, two years carving, that's it. Uh no, uh,
they just got interested in it. And my saying is
if you can peel a potato, I can teach you
to how to carve.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's fantastic. Well, we're going to take a perfect break. Everybody.
We're talking about Jumpstart. We haven't told you yet when.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
So when we get back, make sure you've got a
piece of paper or your calendar or lipstick or a
pen or something. We're going to give you the date
and location and then we'll give you some descriptions what's
going to be taking out inside and outside at Jumpstart.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Antique Car Show. We'll be right back. Everybody, our Veterans
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Speaker 4 (14:14):
Welcome back to Arbred and Swiss radio show and Ralph
Nathan Oko. That's what you need to keep saying.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, sure, hey, Cindy, that's for Lloyd and for Bill
to keep him awake, right yeah, or stop from kicking me.
So everybody, thanks for being with us. What we're about
to share with you is, I guess with be the
first of hopefully many in the future car shows. But
it's not just any car show. It's a jumpstart antique
(14:41):
car show which built Uh yeah, Bill just told us
a little bit about.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
But what's the purpose of this whole thing? Why are
you doing this?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Of course, you want to get veterans out, You want
does American people show up. You want the public to
join the community and you're going to have a I
guess he'll be a contest who's got the best so
certain categories and the antique and miscellaneous cars.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
But what's the main goal of the event. What do
you think to accomplish?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Well, there's actually two purposes. One is to benefit the
Elks for membership, and two is to raise some funds
for the Purple Heart Cane project. We use bass wood.
We use butternut, which is the wood we use for
making the canes, and it comes out of the Northeast.
I mean, I can't have new carvers trying to carve
(15:34):
oak or mahogany.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's tough.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yeah, that'd be dangerous. So we use we're a five
oh one c three and everything that we make, no
one's paid. Everything goes straight to supplying the wood and
the glass eyes and the leather leashes and so forth
for the canes.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Okay, Now, do you have more than one fund raiser
a year? Lloyd for the Elks, I mean for the canes?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Not really?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
No, do you accept donations all year? Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yes, yes, I go out and my gift talks to
different groups.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
So that's me, I might interject there, they'll have more,
all right, I'm planning two a year for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
And see the Army says doesn't need the Marines.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Huh, I just tell them what they'd be there, you
know where the Navy seal gets hold of the out
side exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
The main thing that works so well with this partnership
is that he needed a place. He wanted to get
something done. He just didn't know what The Elks they
want a membership drive. They want people to come in
see what they're all about and get to know what's
there because a lot of people don't understand it. They're
(16:52):
one of their things. They have like three or four
different major points they want to get across charity, love,
community and friendship and the charity. It's unbelievable sitting in
their meetings. We sponsor a bus going back and forth
to the VA Hospital in West Palm. They came to
(17:14):
us yesterday morning. The bus broke down by last or
I'm sorry, that was two days ago. By seven o'clock
at night. They had a check to get it fixed.
They're all about giving and veterans. We have a meeting
on the tenth of every month just about what are
we going to do for the veterans this month. This
(17:34):
happened to be when we talked the day before that meeting,
so they just jumped on board. This is perfect.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But I've been watching the look, Lloyd.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I think the very first time I think I met
you was probably at a veterans show at Jetson's Important. Yes, yes, yeah,
that's gotta be fourteen to fifteen years ago. It was
a while ago, and now we're younger better look at yes.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Both there that then. Yeah, now I only.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Remember meeting you at the forour dealership in US one.
But how did you get involved, of all things, the
purple heart canes? I mean, was this such a thing
universally already in motion?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Was this a brand new idea?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
It apparently started in Oklahoma. They would carve a caine
give it to a wounded veteran. I found out about
it through one of the carving magazines, and someone from
Michigan came down, and I said, that's wonderful. Florida's number three, California,
Texas and then US for the number of veterans in
(18:44):
the area. And we're a very pro veteran.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Here, yes we are.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And I said, what a wonderful idea. And so we
started doing it, and then we were doing five or
six canes, and you know, not a big And I
got in touch with Ran and Andy Brady from the
Seal Museum and he says, well, why don't you do
it here military? Ok, I says, wonderful. And that year
(19:15):
I said how many? He asked me how many chairs?
I said, I don't know. Thirty forty, Well, thirty is
all he had. But I had Rudy Warsowski and I'll
remember him to my last breath. He was with the
band of brothers. He was World War Two. Remember the
name Rudy Warsowski. Heck of a nice guy. And when
(19:35):
I was doing his cane, because the canes all have
the ribbons and date wounded, et cetera, and I says,
when was the first time you were wounded? He had
been wounded twice, he said, d Day. And there was
a gentleman that lived right up here at Vista Royale,
Stephen Gabriel, and his cane is hanging in Missus Max station.
(20:00):
Now he passed, but he jumped in with eighty second Airborne.
So these are some real heroes.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
And really, uh, you all.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Agree that's the shoulders we stand on. And the place
was packed and the Seale Museum goes, Okay, that's it. Oh,
they're going to throw us out, and they said, no,
everything's outside now. And the last one we did, we
had I think we rented five hundred chairs and we
(20:34):
had people standing room only knacking of.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
What everybody that's magnificent. You said something I have to
kind of expound. Then you said heroes. I'll never forget
the interview they had with the military person who was
I forgot. I think it was World War two and
they were talking to him and kind of just having
a conversation in the interview, and the question was how
(21:02):
do you feel like being part of a group known
as veterans that are heroes? And the veterans looked at
him and said, I think you got it wrong. The
heroes are still back there exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Sorry if I'm tearing up, but I'll never forget that
as long as I live. We're all heroes in different
ways maybe, but when you sacrifice and you don't come back,
that is truly one hundred heroes.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Yeah, there's fifty eight thousand names on that wall. They're heroes.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Oh, which reminds me that's interesting. Thank you for bringing
that up. You're welcome. The traveling Walls. Hasn't it been here?
And via in Treasure in the Treasure Coaster in Melbourne? Melbourne?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
There it was?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Is that? Was it like because of the airfield or what?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
They have an all veterans reunion up there and they
bring the moving wall there.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Okay, and they have it once a year on an
annual basis. And when we're think, I.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Don't know, I haven't not been up there, I don't
know six years.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
They do it at one of the parks up there.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
The one that I went to was Winning the Melbourne
I can't remember the name of it. And it was
in the park.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Was it like set like like central Melbourne towards the
water now it was over right off of us one Wi.
Yeah that's where I went.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
In fact, we had we knew General Bill for a while.
Now he's retired. I think he went up to what
New Hampshire or something. What if anybody deserved to be
a general? What a nice man.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You'd never know who's a general?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Anyway, I know he was Air Force. I understand.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I do have to share one more thing and we
Cindy and I have talked about this with every veteran
that we can think of. You know, when you're serving
and you're in Vietnam, you're in a bar and here
come the Marines or the Air Force or the Navy,
your enemies.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I mean, you gotta beat the daylights out of each
other if you could on occasion.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
But now you walk out of that bar, even if
while you're still in the service, woll to the person
who attacks any military brands.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
We're all there, You're all brothers.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And I'll get back with that when we get back
from break.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Okay, first of all, let me give you my phone
number everybody, in case you want to call me for
any reason whatsoever, whether it's about Jumpstart antique car show.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
We haven't given you the date yet, and you know why.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
The longer you wait and anticipate, the better it's a
chance you show up the next on literally the next day,
not today because today's Saturday, but tomorrow Sunday.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
My phone number is nine five to four five five
seven six two two six, preferably daylight hours, seven days
a week.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Give me a call.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
My name is Ralph, and with us we have Lloyd
and Bill, we're talking about Jumps Start Antique Car Show
that we'll be in Fort Piers so we can we'll
be back from the upbreak. We're going to give you
the information, the location, the directions and all the information
and especially the date. We'll be right back everybody, and
thanks for being with us
Speaker 2 (25:00):
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