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The Jesse Kelly Show

Medal of Honor Monday: Darrell S. Cole

The Jesse Kelly Show

iHeartPodcasts

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Men serving above and beyond the call of duty. See our Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and our California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

You don't have to dip forever. You know that right. You don't have to smoke forever.

0:05.4

And the reason I say it like that is I have been that guy. I've been that guy. I dipped for so long and what would happen is I would decide I'm gonna quit.

0:14.4

Ah, it's bad for me. I'm gonna quit. I'm a man. I don't need any help. I just get a quick cold turkey and I would fail time and time and time again.

0:22.0

I tried things like the patch that didn't work. Gum, sunflower seeds, I tried it all.

0:29.3

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0:36.8

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0:41.8

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0:49.4

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0:57.4

When you do that, you get 10% off.

1:10.9

This is the Jesse Kelly show.

1:19.4

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as leader of a machine gun section of company B first battalion 23rd Marine's fourth Marine Division in action against enemy Japanese forces during the assault on Ewo Gima in the volcano islands 19th of February 1945.

1:48.2

Assailed by a tremendous volume of small arms mortar and artillery fire as he advanced with one squad of his section in the initial wave.

1:56.0

Sergeant Cole boldly led his men up the sloping beach toward airfield number one despite the blanketing curtain of flying shrapnel.

2:05.6

And personally destroying with hand grenades two hostile emplacements which menace the progress of his unit.

2:11.9

Continued to move forward into a merciless barrage of fire emanating from three Japanese pill boxes halted the advance.

2:19.6

Instantly placing his one remaining machine gun in action he delivered a shattering fuselage and succeeded in silencing the nearest and most threatening emplacement before his weapon jammed and the enemy reopened fire.

2:32.3

With knee mortars and grenades pinned down his unit for the second time.

2:37.3

Shrewdly gauging the tactical situation and evolving a daring plan of counter attack.

2:42.4

Sergeant Cole armed solely with a pistol in one grenade,

2:46.8

coolly advanced alone towards the hostile pill box pill boxes.

2:51.7

Hurling his one grenade at the enemy in a sudden swift attack he quickly withdrew returned to his own lines for additional grenades

2:59.8

and again advanced attacked in whichrew with enemy guns still active he ran the gauging of slashing fire a third time to complete the total destruction of the Japanese strong point in annihilation of the defending garrison in his final assault.

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