Dec. 3, 2022 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, going across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
He's Santa Claus, he's Santa Claus, Santa Claus, Santa Claus, Santa Claus.
Santa Claus, Santa Claus, bring my baby back.
We're back, ladies and gentlemen, as we get ever so closer to Christmas this Saturday evening, December the 3rd.
Back with us tonight, yours truly, James Edwards.
And Keith Alexander is none other than our very good friend, Harry Cooper, president of Shark Hunters.
Known Harry 20 years.
Longtime friend of mine.
His group, of course, has put together these legendary tours of Germany.
Friends of mine have told me that it has been the trip of a lifetime to go on one of Harry's Shark Hunters tours, an organization that exists to tell the true history of the U-boats without propaganda and to bring former enemies together as friends.
Now, if you missed Harry's most recent two appearances on the show, go back in our broadcast archives to the shows September 17th and October 8th.
We spent an hour on both of those evenings talking about the purpose and the mission and some of the history of shark hunters.
Check that out.
But that's not what Harry is on to talk about tonight specifically.
He's on to play Santa Claus himself this evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, I know you're going to think in light of the Kanye West thing, we're sort of just kind of being a copy, but no.
Nobody else is doing this.
Nobody.
I had this plan about two months ago, and it's been in the works for several weeks.
I called Harry a few weeks ago and I said, Harry, for our Christmas fundraising drive, I want to do something very special for the audience, and you're the man to make it happen.
And so here to tell us all about it is Harry Cooper himself.
Harry, how you doing down there in Florida, Skipper?
I'm doing great.
How you guys doing up there in Tennessee?
We're all right.
I'll tell you what, we're having a good time.
We got good music, good friends on the show tonight.
What can we say, Keith?
We're a bunch of land lovers.
We need to have a whole song by Harry going to say, that's right.
I am.
Here's a crash dive into World War II.
Yeah, no, I used to live on my 30-foot sailboat, you know, and that's how I got interested in these boats.
But under the Obama administration, unfortunately, I lost my sailboat.
So I have no love for that Kenyon queer.
I'm sorry, I'm not supposed to say that, am I?
No, that's not.
All right, no, no.
The First Amendment is alive and well here.
I'll tell you what, that's Hutton Gibson.
Mel Gibson's father came on and called the Pope the same thing.
He just didn't use the word Kenyon.
And his grandfather used to say he called a spade a dirty shelter.
All right, all right.
No, that's fine.
Anyway, okay, with that being said, listen, Harry, the Christmas fundraising drive is, we're officially underway for our fourth quarter fundraising drive.
And folks, we need it.
We have really suffered.
Our bottom line has suffered under the Biden economy with this historic inflation.
And I collaborated with Harry Cooper to come up with a very, very one-of-a-kind special incentive.
We've given out some special incentives over the years.
A piece of Jefferson Davis's home, the actual roof that housed him in his slight roof.
That's right.
The autograph books, CDs, DVDs, all kinds of stuff over the years that I think are very interesting.
But this is right up there at the top.
So if you donate, if you respond to TPC's first quarter fundraiser, excuse me, fourth quarter Christmas fundraising drop, you're going to receive a copy of the book that Harry put together, U-Boat, Stories from Men of the U-Boat WAF.
And this book was and is unlike any other in history about the history of the U-Boat Waffle.
And that's only part of it.
Tell them the other one.
Well, we'll get to that.
Yeah, but wait, there's more.
but it is chapter was written by a veteran ron's appeal but wait there's more very good that's it We're going to get to it all.
That's why we booked Harry for an hour tonight.
But this book about the U-Boat Waffle, each chapter was written by a veteran of the war at sea.
Okay, these are their memories.
These are their words.
No researcher could write anything that comes even close to what you're reading in this book.
This is from the men who were there.
And Harry, they wrote it for you.
This is Rael McCoy.
Tell us how you put this book together.
I don't think people are going to understand what they get in their hands.
What is this book?
How did you put it together?
How did you possibly get these German veterans to write these chapters for you?
We were so fortunate.
Like I say, I used to live on my 30-foot sailboat in the Bahamas, and there was rumors of U-boats.
And my first thought was, those dirty Nazis, because I was a kid during the war years.
We were taught the Germans were all Nazis.
And then I had to go back to work.
I was vice president of a company.
And I started the research.
And I found out these guys were not Nazis.
They were young patriotic kids like I was a young patriotic American when I joined the Air Force.
They were young patriotic Germans.
They had the worst attrition rate of any military force ever in history.
One man out of seven came home from the U-boats.
That's almost an entire generation of young men.
And it's not, as I put in some of my books, the book we're talking about tonight, U-Boat, that's volume one.
And we got volume 17 going to the printer shortly.
But these are not statistics.
These are young men who are not going to be at the Christmas tree next year.
They're not going to be at this table with the family.
They're not going to be home to their mom and dad.
As you know, my son was killed when he was 20.
And there's no pain that can equal that.
And so I started researching this.
And I started communicating by mail.
That's all there was back then with Carl Frederick Merton, holder of the Knights Cross with Oakleaf, and he was commander of U-68.
And then I put together a convention for shark hunters in Key Largo, Florida, because I lived in Chicago at the time.
And this was in February.
I wanted to get out of the cold.
We had 11 U-boaters show up for that, plus a whole lot of Americans and some American subvets.
But three skippers.
One of them was the youngest combat submarine commander of the war.
He won the Knights Cross, and he became my best friend in Germany.
The next year, we went to Germany.
It just shocked me because I had never been out of the northern hemisphere.
Canada, Bahamas, Mexico, that's as far as I thought I should travel.
Harry, hold on right there.
Just pardon this interruption.
Mr. Producer, let's blow this first break.
Let's take the break at the bottom of the hour.
I don't want to interrupt Harry right now in the telling of this story.
Let's blow the first segment break and we'll go to break at 30 pounds.
Okay, go ahead, Harry, please.
So anyhow, he said, come over to Germany.
Okay, so we did, and we all got together, and we all took the train to Altena district in Hamburg, and we were met there by the guy who owned the hotel.
He was also a Knights Cross-winning U-Boat skipper.
We went to his hotel.
They had a big room laid out with cold cuts and munchies for us, and there was a mob of us.
And there were these two distinguished-looking gentlemen standing at the wall, watching us, not introducing or anything.
It turned out later they wanted to make sure we were interested in history, not a bunch of raving Nazis.
Turned out it was Karl Frederick Merton and Reinhard Hardagen, both of which had won the Knights Cross with Oak Cleaves.
They saw we were honest historians.
I became very good friends with them.
I was in Hardigan's home.
I don't know how many times.
They opened the door.
They told the other U-boaters that we were honest, we were honorable, and above board.
So they all came flocking.
Otto Kretschmer, the most successful submarine commander of the whole war.
I was in his house I don't know how many times.
And one time I was sitting at the breakfast table on the patio across from him, helping his wife with a newspaper puzzle on American TV doctors.
And their little dog named Yuli came and laid down right on my feet.
Kretschmer looked up over the top of his newspaper and said, Yuli is content.
My family is complete.
You don't think that was the most incredible rush.
The greatest submarine commander of the war said that I was part of his family.
So these guys realized, now, bear in mind, they were treated like criminals.
I belong to the American Legion here.
We have a big sign out front.
We have a big lodge.
We have a Huey helicopter out front.
They can't do that in Germany.
The U-boat veterans, of course, they're almost all gone now, but the U-boat veterans had their Ubutskammaradschaft, the U-boat groups in this town, that town, this city, that city.
They couldn't have a sign out front.
They couldn't have nothing out front.
In Hamburg, they had to meet in a rented house that belonged to the guy who owned the hotel.
In Kalagnfurt, Austria, they had to meet in what was a former coal bin in an office building.
These guys realized that we were telling their stories.
We were honest, and they were just coming out of the woodwork to tell us their stories.
And like I say, let me say this, if I could, Harry.
This is.
Go ahead.
That's what we specialize in.
We have had shows with the survivors of the USS Liberty situation.
We've done things like that.
We had Drew Lackey, who was a policeman in Montgomery, the bus boycott at the beginning of that.
We and you are preserving history, oral history of people that were actually on the scene and we're getting their impressions.
There's no significantly.
Also, video history, too, because we've got videotapes of these guys talking.
You've got to go to sharkhunters.com.
You've got to become a member at sharkhunters.com as I am.
It's $10 a month.
You get access to so much audio, video, and, of course, written history there without propaganda.
And this is the, let me just take a moment here.
Harry's done something here that would not have been done if it wasn't for him.
Harry is a national treasure and truly a living legend.
I mean, if you value world military history, to be able to take accurate history, that's right.
Well, let's just go to sharkhunters.com.
This is the mission statement.
There's three points to it.
To tell the history, honest and true, accurate, of the U-Boat Waffa and the men who served honorably without propaganda, theories, guesses, fairy tales, or half-baked commentaries.
Number two, to restore the dignity and pride to those brave, honorable warriors.
And number three, to bring former enemies together as friends.
Now, Harry has told us a little bit about how he got in touch with the first couple of U-Boat veterans and how through honest and good dealings, he got ingratiated with a lot of the living veterans back some decades ago.
And as a result of his work and as a result of him building that trust, so many of these veterans wrote a chapter apiece in this book that I'm holding in my hand right now, U-Boat, Stories from the Men of the U-Boat Waffle.
Now, let me just remind you here, ladies and gentlemen, let me just, again, just to really emphasize here what this book is, unlike any other in the history of the U-Boat Waffle, because each chapter was written by one of its veterans.
These are their memories.
These are their words.
No researcher could write anything like this.
This is from the men who are there.
Each chapter is written by a German veteran specifically for Harry Cooper's organization, Shark Hunters.
And by the way, Ronald Reagan once endorsed this group's efforts, okay?
He was in their memoirs.
See, and we're going to talk more.
I couldn't believe the endorsement of this book by Admiral Frank Kelso, who was the former chief naval officer of the U.S. Navy.
We're going to talk about all that in a moment.
But each of them is the same.
He gave the endorsement.
That's incredible.
Back in the 90s.
This is something else.
The people that Harry has rubbed shoulders with, but particularly these German veterans, they all wrote a chapter for this book for Harry.
He collected their memoirs.
Nobody else wanted them.
They had been discarded to the dustbin of history.
Much maligned.
Their pride and dignity and honor taken away.
In this book, it is reclaimed.
And he collected these memoirs, put it into this compilation, which we're offering to you, ladies and gentlemen, in return for your much-needed support of TV.
Historic preservation effort, basically.
I'm at chapter two right now, page 40 of the book.
And I got chills, Harry.
I told you the other day, I sent Harry an email, and I said, Harry, I've never read anything like this.
So, this is, you just mentioned Otto Kretschmer, who was the most successful submarine skipper of any Navy in World War II.
Okay, yep.
And I'm reading the chapter, page 40.
I am Otto Kretschmer.
I joined the German Navy in 1930 and became an officer in 1934.
And he goes on to tell his history.
And I got chills.
It was like he was sitting right there telling me the story.
I'm reading his words written for this book for you that you put together.
Nobody else has done this.
Nobody else has done this.
And quite frankly, if you hadn't done it when you did do it, it'd be lost forever.
That's right.
I'm afraid you're absolutely correct.
And I look back and oh, geez, why didn't I ask this guy?
And why didn't I talk to this guy?
But, you know, the door has shut.
And I got another, if you got 30 seconds, maybe 60 before we go to a commercial, I got a real break, so we got about five or six more minutes at least.
So that breaks off, as I say.
There's a group, a group called Teutonischer Troia, German Honor.
They presented me their highest award last month, the Knights Cross First Class with Oakleaf.
There's only 15 in the world and only one in North America, and that's me.
So now I'm Sir Harry.
Listen, you are that.
You are an honorable man, and I will always call you sir.
Let me be Harry von Pop.
I met Harry Cooper for the first time back in 25 or so years ago.
Well, it blurs, but it was actually only 18 years ago, if you can believe it.
2004, I believe, is what it was, but we instantly hit it off.
And this is what he's done here.
I mean, his life's work.
This is something else.
Sharkhunters.com.
And folks, I am honored to be able to offer this to you.
We have really, like I said, this program, I mean, Harry knows.
You don't make any money doing this kind of work.
We don't volunteer.
We all are.
And we've taken it on the chin in the Biden economy.
I know some people haven't been able to.
Listen, I bow before everyone who has donated this year and kept their quarterly contributions.
But this book, I wanted to do something very special for Christmas.
Let me just read here from page 112.
This is chapter 8.
This is Reinhard Hardigan, who you just mentioned.
This is just, these are the chapters.
These are some of the things you'll be reading.
This is one of the, he was on U-147 and took over U-123.
Yeah.
Right.
And he sank the first ship in American waters.
See, this is who's writing chapters in this book, ladies and gentlemen.
True men of history.
And he writes in this opening paragraph: I entered the name, all in first person.
I entered the Navy in 1933.
And in 1935, I came to the Naval Air Force where I spent four years through the Polish War.
In November 1939, I was ordered into submarines.
The reason for this being that as a German officer, I had already volunteered.
So being directed elsewhere, a German officer had no other recourse but to obey his new orders.
And then he goes on and talks about his time in U-boats making history the first.
I mean, Harry, just this, folks, you've got to get this book.
Don't listen.
Support the work of the political cesspool.
We, of course, have already sent a check to Harry.
We want everybody to make out and doing this.
We want to stay on the air.
We're offering this to you.
Anybody who donates $100 or more is going to get this book.
And we already have them all here because we put the work into this several weeks ago.
So we've got them here.
You want to donate.
You're going to get a quarterly fundraising newsletter in the mail this coming up week.
Return envelope will be in there.
$100 more, you're going to get this book the day after we receive your remittance.
And hopefully we can send Harry a little bit more money because Harry gave it to us pretty much at cost.
We did a little bit more than that.
And I stress a little bit.
You know, you're the biggest.
I mean, I was going to have to tell you, who's the biggest?
No, who's the biggest donor to shark hunters?
Harry don't know.
Tell me, tell me, tell me.
Me.
That's right.
No, no.
Every month when I get my retirement check in, I write a check for $2,000 into Shark Hunters to keep us moving forward.
See, I want to do a little bit more to help Harry as well because we covered his cost for this.
And, you know, when we first did our first fundraising drive 18 years ago, $100 triggered the incentive, whatever it was at the time, an autographed book by Pat Buchanan.
I can't remember what it was.
$100, it's still $100.
Inflation hasn't hit us.
Now, we get less of the pie because it costs $10 to send anything in the mail now.
And of course, you know, the materials cost as well.
So we'll do a little bit better than break even if we have a really good fundraising drive.
But folks, we do need your support.
I think, Keith, is this a book?
If you were a listener, would this be something you want?
You can't get this anywhere.
This thing is solid gold.
You cannot get this information anywhere else.
This is history.
This is unvarnished history.
This is straight from the horse's mouth.
That's why you need to get this while it's still available.
And I just want to thank Harry for making it available.
And Harry, you said something that was so profound in either your last appearance or maybe two appearances ago.
We were talking about there being no propaganda like war propaganda.
And I wish I had the clip ready to play right now.
You worded it so beautifully, probably the most beautiful I've ever heard it.
You said, well, they do that because they can't tell you the truth.
They couldn't tell the American servicemen.
We want you to go over there and kill all of these other guys.
They've got parents, mothers, and fathers just like you do.
They've got wives and sweethearts and children just like you do.
They go to the same church you do.
They're the same people as you are, but we want you to go kill them anyway.
I mean, you said something much more eloquent than that, but that was pretty much it.
And that's the truth, right?
Yeah, that's absolutely correct.
When I was in, I was invited to the Soviet Union.
I found out later, Ronald Reagan, who was a member, told Gorbachev to send me over there.
Gorbachev ordered Vladimir Chernyevin, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy, to bring me over.
I didn't even know why I was there, but I went.
And this one time, we had a round table.
They love round tables, and all admirals around there.
And I was standing, they were sitting, and each one asked me a question about submarine history, which I asked.
And the whole time, this old captain, no, admiral, straight across the table from me with mutton-chop sideburns and steel-blue eyes was staring a hole right through me.
And it got to be his turn to ask a question.
And instead of submarine history, he said, Why are you here?
And you know me, James.
I'm not shy.
I pointed at him and I said, I was told you're my enemy.
He got very stiff.
I said, but you were told that I was the enemy.
Yeah, he grudgingly agreed.
I said, but I don't see an enemy.
I see a man like myself who wants his children to grow up in peace in a prosperous society and forget about the war.
And he says, well, no, we will have a drink.
I said, okay, let's drink Pepsi, a great American invention, because Gorbachev had the distribution there.
No, we are drinking Woodka, a great Russian invention.
I said, okay, fine.
See, we're together already.
And James is like somebody flipped a switch.
They were all on their feet.
They were all smiling.
They came up.
They were ripping the metals off their uniforms and putting them on my jacket.
Wow, man, to have been a fight.
Just to have seen that would have been enough for me.
Much less had that honor bestowed upon you.
Harry Cooper, sharkhunters.com.
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Yeah, listen, Harry, yes, he is royalty.
And I'm sure he's got a Santa hat on tonight as he plays Santa Claus for our listening audience because the quarter fundraising drive is featuring one of his life's work, U-Boat Stories from the Men of the U-Boat Waffa.
As we've mentioned, only Harry Cooper, literally, only Harry Cooper could have collected this because only Harry Cooper made the effort to go to these veterans and seek out the truth and put their stories into a book that everybody could enjoy and learn from.
And as I said, we've said it a couple of times now.
Every chapter is written by a veteran of the war at sea.
Their memories, their words.
As I read it, I was like, I could feel their presence.
It was like they were sitting there telling me their stories written in the first person.
Harry collected these, put it into this compilation, which we're offering you $100 or more.
You know, we've been deplatformed everywhere and by everybody.
So in order to get your contributions to TPC these last few years, it's got to be check or money order through the USPS.
And that's the way we've got to do it.
But, but if you're saying to yourself, James, I can't wait to send you a check for this.
I want to make an electronic contribution tonight.
Well, as I said, we have been banned from credit card processing.
But there is a way.
There is a way for this month only.
So if you would like to make a contribution tonight, and I mean right now, email me, james at thepoliticalscesspool.org.
I'll let you know how to do it.
We can't tell it publicly because we don't want all of our friends that want to see a star.
Yes, right.
But if you are a trusted friend of TPC, email us at james at thepoliticalscesspool.org, and I'll let you know how to do it.
If you donate tonight, we will get it into the mail to you on Monday.
And this book would be enough.
This book is more than enough.
I think this book, we have done quarterly fundraisers four times a year, every year for 18 years.
And this has got to be top three.
I think top three.
You know, and That's being, you know, perhaps not giving it the credit it's due because in addition to this one-of-a-kind book, you can receive a five-inch by four-inch black and white photo that has been hand-signed by one of the German veterans of World War II.
Harry collected these signatures.
All of these signatures have been put on the photo by that person's hand.
So your photo will be hand-signed by one of these men of history.
And the back of the personally autographed photograph contains a name, the name of the veteran whose photo you'll see and a brief description of his military service.
So that, that, ladies and gentlemen, is the incentive gift for those who donate $100 or more.
You'll get this book we've been talking about and a hand-signed, personally autographed, no rubber stamps, no auto signs, the real deal.
And Harry, how did you make that happen?
And you told me you collected a lot of these from a lot of different veterans, not just U-boaters.
Right, right.
There were also some flyboys in there as well.
And I think there was one veteran from the Tirpitz.
What we did, this was a suggestion by one of our members, a guy named Myron Bleahy.
This was his suggestion.
And I wrote to all the veterans, all the veterans of World War II who were members of Shark Hunters, and I said, hey, send me one photograph of yourself in the war, in uniform, etc.
I'm going to have 100 copies of the photo made.
Then I'm going to send 100 copies and your original back to you.
You hand sign every one of those 100 copies and mail them back to me.
Everyone said yes, except for two men.
One, you were reading his stuff, the drum beater, Reinhardt Hardeg.
And he was a politician for 20, 30 years after the war.
And he says, I'm done with it.
The other one was Otto Van Bulo, one of the top submarine commanders.
He would have done it except he is so crippled up with arthritis.
He was only about four foot, maybe four foot two when we last saw him because he was so bent over.
He couldn't even hold a fork.
Otherwise, he would have done it.
We had another one of our members, Thomson.
If you ever saw the movie Dawson Boat, there was this drunk laying on the floor, vomiting all over himself in the bathroom.
They portrayed that as Rolf Tomson, but Thompson was not that way.
He wouldn't have anything to do with the Veterans Associations after they ran that.
He agreed.
He also signed some of our hand-signed prints.
But he agreed.
I sent everything over.
Then I got a call from a dear friend, Gerd Tater, who was also a U-boat commander.
He was like an uncle to me.
And he said, don't count on getting anything back from Thomson because he's got cancer and he's only got a couple of weeks to live.
I said, okay, fine.
That's sad.
I keep him in my prayers.
A week later, I got them all signed.
Thompson, dying of cancer.
This man signed all 100 of those and sent them back to me.
These guys.
Did his duty to the end?
Yeah, the honorable, some of the finest people, you know, with these guys, I love dealing with them.
A handshake is a contract, and there ain't no gray.
There's black or white.
You're either an honorable person or you're a dirtbag.
There's no in-between.
And I love dealing with people like that because you don't have to guess anything what's going on.
It's right there out in the open.
This is just an amazing story.
I mean, every time we have you on, Harry, over the years, and especially, you know, back this year, your last couple of appearances, this is your third time since the early fall to come on with us.
I could sit for three hours a night, every night, and this just be the show, just talking about this history and your personal experiences with these men who made the history.
And then, you know, I was looking through.
I got to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, I mean, believe me, we're going to send these off to you if you help support the show.
And we need your help.
We have had a rough year financially because of this economy that Biden has inflicted on us.
So we need everybody.
I'm not diminishing who has stood with us.
I mean, without you, we'd be much worse off and perhaps even off the air.
But so thank you for that.
But we need people to stand with us this quarter.
That's why we've got this extra special thing for you here.
But I was looking through these photos that Harry sent me, along with all of the books.
They're all in stock.
They're all ready to ship right now.
So you're not going to have to wait.
You're going to have them before Christmas.
You'll have them next week if you donate tonight or when your letter comes in the mail.
You send something back.
We'll get it out to you the very next day.
I was looking through these photos, Harry, and I was thinking, my God, I want to keep them all.
I don't want.
I got to send them out because I'm promising people that.
I didn't want to send these out.
I wanted to keep at least one of each.
Tell us some of the people, some of the folks.
Now, we don't have 100 photos of just one veteran.
We have a collection.
It's a mixed bag.
What are some of the personalities that they may be receiving, Harry?
You caught me by surprise there.
I didn't keep a list.
My secretary's got a lot of people.
You don't have to know exactly who's in our batch, but just in general.
Oh, some of them.
Let's see.
Well, my best friend in Germany, Hans Georg Hess, four months after his 21st birthday, they gave him command of a combat submarine and told him, go out and die for your country.
Toward the end of the war, only one boat out of 10 was coming back from its very first patrol.
Nine out of ten were killed.
And he came back after five war patrols.
So he signed some of them.
Georg Tater probably the only man to ever go through the gates of hell twice, Gibraltar.
He went through twice.
Once he went in as first officer on U-548, and then later command of his own submarine, U-466, he went through again.
Jerry Richter, the guy who was radio operator on U-81 when they sank the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
Oh, geez, there's another fellow who is on the turpitz, Carl Fredericks Merton, one of the top submarine commanders.
Kratzmer was not able to because unfortunately he was dead by that time, a terrible, terrible accident.
He and his wife were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on a luxury cruise boat on the Donile River, which is also the Danube.
And he slipped going downstairs, cracked his head, was unconscious for two days and then died.
Otherwise, he would have done it too.
Be called home like that.
Well, I'll tell you, that's a terrible tragedy.
I'll tell you, one person who's in our mix is, and I don't know if I'm pronouncing this correctly, but this is Georg Hogel.
Oh, Georg Hogel, yeah.
What a nice guy.
He was an incredible artist.
He'd be looking at you, talking to you, looking straight at your face while he's sketching away, and you figure, okay, he's doing a picture of me.
Then he shows you the picture.
No, it's somebody sitting five tables over to your left.
That guy was great.
He was a radio operator on the first boat into combat.
And I see his chapter right now.
We got some signed photos from him, Keith.
Right.
It didn't look like something from Salvador Dally, did it?
Salvador.
No, no, this guy, you could tell what his pictures were.
Hey, folks, join Shark Hunters tonight.
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I'm a member.
I just saw my debit come out a couple of days ago for this month.
Sharkhunters.com, Harry Cooper, one more segment with him.
You donate to TPC this month the book and a signed photo from one of the German veterans.
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In message one, we said that Satan, the father of lies, John 8, 44, gave the left evil spiritual power the more they use the lies.
The political left today is the beast.
Now, the Bible confirms that the dragon gave him, the beast, his power.
Revelation 13, 2.
The extra evil spiritual power that comes from the beast by their lying is what accounts for the string of the leftist criminals in the government that have never yet been prosecuted.
It also explains why American capitalists support communism in the 21st century.
Note one, that behavior of capitalists was predicted by Vladimir Lenin, a sell of the beast.
Note two, Henry Ford was a capitalist, and he would have never gone communist.
The difference between Ford and the present-day end-time capitalists is that Ford was born and educated in the kingdom of Christ, 19th century America, the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21.
A pair of hovel boots and a pistol that shoots is the wish of funny men.
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk is the hope of Janice and Jen.
And mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Soon the bells will start.
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Soon the bells will start.
And the thing that'll make them ring is the carol that you sing right within your eyes.
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, ladies and gentlemen.
Treat yourself to a fantastic Christmas present while benefiting our work here and helping us stay on the air.
I would like to send a little bit more money to Harry Cooper, who gave us all of this stuff at cost and really even less than that.
And we need to be helping the people who are doing good work.
And we want to be doing that for Harry.
And we want to be able to stay on the air.
And you can help us do both by contributing this quarter before December the 31st.
$100 or more.
You're going to get this book we've been talking about, U-Boat, Stories from Men of the U-Boat Waffa, written by these German veterans specifically for Harry's compilation.
Each chapter written by a veteran of the war at sea.
And this is history, and I don't care if you're a world military enthusiast.
I don't care if it's Geronimo or Yamamoto or Montezuma or whomever.
I mean, this is it.
I mean, this is something.
And you just can't find it because, you know, sadly, especially when you're talking about these signed pictures from these veterans, so many of these photos were signed by them years ago, and they're gone now.
I mean, they're not going to come back down from heaven and sign anymore.
So you can't get any more photos like this.
And I want to thank Harry Cooper personally and publicly for offering all of this to us at such a reduced rate.
We are comrades fighting the battle as we can in modern times.
And so this is a very special incentive.
I think one of the most impressive and interesting that we've ever offered.
And we offer it to you now.
If you want it now, send us an email, james at thepoliticalassible.org, and we'll let you know how to send a very discreet electronic contribution.
If not, checks still work, and that is the primary way to help us.
We mentioned Ronald Reagan, having been a member of Shark Hunters, having endorsed the group, having written a letter to Harry endorsing the work of Shark Hunters.
But I want to read now the endorsement of Admiral Frank Kelso, who, as Harry mentioned, when he wrote this endorsement for this particular book that we're offering you, he was the chief naval officer of the United States Navy.
This is back in the early 90s.
And Admiral Kelso wrote this.
The pages of U-Boat are fascinating reading.
They tell the gripping stories of the war at sea in the words of those who lived it and died in the submarines and those who hunted submarines.
The old enemies have become friends.
Now, this is the chief naval officer of the United States Navy in the early 90s saying that these German veterans had become our friends.
You would never hear that now pass the lips of a craven politician.
You got to turn that on.
Certainly not from Admiral Rachel Levine.
Yeah, see, I mean, this just goes to show just in the course of the last 40 years how much the 30, 40 years, how much things have degenerated.
The old enemies, Admiral Kelso continues, have become friends.
That's the real story of this book.
None could have thought 50 years ago that this book would have been printed or such mortal enemies would relate the grim stories of the war in a book written together.
I found the stories of great interest and recommended them to those who would like to know how the war was fought.
It should be remembered that the life of Britain and Germany depended on the outcome of the U-Boat conflict.
This book reveals how this took place scene by scene and the courage and bravery of the men who participated on both sides.
I recommend its reading as a reminder never again to get enveloped in such a conflict.
You know, Harry, that's the thing.
Hey, oh, Harry Cooper, James Edwards, Keith Alexander, we told y'all neo-Nazis and skinheads and whatever, whatever.
That's what Ronald Reagan is, and that's what the Admiral at the time of the chief naval officer.
Head of naval operations.
Yeah.
How in the world did you score?
How in the world did you score that endorsement for this book?
He joined Shark Hunters like everybody else.
And that's what he was attracted to it.
Yeah, Ronald Reagan, great man.
I'm sitting here looking at the Presidential Medal of Merit that he awarded me, oh, God, 50 years ago or 40 years, whatever.
And the American flag hanging behind my desk was also sent to me by Ronald Reagan.
It wasn't good enough for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
They have you, Robert Reagan or Admiral Kelso's endorsements.
Be damned.
You're a hate group, same as we.
Right, but that's general hate, and that's better than Colonel hate or major hate.
Those people, general hate, yeah.
Yeah, right.
General hate.
They have at least taken me, I'm told they've taken me off the page that I'm no longer a neo-Nazi, but Shark Hunters is still a hate group.
And one of our top, one of our long, long time members, Larry Kagan, he's Jewish, and he keeps going to the Southern Poverty Law Center and telling them they're full of shit.
Can you say that on your show?
Yeah.
And he's a hospital supported member of Shark Hunters, and he's Jewish, for Christ's sake.
But he loves the SS.
That's another whole story.
Hey, you know, we got this.
Actually, I saw one SS in this collection, Hans Schmidt, who there should be books written about him.
He wrote his own book, SS Panther Grenadier.
And we've got some autographs.
Those are going to be really hard to part with.
Those are our only SS autographs we got in the lot.
But that just goes to show when you support us this quarter, you never know who you're going to get.
But he's going to be a man of history.
A short biography will be on the back of this card.
And this photo, rather, this autographed photo.
And you can read the rest in the book.
But one thing that I was so fascinated about, Harry, not to change the subject, was that I figured once a submarine was sunk, that everybody on board was dead.
I read about sub after sub sinking.
And then how did they survive that?
Well, it depends.
First, I'll throw this in.
Hans Schmidt was a guest in my house several times.
Now, how do they survive?
Well, let's look at U-701.
It got surprised.
The lookout wasn't paying attention.
And an American bomber came up behind it.
The bomb blew the entire stern off the submarine and it sank like a stone.
But they got the compartment doors closed.
And they were down in about 120 feet of water.
And so the other compartments still had air in them.
And they popped the hatch.
And Captain Dagon, Horst Dagan, was also a member of Shark Hunters.
He said it's like he was propelled out of there as soon as he opened the hatch.
The hatch blew open and the pressure shot him straight to the surface.
17 guys got out of that submarine.
Unfortunately, they weren't able to take any life belts with them or food or water and they bobbed around on the ocean for about two days before the Navy found out where they were because the Navy had been looking for them.
They wanted to grab these submarine guys.
But they finally saw him.
There was a Navy PBY, I think it was, flew over them and landed.
First threw out some life rafts, etc.
And when Horace Deegan was in the hospital, he was a prisoner, he was in the hospital in some place in Virginia, Harry Kane, the pilot of the bomber that sank him, came to visit him.
And George Middleton, the pilot of the PBY that rescued him, came to visit him.
No, the blimp, the blimp that found him and rested.
They became good friends after the war.
So you can get out of a sub if it's not sunk too deep and if you can keep the compartments closed.
But if that thing goes down in Mother Ocean, it gets down to the crush depth about, well, with a German submarine, about 900 or 1,000 feet is crushed depth.
It's like a beer can full of flies that gets run over on the interstate.
When the hull is breached, they don't die from drowning.
The pressure from one atmosphere inside the sub.
Yeah, to about 100.
Wham.
Hell, I would never go to war in a submarine.
No kidding.
I mean, I was just, I was talking to my dad about this.
We were looking through this book together, and I said, you know, if you were in the Luftwaffe, you could zigzag, you could fly around, you could do something.
If you're in the Wurmach, you could run, you could duck, you could do something.
If you got hit in a sub, you're just there.
I mean, that's just it.
And so that's another reason the sacrifice was just so heroic.
Right.
What are they saying, Harry?
They say, grab your ankles.
They say, when you're in a situation, bend over, grab your ankles, and kiss your ass goodbye, right?
Yeah, that's right.
One of our members told he was on a U-boat fighting the Merman's convoys, and they picked up three survivors from a German plane that had crashed.
And they were talking as they were going along, and they asked the flyboys if they would rather want to serve in the submarines.
And I still remember the guy's comment, which is in one of our books.
He said, if I get shot down in my airplane, I can jump out and bail out with my parachute.
If you guys are running submerged and you get a hole in it, you die like a damn rat in a trap.
That's it.
And if I got submarines in the wartime, they got a lot of guts.
Absolutely.
And those are the stories from the men you'll be reading about.
And I can't say it again.
We've never, Harry, in all these years, nearly two decades on the air, I have never spent a full hour detailing a fundraising incentive.
But this was one that was just especially special.
And any excuse to have you on the show is going to make for an hour of great radio.
But folks, again, support TPC before December the 31st, our Christmas fundraising drive.
You get the book that we've been talking about.
You get the signed photo, hand signed by one of these men of history to compliment the book.
And that's what we're going to be sending out to everybody.
You'll get your letters in the mail.
If you haven't received them, yet we sent a few out this week.
Most of them will go out on Monday before our next show anyway.
Read the letter.
It tells you everything that we've been doing behind the scenes here on TPC the last few weeks.
And it, of course, details this incentive and how you can support it.
And we want to send some more money to Harry as well.
Harry, sharkhunters.com.
You've got a big trip coming up next fall, about a minute remaining.
You're going back to Germany next fall.
We are indeed.
We had been going every year, bringing as many people want to go as would go with us.
And before their deaths, the U-boaters would meet with us.
And now, still, we go places nobody else can go because we have friends with keys.
And it's in September.
And if your people send me an email, it's on mysharkhunters.com.
Send an email and we'll put you on a mailing list.
Hey, folks, $10.
Keith spent more money on gas tonight to get through the studio.
So $10 a month, and you get all of this great information.
Support our work.
You'll get the book and the photo.
And you join Sharkhunters.
You can go on one of these incredible trips to Germany.
And you go through all of these historic sites with Harry Cooper and his group.
Yeah, we're just adding one thing to the trip.
The castle where they did where Eagles Dare.
We're going into that castle.
Wow.
Hey, sharkhunters.com, folks.
That's it.
Harry, we'll talk to you again before Christmas, but I want to wish you a Merry Christmas, and we will talk to you again soon.
Thank you for being on tonight to help us introduce this fundraising incentive.