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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 547 - Remember Our Soldiers

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We celebrate Memorial Day, review Trump’s decision to pull out of the North Korea deal, and discuss whether marriage is dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Rachel Dolazal gets herself in trouble again. Plus, we discuss President Trump's pullout from the North Korean Summit, and we

1:11.9

talk to Memorial Day. This is the Ben Shapiro show. Well, it is a day on which we celebrate the

1:22.2

valor of our soldiers, of our service people, all over the world. And I want to start the show today by talking a little bit about some things you may not know about Memorial Day. Now, this is from History.com. So this information is, I think, really useful and relevant and pretty cool, actually, because most folks don't really know all that much about Memorial Day. I will admit that I didn't until fairly recently. Some of the stuff is really neat. So did you know that Memorial Day, one of the first

1:45.4

memorial day, one of the first commemorations of a Memorial Day was organized by recently freed

1:50.2

slaves. So according to History.com, as the Civil War neared its end, thousands of Union soldiers

1:54.5

held as prisoners of war were herded into a series of hastily assembled camps in Charleston,

1:58.7

South Carolina. Conditions at one camp, a former

2:01.8

race track near the city's citadel, were so bad that more than 250 prisoners died from disease or

2:07.3

exposure and were buried in a mass grave behind the tracks at Grandstand. Actually, this is one of the great

2:11.2

untold stories of the Civil War, is the differing prison camps that were held by the north and the south.

2:16.5

There's a very good book about one of those prison camps that were held by the north and the south. There's a very good book about

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