Memorial Day Special: A Medal of Honor Recipient Through The Eyes of His Father
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this Memorial Day, we at Our American Stories we want you to bring Paul Monti, who drives his son Jared's truck, an act which inspired the hit country song "I Drive Your Truck" by Lee Brice...but the story is much more than that of a song.
Here's the story of Jared Monti, a true hero who died in service of our country trying to save a fellow soldier in the mountains of Afghanistan.
To find out more about Paul's organization that honors the life and legacy of Jared go to the SFC Jared C. Monti Charitable Foundation.
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| 0:00.0 | From the small towns to the big cities. |
| 0:04.8 | We bring you the stories that matter. |
| 0:08.0 | This is. |
| 0:08.8 | This is. |
| 0:09.8 | This is the Our American Stories podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | We can't wait to bring you these fantastic stories from our team. |
| 0:35.3 | We work hard day in and day out. |
| 0:39.7 | We bring you stories from everyday Americans. We work hard day in and day out to bring you stories from everyday Americans. |
| 0:45.7 | We tell the stories about this great country, a country that may not be perfect, but sure is beautiful. If you'd like to support us and all that we do here, visit our Americanstories.com |
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| 1:03.4 | It's for you and through you that we tell these stories. |
| 1:10.0 | And up now, a Memorial Day special, the story of Jared Monty, |
| 1:16.4 | a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient for heroic actions taken in the battlefields of Afghanistan, |
| 1:23.8 | as told by his father, Paul. |
| 1:28.3 | Music as told by his father, Paul. I think his lot in life was to try to bring joy to anybody and everybody that he ever met. |
| 1:43.3 | Well, Jared was a very adventurous kid. |
| 1:46.0 | There wasn't a tree too high for him to climb or a hill. |
| 1:49.0 | There wasn't a body of water too wide, too deep for him to cross. |
| 1:54.0 | There were certain characteristics in him that became apparent as he grew. |
| 2:06.7 | We like to talk about his life in terms of three principles that he lived by, |
| 2:11.4 | the first of which was to always try your hardest. |
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