Oh, right. He had a lug and I'm going to welcome to it. It is the Dericada podcast for the sixth of June, 2023 at the anniversary of D day.

I almost said a date which will live in in for me, but no, it's the anniversary of a D day and sadly we're losing so many veterans who every year, I don't even know how many there, there can't be very many left for more war to if you just think about it rationally and logically and do it from a math perspective, you're looking at 1944 and right now is 2023,

so you take that and 1944, you'd have to be 79 years old when you were on the day of D day and there probably weren't many newborns storming the beaches at Normandy that day. There probably were a few people, you know, we're not allowed to judge anymore, so retroactively what have you, but probably not that many of you might count on one hand, however many there were. The rest of them were eight

18 and older, there were some six, it's one of those things. Back in the day, you hear these stories all the time, you talk about World War Two, you don't hear about it, you hear about a World War One as well, you don't hear about it when it comes to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, anything, really, since World War Two, that's, it's a measure of the stakes.

That you have people who faked being old enough, faked their age, also the modern age makes a little more difficult to do that, but they faked their age in order to go and participate in the war 15 year olds pretending to be whatever, and you go, oh my God, how do you do that?

There was an American tradition at one point, I remember we went to, my in-laws were just up here a couple weeks ago for Quinn's birthday, guess about a month ago, and we went to, and we went to Antietam, and there's a big memorial there, no, no, we went to Gettysburg, sorry, we went to Gettysburg, and there's a big memorial there to the people from Pennsylvania who fought in Gettysburg.

And it's the biggest, there are memorials and statues all over Gettysburg, and this is the biggest one, and so we're looking around, there's just lists of names and names, weirdly there were some names that were scratched off, I don't know if they were put up there in error or what, but they're scratched off and gone.

And as we're looking at the names, you see, oh, there's somebody named Hunter, there's somebody named this, and we find a couple people with the last name of Bailey, Bailey, Bailey, there were quite a few Bailey's, relatively speaking, do how uncommon the name Bailey is, last names, and Quinn was getting upset, like, was there anybody named Quinn, where's there any we Quinn, I couldn't check all the names, didn't find anybody with Quinn,

but I did search online, I found this woman named Francis Elizabeth Quinn, just to show that this is not just a phenomenon for men. Francis Elizabeth Quinn was an Irish born union civil war soldier who fought in both the infantry and cavalry, she enlisted over five separate times throughout the war and the country, each time she was eventually discovered to be a woman and discharged from the military.

It's fascinating story, I'm surprised they haven't made a movie out of it yet, she later ended up dying about 10 years later, very exceedingly young, but she was exceedingly young at the time, and she wanted to fight for the union, so good on her, there you go, I mean, I guess there's a writer strike Hollywood can't write anything right now, but it's an interesting fascinating story.

The story about which very little is known, but from a conceptual standpoint it goes to show you that at least until the left really started to instill hatred and contempt for this country in the people of this country, there were people in this country who absolutely loved this country and were willing to fight and die for it, even before they were old enough to,

if they were the wrong gender to do so, it is sad that, look, I don't want anybody to die for the country, but that was a great line of patent nobody ever want to war by dying for their country, they wanted by making the other portion of a bitch die for theirs, obviously, that is where my loyalty's lie, but it is interesting to point out that we seem to have lost that in many ways.

Because now ROTC, the military recruiters, whatever, are not welcome on college campuses, they're banned from certain college campuses, or they face protests to the point that it's not worth going into those college campuses, and now that's being spread to high schools, so it's important to remember the greatest generation, and every generation really that served this country, and all the people that served this country, so yes, on this, the anniversary of the,

D-Day invasion, D-Day plus 79 years, it's worth noting, particularly if you happen to know somebody, have somebody in your life who is, forget D-Day, a World War II veteran, it's going to be, there are, look, I don't know any World War II veterans anymore, but there are some people who, they don't want to tell their story,

and you got to respect that, and it's their life, what they saw, what they witnessed, what they went through, what they had to do, what was done to them, what happened to their friends, whatever it is that haunted them, or still haunts them to this day, you've got to respect that, but if you do know one who will talk, even if it's not about combat experience, if it's about basic training, if it's about preparation, whatever it is,

have a conversation with them, do yourself a favor, you will be better off for it, do yourself a favor and have a conversation for it, and your phone, every phone, somewhere in there, unless you have a fashion flip phone, every phone has a record feature, ask them if you mind recording it, it doesn't have to be serious, it can be, you know, pranks they play during basic training, or how they pass the time, whatever it is, do yourself a favor, listen to those stories, ask those questions,

it's one of those things all the time I get, people like the way I interview people, I don't know, I do know why, so many people who interview people don't actually give a damn what the person they're interviewing says about anything, they've got their list of questions, and they go straight through it one after the other, it's very incredibly boring, and actually rude, and it shows that you're not particularly engaged with the person, or they make it about themselves and have a few questions.

preamble to a question that is longer than war and peace and it's like, okay, well when I'm on your show

You can talk for most of the time, but the interview you should do most of the talking help them

Nudge them

Direct them a little bit through your questions, but you don't you don't

You don't outshine them. You don't try to outshine them. It's not a pissing contest

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