Shawn Ryan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What did it feel like when you got inducted into the U.S.
Special Operations Hall of Honor?
I didn't know about it.
You didn't know about it?
No, I didn't.
I had lost my wife, my son.
I was living in California and the general called me, look at his name now, and told me they were coming up with a program and they were looking for names to submit.
And he said, everybody kind of feel like maybe you would be the first one.
And I said, well, I don't know much about it, but they flew me from California where I was living to, I think I was in, flew me to Tampa.
It might have been Tampa, I don't know.
They flew me to Tampa.
And Admiral Olsen was a SEAL one time.
And he's still a SEAL.
He's still a Marine.
He's a nice guy.
He picked me to give me the first one.
I didn't get the medal at first.
They had to make this.
Then they sent it to me in the mail.
Then the Marines, this is the Vietnam medal right here.