Honoring the Fallen on Memorial Day
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Focus President Jim Daly and John Fuller share listener-submitted stories of friends and family members who gave the ultimate sacrifice to protect the freedoms we enjoy today as Americans.
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| 0:00.0 | My brother, Glen Howard Rickleton, was killed in 1951. He was a fighter pilot. |
| 0:19.0 | He flew in Korea and he gave his life for our country. |
| 0:27.5 | Corporal Benjamin Keith Rauschenberger |
| 0:30.4 | is 25 years old, was killed April 15th, 2013. |
| 0:34.7 | He was four and a half years in the Marines. |
| 0:37.5 | We love you and miss you, and we can't wait to see you in heaven? |
| 0:49.0 | Bruno and Uncle Mikey, my name I A. Bruno came back in a body bag and Uncle Mikey was never found. They gave their lives for this country. |
| 1:00.0 | I just want to honor my daddy that was killed in France December the 3rd |
| 1:11.6 | 1944. |
| 1:14.0 | I still remember him and think about him. |
| 1:16.0 | His name was Cranville Pearson. |
| 1:20.0 | Welcome to focus on the family with Jim Daly. I'm Jean Fuller and today a |
| 1:28.3 | special Memorial Day edition of the program to pay tribute to and remember those who have not only served in our military |
| 1:36.4 | but who gave their lives so you and I could enjoy the freedom that we have today in America, courageous men and women of honor. |
| 1:45.0 | Brave and trustworthy men like Milborn Manning. |
| 1:49.0 | Well, it was December 7th 1941 and my local Melbourne Manning was stationed at the |
| 1:58.5 | County O'Aohie Naval Air Station near Pearl Harbor and when the attack started he jumped into a |
| 2:06.4 | sandbag bunker and grabbed a 50 caliber machine gun and began fighting back and as fate would have it he was nearly |
| 2:18.0 | cut in two with machine gun fire from the enemy aircraft and then he died as a result of those wounds. |
| 2:24.5 | So here on Memorial Day I really want to honor my uncle Milbourne. |
| 2:29.4 | You got to hand it to these guys. |
| 2:30.9 | They just gave it all and so many of them. |
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