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Episode 1,407 – Veterans Day: Tomb Of The Unknown @100Episode 1,407 – Veterans Day: Tomb Of The Unknown @100
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It's Thursday, 11 November, the year of our Lord 2021.
This is a continuation of our Veterans Day special.
We've got a bunch of veterans here in this hour to talk to you about their experiences and talk to you about the country, the direction we're heading.
All of that.
I want to start with Patrick K. O'Donnell.
It's also a very special Veterans Day.
It's the 100th commemoration of the anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
There was a ceremony over there earlier today.
American troops dressed up as doughboys in World War I outfits.
We're trying to get some footage for that.
I want to bring in Patrick K. O'Donnell.
He's an expert.
He's a combat historian, but he wrote a book about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, how it was created.
Just a reprise a little bit of this morning, Patrick, so our audience can get back up to speed.
You know, this was the armistice, the 11th hour, the 11th day of the 11th month.
The guns fell silent.
Western Europe, as an armistice was reached, that ended the war to end all wars.
That didn't turn out too well, right?
I think we killed another 200 million people in the 20th century after this.
But talk to us about why this day was so important, about the Tomb of the Unknown.
And I know you got some other books that talk about veterans and their activities and battles throughout American history.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
The Tomb of the Unknown soldier, Steve, represents all Americans who have ever served in all wars.
It's arguably our greatest war memorial.
And it's a memorial that also memorializes our involvement in the Great War.
You know, people might ask, who cares about World War One?
Reality is, it was probably one of the most significant events of the 20th century.
It changed the world in so many ways.
It made our modern American military, the Marine Corps, the Army, the Navy.
It also made us a industrial superpower.
We're arguably a superpower after that war as well.
And it changed everything.
The Middle East changed.
The effects of the Middle East are still lingering to this day.
In so many ways, American society changes from World War I. And the tomb is a way to sort of memorialize that effort.
But it was also in 1921, 100 years ago, exactly this day, the tomb was used as a way to symbolize and heal the wounds of the country.
All the major groups in the country were present at the tomb, such as the NAACP.
You know, veterans of all American wars that were still alive were there.
Pretty much people from all walks of American society were there, as well as, you know, our most dignitaries from around the world came as well.
The president spoke.
And I think this is really another kind of cool aspect of the tomb.
A hundred years ago, President Harding made the first Radio broadcast to the nation from the tomb, and that was done at the ceremony, which was incredibly important.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Now, I want to talk about how we even got the two.
Remember, Woodrow Wilson had gone to Europe.
He had led the negotiations after the war.
He had really pushed to get us into the war to make us, you know, he was a globalist, to make us a global power.
There was a huge amount of resistance to that.
Huge amount of resistance afterwards when he basically negotiated the Paris Agreement, the Paris Treaty, and the Treaty of Paris, which set up the League of Nations.
To come back here and be rejected, you know, didn't even pass.
It never passed the Senate.
And and highly controversial the United States not being part of it it collapsed But you could sell even then people are reluctant to get in the war and they saw the carnage particularly mustard gas and in these these horrific machines remember it's You know, the great book that was written about so many of these fantasy novels afterwards were really written about things that happened to guys in World War II, right?
The Inklings and all the great writers wrote these allegories about the murder and the death and the trenches of the Second World War because it was so horrific they couldn't just write it.
At the end of World War I, the United States did not have a tomb for an unknown soldier.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
grassroots, you were talking this morning about this woman who led this grassroots effort to actually get a memorial like France had and like the United Kingdom had. At the beginning, at the end of World War I, the United States did not have an unknown soldier, a tomb for an unknown soldier. The first to create a tomb for an unknown soldier was France and they dedicated this soldier and they
They utilized an enlisted man to recognize the unknown.
And it was followed by Great Britain.
And it was here in the United States that we had hundreds, thousands of Americans that were unknown and that had died in the trenches of World War I and the battlefields of World War I. The War Department claimed that they could identify all those individuals.
There was also a movement that took place to bring home our boys that had fallen in France and also in Europe.
And you know, there were well over 100,000 Americans that had fallen in France.
And the War Department was fine with leaving them there.
They didn't want to deal with the cost of bringing all those people home.
So there was a grassroots movement first to bring those Doughboys home.
And then later, The Tomb of the Unknown.
And that grassroots movement flowed primarily from the editor of the Delineator, who is a very famous woman, Marie Delany.
And she, through her grassroots movement, really spoke directly to the American public.
And this, you know, it put a tremendous amount of pressure on the War Department.
I mean, this is something, you know, The War Room has really been able to sort of get into the bloodstream of America.
And it's similar in World War One, where they really were able to tap the American public and put a tremendous amount of pressure on the War Department, which then caved in from other political pressure from another very famous Republican, Hamilton Fish, from New York.
And Fish really has an extraordinary story.
A white officer in an all-black unit, the Harlem Hellfighters, who were just tremendous fighters on the Western Front.
But he saw firsthand that his men really didn't get the recognition that they deserve.
They had to fight segregation and racism and other things.
And he thought, he looked at the tomb as a means of honoring his men, but also honoring all Americans that fought in the Great War, and also really all Americans that fought in wars from the Revolution forward.
for our country.
And Fish gets it through Congress.
And then the story of how the unknown is discovered, if you will, or brought back to America, is the subject of my book, The Unknowns.
And that book is really, it's a combat history of the men that brought him home, which is a combat history of World War One.
But the story of identifying that individual, that unknown, is pretty interesting and unique.
The major cemeteries in France are in the major battlefields of France, such as Belleau Wood near there, San Miguel, the Meuse-Argonne, which is America's largest and greatest battle ever fought, based on the number of people that were involved.
It was from these major cemeteries that a Graves Registration Unit went And they selected unknown individuals that were buried there, and they exhumed the bodies, and then they carefully examined them to find out if there's any dog tags, letters, anything that could identify that person.
And when that check was done, the body was then carefully removed, and the grazed registration cards were burned so that they could never figure out exactly who they pulled out.
So that this person would be a true unknown, at least with the technology of the day.
The bodies, the five bodies, were then brought back to Chalon, France, where they lay in rest in the city hall that was there.
And they were flag-grave caskets.
And that next day, an American general was to select the unknown.
And it was here that France steps in.
And says, no, you really need to have an enlisted man select the unknown because enlisted men are, you know, throughout history are always the men that do, that are at the forefront of, of fighting.
And, um, so that they literally did a, uh, an audible, if you will, that night, and they selected an enlisted man that were, that was there.
And, um, it was part of the ceremony and they selected a gentleman by the name of Sergeant Edward Younger and Younger was part of the 2nd Infantry Division.
And this was a storied unit, one of the most legendary units in the American Expeditionary Forces that had been, you know, in some cases, one of the first to fight, but also were there to plug the massive gaping hole during the German offensive in the summer where they nearly broke through to Paris.
And Younger was there in the thick of the fight, along with places like Blancmont, which is a fortress that the Germans had fortified.
It was on their, it was an impregnable position.
The French were gored upon it for four years, three years of war and could never take it.
But the 2nd came in along with the 4th Brigade, which was all Marines, 5th and 6th Marine regiments, and they broke Blancmont and broke the back of the German line there, which is an incredible story in and of itself.
I tell that in the book.
The book is not about just the ceremony.
It's a combat history of World War I through the eyes of the most decorated soldiers that brought home the unknown.
And Younger is given this enormous task.
And I remember finding the handwritten notes that he had.
And he talks about how he prayed right before he went into the room and he was, you know, in awe.
But he was given a bouquet of white roses and told to select the unknown from these flag-draped caskets.
And as he walked in, he said that his arm and his hand literally moved towards one of the caskets because he felt the presence of that man.
He might have even served with him and somebody that may have died that he knew.
And he felt that his hand just moved for him and he selects the unknown.
And then from there, the Unknown is moved to Lahar, and it's there that the USS Olympia, this is Admiral Dewey's flagship from the Spanish-American War, is going to be the ship that brings him home.
And that's an extraordinary story in and of itself.
The Unknown is, the casket is too large to get below deck, so they actually leave the casket on the top deck of the of the Olympia, and you know, it gets into a massive storm in the middle of the Atlantic as it's traveling to the United States.
And the Marine Guard on the Olympia literally have to lash themselves to the casket to prevent it from going overboard.
But the ship eventually arrives at the Navy Yard here in Washington on the 9th of November, and it's greeted by The image on the front of the jacket of my book and the unknowns is that it captures that image of President Harding.
Pershing is there.
And then the body bearers, the men that I later that I talk about in my book, are there at that ceremony to bring the remains to to the Capitol where he lies in state.
And then then it's today, 100 years exactly.
That the body is then moved to Arlington for internment.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Patrick K. O'Donnell is a combat historian.
He's going to be with us for the entire hour as we bring other veterans in to talk.
Patrick is also going to talk.
He's a civilian but was an inbed during the Iraq War in Fallujah, wrote a magnificent book called We Were One, an incredible story of his being embedded with a Marine rifle platoon, a squad there that that fought house by house in Fallujah.
You see the Veteran's Day is about the living.
Veteran's Day is about camaraderie and those that have served, that have lived through it, the casualties, all the agony and the hurt.
But our honor dead today, very special, the 100th anniversary of commemorating the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Patrick K. O'Donoghue is an expert in that.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
When we return, we've got veterans throughout this hour.
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Be back in a warm just a second Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
His truth is marching on.
I have seen him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps.
They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps.
I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps.
His day is marching on.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
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This is our Veterans Day special.
And, you know, we've been at Arlington National Cemetery back here in the warm.
Still have our crew over there trying to pick up some footage.
Quite dark.
Reason today, normally that would be a Memorial Day special.
The reason today for the Veterans Day special is the 100th anniversary commemoration of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 100 years ago today.
Patrick K. O'Donnell has been Our guide walking us through it all day.
We're going to get back to talking to some veterans.
I want to bring you now from the villages in Florida, Gary and Gene Lyle.
Gary, you're a Vietnam vet, correct?
Can you walk us through your service over there in Vietnam?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
I was with the United States Air Force.
I was a sergeant with the 3rd Combat Defense Force, and I was a sentry dog handler.
I was there, like I said, from October of 67 to October of 68.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
67-68.
Vietnam was kind of a little hot right then, correct?
unidentified
Yeah, it was.
I happened to be there during the Tet Offensive, where the east side of the base actually got overrun, and we had to take it back later that morning.
But yeah, plus at that time, if I'm not mistaken, Benoit had more aircraft landing and taking off from our base than any place in the world, airports in the world.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Busiest airport in the world.
You're a believer, you fought at Tet in Hue City.
Do you believe that the American military defeated the Army of North Vietnam?
Or was it like Walter Cronkite said, the war is lost?
unidentified
No, I wasn't at Hue.
I was at Bien Hoa, the airbase here.
And I think that the US won the war.
I think the military came back, defeated the North Vietnamese as long as the Viet Cong, but that Cronkite kind of turned it the wrong way when he came back and said what he said.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You're the point with many of us that our combat troops have had an unparalleled history.
It's the political weakness in Washington that has always let people down and the sacrifice of so many veterans.
And thank you so much for joining us today from the villages.
Very special day.
I know you married up.
It's obvious you married up, but it's a very big day of all days.
Gene, why don't you tell us what happened?
Jason Miller was down there earlier, right after the show this morning.
We were able to visit with Jason and Gene and Gary.
Gene, tell us what happened today.
unidentified
Well, I was chosen.
They had a Get Revenue Sweet Steaks and my name was chosen and I won a 2021 Harley-Davidson Road Glide.
Beautiful bike.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
So you're the winner of the Getter Contest, correct?
You're the winner of the getter contest, correct?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Now, Jason told me last night, and this just may be rumor, but he told me that you and Gary are devoted War Room followers and viewers, and that you actually said, hey, I'll give you back the motorcycle if you can get me on the War Room.
Any truth to that rumor?
unidentified
Well, you know what I did say is, between meeting Jason Miller, Steve Bannon, Tim Murdoch, I think I'm more excited about that than getting the bike.
I am.
I consider myself part of the floor room posse.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Well, thank you so much.
And by the way, we're so glad the getter contest was was intense.
And man, that is quite a quite a prize.
So Gary, it turned out okay for you after all.
And obviously you're married up.
I want to thank you and thank you for thank you guys for joining us today.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Thanks.
Vietnam veteran from the Tet Offensive, Gary Lau and his wife, Jean.
She's the winner of the Getter Contest and to get that 2021 motorcycle.
Very, very impressive.
Let's go now to, we've got Don, is Don Amon up?
Don Amon, you know, Don is our coffee guy out there in Yakima, Washington.
He made the great blend.
Well, I got out in 2008.
it up for the firemen and they got a fund there to help first responders.
Don's also a veteran in the head of Minuteman Coffee. Don, talk to us about your service, talk about being a veteran, what are the lessons you learned that helped you make one of the be the best roasters? How did you end up in Yakima as a roaster after your military service?
unidentified
Well, I got out in 2008. It was Navy Reserve, so my story is a little different, where I went in later on in life. So I was in from 2000, 2008 as a reserve master at arms and basically in and around here in the Pacific Northwest.
But it sparked the drive to bring the Constitution back and to continue to pay homage to all of our veterans, our service members, and just our first responders like what we're doing.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Talk to us about, I want to make sure we go back because everybody's been asking me about after 9-11, how has the coffee blend done?
How has your guys outreach to first responders?
Because this is a very high priority and we want to make sure it's just not a focus on something like 9-11.
unidentified
Right, and I appreciate you asking that.
The sales for the 9-11 Tribute Roast have dwindled that first weekend.
It was amazing.
It's still amazing.
We have a lot of people that are still continuing to pick it up every month, every week.
And so, you know, our goal is $250,000 over the course of the year.
So this is not a sprint.
This is a marathon.
And so, you know, coming into the holiday season, we want to start that hashtag Adopt a Hero.
We want to make sure that all of our listeners out there and all of our War Room listeners Adopt a hero and get a bag of this 9-11 tribute to take to their local firehouse.
And just to say thank you.
And not just, it doesn't have to be the firehouse, you know, the law enforcement, your medic teams, you know, the fire departments, everybody included.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Don, thank you very much.
Once again, how do people get to the site to order the coffee?
We want to make sure that we've got our shoulder to the wheel on this, the War Room Posse for the entire year.
unidentified
Right.
So for the War Room Posse, it's MinutemanCoffee.com, MinutemanCoffee.com.
And right now we've got a veteran sale going on until midnight tonight, 25% off all of our heritage line.
So Betsy Ross, American Patriot, come and take it.
Victory.
And your favorite, which I just sent you five pounds yesterday, don't tread on me.
So yeah, that'll, you should have that the next day or so there, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I'm a dark roast guy, I gotta tell you.
This is the best dark roast out there.
But I want to also make sure people understand the Master at Arms is a very important billet.
Don, thank you so much.
I appreciate you being a Master of Arms.
the Navy. That's kind of the one that they help. Let's say this, they assist in good order and discipline as Admiral Nelson once said, you want them sullen but not mutinous and the Master at Arms helps you keep that fine line between sullen and mutinous.
unidentified
Don, thank you so much. Appreciate appreciate you being a Master at Arms. Appreciate you being the roaster you are, sir. No, I appreciate Thanks for having me on tonight, and like I said, the sale ends tonight at midnight, so any veteran, use the code word VETERAN2021 at checkout, and you get 25% off your order.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
Let's bring back Patrick K. O'Donnell.
Patrick, I want to talk about Fallujah for this segment.
We're going to take a break in about two minutes, but the camaraderie you saw, you were in in bed, but the camaraderie you saw of the combat Marines during the fighting of Fallujah, I mean, that's one of the keys of being a veteran.
It's not just task and purpose.
It's also, it's task, purpose, and camaraderie.
Talk to us about that.
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
That was the most striking thing that I've ever seen when I was in Fallujah.
I was, um, I wasn't behind the wire.
I was in uniform.
I was going house to house with a rifle platoon and helping clear those houses.
And, uh, that's, that's one of our, uh, our men that didn't come home.
Uh, my boots from that day.
Um, we, uh, as you can see from some of these pictures, it was hardcore.
We were hit by an ambush from Chechens on one occasion on the 17th of November.
Belugia itself was, as many have said, the most intense urban combat since Hue City in Vietnam.
It was house to house.
I shot all these photos.
We're using a Bangalore torpedo from World War One to clear that house full of insurgents as we're getting shot at.
But it was a Star Wars bar, the way I like to describe it, a Star Wars bar of international terrorists from all over the world, 17 different countries.
Uh, one case we were hit by Chechens.
It was on the 17th of November, and they literally, it was a complex ambush.
They drew us into the ambush by having somebody run out insurgent.
And they, we pursued that individual and went up towards the house and then began to breach and assault it.
And it was there that there was a fixed machine gun.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Patrick, hang on for one second.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
We're going to be back.
This is our Veterans Day special.
We've got Patrick K. O'Donnell.
We're going to be joined next by Anna Paulina.
She's running for office.
She's a veteran running for office in Florida.
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next in the world.
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Hurrah!
We'll give him a hearty welcome then Hurrah!
Hurrah!
All the men will cheer, the boys will shout The ladies they will all turn out And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home Get ready for the jubilee!
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
To give the hero free thanksgiving!
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Oh, the laurel wreath is ready now To place upon his loyal crown And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home And we'll all feel gay when I think it's the Mitch Miller singers there with Johnny Comes Marching Home, one of the great songs from the Civil War in commemoration of our veterans.
I want to bring in now Yvette Ana Paulina Luna.
That's the name that's on the ballot down in Florida where she's running.
Ana, first off, do we have a district yet?
I know they're redistricting down there and they're fighting tooth and nail.
We want everybody tomorrow to get back in the regular news cycle.
We're going to talk a lot about redistricting.
The War on Posse has done such a great job.
The Lefts in Total Meltdown.
Last night at Chris Hayes, they had Mark Goliath on to talk about how we're being demons on this redistricting.
Do you have a district?
Has it already been selected, Anna, or is it still in flux?
unidentified
It's still in flux.
anna paulina luna ▲ ● ▼
Senate's just dropped a map, so it gets a little bit better, but we will wait until January to see the final maps.
unidentified
Fine.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
So, Anna, and correct me if I'm wrong, you're married to a veteran also, correct?
unidentified
Correct.
We actually both met about, well now, 12 years ago in the Air Force and got married after a month.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Talk to me about service and why I've got Joe Mobley on next.
Both you guys have been drawn, not just to serve your country, but then to come back and to get into political fray, but there's other ways you can serve your country.
How important now do you believe it is for veterans to be at the lead of this movement to actually engage?
unidentified
I think it's incredibly important.
You know, it's not just myself.
There's other veterans around the country to include Joe Kent.
But you know, ultimately what we learn in the military is that you do put your own values in protecting this country first, even sometimes before your own benefit.
And I think that what's happening in this country is that we've seen a lot of people that have been in office that are not qualified to be there, that don't know true sacrifice.
And here's an example.
You know, Congress votes to send men and women to war, but we don't take care of them after the fact.
And that's exactly why I'm running for office.
I think, you know, with my husband's service combined, you know, he was shot in Afghanistan in 2014.
We know firsthand of the effects of PTSD.
I think that it helps to talk about those issues, to humanize those issues, and to get, I think, the veteran community involved as a whole, especially in politics.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Are you seeing that momentum in Florida?
We know we've got so many veterans down there, so many patriots.
Are you getting traction on that message in Florida?
unidentified
Absolutely.
And in fact, I actually saw a polling recently that said that the American people as a whole, they tend to trust veterans more than any other person running for office because they realize that if you are a veteran, it's probably one of the most humbling things that you can do.
And also too, it shows that you're doing it ultimately for this country.
I don't think anyone goes into the military to make a whole lot of money.
So I think that that message will resonate not just in Florida, but across the country, especially in these midterm elections.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Talk to us about your service.
You were in the Air Force.
Where were you stationed, and how did you meet your husband?
unidentified
Yeah, so I was actually stationed all over.
I did my initial training at Keesler Air Force Base, and that's actually how Andy and I connected.
I was stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base, the Portland Guard Unit, and then Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field in the panhandle of Florida.
And I can tell you that my husband being a combat controller, I never thought, and I actually didn't know that the Air Force had special operations.
And once I met him, it was kind of, it wasn't a fair fight.
It was basically love at first sight.
So we got married very quickly, and I'm glad that we did because we've been able to grow together, obviously experience everything that the military has to offer, but he's also now getting out to help me continue public service on the national stage.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Anna, you've got a lot of fans here.
What's your social media?
How do people get to you to find out more of the War Impostor, to find out more about your race down there in Florida?
unidentified
You can find me at RealAnnaPolina.
I'm on every single platform, especially Getter, and then you can head over to my campaign website at Vote, A-P-L, that's Vote, Alphapapalima.com.
Please donate.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Anna, thank you so much for joining us today.
Talk about being a veteran in Veterans Day.
unidentified
Thank you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I want to go down to Joe Mobley.
As you know, Joe was a guy we spent a lot of time with in Loudoun County, this fight to take the school boards back and to really put American values back into the public school system.
Joe, the same question for you.
You've come out of the military.
You spent a number of years there and in law enforcement.
Now you're engaged, really, as an activist in what Tiffany Polifko calls the Loudonization, not just the Commonwealth of Virginia.
unidentified
Absolutely.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I'll speak directly to my Army brothers and sisters, largest branch.
I think at one point it was about 580,000.
and every veteran out there that hears this and sees it to really get engaged, put their shoulder to the wheel and start fighting back and try to take our country back?
unidentified
Absolutely. I'll speak directly to my army brothers and sisters, largest branch.
I think at one point it was about 580,000.
Everyone knows, you look at the Soldier's Creed, that second to last line says, I'm a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
And for us to preserve the American way of life, the military does have a true role, a show of force throughout the world and really hats off to the Navy for that.
That's why we're safe at home.
It's actually because of the Navy who deploys day or night, wartime or peacetime, 365, Christmas, New Year's, whatever.
But it's really important to preserve the American way of life here at home.
We need strong leaders.
We need veterans.
We need people who have Put themselves in the game kind of, you know, put themselves at risk.
And now they're at home and they're safe.
And America still needs you.
We need you in the classroom, the boardroom.
We need you in local government, state government.
We need you in federal government as well.
So I know, I know I'm not running for everything.
People call or text me on a daily basis, guys.
I see your messages.
And I do not have anything to announce at this point.
But like Steve said, I do everything that I can with the platform that I have.
I guess I'm a political activist now.
That's what Media Matters says.
They say I'm a political activist.
That's news you can trust, Steve.
You're, you're, you're, you're, they watch us very closely, Joe, because you're so effective.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I wanted to wait to ask you this question because today we had a head of a military school on to talk about that.
We had a number of people on talking about getting, you know, people to volunteer and become a veteran.
They don't want to, you know, miss your 20s when they can slip away from you.
And a number of people had come to me and said, hey, look, where the military is today is not the military you guys served in.
It's so woke and it's so politically correct.
So I want you to answer that about still the benefits and having to get in and put your shoulder to the wheel, given the woke culture that you can see is coming for the elites and starting to seep down from these generals, you know, Millie, these guys are spending more time reading, you know, this woke literature than they are really making decisions.
So, Joe, what are your thoughts about that?
That people say, well, I don't want my kid to go in now.
You know, if I could join when Joe Mobley joined, or if I joined back in the 70s when Steve Bannon was there, or some of the guys in Vietnam, or, you know, even Mo Bannon back in the early part of the century, it wasn't woke.
Now it's woke, and I don't want my kids exposed to that, and to really serve under that condition.
unidentified
What would you say to that?
Steve, this is such a time as these.
This literally happened to me last night at church.
I told you, I wear my MAGA hat every day except for Sunday.
So last night I'm at church.
Someone, in their frustration, Ask me, when are you going to give it up?
You know, why are you still wearing this hat?
Clearly upset about it.
And I looked at this man and I said, you wouldn't understand.
And there was silence.
And I said, because cowards never understand the actions of courageous men.
And I walked away.
So the issue is the military is at a crossroads right now and telling your, if you're raising up Patriots, if you're raising up courageous men and women, Then you have no issue sending them to college.
You have no issue sending them to a military academy or to the military because they are a man or woman of honor and of courage.
And they need to be fortuitous enough to say no.
When I was in the army, I was a sergeant.
I took the duty very seriously.
I had, when I entered the army, I had a bachelor's degree.
They asked me all the time why I wasn't an officer because I wanted to be an NCO.
I doubled down and got a master's degree and I stayed enlisted.
And every opportunity I could, I demonstrated courage to leadership, especially in front of the Joes, telling them, no, something is not right.
Telling them, no, you can't do this to a soldier or to someone under your command, because the regs say so, the United States Code says so, and holding those leaders accountable at a low level and then at a mid level.
That's what we need.
The reason these leaders are going out of control and these branches are going out of control Is because they haven't heard the one word sentence, no.
And they need to hear that one word sentence.
Is Dave Ramsey's favorite sentence?
No.
And they need to hear it from enlisted, from warrants, from junior officers, field grade officers.
And that's how we get the military back on track.
That's how we get our country back on track.
It's not from pulling away, going into our cupboards, going into our little areas and holes.
And keeping to ourselves, we need to engage with the culture.
And I know it's a lot to ask.
My kids are very young, but I wouldn't say to my kids the military is off limits because they're woke.
I would say the military is going to present a challenge like you've never seen before, mentally and physically, yes.
But now it's going to present a challenge that you have to combat the culture that's being taken over by Marxists wherever you enter in as a lieutenant, as a private, If you come in as an E4, wherever you enter the military, you are going to have to fight this tyrannical culture that's taking over.
And it's tough.
And you're going to get lumps.
And I got a lump or two myself, but I'm still here.
I'm doing just fine.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Joe, how do people track you on social media?
How do they get to your website?
You guys are fighting the good fight in Loudoun County.
That's spread throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.
It was one of the central tenets of this great victory.
It took place last week.
It's got to go throughout the whole country.
We're a huge believer in to Loudonize America, and you're at the tip of the spear of that with the moms and dads out there in Loudoun County.
unidentified
How do people get to you?
Yeah, well, you know, I'm not running for anything, but I am looking at some things that Glenn Youngkin might have available in the future, so there's a little card flash for you.
But you can follow me on all the platforms, just type in at the Joe Mobley.
Twitter, I'm on Facebook again.
Guys, I hate Facebook, I really do.
But you know, trying to build a brand and a business here, you gotta do what you gotta do.
But the easiest way to get a hold of me, where big tech can't censor you, is go to my website.
There's a special place for the War Room Posse.
TheJoeMobleyShow.com slash war room.
You won't regret it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I tell you, Glenn Youngkin would be very, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, would be very blessed if you took a position in Youngkin's administration.
So continue to focus and keep us up to date.
Joe Mobley, American patriot and veteran.
I want to go get about a minute left.
We're bringing in Captain Bannon.
Is Captain Bannon there?
Mo, same question for you.
Before we go to break, you know, you signed up Back in, what, the early 2000s?
I think it was 2004 or 5, you started getting recruited by West Point.
I think you entered there in 2006 or so.
For all those people, and I realize people have different politics, but for people of that part of your generation that came in during the war, what is their perception?
Do they think the military is too woke?
A lot of people this morning said, hey, love the fact that you're, you know, calling people to say, you know, serve the country, get the kids to serve.
But is the military too woke today, ma'am?
maureen bannon ▲ ● ▼
I agree.
I think it is becoming woke from the top down.
However, I agree with Joe.
We need to hold the line.
Enlisted junior officers, field grade officers need to hold the line and say, no, we are not going to stand for this.
This is not the military that we joined.
This is not the military we're going to stand for.
And we're going to fight to get the military that we know and love back.
And we're not going to take this wokeness.
You know, we're, we are going to fight.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Captain Bannon, hang on, we're going to take a short commercial break.
Captain Maureen Bannon, we've got Patrick K. O'Donnell, we've still got a lot of meat on the bone here in our Veterans Day special, very special day today, the 100th commemoration, the anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I. We're going to turn him out.
Captain Benin, Patrick K. O'Donnell, great combat historian, next in the world.
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We'll rally round the flag.
Boys, we'll rally once again.
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
We will rally from the hillside.
We'll gather from the plain, shouting the battle cry of freedom.
The Union forever, hurrah, boys, hurrah!
Down with the traitor and up with the star, while we rally round the flag, boys, hurrah!
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
These songs from the Civil War.
It's the Battle Cry of Freedom.
There's also a southern version of that too.
That was the northern version, the first version and one of the most popular songs during the Civil War.
Diane Terraz also does a set on the Revolutionary War.
Go to her site.
Amazing music.
I want to thank MyPillow.
We haven't had a lot of promotions today because of the gravity of the gravitas of these two shows.
I want to thank Mike Lindell and the team at MyPillow.
Make sure you go and support our sponsors.
MyPillow.com, promo code WORM.
Sales all over the place.
We'll get back into the details of all that tomorrow.
I really want to thank the team in Minnesota.
MyPillow.com, promo code WORM.
Also, Camp Freedom.
Matt Gittes and the team up there that are helping veterans as they come out of the service.
Out there in the in the in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the clear fresh air out there.
They've got a go to their site.
We're going to put it up on all the platforms.
They've got a raffle that's going on today.
Want to make sure everybody assists Camp Freedom up in Pennsylvania.
Matt Gittes and the team had a couple of guys on today.
Just fantastic work out there and all the veterans group want all the veterans group.
In fact, we've got a big announcement that Captain Bannon will be making, I think, tomorrow, right?
About Captain Bannon coming here and helping us a little more in this community, building out our community, as the mainstream media keeps freaking out about.
Captain Bannon, I know one of the things closest to your heart is Veterans Health Care, the VA, all that.
Tell us about that.
maureen bannon ▲ ● ▼
So, it's near and dear to my heart.
We need to make sure that we are getting care for veterans when they get out of the service, and especially mental health care.
In between the two shows today, I actually found out that a friend of mine, he is a veteran and his girlfriend is also a veteran.
She lost her life to suicide.
So we need to make sure that we are getting veterans the proper care that they need, especially these younger veterans, because they did multiple deployments.
We've seen by many guests on this show, they went deployment after deployment after deployment.
And a lot of people that didn't serve do not understand the things that they saw over there.
So we need to make sure and push our government to get care for these veterans, the care that they deserve after they risked their lives for our freedom.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, you're going to be taking a bigger role here at the War Room.
I know it's one of the things you're going to focus on.
And I remember when you had your first command, I went down there, I think you had, what, 12, 15 NCOs.
And I think the average deployments are like 9 or 10.
I mean, the pressure on the families and the individuals, people, a lot of people in the United States that are outside the military, outside of military families, don't understand the continual pressure that's been put on our veterans of multiple deployments just, you know.
8, 9, 10 times.
You know, you don't see the kids.
You're not around to really be a father or a parent like you should be.
It puts on tremendous pressure.
So, Mo, what's your social media?
I understand you're going to be taking a much bigger role here.
Everybody's going to find out about it.
So how do people track you down?
maureen bannon ▲ ● ▼
They can follow me on Instagram at Real Maureen Bannon and then on Twitter and Getter at Maureen underscore Bannon.
unidentified
Thank you, ma'am.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Appreciate it.
Let's go back to Patrick O'Donnell.
By the way, Patrick, the audience can't thank you enough.
It's really amazing.
I don't think it's not our show.
It's really the people we bring on here to really take the time this morning and this afternoon to explain to people the history of the Tomb of the Unknown and what went into it and why it was put together.
But one thing I want to remember, and we've got to get the links to Patrick Pasteur, he's the best combat historian, because he goes and tells the story of really, you know, the little guy, the guy in the combat units.
This is not, he does not do top-down about the leaders or the people you may know from history.
It's really unit by unit, and you've gone from the Revolutionary War to World War II, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the amazing book on Fallujah.
How do people get to your site, and why do you tell the stories the way you tell them about our veterans?
patrick k odonnel ▲ ● ▼
Well, you know, Steve, all the books that I've written really have a common theme, and that's about human agency, how really a small group of people can change the world and bend and shape history.
All of the books that I've written have that common theme, especially The Indispensables, where, you know, a small group of men and women literally changed the course of history by, it's our concepts of freedom and liberty, or they were the thought leaders of the revolution.
It's also about why they fought.
And you know, they fought for, for sovereignty, personal sovereignty, liberty and freedom.
And I'll never forget one of my favorite stories is they interviewed one of the veterans of Lexington and Concord about a decade after the war.
And they said, why did you fight?
Was it because of the Stamp Act?
No, I never bought any stamps.
Was it because of the tea party?
No, I didn't drink tea.
It was because, because of personal freedom.
And it was also about liberty.
It was about sovereignty.
In a nutshell, it's also just not being told what to do.
Americans don't like to be told what to do.
And that's, you know, something that resonated during the revolution as now.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Boy, I noticed that being with the production team here at the in the War Room.
Don't like being told what to do.
They do it themselves.
You're very there's a cussedness in American in the Americas as Franklin said in the American character that has made us what we are.
We're going to go out with the song Minstrel Boy from the great movie Black Hawk Down want to thank.
Real America's Voice, the team in Denver, particularly Howard Diamond, Rob Sigg, all the producers out there, technicians, really thank you.
John Frederick, Radio Network, and particularly the production crew here at the War Room today.
We did a remote out at Arlington National Cemetery.
It got a little dark for us tonight, that's where we came back to warm.
I want to thank everybody.
As you know, we love doing these specials.
Two specials this Saturday, one on the prisoners of January 6th, the other, The Coming War.
In Taiwan, so you're going to want to see both of those.
We'll be back here tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
We've got so much news to get through tomorrow.
Until then, I want to thank Patrick K. O'Donnell, everybody associated here with today's special on 11 November, the year of our Lord, 2021 Veterans Day.
Thank you very much.
See you tomorrow morning at 10.
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