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This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Hey, I got good news for you. It's Tuesday. Monday. It's Tuesday, a day after Memorial Day, and there's a lot to talk about. The president does not like what Vladimir Putin is doing right now. He is bombing Kiev and other places in Ukraine. President said he's gone crazy. We don't know how to deal with him now. And in the Middle East, Donald Trump is saying give peace a chance to Benjamin Netanyahu. And he's not really happy about that as well. So where are we headed? Well, let's go back one day to Memorial Day. We'll do that in 60 seconds. First, if you've ever stood in a grocery store staring at a pack of meat and you realize you have no idea where that came from. I mean, it says beef and American product, but it's not. Was a cow really raised in Montana or Malaysia? Did that chicken grow up in, you know, on a family farm or, you know, off the coast of someplace with a flag you don't really recognize? 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We walk the streets paved by men who never came home. We build our dreams Atop the unmarked soil of Normandy, Iwo Jima, Fallujah, and a thousand other nameless fields far from here and long forgotten by many, if not most. But not by you. Not today. Because Memorial Day is not a three day weekend. It's not a sale. It's not the start of summer. It's a sacred pause. It is the moment America holds its breath and listens to the echo of that last bugle call. The one that plays not for victory, but for the fallen. We must remember. Not because it's sentimental, but because forgetting is dangerous. Remembering saves the sacred from slipping into the vacuum of oblivion. I heard that at church the other day. I thought that was an amazing phrase. Remembering saves the sacred from slipping into the vacuum of oblivion. So what is sacred? Honor. Courage. Brotherhood. The terrible. The beautiful gift of life laid down, not taken, but given, so others could live in peace. They were farm boys, some of them. Sons of sharecroppers, sons of immigrants, sons of slaves. Some died in money trenches, some in burning skies. Some in the silence of classified operations whose heroism will never fully be known this side of heaven. But they didn't die for a party. They didn't die for a president. They really kind of died for each other and for the idea that freedom is worth protecting even when it costs everything. But today, it's our turn. Not to match their sacrifice, but to be worthy of it. By standing for truth in an age of lies. By cherishing the Constitution when it's inconvenient. By raising children who know what liberty is. It's not a birthright, it's a blood bought inheritance. Because the moment we forget, we begin to lose everything they died to preserve. So now that the cookouts are done and the flags are folded, I ask you to take just one moment, one moment alone, if you can, and whisper thank you to somebody you've never met. A name etched in granite, a memory carried by a mother. A story too painful for a brother to tell, but real all the same. Because when we remember the fallen, we keep their flame alive. And that flame, however faint, is the light that guides America home. Remembering saves the sacred from slipping into the vacuum of oblivion. So remember and resolve. Because we are the stewards. Now, I posted that yesterday and as I was home, I checked the Twitter feed and I saw some of the comments. What I saw in the response is, quite honestly, it was shocking to me in many ways, but it's clear there is something much, much deeper going on just beneath the surface of our country. I wrote those words about Memorial Day, about remembering the fallen. Because I believe remembering saves the sacred from slipping into the vacuum of oblivion if we don't remember. That's one of the most used words in the Bible, you know, that remember, remember, remember, remember. And what do all the problems come from not remembering? But after posting it, I started reading the comments and I. I need to speak to the comments. You read them yourself. Some of them are very ugly and they come from all sides. So I want to speak to them, but not in defense, not with rebuttal, but something else. Because what I saw in the replies to my post yesterday was not disagreement. It was fear and pain, bitterness and anger, deep distrust. And whether you agree with me or not politically, whether you believe my motives are pure, you think I'm part of the problem. I need you to know I, for one, see it, I hear it, and I don't dismiss it. Some people yesterday, in response wrote about the lives lost in wars you believe were unjust. Others called out the hypocrisy witnessed in leadership. Leaders who wrapped themselves in the flag and then abandoned the people. Some of them said that I was one of those people. Some just cried out, where is the honor where my brother died, when my community was forgotten? Where is the honor in that? To all of that, I say, you're right. You're right to feel that. You're right to question that. But I want to ask you something. And this is one of the hardest lessons I ever learned because I really didn't understand. It took me a long time to really come to the conclusion. And I've told it before, it's about Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill was a hero in the west, but he was a nightmare monster over in India. And after I read, you know, a biography on Winston Churchill in India, I thought, oh, wait, wait, this isn't the same guy. But it is the same guy. He even admits it late in his life. He says, yes, I was that guy. So I wondered how is. Is he a good guy or is he a bad guy? And the answer is yes. Just like everything. Are you a good person or a bad person? The answer is yes, you're both. But which is winning right now? Are you getting better? Are you getting worse? Can we hold grief and gratitude in the same hand? Yes. Can we mourn the wrongs and still honor the brave? The answer is yes. Can we be angry at how some leaders have used war and still fall silent at the grave of a 19 year old kid who ran toward the gunfire for the man next to him? Yes. You see, I don't. I Don't glorify war. I don't think I ever have. I despise it. And I despise it because honestly, I. I think I'm a coward. I don't think I would be able to do it. I despise the politics that lead us there. I'm worried about the politics. We're going to talk about it later today that I think are leading us there again. The world wants war. I don't. You don't. Nobody does. Except, it seems, the leaders of the world. And I've changed my mind on several things over the years. And I've apologized for being wrong before and I'll do it again because I'm going to be wrong again. And you do it because Growth is painful, but it's what truth demands. If we lose the ability to honor selflessness, even when it's tangled in the messiness of human failure, we risk becoming so hardened, so cynical, that we forget what goodness even looks like. Memorial Day used to be simple, it seems. I don't know if I'm remembering that, you know, fondly, rose colored glasses. But it's not the way it is now. It doesn't. It seems different not because our soldiers are complicated. They were clear in their duty, but because we are. And our history is complicated. But here's the one thing I do know. The men and women who died, they didn't do it for likes, they didn't do it for presidents. They didn't do it for profit. I hear this from soldiers all the time. They did it for one another. And sometimes, yeah, they did it for the ideal. This country still hasn't lived up to, but still can. But to those of you who found yesterday maddening, left, right, apolitical, I get it. But may I ask, just for a moment, not that you agree, not that you salute, not that you stand, but you would consider this. What if remembering isn't submission? What if remembering is resistance? Resistance to apathy, resistance for forgetting what sacrifices should mean. Resistance to letting the story of America be written only by the powerful and the corrupt. When we remember the fallen, we don't worship war. We grieve, cost. And maybe, just maybe, that grief is the first honest step back toward one another. I couldn't start the show after reading those comments yesterday without thanking people, thanking you for speaking out. Even if you blasted me and tore me apart. Even in disagreement and in distrust, we have to thank each other for speaking out. Because that is one of the principles that was worth fighting for. And we're all hurting. We're all hurting in different ways, profoundly different ways. But maybe this is how healing begins. Not by pretending we all see the same thing, but by. By being willing to look at it in the garish light of day and the ugliness of it. Look at it together, even if we don't see exactly the same thing. We don't have to agree on everything, but we do have to remember. And if we can just remember the fallen, maybe, just maybe in doing that, we remember something else. That we actually belong to one another. Maybe that's actually the sacred. We're supposed to remember that we all belong to one another. And that is worth remembering. And that is worth keeping. Back in just a second. First, let me tell you about the burner launcher. If you ever end up in a situation where you have to defend yourself, you're ready, you know you're ready to go. Eh? Yeah. Are you really? I mean, things happen so fast and there's fumbling. What is going on? Misfires? How does this thing work again? That's why I'm a fan of the Burna Compact Launcher. It's small enough to carry around anywhere in a purse, a glove box tucked inside a jacket, but it's also powerful enough to stop a threat in its track. It fires Connecticut tear gas rounds using CO2 cartridges, which is a fancy way of saying you get to go home safe and the attacker gets to go to jail. Because the Berna Compact Launcher is non lethal, that means you don't need a permit. It's legal to carry in all 50 states. And if you're thinking, well I got a firearm already, that's great. But think of this as maybe a first option, not your last resort. Go to Burna.com get 10% off site wide for their Memorial Day sale which ends today. Or use their retail store locator to find a location nearest you. And they offer live demonstrations including Sportsman's warehouse stores, Burner retail stores and authorized premium dealers. You can find them now at Burna by r n a.com byrna.com 10/2 station ID so why is this important that we don't react to one another online the way so many people did? Let me bring you a couple of stories today. One from Liverpool that happened over the weekend. A driver of a gray van just ran into a whole bunch of people on the side of the street. It was a parade for Liverpool's football clubs. Their Premier league victory that happen on Monday. And the driver just came in to a crowd of paradegoers and and thousands of soccer fans and just rammed the vehicle through the crowded street, knocking down, running over pedestrians. It was a 53 year old British man from the Liverpool area. Now, I don't know what this guy was. I don't know if this guy was crazy angry. I don't know. I have no idea. But I don't want to talk to you about that. I don't want to talk to you about the guy who is actually running the people over. I want to talk to you about what happened after. There's a video where they arrest the driver, they pull him out and they arrest him and they can't keep the crowds back. And that's because this white guy with a bunch of other white guys arresting him have a hoard of white guys around them and everybody's angry. This was the Bubba effect. The police barely held on to the situation because they wanted justice to be done. The police did. They wanted justice to be done. And the people on the streets probably didn't believe justice would be done. Why? Because justice doesn't seem to be done anymore. Especially if you're over in England. Especially if there was a religious meaning and it wasn't a Christian religious meaning and the people wanted to tear him apart. These are the English that are doing this now. What happened last week? Last week I told you about the. The guy who went in or you know, was waiting outside of a, a fundraiser to figure out how they could help people of, of Gaza. These two Jewish people come out of that fundraiser and they're shot to death by some crazy guy. Now we find out that his father was a guest during the President's joint speech to Congress, but he wasn't. He wasn't a guest of Donald Trump. Instead, he was a guest of Congressman Jesus Garcia. This guy was calling for a ceasefire with Hamas on October 7, as they were raping and killing and setting people on fire. He was out saying, israel, don't do anything about it. I mean, it was. It's crazy. It's crazy. Now the shooter's dad is a disabled army veteran. He's an employee at Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administrative Hospital in Illinois. There is something going on with veterans in the VA and it's bad. A lot of people wrote to me, you know, what have you ever done for veterans? I'm not. Nothing. Nothing is the honest truth. Nothing. I mean, I can talk a good game, I can channel money, I can do a lot of different things. But really, when it comes right down to it, what have I spent my time on? I've never volunteered at a VA hospital. I've never tried to rewrite a bill, anything of real importance. So you're right about that. But does that make me your enemy? Because honestly, there are a lot of things that I care deeply about and I could say to you, what have you done? What have you done? And most likely you could say, well, I've donated or I prayed about it or whatever. You're not my enemy and I'm not yours. Things are being ratcheted up and it's being ratcheted up by honestly. Enemies of our republic, enemies of America, enemies of us being friends, co workers, people that don't have to vote the same, don't even have to agree with one another. But we can live next to one another and we can defend one another. Now, for those who say nothing's being done for the va, let me give you some good news. I'll do that right after this. 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We probably know somebody who at least knows a soldier that killed themselves. Many of us, unfortunately, know soldiers that have killed themselves. And if you are a soldier, you count them on more than one hand, sometimes more than two hands. And we've heard the stories. So many people in this audience have lived those stories. And the ones that come home, the veterans that wait months and months and months just to see a doctor. And the paperwork is lost and the diagnosis is delayed and the despair is rising. It's a national disgrace how we treat our soldiers. It really is. Imagine this. You served your country in Iraq or Afghanistan. You watch all your buddies fall. You carry that weight home. You finally walk through the doors of a VA hospital only to find another battlefield, this time one of bureaucracy. We know that's the reality. And I don't say to bring us down, because there is hope at the end of the tunnel here. There is some good news, because some things are changing, and I believe everybody needs to hear this. This year, under the leadership of the VA Secretary, Doug Collins, the Department of Veterans affairs has taken real measurable action to make things better. Ten new VA medical facilities are opening across the country from Texas to Montana, New York to Virginia. And yes, for those of you up in New Hampshire, yours is next. And these aren't just buildings. These are lifelines. If we don't just concentrate on the building, they are going to be places where the wait is shorter, the care is closer, the promise finally begins to match the sacrifice. You know, we don't deprogram anybody. We program them to go to war. We don't deprogram them when they come home. That's wrong. All we do is we give them drugs. That's wrong. You know, since January, the VA has a huge backlog, but since Trump got into office, the VA has cut the case backlog by 25%. How? Well, by doing something radical first, they brought employees back into the office. They fostered the culture of effort, of accountability. They empowered real human beings, not automated systems, to actually do the job that they were hired. I mean, how can we have such great hospitals? And then the VA that serves our. Our veterans, our heroes, be so horrible it's because we don't, in government, usually demand results, but now we do. And I want you to know this is not about praising any politician or defending any department. This is about you. This is about those who suffer every day. It's about those who have lost a loved one because of the incompetence. It's about them, the men and women who bore the battle and now bear the scars. If you're a veteran and you happen to be listening right now, I want you to know you're not forgotten. We do hold you in high regard. Many of us just don't know how to help. We say thank you for your service because we don't know what else to do. And even then we feel stupid saying it. You weren't forgotten yesterday, but you're not forgotten today. You're not forgotten any day. You may feel like the system has turned its back, but don't confuse the system with your fellow Americans. You have scars that most of us can't see. And because you're a veteran, you just don't talk about them. But hear me. We see you. We hear you, and we still believe in what you gave us. And to the rest of us, like me, who never wore the uniform, but I'm grateful and probably mainly undeserving to live under the banner of freedom it defends. Our responsibility is clear. If we truly honor the dead, we have to serve the living. We must demand better care for our veterans. We must insist that every promise to them that was made is kept. We have to refuse to let this progress stall. Opening new hospitals is only the beginning. What happens in those hospitals is what makes the difference. Our soldiers, I mean, they didn't want. I mean, some did, I guess, want to go into war. But I know a lot of soldiers that were, like, you know, not itching for the war, but they were in it. We shouldn't wait for them. We shouldn't make them wait for their care. So yesterday, flags and fireworks and hot dogs. But today should be the beginning of a better system, a beginning of a renewed promise, a beginning of real service to those who gave real service and have given everything. Yesterday, we remember the fallen. Today, we need to serve the living. Speaking of those who have passed on, Phil Robertson died over the weekend. Phil was, of course, a friend and a member of the Blaze team for years and just loved him. Just absolutely loved him. I wasn't. I'm not a fan of reality tv, so I never really watched Duck Dynasty until I traveled the country and I went across the country I was driving across the country, and every single gas station I was in, every truck stop I was in to get gas, they had, like, a whole section of Duck Dynasty stuff. And I'm like, who are these Duck Dynasty people? And then I watched and I realized why it was so big. Not only was it real, and these guys were unbelievably real. I think Phil Robertson was the beginning of the. I don't know, the. The beginning of a new Jesus movement. I mean, he was the first guy that I heard that was brave enough to end every single show on national television with a prayer. And that was. I think that was the deal. I think we won't do it unless you say that we can end with a prayer every time. Who does that? One of the bravest things I've ever seen is the movie that he made about himself that did not make him look good at all. Just showed who he had allowed himself to be and who he had become through Christ. So our thoughts are with Phil. Do we happen to have that montage? Can we play the. Phil, here's a montage of some of the moments with Phil Robertson.
