Memorial Day 2024

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[00:00:41] And I welcome you today to CSC Talk Radio. It's my honor, my privilege, and my pleasure to be here with you today.

[00:00:47] And I hope you're having a wonderful day on this memorial day.

[00:00:50] Whether you're listening live or listening later, I hope that you've had time to reflect.

[00:01:00] We're gonna start like we do every day of the week, all year long.

[00:01:06] We're gonna start with a prayer, but I've chosen some scripture.

[00:01:09] For such a time as this, from Joshua 1, 9, have I not commanded you, be strong and courageous?

[00:01:20] Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you forever, wherever you go.

[00:01:28] And from Romans 8, 38-39, for I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,

[00:01:36] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth,

[00:01:43] nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[00:01:53] Be on your guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.

[00:01:59] Be strong. 1 Corinthians 16, 13.

[00:02:04] Bless us this day, Abba Father.

[00:02:07] May we be respectful and compassionate for all those whose loved ones were taken in battles.

[00:02:15] We thank you for our soldiers and for their sacrifice.

[00:02:20] While we do not all wear a uniform, we are all your soldiers for your truth and righteousness.

[00:02:29] Protect us now in these trying times and rise up men once again who will lead us by following you.

[00:02:39] For such a time as this, I pray in Jesus' name, Amen.

[00:02:48] John 15, 13.

[00:02:51] Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

[00:02:57] And I say today, greater too is the love of a man, a soldier, a woman perhaps, who laid down his or her life for those they don't know and for generations yet not born,

[00:03:16] who loves this country and loves their countrymen more than they love themselves, their own lives.

[00:03:27] Memorial Day. We say Happy Memorial Day, but should there not be a time during this day to be respectful and solemn, reflection for those who fought and died?

[00:03:41] That we should live free? While the summer activities, this is the weekend the summer activities all begin, the public swimming pools open and the backyard barbecues begin.

[00:03:55] You can smell the smoke when you walk outside, the charcoal or the lighter fluid when they're lighting them.

[00:04:02] There are many who spend the day or at least part of the day decorating the graves of loved ones who have passed.

[00:04:12] This day originated as a day to remember the lost in battles of war for freedom and liberty.

[00:04:22] Originally called Decoration Day, the day signified a uniting of a torn nation.

[00:04:28] The day signified a uniting of a torn nation. Torn.

[00:04:35] The people after the Civil War, Americans.

[00:04:38] The graves of the gray and the blue were decorated by the women in the south.

[00:04:43] Many of those who laid side by side were brothers, fathers and sons, uncles.

[00:04:50] Though they fought on opposite sides of the war, both were fighting for what they thought was right.

[00:04:58] Slavery was abolished because of that war, but many in those gray uniforms were not fighting to keep slavery so much as they were fighting for their land and state sovereignty.

[00:05:13] But the good that came from that awful bloody war was the Emancipation Proclamation and a new beginning for many Americans now free and for this nation.

[00:05:27] What was ahead, some was good, a lot was good. We freed many people, but we lost some things too.

[00:05:34] Decoration Day. It's now called Memorial Day and designed to all our soldiers, for all our soldiers who were lost during any war.

[00:05:46] Any war. The famous red poppies.

[00:05:51] Have you, we've kind of talked about this in Memorial Days past, but let's talk about it again.

[00:05:59] The Memorial Day poppies appear every year and raise funds for a great cause.

[00:06:05] But what is the history behind wearing one of these red flowers?

[00:06:11] The red poppy or remembrance poppy has been a symbol of lives lost to war since World War I, 1914 through 1918.

[00:06:23] Also known as the Memorial Day poppies, these artificial flowers actually play a part in the history.

[00:06:30] Today's sales of red poppies benefit veterans associations and fund many charities and veteran causes.

[00:06:37] They're even worn in many of the country, many other countries that were allied during World War I, including Great Britain, France, Belgium, Australia, and the United States.

[00:06:48] Do you wear a red poppy?

[00:06:50] In the United States, poppies are worn on Memorial Day, not Veterans Day.

[00:06:57] But in most of those other allied countries, the Memorial poppy is worn on and leading up to Armistice Day, which is known as Remembrance Day, and is in November.

[00:07:10] Which we call Veterans Day in the United States.

[00:07:14] In New Zealand and Australia, it's worn on Anzac Day, which commemorates the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops who served in 1915 in Gallipoli, in the Gallipoli campaign.

[00:07:25] The Memorial Day poppy is worn to remember soldiers who have given their lives for their country and honors their dedication and sacrifice.

[00:07:35] Many Americans will pin a red poppy to their shirts as a sign of respect.

[00:07:41] The poppy was a symbol of war casualties, started with a poem.

[00:07:48] In the spring of 1915, a Canadian artillery unit brigade surgeon named Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, who was a veteran in the United States, was sent to the United States to study the history of the Red Poppies.

[00:08:01] He saw bright red poppies blooming on the war-torn fields where so many soldiers had lost their lives.

[00:08:10] The sight moved him to write the famous poem, In Flanders Field.

[00:08:17] Between the crosses, row on row, that marked our place and in the center of the field, the red poppy was seen.

[00:08:25] In Flanders Field.

[00:08:27] Between the crosses, row on row, that marked our place and in the sky, the lark still, bravely, singing fly.

[00:08:35] Scarce heard amid the guns below, We are the dead.

[00:08:40] Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved and were loved, and now we lie in Flanders Fields.

[00:08:50] Take up our quarrel with the foe, To you from filing hands we throw the torch, Be yours to hold it high, If we break faith and with us who die.

[00:09:03] We shall not sleep, though poppies grow, In Flanders Fields.

[00:09:09] The poem was published in a London magazine and later syndicated a publication in other allied countries where it was seen by two women who would go on to play a role in making the poppy a symbol of Memorial Day.

[00:09:25] Two women, one in the United States and one in France.

[00:09:30] And we'll talk about the rest of that, the rest of the story, when we return after these messages.

[00:09:35] You're listening to CSE Talk Radio, this is Beth Ann.

[00:09:39] Happy Reflecting Memorial Day and we shall be right back.

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[00:13:08] This is Beth Ann. I want to finish up the story of the poppies, the red poppies, even though we've heard it over and over.

[00:13:15] Two women read that poem in Flanders Fields.

[00:13:22] One was in America, the University of Georgia, Professor Mona Michael.

[00:13:27] And she wrote a poem in response to McCrae's, and hers is titled, We Shall Keep Faith.

[00:13:36] She also started wearing a red poppy in honor of the troops.

[00:13:41] Her poem, We Shall Keep Faith, goes like this.

[00:13:45] Oh you who sleep in Flanders Fields, sleep sweet to rise anew.

[00:13:52] We caught the torch you threw, and holding high we keep the faith with all who died.

[00:14:00] We cherish too the red poppy that grows on fields where valor led.

[00:14:06] It seems to signal to the skies that blood of heroes never dies.

[00:14:12] But lends a luster to the red of the flower that blooms above the dead in Flanders Fields.

[00:14:18] And now the torch and poppy red, we wear to honor of our dead.

[00:14:26] Fear not that we have died for naught.

[00:14:30] Fear not that ye have died for naught.

[00:14:33] We'll teach the lesson that we wrought, that ye wrought in Flanders Fields.

[00:14:39] And the other woman was in France, Anna Garen.

[00:14:44] Anna Garen organized a large poppy drive, making and selling poppies to raise money for widows, orphans, and veterans.

[00:14:54] And to fund France's most post-war restoration efforts.

[00:14:59] She claimed her idea for an inter-allied poppy day and started Poppy Days worldwide.

[00:15:06] During which fundraising poppies were sold in many allied countries.

[00:15:10] Poppy factories were set up, often employing disabled servicemen to make the silk and paper blooms.

[00:15:19] Are you wearing your poppy today?

[00:15:23] That greater love of these who gave their lives were each one special to someone.

[00:15:30] They were sons, husbands, fathers, brothers, cousins,

[00:15:37] perhaps an uncle, or a high school buddy, or even a friend way back in the elementary days.

[00:15:45] A kid down the block who mowed your yard, or the one flying by on his bicycle working his first job as a paper route.

[00:15:55] Many lives were touched by those who gave so much.

[00:16:00] Their sacrifice inspired many a song and many a poem, as others grieved and pinned their words instead of spoken.

[00:16:10] For that's what the love of heroes do, inspiring others like me and like you.

[00:16:17] While they see themselves as ordinary, we know without a doubt they are each one quite extraordinary.

[00:16:26] Today our nation seems divided.

[00:16:32] Will it take another war for us to be united?

[00:16:38] Must more of our young men and women lie beneath the poppies?

[00:16:46] I pray it isn't so, but this one thing I know.

[00:16:50] Many an American hero, ordinary on the surface, will once more, or once again, take up that torch to fight for freedom and eliminate tyranny forever.

[00:17:05] I am a soldier. My heart is in the land. I fight for life and freedom as I walked upon the sand.

[00:17:15] I do not walk unworthy. I will not stand alone. The angels travel with me. I fight for land and home.

[00:17:22] I am a soldier, a daddy and a friend, a comrade and a brother, a warrior to the end.

[00:17:29] I do not walk unknowing the risk upon the way.

[00:17:34] For God travels with me each and every day.

[00:17:38] I don't know the author of that poem or of this one.

[00:17:42] Make no mistake, I will defend the weak. I will defend our freedom.

[00:17:49] I will bring the fight to your home to keep you out of mine.

[00:17:54] I will pursue to my last dying breath all who threaten my people.

[00:18:00] I will fight for freedom and freedom as I walked upon the sand.

[00:18:05] I will sacrifice all who threaten my people. I will sacrifice so that others may live.

[00:18:11] I am an American. I am a warrior. I am a soldier.

[00:18:16] If you strike me or those like me, you will lay upon the earth until you are buried in it.

[00:18:25] Those are two poems that are supposed to be soldiers that are saying their commitment.

[00:18:31] There is a poem in song that was written and inspired by 9-11 that I am going to read at least part of it to you.

[00:18:43] Have you forgotten?

[00:18:45] Here we are in America today and many of these young people that are protesting,

[00:18:52] many of these people that are screaming for communism,

[00:18:56] trying to protect the hideous tortures and deaths that were put on by Hamas,

[00:19:03] they don't remember 9-11.

[00:19:08] It's been so long ago. Some of them were not even born, but you and I should remember.

[00:19:18] Have you forgotten? I hear people saying we don't need this war.

[00:19:24] I say there are some things worth fighting for.

[00:19:27] What about our freedom and this piece of ground?

[00:19:30] We didn't get to keep them by backing down.

[00:19:32] They say we don't realize the mess we are getting in.

[00:19:36] Before you start your preaching, let me ask you this my friend.

[00:19:40] Have you forgotten how it felt that day?

[00:19:43] To see our homeland under fire and our people blown away.

[00:19:49] Have you forgotten when those towers fell?

[00:19:52] We had neighbors still inside going through a living hell.

[00:19:56] And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden?

[00:19:59] Have you forgotten? They took all the footage off my TV.

[00:20:06] I had forgotten about that.

[00:20:08] Do you remember how they quit showing the towers falling down?

[00:20:13] Said it was too disturbing for you and for me.

[00:20:17] It will just breed anger. That's what the experts say.

[00:20:21] If it was up to me, I'd show it every day.

[00:20:24] Some say this country is just out looking for a fight.

[00:20:28] Well after 9-11, man, I'd have to say you're right.

[00:20:33] Have you forgotten how it felt that day?

[00:20:36] I've been there with the soldiers who've gone away to war.

[00:20:44] And you can bet that they remember just what they're fighting for.

[00:20:49] Have you forgotten all the people killed?

[00:20:51] Some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field.

[00:20:55] Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?

[00:20:58] And the loved ones that we lost and those left to carry on.

[00:21:03] Don't you tell me not to worry about Bin Laden.

[00:21:07] Have you forgotten? Have you forgotten?

[00:21:11] We must not forget the evil that exists.

[00:21:16] And we must always remember those who were quick to rush to danger, to rescue and to save.

[00:21:25] They were rushed toward danger while others run away.

[00:21:30] The soldiers will serve at home or abroad to keep others safe and protect liberty for all.

[00:21:39] The soldiers.

[00:21:40] And I'm going to share with you something John Wayne recited.

[00:21:48] Why are you marching, son?

[00:21:51] And he read this but they didn't air it until after he had passed away.

[00:21:59] But what I found interesting, and maybe I shared this with you several years ago, I don't remember for sure.

[00:22:05] It was written by John Mitchum.

[00:22:07] Now everybody knows his brother Robert Mitchum, great actor.

[00:22:11] John was an actor too.

[00:22:13] But he was also musically inclined.

[00:22:17] And he was a sidekick for Clint Eastwood on Dirty Harry.

[00:22:21] And then they showed a picture of him with his guitar on Bonanza.

[00:22:26] He was standing there with Hoss Cartwright.

[00:22:28] And I kind of remember that one.

[00:22:30] But he wrote the song, Why are you marching, son?

[00:22:35] And I don't want to get it started now because we're heading into a break.

[00:22:41] You'll notice as we go through today's show, I'm going to honor our soldiers who are fallen and those who are making decisions now to walk, to wear the uniform.

[00:23:02] But I also want to focus in on those who were left behind.

[00:23:10] Their brothers, their sisters, their wives, their mothers, their fathers.

[00:23:15] For they, their sacrifice, it left a huge hole in the lives of those who love them.

[00:23:24] And every time we lose a soldier, there's a scar and a hole.

[00:23:31] In this nation.

[00:23:33] Those soldiers should not die in vain.

[00:23:37] But they should be honored for their sacrifice.

[00:23:41] And the politicians should be held accountable for what these men have to go through.

[00:23:46] You're listening to CSC Talk Radio. This is Beth Ann.

[00:23:50] Why are you marching, son?

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[00:24:25] Today we seem to want restrictions. Government micromanaging our lives?

[00:24:30] But do we realize the cost?

[00:24:33] Alexander Hamilton once stated,

[00:24:36] There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.

[00:24:43] As a republic, we the people must guard the liberty of others.

[00:24:47] We must continue the enthusiasm that will make men free.

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[00:28:09] This is Beth Ann. I'm going to share why are we marching, son?

[00:28:13] Why are you marching, son?

[00:28:15] This was done by John Wayne.

[00:28:18] I am no John Wayne as you can tell.

[00:28:21] But it also has a bit of a history lesson in it.

[00:28:26] Why are you marching, son?

[00:28:29] I'd really like to know.

[00:28:31] Is it because of Valley Forge or perhaps the Alamo?

[00:28:36] Or one if by land, two if by sea,

[00:28:38] a trumpet's call, the will to be free?

[00:28:42] And what of a man who stood straight and tall,

[00:28:45] who wept silent tears when he saw brave men fall?

[00:28:49] No matter, no difference, the blue or the gray,

[00:28:53] all were brothers how often he'd pray.

[00:28:57] And what of Antietam, that now peaceful stream,

[00:29:03] where the water blood red glittered and gleamed?

[00:29:06] Appomattox, Chickamaqua, Vicksburg, Bull Run, Cumberland, Gettysburg, and then Washington.

[00:29:16] Why are you marching, son?

[00:29:19] In Flanders Field, how proud they were,

[00:29:23] whose forms beneath the poppies lay,

[00:29:26] men who saw Verdun and died at Marne, Soissons,

[00:29:31] and those who tried the fearful foe of Chateau Tharie,

[00:29:38] who fought and bled, whose hearts grew weary.

[00:29:42] But in whose minds one thought kept churning,

[00:29:46] that the torch of liberty keep burning.

[00:29:50] Why are you marching, son?

[00:29:53] The plane swarmed in and the rising sun glowed fiercely on the evil dun,

[00:29:57] to men whose blood runs through our veins,

[00:30:01] men who died and whose remains,

[00:30:04] life forever locked in waters deep.

[00:30:08] Now is it right that they should sleep while the warm sea laps at a twisted hull

[00:30:15] and see the torch of liberty grow dull, Anseo, Casino, and the Poe?

[00:30:24] Saint Meriglè, you are the light of the world.

[00:30:29] Nice, Le Mans, Saint Lo, Garderleggen, Buckewold,

[00:30:36] on and on the roll is called.

[00:30:39] And why? Why are you marching, son?

[00:30:43] Bugles shrielled in the frozen night,

[00:30:46] and at first dawn the awful sight of seas of men,

[00:30:50] row after row, left to die on blood-stained snow,

[00:30:53] Busan, Yangyang, Suan, Yeongju,

[00:30:59] and blood-red ran the swift Jalu.

[00:31:06] In South Vietnam the big guns roared,

[00:31:10] and once again we fought a war to honor a pledge our nation gave

[00:31:15] to help that little country save her people from the certainty

[00:31:19] that she'd be ruled by tyranny.

[00:31:23] No matter where the big guns roar,

[00:31:26] our fighting men like those before,

[00:31:31] take the torch we all hold dear

[00:31:35] and face freedom's enemies without fear.

[00:31:39] Our fathers died from sea to sea

[00:31:42] and blessed the torch of liberty.

[00:31:45] Why? Why are you marching, son?

[00:31:49] An obvious tribute to American soldiers

[00:31:53] who marched and fought for freedom.

[00:31:56] Some of them were our dads.

[00:31:59] My dad was in World War II.

[00:32:01] My father-in-law was in World War II,

[00:32:04] shot down over Germany and held as a prisoner of war.

[00:32:08] My brother fought in Vietnam.

[00:32:11] I had a cousin in Vietnam.

[00:32:15] And they did come home, but many did not.

[00:32:23] And many came home wounded.

[00:32:28] They were spat upon. They were disrespected.

[00:32:31] They did not fight and die for democracy,

[00:32:36] but they fought and sacrificed to end tyranny.

[00:32:45] And when they came home, and others did not,

[00:32:52] a hole was left in this country.

[00:32:56] Justin Moore did a song called

[00:33:01] The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home.

[00:33:05] Tour was up. It was the middle of June.

[00:33:08] She was planning a welcome home barbecue.

[00:33:11] Green bean casserole, grandma's recipe.

[00:33:14] There was a knock on the door around two o'clock.

[00:33:19] Two uniforms and her heart stopped.

[00:33:23] Yellow ribbon round an oak tree

[00:33:26] glowing in the breeze.

[00:33:29] Here's to the ones who didn't make it home,

[00:33:33] the ones who ain't seen in so long.

[00:33:37] The hold up the beer ones,

[00:33:40] the wish they were here ones,

[00:33:43] the not forgotten but gone.

[00:33:47] They're in a better place up there,

[00:33:49] but they sure left a hole down here.

[00:33:52] We just go on living and go on missing.

[00:33:54] The Ones, the ones that didn't make it back home.

[00:33:59] The whole town shut down.

[00:34:02] The whole town showed up.

[00:34:04] Sang Amazing Grace watched a slideshow of his 22 years.

[00:34:10] There were laughs and there were tears.

[00:34:14] At that preacher talked about sacrifice

[00:34:17] and traffic stop for them Cadillac lights.

[00:34:21] Johnny sold beer half price that night

[00:34:24] and praised him singing.

[00:34:27] Here's to the ones that didn't make it back home,

[00:34:31] the ones we ain't seen in so long.

[00:34:34] The hold up the beer ones,

[00:34:37] the wish you were here ones,

[00:34:40] the ones that didn't make it back home.

[00:34:45] They're not forgotten are they?

[00:34:48] We still miss them.

[00:34:51] The wives, the young mothers,

[00:34:53] the ones that never saw their father.

[00:34:56] My sister was born while my dad was overseas.

[00:35:00] He made it back home,

[00:35:02] but not all of them did.

[00:35:06] There's another one here.

[00:35:08] It's written by the, well in pretense,

[00:35:11] it's a soldier writing.

[00:35:13] This was made famous by Tim McGraw.

[00:35:16] If you're reading this,

[00:35:18] if you're reading this,

[00:35:20] my mama sitting there.

[00:35:22] Looks like I only got a one way ticket over here.

[00:35:25] Wish I could give you one more kiss.

[00:35:28] And war was just a game we played when we were kids.

[00:35:32] I layin' down my gun,

[00:35:35] I'm hanging up my boots.

[00:35:37] I'm up here with God and we're both watching over you.

[00:35:41] So lay me down in that open field out on the edge of town.

[00:35:46] And know my soul is where my mama always prayed that it would go.

[00:35:51] And if you're reading this,

[00:35:53] I'm already home.

[00:35:56] If you're reading this half way around the world,

[00:35:59] I won't be there

[00:36:01] to see the birth of my little girl.

[00:36:04] I hope she looks like you

[00:36:06] and I hope she fights like me.

[00:36:08] Stand up for the innocent and the weak.

[00:36:11] I lay down my gun,

[00:36:14] I'm hanging up my boots.

[00:36:16] Tell dad I don't regret that I followed in his shoes.

[00:36:19] So lay me down in that open field on the edge of town.

[00:36:25] If you're reading this,

[00:36:29] there's going to come a day

[00:36:32] when you'll move on and find someone else.

[00:36:35] And that's okay.

[00:36:37] Just remember this,

[00:36:39] I'm in a better place where soldiers live in peace

[00:36:42] and angels sing amazing grace.

[00:36:46] If you're reading this,

[00:36:48] I'm already home.

[00:36:55] That song moved me whenever Tim McGraw sang it.

[00:36:59] Of course, he's gone now.

[00:37:03] There's another one

[00:37:05] that I hope I can make it through.

[00:37:07] I'm tearing up here.

[00:37:09] Our soldiers mean so much to us.

[00:37:12] But the pain that's left behind,

[00:37:15] the hole when those lives are taken,

[00:37:19] but they were sacrificed.

[00:37:23] They willingly went.

[00:37:25] Some of those words,

[00:37:26] they were all political.

[00:37:28] But those soldiers obeyed their orders

[00:37:32] and they fought.

[00:37:34] Many came home,

[00:37:36] many did not.

[00:37:38] You're listening to CSE Talk Radio.

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[00:42:10] I know it seems like I'm reading a lot of stories and poems and lyrics to songs.

[00:42:16] But these are the broken hearts that are left when our soldiers are taken.

[00:42:26] This song struck me really hard, even though I did not lose my son who went to the army.

[00:42:35] Luckily he didn't have to go to battle.

[00:42:38] I have five sons and I know how they fought. I know how close they could be.

[00:42:44] And I know how they would grieve if they lost one.

[00:42:47] This was written as a true story. It's based on a true story of a man who lost his son in Afghanistan.

[00:42:57] And it's a song that was sung by Lee Bryce.

[00:43:01] I drive your truck. It's the brother morning for his brother.

[00:43:09] When I heard this song, that's what I thought about. I didn't lose my sons.

[00:43:19] The brother's words were speaking to his brother in this song, who is no longer with him.

[00:43:26] Eighty-nine cents in the ashtray. Half empty bottle of Gatorade rolling in the floorboard.

[00:43:34] That dirty Braves hat on the dash.

[00:43:37] Dog tags hanging from the rear view.

[00:43:41] Old skull can and cowboy boots and a Go Army shirt folded in the back.

[00:43:48] This thing burns gas like crazy, but that's all right.

[00:43:52] People got their ways of coping. Oh, and I've got mine.

[00:43:58] I drive your truck. I roll every window down and I burn up every back road in this town.

[00:44:05] I find a field and I tear it up. To all the pains a cloud of dust. Yeah.

[00:44:13] Sometimes I drive your truck.

[00:44:15] I leave the radio playing. Some old country station where you left it.

[00:44:22] Yeah, man, I crank it up and you'd probably punch my arm right now if you saw this tear rolling down my face.

[00:44:31] Hey, man, I'm trying to be tough.

[00:44:35] And mama asked me this morning if I'd been by your grave.

[00:44:40] But that flag and stone ain't where I feel you anyway.

[00:44:45] I drive your truck. I roll every window down and I burn up every back road in this town.

[00:44:52] I find a field and I tear it up. To all the pains a cloud of dust. Yeah.

[00:44:59] Sometimes I drive your truck.

[00:45:01] I drive your truck. I've cussed. I've prayed.

[00:45:06] I've said goodbye, shook my fist and asked God why these days when I'm missing you this much.

[00:45:15] I drive your truck. I roll every window down and I burn up every back road in this town.

[00:45:23] I drive your truck. I drive your truck.

[00:45:28] I hope you don't mind because I drive your truck.

[00:45:33] Now, if you've ever been around brothers, they're kind of particular about their vehicles.

[00:45:39] The sacrifice of these lives, our American soldiers, our heroes, was great.

[00:45:47] And left a huge hole in our nation and in the lives of so, so many.

[00:45:52] Their brothers, their sisters, their wives, their mothers, their children, their fathers, their cousins, their neighbors.

[00:45:58] Their high school buddies.

[00:46:01] They won't make it there for the alumni this year.

[00:46:04] It is fitting that we spend a moment of silence for those who are no longer with us and pray for their families.

[00:46:15] And all those who miss them.

[00:46:18] Several years ago, I wrote this.

[00:46:23] I feel it's fitting today Memorial Day.

[00:46:30] I didn't write it on Memorial Day.

[00:46:33] I wrote it in October back in 2022.

[00:46:35] A broken nation, a broken nation cannot be free when people hate and disagree.

[00:46:46] Removing bits of history brings discord, not harmony.

[00:46:52] From our revolutionary days to wars on prairies against the brave, from civil wars to world conflicts, this young nation stood the test.

[00:47:03] Resisting tyrants on foreign lands, freeing others from their hands.

[00:47:09] It was the blood of our young men.

[00:47:12] Strangers' freedom.

[00:47:14] They did win.

[00:47:16] When once for independence they fought.

[00:47:20] Now a people who want for naught.

[00:47:23] Less satisfied with what they've got.

[00:47:26] More longing for what can't be bought.

[00:47:29] But if they'd only stop and think.

[00:47:32] Their liberty is on the brink.

[00:47:37] Together when the people stand, their strength and freedom are in their hands.

[00:47:43] The people who once fought for independence now scream for government dependence.

[00:47:50] Our history is tried.

[00:47:53] Our history is true.

[00:47:55] The future now is up to you.

[00:47:58] Now is up to you.

[00:48:01] Liberty is always in the hands of the people.

[00:48:05] The soldiers of this nation have served us well.

[00:48:11] It's only fitting that we honor them.

[00:48:17] As one of the poems said earlier, will we now pick up the torch for liberty and fight our hardest against the tyranny that we face?

[00:48:27] The best way for us to honor those who are given so much is to pick up that torch and defend liberty.

[00:48:36] For tyranny is threatening America.

[00:48:41] It's not a land across the sea.

[00:48:44] It's right here.

[00:48:46] It is the existential threat of America.

[00:48:53] American heroes are gone.

[00:48:58] But now we hear them as they sing the hero song.

[00:49:02] For tyranny is here on their homeland and ours.

[00:49:08] They are calling anew patriots.

[00:49:13] New patriots.

[00:49:15] New patriots.

[00:49:17] Today's heroes.

[00:49:18] They're calling to you to take up that torch and defend at any cost.

[00:49:29] Defend America at any cost.

[00:49:37] Today, people around this country, they might decorate the graves of lost ones, loved ones that have gone on, not necessarily all soldiers.

[00:49:50] But the graves around here will be placed.

[00:49:53] Each one of those who served will have a flag upon their grave.

[00:50:01] Our American soldiers.

[00:50:03] How brave.

[00:50:06] Lest we forget.

[00:50:09] We are here because of their sacrifice.

[00:50:14] So again, tyranny is here.

[00:50:18] It's in our homeland.

[00:50:19] And they are calling from the grave.

[00:50:23] Rise up new patriots and take up the torch.

[00:50:27] Defend America.

[00:50:29] Defend liberty today at any cost.

[00:50:33] And bring America home.

[00:50:37] Hello?

[00:50:57] Hello?

[00:51:27] Do we lack enthusiasm and understanding of the word liberty?

[00:51:51] Do we weep for liberty which we have lost?

[00:51:54] Or do we simply not understand the substance and sacrifice for which we were once privileged?

[00:52:00] Liberty.

[00:52:01] Webster defines liberty as the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's life, behavior or political views.

[00:52:11] Today we seem to want restrictions.

[00:52:14] Government micromanaging our lives?

[00:52:16] But do we realize the cost?

[00:52:18] Alexander Hamilton once stated,

[00:52:21] There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.

[00:52:28] As a republic, we the people must guard the liberty of others.

[00:52:32] We must continue the enthusiasm that will make men free.

[00:52:36] Visit csctalkradio.com where Beth Ann puts enthusiasm and common sense back into American liberty as she brings America home.

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