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Show, Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton.

Later in the program, General Jerry Booking will be with us.

Guys, I think it's one of the best good news items we've talked about is the restoration of respect for the military and young people wanting to go into the military again.

No nation can survive if their young people are not willing to serve in this capacity or a percentage of them willing to serve.

So there's been a lot of concerns over the last few years

at the lack of recruiting, the lowering of standards, just so many things we've covered on the

program. And we've already talked about the increase in recruiting, but General Book,

it'll be great to get some thoughts on that. But this is just a big deal. And David, I remember

your book, what was it called Celebrate Liberty or Celebrate? Yeah, I think that's right. Celebrate Liberty. It was the one that you had that Samuel Davies sermon that he did that, you know, to the

military as they're getting ready to go fight. And I'll never forget that. That's probably 20 years ago,

but just the impression it had on me of the biblical purpose of being willing to fight and being

willing to defend your country. And I'm just so glad to see this restoration of the military. You know, we're in the middle of writing the next book in the

American Story series, and it deals with the wars, a world at war, some of World War I, but

mostly World War II. And World War II, what happened with us in World War II, is exactly the opposite of what Trump is trying to do now.

And the two words you keep hearing with the military now with Trump is, look, we have to have military readiness and military lethality.

We have to have those two items, and that's what the American military should do.

Well, when we got hit at Pearl Harbor, we were not ready and we were not lethal.

It literally took 11 months to rebuild the American military before we were ever able to go to

Europe and start taking on Hitler, who'd been fighting for at that

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