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You know, I've been told listen Carl. This isn't about veterans. This isn't about first responders. We we we love all of these people that have served and continue to serve to to keep us safe.

But today is about the fallen. Those that sacrifice their lives in order that we might live.

And served in many of these wars throughout US history that I think are just fascinating. I'm starting to learn more and more about some of the history involved in the involved in the civil war involved in the World War one World War two revolutionary war.

Just I mean, just so many heroes that made this country come together to be what it is today. Obviously the left is trying to destroy it. But that's not going to change for me giving you some of the information that I think is just cool and and again.

You know, I had a caller call into the radio show when I was standing in for Larry elder and she said, Carl, I wish we would stop saying happy memorial day. I'm bringing the reverence and respect and I'm paraphrasing that this that this holiday deserves, you know, for our fallen soldiers.

I wish that we would call it a grateful memorial day and I've taken that to heart. Obviously it doesn't flow off the tongue as smoothly. But nonetheless, I think it works.

And I think it's really important. First off, let me let me do this. I was reading doing some research and I didn't know the history of memorial day. So I just want to share a few of those things that I learned.

And then I want to talk about, I mean, James Caraphano, the Heritage Foundation years ago, he wrote a column just breaking down some of the things that are world war one and world war two troops endured. I'll go through that.

I want to do something that's a little as far as the civil war is concerned. I want to talk about some of the black heroes of the civil war. Some that I understand didn't necessarily die during the.

During the during the war some may have died soon thereafter, but I still think it's important to memorialize them. The reason why I'm doing that is simply because I feel like more Americans, if more Americans knew about the heroes of the civil war that happened to be black.

I feel like there'd be more unity in the country. This is important information. And I don't want to neglect any of the civil war heroes. The the their 620,000 estimated troops that died between both sides union and Confederate.

And obviously there's so time so many war stories that I will never know, but one of the things that I've decided to do after looking into some of this is to just start diving into this history deeper.

America is such a wonderful place. And because of the sacrifice of the fallen, we we we get to we're spoiled today. You know, we're spoiled. We don't have to fight all these big wars.

Like they fought in order to make this country come together. So let me just start off start off here. And then I want to talk about Pat Tillman, just to you guys might be familiar. You may not be familiar with Pat Tillman.

So we'll cap it off with that. But so let's talk about this real quick. So from history.com I found something called nine things you may not know about Memorial Day. I don't have time or I'm not going to go through every single one of them.

Just because the it's really extensive, but I do want to go through a few of them because I just think it's cool. And some of you might know this stuff. Some of you may not, but I just want to go ahead and and go through it.

Memorial Day and its traditions may have ancient roots. This from history.com. While the first commemorative more Memorial Day events weren't held in the US until the late 19th century, the practice of honoring those who have fallen in battle dates back thousands of years.

The ancient Greeks and Romans held annual days of remembrance for loved ones, including soldiers each year, festooning their graves with flowers and holding public festivals and feast in their honor. These guys are worthy of honor. You may not agree with all wards and battles, but this is how this is how the world was made. It's how it was crafted. It's how boundary lines was set. You know, we get to sit here as Americans today.

And we can look back in history. All that was so evil. That was so cruel. This is, but man, this is the way societies were built. And we just get to live in the blessings of those that went before us, not just in America, but throughout world history and Athens, public funerals for fallen soldiers were held after each battle with the remains of the dead on display for public morning before funeral procession took took them to their internment and the caramicos.

I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. One of the city's most pretty prestigious cemeteries. One of the first known public tributes to war dead was in 431 BC when the Athenian general and statesmen, paracles delivered a funeral oration praising the sacrifice and valor of those killed in the Peloponnesian war.

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