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The Derek Hunter Podcast

Veterans of Pearl Harbor and Patton's Army on Veteran's Day

The Derek Hunter Podcast

Derek Hunter

News

4.21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Dean Karayanis, sitting in for Derek, digs into his archives at the History Author Show to bring you the voices of men who served in World War II on Veterans Day 2025. First up is Captain Roger Boas who rolled with General George S. Patton’s 4th Armored Division and, at age 94 he published his memoir, “Battle Rattle: A Last Memoir of World War II.” Next is Lt. Jim Downing, author of “The Other Side of Infamy: My Journey Through Pearl Harbor and the World of War,” written when he was 103. Finally, a clip of legendary character actor and D-Day veteran Charles Durning reading Lester Tenney’s story of the Bataan Death March and the atrocities he witnessed at the hands of Imperial Japan. Thank to all our veterans and to the families who support them.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Veterans Day

0:11.9

25 episode of the Derek Hunter show.

0:15.9

I am Dean Carriannis, your guest host, and it's my honor to be with you here today.

0:22.8

Derek always tells me to do whatever I want. The show is mine. I can do my own show. I can do a political show. I can play some

0:28.5

clips. I could read recipes out of my cookbook, which for some reason, Derek, at my former Rush Limbaugh,

0:36.4

the TV show and radio show, buddy James Golden,

0:40.0

Bose nerdly, likes to bring up when I go on his WABC show out of the Blow Torch Station in

0:45.9

Midtown Manhattan is my cookbook.

0:48.5

They like to talk about regional Greek cooking and some reason.

0:52.5

And then I have my politics friends tell me and former candidates I work

0:56.7

for. One in particular will tell me, stop having them talk about that. That's not important.

1:01.2

You want to be the politics and history guy. You're not the Greek guy. And then I point to my

1:06.2

last name and say, well, I'm kind of branded with that for life. Too late to change my name now,

1:10.7

I'll use the one that late to change my name now.

1:13.0

I'll use the one that showed up on my birth certificate.

1:19.3

Get the funny stuff, I guess, out of the way first, because I do want to talk about Veterans Day.

1:23.1

This is the day that we honor the service of those who survived conflicts.

1:28.2

I noticed that when people say, I'm sure you have too well, they gave their lives.

1:35.1

In fact, this is something President Obama said, which since he relied on this teleprompter for those speeches,

1:37.0

he wasn't an extemporaneous guy.

1:40.6

He can't really speak extemporaneously without a bunch of stumbles.

1:44.4

But they made that mistake that a lot of them were there.

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