Medal Of Honor Monday featuring U.S. Marine WW2 vet PFC Donald Jack Ruhl

Now I've done this occasionally, I'm about to do it again where I'm not sure if the Medal of Honor citation, the actual reading of it is going to take place to this segment. You may have to wait because we're going to talk a little bit about the history of Ewogima first, and then we'll get to the our Medal of Honor citation, our Medal of Honor, hero a legend in Marine Corps circles, and then we'll get back in top some politics because all that's going pretty well. First,

ewo Jima. I haven't talked war in the Pacific for a long time, So just for the very begin for the beginners. For those who have never sat in for one of these, or read much about it or watched much about it, everyone knows it was an island hopping campaign, so I won't insult your intelligence there. But it was an airfield campaign, is what it was. Air power. World War two was really the first war that air power had advanced to the point that it was the most

important thing by a mile. World War One, I know there were some dogfights and things in reconnaissance planes and balloons and things like that, but World War two's where countries finally had advanced enough in flight that if you were the superior air power, you were probably going to win. It was all about getting your planes in the sky, shooting the airplanes out of the sky, and dropping big

bombs on the enemy. So we're bouncing airfield to airfield to airfield, trying to work our way closer to Japan, which brings us to Ewojima. Now, I don't want to I don't want to say I don't have many regrets in life, because the truth is, there's a lot of things that I've done and a lot of things I've said that I wished I hadn't know. So I guess I probably have plenty of regrets in life. I suppose that that comes with any man of any age once you're if you're honest with yourself. But as far as

tangible things go, that I really kicked myself for. Here's one for you. We when I was in the Marines, we had to go do a six month deployment in Okinawa, just training. Obviously, this is a very standard thing. I'm pretty sure they still do it today. Every two years. You had to do six months of every two years deployed somewhere and they'd send some guys to Australia and to get to hang out with the Australian girls, we got to go to Okinawa, lovely place. I should know.

I should know it was nice. But at Okinawa they offered us something and these things did not come often. You don't get very many bennies if you're in the Marines. At least you didn't back then. But they offered us

a day trip to Ewojima. One day you could go down to Ewojima and it was a I want to say, six seven hundred miles, so I mean it's a way, but you're flying obviously you're not going to paddle there, but it was an all day thing, and of course it was on a weekend, and young gosh I was probably nineteen nineteen twenty years old, young idiot Jesse would rather I took a day off instead of going to Ewogima. And I even hated myself for it at the time,

like I knew it was what I should do. Guys got back from Eojima, some of the toughest marines I knew, told me they cried when they were there. I just hated myself for it anyway, So I've never been, but they all gave me the same story that you can get from a Google image search on your phone. It's just it's like you're on the moon. It is a barren hellscape of volcanic rock. It's an absurdly active volcano where there are you can smell sulfur all over the place.

It's barren, not some tropical paradise black volcanic sand that you sink into it. Really, honestly, you ever seen The Lord of the Rings movies or read the books if you're a huge nerd. I tried to read the books. I didn't like them anyway. You ever see those movies mordor' that's what Ewojima looks like, just black, dark, smoky, horrible. But iwo Jima was in a critically important place and we wanted it. It had an airfield we wanted that was for our super fortress planes to keep bombing Japan.

They had a place to land things like that. So we had to take it. The Japanese not only knew we were coming for it, they knew we were coming for it far enough ahead of time that they had time to bring in their finest or one of their finest defensive generals to turn Ewojima into a nightmare. And keep this in mind, that Japanese did not think they could stop us from taking Ewojima. They knew they were all going to die. All of them knew they were going to die. In these guys' minds, they were trying

to delay the invasion of their homeland. They thought we were coming to invade their homeland, and frankly, they weren't really wrong about that. They were worried about their wives, their sisters, their children. They wanted to do delay long enough and die on that island. So you're not only coming up with fortifications, you have time to come up with them. You have the general that knows what he's doing, and everyone on the island knows they're going to die,

and yet they're there anyway. And if you do, unless you're driving, you can do this. If you'd like, pull up an image of Ewogima, you will see a five hundred some foot if I remember right, mountain. They call it a mountain, more of a hill called Mount Sarahbachi in Ewojima. You cannot miss it. If you look up a picture of Ebojima, you will see it. It's the only thing sticking up there. Inside of Mount Sarabachi to this day are thousands and thousands and thousands of dead

Japanese soldiers. Did you know that they made that mountain a honeycomb of fortifications because it's essentially just hard rock. So they made tunnels with rail lines and everything else, caves and interconnected stuff at ventilation, you name it. It had it inside of Ewojima, not on it. They had learned you don't ever want to be on something because American naval power, American air power is just going to bomb you right off the top of wherever you're at.

So they go in it. They burrowed inside of it, and we couldn't clear out lots of that mountain, and so I'm kind of fast forwarding to the end. You already know how the story goes. But we would simply blow closed the entryways to tunnels and caves and leave them in there, and they would just die in there. And it was supposed to be. I've never been one hundred and thirty degrees inside of the caves, and the gas can get so strong from the earth. Like I said,

it's an active volcano. We can kill you. Imagine having the cave entrance blown closed and that's how you die one hundred and thirty degrees. Anyway, So the Japanese were in it, they knew we were coming, and on day on day one of Ewogima is as horrific as any day in the history of the United States Marine Corps because they decided this time too smartly, don't try to stop them from landing on the beach. You're not gonna be able to stop them from landing on the beach.

Let them land on the beach. Have all your artillery sighted in on the beach, Wait till they're all stacked up like sardines, and start dropping ardi on them, and that's what they did to our boys on D Day and Ewojima. The stories, the books you read will break your freaking heart about what a horrible place that was. But then after that, after D Day, we had to go clear out an island. It was a lot more

than just Mount Sarabaci that was part of it. In island that had been prepped, pillboxes, bunkers, they took their tanks. They knew they their tanks couldn't stop ours, so they simply buried them and just left the turrets above the ground. It's crazy the stuff they did. And that brings us to one Donald Jack Rule in Marine Corps. In the Marine Corps, he is a legend. Maybe you've never heard of his name, you will remember his name after this. Now I do need to do what I've promised you.

I'm going to start doing and let you know that Jack Rule. Donald Jack Rule is from Montana, a little place called Columbus, Montana, very small town. Even to this day. We used to play them in basketball even though they were a couple hours away. Small Columbus, Montana. Grew up worked as a farm hand and then like patriotic boys were doing at the time, nineteen forty two. America is

at war. That's what I gotta go do. Donald Jack Rule goes down, joins the United States Marine Corps, bounces around a little bit, ends up in doing some fighting in Bougainville, but finds himself in the twenty eighth Marines, fifth Marine Division, finds himself on the hellscape of Ewogima, and we'll talk about what he did next next. Jesse Kelly, it is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Monday, and we are finishing up Medal of Honor Monday. In case you just now tuned in, maybe you missed the first

segment of this hour. I actually did not read the citation. First. I gave just a little, just a little ten minute kind of history background on how we ended up on Ewogima and what it was like on Ewogima. So now, without further ado, let's read the Medal of Honor citation for a Donald Jack Rule, United States Marine Corps. Hey, honoring those he went above and beyond. It's Medal of Honor Monday. Just to let you know, there are a

couple things in here. I'm gonna clarify once it's done. Okay, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a rifleman in an assault patoon of Company E, twenty eighth Marines, fifth Marine Division in action against enemy Japanese forces on Ewojima Volcano Islands from the nineteenth to February to the twenty Firth of February nineteen forty five.

Quick to press the advantage, after eight Japanese had been driven off or had been driven from a blockhouse on D Day, PFC Rules single handedly attacked the group, killing one of the enemy with his bayonet and another by rifle fire in his determined attempt to annihilate the escaping troops.

Cool and undaunted as the fury of hostile resistance steadily increased throughout the night, he voluntarily left the shelter of his tank trap early in the morning of D Day plus one and moved out under a tremendous volume of mortar and machine gun fire to rescue a wounded marine lying in an exposed position approximately forty yards forward of

the line. Half pulling and half carrying the wounded man, he removed him to a defilidated position called for an assistant in a stretcher, and again running the gauntlet of hostile fire, carried the casualty to an aid station some

three hundred yards distant on the beach. Returning to his platoon, he continued his valiant efforts, volunteering to investigate and apparently abandoned Japanese gun inplacement seventy five yards forward of the right flank during consolidation of the front lines, and subsequently occupying the position throughout the night to prevent the enemy

from repossessing the valuable weapon. Pushing forward in the assault against the vast network of fortifications surrounding Mount Serabachi, the following morning, he crawled with a platoon guide to the top of the Japanese bunker to bring fire to bear on enemy troops located on the far side of the bunker. Suddenly, a hostile grenade landed between the two marines. Instantly, Pfc.

Rule called a warning to his fellow marine and dived on the deadly missile, absorbing the full impact of the shattering explosion in his own body and protecting all within range from the danger of flying fragments. Although he might easily have dropped from his position on the edge of

the bunker to the ground below. An indomitable fighter. PFC Rule rendered heroic service toward the defeat of a ruthless enemy, and his valor, initiative and unfaltering spirit of self sacrifice in the face of almost certain death sustain and enhance the highest traditions of US Naval service. And he gallantly gave his life for this country.

little tidbit. They failed to mention in the citation that Japanese bunker he occupied and spent the night in forward of his position because he didn't want the Japanese to get in there. It wasn't empty when he entered it. When he entered it, he found a Japanese soldier who disagreed on who should reside in the bunker, and he killed him with his knife. He knifed the Japanese soldier killed him after hand to hand combat, and then left him laying there and spent the night beside the Japanese

guy he killed with his k bar. What a beast of a human being. And there were so many metals handled out on Ewojima because the fighting was so ferocious. Everything was a blockhouse, everything was concrete, everything was mortars and artillery. And again it's hot, and it's the Ewojima sounds like hell on Earth. And guys like that are what built this country. So respect to them. All right, it's enough of that. Let's get back to talk some politics.

Shall we maybe even do some emails. Let's first bring up this Trump birthright citizenship executive order is blocked by a third federal judge. All right, we'll get to expand on that in just a moment. Before we get to that, I know right now your testosterone levels are through the roof because you just heard about an American hero. But sadly, once that all that Marine Corps washes off of us, we go back to being a country that's losing our tea.

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some emails and things. I'm going to talk about this really quickly though, because everyone's up in arms about the judge. The judge is keep stepping in and blocking all the things Trump's doing. Trump steps in or judge steps in and drops the birthright citizenship thing that Trump had done. You know, Trump had said, you're not an American citizen just because you happen to be born here by too

an illegal That doesn't work. Yeah, the judges keep stepping in. Well, this goes back to what we talked about throughout the show, about the system they've spent years building in this country, year after year after year after year. When a Democrat gets an opportunity, when a communist gets an opportunity, they try to cement their power and prevent any future attacks on said power. Did you do you remember we didn't

talk a ton about it. In fact, I'm not even positive I mentioned it during his four years of his presidency. But you probably heard others, or at least you saw headline about Joe Biden and all the judges he was appointing, just judge after judge after judge after judge, just at an unbelievable pace. And of course it wasn't Joe Biden, it was the dirty communist surround him. Joe doesn't know anybody's name, including his own, but just pushing through all

these communist judges. Why would he do such a thing in preparation for exactly this member the AOC clip the little flashback this was heard before the election. I did not want to do four more years of resistance nonsense under Donald Trump. Okay, as soon as the other side takes any power at all, the communists will do everything in their power to throw sand in the gears. And this comes in a variety of forms. Keep in mind the government employees from inside the government. How many cases

of defiance have we already talked to you about. Remember the Treasury Department guys just like, no, I'm not firing anybody, and we're all wait, wait, what the FEMA guy or GUYU whoever it was, FEMA what FEMA. No, FEMA would never give money to illegals. Well, I want to give money to illegals. So sometimes it's just defiance from within the government. Sometimes oftentimes they use judges. That's why the Biden administration was so adamant about packing as many courts

as they could and filling them up with judges. This way, it slows down any advance from the right. Even if this stuff gets overturned by the Supreme Court, and a lot of it will, Like I said, they're gonna shoot themselves in the foot bad on some of this stuff. The Supreme Court Court's probably gonna shoot them down completely. But even if they do, when's the Supreme Court going to make that ruling tomorrow? No? Next day? No, I don't even know, neither do you, because it's not even

on the schedule yet. That's more days they can try to run out the clock and get through the four years trying to mitigate as much damage as Donald Trump can do to their agenda. That is the idea. That's why they're all screaming every day. We have to exist. We got to be in the streets. That's how they operate. Now. Some are more desperate than others, and you should probably keep your eyes open for the communist in your life who may lose his mind. This is doctor Steve Caddle.

He's at the Reverend Baptist Church in Tennessee. Yuh, remember how I told you they took over a bunch of institutions. It wasn't just the government was.

of violence. Sometimes the devil will act so ugly that you have no other choice but to get violent and fight. Or someone might say, now, Reverend, you know you shouldn't be talking about violence. This is the Christian thing to do. Well, I will say, why not talk this way? Because Jesus did.

That moron right there, he's out there leading the flock astray, telling them it's the word of God because Elon Musk is cutting government spending. They took over that institution too. But it's not just the Black churches either. So so many of these Protestant churches and Catholic branches and things like that. I mean, how many of these are Catholic andngos? The Communist marched through the religious institutions to march through them, took them over and now uses them as a tool

for his purposes. Anyway, back to our discussion, they are trying to run out the clock. That's the idea behind all this. Resist, Resist, Resist, four years of this. This is why the Communist is not concerned with popularity. And you can tell because they're running on the news defending the indefense. This isn't just funding a kid show for children, millions of children in countries like Iraq. It's a show that helps teach values helps teach. He's not concerned with popularity.

He's concerned with power, and as soon as he gets power, he goes all gas, no breaks, not a concern in the world. Destroy, destroy, destroy, destroy, destroy as fast as possible, and as soon as the power is taken from him. That's where we are right now. He will dig in his heels and do the best he can to ensure you can't go anywhere. That's why you have to be so vicious with the communist. You must be aggressive with him. You cannot be just live and let live. You must

bring them to heal. The second you sniff any kind of resistance from anybody, fire them all over. Fire them. If you're getting resistance from one department of let's say the irs, don't spend six months trying to figure out the specific person who was involved. Fire every single freaking one of them and have security escort him out the door. The communist only understands fear and pain, and there's nothing else you're going to do to him to get him

to change his mind, Absolutely nothing at all. These people see themselves as warriors for the cause of the revolution. You want an example, let me introduce you to k Collins. She was on with Seth Myers. Listen to this accidental admission about journalists.

You kind of wake up like not knowing what you're going to be doing, what the schedule?

just love the name. I'm sorry It's the greatest blender ever. It has auto sense technology, and I just love the name, and Bob keeps getting mad at me because that's the only thing only way I'll refer to it in the house. I never call it the blender. I always say, get the obliterator. She says, Jesse, I'm gonna make us a smoothie, and I say, in the obliterator. But yesterday it got

a two for you. See, because we had to blend some things up for the super Bowl party we went to and super Bowl and uh, superfood smoothie in the morning. I've never ever had a blender. I like this much in my life. Freaking thing is built like a tank. I'm so tired of buying garbage, aren't you. I'm so tired of buying things that fall apart In five and

a half seconds. Cheffman gave us the greatest blender ever, and you can save fifteen percent off site wide with the promo code Jesse c h ef m an dot com. Chefman dot com promo code. Jesse emails dude the Jesse Kelly Show on a Monday. It's been a wonderful Monday. I remember. You can email the show Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. Let's get to some of those emails. I've been lazy, doctor Jesse. Every morning I wake up there's a new outrage by the communists. This morning they

were locked out of the Department of Education. Maxine Waters going crazy. I laugh my butt off. Trump did say he was going after the Look these people, their entire world is being attacked when you go after government corruption, because government corruption is how democrats fund themselves. If they actually are able to clean out this corruption, you are going to see so much less communist street activity in this country, Fewer protests things like that. Remember, they make

you think their numbers are greater than they are. They make you think the outrage is bigger than it is. The communist activity you've seen in this country is funded and organized, funded and organized, funded and organized. You really don't genuinely think there are that many people who love Hamas in America, right? You don't think there are that many people who were upset about a drug dealer dying of an overdose in Minneapolis? Do you think there were

that many people actually mad about that? Of course not, Jesse. Why isn't anyone talking about the people that have introduced these wasteful spending programs and those that sponsored and supported them. That's the real root of the problem. They all need exposed, no matter what party they belong to. And this brings me to something that I cannot stand. And you know, I've screamed about it for the longest time, and I will continue screaming about it. I know just because of

what I do now. I know all kinds of people on Capitol Hill. I know House of Representatives people, Senate people, not just the congressmen themselves, not just the senators themselves, chiefs of staff and communications people and things like that. I have asked, You've heard me ask them on the air. I have asked. They'll bring up some horrible thing in the bill. We've got fifty million dollars here to go study frogs who get aids, And I'll ask who put

that person in? Who put that in the bill? Because someone put that in the bill. Somebody sat down, came up with that idea, typed it out and put it into the bill. And not one time ever, and I've done this publicly and privately, not one time ever, can any one of them ever give me an answer. I get general answers, I get put lobbyists K Street. I get no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Name somebody who put these things in the bill. Someone has a name, someone

has an address, someone has a social Security number. So I want to know the name of the person who puts this stuff in. Why is it that I can write a book The Anti Communist Manifesto available on paperback now at Jesse kellybook dot com. That I can write a book and I have to put like three hundred citations in the book giving you specifics on where I got this information from. And yet the laws, the rules, everything that goes into to running the United States of

America quite a bit more important than my book. Nobody knows, Nobody knows, And that flores me. You're right, I want to know who it is. And again this brings me back to things like this from Bill Haggerty, Republican Senator Bill Haggerty. Now that we start to find out the programs that AID has been funding, when you think about his sex change operations in Guatemala, now that we start to find out, Hey, Bill, uh, whose job did you

think that was? I am curious, what would you say your role as a United States senator is, what would you say you do here? Little office space quote for you there? Honestly, I can't believe it. What blows me away probably the most is he thinks that's a good news segment for him. Yeah. I can't believe the things we're finding out, as if he's just some innocent spectator. Bah Man, I'm just floored by It reminds me of

that Mike Johnson clip. Remember that Mike Johnson clip. I played it for you a couple of times where he went on some podcast. I forget who was Bari Weiss's podcast, something like that, Barry Weis, I don't know to say, your name doesn't matter. But he goes on her podcast and he's talking about Joe Biden's mental condition. And this is this is right before Donald Trump takes over. And he's sitting there as if as if it's just Chew and me at the Super Bowl party yesterday, just Chew

and me, just just chewing the fat. And he's acting like he's just some random observer. Hey, Bari, can you believe you you remember this?

do that. And I said, miss President, you yes, you did. It was an executive order like you know, three weeks ago, and he goes, no, I didn't do that. He's arguing with me. I said, miss President, respect, can I could I go out here and ask your secretary to print it out. We'll read it together. You definitely did that, and he goes, oh, you talk about natural gas? Yes, sir, He said, oh no, did you misunderstand?

in serious trouble. Who is running the country like, I don't know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn't know.

carving up this country. Maybe that would have been a good idea. But these guys, man, they're just the biggest bunch of followers and losers, and it drives me crazy. I'm just I'm really happy we got elon. And now do we.