Veteran's Day Part 2

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm not proud of it.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Then we're back on arved Andswis radio show on Ralph Nathanoco.
Today's the Veterans Day Show.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yes, it is in our utmost respect to all our veterans,
veterans who are active meaning active personnel, veterans who have
phased out of the military, and unfortunately those who have
given their lives have passed away. That's what Veterans says

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all about, honoring our veterans, all of them throughout history.
Thank you for being there, thank you for saving the
country and the world. Let's go back to the Treaty
of Versailles. It was signed on June twenty eighth, nineteen nineteen. Well, Ralph,

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you said it was signed in eleven eleven eleven, Well
that's when. That's when it was agreed upon. The Armistice
of November eleventh ended the fighting and the great certain
principles and conditions, including reparations payment. But it took six
months to negotiate in the Paris Peace Conference for the

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Treaty of versigned nineteen eighteen. So but as far as
we're concerned, November eleven, eleventh month, at eleven o'clock eleven
eleven eleven. At that point in Israel on May fourteenth,
the whole country stops an independence day. For I think

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it's a minute everything stops. Well, I for one, I
would love to see on November eleventh that for one minute,
the entire country stops completely in respect and in honor
of all of our veterans. That's how strong I feel.
And what so the Treaty of Versailles, what was it?

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It required Germany to disarm, make territory concession extradite, meaning uh,
return war criminals. Uh Kaiser William the political leader put
on trial, and to recognize the independence of countries whose
territory had been taken and returned to them. But some

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interesting uh. You know, everybody thinks that the Treaty of
Versailles was signed in the Hall of Mirrors, you know,
the big building with a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Of by the water. Ah.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
The Treaty of Versailles on November eleventh was not uh
uh signed uh. And by the way, in addition to
the holo mirrors, people thought it was a railroad car h.
The armistice that ended World War One was signed in
a railway carriage like a railway car. The same carriage

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was later used and I get back there in a minute.
But the signing of the Treaty of Versailles occurred in
the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, and
there the railway carriage was used again to sign the armistice.

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Now what is the significance. And you won't believe that
I didn't realize this. The railway carriage became a symbol
of defeat for Germany and World War One. Right they
signed the peace first that they're going to be peace
and then to signed the peace treating nineteen forty, Adolf

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Hitdler famously had the French signed their armistice meaning surrendering
to Germany in the same carriage to humiliate France when
it was defeated in World War Two. Adolf Hilter brought
that railway carriage from World War One to France like

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in your face, yeah, right back at you think about that.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, that's what their answer was to the way the
ending of World War One was done to them. And
that just shows you the ego and what's not what's
not gonna make anything go forward.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yet, Now we've talked about this several times over the
last fourteen years. You explained this to me and then
explain why we have wars. I am talking about the
Christmas Truth, one of the most wonderful things that ever
happened war time in the history of the world.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
You remember, rightly want to talk a little bit about
to tell them.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
No, go ahead and tell them, but you know, I
will add one of my grandparents, my grandfather was in
World War One and the trenches, and the first thing
he said was, we don't want to be here. We
don't have anything against these people that are on the
other side. We want to be home with our wives,
our sweethearts, our kids, our family, you know, having dinners
and whatever. Why is this even happening? Like in other words,

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how come politicians can't figure this out? And why are
the regular people in the Trent literally in the trenches.
You know, he was with the rats, and you know
the whole bit.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Because getting politicians are wearing a white shirt and a
tie and never picked up a weapon. And it's the
same as the white shirt telling the waitresses and the
cooks how to cook in the restaurant, when when the
management is in the corporate headquarters and they've never even
cooked or served or washed dishes.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
So no respect, no it goes on and on. It's unbelievable,
and one more thing than I want to add to
it because I feel bad about this. My mom told
me the story and then when I heard it, I
was like, oh my goodness. So on another side, one
of my great great whatever cousins uncles I don't know
the relationship. He was in World War One as well,

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and literally a week after he got to the trenches
in World War One, I don't know exactly where that
part I don't remember, he was gassed. He spent his
whole life in a state hospital because he couldn't breathe.
He never got married, he never had kids life, and
he died like at ninety one years old. So he

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lived a really long life.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
With no life. Right, but a shame. And here's the oppright.
So nineteen fourteen, World War One is already progressing, fighting
all over the place, and the British and German soldiers decide, hey,
we're on the other end and in the middle we

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have No Man's land.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Can we just stop for Christmas? And they do.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
They meet the No Man's Land to exchange gifts, sing
songs together and play football. Soldiers from different countries come
out of the trenches. They exchange gifts, cigarettes, pudding, or
they bury their dead. But the truth was not universal.
It wasn't It was just spontaneous that a bunch of

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human beings decided, what the hell are we fighting against
each other? We don't even know each other. Let's celebrate Christmas.
So let me ask you a question, everybody. I'm not
trying to be a do a duiki, a dodo ahead
or innocent whatever. If we can agree to stop fighting,

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why do we have to disagree and fight? If we
can have this truth for a few hours for Christmas,
I can't we communicate on the everlasting choose. We're not
going to always agree, But the last thing you want
to resort to is violence. Nobody wins, nobody, So now

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what happens? They tried it in nineteen fifteen, one year later,
and nobody wanted to do the Christmas truth a year later? Wow,
because war had become so superficially ugly, because all about
you or me, one of us has to be dead,
one of us has to be the well, one of

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us to lose, one of us wins.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
And you know what a lot of it. I watched
some of the different shows for the Revolutionary American Revolutionary
War and other wars. There's so much subterfuge that is
threaded through all of this that you really don't even
sometimes know what's actually going on.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well, let's relate it to present day.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
And I'm not a Republican, I'm not a Democrat an American.
I am all for what's best for the United States
and for me Americans and for the world. But in
that order, what's best for Americans. Now. President Trump has
been all over the world trying to reduce wars and

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trying to create better living conditions and whatever else. But
President Trump is also a businessman. Trump get for tap,
I give you, you give me, We negotiate the trade.
And so my own opinion is and if it works,
I'm all for it. I don't care who's the president.

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If it works, that's all the matters. And that is
that if we promise a certain country that we're going
to help them do such and such, and we're going
to give him X number of dollars in return, we're
going to want something bad, whether it's their support in name,
whether it's in goods and services or support in the

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United Nations, or with help with reducing or increasing, respectively tariffs.
My point I'm saying is as mature adults agree to disagree,
but agree to respect and communicate. Maybe that's what President
Trump is trying to do. And if it sounds like

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I'm advocating, I'm not. I'm trying to explain that I
don't care who the priority is. I don't care who
the president is. I just want some fighting to end.
I just I don't want to see the Middle East.
I don't want to see Ukraine Russia. Why if we
can have a nineteen fourteen Christmas truth for a few
hours at Christmas, why can't we have a permanent truth

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where we negotiate and we discuss or take it to
a tribunal like a United Nation and vote. That's how
we find who's guilty and innocent with juries. Why can't
there be a world jury that can help determine make decisions.
But nations shouldn't arbitrarily take it upon themselves to take

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a finger flash it in another country. He said, We're
don't like the way you're doing things. We're gonna take
you over. And if we take you over, nobody fights.
We'll go take another country over. Yeah sounds familiar.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, so I mean that's been going on since the beginning.
At times.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, I'm a month ahead of Christmas, aren't I? But
forgive me.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
There was my little tirade that was not part of
the program. And now it looks like we're in the
middle of the going into the next the last commercial.
So I hope you understand where we're coming from. We
tried to explain to you what the World War One
that wasn't so great, what it was about. And the
reason is because we wanted to for you understand what

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is Veterans Day, honoring veterans alive and not active or
not all that, and what have we learned from the
wars that the veterans participated in?

Speaker 1 (12:04):
And we have learned a lot.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
We have.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
This is your host, Ralph and Cindy. We'll be right
back from our Veterans Voice Radio and we'll continue discussing politics,
no veterans.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yes, we'll be right back.

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Your I text dollars are welcome. Welcome back to our
veterans Worts radio showing Ralph Nathan Alkoh.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Was a song by George M. Coheny.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, and it is one of the most beautiful, most
popular military song. And as long as we've played the
music and I kind of i'm to it, I'm copyright.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
You get copy me now, don't copyright.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Please, don't disconnect this.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Okay, Cindy, you just told me a half time at
the break something about because I told you I'm going
to share the VSO numbers. Yes, what did you just
share with?

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Please?

Speaker 2 (14:34):
I told you, Ralph that I was talking with a
friend of mine the other day. It was actually the
wife of a friend of mine, and he was don't
quote me exactly, I know, I'm almost positive he was
in the Army and and you know, instead of the
Air Force and Marines, and he was in some kind
of ballistics training and those kind of things. He's about
seventy years old now. Did not know that he was

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able to get benefits and all, so disability benefits because
of his hearing loss. So it's literally been a couple
of weeks ago. They said, yes, you are valid to
get hearing aids, and you also it is valid for
you to get some disability payments because of your hearing loss.
And he didn't now till like maybe a month ago.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
It takes the courage and strength of a warrior to
ask for help. But how are you going to ask
for help if you know it's available?

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Right?

Speaker 3 (15:26):
That's our jobs, our Veterans Voice Radio. From day one,
we have obligated and made ourselves responsible to share with
you because when we started about fourteen whatever years ago,
the knowledge was the two thirds about sixty five percent
of veterans did not know what benefits are available to them,

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whether from the VA or from the private sector.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
That's our job. So please, I hope you have something
to write with.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
I'm going to give you the list of phone numbers
from the treasure where you could call, and for God's sake,
I hope you all have a d D two fourteen.
Two weeks ago, we buried a friend of mine's father
whom I knew very well. He was in World War
two submarines and when he passed away. My friend couldn't

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find his father's d D two fourteen and because of
that they couldn't have the funeral bugler and the military honors.
So please have the DD two fourteen. It's an eight
and a half by eleven that usually you're given when
you're discharged. And now they're also give it to uniform

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like an ID card, laminated like a driver's licensing. So
the list of what's the Veteran service officer, that is
the person that represents you as the common middleman between you,
the veteran and the va the military VSO Veteran Service

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officers trained. It's a veteran and they're trained by the
respective states. They're paid by the respective states, even though
they're representing respective counties. And there's a VSO in every
county in the entire United States, every state. Now we
have sixty seven counties. We have more than sixty seven

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vsos SO. I hope you've got this in writing. I'll
give you a little more information. Indian River there are
two locations, the downtown area off at twenty seventh Street,
phone numbers seven seven to two, two, two, six, one, three,
nine five Sebastian Still Indian River County on US one

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seven seven to two two six one one four five.
That's Indian River Brevard, of which the probably amongst the
best vso, I mean, my best stop via offices is
in Vieira and the phone number is three two one

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six three three two zero one two. Martin County. That
would be Jupiter and Stuart. It's a Monterey Road in Stuart.
Phone number seven seven two two eight eight five four

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four eight. Saint Lucy County which would be Fort Pierce
and that phone number is seven seven two three three
seven five six seven. Oh got it?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Now, why should you call them?

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Well, so you're twenty five, you're thirty years old, you've
put in your four six or whatever eight years, but
you don't have your twenty in there. You get discharge,
You get your medical papers before you discharge, before you
leave the military, review your medical records, and if there's

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anything that you question or need updating, that's the time
to do it, because the next time you need to
do it, you're going to need the help of the
veteran service officer. To be a soul and by God,
for God's sake of all the things, just like you
have a driver's license in your wallet. Have your DD

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two fourteen. Also, but more important, have your spouse and
or your significant other have a copy of your DD
two fourteen in their phone, as you should with your
d D two fourteen. Something happens to you and they
can't get to your waller or your purse, but they

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can get to your phone, they'll find your DD two fourteen.
Same with your medical records if you're able to do that.
So the VSO is your best friend. Whether it's for
hearing aid, whether it's for or agent orange, whether it's
for vocal cords, whether it's for limp or pain. Whatever

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it is is remember the most important question in the world.
What is the most important question in the world. That's stupid,
the one you don't ask. So when you feel you
got a stupid question, don't think that way. Think that
it's a challenge. Let's see if I can get the answer,

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because the answer may save your life, may for sure
help your life. So please listen to this eighty year old.
It's some good advice. So now flanders Field. What is
flanders Field? Well, it's a war poem written after the
Durdan really for World War One by a Canadian physician

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Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. He wrote it while presiding at
the funeral of his friend and fellow soldier who died
in the Battle of ye pray As. The poem became
so popular that parts of the poem are used in
an effort to recruit soldiers and raise money in war bonds,

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and it raises of references to the red poppies that
grow over the graves of fallen soldiers, as resulting in
the remembrance of the poppy becoming one of the most
world's most recognized symbols memorial symbols for soldiers who have
died in conflict.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Flanders Field.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
In Flanders Fields, the poppies grow between the crosses row
and row that mark our place, and in the sky
the larks still bravely singing, fly scarce herd amid the
guns below.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
We are the dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn,
saw sansett glow, loved and were loved, And now we
lie in Flanders fields.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Take up our quarrel with the foe to you from
failing hands. With throw the torch be yours to hold
it high. If you break faith with us who die,
we shall not sleep though poppies grow in Flanders Fields.

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I got tears in my eyes. Everybody.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Frederick S. Clickhr Navy Reserves and First Bonder.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
William Edward Tilley Navy, World War.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Two, Lauren E. Bud Cusack Air Force.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Joselle merret Rabine Coast.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Guard, John Bolton, Jor Army Vietnam.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Dan Aaron Branch, Unknown, and all of our other fallen heroes,
our veterans, your and our brothers and sisters. This show
is dedicated to you. Thank you for your service. Would

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proudly salute you from the bottom of our hearts. Rest
in peace, Have a good Veterans Day. Rest in peace forever,