What A Treat To Talk To This 99-Year-Old WWII Veteran Named Buck

The Michael Berry Show

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🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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0:00.0	The Michael Berry Show
0:02.0	Buck, World War II veteran.
0:05.6	The floor is yours good sir.
0:08.7	One in at Normandy.
0:11.7	We did two days after Z-Day, and uh, they gave me a B-A-R and I took it all the way to the
0:19.0	battle of the blows. Across Europe, you have across Europe. You hear me? I hear you loud and clear I don't want to interrupt you.
0:28.7	Yeah, yeah. Is it Michael? Michael?
0:33.0	Yes, sir.
0:34.0	Well, I've been trying to talk to you for 20 years, Michael.
0:38.0	Are you well, I'm glad we made it happen.
0:40.0	Yes, sir.
0:42.0	It's good to talk to you buddy.
0:44.0	Tell me more about this, this experience you have. I had to look up a B-A-R, apparently that's a Browning automatic rifle.
0:53.0	You got, you got it buddy and it's heavy and I was a little feller.
1:01.0	How little a fellow you think you were?
1:03.0	About, what was about five foot six?
1:07.0	Oh my.
1:08.0	And about a 140, 35, 40 pounds.
1:12.0	How much you figure it weighed?
1:15.6	Dude, I was not good. I went to New Orleans and I told him I said I should like to hold a B. Now I've been to nearly a hundred
1:29.2	so they got me one. Damn I couldn't hardly hold it up, but I did, you know.
1:37.0	That World War II Museum is something special, isn't it? I went, uh, let's see, I went let's see I went last fall to tour that museum that is
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