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Echoes of War: A Pilgrimage Through Blood-Stained Beaches and Silent Graves

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	Less than three hours ago, I was getting off of a plane with my father after a two-week gallivanting tour around Europe.
	We did the Band of Broththers, an easy company, through their trek of Europe from D-Day until the Eagles Nest.
	And I gotta tell you, it was amazing, extraordinary.
	So let's talk about it.
	Stick with us, don't go away.
	We start now.
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	ok so I just want I want to
	This tour, which by the way, if anybody's ever interested, go out on the internet.
	Here's a shameless plug for the company we used, beachesofnormandytours dot com dot They do an amazing job.
	The people that work for them are super knowledgeable.
	They're super nice.
	They're super accommodating.
	Everybody was great and they do an amazing job way better than what I expected to be quite honest I thought that we would get on this tour and so what this is it was a 12 day tour through Europe so we started at all the beaches we started at Utah Beach and then went to Omaha Beach and then went to the the Normandy American Cemetery.
	We did St. Maryglese.
	We did Long Samara where the bunkers that overlook Utah and Omaha with intersecting lines of fire.
	We went there and saw though some of the guns still sit in those in those bunkers.
	We went to Point of Hawk where the Army Rangers scaled the cliffs to take out these pillboxes and more artillery guns and walk through these spaces and walk in the same path of not just easy company, not just the band of brothers soldiers, but soldiers, American soldiers and German soldiers.
	We did Gold Beach where the Brits landed and they made this Churchill had this huge mobile portable harbor put in and toured the town there.
	And then we went to Juno Beach where the Canadians, all our neighbors to the north, the Canucks, where they landed on D Day.
	And I never knew.
	I never knew that the Canadians, first of all, had pretty much their own beach and played a big part on D Day.
	I wasn't really aware of that.
	And then we did Sword Beach, which was more of the Brits.
	And then also Pegasus Bridge, where the British gliders had to land within fifty meters of this bridge occupied by German soldiers.
	Turns out at the time of their landing there was only two there.
	They still lost one man, but they took the bridge pretty handily, pretty quickly.
	But they landed these gliders with no navigation equipment other than a map and a compass or protractor or whatever the Brits had back then, but no electronics, no avionics.
	They were just in a glider.
	We planted this thing forty eight meters from the bridge.
	It did better than fifty meters.
	The man, I'm just as we went through every day, it became more apparent that the fighting will of the Allied forces, not just Americans, the Brits, the Canadians, whoever else was involved, man, they had some fucking grit, man.
	And to be out there.
	step foot on the same beaches that those men stormed with in many cases without a fighting chance at survival.
	When all hope was lost or seemingly all hope should have been lost, these fucking guys, man, they made it happen one way or another.
	And the stories are just, I mean, they're so plentiful.
	There was, man, I'm not even going to do it justice because I'm spacing.
	Maybe I shouldn't be recording the show three hours after a twelve hour travel day from Germany, but I felt compelled.
	But there is this small church, I think it's Kenneth Wright was one of the two medics.
	The hundred first airborne medics, they parachuted in, of course everyone got scattered, though they found themselves in this church treating wounded Americans and German soldiers.
	They made a decision at some point on D Day, inside the walls of this church, this is neutral ground.
	And they fought like hell to treat Wounded soldiers of both sides.
	In fact, when you walk through there, the bloodstains are still on the pews.
	The church pews in that place are still the same ones.
	The guy who takes care of the church in the little tiny town there, still the same person taking care of the church eighty years later.
	He was just a little guy at the time, helping out.
	I don't know, dad, uncle, grandpa, whoever was taking care of the church then.
	He's still there.
	It's just insane to think about all this chaos happening.
	And it's one thing, you know, to watch the movies and read the books and look at the pictures and watch things like World War II and color that I think Time did that one.
	But when you go walk the sky...
	Man, it's just a different.
	you can you can you You can feel.
	I don't know how many people, maybe not a lot of people, believe in all this supernatural stuff.
	And I talked about it.
	So if you're interested, if you go to YouTube and go to three clicks media, you'll find my other show, my other channel.
	And I vlogged the whole time.
	We were gone.
	So between my dad and I, we had a running vlog going and shorts and a daily vlog video.
	But you can almost feel the presence of these soldiers.
	I mean, because now you're there, right?
	Like, for example, standing on Omaha Beach, the tide was down, tide was low, so you could go out quite a ways.
	And our tour guide, Kristoff at the time, this guy, let me tell you what, bookmark.
	This Kristoff fellow.
	is a walking textbook of D-Day, of World War II, both sides of the war, German and Allied forces.
	You can ask him or tell him about any part of the war down in Italy, the Pacific.
	He doesn't know, he said he didn't know as much about the Pacific, but Africa.
	He knows it all.
	He knows the names of the units.
	He knows notable names of people, of men, and women.
	The guy just he knows he knows all of it.
	So anyway, we were on Omaha Beach.
	The tide was low.
	And so we walked out and he had said, you know, on D day.
	On D Day, these soldiers had to run anywhere from five to seven hundred meters to get to safety, to get to the wall.
	It was just open beach.
	And so we were standing, we were standing where one of the gun emplacements were.
	And you look out, and it wasn't even one that was up on the hill, it was closer down to the beach.
	And you just look out and you can close your eyes and imagine five hundred people.
	It must have been like a turkey shoot.
	It was just open day.
	It was just open fire.
	You're right?
	It was just nothing.
	There was nothing to protect you, and these men ran up the beach anyway.
	And their stories live on by people who still live there.
	I mean, there's people that live there still in town that are walkers and canes and some of them getting around pretty dang good for being in their mid late eighties or even in their nineties.
	and they talk about it and They talk about it very nonchalantly.
	And I suppose rightfully so.
	I mean, they've been talking about it now for 80 years.
	live where all this shit happened.
	And so you just it's hard
	It was a mess.
	They brought these they brought these these grabbling hooks to shoot off the boats to with ladders and ropes and all these other things.
	Well, what they didn't account for was that the ropes were going to get wet and heavy and so their grabbling hooks didn't make it up high enough they fell short.
	Thankfully they also had grabbling hooks they could shoot from like a like a mortar tube or a bazooka of some sort and shoot them up on the cliffs.
	Well, those ones were able to get up there.
	So that's how they got up.
	But after they shoot them, the Germans would cut them the lines and they'd fall down and have to start again.
	And eventually they got up there.
	Just complete and total grit.
	And they didn't think twice about it.
	They weren't going to they weren't going to try to go around.
	This was our mission, and they got it done.
	And so that you can walk there where the Allied artillery barrage hit, and there's these huge craters next to the gun emplacements and the pillboxes and the machine gun nests, and you can wal go down into the pillboxes and you can look out at the beach and see what the Germans saw minus the hundreds and hundreds of ships coming at them.
	It's just amazing, man.
	And then you go to the Normandy Cemetery and if you let me tell you something, if you are a person that gives even a quarter of a shit about what happened in World War two, what happened in Germany, what happened at Normandy, just the whole thing.
	If you are a person that gives even this much of a crap, you cannot step foot into that cemetery and keep a dry eye.
	It's not possible, I don't think, because it's like it instantly hits you.
	It instantly hits you and you start thinking about, well, first of all, we walked in on the back side, on the, I want to say it was the east side of the cemetery.
	And you walk in and the first thing you see is the wall of the missing.
	It's almost like the Vietnam Wall, except every name on there, they have no idea where they're at.
	With the exception of some and the ones that they have found, they put a little medallion next to their name to signify that they have found them, to identify that those people have been, their remains have been located or they figured out what happened to them.
	But that's, you know, very rare on the wall.
	But there's just this massive wall of American soldiers that have been Nobody knows what happened.
	They got blown up, maybe they were in pieces, maybe they jumped over the side of their landing craft and their gear drowned them and the current took them out to sea and they're somewhere in the English channel or in the ocean by now.
	They just don't know where they're at.
	And so that's the first thing you get when you walk in there.
	And then you walk up this little path to this big statue they got and you it's like if you've ever walked into a professional baseball stadium and you walk up the tunnel and like those last four or five steps to the end of the tunnel where you start to get this grand appearance of the ball field and it's just like a cool feeling every time.
	Well, that's what this was like, although you just didn't get a really cool feeling.
	You get this feeling of heaviness.
	And you kind of at least I did, I had to just pause.
	I had to pause for a couple minutes and think and reflect.
	And we took a walk through and Christopher again.
	off again was telling us about notable people, medal of honor winners, all kinds of different stories, personal stories of people that are buried in the cemetery.
	There are four women that are buried in the Normandy Cemetery.
	Three of them are black ladies.
	If you have seen recently the movie about the all-female black army unit that took care of all the male, it's on Netflix, I believe.
	Three of those ladies are buried in the American Cemetery at Normandy.
	And then there's one other, there's a black fella also that's buried there.
	But he was just a logistics guy.
	He wasn't fighting.
	He was there working and doing his job.
	And I believe he got hit with a mortar.
	But other than that, they're all, I mean, they're all just regular Joe's.
	And, man, so many of them didn't even barely had hair on their testicles for Pete's sake.
	They didn't really know what it was like to have children, to be a parent, they didn't know what it was like to be a business owner, maybe.
	They didn't know what it was like to just enjoy life as an adult.
	Many of them died before they were twenty one years old.
	Some of them older, of course, but they had their whole lives ahead of them.
	And they answered their call for service, answered their call from their country.
	And it's just a you know, whether you agree with it or not, it's a heavy feeling that you get there.
	And after you walk through a while and you hear some stories and you take some time to reflect, the heaviness doesn't necessarily go away, but it turns into this feeling of gratitude.
	And it turns into this feeling of maybe a small sense of responsibility.
	to ensure that we as Americans, we as just people probably in this world, maybe we have somewhat of a responsibility to make their sacrifice worth it, if it's something that you care about.
	I know we talk about that type of thing on Memorial Day, for example.
	Are you the type of person that is worthy of the sacrifice that these men and women made for you?
	Are you living your life?
	Are you living right?
	Are you doing the right thing?
	laughs
	I think that if anybody has somebody that served and didn't come home alive or passed away later from their wounds or their injuries or their ailments, You never really, you never want that death to be in vain.
	I think that it's important that we do.
	things to try to make that sacrifice they made worth it.
	And I'm sure that that is a different definition for everybody.
	Maybe you have a different view on it than I do.
	But just being there, man, I'm sorry that I'm stalling and pausing, but just going back over it, reflecting on it now, after being home back in the U.S. now, it just brings on a whole new feeling of weight.
	So let's get past it.
	We got past the cemetery.
	We got back on the bus.
	Then we went to, after Omaha Beach was Gold Beach, where I told you Churchill had his harbor, Juno Beach where the Canadians were.
	The one thing that we should talk about after the break, maybe because we're coming up on a break, but the day that we went to Utah Beach, We also went to St. Mary's.
	And you see the church where the paratrooper, they have a mannequin of a paratrooper hanging from the steeple because that's where he landed.
	So if you ever seen the movie The Longest Day, there's a depiction of that.
	So you can see that up there also.
	But you are in the place, right?
	And the buildings, the buildings are preserved, historically preserved.
	It's a thing there.
	I think it's a law that you can't change the outsides of these buildings.
	So a lot of these homes and businesses, the pharmacy, for example, still has bullet holes in the brick.
	The church has bullet holes everywhere.
	They also built an airborne, 101st Airborne Museum there in honor of the airborne infantry that came in to liberate St. Mary's from the Germans.
	It was a pivotal thing.
	And then of course we saw it in Band of Brothers.
	But again.
	We had Christoph that day and the personal stories.
	I mean, the family that owns the pharmacy there, which is, I don't know, one hundred and fifty feet from the church sits the pharmacy.
	The family that owns that pharmacy owned it back during D Day.
	In fact, the owner of the pharmacy was the mayor of the town.
	And so that pharmacy has been in that family ever since, well, before, but ever since for sure.
	And they're still part of the whole city government and the whole city goings ons.
	And so the history is deep.
	And so when you talk to these people, the older people in town the family, they didn't live through it, but they get to grow up talking to mom and dad and grandma and grandpa who did live through it.
	And they get to be there to see what's left of it and help preserve it.
	It's just an amazing thing that such travesty happened over there in the world at that time.
	And you can go back and you can still.
	feel it, you can still see it, you can still smell it, you can still you can still touch it.
	I mean you can put your fingers in the bullet holes.
	You can see the blood on the pews.
	You can you can see in the eyes of witnesses of people that live there at the time when they talk to you and tell you that none of them are shy about it.
	And the one great thing that I learned there is that everybody involved, whether they were good, bad, or indifferent, everybody involved is with is willing to talk about it they want to make sure that he get it right and and part of the reason for all of that is so that those types of travesties never happen again we don't ever repeat that shit but it's important and
	it's important to them that the stories are told accurately and so when you see movies and things like band of brothers and you see the longest day and you see saving private ryan and you see these movies and that movies If they claim that they're based on a true story or are a true story, they're a true story.
	Otherwise, they wouldn't have been allow allowed to be made.
	And that's just what I think.
	We weren't told that.
	But I think that the folks there that tell the stories are so dependent and so adamant about them being real and honest and no fluff.
	And they also don't hide nothing from you.
	The good, the bad, and the ugly.
	They talk about all of that.
	And they want it all to be accurate and true.
	It's amazing place.
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	I owe you an apology, man.
	That first segment was kind of slow, but I gotta be honest, just reflecting on where we've been and what we saw and what we heard.
	It's powerful stuff.
	And if you watch the vlogs that my dad and I did, I think in every video we probably told you, if you have the means and you're willing and you're interested, get your ass there and do a tour,
	preferably with Beaches and Normandy tours, not a sponsor, but they do an amazing job and I would not hesitate to do another tour with them somewhere in Europe.
	They do them in Italy, they do them in Germany, they do them in England, any part of World War II, they do a tour for it.
	And they do a great job.
	So anyway, after we did the beaches, we did all the beaches, we did Pegasus Bridge, we did the cemetery., and then it was time to venture out.
	And the next place, we left Normandy, we stayed in Normandy for four days, and then we went to Bastogne.
	We went to Bastogne for three days.
	And the day that we did all Battle of the Bulge tours and museums was pretty fucking epic.
	If you've watched Band of Brothers and the episodes, I think there's two episodes when they're in the foxholes in the middle of winter.
	Well, those are real, I'm sure most of you know, and we were there.
	We sat in them.
	My dad sat in one and I sat in one.
	And the feeling that you get, a lot like at the beach, the feeling that you get when you go there and you sit in one of these holes.
	and just imagine.
	Just imagine what those men felt.
	The only, I mean, not the only difference, but of course we were there and it was chilly out, but it wasn't snowing.
	It wasn't super cold, freezing weather.
	But the feeling that I got sitting there was loneliness, right?
	And of course they had each other, right?
	They had their unit.
	that was it and the church if you've watched the show again the church that the medic keeps going back to where he kind of him and the him and the lady the
	It was a good, hmm, ten minute ride, maybe a little longer in those old jeeps in the middle of winter.
	But those guys were out there.
	for a long time cold wet freezing hungry dirty Spirits broken.
	But they had each other.
	And so if you're a person that served in the military, you can kind of understand that mentality, right?
	Like you can kind of understand where they're coming from.
	Because you know what it's like.
	Maybe you don't know what it's like to be left alone.
	in the freezing cold with no food, no water, no word on when relief is coming or when the hell you're going to get out of there.
	But you know what it's like to be in a place that really sucks.
	It sucks a lot.
	It really sucks hard.
	And all you can do is just be there, just be in it.
	But you gotta do your job.
	You gotta look out for each other.
	You gotta survive.
	And so sitting there in these foxholes, if you're a person that has been in a situation similar, you can feel a little bit of what they felt maybe.
	Those times when during your military service things were rough.
	Things were rough and you wanted to quit, maybe you wanted to give up.
	Or the guys around you were talking about quitting or you could see it on their faces.
	That folks just wanted to, they've had enough.
	I've had enough, man.
	I'm going to tap out.
	But then you realize that if you tap out, the next guy's going to tap out, and the guy after that's going to tap out.
	And before you know it, you've broken the will of a whole platoon or a whole unit or however big your element is.
	And so then quitting, giving up, tapping out becomes not an option.
	Tapping out is defeat.
	And these fucking guys didn't know what that word was.
	They didn't know what defeat looked like.
	look like other than other than the ass whipping that they were handing out.
	I'm sure they felt defeated at times, but they came out victorious.
	There's a cost, of course, they had to they paid.
	They paid for it.
	But then you ask yourself like when you're sitting there, and at that point in that point in the day we had been through a couple museums, we had been to the cemetery where the nurse is from the show if you watch a show there's the nurse that the medic was falling for and then there was a black lady there also a nurse well both of those ladies are real they're both buried in Baston we
	went and saw their grave sites in the cemetery and then we went to another museum that was dedicated to all World War II vehicles and tanks and equipment and artillery guns and this and that and the other thing and they restore them they restore them all to new and put them in a museum so you could see what they look like and
	our tour guide that day tour guide that day was 88 years old and and i'm trying to remember his name i want to say it was something like marcel really bad really really bad with names, man.
	I'm really sorry.
	But anyway, this guy was 88 years old.
	When the Nazis came through and took over Bastone, he was nine.
	I'm sorry, he was eight.
	He was eight years old.
	Right before his ninth birthday, the Americans came and liberated Bastone.
	He lived through that.
	He got to see it.
	He also lived through the Germans retaking Bastone and pushing the Allied forces back and retaking that strong point.
	The reason Bastogne was a strong point or a strategic stronghold at that time was because there are seven roads that all intersect in one spot.
	And it's that place.
	And then, of course, there's other strategic advantages to the place.
	But this fellow not only lived through that, but then, of course, lived through the second American liberation of Bastogne.
	And has been there his whole life.
	And I'll tell you what, he scampers around.
	he said I don't need that I don't need this cane I don't need it, but I just carry it because I'm 88.
	And he was in the Ardennes Forest, right, where the foxholes are, bobbing and weaving from roots and all of us all of us tourists were stumbling over roots and almost fell in a hole and here's this guy just zoop zooming around but if you think about it how special how special is it that you can go to this place where absolute
	tragedy happened And then the sun comes out, right, and America liberates your town, your hometown.
	And then tragedy strikes again.
	And then we get liberated again.
	And then spend your whole life in that same town.
	Just doing all of it.
	And now he's taking tour guides, or he's a tour guide taking tourists all over his home town.
	And he even talks about in the vehicle museum that we went into.
	There's a Sherman there, got a hole in it.
	from another tank or a Pangea Shrek or something.
	And he said, This is the very tank that was just outside my hometown.
	Now his hometown is about five to ten minutes northwest of actual Baston.
	But the tank that we were all looking at, taking pictures of, and putting our fingers in the holes from the rockets or the tank rounds that hit it or whatever, this is the tank that he watched go past his go through his neighborhood.
	He watched this specific one.
	And then he told us a story that, you know, this when this tank was disabled, it stayed there for quite a while.
	He goes, my friends and I used to play on it when we were little.
	Because by the time the second liberation of Bastone came, this fellow was nine years old, about to be ten.
	So they were play on this tank.
	Have a good old time.
	And now this is the very one.
	And how does he know that?
	Well, he's lived there his whole life.
	His job is to know everything about the war in Bastone because that's what he does.
	He's a tour guide And he also knows plenty of people that work at this shop that restore all of these vehicles to put on display for people like us to come see and take pictures of and put our fingers in the bullet holes.
	Tourist shit.
	But to this fellow, it's real life.
	It really happened.
	He was there.
	He watched it.
	He felt it.
	He smelt it.
	Buried the bodies.
	He saw a lot of death and destruction, but he also saw a lot of good things, a lot of good stuff.
	They also have another airborne museum there in Bastogne, which is excellent.
	They did a great job.
	And then they have this, the Battle of the Bulge Museum, which is huge.
	It's huge.
	It's very well done.
	They make it an audio tour so you can follow along.
	They have so much stuff to see.
	It'd take you, I'd probably take you half a day.
	if you really wanted to get serious about looking at everything in there.
	Just to, and furthermore, it's an amazing place.
	The food is amazing.
	The people are all nice.
	I want to go back to France though for a second.
	Before my dad and I went to France, a lot of people around home had told us that, okay, well, just be ready because the French don't really like Americans all that much and this and that and the other thing.
	But I gotta say, we didn't meet anybody that was an asshole to us.
	Not in Paris, not in Normandy, not in Belgium, not in Luxembourg, not in Germany.
	Everybody that we ran into was really nice.
	And so if there were people that didn't care for us or thought we were stupid or dumbass tourists or whatever, they didn't say nothing.
	They didn't say nothing.
	They didn't look at us on the side of their face, nothing like that.
	So the tune has changed.
	In my opinion, my experience is that the tune has changed.
	They don't necessarily hate Americans there any longer, if they ever did.
	But we just didn't get any of that.
	So take that for what it's worth.
	So then after Belgium, we went to Luxembourg.
	And Luxembourg was probably my second or third favorite part of the tour.
	Not because we went to Luxembourg City, which is really cool.
	The architecture there is really cool.
	The history is pretty cool.
	we did also go to the american cemetery in luxembourg where general patent is buried and I don't know.
	I like Patton.
	I like his story.
	I like the type of leader that.
	he was, I have a lot of respect for him and his legacy.
	And so that was a pretty deep moment for me to be there, especially as an army soldier, a veteran.
	I would have loved to serve under General Patton.
	And I probably would have agreed with him too while the war was over, we should just keep pushing east and finish it all.
	I would have been game for that, I think, especially under his leadership.
	But the cemetery there is laid out pretty cool.
	They have just under five thousand sol six thousand soldiers buried there, one lady's buried there.
	And they have them all laid out, right?
	They got them all lined out, kind of in like a crescent moon almost shape.
	And then they have General Patton by himself in front of all of them, as if he was standing in front of a formation.
	You know, and so when you walk in there and you notice this, if you close your eyes, you can almost see him standing there with his hands behind his back, holding his little horse whip thing.
	and his leather jacket with the fluffy, puffy collar and his helmet with the stars across the top, across the front.
	You can almost see it.
	And it's a very somber place.
	Very somber feeling you get in there.
	But it's cool, man.
	It was raining like hell and it was cold as hell, but...
	you know we were out there anyway you know they don't they don't cancel these things and furthermore when the weather is shitty it's probably a good thing that you go anyway The way I saw it was the soldiers didn't quit fighting when the weather was shitty, when it was raining, when it was cold, when they probably felt like giving up.
	The conditions sucked, but they kept going.
	So we probably should keep going.
	And I'm sure not everybody in the tour felt that way.
	Keep in mind that it was me and my dad and then 26 other people.
	And then there was a driver and then our tour guide, Ben.
	So 30 of us total.
	So 30 of us total.
	I'm sorry that I keep yawning.
	It's very rude and I really apologize, but I think that I think that this is important to talk about and I don't want to for I don't want to forget anything or leave anything out.
	And so yeah, after the cemetery I sat and showed my respects to General Patton for probably good five minutes in the rain.
	Ben, our tour guide organized this wreath laying ceremony and all the veterans who were part of the tour.
	He asked us to lay the wreath, which was awesome.
	It was an honor.
	We got to do that together.
	I think there was five of us or four of us.
	So that was really, really cool.
	And then we left.
	That was in the morning, and then we went to Luxembourg City and we froze walking around there and trying to find coffee.
	It was a Sunday, so everything was closed except for the cafes and the restaurants.
	So we couldn't do any shopping.
	But it was a cool city to see.
	The architecture is really awesome.
	The place is cool, man.
	And then after that, we went back to the hotel, thank God, because I think we were all waterlogged and everybody was freezing.
	And then we moved on to Munich after that.
	And let's see, what did we do in Munich?
	We did some more walking tours.
	The history in Munich, Germany, is very interesting.
	It's deep, it's vast.
	They have the oldest brew house in the world, which I thought was awesome.
	They do, and the beer is super good.
	And other than my grandmother's, I have not tasted better sauerkraut ever.
	And so hats off to them for that.
	We were introduced to this thing called a currywurst, which I don't recommend if you go, unless you really, really like curry.
	But they just do like this bratwurst thing, and they put curry on it and powder and serve it with fries.
	It's rough, man.
	It's a rough go.
	But we rounded out the tour with the eagle's nest.
	And I'm going to tell you guys what.
	There have been some places I've been in my life.
	my life that have absolutely stunning amazing hypnotizing views and none of it compares to the Bavarian Alps that I've seen anyway.
	I've been pretty high up in a few different mountain ranges, usually Montana, Wyoming, things like that.
	This was the first time I've been high up in the mountains in Europe and so maybe that view in Europe is a dime a dozen.
	But you go up there and you know you ride these buses all the way up to the top through these switchbacks and You get to this super long tunnel you got to walk down which apparently Hitler would drive down.
	And this whole time I'm thinking to myself, what kind of what kind of assh resources of his country's resources to build to build himself or anybody build him a this mountain top villa and then you get up there and you're like well I mean the guy's still an asshole and I mean it's kind of pompous to build your to build your shit up here but I but once you get up there you're
	like man I okay I kind of get it now And it's a place where you don't really want to leave.
	You know, we only had so much time up there.
	You got to schedule your bus to the top and schedule your bus to go back down to the parking lot.
	It's like, wow, man, look at it.
	It's already time and I'll catch the next bus.
	And then, you know, but you look out to the east, to the west, to the north and so on, and all surrounding areas of this place is just absolutely amazing.
	it's It sucks though.
	It sucks that it was Hitler's place.
	It sucks that the Nazis built it.
	It sucks because, you know, because you don't want to give them any credit.
	You don't want to give them any credit for making something beautiful, but they did.
	And maybe not the structure.
	I don't know.
	I didn't spend too much time in the building up there.
	The golden elevator, right, goes right into the middle of it.
	But the plot of land they picked, man.
	I'll tell you what.
	It's something.
	And again, if you go watch the vlog, we got footage of it.
	It's picturesque as hell.
	And so that was really it, you know, I mean, we did a we did a lot we took in a lot in 11 days and it was an honor and and it was even it was even a little more special because I got to do it with my dad and so that was cool it was really cool we met some really good people on our tour from all over the country we made some friends And there was some some younger people in their in their late teens early twenties,
	which is awesome because these are the types of places that we want to keep alive and so that our younger generations can understand what it takes or what it took, what the cost was, the price that was paid, or we'd be speaking German or something else, maybe Japanese or something, who knows?
	So it's good to keep the young people involved.
	And then the one place we went to I didn't talk about because it's super heavy and it's difficult is Dachau, the concentration camp.
	But what I will say about it quickly is that everybody that presented any information to us there was super knowledgeable and they were all very super at.
	super adamant to talk about how many people were exterminated by the Nazis, both Jews and non Jews.
	And it sounds like nobody ever gave any numbers, but it sounded like at Dachau anyway in Munich, they exterminated more white people than they did Jewish people.
	But that was only one place.
	So anyway, that one was something.
	with something that was a tough one.
	And then we know we just got back.
	We just got back.
	And so it was a long trip.
	I think my pops is probably still sleeping.
	But we're gonna reconvene him and I and have a discussion in a week or two and just kind of digest it all and unpack and get right.
	But yeah, sorry if the show is kind of slow and carried on a little bit, but man, I thought I would tell you about the trip and it was amazing.
	It was amazing.
	If you are a person that is interested at all at all in what happened there in Europe and you care at all about the humanity in it or not or maybe just the war and the action and this and that, you gotta go see it.
	You gotta go there, you gotta touch the sand, smell what the place smells like, immerse yourself in the local culture a little bit.
	They like to eat a lot of duck in Normandy.
	I will say that.
	I'm not a big duck fan, I found out.
	But the people are amazing, the beer is good, the food is great except the duck.
	And so everything else.
	was awesome.
	The only other thing that I would say was a complaint to mine is that in Normandy and in Northern Europe they don't really believe in air conditioning all that much.
	So when it's hot, it's hot.
	But anyway, other than that, everything was great.
	So we're out of time.
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	Thanks for joining us and I promise no yawning next week.
	I got you covered.
	Good night.
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	As Christians in a Christian country, we have a right to be at minimum agnostic about the leadership being all Jewishly occupied.
	We literally should be at war with fucking Israel a hundred times over and instead we're just sending them money and it's fucking craziness.
	Look at the site of Israel.
	look at the state of Tel Aviv and look at the state of Philadelphia.
	You tell me where this money is going, you tell me who's benefiting from this.
	I am prepared to die in the battle, fighting this monstrosity that would wish to enslave me and my family and steal away any rights to my property and to take away my God, go fuck yourself.
	Will I submit to that?
	And if you've got a foreign state, you've got dual citizens in your government, who do you think they're supporting?
	God, right now, would you protect the nation of Israel and protect the nation of Israel?
	protect those of us not just our church but every church in the world and in this nation that's willing to put their neck on the line and say we stand with them.
	You go to Trump's cabinet, you go to Biden's cabinet, it's full of Jews.
	I have a black friend in school.
	I have nothing against blacks.
	She has nothing against me.
	She understands where I'm coming from.
	Excuse me, I'm a Jew, and I just like to say that, you know, in our Bible it says that you're like animals.

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