Medal of Honor Monday (Hershel W. Williams)

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Honor recipient, herschel Woody Williams. Turns out he was a stud with a flamethrower who knew all right, So I need to describe something because this is This takes place on Ewojima, which obviously you know World War two in the Pacific Ewogima. If you've listened to this show, you were very familiar with this war and this portion of the war because it's my favorite part of history. World War two in the Pacific is by far my favorite. I nerd out on it every chance I get every

book I can read. I just I love it. It was terrible and a variety of reasons. I love it anyway. But people who aren't familiar with it don't realize just how fanatical the Japanese were in these places. They were fortifying these islands with pillboxes and caves and tonnolds and everything else, and they would pretty much die to the last man every time. They are the only army in all of World War Two that had no major units surrendering in mass It never happened. The Japanese would die

to the last man. Now, that is a nightmare scenario. When you're trying to stop an enemy who wants to die. It's just very, very, very difficult. You have to go to ech stream lengths to do so. They'll hide in these bunkers, they will hide in these caves. They'll dig into the caves. They'll bring women and children in there. They'll dare you to come kill them, because they want to kill at least one of you before they go. And Ewojima specifically their commander knowing they were all going

to die eventually. They knew they were going to lose. When we came, he said, your job is to take ten marines with you. You killed ten, and then you can die. And they took that stuff to heart. And that brings us to one of the most terrible, wonderful inventions in military history, the flame thrower. People have been using flames for military matters for a long, long, long time, but during World War Two is when the flame thrower really got prominence. How do you get Japanese guys who are

daring you to come in? They want you to come in. How do you get them out of a big pillbox? How do you get them out of that cave? How do you get them out of that tunnel? They want you to come in, they want to die. What do you do? Well, you find a way to spray flame in there, and you cook them. The Japanese, by every written account, they were scared to death of flamethrowers for obvious reasons. Even people who want to die don't want to burn to death. It's a terrible, terrible way to go.

Of course, Now what's that mean? It means when you were a flamethrower operator in the Pacific, your life expectancy was not very long because the Japanese, who didn't want to burn to death, as soon as they identified you, were shooting at you, trying to kill you. That brings us to the Medal of Honor citation for a herschel Woody Williams Hey honoring those who went above and beyond.

It's Medal of Honor Monday. He was born in Quiet Dell, West Virginia, by the way, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as demolition sergeants serving with the twenty first Marines, third Marine Division in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima Volcano Islands the twenty third of

February nineteen forty five. Quick to volunteer his services when our tanks were maneuvering vainly to open a lane for the infantry through the network of reinforced concrete pillboxes buried mines in black volcanic sands, Corporal Williams daringly went forward alone to attempt the reduction of devastating machine gun fire

from the unyielding positions covered by only four riflemen. He fought desperately for four hours under terrific enemy small arms fire, and repeatedly returned to his own lines to prepare demolition charges and obtain serviced flame throwers, struggling back frequently to the rear of hostile and placements to wipe out one

position after another. Quick pause, sorry, a flame thrower back then had about thirty seconds of you depressing the trigger, about thirty seconds of flame, and then it was empty. So if you're wondering why he kept having to go back for war, it didn't have that much flame, and it you can only carry so much fuel back to the thing. On one occasion, he daringly mounted a pill box to insert the nozzle of his flamethrower through the

air vent, killing the occupants and silencing the gun. On another, he grimly charged enemy riflemen who attempted to stop him with bayonets and destroyed them with a burst of flame from his weapon. His unyielding determination and extraordinary heroism in the face of ruthless enemy resistance were directly instrumental in neutralizing one of the most fanatically defended Japanese strong points. Encountered by his regiment and aided vitally in enabling his

company to reach its objective. Corporal williams aggressive fighting spirit and valiant devotion to duty throughout this fiercely contested action sustain and enhance the highest traditions of US Naval service. Woody Williams is a legend in Marine Corps circles. I knew the name Woody Williams when I was in and just to again explain armor tanks, I'm gonna call it tanks, but this applies to all armored vehicles, of which there

are many different kinds. It's very human to picture these things as virtually impenetrable, but nothing could be further from the case. The opposite side knows the equipment you have. They develop weapons, but I'll call them bazuokas, but they weren't necessarily that bazukas, rocket launchras. They develop weapons that a single man can carry that will take out your tank. You don't need an opposing tank, You just need something, some sort of a shorter fired weapon to take out

their tank. The Japanese had tons of these things, and we did not have tanks that had the armor to withstand them. So if you're going from point A to point B on Ewo Jima, the Japanese are going to know all the routes you would take. They have pill boxes set up all throughout the routes. You'd roll out with four tanks and they'd all get knocked out in five minutes. Boom boom, boom, boom boom, they're all gone.

You're watching your guys burn to death. You sit there and watch one of your tanks get hit, watch one of your guys crawl out of it on fire. You can get motivated to do some very brave things. And Woody Williams should have died about fifteen times that day, and most of the men who were with him did die. And Woody Williams would tell you to he's blue in the face that his medal of honor belonged to all of them, not just him. A lot of men were with him doing things just as brave. But they caught

a bullet and didn't get the recognition. He had bullets bouncing off of his freaking flamethrower tank. Yeah, crazy story, Woody Williams. Remember that, all right, Let's talk about the age of all those no kings rioters why why were they so old? An amazing bit of audio. Actually, it is the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic Monday. Member. You can email the show whatever you'd like Jesse at

Jesse kellyshow dot com. If you miss any part of it, including our Alexander the Great History segment from well hours from last Thursday, you can download the whole thing on iHeart, Spotify and iTunes. Now, let's discuss all the reporting that's out there today about how old all the rioters were, or most of the rioters where I know there was some young dirtball Antifa types, but all the reporting is remarking on the age. Everybody wasn't a bunch of young

college students out there. It was a bunch of senior service democrats out there. Why's that happen? Well, listen to this woman.

I bet you. She probably has some sort of a hobby. Maybe she makes quilts. My grandma Helen, my mom's mom made quilts. That was her thing. She quilted. Maybe she plays bingo, Probably volunteers at her church. These are all images that pop into your head when you picture a seventy four year old woman. But let's talk about that. Why is that what pops into your head? Here's why you don't just magically turn into a seventy four year

old woman who loves to quilt and make cookies. You end up as a seventy four year old woman who loves her grandkids and chocolate chip cookies because of the path you took in life. At some point in your life, you chose to start following a path of love and care and motherhood, and walking down that path year after year after year of your life has allowed you to end up as a seventy four year old woman, as a happy grandma who loves their grandkids and some delicious

oatmeal raisin cookies. You don't magically get there by reaching the age of seventy four. You get there by the path you chose. Now, let's flip it the other way. How in the name of anything does a woman in this country end up at seventy four years old? This shattered Why we're all the no Kings protests a bunch of senior citizen demo.

out who she is and what she believes. She has just now only started down the path of communism. She is just now beginning her journey on this path that will lead her to endless misery. And if we get her off of that path, changing her direction now, she can one hundred percent be saved. But if you are sixty five, seventy four years old, and for decades you've consumed American media, you watch NBC every night, you're reading the New York Times, you watch CNN, consuming endless amounts

of poison, because that's exactly what it is. It's not biased, it doesn't lean left. It is dishonest, vile, communist poison. If you spent seventy four years walking down that path, you don't end up with quilts and grandkids and oatmeal raisin cookies. You end up some deranged nutcase crying on television because Donald Trump deported some illegals. You are unsavable, because you are so far down the path, your mind

is gone, completely gone. We look at the young freak with purple hair, and we say that's the craziest person. I would argue the seventy four year old Democrat who's watched CNN for six decades, has a level of mental illness that has been rarely achieved in the history of the planet. Shattered in every possible way. Why were the only people who showed up at the protests sixty five plus?

Because those are the only ones still watching NBC every single night, completely broken, so far down the path they have no idea what's up and what's down. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Monday, finishing up our talk here on why why is it that you? I bet you know someone like this, don't you? Do you know in older democrat, a senior citizen Democrat? Are they more or less broken than the young ones? You see? Why? Why are there seventy four year olds like this?

kill me. I may need the day off of work, sitting home praying to the porcelain God, but it's not going to be the end of the world. Give me a day or two and I'll be back on my feet. Now, what if I do that every single night for a year? What happens to my body? My blood work, my liver, my organs bad? Right? Okay, what about five years? Every day for five years? What about ten? What about twenty years of that? That's what's happened to older democrats who

never broke free. Every single year. Instead of getting older and wiser, they got older and dumber every single year, older and more insane every single year, older and more emotionally broken. And this is almost entirely the fault of the American media, I might point out, because they could still consume all the traditional news sources who've been lying about everything under the sun for decades. And so that's seventy four year old who should be wise, who should

be up on it? It's more broken than anyone. What do they think about the protests? Oh, they're mostly peaceful. Why they think it was mostly peaceful.

from someone who's lived it. We like to project the age onto we see the age, and so we project that wisdom onto people who have the same wrinkles in the same gray hair. It don't work that way. You walk down that path for long enough, you're a goner. It's do some emails, Jesse before I rant. I'm in the army or I'm Army eighties and nineties proud of it to my core. But I was not impressed with the marching of the folks in the parade. He's talking about the Army parade. Some had no idea what they

were doing. The NCO of those groups should have had them at half step. The pace was too slow for a forward march. Was it bad leadership or as our military in general this bad now? Or am I just expecting too much? Okay, So first of all, I thought that Army parade was really great. I thought it came off really, really great. I thought Trump doing did you watch any of his He did the reenlistment ceremony when you re enlist, which I never did. They have a

ceremony for you. It's a celebration, right, thank you for staying in. Well, a bunch of Army soldiers re enlisted and Trump did the swearing in of their re enlistment. He did it as part of this Yeah, chrisy, it was super cool. They were standing in front of him with their hand up. I thought it was great, and I thought Trump handled it really well. Because it can be tempting to make that about you. His speech was all about them. Their service the Army that I thought

it was awesome. I thought it was awesome. I have heard some complaints like this one about the marching about all that. Okay, I watched it. I noticed it wasn't necess sarely the most in sync marching in the world. And one of you old school army dogs like this guy, I'm certainly not going to try to talk you off the ledge on that. I expect better. I expect better. I get that. But I will say this if I have to make a political point about it, and I will.

You ask about the state of our military today, Here's what's been explained to me. So I'm going to pass it along to you. The frontline troops, the combat front line troops. I'm talking infantry guys, the Marine Corps, infantry, Army, infantry, Army rangers. That the guys who are actually shooting and blowing up other people and getting shot and blown up themselves. They are as good now as they have ever been. I'm passing along what I've been told. Okay, they are

as good now as they've ever been. Tactics only get better over time, right, you learn as you learned, the tactics get better, training gets better you learn what works doesn't work. Our guys now are as good as they've ever been. But remember, everybody puts a different number on this. I was always told for every one frontline guy, it takes seven or eight people behind him. I'm talking about

supply people in medical and cooks and things. It takes a bunch of support personnel to keep the frontline guys fed and watered, to have everything they need. Okay, So every time you see one of those army ranger types, he needs a lot of guys, but he needs the supply clerk. Those are important jobs. All those jobs are important. Our frontline guys are better than they've ever been. The people behind them are as bad as they've ever been.

I'm passing along what I've been told. I haven't been in since two thousand and four, so that I'm not giving you first hand stuff. I was in the infantry. We never really worked with anyone else for the most part, so I wasn't with the supply clerk unless I needed to go and dow and grab something I wasn't. We didn't do much of that the infantry, at least when I was in the infantry, stayed with the infantry we trained with the infantry. That was who we stuck with.

What has been told to me again is that the frontline troops are as great as ever and their backup is as bad as ever. Have you seen pictures? I saw a picture recently they were having a ceremony the Navy, was of a bunch of people who'd made I think it was Master Chief. I forget what it was. I don't want to misspeak on the subject, but I think there were seven or eight of them in the picture. At least half of them were fat. One lady was morbidly obese. It looked like if she farted, her Navy

uniform was just going to blow up. That's it looked unbelievably unprofessional. Spent years filling up the military with a bunch of dirty commies, lowering the standards. You spend five of your eight hours of the day learning about your white privilege. They had to try to shoehorn women into as many positions as possible, so they had tried to lower this standard and lower that standard, lower the standard for the men too. As standards get lower, you've filled

up the military with a whole host of turds. And the problem with that is that army ranger. He needs those people behind him. He needs good people behind him. He can't be tough and shoot people in the face if he can't eat. So we'll move off this. I'm gonna do some other emails, but that's the story. We'll be back. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Monday. Remember you can email the show Jesse at Jesse calthieshow dot com. Before we get back to the emails,

here's another great example. Why is that seventy year old man instead of being this wise, wonderful soul like maybe you are or your grandpa was. Why is he a deranged lunatic with a now King's sign on Saturday? Why is he still tunes into CBS all the time? Old habits die haard. He tunes in to face the nation to get the news. He hears questions like this from Margaret Brennan.

you're a democrat for seventy years. You don't get wiser, you get dumber, you get more insane. Jesse. Considering the US has stealth bombers and heavy bunker busting bombs, why isn't the Iran attack a joint venture between Israel and the US. What do you think? Why do you think they're going it alone? Right? Trump talked a little bit about some ran stuff today. Heart real Is it cavable within days? Within weeks?

we make a deal. We can do a trade deal. We'll do a great deal. Why don't we just do a deal?

and I'm not I'm not even criticizing them. That's how foreign policy works, that's how media works. I get that. If you think Benjamin Nett and Yahoo launched all these airstrikes on Iran without Donald Trump's full throat at approval, well, I have a bridge in San Francisco. I would love to sell you. Reach out to the show. I'll give you a great price on the Golden Gate Bridge. Don't be naive. So they did have our support, meaning our

verbal support. They almost undoubtedly have our intelligence support. Israeli intelligence Masad is of course top notch. We've talked about it before. Do you think they nailed all those targets exactly without American satellites providing some intelligence, without US providing on the ground intelligence. Of course they have our support. Now you ask about stealth bombers. Why aren't we throwing into bunker buster stuff and stealth bombers, Well, look at

this from Donald Trump's perspective. Think about this. You don't like Iran, but you're willing to do a deal with Iran. They have a bunch of oil. China gets about twenty percent of their oil from Iran, so they resources. You don't like them, but you're willing to do a deal with them. Israel is obviously going to be much more motivated than we are to take out Iran because Iran is an imminent threat to Israel. They're not to us. They can commit acts of terror and things like that.

And look, Net and Yahoo can sell this all day long, but now it doesn't watch Look.

gets too emotional with these things. I understand it's emotional. It's an emotional topic.

if we get overtly involved. What if the next Iranian government's worse than this one, if Israel's handling it and we can at least publicly have our hands washed of it, not a bad move, to be honest with you. All right, let's move off to this. I don't want to talk about this anymore. Let's talk about Chuck Schumer, China involved in our local politics.