Mark Koernke discussed the November 2011 Republican presidential debate, highlighting Ron Paul's consistency and superior performance compared to other candidates like Rick Perry. He shared extensive personal family history from World War II, including detailed accounts of his father's service as a gunner's mate on a destroyer escort that was struck by a kamikaze attack, his injuries, recovery in a death ward, and the broader context of naval warfare in the Pacific. The show covered preparedness themes, militia communication network expansion plans across Michigan and neighboring states, historical newspaper archives showing advance knowledge of Pearl Harbor, and medical field treatment techniques including the use of bleach and cayenne pepper. Koernke emphasized the importance of community preparation and urged listeners to support the Hautari YouTube page.
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A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and, speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave in this land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can control. You pay for crimes that make our mission turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep and deep. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. and your daughters and doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live fear and enslave? Oh sons of the republic, arise. Take a stand. Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of land. Preserve our great republic and each god given right. And pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words are true. We are not free. We have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called up from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? I have seen this before we all have so And ladies and gentlemen, we are back. This is the evening intelligence report. I'm Mark Courtney. And I'm Ben Petrie. One to closer to victory for all our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, central, southeast, and east. Well ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on Liberty Tree Radio dot 4mg dot com, AM & FM Microstations, CB Bay Stations, and Ultra Net Technologies both east and west of the Mississippi along with Southern and Central Alaska. Hallmark Network, Eastern Seaboard, Top of Maine, Bottom of Florida, Bottom of Florida, across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, headed to Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the Pitt and the 3rd. Then sweeping across the plains over the Mississippi and landing in the Smokies with the restaurant crews and grandma teams, the OK teams and the Ma Bell Grammar Consortium doing their part to bring us a replacement through the internet. Copper, fiber and wireless. Well I'll tell you what Don, it is cold and clear. We got a big moon out there right now. You don't need a flashlight. It is a big moon and we have no clouds in the sky for the moment. Now when I stepped off to do the program after the program, we did. Now, in the time it took before we started this hour, clear sky, so you can see forever, but of course the moon is blocking part of your perception of the rest of the stellar environment, but brightest light bulb out there. What is the day today, sir? What's it like in your neck of the woods? Well, Mark, on this tenth day of October, November, year of our Lord, 2011, there's a star in the sky here. It's overcast from horizon to horizon, and it's probably the tail end of What was in your neck of the woods in the middle of the day? So that tells me by dawn here it might be pretty cold because all of that cloud cover will be gone and Oh, Donald be the 11th, but today is the 10th day of November 2011 Real quick here just a touch on this When Ron Paul was standing there, they put him almost at the end. They've done this to him a number of times, put him almost at the end way over there. But they did put him next to that other guy from Texas. Some of them people in Texas call him the man with the perfect hair. Ron Perry, kind of rhymes with hair. Ron Perry. At any rate, Mr. Perry, that's not what's his first name. I don't even remember. That's how much I pay. I think his last name is Perry. I'm sorry, what? Terry? Yeah, there you go. Okay. We talked about him stumbling earlier on, you know, just coming to a part where his brain didn't seem to function correctly. And we talked about that earlier. But did you see the picture? I've only seen it as a picture, Mark. They haven't reproduced this in any way in the mainstream that I've been able to see where it's actually talking. But there's a picture of him. It looks like he's almost ready to poke out Ron Paul's eye while he's pointing at him. No doubt trying to reinforce a point he's trying to make while he's pointing his finger at him. It's about less than a hand's length away from Ron Paul's face. Isn't that the same guy that put a hand on Ron Paul earlier? Do you remember rightly? That's Mr. Perry, one of who stepped up. Yes, of course he did fumble the ball badly trying to act like a Ron Paul. Actually, it was a really, really, really, really, really bad Ron Paul clone moment where unlike Ron Paul who typically can remember what it is that he wants to cut and why, Perry couldn't even remember the names of the organizations that he was supposed to be cutting, if supposedly he would. And it's funny because they even tried to pin him down and he kind of threw out like, you know, like the EPA and of course the the Hell-assing the eco-freaks and the socialist want is the EPA thrown out of the United States So they certainly didn't want that seed planted even though Ron Paul would tell you yep, you get rid of the EPA Plastic Perry, that's actually what he boarded out. And it's like you mean you want to get rid of the EPA? He goes, well, it's like that. It's like, well, yeah, well Is it or isn't it? It's like, you got it, you got it, you got it. So in other words, his notes weren't complete and the teleprompter wasn't running, obviously. You guys want to see the example of a statesman and, you know, in this instance, you have to put politician in there too because of the arena he stands in. And remember, I've only seen snippets in little portions. very small percentage of the current Republican, the candidate debates. But you guys look at the portion where that guy from Texas, the man with the perfect hair, is waving his hands and he's counting on the three things he's gonna want and he mentioned something and two and he mentioned something, he can't come up with the other and as he's stumbling, he almost appears to get it. Ron Paul waves a hand and says five. And it just completely crushes him. He goes back to, like you took two spark plugs out of a six cylinder motor. Well, actually I think the biggest problem and again, what's interesting, I don't he must have different hair pieces. I guess I have plastic Perry polyester rather than human hair But you know the he has two hair pieces for different events and that one it was supposed to be the serious and squared away But in reality, I think it it really did him a disservice because I noticed what he was scrunching It didn't move with him I think the electric energy charged to the top of his brain where he was trying to suck in Ron Paul Power from somewhere. It didn't do him a darn bit of good. And that's why it looked like he was misfiring there. The interesting thing about this with regard to the rest of the characters is that not one of them could even come close. As far as I'm concerned, watching each of the little, I mean there's been emails, I had a bunch of them that were sent, I haven't a chance to go through 90% of what we had in the last air tour because we've been run, run, run them. But, I would point out that the only one that looked like Ron Paul was Ron Paul, and the rest were like really cheap communist Chinese knockoffs if you ask me, Don. Oh, exactly, and trying to pick up, oh, and telling you how consistent they are. And you know, the guy that says 999 and then 909 and now it's back to 909. And I'm consistent, somebody else says, when you don't like their policies. But he's consistently something that people don't like. That's the only way to see that, isn't it? Boy oh boy. You know, since you feel wonder they call it polypics, isn't it? Oh Winterbourn, go ahead. Well I was just saying, consistently stupid. Well, you know the sad part is, as was pointed out by several people, the only thing he could do is smile, chuckle, and look stupid. And the rest of them didn't look any better, except for Ron Paul, who knew exactly what he wanted. You know, like he said, oh no, not three, five, three, not three, five at least, right off the bat. And he even put his hand, he said, five. and All of the above are desperately trying to and have tried to engineer, re-engineer and then have backpedaled how many different times now. Absolutely no consistency and it guarantees it will be nothing more than the usual skank business as usual if any of those shysters are put in. The only... It only reinforces Ron Paul's words from this past Sunday. As the Americans see these, he didn't say buffoons but I will, As the Americans, the people see these buffoons, they're going to figure out that they run this way and they run that way and they tell you one thing and tell you something else. I'm the only one, Ron Paul's words, that is consistent in my message and look at my record. Those were his words this past Sunday and they ring true yesterday here in Michigan. Now interesting thing about this is again guys They're desperately trying everything they can to avoid talking about Ron Paul Which is why as we've said Ron Paul for president Ron Paul for president Ron Paul for president The only way that that name is going to get out there is if we make it happen Not waiting for the system to do anything because it won't That's the one fact that we have to remember it won't if it's gonna happen you and I and everybody else out there listening We're gonna have to do it guys So, just keep that at the top of the list of, you know, if you want to do a hobby right now, drop the sports, the hell with any of the other BS, you're dumping money into somebody else's pocket that hates you with a passion because people who own the sports industry hate America. They're just laughing their arse off, they're using it on us. Instead, may just have some fun sticking, you know, taking a pipe and putting it in the bicycle spokes of the globalist wherever you can. It's a lot more fun to watch to see how they sputter putter and then you know fall flat on their face And this is one of those situations where right now why ask for what why expect a cheap Chinese copy vote Ron Paul Or why accept a cheap Chinese copy voting Ron Paul Ron Paul yeah, exactly uh other things here on the horizon real quick by the way, you got a Boy, there's a pile of stuff there. Yeah, where do I start? Let's see we have a party on the beach this Saturday party on the beach this Saturday party on the beach this Saturday That's gonna keep us tied up a little bit Plus we have a series of other meetings that are going on over the weekend some are pretty critical and that they're directional meetings There was a great deal of discussion because of yesterday With regard to other single communications that need to be up and online And for those of you who haven't crossed all the I's, dotted all the T's, and underlined with a squiggle, oh that's right, underlined with a squiggle, get my drift, I's and T's. Anyway, as long as you get something in motion, that's a plus, but doing it right is most important. So, dotting all of the I's, and crossing all of the T's is really what we want to see happen. To do that, we need to have some decisions made on whether or not we're going to spend the resources on doing a grand sweep of Michigan here to hook everybody back up with yet another series of communication grids and networks. If we do this, we've got to commit manpower, and it means doing it as quickly as possible. You don't hesitate, you don't wait. When you start on these projects, you just run until you drop. We've done it before. I don't know if I'm going to be doing it this time, but I can help. But it's somebody else going to step forward and we're going to have to tag team this. Also remember we've got the Upper Peninsula, the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio that will be integrated with this and the decision is going to be what equipment, what wholesalers, where to buy the the miles of cable that are needed. Because guys if we put up a tower, let's put it this way. The tower is so many feet from the building. The tower is also so many feet tall. Trust me when I say we have laid hundreds of miles of cable in a day. How many radio stations that is? Like I said, until you see cross-eyed. Of course, the idea is to have everything prepped so when you come in, all you do is set everything up, run the cable, plug everything in, check to make sure the load's correct, everything's soldered right, double check to make sure everything's linked up, and then hit the power, and then do a frequency test, and then tune the antenna accordingly, and then get on to the next one. As soon as you're done, here you go. Here's the instructions. Here's your microphone. Congratulations. We're on down the road. and we're looking at that as a serious project. It means we have to buy thousands of connectors. We're gonna look at solder. I mean, all the trinkets have to be in place too, but it's all bulk and it's all repeat, repeat, repeat. So that's something that's in motion right now. It's already been discussed. The CB grid needs to be expanded upon dramatically. That's not that difficult, but there are things that can be improved upon. We need to finish that up and we need to finish it up now. Again, yesterday probably was the best example. We had a lot of things that were covered properly. but there are things that could have been done better. The bad guys had their exercise, we had ours. Okay, so it went well, but it could have gone better. And that's where the, that'll be addressed this weekend, a series of militia and other Patriot meetings around the country on the subject. Oh, let's see, we're headed towards the bottom of the hour, Don. Oh, something, by the way, guys in the chat room, this is really, I wish I could say, Don, look at this, I can hold the microphone in this direction. Hold on, there you go. You see the microphone? Well something that we've talked about a lot. I want to say Ralph Epperson actually has this on his page www.ralph-epperson.com Ralph Epperson dot com and if you scroll down It's the now this is really neat because this is a copy right out of the archives for Hawaii it is Let's see 16 cards 0 osc wins to get Rose Bowl bid. Yeah, oh, isn't it Ohio State? No, no, I can't be your host a college. What is all see? Ohio I'll give you Ohio State College. Yeah, OSC We just noticed Ohio State University now, don't we? I think that may be the change that's possible But the date on this you'll recognize where I'm going with this. This is from Hawaii Hilo, uh, Hilo Hawaii Sunday, November 30th, 1941. It is the Hilo Tribune Herald. What's the headline? Japan May Strike Over Weekend. Wait a minute, it was a total surprise. Nobody knew the Japanese were coming. That's a weekend before. Yeah. Steps taken to end docked delays here. That's of course docked delays as in a shipping. Football scores, very important. Midshipmen pit, Huskies, other winners. Let's see, Army charters, Humula for 16 day period. Sounds like a training operation or facilities and operations. British ships aid Russians. But the headline, top of the page, Japan may strike over weekend. Well, I wonder how the people felt like Monday morning, Tuesday. Wow, they didn't so I guess they won't Yeah, oops. Oh just a few more days sir and of course the 30th that was the weekend of the 30th that was Sunday So the next weekend was Pearl Harbor. Yep In other words may strike over the weekend. Well Sunday was the weekend end of the weekend so I would say Which weekend were you talking about guys? Oh the next weekend coming out. Oh, that's crazy. Nobody to attack on December 7th do Anyway, the point is that It's just something that is in the archives, it's in Florida, in Hawaii they can't argue it. It came from the archive, actually from the library that has the archival information on hand. Very interesting little read right there. So if you go to the Epperson, RalphEpperson.com, a bunch of interesting cartoons. One of them I actually have a copy of. I have an original copy of the cartoon. Planned Economy or Planned Destruction from the Chicago Tribune April 21, 1934. And it's got a little picture of Trotsky with a little bullet board over in the corner. I have one of those. The character that did that cartoon series used to be... Reprinted virtually across the country and I remember even in a little paper before it went out of business here Used to carry a bunch of unique political cartoons you haven't seen for you know 50 years now 40 years now at least but this particular cartoon I remember I have a copy of it because I collect papers and stuff guys and you know from the One of the biggest sales they have in Ann Arbor once a year used to be stuff would get tossed out there'd be you know people have scrapbooks or people would have Documents and stuff I would go through those and just put them on my shelf and then look at them later and go. Ooh, this is old Now of course, it's really really antique, but also their logic was everybody burned them all The interesting thing is it's Trotsky plan of action for the US, spin, spin, spin. A little board on the side with Trotsky writing it says, spin, spin, spin, under the guise of recovery, bust the government, blame the capitalists for the failure, junk the Constitution and declare a dictatorship. Wow, how many steps was that? Like seven? Six of them are happening right now. A little comment made by Trotsky up above is, it worked in Russia. So, an interesting little piece there, by the way, but it's a little cartoon, it's the very beginning of the page, and they have the overview cartoon itself. Same author, and of course, in the background, Stalin. Ooh, this is 1934, it has Stalin standing in the background. Oh, he hasn't ascended yet. Well, no, he actually is. It says how red the summer is getting. Hint hint wink wink now down they got a member 34 That's while the shyster area of course by FDR has declared the war powers act in 33 the whole nine yards so this is with all the BS and agenda plugged in and then the rest of the Soviet moving inside the United States Or Fabian's depending on which click you were with but still the same same agenda different day interesting piece But as it is just real quick you get a chance you can scroll down my favorite of course is the little headline from the news The Hilo Tribune dated Sunday November 30th 1941 all the other news and informations there too in the process etc etc, so there's no doubt and of course Let's see Japan did strike December 7th 1941 as he said. Over the weekend. Yep, so over the next weekend we'll figure, so you know, did they have to say next weekend? They said, Japan may strike over the weekend. And that was the end of Sunday or about, that was the Sunday morning paper that they put that in. The weekend was already ending, the one that they were in. So you'd be kind of late for the announcement there, wouldn't it? Yeah, Monday was the retraction and the little tiny print that said, they just didn't build them as fast as we thought. Yeah, go back to sleep. Just go back to sleep for a few more days. Don't worry, you'll wake up to something you really don't like. It's a bit more northerly route. Another thing about that on that note too is, again for everybody who's taking the time, a lot of parents and grandparents, some of you it will be grandparents, in this case my parents are in their 90s. Both of them, they were married before World War II, they were 17 when they got married. Both are the oldest of eight on each side of the family. My mom's the oldest of eight, my dad's the oldest of eight. They were married before the war, watched everything develop. My dad got into the trades, got in as a machinist, and eventually worked as a, got into tool and die. Of course, they drafted him, or didn't draft him. Actually, he volunteered, because if they drafted me, they'd have gone wherever they wanted. So he volunteered and joined the Navy. Now you would think that since he was a machinist, what would you give him as a job? Oh, something to keep a machine running. Yeah, exactly. Well, make him a machinist on a ship, right? Yeah. Oh no, he was a gunner's mates. And what's cute is the guy that was a machinist had never touched a piece of equipment in his life and didn't even know what the hell he was doing. So guess my dad said he goes he wasn't perturbed about it, but you know he was everybody laughs Just like you did do it's like yep typical military The guy that knew how to run the equipment wasn't anywhere near it the guy that didn't have a clue about how to run the equipment is a guy that gave the job to Right that's your way to normal yep snafu so what it was interesting is basically my dad spent a good portion of his time if he wasn't you know on gun and obviously they called the station they were on their guns and If they had to do maintenance or whatever they were on their guns But he was teaching the guy how to use all the equipment in the machine shop And so he pretty much did about the same job he did if he only had two jobs because he was busy showing the kid how to use all the all use the lathes use the grinders you know how to you know how to put stuff together how to calculate things and Because that was all done manually back in the day guys and then on top of that of course he was on a quad 40 they were very the quad 40s were not common on a destroyer, but they were at a destroyer escort and The destroyer escorts had more anti-submarine and more anti-aircraft, fewer offensive guns. So what they did is they took off that fifth turret, replaced that with a second whole rack of hedgehog and conventional can depth charges, and then put a quad 40 gun basically just behind where the original 5 inch gun would be. And that's the station that he was on when they were Kamikaze. And otherwise it wouldn't be here. Fortunately he flew forward, landed in the bridge, everybody else on board his gun, deader to doornail except for one man who was cut in half by almost in half, literally right up to under the heart with the... It was argued the prop of the aircraft got him. This is what it did from the Betty Bombers. Sliced him from the groin all the way up just underneath the heart. Almost cut in twain from below. And the guy lived. He was in the death ward with my father. There's a story. My dad, of course, lost half of everything internally. He was split right up wide open. The other guy was cut wide open. Take your pick. Blown open or chopped open. Which way do you want to go? And in both cases, they were both in the death ward. They were put in the death ward at the same time, spent 90 days there. They waited 90 days for both those men to die before they decided maybe they wouldn't. Think about that and you know what I've always said this guys you think you got it tough I've always you know thought about what it would be like if you're in a deal your death word you're still a bit of a daze because of course they were pumping them up with morphine and penicillin G There wasn't anything to make any noise. There was no television You 24 7 you got to stare at the green oily greasy hot roof of a Hospital tent on a tropical island and every bug that flew through your field of vision and some that crawled. Yep, in fact, when he went into the death ward, it was a tropical, it was beginning of the monsoon season, the mud inside the tents guys was up to the bottom of the cot. When the men came around, the nurses and the doctors came around, they sludged through the mud, calf high. And the one thing he has, it was a very vivid memory, is to save them from the bugs, A guy would walk down between the rows of cots. There were about 300 men total in the death ward at any given time. Of the 300, they cleared the place out approximately three times before he left. Now think about that. Now of course there's three men. There's him, the other man from his gun, and another man who was badly burned were shipped out the same day, but they were the first to be shipped out in however long, and they came out of the death ward. And the only thing they did for you is basically they changed the dressings. Of course, they did the initial surgeries. Then they put you in the death ward and they came around and they smelled your wounds to smell if they were gangris. They gave you a shot of penicillin G. This is every hour. They gave you a shot of penicillin G and a shot of morphine or Marfia. And then this guy would come along, this was his television experience guys, he could see the guy because he watched him when he got in his field of view. He had a 5 gallon can of kerosene with a dripper spout on it like he used for a heater unit like for when you turn a 5 gallon can upside down, he uses a drip unit for a stove. And the guy walked through and he would spread, he would drip kerosene on the mud so that the bugs would not grow because they wouldn't have any oxygen or if they did develop they would be coated with the oil and would kill them. So he had that smell on top of the smell of 298 other people dying by inches and everything from gaseous gangrene to injuries and barbecued flesh, the likes of which you really probably can't imagine, inside a closed space. Where all you got to look at was a green ceiling You turn left you got to see misery if you turn to right you got to see misery if you pick your head up to look past your feet you got to see more misery and If you looked at yourself all of a sudden you realize again why you're there. Yeah. Oh, yeah I will point out my dad never told me and I relate this for a reason because it's my family history, but I For whatever reason, we were swimming one day, and of course he picked out a piece of plane, is what he did. We were standing there on a piece of one of the, either the part of the destroyer or part of the Japanese plane came out of his side. A big chunk about the size of, half of the end of a pencil. And you just, you kind of like, and you could feel it, and you could see this black spot poking out, and what it was is that piece of metal had taken what, 40 some years to work its way to the surface? You know? And he mentioned, he finally started, first time ever, where he actually talked about when it happened, what happened to him. And the last thing he saw, he looked right at the cockpit of the plane, and he said, we could see him. You could see the pilot and co-pilot, the pilot was taking the plane right into us, and it collided just underneath their gun. And he said, you can look right in the cockpit. I can remember just like yesterday. He goes, you could see them right there. We stood eyeball to eyeball for an instant looking at each other. He was very dead or pretty close to it. The co-pilot was dead, for sure. And the impact, next thing he knew, flash. And then he was out. Well, of course, he was delirious. But he woke up. He said, there was a wall to my left. And he goes, I was looking up at blue sky because it was a clear day. It was a fair day. And he said that he kind of pulled his body up a little bit and looked back and he realized he was up by the bridge. And the whole aft end of the ship was on fire. Everything from the second funnel back was burning. And he stopped for a second and he thought, I better get up. And then he stopped and he thought, I better check myself. And he goes, I thought for a minute, he goes, I reached up, he said he started high, he bent his elbows and he touched his shoulders and he was okay. And he touched the top of his chest like where his collar bones are, he said he was okay. He said he reached down a little farther and he touched his torso and his right arm went down to his elbow and into him. And he realized that's not okay. And he was, and he can imagine if you remember about my dad, it's like, wait, he goes, no, he goes, yep, that was not okay. And his other hand sank into his chest cavity from the other direction, and he said, I don't think I'm getting out. And he goes, I didn't pass out. He goes, I can remember this all. And he goes, he was wide awake, he didn't pass out. He didn't pass out to most of the experience as far as you know other than just resting but you know Eventually he was found by the combat crew because of course they were you know they were you know first of all fighting the fire One of the deck crew finally found him and they rascooped him up and they took him you know bow decks But they didn't take him the infirmary because the infirmary is where the kamikaze hit Underneath their gun was the officers messing the infirmary and both of those were in Davy Jones. They were 4,000 feet below the waves by then. So they put him in one of the officers quarters and the man who got higher priority was one of the men. There were three critically injured and again one of them was burned. 80% of his body he was dying by inches. And the other guy of course who was later became an insurance salesman by the way guys. The other guy was put into the first officers and my dad was in the second mate's quarters. Were it not for the fact that he violated general orders and called for resistance, none of them would have made it. Again, the captain figured, what the hell, I'll get somebody off this boat before we go down. He broke radio silence, called for a PBY pickup. And then when the PBY showed up, they stopped in water and that's a destroyer, that's a never destroyer does thing because destroyers and destroyer escorts are sharks. Their purest mission is always to stay in motion. But they only had one screw left and they only had the forward engine room left intact. Everybody below Dex was dead as far as, you know, the aft engine room. Everybody died instantly with the attack. So everybody below him died. Everybody around him died. Except for one man. It's interesting. So anyway, he worked his way back. The rest of the history of World War II for him was a slow boat back across the Pacific five miles an hour. With the Ghost Fleet. Most people don't know about the Ghost Fleets. It came back. Everybody sees those proud ships sailing out, but what they don't show you is after Leyte Golf down, you've mentioned Leyte Golf several times on the air here recently. Guys, we lost a lot of ships in the Philippines. And a lot of them, they didn't sink, but they might as well be dead. And most of them, they repaired them just enough to kick back at five miles an hour. With one screw. My dad put on the Kitkin Bay. And the Kitkin Bay was one of those escarader carriers that was ambushed at Lady Gulf. And the only thing you remember is that every day, 75 to 100 men over the stern, mass burials. Yep, the whole aircraft carrier is nothing but a walking, well a floating litter is all it was. During that time before he got on the Kickin' Bay he had one stop, the Solus, which was one of the hospital ships that was so famous. They transferred him over to that, did surgery, pulled him off right away. So it was just like in the production line. They had so many thousand men and it was like a hospital floating in the middle of a whole bunch of other little boats all bringing people who were wounded to be, you know, stitched on and then carried off right away. All at sea none of this was at land none of this was an islands at all it's amazing You know when he talks about it, so he just it was like you know bees all flitting around this hospital ship And of course they threw him on a carrier and set him back and maybe to make it maybe he wouldn't well He made it all the way back to Hawaii And then from there got on a troop ship once he could walk barely and They kicked his arse off on the coast and said here's a bus ticket or actually here's a train ticket get your hard yet home That was his parade. Oh man. Well, that was better than being 4,000 feet down in Sharkbait. Oh, you weren't kidding. Before we get off the subject of the kamikaze, and back to one of the World at War or something and the ins of the little snippets of the ins, one of the flyers that was commenting about, you know, if you want to get a distinguished flying cross. That's a Navy award for aviators, United States Navy. All you've got to do is fly into the flak after one of them and shoot them down and fly away. And he went on to say, you notice I didn't tell you I had the distinguished flying cross. So he was telling you that he didn't do that, but he went on to say, when you'd hit one of those in the air, sometimes you were lucky to survive shooting it from another plane because they were so loaded with explosives. And remember that when Mark's describing an impact into the destroyer from a Betty. That wasn't just a zero. That's a 20-inch Betty bomber. Yep, might have been laden with two aerial torpedoes. It was, it was, what it was, it was loaded with bombs. It was, it was headed for Pelalu under what was called a harassment raid. When they were the way they they were with the the name of his ship was the James E Craig It was a destroyer escort and since they had Dan secured the island, but they were in control of it You know they could do what they call radar picket where they sent the distributors at the farthest point out to detect planes coming in Yeah, and this Betty bomber. He said everybody saw because this pilot was a master Because it was fairly calm seas and there was a light roll to the swell of the ocean And that pilot was four to five feet off the ground every step of the way with his props just on the edge of touching the water and he rolled with the ocean. And just by chance, what happened is that he just by fluke, act of God, he just happened to be the destroyer passed and he went, the Betty went right over their wake, literally. That's how close to collision they were. And as soon as the captain saw it, he came over the intercom, he said, boys, Light it up. Light it up. Fire on that plane. That's our job. And so everybody kicked in all at once. Well, after the five-inchers took a couple hits near him, he started to smoke and the guy knew he was finished. And so what he did is he started to gain altitude and they said, oh no. And what he did is he kicked up, he banked left, swung around in a perfect U and came straight for him. The thing is, he wanted altitude so he could get that attack angle down into the bowels of the ship. As he got closer, everybody of course was firing every step of the way. My dad said everybody. Their quad gun, all the 20s, 50 calibers, all the half inch, you know, anything that was on the ship was firing. And at the last second, just before it would have been a water line collision, and then they all would have died. The two five-inch aft guns fired one last point blank salvo which passed underneath and pushed the plane up It was their last act before they died But it saved the ship And what happened is literally it took the the next instant. He said that was the thing like said he's looking at them firing a quad gun You've seen those in the movies. We joke about it. You know hear that boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom When you hear that boom boom boom that has a tape, it's cuz the loaders can't keep up with the gun. They're get tired And what happened, in this case, oh no, everybody was motivated and they still had a full charge because he didn't get very far when they shot him up. And he said that it was the last thing, of course, that five-inch salvo, those two guns going wump, firing simultaneously are what pushed him up. And so instead, it swept the five-inch guns off the deck, it pushed the infirmary and air gun off the deck, blew everything up, of course. The bombs probably detonated just beyond the ship or above the decks. Had they been where the pilot wanted to put him they he knew the kill point because he was gonna break the spine of the destroyers what he was gonna do So he was on a mission. Yeah, and again looking at you know if this is gonna be my target making the most of it Referring back to when I've taught I've taught I've brought this one to the hour before but it fits right in here in the world in conflict and the little addendums there at the end and the subject on kamikaze Mark there is there are there exists film That's plural and then singular I know sometimes I strive to practice proper English But there's a film out there and it's been converted over to digital on a disc. I own the disk you guys of a zero flying across the fleet and it's just tremendous, it's a speck, you can hardly see it sometimes. But you can see the flack all around it and you can see the the bursts that are flying, you know, like a duck flying across your field. The burst in the water that, you know, obviously came from a bigger gun because it just rolls across the water and then You see a burst from the battleship that the Zero is flying toward that just is under the under the path of the plane It was the shot was low, but it had to be from a big gun and then you see the Zero apparently with a 500 pound bomb and a full fuel load fly into the sides of the USS, Missouri and You're looking right down the beam of the ship and you see this big black cloud fuel and now the narrator says that the 500 pound bomb didn't go off but when you look at the explosion it's kind of hard to believe but you barely see the ship change course by about one maybe two degrees and then it comes back on course it didn't roll it didn't do anything and not a single casualty and because it hit in the armor belt No damage of the boat exactly Which is what they were built that way for think about yeah, yeah, so it's like the ordinance went off It just the ship did its job yeah, and Picking the target even to the fineness of where you want to you know the last that's the difference between when we've talked about this let's mix this in shooting the button or Shooting center of mass isn't it? You know, it's interesting because again, we talk about the reason I bring this up is because in more men need to and the problem is they hardly ever will and for obvious reasons it's some of the most difficult, you know, heart-wrenching experiences you can imagine. But many of these men should have talked sooner or talked about this. I know, and I know I'm not ridiculing, but I'm just saying they should have because when you look at the changes that have taken place just in medical sort, You know, they used to leave the men on the battlefield and if they were lucky they crawled off. Think about that. If you were lucky you could crawl off on your hands and knees maybe with body parts trailing and somebody might come along and help you or maybe if you were lucky one of your friends was still alive. Battlefield has changed dramatically where we measure in seconds and minutes the recovery time of a patient as opposed to, you know, what we've known of in the past but we aren't supposed to think about. Remember the description of Patton in the movie? He's standing on an ancient battlefield and talking about being a soldier of a defeated army and the local women came and stripped the army and killed the survivors. Yep, exactly. That's one of the things that, it's interesting too because we really got it bad. When I look at the fact that it used to be the army had two flavors of food. and it was basically two colors. It's what the Russian army still did for the longest time. What flavor cabbage you want, green or purple? Take your pick. Well, that's not a flavor change. Yeah, I know, but it looks different. Purple cabbage or green cabbage? Take your pick. Oh, and a slug of really greasy fatty meat, which by the way everybody said, oh my God, thank you, I've got grease. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Fat, calories. Today we look at 20-30 menus, we look at an option for, well, what kind of food do you want to carry? We have medical support. Granted, I mean, first of all, everybody goes, well, I always loved this for years, years ago when we started working militia operation, trying to build up militia forces. I had people who said something that I think is one of the dumbest things I ever heard, well, I don't plan on getting shot. And the first thing I thought of is, you know, I can think of anybody else who has been saying, I wasn't planning on it either. But the idea is- Oh, it's one thing to plan on it. There's another thing, not the one. Right. Not even one, too, is one thing. Preparing for the issue, guys, because you are in a very, shall we say, target rich and threat environment. So because of that, medical support is a priority. I don't wait until the last minute to collect that. That's what we've been deep on for the longest time, trying to- train as many people as we can putting as many people as we can into that role or to understand the layer of knowledge that they need to be well-rounded You know, it's not that I plan on go. Okay, let's put it this way What about that other guy that's your friend there since obviously you figure you're not gonna get shot and he's gonna be the one that gets it, right? What are you gonna do about him? Well, you see cuz it's like well, that's you know, it's all the willing good, but it's always though Well, I know everything no, we never know everything. There's always more that we can learn There are always new things. For example, in some of it we just relearn. World War I, bleach. In fact, I've been treated for surgery twice by Doc and he used what he said was still the best choice. This is from a person who was a trauma surgeon for 30 some years. In most injuries, if you're in a battlefield situation, What he did is prep the entire surgery area, especially if it was a laceration where it had been chewed up and was deep, using bleach. And that was still his preferred field expedient choice. He, with all the other stuff available, he said because it's going to kill all the bacteria, whatever it is, it's already messed up anyway. And in one case, like I said, my kitchen table's been a surgery more than a few times. brought in the hospital lights. We have everything we need here and this guy put my, this man has saved people that I've seen the injuries you would not want to even look at. He worked on two pilots once in Lansing, Michigan, had no faces. They had crashed landed on Christmas Eve, went through the windscreen of the aircraft down and then kept going down the runway for another oh, about 200 yards. That's not good at all. And the nurses even said the same thing. I had a discussion with them. He goes, yeah, the nurses say, so where do we start? What do we do? He said, everybody grab a toothbrush. Everybody grabs, you know, grab your saline solution. Before we can do anything, we got to get all those rocks and pebbles and pieces of stone out of all that stuff that's in the ground into their head or they're not going to live. And then we'll start working on putting them back together. So the point is bleach and in fact amazingly enough as he pointed out it eliminates it's something that goes all the way back to before World War I but in World War I when you hear about these hospital smells that you know set guys off, bleach and peroxide. And three different types of bleaches, obviously salt waters were used. And, you know, chlorines of different types depending upon entry or the type of, and again, because you had to be cautious. Some chemicals can't be mixed with others. And World War I was the age of, oh, that's right, chemical warfare. The first wide deployment thereof. Yep. So for everybody, see, that's something, that's getting on a hundred year mark. And everybody's thinking, oh, that's all new, chemical and bio-lot. No, it's not. H.G. Wells was bragging about it and all of his science fiction before World War I. And of course, praying everybody for what was coming to be going on because he knew all the ring knockers and what they planned on using to decimate the population. Didn't go over quite the way they expected, but it did happen. As far as, you know, they didn't get it past the battlefield except for maybe the influenza epidemic, which was a biological weapon deployed by the suckers. I don't care what they try to rewrite or reroute on that, bottom line is they contaminated the armies of the west, they all went home as allies and spread the plague all over the planet. That's how it circumvented the globe. Not because it just happened, stanced, and then was carried off. Chemical warfare was used first. It wasn't considered to be successful enough. And germ warfare was already talked about in 1902 and was employed in 1917, 1980. No doubt about it. But, case in point, bleach. The other thing is, for instance, cayenne pepper. Okay, everybody's watch Saving Ryan's privates, right Don? Oh yeah. What's that packet? They pulped up a packet and they threw sulfur. Remember, sulfur drugs, sulfur powder into the wound. Now, sulfas go back to actually just at the end of World War I and then through the 20s and 30s everybody, the sulfur drugs treated a lot of, you know, problems before we had penicillins. Well, we can actually do cayenne pepper in the same way and everybody goes, cayenne pepper? Yeah, well, trust me guys, as it slowed down or stopped the bleeding, It's a bugger, but it's actually where the whole idea for, oh, what's that stuff we called nowadays? We gave it a different name. Instead of calling it cayenne or capsium, we'll call it quick clot. Hey, look, it's totally new like it... No, it's not. Every butcher or every restaurant chef knows the secret of cayenne pepper for as long as he's ever been a chef. And in fact you'll see that on occasion too. Point is that we can actually employ the cayenne the same way as you would the sulphur powders. Why? Because maybe the only thing we have. And you're going to start thinking this way beforehand. Why? Because I want to see more of us get through this. So just something to think about. What did they experience in World War II? They experienced mass casualties and at least were able to get a lot of them through it. However, I will say this. Once you got the death ward, three lived. 900 didn't. So there's your survival ratio if you're not careful. Let's frame that up. That's just us in the overview. A drop in the bucket, so to speak, that almost a thousand men. That's almost one-sixth of what we've lost in Afghanistan in years. That's one measure. Another measure, and I heard it this morning, Mark, one of the mainstream things, good morning or this week or something, no, no, America or something. One of the commentator heads there said that less than 1% of America right now has been involved in the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. She also went on to say that less than 5% of Americans know somebody in the military service. Now, Those are different measures compared to, well, World War II everybody knew somebody in the service. And World War II in a short period of time, thousands and thousands of men were lost, not just, you know, comparing that spec. You know, and we're coming up on that anniversary again, but I've mentioned it on the anniversary and used it as example before, but the Battle of the Bulge, we're coming, it's in December, we're coming up on that anniversary. 22 days or so of action, 19,000 American casualties mark. 19,000 in 20 some days. Another measure of, you know, they tell us we're at war, but it can be so much greater. I just want to reinforce that. And the other thing is, Let's go real far back and look at the American Civil War, the war between the states, the war of Northern aggression. When a war is on a particular continent, the people, the indigenous, the people who live there seem to suffer most as armies walk back and forth. Another reason to be prepared. Another reason to work on that guy sitting on the fence. Ralph, I've been telling you for years, and I'm going to tell you like this. next week, next month when the do-do hits the circulation device and you come to my house and say, I know you've been collecting food and I know you've been telling me about the 510 program, can you give me one of those guns? And by the way, me and my family are hungry. Ralph, I'm going to tell you to go on down the road because you know what, Ralph, I'm telling you for years and you have ignored me. And all of those years of ignoring me, Ralph, it'll add up to about 20 seconds of me ignoring you at my front door. that might seem cruel and it might seem really, really cold but you're going to have to treat Ralph like that and see how he looks at you. Ralph, it's a mean old world and I just want to give you a little taste of it, Ralph or Frank or John or your brother-in-law or your uncle or the co-worker from Don. And again, one of the things to remember here guys is that the battlefield is changing. More people are waking up as more people are burned. We kind of talked about this in the two hour afternoon block. The enemy is making more enemies daily to the point now where I think the reason that as much as anything whenever they do have to postpone something is because they realize any action they take erodes more and more of what little friendly base they have. Yeah, they got lots of ring knockers and lots of yes men but they'd realize that they're grossly outnumbered and that everybody's pretty well fed up with them and that's become more and more apparent with each passing day to the point where It ain't exactly a happy camper scenario to see about shutting the lights off and watching to see who you PO next As I pointed out the radio industry as far as FM and television. They're on the rocks in most parts of the country. The government comes in and interferes at prime time with something, especially soap opera prime time. I think that was as much a big part of the formula yesterday as anything. Because seriously, they don't have that much support. People are gritting their teeth. People will read the lies on the teleprompter, but they don't believe them. And you can tell that just by the way, 90% of them are reading this stuff off. There's a couple of zealous communists that are in there, but that's about it. And even then, it's like the only other part you got is they'll desperately mimic or repeat whatever they're told in their earpiece to keep their job now because they realize there's no other job to go to. So they're stuck between the rock and the hard place. Everybody looks at these controlled me people as liars. Everybody knows they are for the most part. That's just to what degree do you fuzz your brain over to get past listening to them. You see? Another thing real quick. I need everybody's help and for the guys in the chat room I'm going to print this up again real quick. But go to YouTube and Don I just want to get this in before the top. Go to YouTube and then go to the Hootari page on YouTube. Now, you can put comments in there. Guys, take a minute. There's a bunch of guys in our chat room right now. There's a bunch of them that are listening. Go to the Hautari page. Log into YouTube, however you have to do it, to get on there and make a positive comment about Hautari. Only take a minute. Doesn't cost you anything. And it's one of the few things we can do to change their page up because their webmaster is, you know, is behind the wire. So with that in mind we can at least show support in other ways and we need to do this because every once in a while some Goof or buffoon or idiot shows up there because they figure ha ha ha what are they gonna do? Well what I do is I just go back and I put some more in there But I need we need help with this I can't do this all by myself, and I'm not gonna expect to you all if you can't handle that don't tell me you're gonna fuck
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