Nov. 25, 2023 - 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, known 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.
It is one of my favorite Christmas hymns.
That is, of course, Good King Wince's List.
We talk about it every year with the traditional English choir.
Hard to beat it.
Welcome back to the show tonight.
One hit maker after another, from Lucas Gage, the former Marine, now speaking out against these wars in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe, to Harry Cooper.
Harry Cooper, easily one of the most interesting guests we have ever interviewed.
Matter of fact, matter of fact, before I even let him say hello, I'm going to read a piece of correspondence we got from one of his appearances last year.
And gentlemen, you were just talking, Keith and Harry were talking in the break about Minnesota.
This actually came from a listener in Minnesota who joined Shark Hunters on the spot after one of Harry's appearances on the show last year.
He writes, James, I was hanging on every word during your interview with Harry Cooper.
There has never been in Capital N-E-V-E-R an hour on your show that went by so quickly for me.
His unique link with the German U-boat veterans is nothing short of a national treasure.
How he has brought so many veterans together and given birth to new relationships from both sides of World War II is nothing short of awe-inspiring.
As a fellow retired Navy veteran and the grandson of a World War II vet who flew torpedo bombers against the U-boats in the North Atlantic, I have a particular interest in these great men.
I immediately became a member of the Sharkhunters organization and I'm looking forward to immersing myself in this authentic history.
Harry Cooper, the president of SharkhuntersSharkhunters.com, is back with us now.
Harry, I bet you get a lot of that.
Yeah, we do, and it's very, it's heartwarming because, as you know, we're all volunteers here.
I'm volunteer.
Everybody is a volunteer.
So we don't do, and I'm an old fart.
I'm retired.
We do this because, first off, I hate a question with no answer.
But I've been at this coming on 41 years now.
And when I first started researching, you know, I was a kid during the war years.
And the Germans were all horrible Nazis bayonetting babies and all the rest of that propaganda crap.
And then I dug into it later on when I was probably about 30 and found out that's wrong.
These guys were honorable, decent young men, just like I was when I joined the Air Force here.
And they were brave, they were honorable.
They fought a losing battle.
They knew they were going to lose.
They knew that most of them were going to die.
And they kept coming and fighting honorably.
And I just thought that was horrible to paint them with that brush.
Harry, if you don't mind this interruption, you said something that I'd like to work in right here.
You said something that is probably the greatest thing when understanding how wars work, especially the propaganda of wars and how that works.
You said that there was no way that you can tell people the truth because the truth is, and you say it better than I, I'll paraphrase it and you pick it up and give me the whole thing.
You can't tell people the truth when they're going to die in a war, that these people have wives and children just like you do.
They have mothers and fathers just like you do.
They go to work and worship the same God you do.
You can't tell them the truth.
Or these totally corrupt nations can't.
Right.
The way I look at it is now I'm an old guy, like I say, and I think there's no such thing as a good war.
Young people are the ones that pay the price.
When, you know, your squadron commander or whoever's in charge, he can't tell you that the guy on the other side of the battlefield in the other uniform loves his country like you do, has a wife and children that he wants to get home to like you do, and he goes to the same church you do.
Now go kill him.
People would have to stop and think and say, hey, what's wrong with this picture?
And apparently, I must have done something right along the way because the outfit we call the Spitlickers, otherwise known as the Southern Poverty Law Center, has an operator.
Yes, they call me a Nazi, and I'm not now, nor have I ever been a Nazi, neo or otherwise.
And I'll state right here on this show, like I stated on every other show, when they call me a Nazi, they're liars.
and I dare them to take me to court over that, and they won't.
Because every time they— It's like them calling us racist.
Well, they call us the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan.
So, yeah, we get it.
Oh, yeah.
My grandfather tried to join the Klan, but they wouldn't let him because, first off, he wasn't born in the U.S.
He was born in Ireland.
But also, he was too radical.
They wouldn't let him join the labor union.
They wouldn't let him join the labor union.
He helped form because he was too radical.
Well, let me tell you, I'm my type of guy.
Let me give you a little more information here about the man we're talking with.
Harry Cooper, the founder of Shark Hunters International, a true, the gentleman in Minnesota nailed it.
He's a national treasure.
Shark Hunters is the most complete and comprehensive source for the history of the submarine in general and the German U-boats in particular.
In addition to the U-boats, though, Shark Hunters and their magazine, the KTB, profiles submarines and World War II veterans of the U.S. Navy, the USSR, the Royal Navy, the IJN, and other military services of nations that use the submarine as a major part of their naval fleets.
Shark Hunters has thousands of members in over 77 countries around the world.
It was founded in 1983.
It is the only group of its kind with an extensive history of the German U-boats and the other submarine services of the war.
Now, Ronald Reagan commended this organization.
He wrote with best regards and admirations, two shark hunters who preserve American history.
And, of course, you got to go back, ladies and gentlemen, to our broadcast archives because we can only give you an abbreviated recap of what Shark Hunters is all about.
But if you want the in-depth full picture, go to thepoliticalscesspool.org, go to our archive page, type in Harry Cooper in your search query.
Go back to September of 2022, just last year, and also in October of last year.
Now, Harry was on four times last year, but those first two really dive deep into the history of the organization, how it happened.
Harry had an inquisitive mind and a zealous search for the truth.
He became interested in the U-boats, and he began to research, and then he began to talk to the people who were actually on these ships, these subs, and said, hey, wait a minute, slow down just a second.
These are great guys.
And he wouldn't let the narrative inhibit his telling of the truth.
And we're all the better for it.
It's a member from 1991 until his passing.
He presented me the Presidential Medal of Merit.
I don't think they give that to Nazis.
Somebody ought to tell the Spitlickers.
I have met so many of them.
If you know anything about the U-boats, Otto Kratchmer is the biggest name because he was the tonnage king.
He sank more than anybody else in the whole war.
I've been to his home.
I don't know how many times.
And I was there one time.
He was reading the, we were out on the patio.
He was reading the paper.
I was sitting across from him in a chair.
And his wife was in a chase lounge doing a newspaper quiz on American TV doctors, and I was helping her.
Yeah, so his little dog, his little schnauzer, came in and laid down right on my feet.
And the dog's name was Yuli.
Kretschmer looked up from his paper and said, Yuli is content.
My family is complete.
So Yuiki is his family.
I had a sleeping room in his house.
This is the extent to which you got to know these German war veterans.
You can call them Nazis if you so choose.
But these are the people that fought for Germany in World War II, and they were honorable men.
You got to know them probably better than any American alive today.
I don't think that that cannot be an exaggeration.
That is the exact truth.
You got to know more of these German veterans of all of the branches of the German military service in World War II to a greater extent and to a greater number than any other living American alive today.
And shark cutters, this is it.
This is the purpose of shark hunters.
And I read now from the website itself.
To tell the honest, true, and accurate history of the U-boat Wah-Happ and the men who served honorably without propaganda, theories, guesses, fairy tales, or half-baked commentaries to restore the dignity and pride to these brave, honorable warriors, and finally to bring former enemies together as friends.
Right.
And not only the U-boats, we've branched out into the flyboys.
We've got several books on the flyboys, which we'll talk about later.
Also, I'm the one who wrote a book and reported that Hitler did not commit suicide in the bunker.
You'll probably lose a lot of people because they like to think he did, but he didn't.
He lived out his life in South America.
I've been to the home he stayed in many times.
Last time I was there before the Kung Flu virus scandemic, I spent the night.
I had a small group with me, and we spent the night on the estate where Hitler lived from 1945 until 1955.
We've got photos of him down there two years after his suicide.
He looked really good for a dead guy.
So we get in, you know, so many so-called authors go to the library and they read a whole bunch of books on a particular topic, then take all the information they need out of those books, write their own book, and think they've accomplished something.
I go before the Kung Flu scandemic, I was in Germany at least twice a year, every year since 1988, meeting with all these great guys.
The third most successful fighter pilot ever in history, Gunther Raw, with 275 confirmed kills.
I spent a day with him in his house while he signed some hand-signed fine art prints for us.
And at one of our conventions in 2000, in the year 2000, I did something, I'm not patting myself on the back, it's just fact.
Nobody else could have done.
At this convention, we call them patrols.
The third most successful submarine commander of World War II, Erich Top, a German guy, won the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaf and Swords.
And another one was Lev Davidovich Chernyevin, who was the last comm sub, commander of all the submarines in the Soviet Navy.
Those guys shook hands at my convention.
A Soviet and a German from World War II.
Should have hated each other.
Countless.
But countless Americans and Germans as well.
And this is something I got to say, Harry, if you'll pardon the interruption again, my friend.
And he is my friend.
I met this guy in New Orleans in 2004.
Now, a listener who just texted me will probably know where we were at in New Orleans in 2004 because it's the daughter of the gentleman who hosted it.
But in any event, you have been praised.
Your work at Shark Hunters has been praised by no less than Admiral Frank Kelso, who was the chief naval officer of the United States Navy, Admiral Frank Kelso.
And this is what he said about your book.
Chief of Naval Operations, Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Frank Kelso, wrote this of your book, U-Boat Stories from the Men of the U-Boat WAFA.
Listen to this.
A retired CNO of the U.S. Navy, Admiral Frank Kelso, writes, The pages of this book are fascinating reading.
They tell the gripping stories of the war at sea in the words of those who lived and died in submarines and those who hunted submarines.
That old enemies have become friends is the real story of this book.
None could have thought 50 years ago that this book would be printed or such mortal enemies would relate grim stories of the war in a book written together.
I found the stories of great interest and recommend them to those who would like to know how the war was fought at sea.
It should be remembered that the life of Britain and Germany depended on the outcome of the U-boat conflict.
This book reveals how it took place scene by scene and the courage and bravery of the men who participated on both sides.
I recommend it as reading as a reminder to never get enveloped in such a conflict again.
Hey, Harry, let me tell you something.
You put together a book, the only book I have ever read that shares the story of from the German perspective, interspersed with stories from the people who fought against them in a way that can appeal to those who love the truth and love historical truth and to be praised by Admiral Frank Kelso, CNO of the U.S. Navy.
That is an incredible accomplishment to thread that New York.
Yeah.
And there are now 18 volumes in that series, U-Boat, the men, you know, stories by the men who were there.
And I'm putting them out as fast as I can.
We've got all this information on file.
And so I'm putting so many of these books out as fast as I can.
Right now, our new series is Hidden Secrets of World War II that you're not supposed to know.
And just rocking the accepted history.
We've got six volumes in that.
And your listeners can go to sharkhunters.com, then click shop, then click books, and all our books are there for them to see.
And you can order them on, what is that, PayPal, Kindle.
Or we have a special right now, save some money.
Normally our books are $25 per book plus $9 shipping.
But now if anybody calls in and says they heard this on your show, instead of $25, it's $20 per book.
And instead of $9 shipping, we'll pay the shipping for you.
That's almost getting it for free.
You're just paying for the shipping, basically.
And let me tell you, we're going to get into in the second part of this interview what we're offering for our Christmas fundraising drive this year.
I told Harry, and I told you, ladies and gentlemen in the listening audience, that last December, it has been a rough year in the Biden economy.
Our first two quarters were poor.
I mean, you know, below average, I should say.
I mean, we thank everybody who gave and for your giving.
We're still here.
But it certainly, you know, we certainly experienced a downward turn, as every organization has this year.
The third quarter was a little bit better.
Things are tough all over.
They're tough all over for everybody.
It's not us.
It's not you.
It's just the state of the affairs right now.
But last December was the most successful fundraising drive in the history of TPC, and it was the offering of the book, the first volume of the U-Boat book that Harry compiled.
He met all of these veterans.
Harry, how many German veterans would you say you have met and got to know and befriend?
I mean, so many of them are in heaven now.
I mean, almost all of them.
But how many over the course of your life did you work with through your agency at Shark Hunters?
Oh, wow.
It would take me a while to sit down and count them up, but most of the skippers, Kretschmer, Topp, Hardigan, Tater, oh, geez, the list goes on and on and on.
All those who were alive up until about, well, recently, I met almost every single one of them.
Incredible.
Yeah, the interesting thing was how, you know, they were suspicious, naturally.
You know, here comes Cooper.
We never heard of him.
He must be a Nazi hunter.
And we had our first convention in Florida.
And one of the guys, Captain Hess, youngest combat submarine commander of the war, who became my best friend in Germany.
He was a doctor of law over there.
He suggested we have the next one in Germany, 1988.
Okay, fine.
So we got off the train, went to the hotel, and the owner of the hotel had a big convention room set up with finger food for us.
And we had about 50 people from America.
We went in there, and I noticed two distinguished-looking gentlemen standing against a firewall, not saying anything, just standing there looking.
And after they realized we were not Nazis or Nazi hunters, they identified themselves.
One was Captain Carl Frederick Merton with the Knights Cross and Oakleaves, and the other was Reinhardt Hardagen with the Knights Cross and Oakleaves, and he sank the first ship in American waters.
They realized what I really was, and they just networked me with everybody.
Anybody I wanted to meet, they arranged it.
Even people I didn't even know I wanted to meet, they arranged it.
And you ended up meeting not just people from the Craigsmarine and the U-Boat Waffle, but people from the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the SS.
You met all of them.
What would you say, the average German veteran of any branch of the military service in World War II, how would you describe his character?
Well, every single one of them was honorable, with one exception, and he wasn't an officer.
He was just E2, more or less.
A guy named Hans Goebbeler, who was on U-505, and he claimed that he opened the sea valves to scuttle it, and it turned out that was just a grab for fame.
He did not.
I've got testimonies from crewmen.
But he was living here in the United States illegally.
And on a sweep through the factory where he was working, they gathered up all these Mexicans and one German.
They sent the Mexicans back, but they couldn't send this guy to Guadalajara or something.
And he was a member of Shark Hunters at the time, as was Ronald Reagan.
So I contacted Reagan and asked him to leave this guy stay in the country.
And which he did.
And then he was going to some of the military shows with me, and he found out that he could make money selling things there, which is fine.
Nothing's wrong with that.
But they moved to a house about a half a mile from me.
And I was over there visiting all the time.
And I went in there one day, and there was a whole box full of reproduction U-boat combat badges, Uber's Krigsumseischen.
And I asked him, I said, what the hell's going on here?
He says, well, you know, I was given to Uber's Krigsumseichen.
I said, yeah, you were awarded one of them.
He said, but after you have the award, you can buy more for your uniform.
I said, yeah, you don't have a uniform.
They were reproductions.
He was selling them at gun shows, claiming they were his.
Oh, they claimed the original article.
All right, but besides that guy, the average German veteran, every other one, a handshake was a contract.
A smile was a friendship.
I love dealing with people like that.
There's black or there's white.
There ain't no gray.
There's no questions.
There's no miscommunication.
You know where you stand.
Honorable people.
That's wonderful.
That's wonderful.
We'll take this bottom-of-the-hour break here in the production studio.
And there it is.
There's the music.
Harry Cooper, sharkhunters.com.
I'm a member.
I pay a paltry $10 a month to be a member.
That's the least you can do, ladies and gentlemen, to guarantee that authentic history about this horrible conflagration is put out there.
Be right back.
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I'm so happy to be able to talk with my longtime friend for a couple of decades now.
Harry Cooper on Thanksgiving weekend.
And folks, we're transitioning into the Christmas season at large in society.
And of course, here on this program, I would give you a little homework this holiday weekend, and that is the turkey still digests, of course, and the corn casserole and the sweet potatoes.
But look up the lyrics to Good King Wincesless.
That will put you into the Christmas spirit, if anything can.
That is a wonderful Christian hymn.
Well, you know, the best thing about Christmastime to me is it allows us to revisit our roots.
if you come from an Anglo-Saxon background at all, these are what our ancestors sang and listened to.
There is a little bit of that ancestral myth.
Well, I say a little bit.
I mean, there's a lot of it.
I mean, certainly the spiritual nature of it all, but certainly the cultural as well.
It tugs on those ancestral memories and on those heartstrings.
Well, anyway, it's a time of togetherness and a time of fellowship, and to be with friends like Harry tonight makes it all the more special.
And, well, we have been recapping for the first half of this interview the mission and the purpose of Shark Hunters.
I think you get it now if you weren't already well informed about it.
And if you want more information, again, go to, well, sharkhunters.com is the first place to go to.
Secondary, secondly, you can go to thepolitical sesspo.org, go to our broadcast archives, and type in Harry Cooper's name, and then learn more.
But one thing that Harry does, I mean, Harry has had, in my opinion, certainly in his as well, the privilege of getting to know personally, I would say hundreds at this point, of German veterans, people, German men who fought for Germany in World War II.
And so he can attest and give his personal testimony to the character of these men.
And it certainly flies in the face of the narrative that we've been force-fed.
But he doesn't just enjoy this company himself.
Over the years, he has allowed so many others to get to know these men too.
And that's where your patrols come in, Harry.
So starting in the late 1980s, you offered what you call patrols, which is basically one-of-a-kind vacations to Germany for Shark Hunters members where, you know, now, of course, in 2023, so many of them, almost all of them, are gone.
But in the 80s and 90s, you could still be a shark hunters member early 2000s.
You go over there and hang out.
I don't want to say party, but you could drink and have dinner and break bread with these veterans and get to know them yourselves.
Talk a little bit about those patrols, the places you've seen and what you've seen between former enemies meeting together for the first time ever.
What was that like all those years?
It was very rewarding because these people, first off, you've got to understand that German veterans had always been pressed down.
They were always told they had to be ashamed.
And yet when we came over with a bus or two busloads full of Americans, and everybody got along fine.
There were friendships that were made.
There were even some clandestine romances that happened, but that's another story.
But we, I remember one time we had 56.
Yeah, we had 56.
I don't think there's any question about that.
We got to the hotel where we're staying.
I told everybody to stay on the bus.
I went in, made sure all the keys were laid out for them.
I went into the restaurant, and my good friend Otto Kretschmer was there with his wife, the top submarine commander of the war.
And so I went out and told everybody on the bus, go in, get your keys, throw your gear in your room, and come down and have dinner.
Okay, they did that.
And I always lose weight because I don't eat much.
I go from table to table, make sure everybody's having a good time.
And I got to this one table and these four young guys, oh, they're all agog, they're all excited.
And the guy says, do you think Otto Kretschmer is actually going to show up and meet with us?
I says, well, let's ask the gentleman at this next table.
And I looked at him.
I said, do you think Otto Kretsmer is going to be here?
And it was Otto.
And he says, I think Otto Kretschmer is already here.
And these guys about with their pants.
Incredible.
They were just.
Now, there was another person, I won't mention names, that they brought over a lot of the flyboys, and you could meet them if you bought expensive prints from this person.
Otherwise, you couldn't meet them.
That ain't the way it was with our shark hunters gathering.
Everybody just got together.
And, you know, if you happen to sit at a table with somebody well-known, like Kretschmer or Top, fine.
They were happy.
If you sat at a table with just regular people like me, okay, so what?
The food was good.
Nobody was special.
Everybody was just a shark hunters member.
And we were not only Germany and Austria, but we were also in Croatia.
And we're going back again in 2024 to Germany, Austria, and Croatia.
And you were just there a couple of months ago.
Last week in September, first week in October, yes, sir.
Bavaria and Austria.
And Harry, if I could just ask you this very quickly.
So you're talking about over the years.
Now, at this point, you go on a patrol.
You know, the German veterans are very sparse.
Not many of them survived the war to begin with.
And even fewer, to say the least, are still alive now.
You'd have to be 100 years old if you were a day.
But over the years, people got to meet so many of these German veterans, so many Americans, sometimes former American veterans, meeting these German veterans and becoming friends.
That's what Sharkhunters is all about.
But it's not just the meeting of people.
You go to some pretty incredible historic places.
We've got two minutes remaining.
Some of the places you've seen on your Shark Hunters Patrol.
Oh, wow.
We've been in the complex.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
We always go to Eagles Nest.
There are tunnel and bunker complexes that some people haven't seen since the end of the war.
We go there.
We found some of them.
We also go to Russia, Ukraine.
We've been to Argentina, which had a huge, still has a huge Third Reich population.
Uruguay, which is where Hitler landed before he moved to Argentina.
Poland, you know, any place that had to do with World War II, we go there as much as we can.
And we go places where the average person can't go because we have members who have the keys to these places.
We go to the party rally grounds where the big stadium was.
We also go inside that stadium.
And the gold swastikas are still in the ceiling in the greeting room.
And Hitler's office is still in the middle of the middle.
How have they not taken that down yet?
You would think that, I mean, you see here in the American South, they don't know about them.
There has to be something going on.
Well, they did.
Some years ago, they passed a law that anything built during the times of the Reich cannot be broken down, but they also did not bother to put in any money to fund restoration and maintenance.
So they're just letting them fall apart.
Famous places like the Geiger Hotel in Berchtesgaden, where famous movie actors stayed.
And I think John F. Kennedy stayed there.
But it was also Luftwaffe Regional Headquarters.
So they abandoned it.
And when it got too bad, they said it's unsafe and they tore it down.
The Berchtesgartnerhof, where Tyrone Powers and Linda Darnell had their honeymoon, tore it down.
The Platterhof tore it down.
But then the law was passed.
You can't tear them down.
But they're falling apart.
So just let them go to hell and then, oh, well, look, it's unsafe, and we'll bulldoze them, which is a shame.
You know, we're seeing it here with this woke crap of tearing down the Confederate statues and stuff, changing names of American military bases because they were very similar, Harry.
Incredibly similar.
Yeah, very similar.
Basically, the Germans were gaslit, just like American Southerners and American white people generally, to assume guilt that they didn't deserve.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And the narrative is so strong.
Well, the Spitlickers have said that I'm a Nazi because I do the history of the German military.
I'm not a Nazi.
I'm a Republican.
But that probably is no good with yourself.
You're a historian.
I'm a historian.
You bet.
I'm a historian first.
And, well, I'm an American first.
And then a historian.
And, you know, when people get kind of agasp, I tell them, hey, do you love Hitler?
Do you hate Hitler?
I don't give a damn one way or the other about Hitler.
I stick with dates and facts and stuff like that.
You know, who were the submarine commanders?
Where did they go?
What were their missions?
And good, bad, or otherwise.
It's history.
Hey, and you can get that history at sharkhunters.com.
My God, at the work that Harry has done to put these historical memories of these living, well, now not living legends into, he has recorded their words and their memories at sharkhunters.com.
We'll be right back.
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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 stream 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 1.
That behavior of capitalists was predicted by Vladimir Lenin, a sell of the beast.
Note 2.
Henry Ford was a capitalist and he would have never gone communist.
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The Baron then offered a holiday toast.
And Snoopy, our hero, saluted his host.
And then with a roar, they were both on their way.
Each knowing they'd meet on some other day.
Christmas bells, those Christmas bells, ringing through the land.
Bringing peace to all the world and good will to man.
Christmas bells, those Christmas bells, ringing through the land, bringing peace to all the world and good will to man.
Well, that I couldn't think of a more appropriate Christmas song to bring in tonight for Harry Cooper's appearance.
Snoopy versus the Red Baron.
And here's the kicker, Harry.
And Keith was just asking me if I knew where they were.
And coincidentally, I did.
The Royal Guardsman who sang that song, it was a group of five guys from Ocala, Florida.
Can you believe that, Harry?
That's five minutes drive from me.
And ladies and gentlemen, I'll give you a little behind-the-scenes treat here.
Harry Cooper and I, and my entire family and his family, his wife and son, we all met at a Cracker Barrel in Ocala for lunch back.
What was it?
January, February, earlier this year.
It was this year.
Something like that.
And a fantastic day for all of us.
Ocala, Florida.
That's the epicenter of it all.
That's where it's happening.
But anyway.
Kentucky Derby winners came from Ocala area.
Well, because Ocala is a big man.
Ocala is horse country.
If people don't know, you think Lexington, Kentucky.
Ocala is horse country.
Or you think of Florida, all you see is beaches and palm trees and beach bunnies, but that's not here.
And retired Jewish people.
Well, also, that's South Florida.
Yeah, well, North Florida.
Yeah, that's right.
Well, that's South Florida.
North Florida is just an extension of rural Alabama and Georgia.
Well, as a matter of fact, Harry, I'll tell you this.
Redneck country up here.
And we mean that quite flatteringly, but this is something that in 2015, when there was all the backlash against Confederate monuments because of Dylan Roof, the single largest Confederate rally in honor of our American heroes took place in Ocala, Florida.
5,000 bikers, 5,000 bikers in 2015 with Confederate flags in Ocala.
Anyway, the Royal Guards upset.
They sure did.
The Royal Guardsmen, the Confederates, and Harry Cooper, it all intersects in Ocala.
You know, I just sought something from the Sons of Confederate veterans.
They've got somebody has some land that is on the Interstate 40, and they are going to put up this huge Confederate flag.
They're having a lot of people.
Well, they got a lot.
I mean, there's a lot of that in Florida.
You go down to Florida and they've got, well, anyway, I don't want to digress.
We'll talk about this.
We actually have a segment on Confederate news in the next hour.
But anyway, but yeah, Ocala, Florida, about an hour and change from Orlando there in Central Florida.
Love it.
I know Ocala well.
But anyway.
Ocala is about northwest of Orlando.
Not too far.
Not too far.
Right.
But so last year, folks, this is it.
We brought Harry on to recap everything we've talked about, but also to roll out the Christmas fundraising drive for TPC this year.
You're going to be getting a letter if you are a donor in the mail over the course of the next week to 10 days that tells you everything, but we'll cover the broad strokes here.
Last year, Harry Cooper's fundraising incentive really went over well with the audience.
And that was a copy of the book U-Boat.
And that was the memories, the firsthand accounting of the memories of the sailors who served in the U-Boat WAFA.
And this year, we've got something very similar.
We've got something very similar.
It's a book called When Eagles Soared.
This book contains first-person memories of the Luftwaffe pilots of World War II, including technical insights into the planes and the weapons they carried.
So it's identical in many ways to the U-Boat book you may have received last year if you donated during our Christmas fundraising drive.
Only rather than being members of a submarine crew, these were the pilots.
And reading this book will put you into the cockpit right alongside these warriors.
These are their memories.
These are their words.
It was written by the men who were there.
And their stories were told to Harry Cooper, who compiled them and put this book together, When Eagles Soared.
That is the fundraising incentive gift for our fourth quarter Christmas fundraising drive.
Harry, please tell us more about this book.
Right.
This is all flyboys.
There are some chapters about the Foo Fighters, not the rock group.
There's another, there's four different chapters, I think, in here called Flying Combat with the Luftwaffe, written by, or told to me by a guy named Baron George von Zerk, who was a bombardier on board a Heinkel 111.
Talks about all the different missions.
And in, I think, the part four, he talks about they were not dropping bombs, they were dropping supplies to the Army guys.
And he said they could see the Western Front and the Eastern Front at the same time.
Germany was collapsing.
And the Russians and the Americans were only about 100 miles away from each other.
And it was a very sad time.
And he talks about burying some of his friends who had been killed in combat.
There's another one, kind of light-hearted, entitled, It's Not Good to Sink Your Own Submarine.
And it was a U.S. Navy dive bomber saw a submarine.
He went and bombed it and missed and came around and bombed it again and missed, but rocked it pretty good.
Came around to drop bombs a third time.
And all of a sudden, the stars and stripes broke out on the back of the boat.
And it was American sub.
He was trying to sink.
And what happened to him after that?
And you got to know.
But Harry, I got to stress, I'm listening to this in awe.
You got to know these men, though.
This isn't something you read and wrote in your own words, a recitation.
You got to know these men.
You talked to the person of their stories that they wrote for you.
Exactly.
Baron George von Zirk was a member of our other organization called Eagle Hunters, which has been absorbed into Shark Hunters now.
And he came to the U.S., became a citizen, lived out in California.
Then there's a chapter on the Black Devil, which referred to Eric Hartmann, who was the flyboy, top fighter pilot ever in history.
352 confirmed kills, and he never lost a wingman.
And he was a member of Shark Hunters.
But this was written by another member, a guy named Manfred Roeder, who was the, he was called the most right radical in all of Germany.
And they thought he was a nutcase, and they put him in prison because he wrote a book called the Auschwitz Lie.
He looked like a Sunday school teacher.
Then we have one little raunchy title by a pubic hair by a U.S. Army Air Corps fighter pilot.
I've got his book here.
Luftwaffe Memories talks about, well, Fritz X. That's the first smart bomb ever.
It was a German smart bomb called Fritz X.
That was Luftwaffe Memories 1.
We've got several other chapters about it.
The gallant Galland.
Everybody knows who Adolf Galland was.
He was a member of Shark Hunters also, 31 or 32 years old.
He was a general.
And he was put in command of the Jet Fighter Squadron, JV 44.
And he and two other Luftwaffe guys went down to Argentina after the war and rebuilt their Air Force.
They were not wanted for anything.
Then there's one by some of our guys who were in the U.S. Army Air Corps called the Disastrous Castle Mission.
They went without fighter cover.
And when they wound up coming back to their base, they went into the mess hall, which was set up for the entire division.
And it was only about 20 guys.
All of them.
The rest were shot down.
That is tragic.
It's bad.
It is.
It is.
But these are the stories, good and bad.
World Wars I and World War II were the great kill-alls of white people.
That's it, Keith.
But these stories, sometimes they're humorous.
Obviously, sometimes they're very tragic.
In most cases, they're tragic.
But these are the stories of the people who were there.
And I would just share very quickly, because we only have two minutes remaining, and how is that possible?
But sharkhunters.com, support TPC's Christmas fundraising drive.
And you're going to get this book.
This is the book of the Golden Knights of the Skies in World War II.
They slipped the chains, as Harry writes in his description of this book, of gravity and soared high above earth on wings of steel.
Some returned covered with glory.
Some did not return at all.
But this book contains first-person memories of the Luftwaffe pilots, the planes that they flew, the weapons that they carried.
So strap on your parachute and your helmet, folks.
Pull down your goggles and jump into your favorite war bird and fly along with us on this patrol back into military aviation history and memories.
And you're going to get this book if you support TPC's Christmas fundraising drive.
We are working with Sharkhunters and Harry Cooper again and proud to be able to do it.
This is an incredible, what of a kind, historical telling, because it is their stories.
Harry compiled them.
He put them into a book.
This is it, When Eagles soared.
You like the book on the U-boat last year?
This is the book on the Luftwaffe.
And by the way, you can also get, and it'll all be in a letter that we're going to send to you next week or over the course of the next 10 days.
You can also get a hand-signed photo from a Luftwaffe pilot.
Harry, we got 60 seconds remaining.
How did you get these signatures on these photos?
Oh, okay.
That's easy to explain.
But also, sharkhunters at sharkhunters.com will get an email to me.
How we got them, I wrote to every one of our veteran members and said, hey, please send me one photo of you in uniform.
I'll have 100 copies made up, send them all to you.
You hand sign every one.
Keep your original and send me back the hand-signed photos.
And that's how we got them.
Ladies and gentlemen, you want a book on when Eagles soared from the perspective of a Luftwaffe pilot?
You want a hand-signed photo of a Luftwaffe pilot?
They're all in heaven now.
None of these people are still alive.
You're going to get their signature, though.
Harry Cooper got them.
We're benefiting from it thanks to Harry's work in his pursuit of the truth.
You are an American hero, Harry.
So says Ronald Reagan, the former CNO of the U.S. Navy.