John Irwin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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person when when a lot of the army could say, All I have to do is get to December thirty first and then I can go home.
For thousands of those people to stay because of one person, there had to be something uncommon about this one leader that's like, I'm gonna stay and fight and die for that guy even when I don't have to.
And so that you know, a lot of storytelling is just really sitting with that and trying to find out what in the world would have forged that in anyone.
A couple of guys get up and they just Benny Swood did that film, yeah, with the with the actual guys.
You know what I came to I asked this again, these it's fun to have
You never get to have extended interviews.
You never actually you know, you you're always answering the same four questions.
Not here.
But but my grandfather I thought about this in depth.
In depth.
No, no, this is great.
It's uh
My grandfather received the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II.
He was uh a radio operator on board of B-29 Super Fortress.
Uh uh a uh one of his jobs was to drop a phosphorus flare.
Phosphorus burns two thousand degrees, it'll burn through steel, it'll burn underwater.
Um they hit an air pocket, the bomb went back up into the plane, ignited in his face.
And instead of trying to save himself, he actually grabbed the bomb like a football, marched it all the way to the front of the plane, threw it out of the front of the plane, and it started this.
s series of very, very um unlikely events that got him the Medal of Honor in in a week.
It was the only it was a a stolen medal from Pearl Harbor 'cause it's the only one in the Pacific.
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