One of the Most Decorated Veterans of All Time: The Col. David Hackworth Story
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, most know the famous line from the film Apocalypse Now, which showed Robert Duvall standing in a bombed-out field saying: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning!” The man who actually said that was Colonel David Hackworth. Here's his story!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
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| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
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| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
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| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:44.6 | Music or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, |
| 0:49.2 | the show where America is the star and the American people. |
| 0:53.1 | Major General James Mukayama rose from his humble blue-collar Chicago roots |
| 0:58.0 | to become the first Asian American to command a U.S. Army Division. |
| 1:03.0 | General Mook, as he's known, amongst friends and people who know him, |
| 1:08.0 | is the author of Faith, Family, and Flag, |
| 1:15.5 | memoirs of an unlikely American samurai crusader. |
| 1:21.4 | General Mukayama served as a company commander under Colonel David Hackworth in Vietnam. |
| 1:25.5 | Hackworth was one of the most highly decorated infantry officers in the history of the United States Army. |
| 1:29.2 | Here's the general with the story of Colonel David Hackworth. |
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