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Medal Of Honor Monday featuring World War II vet Staff Sgt. William James Bordelon
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We're tracking all this I'll keep you posted as the show goes throughout so that's gonna be part of the show sadly Another part of the show is going to be the dome VP watch The thinking was it was gonna be Shapiro of Pennsylvania But now he might be on the outs the rumors are flying that it's gonna be Tim Waltz of Minnesota Everyone listening to me right now in Minneapolis just drove their car off a bridge But it may very well be Tim Waltz I'll keep you posted if any of these things happen during the show as a journalist It's my obligation to tell you so I will let you know we really will Chris Michael They're monitoring all this stuff. We're monitoring it during the breaks We'll keep you posted whatever is going on out there, but we're done with politics for a few. I'm done with it I'm gonna talk a little bit of history because I think it might help Give us a little bit of perspective on some possible rocky times if today was the beginning of rocky times There may be just a little bit on the radar I think a little history is not only fun and interesting and beneficial But it can we can learn lessons from it and then from that that'll tie us right into The Medal of Honor citation which because of course, it's Medal of Honor Monday time, but said all that aside for a moment I want you to imagine something I want you to imagine this, right? You are a picture of football field in your mind football field Everyone knows what one looks like You are on the 10 yard line, right? You are 10 yards from the end zone You're 10 yards from a touchdown You have no cover because obviously it's a football field. You have no cover If you get to the end zone Which is 10 yards away, you win but I have four different machine gun nests aimed at you and As soon as they start shooting You're going to be torn to shreds Let me ask you something What would it take for you to walk that 10 yards to attempt to walk that 10 yards 10 yards only 10 yards? Gosh 10 yards pretty easy, right? Is there any amount of money that it would take to walk that 10 yards? Okay, no on the 10 yards. What if it was 50 yards? What if it was a hundred yards What if you had to make that walk with no cover at all for seven hundred yards Men have done that. Do you know that? Let's talk about Tarawa really quickly I'm not gonna do a huge back story on the war in the Pacific if you've listened to this show at all You know a bunch of it, but just know obviously the attack in Pearl Harbor comes The Japanese Imperial Empire. It was one of many attacks They launched over the next couple months They did a bunch over that 48 72 hours, but over the next couple months their plan was Let's take over all kinds of different places the Philippines and beyond Let's fortify these places. We know the Americans will be angry We know they'll counter attack, but we also know the Americans are super soft We'll kill enough of them eventually we'll sue for peace and then no matter what happens when the war is over We will have more territory than we had at the beginning of the war and we win That was the Japanese thinking when they launched the attack on Pearl Harbor. Okay, so they attack Pearl Harbor America gets fired up We decide we're going to attack Probably before we were ready, but we were trying to wrong foot the Japanese and we attack Guadalcanal It was really the first major campaign of the war Guadalcanal It's a famous one if you were a Marine, you know all about Guadalcanal. So the Guadalcanal Second Marine Division Guadalcanal. Okay. Guadalcanal ends the second Marine division. They pull these guys out They have suffered so many casualties They are disease-ridden because Guadalcanal is a jungle nightmare. So we're talking Barry Barry Malaria just horrible horrible diseases They pull this unit out and they send them to a place to rest and Retrain and get some men to replace all the ones you've lost. So we're talking second Marine Division here eventually these men are prepped and ready to go and Then the United States military decides on taking Tarawa Now I'm gonna give you just a little back and forth on how this went There are many men leaders at the time Who thought this entire campaign the attempt to take Tarawa was a critical mistake? There are many men like Chester Nimitz the famous Admiral who said it was a no-brainer You had to take Tarawa, but why would we take Tarawa? Well, remember this always remember this when it comes to the war in the Pacific You are marching essentially just look at that Pacific Ocean. You're marching from Hawaii and you're trying to get to Japan and you have all kinds of islands and island chains and things like that that are kind of on your way to Japan in What you have to do if you're America as you have to decide which ones you're gonna take Which ones you have to take which ones you just kind of want to take You're trying to take the islands because you're trying to take the airstrips The Pacific war is an airstrip war We believed in land-based bombers to help us take the next chain So we were trying to get to and we eventually did the Mariana Islands But before you got to the Mariana Islands you had to get to the Marshall Islands and before you got to the Marshall Islands You had to get to the Gilbert Islands and the Gilbert Islands brings us to a place called Tarawa and I swear there's gonna be a sunny Happier ending to this story when I get there. You're just gonna have to bear with me They choose the second Marine Division Guys who had already been hardened in combat from Guadalcanal Although they had a lot of green troops now because a lot of guys died and they say hey You go take Tarawa now Tarawa is The most tiny useless spit of ground you've ever seen in your life It's two miles long By 800 yards wide It's practically not even there and it's the kind of place if you're there during a hurricane You're gonna die. It's not even I don't even know how it's an island. It's not even there But it is in a really important strategic location and the Japanese know It's in an important strategic location So they do something that would end up serving them very very well, and it would serve us very very poorly they take one of if not their finest defensive commanders and They plant him on that island an entire year Before we landed on Tarawa an entire year what Chris you looking at the island. I know there's nothing There's just nothing there. All right, so they put this defensive commander on the island and they tell him Fortify it the Americans are coming in This guy using not only his Japanese troops But using a lot of slave labor the Japanese really they conscripted Koreans and Okanawans they were always grabbing slave labor wherever they could that they were just look it was a very barbaric army the Imperial Japanese army But using troops slave labor concrete coconut logs many many other things the Japanese spent an entire year Building bunkers and trenches and pillboxes and of course they put an airstrip on there Creating a place of death that they didn't think the Americans could take one Japanese commander famously said that it would take a million men to take Tarawa with a second Marine division didn't show up with a million men they showed up with themselves the Navy some Marines and What happened next is one of the worst and least known days in World War II history But this day we'll have a sunny ending to it We'll finish this up through a Medal of Honor citation get back to politics and Harris and the VP search and maybe some calls and other things Before we get to any of those things. 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All right Take it for three weeks every day watch that pain disappear Call 1-800 the number four relief or go to relief factor calm. We'll be back Feeling a little starchy follow like and subscribe on the chassis Kelly show on a Monday with market crashes and World War three So we figured reminds I'll do some history. I haven't even done Medal of Honor yet because we're leading up to it We're talking about Tarawa, and I'm not gonna recap all that if you miss any of it. Don't download a podcast I heart spotify iTunes. It's all free. Just go click it on your little phone there and it'll download That's what they tell me anyway. All right back to what we're talking about Tarawa second Marine Division We close it on Tarawa But this is going to be an amphibious operation From sea to land. I know that's pretty obvious But you need to understand something. It'll be really really important to understand the timeline of this This is in 1943 D-day was when 1944 when I say an amphibious operation People instinctively picture D-day the saving private Ryan or a book you read of the boats cruising right up and they This is one of the first amphibious operations. We've gone on and Something goes terribly wrong one Our guys were stuck as we approached the shore. I got our guys ended up getting stuck in a bay Why does that matter? Well when you're approaching a shore and the enemy is trying to kill you before you get there It's bad enough if you have rifle fire coming at you from one direction But what if it was coming at you from the front from the left and from the right with interlocking fields of fire Because they knew exactly where you'd be coming in and they have had a year to prepare for you coming in The Marines begin to land on the beaches of Normandy after a long navel bombardment But the problem was again, we're learning how to do this We didn't know how long the bombardment should be would you know if you'd never done this before I wouldn't know It's easy to look back, but how long do you have to take those gigantic navel guns and bomb the crap out of a place? Before it's sufficiently pacified an hour a day a week Who knows nobody knew and when you have Marines pushing towards the shore When do you stop the navel bombardment? Do you stop it? When their feet are hitting the beach. I don't know if you've ever been in close proximity to artillery fire I have had the distinct displeasure Let me tell you something you don't want to be landing on the beaches with navel gunfire also landing anywhere in the vicinity Or you are gonna have a very bad day. So you have to stop before they got you can you see what I mean? They end up stopping the navel gunfire what it turned out to be too early and we were using the wrong shells We didn't know yet that you would need penetration shells armor peels armor piercing shells Chris. Why don't you grow up? We didn't know we would need that So we bomb barred the place they stop it too early the Marines the ones who are lucky enough to get to the beach start dying Immediately and they have a seawall the Japanese have built a seawall for their own purposes a seawall made of coconut logs It's in the water. I need to point out. It's sticking out of the water, but it's in the water There is no other other cover Anywhere at all and the Marines who begin to land in the first waves are dying so fast They're stacked up on the beaches the ones who are not dead are almost all Powering in the water behind the coconut logs because there's nowhere else to go if you stick your head up at all and many of them did it gets taken off immediately because again You're being shot at by heavy machine guns from three different sides And I need to stress this this is this is one of the things about even D-Day This will apply to but we'll make it about terrible one of the things people don't fully grasp When you look at the total number of deaths the total number of casualties and so many different battles Especially in the Pacific, they're not eye-popping like a like a Nazi versus a Red Army battle where you'd have 200,000 dead or there nothing like that. It's a thousand guys. It's three thousand guys But for the frontline units who landed first it's oftentimes everyone there were boats 25-man boats that landed and three men walked away there were boats drifting out at sea for a long period of time after this Because they took so much machine gun fire on the way to the shore Everyone died including the Navy guy driving the boat and so the boat just kind of died and drifted off to see full of dead Marines full of dead sailors the people who landed in the teeth of Tarawa died in mass in droves They were just dying and dying and dying and those guys They honestly might have had it better than the next wave that came because the next wave that came ran into a problem They had different boats than the first wave and The Marines and the Navy They didn't pay enough attention to the tides There was a different tide that day a special tide that day and the water that was supposed to be five feet deep in some places was three feet deep and A bunch of these boats ended up getting caught on the reef seven hundred yards from shore at the mouth of the bay and Marines who were dying in the boats have no choice but to go over the side of the boat in water no rocks no logs no bunkers in water and Wade through seven hundred yards of machine gunfire Before they got to the coconut logs sea wall where other Marines were hiding at the time and they died in droves and With all that we're gonna do the Medal of Honor citation and then we'll say the good news And then we'll get back to some political stuff sound good Now I have some good news for you The good news is No matter where you live no matter who you are You have access to something that can save your life from a very bad person who wants to hurt you The burn a pistol launcher. 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Whatever you want Jesse at Jesse Kelly show dot-com finishing up our Medal of Honor citation here for Tarawa it is time to do it I just talked about the Marines who were stuck on the sea wall with Tarawa the Marines who are waiting in from the surf Marines and sailors are dying. They're dying in droves It's one of those horrible days in a day where everyone would have died had it not been for men like William James Bordelon and without further ado here it is Honoring those who went above and beyond it's Medal of Honor Monday For valorous and gallant conduct above and beyond the Call of Duty as a member of an assault engineer platoon of the first Italian 18th Marines tactically attached to the second Marine Division and Action against the Japanese held a toll of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands on the 20th of November 1943 Landing in the assault waves under withering enemy fire which killed all but four of the men in this tractor Staff Sergeant Bordelon hurriedly made demolition charges and personally put two pillboxes out of action Hit by enemy machine gun fire just as a charge exploded in his hand while assaulting a third position He graciously remained in action and although out of demolition Provided himself with a rifle and furnished fire coverage for a group of men scaling the sea wall Disregarding his own serious condition. He unhesitatingly went to the aid of one of his demolition men wounded and calling for help in the water Rescuing this man and another who'd been hit by enemy fire while attempting to make the rescue Still refusing first aid for himself He again made up demolition charges and single-handedly assaulted a fourth Japanese machine gun position But was instantly killed when caught in a final burst of fire from the enemy Staff Sergeant Bordelon's great personal valor during a critical phase of Securing the limited beachhead was a contributing factor in the ultimate occupation of the island and his heroic determination throughout the three days of violent battle reflects the highest credit upon the u.s. Naval service And he gallantly gave his life for this country And a bunch of Marines and sailors did They died in the water. They died on the beaches They drowned after being wounded They died on a horrible spit of island that none of us will ever see and they died Brave men and all of them deserve taps [Music] [Music] You know terra was a tremendously controversial at the time At the time it was it was met with a lot of public uproar over the slaughter the obviously details got back to the public back then the same way they would get back now and As you can imagine a lot of parents wanted to know why their 18-year-old son Died waiting in to shore because the boat couldn't get over the coral reef, you know It's one thing to die in combat to die like that for the reasons men died over there Doesn't make any sense certainly doesn't make any sense at the time it creates anger outrage Nimitz it was kind of his baby Nimitz would get letters. He would open them. He talked about it He would get letters from parents. You killed my son. You're the one responsible for killing my son And it was look we won that battle it was three days of horrific fighting, but we ended up winning but I I wanted to tell you that because I thought maybe it would help in Case we are going into some really really rocky crazy times Maybe we are going into a market that's gonna keep dropping. I hope not I think not but who knows Maybe we are going into World War three. It certainly looks like the Iran Israel thing that is looking increasingly inevitable Maybe they were maybe we're going into a dome presidency. I don't know. Maybe maybe we are heading into some really really rocky times But I just want to say this about Tarawa It's not famous. Most people don't know about it. Most people don't know anything about it It's not famous like D-Day is famous But let's talk about D-Day D-Day Was very very successful for a long list of reasons. I'm not going to oversimplify it at all But one of the main reasons We were equipped to pull off an operation like D-Day the landing at Normandy was because of Tarawa You know one of the main reasons you had Navy SEALs today Did you know it was Tarawa? After that we were so mortified by the fact that our boats were getting stuck on the reef We didn't know about the tide. We didn't know about this. We didn't know about that after that They decided we really need some advanced reconnaissance teams some UDT They were known as underwater demolition teams. We needed some very brave very very capable men Who could go in before the battle and mark where the fortifications are blow things up if necessary? Figure out the depth here the depth there Where's there a machine gun nest? That was the genesis of the US Navy SEALs Tarawa D-Day Tarawa in fact every amphibious landing from that point forward in the war It was in large part influenced by Tarawa and the lessons we learned there hard times even horrible times even deadly times times that cost us lives They can be used to learn valuable valuable lessons about the future about what's really important Look, we weren't sinking big money into amphibious vehicles before then and finally we figured out Wow, we really need things that can cruise through the surf and actually land on the beaches a Lot of a lot of the best lessons most of the best lessons in life are learned through hardship And I'm not trying to in any way minimize or be dismissive of the fact that you woke up today And your 401k took a beating and might take another one tomorrow. I know I get it but Just know that we'll get through it. Hopefully most of us will anyway and out the back end. We'll learn some lessons. All right All right Let's do some emails before we get back to all the politics and things like that dear Jesse This ladies mad at Trump dear Jesse. I wish Trump had not started calling Kemp names, but for okay So let me update everyone who might not know I'm not gonna read the whole post but Trump took to social media and Gave it to Brian Kemp the governor of Georgia He gave it to him both barrels and brought up his wife in the in the post it was a long post I'm not gonna read the whole thing. It just that's in case you're not on the uptake That's what Trump was blasting away. He was blasting weight camp on social media She said I think Kemp should have bowed to Trump keb should have come out quickly and expressed his support Jesse will Republicans ever grow unity. I can't use that word like the Democrats do Well, they ever do unity or in her name is Diane. Okay, so let's discuss this Trump Kemp thing Unity what we can expect going forward. 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That's why they found the show. These are our people Go to chalk calm c h o q Dot-com promo code Jesse gets you a huge discount on subscriptions. All right. All right. We'll talk about this Trump camp thing next Jesse Kelly show if you missed any part of our show download whatever you want. I hard-spotify iTunes we did some economy talk patriotism talk. We did some history metal of honor Monday now Let's dig into this whole Trump camp thing Got a bunch of emails about this people are are frustrated Fresh and look I got a bunch of emails on it oracle You've always talked about how the system the first few system disruptors are not tough enough or smart enough Trump is proving that now. He's mad about the Trump thing going up against an all-powerful system Instead he's going back to unforced errors. I've seen this movie before. Okay, so first I Understand what you're saying about the Trump the social media post blasting George's governor First we need to talk about the background of this a little bit. All right, maybe you'll love this or not But this is just it is what it is Donald Trump believes To his core that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him He believes there was cheating he believes that Brian Kemp of Georgia allowed Facilitated whatever way you want to put it. He believes Brian Kemp of Georgia Is at least partially responsible for him no longer being in the White House? I am not that this stop for a second. Don't start screaming at me. I'm not justifying blasting away Three months before the election Adam on social media. I'm not I'm trying to explain how he thinks Also, there's this As I have said before Donald Trump is a junkyard dog What does that mean? He attacks everyone everyone who who I Don't even want to say lashes out at him It doesn't always have to be that anyone who makes him angry for any reason Trump will blast you he will blast you without hesitation and he's not going to change This is a 70 some year old billionaire former president of the United States of America Those guys don't change their ways for anyone for any reason. He is a junkyard dog Now you love the junkyard dog when he eats the robber who broke in to kill your family You hate the junkyard dog when he eats the mailman and you go to prison or get sued But nevertheless, that's what he is This is how Trump does politics. It's not going to change ideally Because Georgia is a swing state Trump needs to win remember that Electorly remember this remember We need to in November. We need to sweep the Sun Belt We need to switch the Arizona's the Georgia's we need to own those and then We need to if we own those if we own those we need to pick off one of Ohio Pennsylvania or Wisconsin That is the presidential election. That's what you need to pay attention to sweep the Sun Belt grab one of those states Sweep the Sun Belt grab one of those states Is it strategically sound For any reason to blast the governor and his wife which he kind of did in One of the critical Sun Belt states three months before the election and remember were one month before people start voting No, it's not true. I don't know what you want me to say. It's dumb. It's it's a dumb thing to do but he's not gonna change and This is the way it is and it's him or don't look it's it's him or this So you're now no longer are you necessarily keeping those private files in some file cabinet that's locked in the basement of the house It's on your laptop and it's then therefore up here in this cloud That exists above us, right? It's no longer in a physical place And we can't afford that all right, so maybe that helped maybe it didn't look do you want to feel better? You want to feel better? I'll make you feel better about something My wife told me I have small hands Oh Chris, I've never been more devastated. I forgot to tell you I Have big hands everyone who's watching on the simulcast right now can see and you can watch me do the radio show on the first TV You can read the simulcast that I'm doing it live right in front of you right here It's not like I'm hiding in a dungeon somewhere. Do you see these hands look the size of these hands? I could pretty much what Chris I can pretty much palm a basketball with these hands. Yes, I can Chris Yes, I can it depends on the basketball. They've got to be a good grip, but I know not a little nerf ball No, no like a full-sized basketball whatever Chris But she just we were at lunch the other day that she just looks at she says you know your hands aren't that big I've never been told that in my entire life I've always been told my hands are huge So maybe you're feeling down about the state of the race and all that at least your wife didn't drop that little bomb on you small hands Jesse This is not nice Jesse look into Boseley products to regrow your hair. They're legit I don't know what Boseley products are, but I'll have bought its Bosley Bosley Chris, how do you know when it really said whatever? What would you know about it? You have hair? You don't know anything about this stuff. Anyway, look. I'll have you know I don't need your Bosley or Bosley or whatever this person's name is I don't need to meet them at all Why? You know, I know it's been a lot of bad news today We've all lost our retirement account and and dome was getting ready to pick that nutball from Minneapolis for Minnesota to be her VP And I know all that's bad in World War three and stuff but get this So I got out of the shower today and I was shaving my neck I couldn't show up with a neck beard on a Monday. I got out of the shower today And I was shaving my neck you know how I have this little widow's peak up here some balding my hair lines were treating Got a couple little hairs sprouting out in there. What Chris, where are you rolling your eyes? We're getting the band back together. I'm telling you the body is what don't shake your head my body is If you ever seen any of the Wolverine movies or read the comic books what Chris listen My body regenerates and very similar to what Wolverines does. I was bald for a short period of time I woke up today and look there were two hairs. It was too. I counted them. There were two. I didn't cut them off I didn't shave them off tomorrow might be three Might be fourth the next day. I don't know where we're gonna go from here All I know is these luscious locks are coming back, right? And I also know that these people are freaking demons. What week of pregnancy should abortion access be cut off? We need to restore the protections of Roe versus Wade, which we're not trying to do something new Well, that was been fabulous because it was about viability which could be anywhere between 20 to 24 weeks and but So no, no, no, no, no, let's let's let me be very the Women's Health Protection Act that let me be very clear From day one the president has been clear. I have been clear We need to put back The protections that are in Roe v. 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