What Veterans Say About the U.S. Will SHOCK You | LTC Oliver North | Huckabee — Transcript

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1. 0:00you know i'm so grateful to have you
2. 0:01here on this memorial day weekend as we
3. 0:03honor
4. 0:04those who gave all for the freedom of
5. 0:06our country
6. 0:07you know it's a very powerful weekend
7. 0:09it's it's a lot more than just mattress
8. 0:11sales and
9. 0:12the kinds of things you know new car
10. 0:14sales what it really is
11. 0:16is honoring those who've sacrificed so
12. 0:19much
13. 0:20lost their lives in in combat or in the
14. 0:22line of duty at least
15. 0:24the veterans cemeteries 141 of them are
16. 0:26going to be packed this weekend
17. 0:28thankfully we won't have to wear masks
18. 0:30in most states
19. 0:31and i look at those and remember back to
20. 0:33when i was a kid
21. 0:35my brothers and i would pile into pickup
22. 0:37trucks with all the boy scouts in town
23. 0:39everybody would get a handful of flags
24. 0:41and we put a flag on
25. 0:43every single veteran's grave in the
26. 0:46cemeteries in this little upstate new
27. 0:48york town
28. 0:49then we'd parade down main street the
29. 0:52high school band would play
30. 0:54and we'd go to the baseball field and
31. 0:56the politicians would give mercifully
32. 0:58brief speeches and then then there'd be
33. 1:01a baseball game and a cookout
34. 1:03i mean it's that kind of memory that i
35. 1:06have my brothers and i all have
36. 1:08and i hope that there's americans
37. 1:10elsewhere around the country celebrating
38. 1:12this weekend
39. 1:13just like that when you were that boy
40. 1:15scout
41. 1:16in upstate new york doing that i doubt
42. 1:18you looked forward and
43. 1:20had any idea that one day you would be
44. 1:21in combat in vietnam
45. 1:23uh the jungles of southeast asia
46. 1:26fighting not only for our country but
47. 1:28literally fighting for your life
48. 1:32there must be times looking back and
49. 1:34especially when you go to the wall
50. 1:36and see the names of those you served
51. 1:38with the memorial day
52. 1:40is a very painful day as well a day to
53. 1:43remember those that
54. 1:44you were shoulder to shoulder with they
55. 1:46didn't come home
56. 1:48you know i just uh a few weeks ago got
57. 1:51to send the wall the mobile wall the
58. 1:53wall that heals on its way around
59. 1:56to 20 states 26 cities none of the major
60. 2:00metropolitan areas
61. 2:01and on that wall are some very very dear
62. 2:03friends that lost their lives
63. 2:06guys who graduated just before me at the
64. 2:07academy and some just afterwards
65. 2:10i look at that and i remember those guys
66. 2:12particularly the night of the 28th of
67. 2:14july 1969
68. 2:16worst night of my life uh it took me
69. 2:19years before i could go visit the wall
70. 2:21in dc and i do that every year i
71. 2:24try to make sure that it gets over the
72. 2:26this memorial day weekend
73. 2:28but the bottom line of it is the
74. 2:30recognition that this country does for
75. 2:32those who perished
76. 2:34in service to our country is a very very
77. 2:37special moment for americans
78. 2:39and you know we're still the only
79. 2:40country on earth
80. 2:42that will send its sons and daughters as
81. 2:44volunteers
82. 2:45around the globe to protect our country
83. 2:48and
84. 2:49offer others the hope of freedom uh
85. 2:51you've written over 18
86. 2:52best-selling books the latest one called
87. 2:55veterans
88. 2:55lament what is that book going to tell
89. 2:58the reader because
90. 2:59obviously when you write that many
91. 3:01best-selling books this is one people
92. 3:03are going to want to get from colonel
93. 3:04north
94. 3:05what will they learn well they'll learn
95. 3:07that we interviewed
96. 3:08500 people now it's two marines who
97. 3:10wrote the books and it's not picking on
98. 3:12any particular service
99. 3:14500 veterans of ours of service to our
100. 3:16country going all the way back in some
101. 3:18cases
102. 3:19to the vietnam war and coming right up
103. 3:21to the current conflict that is finally
104. 3:23ending
105. 3:24when we we've interviewed these people
106. 3:26it was before the election
107. 3:28and yet many of the issues that we now
108. 3:30see happening to the to this country
109. 3:33turning the military for example into a
110. 3:36i guess a social justice warriors
111. 3:39that kind of thing was on the minds of
112. 3:41those
113. 3:42who we interviewed and these veterans
114. 3:44looked at what's happening in our
115. 3:46in our country spiritually politically
116. 3:48economically
117. 3:50militarily and they voiced their
118. 3:52concerns is this the country that i
119. 3:54fought for
120. 3:55and many of them are now saying as we're
121. 3:56going back and re-interviewing some and
122. 3:58interviewing some other new ones
123. 4:00this is something really different today
124. 4:02than it was when we signed up to fight
125. 4:04and i'm not entirely sure that many of
126. 4:06them would still
127. 4:07send or encourage their sons daughters
128. 4:10to go off and serve
129. 4:11in this quote new era of political
130. 4:14correctness
131. 4:15colonel is it possible to get the
132. 4:17military back on track and
133. 4:19and to stop this trend of politicizing
134. 4:21and weaponizing
135. 4:22our great military institutions
136. 4:26and having them once again a meritocracy
137. 4:29where the the cream truly rises to the
138. 4:31top
139. 4:33it is possible and what's going to have
140. 4:35to happen
141. 4:36is that god willing in 2022 the american
142. 4:40people will say
143. 4:41it's enough is enough and they're going
144. 4:43to appoint and elect
145. 4:44rather republicans to public office
146. 4:48colonel i want to say thank you it's
147. 4:50always a pleasure to visit with you
148. 4:51and to our audience the book that we've
149. 4:54been talking about is called
150. 4:55veterans lament it is available right
151. 4:57now everywhere books are sold
152. 4:59and you can also find the kernel online
153. 5:01at olivernorth.com
154. 5:03as well as social media at oliver l
155. 5:06north