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May 29, 2000 - Bill Cooper
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Memorial Day - callers
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Why my power, my power, is it power?
The hour of the time.
Once upon a golden rupee.
A golden coin.
I'm going to get you.
Done.
You're listening to the Hour of the Time.
I'm William Cooper.
Good evening, folks.
Thank you.
Well, I've done it this time.
I have really screwed up, Royal.
I've got too many irons in the fire.
I've got a radio station going 24 hours a day.
I've got a television station going, what, about 15 hours a day, something like that.
I've got videotapes I'm trying to capture and edit.
I've got research I'm doing.
I'm trying to finish my second book to get it off to the publisher.
We've got several websites that we're working on and orders to fill.
.
Things that we have to record to put up on the website as archived programs so that you people can go and listen to them, should you so desire.
And I need about 400 more arms.
I need about three times the energy that I have.
I need about a couple hundred more sets of legs.
I need at least two or three more brains.
You know, I've got to have one sleeping while the other four or five are working.
Aichi wa wa.
And it's fitting that I should tell you about all this because it's Memorial Day.
And this is all in the service of my country, so if I work myself into the grave, Within the next few days, you guys can remember me on next Memorial Day.
I hope that you have all done what is supposed to be done on Memorial Day, and that is remember all of those who have fought and died in the service of the Republic.
Not the United Nations.
I have no sympathy whatsoever for American troopers who go to fight the United Nations war and get killed.
If they're dumb enough to do that, then what can I say?
But all of those who truly fought and died in defense of the Republic, the principles and ideals that this nation was founded upon for freedom, for opportunity, For truth.
for the nation that the founding fathers built.
And don't write me any letters telling me how heartless I am because I don't care if
somebody dies in the service of the United Nations.
I don't!
In fact, anybody in the service of the United Nations is ultimately in the service against this Republic.
Against me.
Against freedom.
They're fighting actually for one world totalitarian socialist government.
If I had my way, they'd all get killed.
Or else they'd come to their senses, which is the number one choice that I would have.
They would come to their senses and stop it.
Stop it.
Nope, I got no sympathy for caskets draped in U.N.
blue.
None at all.
None at all.
Will not remember them, don't even care to know their names.
And if they're members of the United States military forces, then as far as I'm concerned, when they put on a blue UN hat and went off to fight the United Nations wars, they committed treason.
Treason.
So, up their nose with a rubber hose, And you could write five million letters, wouldn't change my mind?
Not for one second.
Not for a second.
I have a big glass of sun tea.
I make my sun tea with jasmine tea.
Now, if you've never had sun tea, folks, You are in for a big treat.
You need to, especially if you like tea.
If you don't like tea, you may not like sun tea.
But I know people who don't like tea normally who love sun tea.
It tastes totally different than tea that's brewed by boiling water on the stove and pouring it over a tea bag or into a teapot with an infuser in there full of tea.
It's delicious.
Anybody can make it.
It's very simple.
And you can make it with any kind of tea you want.
You have to experiment depending on the kind of tea bags you're using.
Because you have to use tea bags.
Unless you've got a big infuser.
Because you need a gallon jug.
You need to go to your grocery store and you know up there on the top shelf you see these big giant glass jars that hold about a gallon or two gallons.
That's what you need to make sun tea.
And it's got to be a glass jar.
It cannot be plastic or anything else.
It's got to be glass.
It's okay if it has a plastic lid.
Most of them have a plastic lid with a lift-up thing that covers the spout hole.
And a lift-up handle so you can carry it.
And don't worry about carrying it with the handle.
The ones that I've always had, you can carry the full jug of tea with that handle no problem as long as you have the lid screwed on really good.
And you fill it up with good water. Mountain spring water right out of the ground is the best.
We got plenty of that up here. But you can use tap water or you can use the water that you buy in
the store. It doesn't matter. Fill it up to within about an inch of the top. If you're going to use
regular tea that most people use, Lipton's Orange Pico Tea is what it's usually called.
So, thank you.
Then buy the big box that has the family bags in it.
And all you need is four of those family bags.
And you put them in there and drape the little strings over the side.
Screw the lid on.
Set it out in the sun for about three hours.
That's all you need.
And voila!
Sun tea.
You can use any kind of tea.
I use jasmine tea in there, the small tea bags.
So I have to use ten of those.
And if you use some other tea, you know, just experiment.
Start off with five tea bags.
If that's too weak, the next time you make it, you know, add the number that you think is going to make it to your taste.
If you're using the big family size bags though, all you need is four.
That works really good.
Just thought I'd throw that in because I'm sitting here having a nice big tall refreshing glass of sun tea and I think everybody should be entitled to enjoy that particular... well to me it's... to me it's something really special.
I make it just about every day through the summer.
I don't know what I would do without it, to tell you the truth.
And in the winter I have my UBAN 100% Colombian coffee every morning.
And sometimes I get a little thirst for coffee in the morning during the summer, but not usually.
When it's warm, I like my sun tea.
So tonight I want to take your calls and talk about What do you think about Memorial Day?
Who did you think about?
What was the gift, I should say, of your Memorial Day?
Good evening, you're on the air.
Good morning.
Good evening, Mr. Cooper, I should say.
Well, we had a Memorial Day.
Well, thank you.
And, by the way, your description of Ice-T was just absolutely perfect.
This sounds like Route 66, man.
No, no, no.
This is Wayne from North Carolina.
Oh, Wayne.
You sound just like a friend of mine.
Oh, no, I don't.
No, I'm from North Carolina.
I'm not.
Okay.
But anyway, your prescription and subscription for iced tea sounds just exactly correct for today.
I just wanted to say I enjoy the show a lot.
That's about all I had to offer.
What'd you do for Memorial Day?
What'd I do for Memorial Day?
I finished a little bit, but we didn't catch anything.
Did you remember anybody?
Did I remember anyone?
Yeah.
I remember my dad.
My dad was a veteran of World War II.
He was in the Marines.
He was on Saipan.
He was G-man Okinawa.
Oh, he was in the First Division.
He was a really rough, tough character.
He went through Saipan and Iwo Jima.
I bet he had to be a rough character because the wimps didn't survive those battles.
No, but I mean he was a really fine American, a fine Marine.
And I do remember my dad here on this memorial day.
He was a proud Marine.
Well, good for him.
That's all I have, Mr. Cooper.
Thank you for calling.
520-333-4578. Give us a call. Tell us who you remembered for Memorial Day and why.
I remembered quite a few people. A lot of my relatives who fought and died in World War II
in Korea. Some who didn't die, but nevertheless gave quite a bit.
World War I, my grandfather was gassed with mustard gas and pretty much ruined him for the rest of his life.
Although he died at 86 of old age, he was hurt pretty bad by that mustard gas.
He didn't live a good life.
Good evening, you're on the air.
Hi Steve.
How you been?
Okay.
I was just sitting here and having a catch of the show and I certainly appreciate the topic.
Memorial Day is a very important holiday for me.
Well unfortunately most people think it's a holiday to go camping and fishing and cook wieners on the barbecue and they never even give it a thought.
Well I think there's room for fun.
It doesn't have to be totally solemn because if you're No, I'm not criticizing people for having fun also, but I am criticizing those who never give the purpose of the day a thought.
Boy, that's right on the money, I'll tell you that.
And I say that's probably 90% of the American people.
Well, the vast majority, no doubt.
Yeah.
I happen to take part in a nice parade and memorial service in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania today.
Well, tell us about it.
That sounds very interesting.
A hundred and thirty some years now, every year.
That was a pretty good crowd.
The streets were lined and I happened to own a military vehicle, a 1951 M38 that I like to show off in a parade.
I took it through the parade and then the service at the Gettysburg National Cemetery was very impressive.
That was one group of people who were remembering, undoubtedly.
Sure.
Yeah, I had family members who fought on both sides of that conflict.
I remember when I was a young boy, I don't remember how old I was, but it was in the early 50s.
I remember when I was a young boy, I don't remember how old I was, but it was in the
early 50s, it was in the early 50s I got to see the last, I forget if it was two or three
living Confederate Civil War veterans.
you They had a parade in Biloxi, Mississippi, and the last living Confederate Civil War veterans, who were boys when they fought in the war, were in that parade.
That's a memory to hold.
At today's event there was a World War I veteran.
They're getting very rare these days.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate it very much.
Have a good evening.
Thanks very much for coming out and giving us a chance to meet you.
It was a proud moment and I just wanted to let you know that that was one little corner
of America that I've got a firm hold on Memorial Day.
Well, thank you. I appreciate it very much.
Have a good evening. You too.
520-333-4578. Remember?
I forget how old those guys were.
I was just a boy.
I think I was maybe in the fifth grade.
Couldn't have been more than the fifth grade.
We went from the Azores, where we lived for three years, to Biloxi, Mississippi for just a few months while my father went to some school at whatever Air Force base is there.
And then we went to Oklahoma to Midwest City where my father was stationed at Tinker Air Force Base for three years.
And I went to a brand new junior high school called Monroney Junior High School in Midwest City, Oklahoma.
And then we went to Japan.
Good evening.
You're on the air.
Hi Bill.
This is Joe from Pennsylvania.
Hi Joe.
And I was thinking actually about my uncle, still living, his name is Ted Moran, he's in Ohio.
And he was a survivor of the Bataan Death March.
Wow.
Yeah, um.
Yeah, that, that, that, that was, did you ever read the story of that?
Yeah.
There's several good ones.
There's some written by people who were in it, some written by people who researched it and talked to the survivors and the Japanese who participated too.
That was incredible that anybody survived it.
Pretty amazing that he managed to escape.
I believe he lived approximately a year and a half in the jungle.
In the jungle?
Yeah.
That wasn't a good life.
He came back.
Apparently, I think he weighed about 90 pounds when he got back.
Well, that sounds about right.
Yeah.
That's what I was thinking about him today.
Well, good for you.
I don't know.
I'd love to hear.
I would imagine that there are probably a few guys out there.
Yeah, most veterans don't like to talk publicly about their experiences.
I find it very difficult to talk about mine.
the couple of occasions that I've ever done it, it was very hard.
Well, certainly thank you for taking the time to listen.
Thanks for calling.
520-333-4578.
Yeah, my brother's the same way.
Whenever he starts talking about his service, he got the Silver Star in Vietnam.
Whenever he starts talking about it, it's awful hard to get him to talk about it, but when he does, he talks real low and real slow and not very long and always ends with eyes full of tears.
520-333-4570.
Who did you remember on Veterans Day and why?
Well, the phone is not ringing.
Maybe, you know, I'm talking to the 90% that I remember.
Oh my goodness, this is not good.
You mean that you guys didn't think about all the people who fought and died for this country and you don't have anything to call and talk about?
Is that what's going on here?
Because if it is, it's a sad day in Black Rock, I've got to tell you.
Bad day, Black Rock.
Good evening, you're on the air.
Hello.
Oh, boy.
Here we go with one of those.
A clown.
520-333-4578 is the number.
Memorial Day, folks, is not for what a lot of people think it is.
It's to remember those who fought and died for the Republic.
Good evening.
You're on the air.
How you doing, Mr. Cooper?
Well, today I did think of some folks.
I had an uncle.
He's passed away now.
He's been gone for, I guess, about 20 years.
He fought in World War II, and he was island hopping in the Pacific.
And I remember when I was a youngster, he gave me his, he was in the U.S.
Marine Corps, and he gave me his knife that he had when he was in World War II in the Marine Corps.
And I still have that knife.
And, you know, I keep it.
It's in safekeeping, but every now and again I'll take it out and I'll remember, you know, my Uncle Jim.
And, you know, he used to tell me, you know, some of the things that happened to him in World War II when they were out and hopping in the Pacific.
And so, yeah, I thought about him.
And, you know, I served six years in the United States Army myself.
I served under Ronald Reagan which was peacetime so I didn't have to fight in any war.
But I thought about my time in the military service.
I was proud to serve my country although I was not awake to the reality of the world situation the way it really was.
I was proud to serve my country.
We don't always know what we're serving and in the tradition of those who serve we We adopted this proud attitude that we're serving our country, and sometimes we're not.
Yeah.
Well, fortunately, you didn't have to do any of that.
There's lots of our military people who are not serving this country today.
They're serving world government, and that's disgraceful.
Yeah, and there's very few that are standing up.
than that are of course is Michael New. Yep. A courageous young man who did fight it and
Yeah.
but you're right the overwhelming majority they're going lockstep into this.
Yeah and it's an all-volunteer force now which means that most of the ones who are serving
aren't serving for patriotic reasons. The person who registered for the draft and was drafted and
went in and took his physical and went and did his time he was serving for patriotic reasons.
A lot of people who volunteer are also serving for patriotic reasons, but most of them aren't.
It's a good way to be taken care of very well for 20 years and get a real nice comfortable retirement.
Yeah, they're basically paid mercenaries.
They're socialists is what they are.
Yeah.
I, you know, I just, if I were a young man, you know, 18 years old, getting out of high school today and looking at the military and what it does under the United Nations banner, I couldn't do it.
You know, back then, when I joined in 1979, you know, we weren't flying under the United Nations banner anywhere.
But now it just seems like Desert Storm was the United Nations operation.
What we did in Yugoslavia, Haiti, everywhere we go, we're doing it under the UN banner.
And it's just so obvious right now what's taking place that I couldn't in good conscience go into the military and serve.
And that's sad to say.
It is sad to say, but they're not serving this country anymore.
And I got news for you.
Our military is so, so, well how can I put it?
Almost destroyed.
I guess there isn't any other way.
Our military is destroyed.
And if the Communist Chinese had a way to land their army on these shores, our military could not protect us.
It would be, the citizens would have to do it.
Yeah.
It's been destroyed, literally.
I know.
A television program not long ago about the training for Marine boot camp.
United States Marines.
And I sat there and I watched it and I had this sinking feeling in my chest.
Those weren't Marines.
That was pathetic.
The guys that I served with in Vietnam were Marines.
These guys who are serving today are not Marines.
I don't know how to describe it.
That program.
It was about an hour and a half long and it showed, it went through with the men and the women.
They're separated into two groups and it shows their training and what they went through and how they're treated and all that kind of stuff.
I hate to say it, but these guys wouldn't have survived Taipan or Iwo Jima or Okinawa or any of those places.
They just, they wouldn't have survived.
Period.
You know, I've been hearing that a lot of the good patriotic American types are exiting out of the military because of the situation in there.
That morale is bad and what the Clintons have done to the military that the good people are just getting out.
Sure, and it's not just because of that.
It's also because of what they see that's being taught And it's what they see that they're being required to do.
And it's the political correctness, even in the military.
It's not military anymore.
It's an arm of the political correct Marxist dialectic.
It's sick.
It is really sick.
And they've hardly got any equipment anymore.
They don't have what they need to fight a war.
It's really sad.
You know, I was listening to another radio talk show and the guy, the guest, made a good point that the veterans that fought in our past wars, you know, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, whatever, you know, the Spanish-American War, World War I, even World War II, If they were around today in America and to see what has happened to America.
Oh, they'd be ashamed and they'd be very angry.
Yeah.
Well, Mr. Cooper, it's been nice talking to you.
Well, thank you for calling.
Have a good evening.
Appreciate it.
520-333-4578.
520-333-4578. How was your Memorial Day? What did you do?
Who did you think about and why?
See, Memorial Day is set aside to remember so that their death will not have been in vain.
To remember those who fought and died for the Republic.
Good evening.
You're on the air.
Good evening, Bill.
This is David from Ohio.
I liked your last several comments with this left-pass car when you realized that the Well, we can't boycott Memorial Day because that's boycotting those who fought and died for the nation.
It's not about the military that's in service now.
and veterans to boycott any Memorial Day.
That would draw...
Well, we can't boycott Memorial Day because that's boycotting those who fought and died
for the nation.
It's not about the military that's in service now.
It's not about them.
Memorial Day has nothing to do with people who are in service right now.
Well, even the past wars are kind of questionable.
You know that.
Some of them are, yes.
Very much so.
But it still does not negate the sacrifice that those men made, really believing that they were fighting for their country.
And I think World War II Even though we didn't have any business in that war, I think that was a good war that needed to be fought, and I think the people who fought it did a damn good job.
It's just that after they got out, they quit fighting it and went on the dole.
And, you know, they sucked their hand out.
Oh yeah, I remember those guys.
I don't know.
They stuck their hands out and stepped back on their laurels and let the country go to hell.
The country is in the shape it's in right now mainly due to World War I and World War II veterans sitting back and saying, gimme gimme gimme, I fought for my country and turning it into a socialist... Hey, you said it very well.
That's what I mean.
Why shouldn't we then boycott it?
Because it doesn't take away from the sacrifice of the men who died.
It's not about those who lived.
Don't get it confused.
It's not about those who lived.
It's about those who died.
Those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service of their country.
But you see, everything's going on as normal.
You say it very well.
But the average person doesn't understand why.
And they never will.
So it doesn't make any difference to even talk to them.
They don't give a damn in the first place.
You can't boycott a day set aside to honor the dead.
You understand what I'm saying?
Pick a day that honors the living.
Pick a day that honors those who are responsible for all this crap.
The dead are not responsible.
But you're not achieving anything, because the other... Yeah, I am.
I'm honoring those who died in service of the Republic, is what I'm achieving.
And that's what I'm supposed to achieve.
I'm not supposed to achieve anything else on this day.
If I achieve something else on this day, then I've done a double good.
You know, I do sympathize with your injuries from Vietnam.
I've been fortunate.
I haven't lost any relatives in either war.
Almost.
Still, I think we have to draw attention to something that's really wrong today by not... Why do you need a special day to do that?
I do it every day.
Why do you need a special day to do that?
I agree with what you're saying, but see... And what makes you think it would work?
If I ask all the veterans in the United States and all the patriots in the United States To march with me next month on Washington, D.C.
You know how many show up?
Very few, yeah.
Probably about 25 or 30.
It would be a disgrace.
It would be an embarrassment.
A lot of patriots listen to you, and veterans.
And so if Bill Cooper says, hey, we've got a new paradigm here about this Veterans Day.
Sure, we've missed, and we're sorry.
This is not Veterans Day, this is Memorial Day.
Memorial Day, alright, I'm sorry.
I'm not as stupid really as I talk sometimes, Joe.
I work around the intelligence officer.
Well, then don't open your mouth until you know what you're going to say.
Yeah, alright.
How can you say Veterans Day from Memorial Day?
Oh, it's just a slip of the tongue, you know?
That happens.
Yeah, Bill Clinton does it all the time.
Yeah, I know.
And, uh...
Nothing has to be dramatic to draw people's attention to it.
What can be more dramatic than what's already happened?
I mean, if Waco, Texas didn't draw people's attention to it, what makes you think a bunch of veterans sitting on their ass in a park protesting Memorial Day would do it?
I'm telling you right now, it wouldn't do a damn thing.
Probably wouldn't even write a mention on the news.
All right, maybe it wouldn't, but it would wake up somebody.
It wouldn't wake up anybody.
If Waco didn't wake them up, veterans sitting down in a park protesting with a bunch of signs isn't going to wake anybody up.
Veterans are confused, you know, older veterans.
They want to sit there and- They're not confused at all.
They know that they get their money and their benefits and their medical care from the government and they ain't gonna do a damn thing to jeopardize that.
Bill, there's still a few who might be convinced that they see fellow veterans- If Waco, Texas didn't do it, Bill Cooper asking them to put up signs and sit in the park or march down Main Street isn't gonna do it either.
What in the world would ever make you think that it would?
Hey, I think you've got to try.
I know Waco is a, well, whatever the word is, a waterloo or something to make people wake up, but I think you have to add a little more.
What?
Like veterans.
Veterans what?
Veterans aren't going to march against the government.
They get their money from the government.
They get their handout from the government.
They're socialists on the dole.
They get their medical care from the government.
They're not going to do anything to piss off the government!
Then why do you keep saying it if you know you know?
You don't know!
Or you wouldn't be... Goodnight.
Thanks for calling.
Ain't gonna happen, my friend.
Well, the only thing you can get veterans to march against the government about is MIAs.
POWs.
Good evening, you're on the air.
Yeah, hi, Wayne.
Hi.
Yeah, I went to a parade in Albany, New York today.
And I was struck by public health.
Getting out in a crowd, a cross-section of people who turned out.
And particularly the young folks marching in the parade.
The state of public health is not good.
State of public health is not good?
Explain what you mean.
Pudgy.
Poor posture.
Poor posture.
Poor, you know, bad complexions.
I could look at the picture of any crowd Yeah, well, I say part of the problem is public health.
And my suspicion is, if you took a look at the young people being indoctrinated in the People's Liberation Army of China, that the public health in China Right now it's probably far superior to the public health.
It always has been and that's just about in any Asian country and it's mainly because of their diet and the fact that they really have to work for a living.
Absolutely.
Most Americans don't do any exercise in their work day.
Most Orientals do.
Yeah.
It doesn't bode well for the future.
And it's the class of people who came off the farms of the United States and fought World War II were a much different crowd of people.
Yeah, I was thinking, too, about my statement.
If you take the pictures of the crowds on, like, Victory, V-J Day, Victory over Japan, or V-E Day, Victory over Europe.
Vital people.
You'll see that most of them are thin and in shape.
That's because all of the men went to fight the war.
Right.
And they were in shape by virtue of having been in military service.
And almost everybody you see in those pictures are in uniform.
Right.
Or have come back and are in their first set of civilian clothes.
You can usually tell that because they don't fit very well.
Right.
But that's the only time.
Any other time in history if you look at the pictures of crowds you see You see the same thing.
You see overweight men and women.
Well, if you want to be really discerning, you take a look at the ears of the World War II generation.
Ears?
Yeah, the size of the ears.
If you want to size up a population in terms of their constitution, their native vigor, you take a look at the ears of people from the World War II generation.
And you take a look at the ears now of young people.
I've never heard this before in my life.
What do ears have to do with it?
It's a very traditional belief in the Orient that you can determine someone's constitution, particularly by the size of their ears.
They would relate it directly to the ears being analogous to the kidneys.
They look to a degree like the kidneys.
I'm studying Chinese medicine right now, and I haven't seen that anywhere yet.
That doesn't mean I'm not going to see it further down the line, but I haven't seen that yet.
When an oriental physician sizes somebody up in the initial consultation, they will size them up in terms of looking at such things like that.
How do you know that?
Because I've studied it myself.
No, I just asked you, how do you know that?
Did you read a book?
Since being apprised of that and doubting it to a degree myself, I've come to start looking and I can confirm, it's a tentative thing, I don't know for sure, but I think if you start looking around at the ears of people in the WWII generation and the ears of youth today, you'll see a decrease in the size overall And you'll see a lessening of the lobe of the ear in particular.
Huh.
Well, it's interesting.
I don't know if what you're saying is true or not, but it's interesting.
I understand.
Take a look at Al Gore, and he has what the Chinese call... Oh, come on.
You're going to subject me to torture?
You're going to make me look at Al Gore?
He has what the Chinese call woven ears.
He has no lobes, and his ears point up and back.
Oh, that's Dr. Spock.
You sure you don't have Dr. Spock confused with Al Gore?
Yeah, well take a look at him.
He has a wolf ear.
Alright, next time I see a picture of Al Gore, I'll do that.
But what does that mean?
I think that the Chinese probably chose the term wolf on purpose.
It probably is a person who tends to be avaricious and lacks wisdom because somebody who has wisdom Hmm.
Okay.
Well, what I originally was calling to know was the public health situation.
And there, to me it's fair to say that the franchise Food industry and the large food processing corporations, which are in the forefront of the move towards transnational business, are, to my mind, with malice aforethought, creating foodstuffs.
For example, you take a look at the company called Kraft Foods.
They're pushing onto the populace What's all this got to do with Memorial Day?
Why are you taking us way off track here?
Why don't you call in on the night when we're talking about health?
I mean, you've got us way off on this cul-de-sac, and that's not where we're supposed to be tonight.
Well, I'll relate it right back.
We cannot honor the men and some few women who have fallen in battle to protect this Republic.
Yeah, but you're fighting human nature.
You see, it used to be that people had to work for a living.
I mean, they really had to work.
fighting human nature. You see, it used to be that people had to work for a living. I mean, they really had to work.
Today, they don't. And it is human nature to take the easy way out.
If you can buy fast food instead of spending an hour at the stove cooking a dinner, that's what most people are going to do.
And you're not going to change that.
And if they go to work and they sit at a desk, and if there's no reason for them to exercise in order to perform their work, they're not likely to do it during their time off and make work for themselves when they would rather be enjoying themselves.
So you're fighting human nature.
And that's not likely to happen.
Got to let you go.
Okay.
Thanks for calling.
Yeah, folks, whenever you try to fight human nature, you usually lose.
That's why most diets don't work.
You're fighting human nature.
Good evening.
You're on the air.
Good evening, Bill.
This is Tim down in Red Rock, Texas.
Hi, Tim.
And today being Memorial Day, I'm not a vet, but I got down on my knees and I thanked God Well thank you.
that have died for this Republic.
And I wanted to call and thank you for your service to our Republic in the service and
now.
Well, thank you.
We need more people like you.
We're in a mess.
We are.
We are in a mess.
I couldn't...
I live in a real small town.
I went and hung out at the general store a little while today until I thanked a vet face to face.
I wasn't satisfied until I did that today.
Well good for you.
That was a very nice thing to do.
I don't do a whole lot.
I'm disabled so I'm just finding the information more.
Uh-huh.
Down in my neck of the woods.
Well, we all have to fight however we can fight.
But we have to fight however we can fight.
Right.
Well, okay.
That's really all I wanted to say is just thank you for your service in the past and now.
Well, thank you.
God bless you, Bill.
God bless you, too.
Good night, sir.
Thank you for calling.
520-333-4578 is the number.
Good evening.
1-833-345-78 is the number.
Good evening, you're on the air.
I just wanted to say this morning when I ran the colors up the flagpole, I thought about my father who fought in World War II and my grandfather who fought in World War I. And I'd like to say my grandfather also was gassed in the trenches in France during World War I with mustard gas.
Well, he might have been with my grandfather.
A good possibility.
I don't have his scrapbook handy, and I couldn't pronounce the names of those places if I tried.
French is one language I couldn't speak.
If my luck depended on it, my tongue would just not twist in those directions.
I still can't say mister.
I still have his scrapbook that covered all that.
But I think probably the most moving today, I spent the day just working around the house, cleaning the kitchen, and I guess about five o'clock local time, I was listening to family radio, and they put on the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and it was a particularly beautiful rendition, and I just kind of stopped what I was doing, and tears started to roll down my eye, And I have in my hallway was my father's, he used to have it in the house, in his house, is a painting of a Constitution soldier.
What was it?
The Continental soldier.
And I kind of stopped while that music was playing and I looked at that and I just thought of all those that died in the revolution.
And at this point I'd just like to request sometime in the future if you could dig out a copy of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
I am extremely partial to that.
I just put it in the CD carrier as you were speaking because I knew that's what you were going to do.
Well, God bless and I'd like to thank all those that died and those that are still alive that fought for the freedoms that Unfortunately, we're losing, but maybe we'll wake up.
We're not losing them, we're giving them away.
Well, God bless, Bill.
Thank you.
And thank you for calling.
I've got a real wonderful version of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, but that would take me too long to find it.
So, we'll close out with this version that I've got.
Handy, real close here.
And, uh, maybe if I can find the other one real quick while we're, uh, while we're taking calls.
Uh, well, here it is.
By God, I just found the best one.
Okay.
All right.
I just found the best one.
Okay.
520-333-4570.
We'll close out tonight with the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
That is a fitting.
Very fitting musical selection to play on, to close out the hour of the time on Memorial Day.
Let me see, which one is it?
Okay, there it is.
Okay.
Oops.
What did I do here?
Burn it.
5203334578 is The number.
So give us a call.
Good evening.
You on the air?
Say that again?
Submarine.
I want to remember the man on the USS Scorpion that died in the submarine.
Yes.
I saw the Scorpion a couple of months before I went on its mission in lower Spain.
The interesting thing was...
Well, that was his last stop, wasn't it?
Pardon me?
Wasn't that his last port of call?
Road to Spain?
It was going on a mission, and they wouldn't allow him any liberty.
That one fact I've never heard anywhere.
I saw it, and I don't know what their mission was.
Well, you're never going to.
I can tell you that right now.
That's just something you will never know.
They don't call it the Silent Service for nothing.
I was in submarines.
And it is the silent service.
Very seldom is anything ever disclosed about submarine operations, ever.
And I'm telling you right now, you'd be absolutely amazed at what they're really doing, what they've really done.
You talk about some heroes.
Amazing stuff.
Thank you for calling and thank you for bringing that up.
Yes, we should remember the men of the Scorpion.
Lost at sea with all hands.
And to this day, nobody really knows absolutely for sure what happened, even though the United States Navy believes that they found the cause and corrected it.
Hopefully, they're right.
520-333-4578 is the number.
You see, when something goes wrong with a submarine underwater, that's usually the last thing that ever goes wrong.
520-333-4578.
What did you do on Memorial Day?
What did you do on Memorial Day?
Who did you remember?
And why?
Waiting for you.
Bye.
You know who you are.
I can look right through this microphone.
Put my eye right up here.
See right through the cord goes through the mixing board, up through the comrex and out
across the country, through the phone lines, to WBCQ, out over the airwaves, down your
antenna into your radio and I'm looking at you right through your speaker.
Good evening, you're on the air.
Hi Bill, can you hear me okay?
Yeah, I saw you before you, I saw you go and dial the phone.
I was watching the whole time.
That's pretty good.
Bob, today on Memorial Day I remembered all those souls I've seen leave this planet in
the jungles of Vietnam through Chiu Lai and walking long range reconnaissance patrol and
those men that were blown up by land mines and booby traps and I saw many, many souls
leave the planet and I don't know their names but I certainly, I certainly thanked them
and I remember them in my heart and mind each and every day and wonder why it wasn't me
too but I realize that the freedoms we have now on this planet, I think we have to protect
You were in Vietnam, weren't you?
Yes, sir.
And it wasn't like that, was it?
No, it was nothing like that.
No, it sure wasn't.
People brainwashed into believing it was like that.
Believe me, there was no color barriers.
There was none of that going on at all.
No racism.
That's true.
And Oliver Stone.
Oliver Stone, if you're listening, I want to say this on the air.
I've said it before.
I want to say it again.
You're a despicable, stinking liar.
You hear me, Oliver Stone?
all the rest of our life because they don't take that from us.
That's true.
And Oliver Stone, Oliver Stone, if you're listening, I want to say this on the air.
I've said it before, I want to say it again.
You're a despicable, stinking liar.
You hear me, Oliver Stone?
And the rest of you jerks in Hollywood who want to degrade the American soldiers.
American soldiers in Vietnam are like American soldiers anywhere else.
They were in the military.
They were in the military.
They had non-commissioned officers above them and officers above them.
They ate, slept, worked, and died together.
They didn't do any of those things.
If an American soldier smoked a joint, he went off by himself and smoked a joint, because if he'd have got caught, he would have been court-martialed or worse.
If he'd have been in the field, he might have been shot.
So, thank you for bringing that up.
Yes, Bill.
People don't realize what it's like to hold a man in their arms on his dying day.
He's sitting on a landmine or something.
He's blown in half and he's dying and going into shock and he's relaying these things to you saying that all our friends that left before us are hovering over the battlefield watching us and encouraging us all the time he's leaving and how wonderful.
I've never been so close to death but that's the only time I really was alive.
I do believe it's just being that close to death.
Well, we all know about that, don't we?
I've talked about that on a couple of occasions.
It's very hard to explain it to people who've never experienced it.
You're more alive than at any other time in your life because you know that any second you could be dead.
Yes, and thank you Bill for serving.
I love you and thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Thank you for calling.
Yep, and a real hot beer tastes damn good.
It's like walking on a razor blade.
Light is brighter.
Everything is more beautiful.
Nothing escapes your sight or your hearing.
Good evening, you're on the air.
Bill Cooper?
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, I spent Memorial Day, uh, I always spend Memorial Day going around to the, uh, different grave sites of my family, and one was my uncle, uh, My uncle James Miller, he was in Vietnam, he served.
And he died of just about everything, you know.
He had lupus and cancer and kidney disease and you name it.
He got into something and all these specialists were coming around, you know.
But I remember him because I was the wave in the 60s, you know.
And my family all looked forward to him coming back home.
He went back on a second tour of duty on his own.
But you were right the first time.
Second tour of Dirty.
Well, yeah, yeah.
But, you know, he gave it his all.
And I remember that because he would come back and, you know, he'd bounce me up and down on his knee and, boy, we sure were glad to see him.
And now he's gone.
Yeah.
But we sure do remember him.
It's Agent Orange that does all those things to us.
You better believe it.
And, you know, until I listened to your broadcast, I never really realized, you know, I think of it in my own mind.
I never heard you say this.
But I think that my family used to tell me, gee, he has all these specialists coming from all over the country.
Gee, I wonder why.
Now they're looking and they're studying the effects of this stuff.
Agent Orange.
Yeah.
That's what got us.
I still have the effects of Agent Orange every day.
Yeah, but we were right at the place that was most heavily sprayed.
The DMZ was the most heavily defoliated place on the face of this earth ever in the history of this earth and all of the runoff From the DMZ came down into the river that we patrolled and took baths in and swam in and everything and we had no idea that we had no idea what was in that river that still affects most of us to this day.
Well Bill I'm going to salute you even though I was in never any branch of the service I'm going to salute you as a civilian to whatever rank you were and I sure do appreciate what you did in your life.
Well thank you very much.
Thanks for calling.
Well, that's it, folks.
Good night.
God bless each and every single one of you.
And before you go to bed tonight, think about those who died, who gave the final, greatest sacrifice that anyone could ever give in service to this Republic.
Say a little prayer for them.
Good night, Annie Clune Allison.
I love you and I miss you.
I love you.
I love you.
My eyes have seen the glory of the Father.
He has seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
I love you.
He is standing now, the vicious weather-trap has been sown.
He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible snare-throw.
He is wounded, but he is good.
He has seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He has seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
And by the sea, by the river, by the sea, by the river, O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Instrumental music playing.
In the beauty of the village life was born across the sea.
you With a glory it was long, That transfigured you and me.
And he died to make them holy, And I died to make them free,
While God is marching on.
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