Chapter 1: What does the nation remember on Veterans Day?
Nineteen years have passed, and once again in silence, the nation observes the day of remembrance. The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, and his Under Secretary, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, receive their majesties on their arrival at the Clyde Steps. And once again, the Cenotaph is the central focus of the Empire's remembrance.
Although a new king comes out to face the simple monument, the scene is the same as it always has been, but it has lost nothing in impressiveness with the passing of time. Once again, the king's act of homage is the symbol of the homage of his people. The music fades away and remembrance is united in the common silence around the common memorial.
Chapter 2: What incident disrupted the silence of remembrance?
But this year it isn't quite the same. The silence is marred by an incident. A man breaks through the guard of honor just on the left of the cenotaph and rushes towards the king. The police seize him and drag him away.
Chapter 3: How do we honor living veterans on this day?
We show this brief scene again so that you can see the incident more clearly just on the left of the cenotaph. And while the nation remembers the million dead, it is well too that we should not forget those living, the men who, 20 years after, bear the scars of Europe's tragic mistakes. For them, there can be no compensation for the toll on their health and strength.
A few moments after the silence, His Majesty the King walks along Whitehall to lay a second wreath at the foot of the memorial to Earl Haig, which was unveiled the day before. And then, for the 19th time, the great pilgrimage begins.
Lifted the nations of the world to the high levels of vision and achievement, upon which the great wars of democracy and right was fought and won. And although the stimulating memories of that happy time of triumph
was rather marred and embittered for us by the shameful fact that when victory was won, won, be it remembered, treated by the indomitable spirit, non-wielding sacrifice, in our own intolerable soldier, we turned our backs upon our associates, the fewest there in our
A responsible part in the administration of peace, our firm and permanent establishment took the results of the war, one that, though terrible of course, was life and treasure, and withdrew into a sullen and selfish isolation, which is deeply ignoble, though it manifests cowardly and dishonorable. This must always be a source of deep mortification for us.
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Chapter 4: What unique challenges do veterans face today?
and we should inevitably be forced by the moral obligations of freedom and honor to achieve that fatal error and assume once more the role of courage, self-respect and helpfulness which every true American must wish to believe be the true part, our true part in the affairs of the world. that we should thus have done a great wrong to civilization.
But one of the most critical turning points in the history of mankind is the war to be deplored because every anxious fear that has fallen has made the exceeding need for such services as we might have wanted more and more manifest and more and more pressing. as demoralizing circumstances, which we might have controlled, have gone from bad to worse.
Until now, as if to furnish a sort of filth to climax, France and Italy, between them, have made waste paper on the Treaty of Versailles, and the whole sheath of international relationships is in perilous confusion. The affairs of the world can be set straight only by the determined and most determined exhibition of the will to lead and make the right to the right prevail.
Certainly the present situation of affairs in the world affords us an opportunity to retrieve the past and to render mankind the impossible service
are proving that there is at least one great and powerful nation which can put aside programs of selfish interests and devoted self to practicing and establishing the highest ideals of 50% service and the consistent means to result in standards of conscience and of rights This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
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Chapter 5: How have military institutions evolved over 250 years?
Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
Chapter 6: What personal stories highlight the sacrifices of veterans?
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
It's Tuesday, 11 November, in the year of early 2025. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns went silent. That was to bring down the curtain on what they called the Great War, the catastrophe that basically kicked off what we call the short 20th century, really from August, let's say July, August of 1914, until, I don't know... November, December of 1989.
Follow the Berlin Wall. Today's Veterans Day, it was called Veterans Day, was shifted to Veterans Day I think in 1954, General Eisenhower, because to call it Armistice Day was a little, I don't know, a little uncomfortable since that armistice essentially laid the foundation for even a greater war, greater catastrophe for humanity that was World War II. And so they shifted it to Veterans Day.
Chapter 7: What are the current issues facing veterans and their families?
Here in the war room, as you know, we bifurcate Memorial Day, which is for our honored dead, and Veterans Day is for we the living. The president today, though, is going about 1030. He will go to Arlington National Cemetery. There will be a wreath laying. We will cover that, obviously, all live. We're going throughout the day. Talk about...
veterans obviously but the institutions that they were are veterans of these our army our Navy and our Marine Corps All 250 years old and how unique that is in human history to have institutions that are basically more powerful, more focused, a greater global presence after a quarter of a millennia. That happens very, very, very rarely.
Chapter 8: How does the episode conclude on the importance of remembrance?
And there's something to how does that happen? How did these how did these institutions which have problems? I mean, the Navy's got a huge ship building problem. I think a ship handling problem, just basic seamanship. Army's got tons of problems, Marine Corps, but all of them work through those problems and can deliver when you need it. As we said last night in the last 600 meters.
And by the way, it's so extraordinary to see that play on national TV and all the great comments the war and posse had that that watched it. can take them off the chain. The fighting men and women of our armed services have never let us down. Where you've had problems is political interference.
As they said the other night when we had the screening of the last 600 meters here, one of the Marines said, you just take the Marines off the chain and they will deliver a victory. Now, people may not like the way that victory comes about, but when you're in war fighting, it's only about victory. It's about victory. I've got Tej Gill is writing Shotgun with me, Patrick K. O'Donnell.
Patrick, you've done so much about the First World War. Really today for so long was Armistice Day. That's why the British, they said right there, one million dead in the United Kingdom. That's why Great Britain never really recovered from World War I. World War II was essentially the knockout blow for the empire. And I think Churchill knew that. That's why he was so adamant.
in anti-Nazi and anti-Hitler in those years in the wilderness in the 1920s and 1930s because he realized any kind of concentration of power on the European continent would put the empire at great risk. Your thoughts today, sir, Veterans Day, Patrick K. O'Donnell, our greatest, in his generation, the greatest combat historian, sir.
Steve, it's an honor and a pleasure to be with you today. I think about the men, the Marines that I was with in Fallujah on every Veterans Day. Last night, I had the privilege to be with them on the Marine Corps birthday. We celebrated last night. Marine Corps birthday and just celebrated being alive after Fallujah.
That charnel house of some of the toughest urban combat since World War II, where you had bunkered enemies like the Japanese that would fight to the death. And I was with some of the greatest Americans I've ever met and a generation of Americans with the Marine Corps in particular. I was with Lima Company 3-1. I was with Recon before that. And I saw a generation that it just blew me away.
that, you know, one house after another. The platoon went from 60 men down to 20 men standing. Many guys had multiple Purple Hearts, but would consistently leave the aid station to come back with their brothers.
No, this is, you know, last night, you know, I had Michael Pack co-host it, and I told the story when Michael Pack went and screened the film for the Force Recon Marines of Peleliu and Tarawa. Those two amphibious landings were absolute slaughter pins. And you could argue the force recon of the Marines is the top 1%. It's the greatest of the greatest generation.
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