Hey there friends, my name is Kevin and today we're gonna be answering two questions. The first being Am I big or is this couch small? The answer is yes. The second question Are we a cult or not? Come on guys pull it together for legal reasons or like not but like This says I have a million subscribers. This one says I have a hundred thousand subscribers and now look at this He is sad ignore the smile. He's really sad. He's just putting on a brave face There's a link to his channel in the description I highly advise you just do it now it takes like two seconds two clicks and he doesn't even plan on uploading anymore So it won't bother you because he doesn't want to put in any work He just wants the reward, but I don't expect you to do it without seeing some of his content I'm gonna show you some videos today, and I'm hoping we as a cult as a community can get together and raise a hundred thousand Subscribers for this worthwhile individual All right, let's take a look at some of that content. I can see look he's already got one subscriber That's me. Where are all of you? He's got this featured here Jim Pickens hot and cold cover and just a bit of insider information He got copyright claimed on this so he's not even earning money from it This is a passion project, and you know that old play button project who let's take a look at his music video Wow Like a bridge that is beautiful. He's so good I'm not saying that it's hard just what do I know, but I imagine it's pretty hard to learn the words of an entire sim song That and I'll just hypothetically whoa, we're popping off all of a sudden I'm hyped if this came on at the club. I go nuts like if I went to clubs Like a girl All right, that's enough of that one if you want to see the whole thing you can go on to his channel I mean, I don't want to steal his content here makeover time-lapse. I want to attend challenge not clickbait I never suspected it was I think this is a brand new challenge by the way It's any beauty youtubers out there that want to take it. I mean just credit please. Okay, let's take a look Wow Yeah, that looks That looks good to subscribe to my channel or else. I forgot that plays at the end of every single video Also, I should credit a theo here for doing the lip-syncing on both those outros and the music video intro Jim isn't gonna do it. So I guess I kind of have to this is how I actually found them They were testing out lip-sync animations and they use Jim as their little test subject It's just kind of amazing but also terrifying oh no as much as I want to listen to it again We we better not all right Jim Pickens muckbang three-hole turkeys. Wow. He's thinking about himself while eating them I'm already impressed if I hadn't subscribed right now. I definitely would I should add this took a lot longer than you Would think the film as well. They all kind of did Especially the song but look at him go. It's worth it to see the smile on his face, right? Yep There you go, that's the muckbang Graceful as always Look, I think it's time we take a break here because I feel like I'm pushing you to subscribe But you don't understand the efforts. I've gone to I've really really tried to market this channel in every way possible You may not know this but I'm actually a former businessman So if there's one thing I know it's marketing and my big business brain told me There was only one thing to do print some flyers and hit the streets. I Filled a few local neighborhoods with some flyers hoping that I'd get the surge I needed to get caught up in the YouTube algorithm Unfortunately, some of the poles in the neighborhood were being used by other posters But this is business and in business you can't let things get personal now that I'd covered as much ground as my Unatlantic body would allow me all I had to do is sit back and wait for the subscribers to roll in you Just can't beat that feeling of doing a fantastic job Sadly, it just didn't seem to get the results. So That's why I'm here Okay, back to the content and because of that extra weight from the whole three-hole turkeys He can recreate an old classic dramatic fat sim splash Wow now that is content I can't tell why he doesn't have a following already. He's doing everything, right? Hey, look at this. He's 38 million views. How come Jim has only one?  Ah great time to relax This is candy I feel much better now and remember to subscribe to my channel. I already have if someone hasn't at this point I don't know what's wrong with them. In fact, maybe we should have a little PSA We'll be right back after this brief message for a worthy cause Look at that face every 60 seconds. You don't subscribe is another wasted minute. Just subscribe to him Okay, we're back. All right, if that didn't guilt you. I don't know what will Jim Pickens famous pancakes five fire emojis. Hell Yeah, okay. All right. I should make notes of this. I need to make these pancakes Yeah, and then the fire and then the pancakes okay great fantastic the pancakes were surprisingly the least burn thing in the Whole kitchen including the oven and including Shrek reaction video. I am out of ideas Jim Pickens I can relate in fact. Is this sort of a reaction video of sorts. Am I reacting to a reaction video? I don't know. I'm out of ideas. Anyway, it doesn't matter God he has me gripped. I'm ready Okay, I have the same reaction I actually really want some of that That's so cute. Oh He doesn't a heart after all God Jesus Christ that was terrifying. Oh my videos Well, we already watched these many times all of us I want you to push the talk and to laugh down the mic Yeah, funny funny Kevin or tea Yeah, I agree First we hit a hundred thousand subscribers and then we will aim to pass out or tea But our teeth probably want to pass out me which means I have to pass out myself with this channel of my sim Okay, this is gonna take a lot of marketing I really hope that you guys can just spread this around you know Maybe tell your friends or something they might be interested in this content even though it does look like he's made some Low-effort stuff too like that reaction video wasn't that well put together and now he's just got a Jim Pickens Minecraft let's play okay. This is kind of calming not as calming as they are some more but It's still calming It's got a nice little tunnel going on here. I wonder if he's gonna find any diamonds. How much do we've left? Oh, we only have two minutes left or so. I hope you find some diamond. Oh God lava. Oh You yeah It's close.  Is this hardcore mode? I okay. He's safe. Phew. I actually got goosebumps there. That scared me a bit Oh, he did find some diamond. This is amazing. He's even digging out all around it. Wow He knows what he's doing Look, he's even entertaining when he's got up the ladder and there's nothing going on in the game He's like oh better make a show of myself got to be entertaining for the people. He's good at what he does He's better than me at gameplay. I just edit out all the silence. He just embraces it does no editing whatsoever Just plays Go on. Oh, he leaves us on a cliffhanger.  That's how you get subscribers though I don't want to come back Every time I go back to his page that plays and I just want to listen to it He is a fantastic singing voice if I do say so myself look at that a bear even spanks him in the music video How could he not get hype for that as I said earlier all you need to do is click the link in the description and then hit Yes, and then you're part of the cult and then we can see if we can actually get him what he deserves Also, if you're searching for the channel, please don't confuse it with this Jim Pickens. What's up guys? It's Jim Pickens here, but for now. I think big man go back to small couch to say goodbye All right, if that didn't convince you, I'm not sure what will but I really hope it did We got to try and raise some subscribers for this guy Also, I am not under duress. I think it's gonna be a really tough goal But I think we can do it if we do a really focused targeted sudden campaign I think we can do it and we'll be in and out before YouTube even realizes what we've done like he needs this I can't think of a more worthy cause to donate your time to right now and this one has my name on it So I can't give him that one. This thing's useless, but yeah, I hope I convinced you today. I really appreciate you watching folks I hope you will take part in this campaign. It's very very important to me and my sim Which is you know the world to me, honestly It might be hard to relate unless you've made a sim before or you've had like a kid that will come close I guess I have to probably not but I think it's important We band together and we do this to prove that we have made our mark on this world. I hope you enjoyed the video I appreciate you watching as always. I appreciate you being part of the content and I hope to see you next time. Bye for now


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world, our headlines, leaders and activists demand end to coercive measures against Cuba as Biden imposes sanctions, COVID-19 crisis worsens in Indonesia as hospitals near full capacity, U.N. appoints commissioner to examine abuses in Israel and occupy the Palestinian territories, and in our video section we take a look at the billionaire space race and its implications for the NASA-dominant space market. In our first story, the U.S. has imposed fresh sanctions on Cuban government officials. Among them is an entire security unit under the Interior Ministry. The head of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, General Alvaro López Miera, has also been sanctioned. These sanctions follow the 240 unilateral coercive measures imposed by the U.S. on Cuba since 2017. A statement by the Treasury Department reads that the Cuban Armed Forces played an integral role in the so-called repression of protests. This is related to small-scale protests held on the island of July 11th. Hundreds of people had taken to the streets to raise complaints over shortages of food and medicine. Cuba's tourism-dependent economy has been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. More importantly, the country has been placed under the crushing blockade by the U.S. for over 60 years. Following the protests, Cuban officials immediately met with the people and tried to address their concerns. However, far-right opposition activists took the opportunity to call for regime change and U.S. intervention, supposedly to save Cuba. Social media campaigns were launched under the hashtag SOSCuba, accompanied by false information on the jailing and torture of activists. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people held protests across the island in defense of the revolution and the government. Internationally, over 400 people have written an open letter to President Joe Biden. Former heads of state activists and artists are calling for the lifting of Trump-era coercive measures. These actions cost Cuba billions of dollars every year in restrict stability to procure basic necessary goods. Despite having developed five COVID-19 vaccines, Cuba does not have the syringes needed to administer them. The country has also been designated as a state sponsor of terrorism. Amid this economic and political campaign against Cuba, progressive leaders have continued to offer their support. We now go to Indonesia, which has now become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the continent. The country reported over 49,500 new cases and 1,449 deaths on July 22. The recent surge in infections has been largely driven by the highly infectious Delta variant. As per the WHO, 17 provinces reported an increase of over 50% in new cases between July 12 and 18. While daily cases are gradually declining, experts have attributed this in part to low testing rates. An outbreak is considered uncontrollable by the WHO if more than 5% of tests come back positive. As per reports, the figure in Indonesia currently stands at over 30%. The country's health system is struggling to cope with the surge. Seven provinces have reported hospital occupancy rates above 70% on January and July 21. The situation is dire in the Papua region, which is among the lowest vaccination rates in the country. The occupancy rate in some hospitals had hit 100% as of Thursday, according to the Papua Health Agency. Local activists argue that people have been resistant to getting vaccines in part due to their distrust to the central government. The Papua provinces are witnessing a conflict between federal furloughs and pro-dependence ant-surgeons. Meanwhile, several health workers across the country have contracted the virus, while others are facing severe exhaustion. The Indonesian Doctors Association reported this week that 114 doctors had died between July 1st and 17th. Only 6% of Indonesia's around 270 million people have been fully vaccinated so far. In our next story, the UN Human Rights Council has appointed a commission to look into abuses in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. The three-member body will be held by South African former judge Navi Pillai. She is also served as a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. Pillai will be joined by Miroon Kotari from India and Chris Sidoti from Australia. The commission of inquiry was established during a UN special session in May. The commission of inquiry was established during a UN special session in May. It will look into systemic abuses, including identity-based discrimination and repression. As per the UN HRC, the body has been tasked with looking into the root causes of recurrent tensions. It will also examine the Israeli attack on Gaza in May. The reactions of Hamas and other Palestinian groups will also be investigated. At least 256 Palestinians were killed in over 2,000 verandah during the 11-day bombardment of Gaza. As per the UN OCHA, 113,000 people were displaced with the peak of the attacks. Over 1,200 housing units were destroyed and under 1,500 damaged beyond repair. Over 800,000 people did not have proper access to water and there were widespread electricity blackouts. As per a UN report released on July 8, over 8,200 Palestinians still remain displaced. Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinians were arrested and injured when protests took place in the occupied territories. The commission will look into all the human rights violations leading up to and since April 13, 2021. This is an open-ended investigation and annual reports will be submitted to the UN starting June 2022. And for our final story, we look at the recent spaceflights by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Virgin Atlantic owner Richard Branson. Bezos was aboard his inaugural spaceflight on his company Blue Orion earlier this week. This was just nine days after Branson's Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceflight. The two have now joined Tesla and SpaceX, co-founder Kieron Musk, in a shift towards private space travel and even tourism. With tickets for Virgin Galactic's future flight selling for $250,000, it is important to note that these ventures have been heavily reliant on public funds. SpaceX received nearly $4.9 billion in government subsidies. Bezos had also applied for a $10 billion federal contract earlier this year. While it is passed by the Senate, it is blocked in the Hauser representatives in June. Here is D. Raghunandan to talk more about this new space race. Do you think that these three players are in some sense the future inheritors of what NASA was doing and they will gradually become private players in space at least for the Americans? Yeah, I think at least at present between the three, I think Elon Musk with his SpaceX range of rockets is ahead of the other two in that regard. He's got a more powerful rocket. He's seriously into the launch markets, whereas neither Virgin Galactic nor Blue Origin offer any great services in terms of launches given the low altitudes to which they are able to reach, which will hardly sustain satellites for Earth observation or any of those purposes. But I think the SpaceX range is actually seriously vying for a large part of the NASA subcontracted space market. That is where I think at least Elon Musk is pushing for. He's already now ferrying crew and cargo to the space station. He's also planning to launch his own space station sometime in the future. So he'll have a private space station there, which will then offer services for scientists, for astronauts from the US, from other countries to go spend time in the space station, do scientific experiments, et cetera, as well as space tourists to go and spend longer time in the space station as we spoke about last time when the first space tourist went aboard the Soyuz aircraft to the space station. Way back in 2001, he spent seven days there. So the Virgin Galactic quick trip to space is not really a first in that sense, it's been done before. So Elon Musk can offer that longer stints at the space station. And if his plans work out the way he wants, he would be able to or he's aiming to develop a rocket close to the performance, at least of the Atlas range, which is based on the Russian RD-120 rocket engines that you spoke of. He would at least be able to, his current range of rockets is aiming at roughly twice the power of the Atlas V series, not yet reaching the kind of power that the Saturn V had. But Elon Musk, given his ambitions, he's already announced one of his engines, which he's now kept reserved. He had earlier thought of it as a first stage, booster stage, et cetera, but he's now kept that model purely for what he calls his Mars vision for a long-range launch, either direct to Mars or a hopping space flight to moon and then to Mars. So if he succeeds in those, then I think he would offer these kinds of services to NASA, which then does not have to launch its own rockets and boosters and Musk would provide those for NASA. And if there are other countries interested in paying him tons of money to do this, then he will be able to provide some services for that. So he's got a niche which he's trying to reach to carve himself for launch services in Earth orbit, for geostationary orbits tomorrow, and then for deep space missions, both towards the moon as well as to Mars and his own private space station. So he's got multiple options that he's got, many of which are going to depend on the success of his engines, which are under development, except what he's already got now, which is the Falcon Heavy, which he's using to take people to the space station. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back on Monday with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.


The first thing I was struck by was actually the last sentence as the image of the son of liberty going around the shops with his lamp black, which is the soot from oil lamps, kind of black carbon soot, and unpainting the word tea. It certainly makes me think of more famous events like the Boston Tea Party, although that's the real destruction of other people's property. Maybe they throw tea that doesn't belong to them into the harbor in Boston, but this seems sort of a smaller offering of one's own tea, but nonetheless something of a gathering, a really dramatic gathering where patriots are expressing their political views. Elsewhere in the second paragraph it says, a great number of inhabitants. You'd really like to know how many, how many that is compared to all of the inhabitants of Providence. And specifically some worthy women. So we know in this case the word inhabitants includes women, which sometimes it might or sometimes it doesn't. It doesn't specifically mention anyone else. We get the impression that this is not limited to people who were qualified to vote. Certainly if women are there it's not limited to qualified town voters and possibly therefore there were men and boys present. Services, servants, slaves, sailors, any number of people who would normally not be voting and acting politically in that way, even in the town meeting, but who could attend a marketplace to purchase things or in this case to refuse to purchase or to give up things or to observe. One thing that I think is intriguing too is there's an argument about tea in this. It's not just a description saying people came to burn their tea. It describes tea for you that it's needless. We don't need it. It's been detrimental to our liberty and interest and health. And that's intriguing because you can see the logic by which it's detrimental to Patriots' liberty and interest. They don't want to pay taxes on it. They don't think Parliament should be taxing this. Health is another question and it's interesting that the Patriots raised this issue of how it's supposed to be unhealthy just when Britain puts a tax on it. That's not really a common thought in the 18th century that tea is unhealthy. In fact, people take it in part for medicinal purposes. There's other information here that you can begin to pick up that in addition to throwing the tea in the fire, they throw in some newspapers and a printed copy of a speech by Lord North that they disapprove of. And you can go and track down what was Lord North probably speaking about. Rivington's paper, the New York paper, Rivington's a loyalist and he's arguing on behalf of parliamentary power. So it's interesting they throw those newspapers in the fire as well. So it's not merely getting rid of the tea. It's all that English stuff. I think one thing to notice about it is this isn't the kind of newspaper report we would expect that we would get of this happening. Even though it's written in the third person by someone describing it as if he or she was there, very authoritative, this happened. It offers opinions in places where we might expect that you'd interview someone. It doesn't interview Jane Doe and have her say, well I'm really cheerful to be throwing my tea in the fire because I don't need this noxious weed. It's the reporter telling you and the reporter using language which testifies to his and I think we can probably use the male pronoun here position. In reading these it's tricky. You will sometimes read pieces like this which talk about true friends of the country and lovers of freedom and you discover the writer is talking about the loyalists, the Tories. Because of course they think too that they're the true lovers of America and freedom. So you have to sometimes read for a while to figure that out. In this case it's pretty straightforward since they're burning Tory newspapers and throwing away tea and supporting the son of liberty.


Today, we are honored by the presence of retired U.S. Army Captain Gary Michael Mike Rose who is joined by a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Eugene McCarly. They will discuss the events surrounding Captain Rose's military acts of heroism while serving as a combat medic with the 5th Special Forces Group Airborne from September 11th through the 14th in 1970. While his unit was engaged with a numerically superior force deep in enemy controlled territory, Captain Rose exposed himself to enemy fire numerous times to provide medical aid to his comrades using his own body to shield a wounded American from harm. On the final day of the mission, although severely wounded himself, Captain Rose volunteered to board the last extraction helicopter. Shortly after liftoff, the helicopter was hit by enemy anti-aircraft. Captain Rose rendered life-saving medical treatment to save a wounded Marine before the helicopter crashed. Ignoring his own injuries, Captain Rose pulled the people from the burning helicopter and provided medical aid until help arrived. Captain Rose is credited with treating more than 60 wounded personnel and saving many lives. For his conspicuous gallantry, the President will present the Medal of Honor to Captain Rose in a White House ceremony on Monday, October 23rd, and then he will be inducted to the Pentagon Hall of Heroes on October 24th. Captain Rose's name will be added to the distinguished roster in the Defense Department's Hall of Heroes, the permanent display of record for all recipients of the Medal of Honor. Now, Captain Rose will provide an opening statement, followed by brief introductions and statements from Lieutenant Colonel McCarley. Well, thank you all for coming this morning. I would like to start off by saying that, coupled with the Presidential Unit citation that Max Augg received about 15 years ago and this medal which I consider a collective medal for all of us that fought both on the ground and the Air Force and the Marines. On Operation Tailwind, in a greater sense it also honors the men of 5th Special Forces that fought during that time frame and Max Augg as a whole during the time frame that that unit was in active duty. And in a greater sense I think it points to the valor and the courage of the men and women who served during Vietnam and they served with honor and pride. And they also, the ones that I know personally, all returned home and continued on to serve this country in various capacities such as the ministry, religious ministries, police officers, nurses, doctors, so on. And I consider it a privilege to be counted amongst them. Thank you, Colonel. Thank you for coming this morning. It's indeed a great pleasure to sit here next to Mike. I can't think of an individual more deserving of this award, but it's also a pleasure for me to have served with Mike and the other 15 guys with me on Operation Tailwind. I'm proud of them and because of my association with them I feel like I'm a much better man on a citizen today. I'm proud of our service, I'm proud of what we did and we did it for the love of our country and for patriotism. And again, thank you for being here and I'll try to answer your questions to the best of my ability. Thank you. Hi, Mike, I'm Megan Myers from Army Times. Nice to talk to you again. So, since, between the time that this, the story went public, you know, over a decade ago and the time that happened, how many times would you say that you had told that story to anybody?  Zero.  Ma'am, when we left MaxAug, which was a top secret organization, basically the unit did not exist and it was not acknowledged for some almost 30 years. So, when you left MaxAug, you signed all these paperwork that, you know, you read this thing, they put it in front of you, some intel officer and, you know, it says that under penalty of 500 years in prison and $40 million fine and so on and so forth, they're going to bury you under 40 feet of concrete if you even divulge anything. So, I just determined, well, if anybody asked me, I was going to be a male clerk during the Vietnam War, so keep myself out of trouble. But the other thing is, the mentality of the way people in the Fifth or Special Forces are is you do a mission like that.  Anything to add to that, Kirk? I think Mike pretty well summed it up. After the operation and I came home, I forgot about it and nothing really surfaced until about 1998. It became more and more in the news and popular. But as far as discussing it, even among the individuals, and I've remained real close with the guys that served with me on end table. And we never really discussed it other than just laugh about some of the things that happened. My follow-up is for you. What made you want to get involved and take on this upgrade for him? This metal upgrade. Well, I had the honor to serve with about five or six of the other Medal of Honor recipients in Special Forces. Mike is going to be the 19th. I've been fortunate enough to know and be friends with about ten of them. And like I say, I actually served with five or six of them. They even went on operations with me. And the actions that Mike performed on Operation Tailwind, you just can't imagine it. You can't put it in the words. You can't describe it. But I can't think of anyone any more deserving than Mike to receive this award. It's an effort that we pushed and we fought for for many, many years.  Yes, ma'am. After living in such secrecy for so long, how does it feel to have it be so public? Well, I'll be honest with you. I think the colonel will agree. In some respects, I wish it was still secret. Well, I'm not used to notoriety. My thing after I retired from working is I'm involved with a lot of great people. And most of them, I might say, are veterans, both men and women. And I'm involved with the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Purple Heart and the Knights of Columbus. And we try to, we have an attitude that we can't fix the nation, we can't fix the state. We can't even fix our city, but we can fix our neighborhood, our community.  And at the end of the day, we can actually see something physically that we've accomplished that just a little bit made that portion of our city a little better. So you're used to being that quiet warrior who works in the background, and that's sort of how it was in 1970 when this happened. You married your wife the next year. Was she someone you knew when this happened? Tell us about your life at that juncture. Well, I can tell you how I met my wife, if you're that interested. I got back on a Saturday and about Sunday, my mother started on my case about calling this young lady a friend of hers. It was a friend of my mother's who lived upstairs and her best friend had a sister. So about Wednesday, just to get my mother off my back, if you would. And I don't know if your mother's, and you have an adult child, mothers never seem to think of you in terms of not being your mother. And so they know best. I guess mother knows best. So I called her and I talked to her. I thought, okay, 10 minutes, I'm out of here. Well, the conversation lasted about an hour. I asked her on a date, and 89 days later we were married and we've been married for going on 47 years. And I might add that Margaret Mary Cotsman Rose is probably the best thing that ever happened to me. Yes, ma'am. Can you talk about Claudio Starr's insurance? Can you talk about the emotions that you're feeling ahead of this ceremony on Monday? What's going through your mind? Well, actually, what I'm kind of, there are, you know, two things, I guess. One, man, it's not every day a person gets to meet the President of the United States. I mean, that in itself is to be in the same room with that person is just an incredible honor and privilege. But the other thing too is I get to see people that I don't get to see very often and in some cases we haven't seen in decades. I've stayed in communication with them, but because of the distances between where we live and the country, it's very difficult. So, and they're all coming here by Sunday. And my wife and I are going to have the privilege of being able to see these friends that date back some 40, 50 years. So that's the great, the two great things about it. A follow-up, what's been the reaction among your family and friends as you're getting reunited with these folks? My wife's excited about, Margaret is very excited about seeing some of the friends we haven't seen in a while. My, for my children, I get the idea that they're kind of pretty proud of their dad. And my grandson, he's just so excited about being able to meet Mr. Trump. Can you describe in your recount of what happened, the gunner who was ahead of the injury that should have been more of his throat? Is he someone who you will be reconnecting with this week? The Army traced him down and unfortunately the gentleman passed away in 2012. But the thing I take great pride in is the fact that if you had seen him on that day, you would have not thought that he would have made it.  And the fact that he lived all the way to 2012, that just gives me a really great sense of accomplishment that I give credit to the people that trained me that I was able to do something to, in spite of his injuries, to keep him so he could go home. I'd like to add something to that. Mike saved this guy's life. The man should have died in that helicopter. But I had the opportunity and I think it was in 1973 or 1974, a few years after Mike worked on him. And I had the opportunity to meet him at a Marine base with some of his other friends who participated in the operation with us and had a couple of drinks with him and the only visible signs, or the only signs that you could tell he had ever been shot, he had two scars under each earlobe about the size of a half a dollar. It had not affected any movement or anything in his neck, any speech or anything. It was if it had never happened, it was more like a tattoo than a scar, but he had very distinctive scars, like I say, about a half a dollar. So, Mike did a miraculous job. I don't know how any licensed doctor could have done any more or done a better job than Mike did. Hi, Louie Martinez with ABC News. You spoke about your training as a medic. Can you describe how it was that you chose that career path or was it chosen for you? And knowing that this was a conflict, a major conflict area, did you have any concerns when you went into this field, knowing that because you're going to be treating a lot of wounded that you might be exposing yourself to a lot of fire in certain cases? Well, what happens is that during that time frame they had Special Forces recruiters at most training bases and I don't know if you take these tests at the beginning. So, these recruiters would get ahold of your scores and they'd go through them.  I got sent down with about three other guys from my AIT infantry at Fort Gordon, talked to this guy, somebody, I don't know, a guy walks in with a green beret. I didn't know nothing about green berets or Special Forces. And he talked to us and he says, we're going to have you guys take a test to see if you're qualified to go on to further training. And you have to understand back in those days, when you are a private in the Army, you never saw NCOs or officers unless something really bad or really good happened. A spec four was gone. If he told you to jump on the way up, you asked how high. So this is some, I believe he was a master sergeant. So if a master sergeant tells you you're going to take a test, you're going to take a test. And you better do the best how you can. So I took the test and when I got toward the end of AIT infantry, I had orders for jump school in Fort Bragg to go to Special Forces training. I get to Fort Bragg, you take another battery test and they said, well, we think you'd be best suited to be a medic. And you say, okay, so you do it. This is the 60s, you know. So as far as the interpretation about going into combat or that, which I guess you alluded to, that probably never entered my head.  It's probably the first time in your life that you, oh, this might be serious. Or there could be some catastrophic consequences. Any other feelings on that? Pretty well covered. Given that you have such a long experience there, how would you rate this incident actually with others that you had? Were there others of similar intensity that were not being recognized, of course, but I mean, are there other situations that... Well, I had been on operations before and after, but that one I knew something was up because the first sergeant there came by and said, make sure you pack extra this and that, and then you watch the guys with you. Even though you don't know what's really going on, because you're only told what you need to know to do your job.  So we never carried that much ammunition before or afterwards, but boy, we were carrying heavy loads of ammunition, extra machine gun, extra grenades, God, everything else. So I knew something was going up. I mean, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. To add to that, we were going into an area that the American troops had never been in before. There was absolutely no intelligence. So we didn't know what we were going to encounter. So we, like Mike said, we went extra heavy. We carried a lot of extra ammunition, a lot of extra demolitions, and fortunately Mike carried a lot of extra medical supplies because he put them to good use, and I think he used just about everything he had. I know we used all of our ammunition and everything we had. Hadn't we not come out the day we were extracted? And we probably would have never left the area. It was that serious. I think when I got to that marine, I was down to shirt sleeves and bandanas. I think this young lady here. Three Jacks, what's next on broadcasting? Now you talked about being in that high intensity situation, and from the best of your luck, you can recall. Can you just describe how you handled that, how you remained calm and were able to administer help to others?  Now this was not my first go-around. I had been in a mission that with the Colonel and Lieutenant Brown, I think. Yeah, yeah, Brown. And earlier, and I got through that one, and then so I had been under fire at this, but you focus on what your job is. It's the same way with the other guys. I wasn't concerned with what the NBA were doing, because that wasn't my focus. I knew that the other guys were going to take care of the perimeter. My job was to focus on the individuals that were hurt. And when you focus in those kind of circumstances, you don't concern yourself about getting hurt or killed, because if you dwell on that or think about that, you're not going to be able to focus on what you're supposed to be doing, and you probably will get hurt or killed.  And now you got to understand, that's a 70-year-old man looking at what I think a 21-year-old did 50 years ago. If you'd asked me back then, my answer would be, I have no clue. Anyone else? When Operation Tailwind was declassified, what was the conversation like with friends and family when they found out that you had been involved? A lot of people were surprised. At the time, you just told people what the report had been reported, that it didn't happen, and that was it. So you just said to them, what was in that, what you saw on TV, that's not really what happened? That's basically it. And then as details came out and you were able to talk about it, what did you say to your wife, what did you say to your kids? Well, Margaret will actually tell you that until we went to the Special Forces Association and we're sitting down with the colonel here, Bernie Bright, and first Sergeant Adair, she will tell you until last June, she'd never even really heard me talk about it. So we might... I mean, it just wasn't something we talked about. She was an Army wife for a long time. She knew better than to ask you lots of questions. I don't know if you'd have to ask that question, because I can tell you right now, I'm not answering for Margaret Mary Rose. I am not answering for that lady, no. Another question. So you retired from the Army eventually. You had a whole other career after this as an artillery officer. How did that experience in the Army compare to this really intense beginning of your career? And what was it like carrying that around and being around other Vietnam veterans all the time or being able to talk about it? Well, if you're not supposed to talk about something, you gave your word that you would not talk about it. So you don't. So you don't think about it. So it's not an issue. I just can't give you a better answer than that. You kind of... We're professional soldiers, right, sir? That's right. And they said, this is what you're going to do and this is what you're not going to do. And so you've raised your hand and you took an oath. And that's what you do. It's called service to your country and following the orders and those appointed above you. It was something that we just didn't talk about. I mean, to us, as professionals, it was a job. And even among the Special Forces friends, we didn't really discuss that and go into details because they were out doing things just as crazy and just as dangerous, just as exciting if you want to phrase it like that. And I don't... I didn't try to forget it, but I just never really talked about it. When I came back, it wasn't until 30 years later that my children didn't actually know what went on. They knew something went on and knew that I was in combat and I'd been shot a couple of times. But as far as any details on the operation, it was something we just never talked about. How did that experience of being... not just this, but being a Special Forces medic in Vietnam, how did that inform your career as an officer for all those years afterward? Well, it's different because you're field artillery, so you're dealing with stuff that weighs a lot. I might add that I would say today, I think if you were to ask a young person or a senior officer like Colonel here about... and I don't mean to pull you into this, ma'am, but what I'm trying to say is if you were to ask somebody the same question today that's on active duty, they would probably just give you the same answer we did. If they were involved... I know if this Colonel was involved in something that was classified and was told not to talk about, she's never going to bring it up to her husband or her children or her mother or father because she's a professional soldier and that's what she's taken an oath to do. And it's called service to your country and service to your country means you abide by the rules. We are a country of the rule of law and that's what you should be doing. Just a quick question. What is it like for the two of you to be sitting side by side now, almost 50 years later? Happy? We're alive? Well, Mike and I, we've remained friends for a lot of years so sitting next to him is nothing new. It's an honor and a privilege to be here with him today knowing he is going to be the recipient of the Medal of Honor. I would also like to say that this gentleman, he's been giving me a lot of credit, but this guy here during those four days, he was controlling fighter aircraft, trying to bring in heavy-lift marine helicopters and cobras. He's also directing the ground operations at the same time and he would still come by along periodically with the first sergeant just to check on every one of us to see how we're doing.  And probably, regardless of what the answer we gave him, we probably knew there wasn't much he could really do to help us because the way the resources were, but just the fact that the man came by and you knew he was coming by just to boost your morale a little bit, that's the kind of man he was, and he is. And I consider it a privilege, a great privilege, to count myself amongst one of his friends. Did you know at the time that he was going to receive the Distinguished Service Cross and that his nomination had been downgraded and what was your reaction to that? I think that's your question. Yeah, that is your question. I was terribly disappointed to be honest, but that's just the way the system works and we accepted it as it was and just tried to live with it as best we could. And when did you get the idea that, ooh, maybe now we can go back and try to rectify this? Well, we've been fighting for it for 47 years. I mean, the fight never stopped. We would lose ground and then we'd gain ground and it was just a constant fight through all the years and fortunately we had contact and had a lot of help from Senator Sessions and other high-ranking VIPs that helped us and showed us the ropes. I mean, we were sort of stumbling around in the dark. We didn't know who to go to so we got an awful lot of help from Senator Sessions and some of the others. I can't name names and I don't want to leave anybody out. I'm really thankful for all of the help we got and we certainly got a lot of excellent help in pushing this award through. Representative Brooks in the House. And I also would like to, I think it's Behoogs, both of us, too. Unfortunately, the one man who was really pushing for this passed away about four years ago and that was Colonel Sadler, was the Mack Saw commander at the time and he called in a lot of Chip to get us out because I've found out recently that on that fourth day on that extraction point that they were only, excuse me, they were only going to take out the wounded and fortunately the Colonel here was talking to the A1E Spad pilot, Tom Stump and Stump told him, if you don't get them out all now, they're not getting out. We weren't supposed to come out. We didn't know that but we weren't given much chance for survival and real definite plans to extract us were never in the making until Colonel Sadler stepped in and said, these men have got to come out and I need your helicopters. So you're continuing to learn details of your mission even up till now. Is that the case? I didn't hear you. You're still continuing to learn details of Operation Tailwind. They're still coming out even for you who are part of it. I can't speak to everybody but I can tell you that every time I have a conversation and we start, you know, talking to people and some of the people have done extensive research and gone through all of the stuff. Yes, that is very true. There are a lot of things that I have learned almost constantly about it that I didn't know before. I think this gentleman has a question. I'm back with WVTM 13 in Birmingham, Alabama. I brought out Jeff Sessions and Mo Brooks. They're from Alabama. How, again, describe their role in this process and how crucial they were to helping you achieve this recognition? Actually, the gentleman that you really should be asking that question would be Mr. Neil Thorn who is a gentleman who has... How many? I'm not God. He has gotten recognition for some 70 individuals or helped God from the Korean War and Vietnam and even currently with some of the fellas over the last 15 years. Maybe the current... Neil has become an expert on awards and decorations and he is, like Mike said, he is very instrumental in getting individuals awards upgraded that went through them for whatever reasons their citations were never awarded. The citations they were submitted for were downgraded to a lesser level just like Mike was downgraded from the Distinguished Service Cross. He received the Service Cross in lieu of the Medal of Honor that was downgraded. Neil has taken it upon himself to help some of these individuals and he is very, very instrumental and he was the one that contacted some sessions and these brooks and some of these others. Neil is the man that deserves the credit and he can give you any information you need as far as what took place in how he did it. He was a real workhorse in making this a successful endeavor. And I might add that Neil is a National Guardsman or was and he is... I think he currently... He works for FEMA and so I don't know where he might be in Puerto Rico, he might be in Texas but he's up to his neck in FEMA operations right now. Yeah, he's a... But there are a lot of people that have been involved in that and so I even suspect that there's a lot of people that we don't even know their names that have pushed this along over the years in the background. So it's been a... What's great about it is there's a lot of people in the Department of Defense and other agencies have, I guess like Congress I guess, that have seen that people this country needs to recognize these veterans for the service that they did and the recognition didn't come at the time and unfortunately as time marches on some of this recognition comes... It comes too late for the individual but it does come to the family so that's... We cannot forget these men and women who have served this country so loyally and very quietly and have continued to just get out of the service and become and were and are good citizens and they do all they can to make the world a little better place every morning, every day. Any other questions? This is easier than I thought. I'll ask you for some of the battle buddies that are going to be at the White House with you on Monday. Can we not use it? There are 16 of us involved on Tailwind two have since passed away two have passed away two we cannot locate and haven't had any contact with them since about 2000 but there's 12 still alive and I managed to run them down and contact them in all 12 and in those 12 that's Mike and myself said the other 10 will be with us sometime between now and Monday that's from the ones that were on the ground with us and in addition to that we have Air Force pilots and Marine pilots who support us and all we're going to have about 25 individuals here who participated in Tailwind one way or another. You said 12 were going to be there on Monday? Yes. Including the two of you. Those two, yes. And don't forget that those Air Force pilots like Tom Stump he was I don't know how close to the ground he came when he came in on that one of that final run to break up that charge that we were facing because there were only 35 of us left on the ground and we were probably down to about maybe 50 rounds between the two of us at that time he came in so close I would when he turned his head and I looked up I could actually I couldn't read his name but I could see the lettering on his helmet that's how low he was when he was coming in You could almost tell whether he shaved that morning he came in right on top of us and the ground fire from the anti-aircraft was just horrendous at that time the Marines were taking a pounding there and I was told later the green-brown crews weren't telling the pilots but when the cobers were returning to refuel and refit and go back out the ground crews were covering the holes up with 100-mile-hour tape and spray-painting the tape so the pilots when they got back in they didn't see all the holes in their ship I'd like to tell you a little story about Tom we were at and I don't remember what day but we were really getting pounded heavy and I was communicating by radio with Tom who was in there flying over us and calling in ordinance and I kept saying bring it in closer bring it in closer bringing in 10 meters and Tom said that's getting mighty close and I said you still got to come in closer I said put it in my hip pocket and he says I'm coming in hot which pocket, right or left and I I didn't hear that conversation but I can tell you when he came over I don't know if you know how in A1 dispenses its brass but that brass just fell all around us I don't know how no one got hurt but at first I thought he had messed and was strafing us but it was the brass from the 50 caliber was falling in on us you know that's pretty good side stuff and probably a couple hundred miles an hour it probably would hurt it's red hot also when you hit you if it was night you could probably see it hit the ground it would be glowing have either of you returned to Southeast Asia since your deployments no I haven't what was that question have you been back to Vietnam? no I would like to go back but the way the political situation is I could not go into I worked with the mountain yards for three years and I would like to go out into the areas where the mountain yards were and since then the mountain yards haven't been moved into Cambodia there's probably very few mountain yards remaining in Vietnam I would love to go back but now my legs would not allow me to go before we close gentlemen thank you for sharing your story any final thoughts? I would just like to repeat what I said initially that the Vietnam Air veteran I think with this medal and the Presidential Unit Citation regardless of what capacity you served in and what service you were in it honors what they have done because they did a great job they were asked to do a very difficult thing and they did it and they fought hard and unfortunately didn't come home and I think we this is a way to honor all their memories is by honoring those of us that are left so we kind of stand up for them and be a focal point on that honor tailing to me was it was just one of many assignments I had doing my three years in Vietnam the guys that went with them we were proud professionals a member of our brotherhood and I think we served our country well we did it for the love of our country because we believe in America and and I'm saying that in all honesty for all of the 15 men who were with me we all believed in what we were fighting for and serving our country and I don't know any better way to put it we were just proud professionals doing what we were supposed to do we weren't out seeking medals nobody thought about medals we just thought about accomplishing what we had been asked to do once again gentlemen thank you for sharing your story this ends our media round table stand by while our guests exit


Today we have a fountain pen unboxing for you from Leonardo Oficina Italiana. These are the supernova fountain pens that just arrived. I'm going to pick one of them here and unbox it for you.  Inside, it's a cream color with some soft material and your pen is in a plastic sleeve. The silver booklet has all of your information about the pen and the pen brand. It does have the little Leonardo plastic emblem there hooked onto the pen clip. You can just pop that off. And this pen is the Galleria. This color name is Galleria, and you have two options in trim. We've switched to the Carmel now. You have silver trim, which you see here on the Carmel, and the Galleria we just showed you was ruthenium trim. If you're a fan of the supernova, you already know that this is a really popular comfortable pen model. It's got the threaded cap, and let's take a look at the nib. It does have the new Leonardo nib. It's a new engraving design here on the Leonardo nibs. It's called La Finice. New look, new design, but still a stainless steel Jovo nib made in Germany with an ABS feed. The next color option you have is Starlight pink, and these, all four of these really vivid resin colors are produced in Italy. And your supernova design has that geometric diamond design in the center ring. The center band is bordered by two thinner rings, and then you see another thinner ring near the bottom of the pen. Let's look at the two trims side-by-side. This is the Starlight pink supernova with the ruthenium trim, and then the silver trim side-by-side. Okay, and let's look at the Gallerias in silver or ruthenium, and you can see also with them side-by-side like this how different the different resin mixtures are going to look because they're all going to be a one-of-a-kind mixture depending on the piece of resin used to create your supernova fountain pen. Cap these pins are about five and a half inches long. They are postable with a friction post, and you can see here that the Ruthenium trim is going to have a matching nib. They're just going to have a plated version of the same stainless steel Jovo nib made in Germany. Okay, so so far we've looked at the Carmel, the Galleria, and the Starlight pink, and this is the Starlight blue. And you can see it here with both the trims again. And also these are cartridge converter fountain pins, and they're compatible with any standard international size converter or ink cartridge. And each of the Leonardo Supernova fountain pins you purchase does come with a converter included. And in case you aren't able to get a good look in the video, Starlight blue and Starlight pink both have kind of a glittery aspect to them. That's really fun. So that is the full collection that just arrived last week for beautiful resin colors of the Leonardo Supernova fountain pin in two different trims. Find more information at pinchlay.com.


Hi, this is Bob Hope with the USO story. For anybody who tuned in late and missed the first 30 years, stick around, there's more to come. Actually, I've got a special warm spot for the USO. We both started working for people in uniform about the same time, 1941. And we've both covered a lot of ground since then. I've been on the road so much, when I get a letter from my wife, it starts out, dear sir. But you may not know that the USO is serving more guys and gals in uniform in more locations today than ever before. In an average month, something like three million service people visit the USO facilities around the world. That kind of service takes a lot of people and most of them are unpaid. Volunteers, about 160,000 of them. I'm proud to be invited to bring you the story of the USO and it's 30 years of service, 30 years. That makes the USO just nine years younger than Jack Benny. What started it all was a thing called World War II and another thing that went with it called the draft. Qualifications were strict. If you could hear thunder and see lightning and had two teeth that hit, raise your right hand and repeat after me. The result was hundreds of thousands of new people in uniform. They had a huge job ahead of them. Where they were going, they'd need all the support the American people could give them. They got it. And one way they got it was, the USO had just come into being but it soon got into high gear. The USO brought the stars to the desert of North Africa and into the Pacific. With so many GIs to be reached, they couldn't be particular. They'd sign up anybody. Hey, khaki, come a bit of wacky. Why don't you get back in the sacky? There's room for two.  As the guys move forward, both in Europe and in the Pacific, the USO kept pace with it. Here's harmonica player Larry Adler 30 years ago. The violinist's work would have had a lot of poise for a nine-year-old. Just like today, there were a lot of groups that carried no big names. Just played their hearts out three and four shows a day for guys who really appreciated it. When Korea came along in the 1950s, the location was different, but the script was the same. Some pretty girls from home with maybe a sentimental song or two and a lot of clowning around. Like Satchel Page used to say, laughing is good for the gizzard. It's still the same today. Maybe the dancing's a little bit wilder, but it's the same effort that began in 1941. To bring a change to the day's danger of boredom, a few minutes to relax and get the message. And the message is the same, too. Somebody cares. Of course, shows and entertainment are only a small part of what the USO provides for people in uniform all over the world. It's quite a story. Let's take it from the top. Headquarters for the worldwide operation of the USO is here on East 52nd Street in New York. From here, the whole operation is coordinated. As you may know, USO stands for United Service Organizations. Six of them, the YMCA, the National Catholic Community Service, the National Association of Jewish Community Centers called JWB, the YWCA, the Salvation Army, the Travelers Aid. These joined together in 1941 for a purpose that hasn't changed, in their own words, to help serve the religious, spiritual, social welfare, educational, recreational, and entertainment needs of men and women in the armed forces. Then as now, this kind of service is much needed. The armed forces themselves do a lot to provide for spare time recreation on post or on base, but they recognize the obvious. For service people with free time, on post or on base is not where it's at. When I have a spare moment, I don't spend it hanging around the studio, so I can see why a GI's first move when he's got time off is out the gate. Luckily, he's got some place to go. Wherever they're based, it's pretty certain there's a USO club nearby, a good place to check into for a cup of hot coffee, or relax, chew the fat with the guys, or maybe choose something more substantial without spending a fortune, play a game of cards, or shoot a game of rotation, listen to some stereo, just sit and read, or on nights when it's not on the program, dance with a pretty girl. It sure beats walking around the streets, wondering where everybody went. All this is typical, but it's not the whole picture by a long shot.  Talk about all dressed up and no place to go. It can happen in big town, and it does. That's when that red, white, and blue USO sign can be a mighty welcome sight. One big attraction of the USO in New York and other big towns is the way it provides free tickets to every sort of entertainment and sports event, from the top Broadway hits to television shows and movies to major league baseball, pro football, basketball, hockey, you name it. There's also a big demand for help to servicemen and finding a decent place to stay at a price they can afford. The USO and co-operating hotels provide such help. And speaking of moving, skip across the continent of Fairbanks, Alaska, and it's a whole different situation. But the USO has the flexibility to fit its services to the local need. Not many USO operations offer dormitory facilities, but in Alaska, they're needed. So in Alaska, they're provided. Guys for remote duty stations, radar outposts, for example, can come into town for a weekend and have a warm, clean, and inexpensive place to stay. You spend a lot of time in the deep frozen boondocks and a change like the famous Sunday evening suppers that the Fairbanks USO is more than welcome. Just how much more you can see anytime you want to drop in. The activities and services are as varied as the locations. Take San Francisco and the Bay Area, for example. In addition to all the standard services to people in uniform, there's a program here that spotlight services by people in uniform. It's a three-way play where the USO helps service people, helps civilians, a switch that goes over big with everybody. Especially the old folks they visit as a regular part of the club's golden age activities. The guys in uniform and the young ladies of the USO, junior volunteers, give a great lift to the lives of these elderly citizens and find, of course, that the lift they get is greater still. In the same vein, the San Francisco USO helps to set it up for Navy guys in town to act as big brothers for a day. On a regular basis, guys from ships and port take wide-eyed kids from the city and show them where a sailor lives and works. It's still the USO serving the servicemen. What's better for a guy's morale than the smile on the face of a kid showing his appreciation from the very personal gift to somebody's time and attention? In San Antonio, the buildings which house the Bolivian and West German presentations at the Hemisphere Plaza have been given over to the USO. To become one of the most attractive clubs in the country, along with all its standard activities, this particular club makes a special event of holding periodic parties for servicemen who are patients at nearby Brook Hospital. A banquet like this does more than provide good eating. It provides tangible evidence to a recuperating serviceman that he still rates the attention and the gratitude of the country he serves. It's not too good. Live entertainment is a regular part of the program at the Schindler's. Games and contests keep things moving. And special prizes for the winners are donated by San Antonio Businessmen. The point is, the USO is designed to work for everybody. Those who serve in the present and those who service in the past has earned them a special measure of honor and respect. For another little-known aspect of the USO's help to service people, let's eavesdrop at the club in Boston. These people want a man to work all day Saturday and all day Sunday. Can you do that? Great, I can use the extra dough. Now, may I have your ID, please? Thank you. In Boston, service people who could use a little part-time employment and off-duty hours know where to go, the USO. USO still a man. The Boston Club has worked out an arrangement with local businesses that can use part-time workers to act as a placement service. Hi, I'm Stephen Amonson. This comes in handy, especially for young family men in uniform. The chance to add to his income on weekends or evenings is a real help. The USO is glad to open the door for them. Right at the street, and you'll go right by the office. Just park outside and give the keys to the girl and she'll give you more. In some places, it's not just part-time work the USO helps to find for people in uniform. In Baltimore, a meeting like this of local business executives and a USO staff member are a regular thing. As you know, it's pilot hope, jobs for men and women who may be coming out of the service. And I'd like your advice as to how we could do this. Our organization has a number of openings for fellows who wish to supervise clerical operations. Yes, we have jobs available in our company for overhead linemen, trainees, underground cable splicer, trainees, both male and female openings in our computer department where they would train for programming type work in addition to vacancies for typists, stenographers, key punch operators. Hello, John, how are you? How you doing, sir? By the way, how did you know about our USO program for servicemen? I was given this brochure from the separation center. I see. And you are ready to go out of the service. Yes, sir, in the next few months. I see. Do you have any background in training of what particular training? Well, I received some computer training while I was in the service and that was my military occupation at the time.  Splendid. Servicemen and women nearing the end of their tour of duty come into the Baltimore USO and talk about what they'd like to do, what skills they have to offer. The USO takes it from there. I also noticed from your application that you have completed several years of college. Do you plan to continue your education? Yes, sir, I had two years. On a regular basis, the Baltimore Club brings together servicemen who need jobs and firms who need men who not only have matured through a tour of service, but now that have service obligation behind them and can settle down to build a career without the likelihood of being interrupted by greetings from the draft board. For a final stateside example, let's go to my town, Los Angeles. Actually, this is a service club at nearby Fort MacArthur, but the essential ingredients, the music and the refreshments and the young ladies are all courtesy of the Los Angeles USO. And without music and refreshments and young ladies, what's left of a dance is no great morale booster. Especially that last item. These gals are USO junior volunteers, typical of the thousands all across the country who make the dances and other activities of the USO the successful and popular events they are.  We had a couple of days I could try really telling you about all the different ways the USO serves people in uniform. But you get the general idea. They look for what's needed and work out ways to meet the needs. And they don't just do it here in the United States. The USO has 10 permanent clubs in Europe and a popular one with anyone in uniform close enough to get to it is, but of course. The one in Paris, right in the Champs Elysees. The USO is headquarters for service people and their families in Paris. It's geared to set up tours, provide tips and what to see and where to stay and do it within the budget of the average service man or service family. And in line with that policy of searching out special needs and meeting them, the parish USO has one service that's kind of special. People come from all over. They don't always connect. I was supposed to meet my wife at or the airport, and I've not been looking for about an hour. I just can't seem to locate her. Do you know what flight she's coming in on? I don't know the flight number, but it was doing it 10 out of 10 from New York City. The parish USO's people lost and found works day or night and has a direct link with the Paris police. It works. Hello, it's Audrey. Yes. I'm looking for... Wait, what's the name of your wife? Johnston, it's Johnston. Madame Champs Elysees. She's got a six-year-old boy with her, also. She's got a six-year-old boy with her, also. She's got a six-year-old boy with her, also. She's got a six-year-old boy with her, also. Yes. Yes, wait a minute. Your wife is on the phone. Hello? Hello there, where have you been? What? I haven't been looking for about an hour, and I just always must have missed some place somewhere. See a need set up a way to serve it is the same in Italy. The Rome USO is headquarters for a massive flow of army visitors from duty stations in Germany. The need here, or one of them, is to meet a constant demand for package tours. Service people and families who want to take advantage of their opportunity to see the eternal city, to stay in it a few days, get the feel of its combination of antiquity and 20th century bustle. The USO can handle the whole thing for tour groups, a place to stay, tours by bus around foot, lunches and so on. And to meet every real need, the prices are really low. For most of these service people, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come from a duty station in Europe is one thing. It's a morale builder, sure, but it's also a builder of greater understanding between nations. You can get a greater feeling of kinship with people when you go among the evidences of their influence of world history, including your own. Breathe in a little of an ancient heritage. Look and listen and feel at first hand. As the USO in Rome serves mainly army people, in Naples the big word is the fleet's in. And sailors on station in the Mediterranean make the Naples USO a busy place. The club here is new and attractive and offers all the services that guys in uniform have come to know. They can expect from the USO anywhere. But it's also the headquarters for what the USO in Italy calls its flyaway clubs, serving the Mediterranean. Say an element of the sixth fleet is scheduled to tie up for a few days in Barcelona where there's no permanent USO. From Naples, a team will go out and set up to serve the guys in bell-bottom pants when they come ashore. It may be a van or booth which can be set up dockside to furnish refreshments, a welcoming smile, and information on local customs and attractions. Or it may be if the number of sailors involved warrants it that a local restaurant, what have you, will be rented and a standard though temporary USO club set up for it as long as the fleet's important. Either way, the flyaway club operations working out in Naples provide a welcome for men on duty in the Mediterranean wherever they drop anchor. Winding up our USO sampler in Europe, we jump to Frankfurt, Germany. The club here is newly open and furnished and serves as a major off-duty headquarters for army people stationed in Germany. But we're not going inside. Everything you think is there is there. I said earlier that the USO story is a lot more than just the story of USO shows. But people who go out to deliver some entertainment, the breath of home and the personal interest of somebody who cared enough to make the trip, this is still an important part of the story, today more than ever. This is one example that means a lot to guys a long way from home and with plenty of time on their hands. The USO calls these handshaker tours. Usually just one person, somebody whose face the guys will recognize. Somebody who just by being there to shake a hand, shoot debris for a minute, take a message for the family back home, can put a lift in a long day. For the guys, just the fact that people care enough to donate their time and come halfway around the world says it all. On the average, the USO sends out five of these person-to-person tours each month. On and peeking over the hill, I bet you sure it all And how about the guys from Spebsquad? The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America. And if you can say that, you're fit to drive home. Where sure we love each other, that's the way we'll always be. These groups are made to order for a USO tour. No props, no scenery, no instrument cases, just four guys in close harmony and the show is on the road. Travel alone, singing a song, side by side. Oh, we don't know what's coming tomorrow. Another important source of traveling talent for the USO in recent years is the college campus. If the guys in uniform can't get to the living theater, kids like these are ready and able to bring it to them. Well done. We'll have one more rehearsal tomorrow. All right, we leave Monday at two o'clock from the school parking lot and we have some luggage stickers for you to put on your suitcases and please watch that weight in those suitcases. Dozens of college groups go out every year to take live drama and music to people in uniform overseas. And of course, every year brings a new schedule for the so-called name shows. I forget the name of this one, but it tried out its material for 1971 on a captive audience at West Point. USO shows and tours go all over the world, of course, but a lot of them are scheduled for Vietnam. Here, the USO has the most active and popular clubs and lounges in its history. Take the one in Saigon, for example. It's one of the busiest spots in the city, no wonder. The list of services offered inside is longer than Crosby's bank statement. It's a place to let the air conditioning dry your shirt while you find out what's happening or going to happen in the way of entertainment. The facilities themselves are familiar, all same state-side USO. But there are important additions. The telephone links, which the USO provided in Vietnam, are the only commercial phone connections with the states. You call your best girl from here and when the operator says long distance, she's not just whistling Dixie. Here is everywhere the services are adapted to the needs. A popular example is poor boy night when a guy can get a big meal for a quarter. These are usually held toward the end of the month when payday is still a week or so away. Additional clubs are scattered through South Vietnam, all offering the same kinds of services, but each with its own flavor. As always, the tape machines provided for servicemen to send a message home, not just in their own words, but in the sound of their own words. Get a heavy workout. At Cameron Bay's air terminal, the USO operates a lounge that's open around the clock. At first glance, it's pretty much like any other USO lounge in a travel terminal. Free coffee, inexpensive snacks, and ice cream. But suppose you look around more closely. What you'll find is probably the world's only full-time professional checker player, lady type. Set on the only one in the employee of the USO. That's her job, just to be there, to take on anybody who thinks they can play checkers. Anybody who can beat her wins a prize. They don't give out a lot of prizes, though. The USO people are always thinking. At Queen On, for example. Some of the gals dreamed up an operation that has grown into a regular thing, and it's mighty popular with the men at serves. What happens is twice a month, the team of gals take off for the boondocks. Really isolated places, maybe 25 guys or so, making an outpost in the middle of nowhere. The whole thing is coordinated through the chaplains. But the men themselves usually don't know what they've got company coming. Until they look around and here comes a chapel with. No, it can't be. It is. Two broads. What's that stuff they're unloading? Just a home-style backyard cookup. But the effect on combat troops who've often spent weeks on field rations with only themselves and Charlie for company is just about what you'd expect. They appreciate it. They appreciate it. That's the kind of understatement you have to rely on when you try to say what the USO has meant to three generations of Americans in uniform. The USO today says to them the same thing it said to those hundreds of thousands of guys in the 40s. It says, somebody knows you're where you are and what you're doing for us here and we care. With a message like that, how can you lose? Like I said, the USO and I have covered a lot of ground together and I'm glad of this chance to pass along the thanks of the guys and gals in uniform, literally millions of them who've gotten that message the USO delivers and felt a little bit better for it. Now to close things out, I want to introduce the current president of the USO, Emmett O'Donnell. Actually, I'm glad to see him make good. I knew him when he was just a struggling four-star general in the Air Force and a great one. It's all yours, Rosie. Thank you, Bob. Not only for the introduction and this minute of airtime, but also for the years and miles you've left behind you, all resounding with the healthy sound of fighting men laughing. Our thanks also to the thousands of show business and sports world figures who generously donate their time, talent and genuine interest to making USO the outstanding service it has been for 30 years. I would also like to thank all of the American people who care enough to make certain that USO is there, no matter where the troops go. They send the important message, we know you're there, we haven't forgotten you, we care. So it's we at the USO who are indebted to you, the American public. Thank you for three decades of support. We are going to do our best to continue to deserve it.


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