Running Directly Into the Fight, Honoring Those We've Lost, and Fatherhood, with Dakota Meyer | Ep. 331

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

In this Memorial Day special, Megyn Kelly is joined by Dakota Meyer, Medal of Honor recipient and Marine, to talk about growing up and figuring life out on your own, the importance of accountability, the Ganjgal mission that led to his Medal of Honor, the importance of having a "poker face" in the military, staying stoic in difficult situations, the fear leading up to that fateful mission, how he helped save so many fellow Americans and Afghan military members, his decision to ignore orders and run into the fight over and over again, the egos between the Marines and the Army in that fight, the lack of leadership and the consequences, the awful Afghanistan withdrawal, receiving the Medal of Honor from President Obama, honoring those we've lost who sacrificed for America, having empathy and choosing love over hate, his suicide attempt and the cost of war, how fatherhood changed him, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.0	Memorial Day is this weekend.
0:17.0	And as you know, it's not just a time for vacation, but a time to reflect on and honor the
0:22.4	brave men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving this great country
0:27.0	of ours.
0:28.0	Heroes who risk everything to protect our freedom.
0:31.8	And our guest today is a man who did exactly that.
0:35.5	Dakota Meyer is a US Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
0:39.7	In 2009, during the Battle of Gondjegal, Dakota defied orders to storm into an ambush of
0:46.2	our guys in an effort to save his friends.
0:49.8	He repeatedly entered a valley with more than 50 Taliban fighters shooting at him from
0:54.4	three different sides to bring both American and Afghan soldiers to safety.
1:00.0	He is credited with saving 36 lives that day.
1:04.7	In acts of bravery, so incomprehensible in their scope, that 60 minutes later reported
1:10.8	on them as follows.
1:12.5	I have never seen the like.
1:15.0	That's what a helicopter pilot who had watched a 21 year old Marine stave off a Taliban
1:19.2	ambush that threatened to overrun his unit.
1:21.6	Told us.
1:22.6	I interviewed a number of pilots who were there that day.
1:27.8	And several of them stopped in mid-sentence, unable to, unable to finish their description
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