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Episode 1,070 – Independence Day Special: The Combat History of America's Declaration Pt. 2Episode 1,070 – Independence Day Special: The Combat History of America's Declaration Pt. 2
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...and such great names as these.
But of all the world's great heroes, there's none that can compare.
With a tau-ro-ro and a ro-ro-ro to the British Grenadiers.
Those heroes of antiquity ne'er saw a cannonball, or knew the force of powder to slay their foes withal.
But our brave boys do know it and banish all their fears.
Sing a ta-row-row and a row-row-row for the British Grenadiers.
Whene'er we are commanded to storm the palisades, Our leaders march with fuses and we with hand grenades.
We throw them from the glasses about the enemy's ears.
Sing a ta-ra-ro and a ro-ro-ro for the British Grenadiers.
And when the siege is over, we do the town repair.
The townsmen cry, hurrah, boys, here comes a Grenadier.
Here come the Grenadiers, me boys, who know no doubts or fears.
Sing ta-ra-ro and a ro-ro-ro for the British Grenadiers.
Then let us fill a bumper and drink a health to those who carry caps and pouches and wear the lupid clothes.
May they and their commanders live happy all their years.
Sing a ta-row-row and a row-row-row for the British Grenadiers.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Welcome back to the War Room.
This is our Independence Day weekend.
That's Diane Taraz.
Her album, Songs of the American Revolution, is absolutely incredible.
We're going to put in the live chat, everybody that loves that original music should think about picking it up.
We're playing her music throughout the couple of hours.
That song was actually, she had, the revolutionary generation adapted for the song Free America, but that tune is the famous British Grenadiers.
Patrick K. O'Donnell, the combat historian, the reason we played it at the start of the second hour, we were up against a real enemy.
I mean, this enemy was the best field army in the world.
They had the greatest navy in the world, the Royal Navy.
I mean, the odds were long against the Patriots, although they're fighting, you know, they're fighting on our territory or what was you know We claim to be our territory at the time They had the military might they had the greatest Navy in the world and they had a field army that was second to none and that song of the British Grenadiers is the song that that jacked up the the fighting men in the British Army Patrick a O'Donnell Indeed.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
The British Army that was assembled that day were some of the cream of the crop.
They had the light infantry that had fought for many, many years.
They were serious combat veterans.
The one downside is many of them had not, it was a, it picked men.
Many of them had not fought together that day that were in Smith's force.
But still, this is the greatest army of the world at the time, and it's these militia as well as men like John Glover's regiment, portions of it, that are fighting A new form of warfare.
This is the American way of war.
We're fighting behind obstructions in some cases.
were surrounding the british as its as this column is moving forward towards boston it's nearly cut off in annihilated by thousands of americans as they go down battle road and uh... they fight and uh... you know here it's that the three doctors that are in my book that are main characters doctor joseph warren who's the president of massachusetts provincial congress it's doctor nathaniel bond who never nobody had ever heard about uh... until i wrote this book and then doctor uh...
Then you have Dr. Church, Dr. Benjamin Church.
Dr. Benjamin Church actually literally puts blood on his socks to make it look like he was in the heart of combat, but he's obviously a traitor that nobody knows about, but he's in the heart of the Patriot Nerve Center.
Dr. Bond is literally treating some of the British soldiers that are wounded, you know, his Hippocratic Oath.
And after the battle is over, you know, an interesting thing occurs with Dr. Bond.
He is, for his actions there, for treating these British Redcoats, he's thought to be a loyalist.
And his home is surrounded by Patriots, and he's cancelled.
And he writes an urgent letter, which I own the original copy of, to Elbridge Gerry, another main character in my book, that if you don't send an armed guard to the house immediately so that I can go under oath in a court-martial to exonerate myself, I'll be dead as soon as they see me.
And he does that, and you know, it's really an amazing story, Steve.
Instead of being, you know, his honor was besmirched, instead of leaving the Revolution, he stays on and he's a company commander and a fighting surgeon in the Marblehead Regiment, and ultimately, he saves the Continental Army by inoculating the entire army in 1777, but later dies as a result.
And, you know, I mean, the other doctors also die during the course of the American Revolution.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Dr. Warren... Well, hang on, before we get to Dr. Warren's story, so special, I want to make sure people understand.
His two books on the Revolution, Washington's Immortals, about the famous Maryland Regiment, and then you've got The Indispensables, the current book that's out.
This is one that Raheem Kassam recommended everybody give as a Fourth of July gift.
So both books are just incredible.
They're just extraordinary.
Washington's Immortals from Patrick a O'Donnell and the Indispensables the current book by Patrick a down if you want to really get a sense of How difficult and tough the revolution was a revolutionary war and how tough the Patriots were?
How the long odds get both of Washington's Immortals and the Indispensables?
We keep a whole stack of the Indispensables at the war room to give to people and particularly give to their kids give it to you To give it to the kids 10 11 12 13 14 years old Let them take on a book like that that can tell them about their history.
Too many of the young people today don't know the history of the country, and the reason is it's not taught anywhere, right?
They're teaching something totally different.
They're not getting to the basics of what made this country great.
Okay, I want to turn now to Dr. Warren.
He's such a special individual, a man of just such character and principle and wisdom, but also physical courage.
He was the complete package.
So tell us the story of Dr. Joseph Warren, Patrick.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
Dr. Joseph Warren is extraordinary, Steve.
And he's got sort of an interesting background with Dr. Nathaniel Bond, who's his very close friend.
They're both resurrectionists, and they're both Harvard-trained.
And resurrectionists is really quite an interesting story.
They're body snatchers.
They literally go to a graveyard and they dig up a body, but they do it in the name of science.
There's no company out there that can provide bodies for anatomy.
So they're studying anatomy, but Warren is a true Sons of Liberty ardent patriot who is just extraordinary.
He writes many of the documents of the early Revolutionary War.
He's amazing, quite frankly.
Going towards the Battle of Bunker Hill, this is where Dr. Warren, he's the president of the Massachusetts Provisional Congress, and he's elected as a general officer Hold it, hold it, hold it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
He's elected as the Major General.
He's going to be one of the leaders of basically the militia army they're putting together with this new Continental Army that's going to show up.
But he's elected because of his stature to be a Major General, correct?
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
He is, and he's also the president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress.
In the day of Bunker Hill, he is with Elbridge Gerry.
He literally bunks with him that night.
And that morning, he wakes up and he tells Gerry that he's going to Bunker Hill to help defend the hill.
And Gerry warns him, you know, it could lead to your death.
And he said, there's no greater honor than to die for your country, in Latin.
And he goes to Bunker Hill.
And, you know, Bunker Hill is basically, it juts out, it's a position that overlooks Boston, and there's high ground there, and the Patriots start to construct earthworks, and place a series of cannon there, which they can then bombard the British in Boston, and the British know that this is a problem.
And they immediately move to wipe out the Americans, including Dr. Warren, who arrives with his musket and says, where can I go?
He basically acts as a private and goes into the redoubt that's on the top of Breed's Hill to defend the area.
And instead of commanding everything, he's there to fight.
And the British land and it's they initially try to flank the Americans that are on Bunker Hill or Breeds Hill I should say and they run into a series of cannon that are there by Samuel Trevit who's a member of the Marblehead Regiment who has a cannon company and they fight back very ferociously.
It's his cannon along with John Stark who's a veteran of the French and Indian War of Rogers Rangers fame.
And they fight back and they repel several British thrusts on their positions, which are, you know, they're behind a series of logs and fences.
And the British are stymied, they're stopped, and Lord Howe is there, he's wounded, and his men are faltering in this sweltering heat.
And he orders one more charge, and it's here that the Patriots have a real problem.
It goes back to the powder that I talked to.
They don't have enough to defend themselves, and they're running out.
As the charge takes place, they charge the redoubt, and it's Dr. Warren that is in the midst of the melee, fires his last shots along with some of the other men, and he's killed right there.
The battle is a bloody one.
The British eventually take the ground, but they sustain enormous losses.
They barely take it.
Had there been enough powder, the Americans probably would have held that hill.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
This shocked London.
It shocked Parliament.
It shocked the upper regions.
I mean, this is the most powerful empire on Earth.
First you have the guerrilla activity that was so brutal coming back from Concord Bridge and from Lexington.
Now the beginning of the militia and the Continental Army stood their ground.
Against a continual British charge, which they thought the Americans would break in a second.
This is when they realized they had a big problem, wasn't it, Patrick?
That these American colonists were not just tough, there was something about them that they organized themselves so they could stand up to the onslaught.
They would not break and run.
There was something that got the high command in London that said, hey, we got a big problem on our hands.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, this is about American grit and resilience that's really exemplified here at Bunker Hill, but then it would carry on through the other battles.
And then you have the summer of 1776 after the British are forced to leave Boston.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, but hang on.
I want to tee this up correctly.
You negotiate and sign the Declaration.
We tried to work with the King after Boston to work out a deal.
Remember, Dickinson and these guys wanted to reach some rapprochement.
It was the fire breathers like John Adams and a lot of the guys around the New England area that said, no, we're at war with these guys.
You've got to understand we're at war with them.
When the declaration was then negotiated and signed, right, on July 4th, right, and put forward on July 4th, the British then sent the largest expeditionary force they had ever sent up to that time anywhere.
Is that correct, Patrick?
They sent a massive expeditionary force.
Navy and Army say, hey, they can sign all the—they can make all the declarations they want, but they're going to get British steel, and we're going to put this thing down the We're going to crush this rebellion in its cradle.
And the cradle is that we're not going back to Boston.
We're going to go to New York.
New York is the financial center already.
You could tell New York was also, you know, maybe not as patriotic at the time as Boston and Philadelphia.
But that's exactly why they went to things.
So walk us through.
We've got about a minute.
Walk us through about this expeditionary force they sent.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
They send the largest expeditionary force up to that point.
Most of their navy and most of their army, along with a large contingent of allies, Hessian mercenaries that are from Germany, they assemble them on ships and they send them over.
And George Washington has to defend the indefensible, and that is New York, which is waterlocked, so it's almost impossible.
The British can land anywhere they want, but they, you know, political The political will in the colonies is such that he has to do it.
That's his orders, and he tries very desperately.
And it leads to, you know, the opening, the real first battle.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, I tell you what, why don't you hang there, we're going to take a short commercial break.
But here's the point.
On July 4th, we came forth with the Declaration of Independence.
Within 60 days, the British were landing on Long Island, ready to put down the rebellion, and they were going to put it down by force of arms.
The American Revolution will be next.
Patrick A. O'Donnell, the finest combat historian of his generation, will continue in the War Room on our special Independence Day weekend.
Be back in a moment.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It is Saturday, the 3rd of July, the year of our Lord 2021.
This is our Independence Day special.
We're also going to be continuing on Monday, which is, I guess, this year, the official holiday.
Breaking news, we've got Mike Lindell tomorrow at 10 o'clock Eastern Time on FrankTV.
He's going to announce the location, all the details around his cyber symposium to get to the bottom of the...
Get to the bottom of November 30.
He's been working on that a long time.
Remember, we have the the ground game, which is the Patriots of the new Concord Bridge, which is out the Convention Center, the Veterans Center out in Arizona, where they've done the the hand forensic audit.
Also starting in Georgia.
A lot of activity going on there.
I think you're gonna see a full forensic audit starting sometime in August or September in Georgia, that's the ground game.
Mike Lindell's got the air game.
He's been doing all this computer analysis, cyber analysis.
He says he's got all the receipts.
He's got all the information.
He's going to present it to the world and take on all comers who try to come in and try to turn him apart.
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I want to turn back now to Patrick O'Donnell.
By the way, we've got Joe Kent, the great patriot, is going to join us later in the hour, and Captain Maureen Bannon.
Captain Bannon was there in Iraq when we withdrew back, I think it was in 2011?
Joe Kent is a warrior of multiple tours in Afghanistan.
We're going to talk to them about modern patriotism and the revolutionary generation and what their thoughts are on this pullout of Afghanistan, kind of overnight by the Biden administration.
I want to turn back now to Patrick O'Donnell.
Patrick, within, what, 60 days?
By the way, that's when they arrived.
They took off almost immediately.
The British Crown, as soon as they got the Declaration of Independence, said, OK, you guys, you talk big.
It's very nice writing, it's very moving, it's a historic document, but you're going to have to back it up, and you're going to have to back it up on the battlefield.
And they sent, immediately dispatched, the largest expeditionary force they'd ever sent anywhere.
Royal Navy, and of course the British Army.
And they focused on New York.
So take us in.
This dovetails into the first book you wrote on the Revolution, which was Washington's Immortals.
This is one of the greatest moments in American history, combat history, that's almost an unknown story.
And Patrick, as I've gotten to know you over the last couple years, we used to always talk about the Korean War being the unknown war, that people didn't really understand the The combat history of the Korean War.
But I got to tell you, as I meet young people, the level of knowledge of the American Revolution, the Revolutionary War, because most people think, hey, 4th of July is our Independence Day.
That's when we got our independence.
That's when we declared our independence.
We had to back it up with an eight-year war.
And one of the biggest parts of that war took place within 90 days of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
If we had Basically surrendered there to have been all over.
And boy, we did take a beating.
So walk us through the Battle of New York.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
Steve, this is one of the true inflection points of the American Revolution.
It's a battle where all could have been lost.
It was very, very close that the entire Continental Army wasn't destroyed.
And this is the night, let me take the listeners to the night of August 26th, 27th.
We're at the Red Lion Inn, and this is the current day intersection of 35th Street and 4th Avenue.
In Brooklyn.
And it's near Greenwood Cemetery.
The high ground.
The Continentals have the high ground.
And it's the British that send out a scouting group.
And there's a series, there's a watermelon patch at the Red Lion Inn.
And this is where the first shots of this epic battle are fired.
The Americans have the high ground at Greenwood Cemetery, but there's a massive flanking maneuver that Lord Howe is moving around this position.
And this is just the area near Greenwood Cemetery as part of a demonstration under the British.
And it's the Marylanders that are on this high ground and they're fighting back.
Greenwood Cemetery is an amazing place.
You can visit it today.
It's not only a cemetery, but it's also a battlefield.
And it's here that the Americans stood their ground for several hours.
But the Marylanders and others realized that they were suddenly flanked and nearly surrounded and they had to fight their way back.
towards a headquarter position that they had earlier which is near a stone house and here is Steve one of the great you know previous prior to America Washington's immortals one of the great inflection points with great battles in American history where the Marylanders sacrifice themselves There's about 400 Marylanders.
They charge multiple times into the British lines, not far from the Stonehouse and some mills.
And they're doing it to create a hole in the British lines to allow the rest of the RV to escape, which they do.
And it's an incredible hour.
As one historian of the time said, an hour more precious in our history than any other.
This is an American Thermopylae, and they allow the army to escape to fortifications.
Had Lord Howe been able to assemble his entire army, had there not been this counterattack by the Marylanders, they might have crushed the army that day.
But what it sets up is another three days of real agony for the Americans, where all could have been lost.
They're trapped in their fortifications, and Washington has to decide.
Does he stand and fight, or does he retreat?
And he wisely decides to retreat.
But he's got a problem.
The bulk of the Royal Navy is in the East River.
At any moment, they could sail up the East River and destroy the Continental Army.
And everything falls upon the Marbleheaders and the book that I wrote, The Indispensables, where they have assembled All the boats that they can, small boats, and they have to take the army, 9,500 men and all of its equipment, across the East River, which is a mile long.
And it's near the current day Brooklyn Bridge.
This is where the, there was obviously no bridge at that time, but they had to take the army across this mile long river.
And it was against all odds, Steve.
Everything was going wrong that night.
The currents, the tides, the winds, the Marbleheaders couldn't make any headway at all.
Somebody tried to call off the operation who was in charge.
They couldn't find Washington that night, miraculously.
So things proceed forward on this American Dunkirk.
And meanwhile, it's one of the most difficult military maneuvers you can ever take.
It's an amphibious assault across the river, an escape, if you will, while you have a massive army right in front of you.
and uh... you know there's a loyalist that tries to tip off the british that doesn't work uh... miraculously but the uh... the wind changes and the marble headers have wins in their sales they're able to take more people off another thing that's quite miraculous is the wind doesn't favor the british that night they can sail up the East River. Had they been able to do that, they would have blown all these small boats that were crewed by the Marbleheaders into smithereens.
Another thing that's an interesting aspect of the Marbleheaders story is that they're diverse.
There's African Americans in these boats, there's Native Americans, some Hispanics. It's a diverse crew. They bring them across.
As dawn is coming, though, a fog sets in quite miraculously and screens the movement of the army and the American Dunkirk takes place. The hands of divine providence are absolutely amazing here.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
By the way, we're not going to have time to get through the whole story today, but if you get the book, The Indispensables, the crew and those Marblehead sailors that took the army off the American Dunkirk and got them from Brooklyn to Manhattan were also at Delaware on the Delaware River on the Christmas attack that really started to turn things around that would happen a couple of months later.
The Declaration of Independence is signed on tomorrow, basically July 4th.
Before Labor Day, a massive British expeditionary force has landed on Long Island.
It is now going to sweep through Brooklyn and crush the Continental Army, crush Washington, crush these militia groups.
One thing I want to add is that at the American Thermopylae that took place in Brooklyn, That Maryland Regiment, that multiple charges at that stone house, they are buried in an unmarked mass grave.
Is that correct?
That's what got your interest.
We've got about a minute.
So, unmarked mass grave.
They're not at Arlington Cemetery.
They're really in an unmarked mass grave somewhere in Brooklyn.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
That's right, Steve.
There's a sign, a rusted old sign that I found about 10 years ago that said, here lie 256 Continental Soldiers, Maryland heroes, somewhere in either multiple graves or multiple mass graves, or even possibly the fact that they were on prison ships and their bones and bodies were never recovered.
But these men, the bulk of these men have never been found.
And that's the great mystery of the American Revolution.
They sacrificed themselves.
It was their blood that signed the Declaration of Independence that made it a reality.
And they still are yet to be found.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
We're going to come back.
The Declaration of Independence declared our independence, but then the deplorables had to fight and win it.
The books The Indispensables, also Washington's Immorals, the great combat historian Patrick K. O'Donnell will return with us.
In the War Room, also we're going to bring in an American hero, Joe Kent.
He's running for Congress out in Washington, but he did multiple combat tours in Afghanistan.
He's going to talk to us about that.
And Captain Maureen Bannon, about her time withdrawing from Iraq and parallels to Afghanistan today.
As we continue, our Independence Day Special in the War Room.
We'll be back in just a moment.
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Lift up your hands ye heroes and swear with proud disdain The wretch that a wooden snare you shall spread his net in vain Should Europe empty, all her force will meet them in a ring, And fight and shout and shout and fight for free America.
We let fair freedom hither and lo, the desert smiled.
A paradise of pleasure was opened in the wild.
Your harvest, bold Americans, no power shall snatch away.
Preserve, preserve, preserve your rights in a free America.
We're torn from a world of tyrants beneath this western sky.
We've formed a new dominion, a land of liberty.
The world shall own we're freemen here and such will ever be.
Huzzah!
Huzzah!
For free America!
Some future day shall crown us the masters of the main.
Our fleet shall speak in thunder to England, France, and Spain.
Nations o'er the ocean spread shall tremble and obey.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
The prince who rules by freedom's laws in North America.
It's Saturday, July 3rd, the year of our Lord, 2021.
That is the great Diane Terraz.
We're going to put up in the live chat, if you get a chance, you might want to check out her album, Songs of the American Revolution.
Quite powerful.
We've been highlighting them during the special today.
Just incredible voice and incredible way she goes back to the original compositions.
It's quite extraordinary.
Okay, we've got Patriots all over and we just had this very moving story About the American Thermopylae took place in Brooklyn.
Remember that when you get his book, Washington's Immortals, you'll see that the the hundreds that died that day from the Maryland regiment are buried somewhere, either died on one of the ships in Brooklyn Harbor, these prison ships that were just horrific, really concentration camps, or they died in that battle and are marked, buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Brooklyn.
I know people have searched for this one plaque on a wall in the middle of Brooklyn to kind of commemorate it.
But that's it.
unknown these great patriots that died.
We had Mike Lindell to start the show.
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To do this the the great 4th of July weekend where we celebrate the declaration of our independence Not the winning of it the winning of is what we're talking about in the combat history of the American Revolution Of course, there were big developments with our military over the over the last couple of days Joe Biden decided to pull out of Bagram Air Base kind of I guess in the middle of the night and and and leave it now the Taliban is there looting it and
After all those years and I was a big proponent of leaving Afghanistan and only leaving a paramilitary Group behind I fought for that very hard for President Trump in the summer of 2017 All I can tell you is that the higher echelon of the Defense Department absolutely lied to the president's face Consistently about what our position was there the really amount of combat troops of who was actually fighting for NATO where they were really on combat patrols, but most particularly
What the real status was, the real status of what we had won on the ground, and particularly what the cost was going to be.
Just lies and misrepresentations the entire time.
I want to bring in now Joe Kent.
Joe's a warrior, Army Special Forces that had multiple tours in Afghanistan.
He's running for Congress in Washington III in a primary, a Republican primary.
Thank you so much for coming.
You know, your family, your beloved wife died in combat fighting ISIS.
You did multiple tours there.
Give us your thoughts of how we, I know everybody is tired of the endless wars and I'm at the forefront of that.
But just the way this has been done, the way this has been laid out by the Biden administration, which seems like it's very herky-jerky, there's no plan, it just kind of all of a sudden you're out of Bagram and you leave in disgrace, there's no ceremony to kind of turn it over to the Afghan forces, it doesn't hold high what Thanks for having me on that.
Overall, I'm glad that we're finally getting out.
It's a very unceremonious end to a very unceremonious end.
the 20 years we spent there.
So Joe Kent, I'd like you to put it in perspective since you fought there.
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Absolutely, Steve.
Thanks for having me on that.
Overall, I'm glad that we're finally getting out.
It's a very unceremonious end to a very unceremonious and, I think, disgraceful war.
After 9-11, we went to war for all the right reasons.
We had to go crush Al-Qaeda and the Taliban members that harbored Al-Qaeda.
We quickly diverted to a mission of nation building right after bin Laden and Zawahiri crossed the border into Pakistan.
George Bush admitted that himself.
And then from there, we experienced nothing but half starts and really failure to bring together what was never really a nation.
Afghanistan has always been nothing but a Conglomeration of warring tribes.
And we attempted to do the impossible and build a centralized government there.
Bush failed.
Obama even recognized that Bush failed at this and tried to get us out, but he failed to because he couldn't actually bring together a plan.
So instead he launched a half-hearted surge, which put more men and women into harm's way and resulted in more casualties.
So Donald Trump, when he came on the scene, he tried to do the right thing.
Like you said, he tried to get our troops out of there.
And what we saw from that was the absolute Treacherous action by the deep state, by the Department of Defense, the military industrial complex.
They turned against Trump.
They wanted to leave our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria where my wife tragically lost her life fighting for this country after Trump tried to get our troops out of Syria.
So really, I think it's the American people need to reflect on why we go to war and what the actual purpose is.
Why are our troops leaving now?
They should have been out of there decades ago when we realized that the whole nation building plan was nothing but a failure and then a failure that was covered up by lie after lie.
And so the fact that Joe Biden ran as the anti-Trump and is now enacting what President Trump tried to put into place Years ago, when he first came on the scene, it's just been a total and complete slap in the face to the will of the American people and the precious resource that is our all-volunteer force.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Joe, you know, you've served your country for so many decades and now you're back to run for public office to serve again in a different capacity.
Question I want to ask you, I know we have geostrategic issues and geopolitical issues and all that and we have this whole thing with this woke military high command, but for the men and women that you serve with, because we're doing today the combat history of the American Revolution, Patrick O'Donnell, Patrick doesn't deal really in strategy, he goes into these combat units into their records.
And actually tells the stories that way.
When you talk to your fellow warriors who served and fought with you in Afghanistan and Iraq, what is it, where are their heads now?
What do they feel about the sacrifice, the decades of sacrifice that the American fighting man and woman did on these foreign battlefields?
Now that you see this woke military, they got a critical race theory, they're trying to jam down the military's throat.
The country's essentially, this regime, the Biden regime is essentially trying to do a, try to jam cultural Marxism into the schools.
What's the sense of the fighting men and women in their spirit right now?
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It's hard.
And a lot of my peers and folks that are still in, and veterans, we have a lot of, you know, angst and consternation about the fact that we fought these wars for almost two decades now.
We lost brothers and sisters.
I lost countless friends.
I lost my wife in these fights.
And just to see it all squandered away, it does cause for a lot of the, I think, mental health issues that we're seeing right now.
What I tell people, and the way I view it for myself, is you have to separate your service and your will and your desire to go protect and defend the Republic from what the establishment and what the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.
did with our efforts.
We went to war for all the right reasons.
We went to war because we love this country.
And we love our band of brothers and sisters, our tribe of warriors.
That's why we go and we fight and we fight for our country.
It is on our politicians, and that's why I'm getting into the fight in the political arena.
It's on our politicians to safeguard that precious resource that is our all-volunteer force, and that is the full faith and the full credit of what is the United States of America.
So I really just think that, you know, I understand a lot of veterans right now are probably having a hard time, but I would say to them that you answered your nation's call.
You did your part.
It's our political leaders that failed and are continuing to fail by putting this woke, critical race theory, this anti-American theory, Into the U.S.
military to gain control of the U.S.
military.
And you have to ask yourself why they're doing that.
They are desperate to cover up what they did with the election, the stolen election, which is another slap in the face to our democracy, to our great republic.
So, I mean, I think really this American Revolution, you have to look back and the American Revolution was fought because the British wanted access to cheap and free labor.
That's why they wanted to exploit the colonies.
We broke free from that.
And then later we fought our own civil war to break free from that.
And since then, we've had the elites of this country exploit our system, ship our manufacturing overseas in an effort to make the average working man and woman of this country, the deplorables, their cheap slave labor.
And now we have to break free from all of that, and we have to fight a second revolution all over again, and we're going to have to do it.
It started in Maricopa County, like you point out, and with all the audits, and with all the young men and women that are getting off the bench to go fight for their country, because we have to take it back.
We have to defend our republic.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Joe, how do people find out more about your fight?
How do they follow you on social media?
How do they find out more about your campaign?
unidentified
Please go to joekentforcongress.com.
I have all my stances to the issues on there.
I also have a donation tab.
This audience right here has really helped us keep this as a grassroots, for-the-people effort.
Our campaign fundraising is doing great thanks to the More Room Posse and all your great listeners.
Steve, I really appreciate it.
joekentforcongress.com.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Joe, it's Joe Kent for Congress.com.
Just one last question.
How many combat tours did you do for your country?
unidentified
I did 11 combat tours, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
11 combat tours.
Okay.
Joe Kent, thank you very much.
Honored to have you on here on Independence Day weekend.
unidentified
Thank you very much, Steve.
Thanks for having me.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
So Joe Kent's of the world is the reason we have a free country today.
They're this young generation of patriots, just incredible.
I want to bring in now Captain Ben and Maureen, you were actually in Iraq when we did the pullout back, I think it was in 2011.
What's your sense of what happened in Afghanistan over the last couple of days, given your experience and being one of the logistics officers that helped extract us from in that debacle that was Iraq?
maureen bannon ▲ ● ▼
Well, thank you for having me on the show today.
It's a complete disgrace and it makes me very nervous to see us leave in the middle of the night.
You don't know what kind of handoff was done in Iraq.
It took months to get this handoff to the Iraqis.
We had meetings every day on how we were logistically going to do this withdrawal from Iraq.
And we don't see that happening in Afghanistan, and the fact that they packed up and fled Bagram in the middle of the night just doesn't give me that sense of comfort that that is what happened in Afghanistan.
And we've seen this movie before.
We turned over the base I was on in Iraq to the Iraqi Security Force, the Air Force, and ISIS took control of that base months later.
I have this deep fear that that is exactly what is going to happen in Afghanistan and that the Taliban is going to take control over Bagram and we will be back there before we know it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I think it was Al-Balad you were at, I remember when ISIS actually took it over on social media, I think you sent it to me, they were sitting there with all the Humvees and all the equipment we left behind for the Iraqis, and they were asking the Americans, they were mocking us I think on social media, to say, where's the warranties?
Where are the warranties?
How do we take possession of these in an official way just to mock and ridicule us?
maureen bannon ▲ ● ▼
Correct, and also with regards to the question that you asked Joe Kent about a ceremony.
In Iraq, when we turned over joint baseball odds, there was a ceremony with the Iraqi Air Force.
There was no such ceremony done in Afghanistan to honor those thousands of service members that risked their lives so that everyone back here in the United States could have freedom.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, thank you.
maureen bannon ▲ ● ▼
It's a disgrace.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Why don't you hang over.
We're going to get you on the other side.
We've got Patrick O'Donnell.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
We're going to return in a moment to our Independence Day special.
This is The War Room.
We're going to be back in just a moment.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I want to thank the Real America's Voice team for helping us put on this Independence Day weekend special.
It's very hard to put all this together, particularly in all these remote locations.
I really want to thank the team in Denver, thank all the senior management for doing this.
It's come off really, really proud of everybody putting together all the graphics and the music and all that.
So just a spectacular job.
Tonight at 7 p.m.
Keep it right here on Real America's Voice at 7 p.m.
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It's going to be a big one.
He goes live at 8, pregame at 7.
Make sure you come back here.
Real America's Voice is going to have all of it, analysis, pregame, postgame, all of it.
You don't want to miss President Trump.
A great way to continue on to the Independence Day weekend.
I want to thank Captain Bannon for joining us.
Thank you for your assessment of Afghanistan and Iraq and the withdrawals.
Can you give your social media?
I know you're trying to become, or you're becoming a social media star, so let's get your, what's your social media?
You and Boris Epstein are kind of in competition, I know, so what's your handles?
maureen bannon ▲ ● ▼
I am quickly.
I just want to address I think it's a good thing that we're getting out of it.
We're out of Afghanistan the way we went about it.
I don't believe is good.
My social media Twitter is an at Maureen underscore Bannon.
My Instagram is real Maureen Bannon and I will be on getter hopefully by the end of the day.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Thank you very much Captain Bannon.
Have a great holiday weekend and make sure you take some time with your with your grandfather.
maureen bannon ▲ ● ▼
Thank you.
I will you too.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
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Big shots.
I think we've got to really do a special just in the combat history of the American Revolution.
I think it's now supplanting even the Korean War as an unknown war.
War Room Posse to support the fight for freedom.
Patrick K. O'Donnell, incredible.
We do this on a regular basis.
We've got to do it more frequently because I don't think people, and I'm really, I think we've got to really do a special just in the combat history of the American Revolution.
I think it's now supplanting even the Korean War as an unknown war.
I don't think people, I think a lot of people just think, hey, Declaration of Independence, they signed it, we were free.
It was a long way from freedom.
Many, many years, a lot of casualties.
Like you said, it was a civil war and a revolution all at the same time.
Talk to us about, we've got a couple of minutes here, talk to us about how did they get the books.
You've got Washington's Immortals, about this Maryland regiment that's absolutely amazing, and then essentially the sequel is The Indispensables about the Marblehead regiment.
How did people get the books?
How did it get to your website?
Tell us all about it.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
They're both best-selling books and BarnesandNoble.com or Barnes and Noble, they're usually at the front of the store at the table.
My Twitter handle is at Combat Historian and my website is PatrickKODonald.com Can you give a heads up?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Are you working on another?
I know you've been in the revolution.
It takes you like three or four years to research these books.
As you go back to primary records, when the audience reads the books, and I recommend everybody get Patrick's books.
He's got amazing books on Fallujah, on the Korean War, on World War II.
On Pointe du Hoc, I mean, just incredible, your breadth and reach.
But these two recent books that have taken, I think, the last five or six years to both research and write, Washington's Immortals and The Indispensables.
When can we expect your next book?
I realize this just came out, it's a bestseller already.
Your next book's a couple years down the line, you're already researching?
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
It is, it is, Steve.
Like you said, each one of the books I've written is a journey, and I really enjoy the journey and the research itself is the primary focus of that journey.
I go to the graves of all the men that I write about.
I go to the battlefields.
I walk the ground that they were on.
I do the research of the records, all primary sources, over a thousand end notes in most of these books.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Fantastic.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
It's about retelling our story, our origin story, which is precious, Steve, as you know.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
The origin story.
Patrick K. O'Donnell, the finest combat historian of his generation.
The books of Washington's Immortals and the Indispensables.
Get them for yourself, but also get them for your kids.
They need to find out the true history of this country.
Okay, we're going to leave you with a great young composer, Rob Sokal.
He did this to honor the Continental Army.
Remember, 17,000 individuals, 17,000 men that hung together over many years to bring the victory that the Declaration of Independence declared.
The Continental Army, the Militias, the Indispensables, the Deplorables of America brought that victory eventually home many, many years afterwards.
We're going to leave you with Rob Sokol, Independence Day Special.
Thank you, have a great weekend.
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