It's that time.

Time, time, time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Verishow is on the air.

56 years ago, today.

The Elvis Presbyter married Priscilla Bullew

in a private ceremony at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas.

Members of Elvis' entourage would hold a press conference after the ceremony to announce the big news.

It was on this day, 20 years ago,

and what became known as the Mission Accomplished speech.

Unbored to USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California,

that US President George W. Bush would declare that, quote,

major combat operations in Iraq have ended.

That was not true.

A number of fine young men would go to Iraq and lose their lives.

A number of fine young men would come home,

bearing the burden of having buried their friends.

They would come home to have to tell the moms and dads and widows of their friends

how their friend had died.

In some cases, they had been holding their friend during his last moments

to try to give some comfort and buck them up.

You can make deaths.

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