This is jockel podcast number 365 with echo channels and me jockel. Well, good evening echo good evening

Also joining us tonight Dave Burke good evening Dave good evening

All of you here this evening are leaders. I am pleased to meet you what you do may well dignify the past

explain today and

secure for all of us

tomorrow

That's a little excerpt from a speech that was given and

Was captured and transcript from general of the army by the way

General of the army Omar Bradley

Um, who Dave and I well, I mean the Bradley fighting vehicle. We we are very fond of the Bradley fighting vehicle

So Omar Bradley we're gonna dig in this document, but a little bit about him born in a

Little farming town in Clark, Missouri

February 12th 1893

Wicked four parents very poor, but he got into West Point

Went into West Point graduated in 1915

Number 44 out of 164. It's only 164 people going to go into West Point in a class

You know now it's like, but I think it's about a thousand of class now

So he graduated with that class of 1915 in which by the way, this is interesting this class the Eisenhower was in that class

But 56 people in that class became generals

In one class of 164 people

It became generals. So they call that class the class that the stars fell on World War one

He was a name for two regimen, but he never left America so didn't do anything

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