John Irwin
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968 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
John Irwin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Happened, which has never happened before.
And then my granddad endured like 47 surgeries or something, came back 87 pounds, clinging to life.
The guy in the burn ward beside him, his wife came in, was so horrified by what she saw.
So it's like, that's not my husband, and she left like I was dead of a broken heart the next morning.
So my granddad was terrified of this.
Like
My grandmother comes in, having only received a telegram that he was injured.
Married three months before the war.
He goes away this super good looking guy, you know, look like Matt Damon.
He comes back.
Shell of a person, she comes in, he clutched the bomb like this.
Um, so the whole right side of his face, she finds the only unburned portion of his cheek, kisses him and says, Welcome home, I love you.
That gave him in the will to live.
And uh they had five kids all after.
Where there he is.
That's my granddad.
So the story of like uh but the idea of you know
To go above and beyond the call of duty and what that means, uh to do more than is required of you is how it uh That's red.
Or when my granddad, yeah.
What do you need to do?
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