Episode 2400: A WarRoom Boxing Day Special
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Summary
On this episode of The War Room, we are joined by Patrick K. O'Donnell, the great combat historian and author of The Patriots' History of the U.S.A. and The Battle of Trenton, to talk about Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
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Looking whence us lost the frown, on the feast of steven,
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When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and neathen,
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Brightly showed the moon that night, how the cross was cruel,
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When a fool had failed in sight, every winter knew.
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Hither page and strand I hear, and the clouds keep telling,
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Younger peasant, who is he, where and what is where he is.
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Sirely huffa, put the pencil beneath the mountain,
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Bright against the forest fence, boys, they cast his hand his fountain.
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Bring me flesh and bring me wine, bring me pine logs hither,
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Thou and I will see him thine, when we bear him thither.
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Hedge and monarch, forth they went, forth they went together,
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Threw the moon rings while the man, and the feet away.
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Sire, the night is dark, oh, bright, it blows stronger,
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It is Monday, 26 December, in the year of our Lord, 2022.
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It is Boxing Day, for those of you that have been with us for many years,
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over at Breitbart Radio, and now with the War Room for the last, what, three years.
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We've always done a Boxing Day special, always Raheem, and Raheem is traveling,
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He always did, because it's an English tradition, so we'd let Raheem.
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I would do the Christmas Eve, the Christmas Day specials,
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Of course, it was a little convoluted this year, because Christmas was on Sunday,
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so we did the Christmas Day specials, you guys, I'm sure,
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the hardcore audience saw on Saturday, replayed yesterday.
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We always do the combat history of Christmas to let people know about the sacrifice.
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We added Larry Swikert this year, the author, co-author of the Patriots' History of the U.S.,
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to talk about other tough Christmases, about the resilience of the American people,
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because this is a tough Christmas, not like the ones we had in 1814,
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not like the ones in 1941 or during the Civil War,
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or certainly probably the toughest Christmas we ever had was in 1776,
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We had Patrick K. O'Donnell, the great combat historian, on to talk,
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as we always do as a tradition, about the Battle of Trenton.
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I'm very honored to have Dr. Carol Swain join us today.
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Dr. Swain, one of the things that I've always been most impressed with you
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and I know you're one of the favorites of President Trump
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is your deep knowledge of and love of American history.
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How did you, what was it that made American history and our traditions
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What was it about your youth or when you were coming up
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or part of the calling was really not just understanding American history,
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Well, first of all, when I was born, you know, 1954,
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I grew up at a time when America wasn't under attack by its own citizens.
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We were, you know, today they would say indoctrinated,
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but we were taught to believe and appreciate our nation.
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I always believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world,
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that I could grow up to be whatever I wanted to be.
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And I was not raised to see myself as a victim.
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In fact, my mother, for the longest period of time,
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She would not take, you know, free books, free lunches,
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things that would have made her children's lives easier
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was that we would always get a bag, not even a stocking,
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Last year, one of my friends got tired of me talking about it,
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Tell us about your family, your brothers and sisters.
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And so if you blinked, you just went straight past it.
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And then there was expanded to be a four-room shack.
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But we ended up with five girls and seven boys,
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In fact, I thought you had to be rich to go to college,
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And one reason I didn't know about these things
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got the first of five college and university degrees.
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I never sought to become a university professor.
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believed in non-discrimination and so non-discrimination
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I certainly didn't want gays discriminated against
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believe that a marriage is a union between a male
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and female but once that became the law of the land
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it was clear that progressives had a much larger agenda
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uh in some elements I think in the gay community
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my religious understanding of the old testament
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and we pay taxes for things that are reprehensible to god
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i think that if god holds us to the same standard
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that could turn around the situation for america