John Irwin

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968 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 492: Jon Erwin—Young Washington · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

And uh it was very cloudy, very rainy, cold, and there were like generals and all these people, and then there was a bomber from the twentieth Air Force that found its way under the cloud line and tipped its wings, and then there were these two officers uh playing taps in echoing.

And I remember going up to one of them and saying thank you for

What you're doing for our family.

I'm so sorry you have to stand out here in the rain, sleet.

And they said, No, this is a your name, your father, your grandfather's one of our nation's heroes.

This is our honor.

And it just flipped a switch of curiosity of like, what did I miss?

So I got to go all over the country and find his only living crew members and eyewitnesses and talk to them and listen.

Okay.

And uh absolute blessing.

And uh one of them said he didn't save eleven guys, he saved generations of people.

And so and then a lot of times, like, what does this mean for me of going above and beyond the call of duty?

For me, it's just do the best you can, do more than is required of you.

What's his wife's name?

You know, my grandmother, there was a moment when my there she is.

These two.

That's incredible.

Look at that.

There was a moment like that.

I mean, it's just My grandfather, I remember my granddad had a stroke.

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