Medal Of Honor Monday featuring U.S. Army Vietnam War vet SPC.4 Alfred V. Rascon

Ukraine stuff, all that, so much more did this. I'll get to some emails, other things coming up this hour on the world famous Jesse Kelly's Show. But it is Monday. Everyone knows one thing happens to start a second hour every single Monday, and that is Metal of Honor Monday. We take a citation every time you earn a medal of honor. Anytime someone does, they do a write up on it and we just read it. That's it. The men,

we honor the deeds. We hold these men up in front of the next generation and say, look, that's what you need to be. And as I've told you before, I want to encourage you that you can do this and should with your family with your school. There's nothing political about this, or you one of the good teachers who listened to the show. Your class could do projects on these guys. They'd love it, I might point out. They'll love it. Men and women, they love this stuff.

Who doesn't love heroism? He rose, everybody does. It's important these names. We don't know these names. You know, we know the name of all the dirt balls on TV and everything. We don't know these names. We should all know these names. So we also take emails suggestions. Remember you can email us. We love your emails. Love hate death threats. Ask doctor Jesse questions of course and Medal

of Honor suggestions. This one said Medal of Honor nominee Alfred Vrascone specialists for US Army Vietnam guys should have died and is probably still carrying shrapnel one tough onmbreay. Wow, that's quite an endorsement from somebody. So let's walk through this and find out what mister Rascone went through on behalf of this country. Oh almost forgot, I'm supposed to do birthplace now. Alfred V. Rascone, who would later became an American citizen, I might point out was actually not

born in America. He was born in Chihuaba, Mexico. And part of the reason I'm reading this is yes, his heroism, but I also wanted the opportunity to say chihuaa on the radio. Hey, honoring those who went above and beyond. It's medal of Honor Monday specialist for Alfred Rascone distinguished

himself by a series of extraordinarily courageous actions. On the sixteenth of March nineteen sixty, while assigned as a medic to the reconnaissance Platoon, Headquarters Company, first Battalion, five hundred and third Division, one hundred and seventy third Airborne Brigade, while moving to reinforce its sister battalion under intense enemy attack, the reconnaissance platoon came under heavy fire from a numerically superior enemy force. The intense enemy fire from crew served

weapons in grenades severely wounded several point squad soldiers. Specialist Rascone, ignoring directions to stay behind shelter until covering fire could be provided, made his way forward. He repeatedly tried to reach the severely wounded point machine gunner laying on an open enemy trail, but was driven back each time by the withering fire. Disregarding his personal safety, he jumped to his feet, ignoring flying bullets and exploding grenades to reach

his comrade. To protect him from further wounds. He intentionally placed his body between the soldier and enemy machine guns, sustaining numerous shrapnel injuries in a serious wound to the hip. Disregarding his serious wounds, he dragged the larger soldier from

the fire rake trail. Hearing the second machine gunner yelled that he was running out of ammunition, Specialist Rascone, under heavy enemy fire, crawled back to the wounded machine gunner, stripping him of his bandoliers of ammunition, giving them to the machine gunner, who continued his suppressive fire. Quick pause, Sorry about that. The wounded machine gunner wasn't wounded anymore. He was dead. He had to crawl back to his dead body and take his amo off him anyway. Specialist Rascone,

under heaving, crawled back to the gun. Specialist Rascone, fearing the abandoned machine gun, its ammunition, and spare barrel could fall into enemy hands, made his way to retrieve them. On the way, he was wounded in the face and torso by grenade fragments, but disregarded these wounds to recover the abandoned machine gun, ammunition and spare barrel items, enabling another soldier to provide an added suppressive fire to the

pinned down squad. In searching for the wounded, he saw the Point grenadier being wounded by small arms fire and grenades being thrown at him. Disregarding his own life and his numerous wounds, Specialist Rascone reached and covered him with his body, absorbing the blast from exploding grenades and saving the soldier's life, but sustaining additional wounds to his body. While making his way to the wounded Point squad leader, grenades were hurled at the sergeant, again in complete disregard

for his own life. I can't believe this guy's still alive. He reached and covered the sergeant with his body, absorbing the full force of the grenade explosions. Once more. Specialist Rascone was critically wounded by shrapnel, but disregarding his own wounds to continue to search and aid the wounded. Severely wounded, he remained on the battlefield, inspiring his fellow soldiers to

continue the battle. After the enemy broke contact, he disregarded aid for himself, instead treating the wounded and directing their evacuation. Only after being placed on the evacuation helicopter did he

allow aid to be given to him. Specialist Rascown's extraordinary valor in the face of deadly enemy fire, his heroism in rescuing the wounded, and his gallantry by repeatedly risking his life for his own fellow soldiers, are in keeping with the highest tradition of military service, and reflect great credit upon himself his unit in the United States Army. And I'll give you just a couple little tidbits about that that I thought were really really cool, just a

couple little details surrounding it. First, Alfred Wolverine was somehow still alive after all that shrapnel and bullets and things like that. But you can imagine his physical condition. His physical condition was such that they gave him his last rites. They said, well, he's going to die, let's go ahead and make sure you can go be with Jesus, Alfred. There's no way you're living through that. But he did.

He lived through that. And you know how we talk all the time about these medals of honor and how there are all kinds of dead guys who never came home who are as brave, and there are the lower medals. I hate to say that, but the lower medals. You read some of those citations and you say to yourself, how in the world did that guy not get a Medal of honor? Well, Alfred Rascombe did not get a Medal of honor either for this. Initially he got a

silver Star, which has no chump. Right, you get a silver star, you did something ridiculous, and there's a lot of silver star guys who are dead right that you're amazing. But he got a silver star. Okay, gets a silver star. He goes, he recovers from his wounds in Japan. He ends up actually getting back into the military as a reservist, as an advisor in Vietnam. Has this kind of you know, long career, works with the DEA and Panama. That's a bunch of cool stuff. Just a cool dude, Just a

cool friggin dude. He ends up having a reunion with his unit. He gets with his unit. This is after years and years and years, and his guys, at least two of the guys he saved, saw that he had only a silver star. And they were mortified because they were there that day and they said, excuse me, a silver star. They decided to start pushing and pressing and pushing and pressing. They got their congressman to start pushing and pressing and pushing and pressing. Finally their congressman got

in Bill Clinton's ear. This is under Bill Clinton there. So that tells you how much lag time there was. Hey, mister President, read citation. Dude, that's silver star. Come on now. Bill Clinton, to his credit, was the one who read it and relented and said, uh, okay, yeah, that's that's Let's go ahead and give him the old upgrade, shall we. Now he's a Medal of Honor recipient. How about that? And one final word on this. Maybe you caught it, maybe you didn't, that it was the point man who

got killed. There was a point man who got gunned down immediately. Just Vietnam guys are so worthy of your respect. Walking point is always dangerous. It's always dangerous being the guy in front. Sorry, sorry, if you're in point, you're in the front. In Vietnam, they rotated him out a lot because it was a death sentence to be up there too. Long after all, who's gonna get shot first, Who's gonna step on the land mine they put in

the trail, Who's gonna the point? Man. It's a very dangerous job, very very dangerous, wore very terrible war, and the heroes of that war deserve to be honored. And mister Rascone, props to you. All Right, I'm going to get to the icky stuff with the intelligence community in a moment, and like I said, I'll be very very careful, and it will be as always family friendly. That is

a little bit of ugliness we have to discuss. I'll tell you something I remember, like it was yesterday, the first time I went hunting with my dad for big, bigger game. Antelope isn't big, but it was your first time I'd been hunting without rabbits or squirrels things like that. This was the first time i'd hunted bigger game, first time I got one. I still have the picture of me and my old man and my first antelope. But you see, it's not a digital picture because this was

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You can go to Iheartspotify, iTunes, subscribe, leave us a review discussing how big my hands are, so on and so forth. Before I get to the Ikey intelligence stuff, I just want to say that there are things you don't fully appreciate when you're young. I'm the same way I was the same way. I admit that there are things you don't fully appreciate when you're young, getting a haircut was always boring as a young boy, sucked, I don't want to go get my haircut? Why do I

have to get my haircut? But you know, you know how dad was. I am not raising a hippie all that stuff. So the hair had to be trimmed short. But you know what, never ever, ever happened to me when I was young, ever, and it happened to me boo, time is it now? About four or five hours ago? It happened to me as I sat in the barber's chair to getting my haircut, which I realized, Look, I don't need your comments, Okay, I realized me getting a

haircut is easy, all right? It was buzzed down. Whatever I get this, looks at me, take takes the clippers off my head, looks at me and says, oh, I didn't know exactly what that meant. Walks over, grabs a pair of tweezers, reaches down and plucks a hair off the end of my nose. I'm not talking about the nostrils of the standard you know, old man nostril hair. No, No, I mean like the pointy tip just reaches down, grabs it, just rips it out of there that ever happens to

you when you're young. What, Chris, What could I not see it? Well? I wasn't looking there, Chris. I'm sorry I wasn't. I understand. It's in the middle of my face. It's not like it was two feet long. Okay, it was little. And you know, my eyes aren't exactly what they need to be. And I don't like to wear glasses because it makes me feel nerdy. Why do you have to drag me down when I'm exposing personal things

about myself here. I'm tired of going to the barber and then saying, do you want me to do your eyebrows?

It's a critical intelligence arm of the country. A bunch I don't mean one or two, A bunch of intelligence officials at the NSSA have had an online chat room. And in this chat room, gosh, this is difficult. I really can't give you any details of the story and make it kid friendly. In this chat room they discuss some of the most disgusting, degenerate sexual things you've ever heard in your life. Tranny stuff doesn't even begin to

describe the kind of stuff I'm looking at. And I have the direct quotes, which I'm not going to read any of them for you here. I'm so grossed out it's taking everything in me not to vomit during the middle of this radio segment. My point in pointing out this article in the Wonderful Research is not to do all the gross perverted stuff. I'm really not doing that. My point in all this is these are the people who not only keep our secrets, they seek out the

secrets of others, of enemies of the state. That's really the point in the National Security Agency finding the secrets of others, get that stuff online. How much blackmail material do you think our mortal enemies have on the intelligence officers who work inside of America's intelligence community. If this kind of thing is so prevalent that it was easily discovered and now there's an article about it, a publicized

article about it, this is the one we know about. Remember, every time you see something like this, you should say to yourself, Okay, that's what I know. How much don't I know? This is the one we know about. And this is the real true danger of filling up your government with a bunch of dirty, degenerate communists. When you do that, ah, I know, I know exactly why they do it. They do it because these people are most likely to be the most loyal foot soldiers there are

in the cause of the revolution. I get it, I get it. But when you fill up your government with these degenerate freaks, what you hand is your enemy the ultimate tool he needs to compromise your national security apparatus. How many of these emails, text pictures? Imagine what's out there on these guys. How many would China need to go show one of these guys and say, hey, I can send these pictures to your mom, or you can tell me what America knows about our nuclear operation? Are

we getting yet? How deep the rot goes? And on that note, I'm going to talk about the government recruitment of these degenerate freaks and then we'll do some email hangout. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Monday. Okay, you know what speaking of? No more, mister nice guy. Before I read the emails, I have to have you know what I need? An opinion, Chris Corey. I guess I'll rely on you, two idiots. Was I being rude when this happened? In fact, maybe this will just become

a news segment. Was Jesse being rude because I don't feel like I was being right? No, Chris, don't say yes before I even tell you the story. You don't even know what I'm talking about. So here's what happened. You know, I've encouraged you before. If you're looking to save money to buy a steer and have it butchered, you don't have to look at it, don't worry. You can go to Butcher's. You can go to places like that and say I want to buy a steer, and then you always have a fridge full of beef. If

you're thinking that's too much money, I would agree. We generally split one with another family or two. You can do that. You two three families split up a steer. You always have a freezer full of burger you have a freezer full of steaks's if you have boys, especially if you eat a lot of beef, it's a great way to save some money. Get some quality beef in there. Don't roll your eyes, Chris, Okay, Anyway, we always do this. We always try to have a freezer full of beef.

When we run out, we go try to find well. I have friends I do it with. We split a steer, making sure we have some beef in the freezer. Now I had done this recently, and this is the first time. It was awful. It was just look it happens. I Am not going to pretend to be a rancher or a beef expert. There are plenty who listen, so I'm sure I'll get a lecture on how this works, and I'll welcome it. Actually, but this almost awful. The meat was unspeakably bad. And you know, I don't exactly need

Japanese wagou to be happy. I've had steak and eggs at waffle House more times than I can count. Chris, it was so tough, like you couldn't eat it. We're stuck doing things, marinaing it for two three days, pounding it, just pounding it out for chicken fried steaks. Virtually, all steak is okay if you just, you know, give it a good pounding. But not this stuff. It's like beef jerky. It's almost like this thing had some sort of a disease. It's bad. We should have just burgered the whole thing.

In fact, now that I bring it up, everything we have that's not Burger, we're taken back and we're just telling them just burger it, just burger the whole thing. Well, met Camburger, help her with it. So it was that bad. On Saturday night, I go out to dinner with ab. We get back from dinner, a bunch of neighbor friends of ours say, hey, why don't you come over, we'll play some cards. You know'll come over, we'll hang out for a little bit. Yeah, sure, we're not doing anything.

Let's go over. So there's a few of us over there, and the ones who are over there are the ones who split the steer. Now, I didn't know, because I went through my one buddy to split the steer. I actually didn't know that in buying this particular steer, we were helping a young man with a scholarship. Okay, don't think that I'm a nice guy or charitable. I didn't even know when I bought the steer. I found out on Saturday night. Okay, but we found out, Oh that steer.

Glad you got the steer. It helped this young man out with the scholarship. So I said, well, as bad as it was, he better not turn out to be a dirt ball. Look on Chris's faces exactly to look everyone in the party had right now. I don't think that's that rude. I thought, that's a very what Chris. What Chris said? That's fine if you know he's not in the room with me. No, there were no kids all, there were no adults. He was not He was not there.

That's exactly what I said. What's the problem I got the geeze Jesse, Oh my gosh, what is wrong with that? I was hoping, Look, if I have to eat bad meat, I hope he Earns. It is all I'm saying, what Chris or any of them related to the kid? I don't know. I actually never asked who the scholarship is for what. Well, It's true, I don't care if they were related. He better not turn out to be a dirt ball, whoever it is. I don't care if it's

your son. If I have to eat an entire freezer full of meat that sucks that bad, that kid better go on to cure cancer or something like that. As bad as the beef is, drop like three hundred dollars on that Jesse. Is this common sense? Make our European allies mad and suck up to a murder tyrant putin? Okay, all right, I guess we'll do some Russia Ukraine talk. Make our European allies mad. In fact, you said long time European allies and suck up to a murdering tyrant. Putin.

All right, So a couple questions. I'm actually not going to be rude at all, because this is this is the good mental experiment to go through. Here. You say you call them our long time European allies. Let's say I was in the in the Marine Corps with a buddy. And let's say we fought in Iraq together. We were in combat together, tough times together, ah the blood and guts and misery, and he looked out for man I

looked out for him, and that was good. And then we get back from Iraq and we both get out of the Marine Corps. And let's say he starts to lose his way, lose his mind. Let's say one day I find out he's stolen my debit card and he bought himself five hundred dollars worth of beef with it. Let's hope the meat was higher quality. Let's say he borrowed my car, put two flat tires on it, brought it back. Let's say he hit on my wife. Let's say he drives by my house and throws trash in

the lawn. This goes on for twenty thirty years. Is he still my ally because we did great things together once? Is that? Is there no expiration date on that? I want to focus on this for a moment, long time. European allies. Length and quality are two very very different things, Chris, grow up. Length and quality are two very very different things. Why are they our allies? If you could, if you could put that into words. Right now, I'm really asking

I want you to think about this. Yes, no, no, no, no, stop stopping now, let me stop you. Every question I ask during this discussion, there's a rule. I have a rule for it. You can't make it about World War two. That's that's the only rule. That's all I'm asking. No world War two. The forties are gone. No World War two. So let me ask you again, our longtime European allies. Why is Germany our ally right now? UK? Why are they are ally right now? France, Brussels, anyone? What are they?

What are they providing for us right now? Are they still what they were? Longtime European allies. Longtime European allies who currently arrest their citizens for the most basic free speech in the world. Longtime European allies who routinely publicly condemn us, come out against us. We provide all of the national defense for Europe, all of the national defense. Let me ask you after a let's pick your national disaster. Now, North Carolina after Hurricane Helen, tell me how many German

groups came into North Carolina to help the good people Hawaii? Hey, Germans love Hawaii. How many people after that Lahina fire. How many people from the UK. How many members of the UK government came out to help us? How many I'm tired of being told longtime allies from people who haven't been allies in ages. I again, stop, stop, stop. Hitler's gone. I swear on my life he's dead. Hitler, It's gone. I want to know why they're considered long

time allies. Let's just start there and then you know what, Now that will set that aside. Let's discuss the putin aspect of this. Who Actually, I don't like it all, but let's discuss this in a frank way. Before we discussed that, we had a little family dust up on Saturday. During the day, I decided I wanted to watch a family movie. I wanted it to be educational, so I suggested we watched Shooter. The boys were all about it. Bob thought maybe that wasn't as educational as it should

have been. Then I tried to move on and I said, well, okay, if we can't watch Shooter, let's watch We were Soldiers Again. Some pushback from people in the house, we decided to do something different as a family. We decided to do the courses from Hillsdale one of them, actually the Roman Republic course. We decided to do it as a family. Does that sound boring? Well, One, it was free. What I'm telling you about is free. Two we laughed, We

enjoyed it. It was interesting. My boys, my two teenage sons, were riveted. So was I. So was my wife, who doesn't even like that stuff. Hillsdale was giving us free education, more than forty free online courses. Free. What I'm telling you about is no cost. Do what as a family Hillsdale dot edu slash jesse go nerd out for free. It's better than TV. We'll be back. Get the cure

for rhinos. It is the Jesse Cally's show. Answering an email, and I guess we're just gonna go ahead and deal with some of this Russia Ukrainian update stuff because the guy said, is it now? I'm not insulting the guy who wrote the email, so don't think that I am. He said, is it common sense? We're making angry our longtime European allies. And I just shot that down a little bit. To suck up to a murdering tyrant, putin

suck up to a murdering tyrant. Putin again, Allow me to ask which part of the peace steal is sucking up to Putin? Which part if you could, if you could point to it specifically, tell me which part of the Ukraine Russian peace steel do you consider to be sucking up to Putin. The reason I don't have to wait for your answer is there's no peace steal. There is no peace steal none. It is not a thing

that exists. What exists are the start of negotiations. We cannot have a Ukrainian Russian peace steal without the consent of all parties involved. Ukraine has to consent. Russia, because they actually have the most leverage, because they hold the Ukrainian territory, they have to consent. They have to consent. I don't understand this childlike view of the world. We need everyone's consent to come to a peace deal agreement. They have fought a vicious meat grinder, bloody war for

three years. Have you seen I think it's in Kiev. I'm almost positive it's in Kiev. Why don't I want to still call it Kiev? It sounds so much better anyway, I think it's in Kiev. Have you seen the memorial they have set up with flags for the dead Ukrainian soldiers. It looks like you could fill up ten football fields with it. Every flag represents a Ukrainian man that will not be a father. He is no longer anybody's son. He's vapor now. Butchery same thing on the Russia. They've

fought for three years. Do you want it to end well, yeah, but with Putin's defeat. Okay, I give you that. I hate Vladimir Putin. I hate all tyrants. It is my rule. In case you're gonna email me and try to defend Putin. I hate any leader who denies his people the electoral process. If you try to arrest your political opponents, I hate you. That applies to Vladimir Putin, it applies to Zelenski, who did the exact same thing. It applies to Joe Biden,

who did the exact same thing. If you have your political opponent arrested, you are a tyrant and a scumbag. So I hate Vladimir Putin. Okay, you hate Vladimir Putin. We can't give in, Okay, who's we? Because you're not fighting Ukraine can't give in. So let's be honest. You're being brave with Ukrainian blood. You're being brave with Ukrainian blood because it makes you feel good, it makes you feel virtuous. We can't give in, all right, It's been

three years. Despite all the equipment, all the money, Russia is still there. Ukraine has been unable to get them out. Can you give me some idea how long they should how long this should go on? Anything, as long as it takes, really with someone else's life, some of else. I mean, can't we come to an agreement? Can't you and I at least come to an agreement that this does have to end? At some point? It does? So

that's how wars go. It ends at some point, doesn't always end the way you want or the way I want. So back to this sucking up to a murdering tyrant Putin. These are negotiations. Trump's sounding hopefully within weeks.

an end two three years of carnage. Yet Chris said, we did it in Vietnam. Of course we did. We did it in Vietnam world War two. But we spoke to Hitler. We spoke to Hitler, we spoke to hero hero. These are things you do during war, trying to bring about an end to the war. In this modern America where really what it's happened. What's happened is history has been so dumb down. It's not only been dumbed down, it's been turned into a religion. World War two most

definitely they dumbed it down. They teach people like two bullet points, then they turn it into a religion. And now everybody thinks that every Ukrainian on the planet should die in service to I don't know what defeed in Putin. That's crazy. Stop. Let's wrap it up. This has been a podcast from wor