Rudy Giuliani details Operation Epic Fury, a six-day U.S.-led strike on Iran that killed 30,000–35,000 regime forces in 200+ cities, slashing drone attacks by 73% and sinking the submarine Salome. He ties Iran’s terrorism—Hezbollah, Hamas—to Obama/Biden’s $billions in payments, including funds for Raham Makadam’s plot against Trump. Honoring six fallen soldiers—Captain Cody Cork (15+ years as an MP), Sergeant Nicole Amur (Iraq/Kuwait vet)—he frames the conflict as a patriotic duty, contrasting their sacrifice with "anti-American" Democrats. The episode ends with a Catholic prayer for the dead and a call to defend "God-given rights." [Automatically generated summary]
This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is the Rudy Giuliani show on Lindel TV.
And we are now in the sixth day, day number six, of Operation Epic Fury, however we want to describe this,
the deposing of one of the most evil men on the planet and evil regimes on the planet, and one of the great military operations in American history and in world history.
This is an unbelievable deconstruction of an empire that has, from the day it began until the days now that it's ending,
not only killed people all over the world, including, of course, many Americans, but one of the regimes that's killed more of its own people than just about anyone other than Red China.
Hard to compete with Red China since any honest count of the murders done by the Chinese Communist Party would exceed 100 million people.
It's almost as if they were engaged in a partial genocide of their own people.
They certainly are involved in genocides of any number of other people, the Ugers being the primary one.
But this one, it appears to me, the president, the prime minister of Israel, and now much of the world has joined in the effort to rid itself of one of the most dangerous men and now regimes in the world.
This is a, this is without any doubt, a revolution that began within.
And we have, of course, traced it for you in detail all throughout the history of America's Mayor Live and before that, Rudy's common sense, it happens to be one of the great passions of my life to see Iran a free country,
to see what it can contribute to the world as a free country, because it is indeed one of our great civilizations that has been destroyed by the evils of Islamic extremism, much as communism has destroyed a good deal of the civilization of China, another one of the world's great civilizations, and the civilization of Russia,
which is a country of great music, great literature, great poetry, and maybe the best dance in the world.
These are the beauties that make life worth it.
These are the things that uplift the human soul.
And since communism doesn't have a soul, they wipe out culture.
And since Muhammad didn't have a soul, he aims at the same thing.
Not that all Muslims follow him, but if they do, the rest of the world is in great jeopardy.
Well, let's bring it up to date.
There's no way to do that easily.
So much is going on in so many different theaters of action in this effort that it's quite necessary to really calm down and take a look at the full scope of it in order to,
number one, appreciate where we are and number two, make reasonable predictions about where we're going and what challenges lie ahead.
Probably that's the most important, isn't it?
So it is called Operation Epic Fury.
It began six days ago with the joint attack of the United States, mainly Air Force, but Navy as well, because much of the effort here has been given to the Navy,
the defensive effort largely, but also it's hard to know an exact breakdown of how many of the airplanes, how many of the missiles emanated from shore or from ship.
And then of course, with regard to the drones, how many of them emanated right in Iran, That we have to say was heavily invaded for a decade by the Mossad with the help of the Moshe Nel Kalk,
otherwise known as the PMOI, or their much larger umbrella group, the NCRI.
So you put all those forces together and then dissident forces who you don't know.
Some I do know, some I don't.
I'm not at liberty to tell you the ones that I do know.
I don't think I am, but I'm not going to take the risk.
But all I can tell you is that the NCRI, the umbrella group that's run by Madam Rajavi, is much more substantial than people realize on purpose.
And you could not sustain an effort like this that could keep itself together after 30 to 35,000 people were killed in three days.
Yesterday, I had occasion to talk to someone that I really do think, or at least just corroborated what not only the president's been saying, but others, because when I hear the number 30 to 35,000 Iranian patriots were slaughtered in three or four days,
I find it almost impossible to comprehend it, to comprehend the effort, that much damage, destruction, and inhumanity taking place in what is relatively a short period of time.
But the reason it was so large and so hard to even count to this day is, remember, these outbreaks took place in 200 Iranian cities that I can't show you on the map.
I wish my recollection was great enough to just recite all of them for you.
I could probably do about 50.
But I'm told it actually took place in closer to 300 to 350 cities, some of them unopposed because the IRGC and the Quds Force and that smaller group made up of the washouts from the IRGC and the Quds Force.
They're virtually everywhere, but everywhere with an asterisk and footnote saying everywhere doesn't mean everywhere.
And the point that I'm trying to make is you had people slaughtered in cities of maybe 10,000 people, 20,000 people, and you might have had 100 people killed there and 100 people killed there, 100 people killed there.
Then, of course, massive, massive slaughter in Tehran and the other major cities, even the holy city of Quam.
But from everything that I can tell, even the attempts of the regime to give you doctored news, there's no massive reaction against the United States.
If anything, there seems to be support.
Even more unpredictable, there seems to be support for B.B. Netanyahu in Israel.
We'll see.
We'll see when we actually, when the clouds move away and we get to see all this, just exactly how strong that support is.
So I don't want to make any predictions about it except to say it's something to look at very, carefully.
So the weapons that we're using are weapons that in some cases have been used before very effectively.
In some cases, are getting their first attempt here, their first use.
Let's start off by pointing out a very significant accomplishment, and that is that one of the people that was taken out was a man whose name you don't know, but what he did, you do know, and that is Raham Makadam.
Raham Makadam was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Special Operations Division.
And he was the leader of the unit who was charged with assassinating President Trump, that he be hunted down and killed, and had put at his disposal massive amounts of money.
Who knows how much of that actually came from Joe Biden?
They probably spent the billions they got, particularly in cash from Obama already, killing other Americans, for which the Democrats don't seem to have any pause at all.
I mean, it's a little much that this regime that's been murdering people now for 45, 46, 47 years, and one of its principal targets being Americans, a regime that every Friday evening chants death to America in unison in Tehran.
It's a little beyond anything we should have to accept that one of our presidents was sending them surreptitiously massive amounts of cash to a government that he knew and the world knew was the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world.
And we could almost be sure that 50% of the money they received went to American murderers like Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houdis, and names again that you wouldn't recognize, and maybe I wouldn't.
It was in the heyday of Salamani that Obama was feeding in the cash.
Salimani introduced the IEDs into Iraq.
How many Americans did you read about were killed by Salamani and the Ayatollah's IEDs?
How many has Tunnel to Towers, t2t.org, which will advertise on this show shortly in order to build homes for those who are paraplegic?
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A good number.
Maybe most, since that was their specialty, the IEDs.
The IEDs cost money.
That money was coming from Iran, and Obama was feeding them hundreds of billions of dollars when they were buying them.
For me, that's good enough for a murder prosecution.
Oh my goodness, I would say even treason.
I know, I know.
Not a lot of people care.
Maybe because he smiles right or I don't know how that guy gets away with it.
But then that continued on the Biden when Biden released billions of dollars to a struggling Iran that was months away from this happening to them when the Democrats decided to orchestrate the biggest electoral theft that we will ever have,
I hope, in American history, and put a senile, evil old man in the White House, who then released billions and billions of dollars to Iran, half or more of which was used to wage war against Israel, the United States.
And then we now have members of the Democrat Party, which is truly redeeming itself as the party of slavery, condemning the president with the most ridiculous arguments that this is an illegal war because it hasn't been declared.
Well, we haven't had a declared war since World War II.
Every one of their presidents conducted similar actions to the one conducted by this president, including the Korean War, for which there was no declaration of war, including Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam War.
Last time I checked, he was a Democrat.
Including Bill Clinton's war in Eastern Europe, including Barack Obama's 10-month war in Libya.
Or how about his numerous assassinations of so-called ISIS or other Islamic terrorists who were picked out without a trial, without any proof, and murdered, including an American citizen?
There was no congressional declaration of war or authority for that.
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In fact, in the case of Obama and Biden, they never even notified Congress.
There's something called the War Powers Act.
It was passed in the 70s.
And the War Powers Act, which is of questionable constitutionality, or at least every American president, Republican and Democrat, considered it unconstitutional.
The War Powers Act says that if there's eminent danger to the United States, the United States president can, by notifying Congress two days before, conduct 60 days of military action in his discretion to protect the United States.
He then has to go ask for an extension for 30 more days or a declaration of war or stop.
Well, we're only six days into that.
Most of the presidents followed it, but the last two Democrats didn't without a single objection from any of the anti-American phonies who are now appearing on television pronouncing that the president acted illegally.
Now, and they want to impeach him.
Well, you can actually impeach a president after he's out of office.
So let them start with Biden and Obama.
They're still around.
Whatever Trump did, they were worse.
They never even made a notification.
And I don't know, do you really think that Libya was more of an imminent danger to the United States than the Islamic Republic of Iraq?
Exactly how many Libyans killed Americans?
Did they put IEDs in Iraq, huh?
Did they kill Marines in Lebanon?
Did they hold American hostages?
Did they attempt to kill me?
The Iranians did twice.
Nobody cares or reports it because I'm a Republican.
And the others they wanted to kill, well, the first one was myself and Madame Rajavi.
And the second was three or four months later with a whole group of us.
Former speaker, Newt Gingrich, the former attorney general, Michael Mukese, former prime minister of England.
What I'm telling you is not some kind of a fairy tale.
It led to two trials and people convicted.
I don't remember Libya doing that, Ted.
I don't either.
But they were an imminent danger enough so that Hillary and Obama attacked them.
Oh, but then the Democrats say that was a very short engagement.
You see, but when you lie, when you lie, when you first practice to deceive, you set a web.
And then you lie again and you lie again and you lie again, which is why the Democrats can't stop lying because they're building on the original.
That went on for seven months.
This has gone on for six days.
And he did follow the law.
So the saddest part of this for you and me, if I'm talking to older Americans, and then for you as younger Americans, is this is a horribly divided country.
I don't remember ever at the beginning of an effort like this, America not being united.
If we start to come apart, we come apart after the difficulties of war come home to sit on us and some of us can't accept them.
Sometimes we don't agree with it.
Sometimes we're tired of it.
Sometimes we're afraid of it.
Sometimes things happen.
But the Iraq war, which is the one that seems to have traumatized the most, had bipartisan support when it started.
It took the Democrats a while to figure out that if they didn't oppose it, they're going to elect another Republican.
And that's when it really started.
Now everything is measured by: will it help elect a Republican Congress or will it help elect a Republican president, or will it help Donald Trump, no matter how good or important it is for you and me as the American people?
That is not a bipartisan complaint.
That's the complaint of a patriot, me, and many of us.
If my party were doing that, I'd leave my party in a second and I'd join another party or start another party or stand up for my country.
So, this assassin, this guy, Raham Mokadam, was killed yesterday.
And he had organized three or four attempts on Trump, some of which are subject to indictment and trial, in which some of the tapes have been released of the people that he recruited to do it.
One of whom became a RAT rat.
So, this is not someone's, this is subject to hard proof.
Assassin's Attempts Proven00:12:10
His group was even attempting to kill a Brooklyn native, Carlisle Riviera, and a Staten Islander, Jonathan Lodhoff.
And they were Iranian dissidents.
So, it was a murder incorporated type operation, like the Mafia used to have.
Well, he's bye-bye.
He's in the he's one of those many, now I don't know how many of these murders that we've finished off,
but you've got an awful lot of disappointed people going up there looking to get into paradise, like the handbook on murder, otherwise known as the Koran, tells them, and the Hadith that they will be glorified because of their killing On behalf of jihad or on behalf of spreading the religion,
I do believe it's safe to assume that they have been heavily disappointed.
And hey, there are no virgins for you guys.
It was always kind of ridiculous to think there'd be 79 of them for you, but hey, you want to believe in it.
I don't.
You want to call it a religion.
You're going to have to change it if you want me to accept it as a religion.
You want to change it?
As many have, I'll accept it as a religion, but you better change it.
You better cross out those words in the Quran that I read when I was 19 years old and couldn't believe they were there.
And went to a Christian brother who was an expert on comparative religion and said, is this really?
He said, it really is.
Why do you think they've been the spearhead for murder for 1,400 years?
And then he went on to tell me about how the religion spread, not like this religion or Judaism or Buddhism or others, by armies and murder and slaughter and genocide.
And the Jews and the Christians, of course, always at the core of it, right in the Quran, but everybody else, too.
So at this point, 2,000 targets, and that would be as of midday today.
So these numbers have gone up.
2,000 targets have been hit in Iran.
Iran drone attacks from day one until yesterday into early today are down 73%.
In other words, they're down more than two-thirds.
Their ballistic missile launches are down 86%.
You think they're playing possum, Ted?
Just so we can kill more until they really show us what they have?
We have destroyed 20 naval vessels, including the first ship sunk by an American submarine since World War I, appropriately named the Salome.
So he's dead and his ship is dead.
And right now, 90% of the U.S. troops that were in range of Iranian fire appear to be out of range.
So let's hope, let's hope, and let's pray.
We are a little later in this show, we're going to put aside a few minutes of a memorial to the six.
And let's hope it's still six, Ted.
Ted will check.
Brave American military who have given their lives so that you and your children and me can live in a safer and freer world against the imminent danger of an Iranian Islamic attack.
And if you don't think there's an imminent danger of it, you really are falling for Democrat, Anti-American propaganda.
That imminent danger, in fact, has existed almost every day for about 47 years.
To have to prove it is insulting to any normal person's intelligence.
It's been proven over and over again and so many times that it only proves the bad faith of the people who allege it.
And when you see them, just make up your minds to do everything you can do legally to get them out of office because they're not good enough to be serving America, if that's what they say.
So maybe we can listen to the president today, who goes on with his schedule as he should.
You don't realize that this man, the other day when he was here, he was easily on Saturday night up until two in the morning.
And I think that's an early, that would be an early night for him.
And he's available all night.
This is not Obama sleeping through Benghazi, which he did, for which he should have been impeached and thrown out of office.
I don't know, not nearly as serious as giving money to terrorists so they could kill us.
But this man had a ceremony today.
Tell me why it was at the Blair House, Ted.
Do you know why it was at the Blair House?
Could it be for size?
Is he allowing them to stay there?
How many people can stay there?
Oh, that's interesting.
The whole soccer team.
I've been in the Blair House a few times, but never in.
Maybe for construction?
Is that terrible?
I spent all that time in Washington.
I never took a tour of the Blair House, but I've been in it.
You probably have been in it.
They give a lot of parties there.
Sometimes they don't even tell you the significance of it.
And then they'll tell you it used to be the Harry Truman basically lived there for most of his presidency because they were redecorating the White House.
And I wonder if the construction to the new ballroom maybe has something to do with why they were over there.
It could be.
It could be.
But he had the soccer, the Miami soccer team that beat the European team for the first time.
Our hemisphere showed domination over, I guess, Europe is crumbling even in soccer.
Well, we had a few moments from the press conference.
But there is a, I'm going to take a point of personal privilege on this thing because I just saw it before I came on and it got me all excited.
I'm scoring a total of 101 goals, the most in MLS history.
Is that correct, Mr. Commissioner?
That's pretty good.
How's Andrew?
Is Andrew treating you okay?
He's a good golfer, too, actually.
People don't know it.
He's a very good golfer, right, Andrew?
But Trump's a good golfer, too, Andrew.
Thank you.
We got to get Andrew on the phone.
Do you know who that Andrew was?
That was Andrew Giuliani that he was referring to, my only son, who his father is extraordinarily proud of because he is in charge of security for the World Cup.
That's right.
And he is working like President Trump and like his old man endlessly to make sure that all those sites, of which I think there are 12 or 13 or 14 all over the country, that they're going to be secure this summer because every one of them is going to have a Super Bowl size audience of 50, 60, 70,
100,000 people for soccer matches, world soccer matches from around the world.
And this used to be my business.
And it's funny, my son is doing it at an extraordinarily high level and very, very well.
But the president, so therefore, he was there with the soccer people because a lot of these people are going to be in the World Cup.
And when he was leaning over to him, he was explaining what a good golfer Andrew is.
Andrew is a very, very good golfer.
But did you notice he said, and Donald Trump is a good golfer, too?
The president, my son, I should tell you, is a very honest young man, or not even a young man anymore.
He's in his 30s, right?
Has my beautiful granddaughter and a great wife.
And he answered honestly.
He didn't have to compromise.
Donald Trump is a very good golfer.
All the teasing aside, he is a golfer who had he chosen that as his way of making a living.
This is a guy that could have been a professional golfer and probably a really good one.
And when he plays now, his game shows it.
And in some ways, even at 78, he can still hit the ball to 60, 270.
And what he might have lost a little bit in distance, his short game has improved.
So it hasn't affected his score all that much.
I mean, he's superb putter.
If I were to critique his game from the old days, and he's much better than I am, so I shouldn't, but I am a pretty good student of golf, even good at teaching people because I had to learn it.
I had to learn it kind of mechanistically, unlike Andrew and President Trump, who warned it as children.
I think his short game is better.
I think he concentrates more now.
As he's gotten older, he's become more aware of the importance of the short game.
But he's he's gonna, he probably would be.
I'm too bad Andrew's not here.
I bet he would beat 98% to 99% of people who play golf.
Well, I mean, the people, the people who end up scratch are only about less than 1% of the people who play golf.
And he's been scratched.
I don't know if he is now.
He's even been below scratch.
Right.
So he really plays very, very well.
Shall we take a short break and then we have a few more comments from the president and a little bit more and bring you up to date on where this Operation Epic Fury is and where it's going and some of the terrible things it's bringing out about the opposition in this country and how we've got to find a way to overcome it and then develop an opposition that's a loyal opposition.
Not loyal to Republicans and not even loyal to the president as a Republican, but loyal to America and loyal to the president as the president of the United States, chosen by us, the people.
We'll be right back.
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Oh, there's Rudy Giuliani back with you with the Rudy Giuliani show.
So let's continue with the statements that were made by the president that went beyond after those personal ones about my son.
You know, I have to just interject.
So over the years, I love sports and I've watched my friend A. Rod, I've sit with George Steinberg.
I'd sit in his box, just the two of us.
He would never have anybody but me.
He liked me, right?
He liked me and he liked you.
He liked almost nobody.
It would be a World Series when baseball was hot.
It's not as hot now, I'll be honest with you.
They do things wrong.
But when baseball was hot as a pistol with George, and I'd sit and I'd watch the Yankees and he'd have 30 seats and it would just be me and him.
And I said to A-Rod, would say, what was the most difficult thing you've ever done?
I said, it's probably sitting for three hours with George Steinburn or watching a Yankee playoff game or World Series game.
You know what I mean by that.
He was a difficult guy, but he was great, right?
He liked me, I liked him, and we both liked nobody else.
And that's that was a good combination.
Well, now wait a second, Mr. President.
He liked me too.
Remember, we used to sit and watch games together.
I feel left out here.
George was a very close friend.
And George was a close friend even longer than Donald Trump.
I knew him before I knew Donald Trump.
And George was also a good friend of that Andrew you were talking about.
When I would show up at the game without Andrew, he'd say, Where's Andrew?
He also left me four rings that I paid for, which he didn't like.
He was upset that I paid for them.
But I explained to him that we'd both get in a lot of trouble someday if I didn't.
And we almost did.
But when I showed the receipts, it shut up the miserable, disgusting, horrible press.
So there's George.
I do believe that that's, I believe, and I'm doing this based on the fact that I'm wearing a jacket and he's wearing a coat.
I believe this was a World Series game.
I can't be sure, but I do think it might be at Shea Stadium, not Yankee Stadium.
And this was a game that George wouldn't go to unless I went with him because he didn't want to go to Shea Stadium.
He wanted to watch it from Yankee Stadium.
And he said he would be booed.
And his staff incorrectly told him if he went with me, he wouldn't.
His staff apparently was not aware of the fact that they booed me tremendously at Shea Stadium when I was mayor because I was naive enough to think that if I announced that I was a Yankee fan, they would respect that.
Yeah, they respected it.
The first time I showed up with Fred Wilpon, they booed the hell out of me.
They didn't boo me after September 11, however.
They gave me a standing ovation.
And I went and gave Bobby Valentine a kiss on the cheek for wearing the hats of my police department, my fire department, and our port authority.
That, I believe, is the first trophy.
That would be 1996.
And that looks to me like at the City Hall celebration, that was probably in the locker room.
But in any event, George was a friend of both of ours and a truly great man.
And if you want to meet a patriotic American, he was born on the 4th of July, which maybe explains it.
But let's also see what he and Pete had to say about the war.
This is President Trump.
I'm Marco Rubio.
Miami sports fan, Secretary of State.
I'm telling you, he's going to go down as the best Secretary of State in the country's history.
Marco Rubio.
I don't want him to get too popular, you know what I mean?
You know, when they get too popular, all of a sudden you see, where's Marco?
He's not around anymore.
I don't see him.
He's doing some job.
And your next one is going to be, we want to do that special Cuba.
He's waiting.
But he says, let's get this one finished first.
We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen.
If you watch countries over the years, you do them all too fast.
Bad things happen.
We're not going to let anything bad happen to this country.
Well, I absolutely agree knowing Marco for many, many years and being the second person who endorsed him for his long shot Senate race against Charlie Crist, which he won brilliantly.
I am, as I've told him now several times, very proud of him.
I do believe he's been a great Secretary of State.
And I knew he would be.
As Ted knows, he was my number one and only choice for the job.
And I can't think of how he could have done it better.
I'll tell you also who I am extraordinarily proud of and Pete Hegset.
And now, Pete, there were more doubts about because he didn't have the same experience level that Marco had.
He's been an extraordinary Secretary of War.
Exactly the kind of Secretary we need right now.
And one who has that great gift of understanding that when you do have areas where you don't have as much experience, you have to bring in people that do.
And notice how he is always very careful to bring the generals in, to give them credit, to make sure that they get more than equal time.
Pete must have read and taken seriously the placard that was on another great president's desk, Ronald Reagan, that said, there's nothing you can't achieve if you're willing to give the credit.
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And there's nothing that Pete isn't going to achieve.
I mean, we are blessed to have these two men as part of this team, as well as JD Vance, who sometimes doesn't receive the proper credit that he deserves.
But before we have to get off, we want to spend just a few minutes reflecting on the lives of the soldiers that we lost.
Ted, we didn't have the names of all now.
And their pictures, please.
And we're going to get their pictures, yeah.
Cody Cork and Declan Cody and Noah L. Teachens, I guess that would be the right pronunciation of the name.
Right.
I'm going to get it.
We're going to put them up in a minute.
We just need a second ticket.
Okay.
And if you could recite all of their names, I'm going to read a prayer from the old rite of the Roman Catholic Church, otherwise known as the Latin Rite, As one of the prayers that was said for 14, 1500 years for those who have passed on and are coming to the most important moment in their lives,
and that is the personal judgment day.
Do we have it?
So we have it.
So Jason's going to Jason's going to put up a series of pictures up as I mentioned the members.
We're going to start with Captain Cody Cork, 35 of Winter Haven, Florida.
Cork spent 15 plus years in the service enlisting in the National Guard in 2019.
Sorry, in 2009.
So he's been in over 15 years.
He became an MP.
He is the third picture up on the screen there.
With the glasses on?
Yeah.
And the slightly balding head.
Okay.
So he is the first name mentioned.
Next, Sergeant First Class Noah Tejens, 42 of Bellevue, Nebraska.
He first enlisted in the Army Reserve in 2006 and deployed to Kuwait in 2009.
He was in Korea in 2019, earning an Iraq campaign medal with campaign star and overseas service ribbon.
And to our producer, we should have what we have a series of pictures if you follow that tweet thread I sent you.
So if you can follow that, each name, as I mentioned them, you should be able to put up a quick picture.
Sergeant First Class Tejens, he's the fourth picture you see on the screen here.
Now going to Sergeant First Class Nicole Amur, 39 of White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
She's the first picture you see up on the screen.
Amora joined the National Guard in 2005 as an automated logistics specialist, and she transferred to the Army Reserve in 2006, deploying to Kuwait and Iraq in 2019.
And the second picture you see up there, now this is, so that what we're going to bring up now is Sergeant DeKlon Cody.
He's 20 years old of West Des Moines, Iowa.
He's the second photo you see up there on the screen, the young man.
Sergeant Cody was a 20-year-old sophomore at Drake University and Army Reservist.
He actually joined the Army Reserves while in college.
He could have been exempt from deployment, but deployed to Kuwait in August.
Why could he have been exempt because he was in college and a member of the ROTC?
Of course, of course, of course.
And then late last night, these are the last two on the thread, Jason, if we can get those.
And they held back their names because they had there was a delay in being able to notify their families to notify next of kin.
This is the fifth individual, fifth of six names mentioned, and it's Major Jeffrey O'Brien, 45 of Indianola, Iowa.
O'Brien was initially commissioned in the Army Reserve as a Signal Corps officer in 2012.
He was also deployed to Kuwait in 2019, and we definitely want to get his picture up and yep, that's him.
And so 45, that's Major Major O'Brien, 45 years old of Indianola.
May God Receive Them00:05:19
God bless you, Major.
Iowa.
Now, all of these members.
And the sixth one?
And the sixth one, Chief Warren Officer Robert Marzon, 54 years old of Sacramento, California.
There's Chief Warren Officer Marzon.
Marzon and all of these six were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command out of Des Moines, Iowa.
And they were killed on Sunday during an unmanned aircraft system attack in the Shawaba port in Kuwait.
So they will be coming back to the United States very shortly.
President Trump has announced that he will be there, of course.
And we're going to say a prayer for each of them.
Come to their assistance, all ye saints of God.
Meet them, all ye angels of God.
Receive their souls, offering it in the sight of the Most High.
May Jesus Christ receive them who has called them.
And may the angels conduct them to Abraham's bosom, receiving their souls and offering it in the sight of the Most High God.
Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.
Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
To thee, O Lord, we commend their souls, that being dead to this world, they may now live with thee, the most merciful God, who will grant them forgiveness for their sins.
Grant, O God, that while we lament the departure of these heroes, we may always remember what they have done for us.
through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
This is the price that has been paid from the day our brave, brave ancestors decided that they had rights given to them by God that could not be taken away by others.
not by kings, not by Ayatollahs, not by dictators.
These rights belong to them as children of God, and that they would give the last sacrifice to protect those rights for them, for their families, for their children, for their countrymen.
This is the greatness that America is built on, these six people.
These are the people that we should be honoring and glorifying and emulating.
Not unfortunately, many of the horrible examples that we give to our young people.
This is what you want your children to grow up to be.
Your heart breaks to think that they had to lose their lives, but they could not have given it to a greater cause.
And their families will be heartbroken.
But believe me, having lived through this with even before September 11, well over 100 members of my police department and fire department,
when your loved one dies a hero, there's a level of peace and grace and dignity that comes to all of it that helps, and it should.
So again, to them, thank you for your sacrifice.
And to their families, may God give you the grace to bear the most difficult thing that we have to go through in life, the loss of our children, our loved ones, our spouses, and our close friends.
And with that, we ask you to come over and see us on X at 8, where we will continue.
And we ask you to pray for all of their brothers and sisters who are in jeopardy, both the soldiers and the civilians who are in the eye of this war.
And to pray for our great commander-in-chief, who is proving to be the right man at the right time.