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Summary
Glenn Beck and Oliver North discuss the attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, and the obsession with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that many Americans have with the idea that she's a victim of victimhood. Also, a 9-year-old girl in Alabama takes her own life.
Transcript
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Hey, we've got a great show lined up for you today.
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Great podcast you don't want to miss, talking a little bit about what happened in France.
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He was talking about an American hero that you have to meet.
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But also, we kind of got into, you know, what's happening in the Trump administration,
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because he went through a time of just nightmare scandal during Reagan.
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Also, we talk a little bit about Ocasio-Cortez.
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She likes to think it's because she looks different and then she's female and that she's a victim of victimhood.
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Luckily, she would not be up at the front of the TV all the time.
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You know, that happens with every politician, I guess.
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But you posited a very interesting theory that we'll get into here in just a little while.
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Also, an amazing story that happened in Alabama.
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A nine-year-old girl who has killed herself over race.
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A story that will haunt you and every American should know about.
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Hey, how about that brawl yesterday in the Oval Office?
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I mean, I don't think anybody won on that, but it was fun to watch.
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I was actually, I want the Truman Show for all politicians.
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Also, I want to talk to you a little bit of what's happening over in the U.K.
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Deutsche Bank just came out and said, yeah, we're going to raise the odds that the U.K., the government will collapse to 30%.
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Also, Christmas should be a time of happiness and celebration the world over.
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The sounds of Europe's famous Christmas markets of Merry Christmas and laughter are being replaced with the sounds of Allah Akbar and gunfire.
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Two years ago, ISIS attacked a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12, injuring another 48.
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And tragically, the sound of automatic gunfire.
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Strange in a continent where you can't buy automatic weapons.
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The chant of Allah Akbar was heard at yet another Christmas market in Europe yesterday.
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13 are battling for their lives right now in Strasbourg, France.
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An attacker walked into the city market, the Christmas market, shortly after 8 p.m., and shouted, Alu Akbar.
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And then he just started firing into the crowd.
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He then proceeded to battle the police in four separate locations while he fled the scene.
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A man, Middle Eastern descent, has been identified as the subject.
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This is not going to be, this is not going to make things better in Europe.
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This is not going to calm things down in Europe.
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He was already on a terror watch list and had been deported from Germany recently with 20 criminal convictions.
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He is also well known in the Islamist circles and has reportedly radicalized after spending time in prison.
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Apparently, he wasn't too radical for the Germans, but not for France.
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But France said, oh, we'd like to welcome everyone, eh?
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What is it going to take for these governments, like France?
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Quite honestly, America is on this path as well, to wake up to their failed policies.
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Nearly 300 people have been killed in terror attacks in France in the last three years alone.
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But despite that, the French government refuses to address any immigration issues.
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They, more importantly, refuse to listen to their people when they try and tell them that they are scared to death over this issue.
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This is something, if you're a long-time listener, we talked about for a long time.
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What's happening in France is not only the coming insurrection, which is something that we talked about 10 years ago.
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A legitimate plan from Marxists and communists published in a book called The Coming Insurrection, where the communist movement would take over.
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Something that we have warned against here in the United States.
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And the government just hasn't done anything about it.
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Well, there's going to be a time where a Bubba is working at the convenience store.
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Bubba doesn't know the difference between the two.
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Bubba just knows that people are coming into our country and they're killing people.
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And everybody in the town and everybody in the United States knows that Bubba was wrong.
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But when the feds arrive, the town gathers around Bubba and says, we're going to take care of Bubba.
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It is your refusal to listen to people like us.
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Because Bubba's been a good guy the whole time.
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And you keep telling us there's no difference between a Muslim and an Islamist.
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That is what special forces experts told me in 2006 was their greatest concern for the United States and its future.
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A government that has not responded and listened to its people.
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Now, I don't know if they've been preparing for that in France.
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But that's part of what is happening all over the world.
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This is one of the real reasons why the yellow vests are tearing the country apart.
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The government refuses to listen to their fears on terrorism.
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Wow, do any of these things sound familiar to you?
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Outrage has replaced baseball as our national pastime.
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Because he's angry as hell, just like the rest of America is, of not being listened to or not having common sense listened to.
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Nobody, nobody, nobody, well, I can't say this.
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What, 3% maybe of people who want a border wall are like, because I don't want any of them Mexicans in here.
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Maybe, maybe, and I think I'm being generous, maybe 3%.
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Everybody else who says yes to the wall is saying, look, man, I just, we, we've got to protect ourselves.
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We cannot have a rush at the border, just like everybody says, oh my gosh, you're not going to let those people into the life rafts?
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But the more we're told to shut up and sit down, and it's not a problem, the problem is with you, the more disenfranchised we come, we become.
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I tweeted a political cartoon today that I thought was hysterical.
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It had this alien coming out of this spaceship.
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And it said, people of the earth, we have taken all of your politicians.
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And if you don't do exactly what we say, we will release all of them.
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People have lost the ability to engage in peaceful protest.
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Street demonstrations have turned into street brawls over in Europe.
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But look at the images from places like Portland.
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European governments are losing the social contract with their people.
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Because years of broken promises and outright lies from Washington.
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If we don't work to reduce the chaos, that does not mean don't be angry.
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But if we don't work to reduce the chaos, how long before what's happening over in Europe happens here?
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Everybody's like, oh my gosh, he's going to go at night and kill women.
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If he's on the Supreme Court, he'll kill every woman on earth.
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Because you would have gotten Amy Coney Barrett.
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We shouldn't have because it was the wrong thing.
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He was not worth fighting for, but the principle was.
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It's a bad sign that we were all nervous about.
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We thought, Amy Coney Barrett would be so much better.
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And sure enough, the first chance he gets, he goes to the other side.
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We always try to get those people who are going to, you know, have no record of being
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And not on the issues, but on the Constitution.
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I want you to rule on the Constitution as it was written.
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Wouldn't it be nice if just once you could say, wow, can you believe Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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sided with Clarence Thomas on that Second Amendment thing?
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I didn't see Sonia Sotomayor getting together with Samuel Alito on abortion.
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Didn't Trump in the campaign, too, say that he was actually fine with a litmus test on
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And he should be because the Democrats absolutely have a litmus test.
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It's constitutional that you can have abortion on demand.
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Well, we should get somebody on the other side who says the opposite.
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And again, we brought this up many times, but Kavanaugh was not on the list that got
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Donald Trump came out with a list of 21 justices.
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And it was the reason that dozens and dozens and dozens of people called this program and
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I have my hesitations on Trump on X, Y, and Z, but that list was really good.
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And these are a lot of good justices, and that's a really important issue.
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And it was a really logical way to cast your vote.
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And he got elected, and the first one he took right off of that list, Neil Gorsuch.
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My only hesitation with Amy Coney Barrett is that she was also added after the election.
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Why there are still 20 people on the original list that are not Supreme Court justices?
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If you have 20 people still on that list, why are we expanding it?
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The one that everyone came together and said, well, you know what?
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If he sticks to that list, it's worth it no matter what he does.
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I mean, Kavanaugh should have been, you know, after all of the justices had been replaced,
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and we still had 11 more justices on that list.
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And those 11 all dropped dead from a heart attack.
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That's when Kavanaugh should have been considered.
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So that's how far off the mark he is with Kavanaugh.
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Which means that this whole thing about all these justices is not going to get you anywhere.
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I mean, it's just going to bring you back to where we were.
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And if Kavanaugh is also Kennedy, then you're Orsoff.
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And it's some sort of legacy thing with him, I think.
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I used to think maybe they had something on him.
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He wants to be remembered fondly by history books.
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I think he doesn't want to be remembered as the Supreme Court that changed everything.
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I think he wants a Supreme Court that's just kind of like, well, no, we're not doing anything over here.
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Listen, so many Republicans have learned that it's not possible for you.
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If you're a Republican, if you're supposed to be...
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I mean, just because he was named as a Republican, by a Republican, he will always be a Republican.
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Did Planned Parenthood send out a thank you to Kavanaugh and Roberts?
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No, looks like they'll call them, you know, that they hate women and they'll do it forever.
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Which means that he's either a much bigger man than I am.
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His job is to read the Constitution in our lives.
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But I remember when he was going through all this, my instinct was, I don't care what the Constitution says.
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There are only a couple of organizations that I belong to.
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I'm not really a joiner, but I joined my church and I joined the NRA.
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Those, I think, are the only two clubs, if you will, are only two things that I have real membership in.
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And it's because I believe deeply in both of them.
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And the president of the NRA, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, joins us now.
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So I want you to take this month's magazines and tear out that right after my column on page nine.
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And tear those out and give your best friends on the planet Earth memberships in the NRA for Christmas.
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So we have you on because you're starting a new show on NRA TV.
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And the first one is done by a guy who I'm not sure people really know.
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The average person, they just don't know who this guy is.
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And he is one of the greatest heroes of our lifetime, I believe.
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Dave Eubank is a former U.S. Army ranger, a special forces officer, a missionary, and the founder of Free Burma Rangers.
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And I had covered him when I still worked for Fox, made him part of one of our documentaries up in Kurdistan.
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And went back out there because this man has such a great story.
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He is an American hero, thus the name of the show.
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And he's one of the most remarkable human beings I've ever met.
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In fact, he was in Syria yesterday with a congressional delegation.
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He has the kind of courage that is so remarkable.
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It just had to be our first story in this long series.
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He really, truly believes that he's on a mission from God to help people and that, you know, God will protect him for as long as God needs him to do his thing.
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And he's been in some of the worst places in the world trying to save people who are being oppressed.
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Well, we were out there with him in Mosul, and I can tell you that was the worst place in the world.
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But what he does is he takes his family with him, his lovely wife, his two gorgeous daughters, and his son.
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She's the only 16-year-old I know that can drive a Humvee.
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Thank God she can because she saved a lot of lives by just putting that sucker on the road and going out and picking up casualties and bringing them back to a field hospital that they had set up.
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You know, there's a lot, as you and I both know well, there's a lot of groups out there that will provide medicine and food and water and the essential supplies.
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But there's very few that will deliver them to the front lines of a conflict like this.
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We were up in the berm right around Mosul, getting ready to go into the city.
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And a casualty load came in from across the berm, helped by the Kurdish soldiers, the Peshmerga.
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And every one of these folks was badly wounded.
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And Dave raced out there in the middle of no man's land to bring him back.
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In fact, it's part of the tease for the show where he spots a little girl who's the only survivor of one of these massacres by ISIS.
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And what Dave does, only Dave could do, because he knew who to call on the telephone.
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He calls an Iraqi general, and the Iraqi general eventually loans him a tank.
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And Dave races up behind the tank right up to where the kid is.
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Can't get out because he has to cross an open space of about 50 yards.
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And he gets on the phone with a U.S. Army officer and a Marine artilleryman.
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And they drop smoke in between Dave and this hospital that ISIS had taken over.
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It's got anti-aircraft weapons, anti-tank weapons, lots and lots of guys with guns.
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And with just that tank to protect him, goes right up to the edge of this battle, races out, grabs the little girl and brings her back.
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And the prayer he says just before he goes is as powerful as anything I've ever seen.
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And he says, you know, afterwards, he said, I said, you're a hero.
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And what, of course, a hero is, is a person who puts themselves at risk for the benefit of others.
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That's clearly what Dave does every single day.
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And without him, scores of people would have died that he saved.
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So if you are a listener of this program and you are involved with the Nazarene Fund, you know that the Nazarene Fund now is in Burma.
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And the guy who is working for the Nazarene Fund in Burma is the guy who had the rifle behind the tank and stepped out in front of the tank and started laying down fire.
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And this guy is one of the most amazing heroes around.
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But now that we have distance from things and we see the world, as you see what you went through in the 1980s and how the world worked, how do you view that period of time compared to what we're going through now and what you're seeing happening in our country?
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I'm disappointed to see that I was blessed to work for a great president.
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His goal right from the very beginning of his eight years was to end the evil empire, and he did.
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And, of course, that finished in the administration of the guy we just buried here a couple of days ago, George Herbert Walker Bush.
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I look at what we went through back in those days to eliminate one of the greatest threats to mankind that ever was, which is the evil empire, the Soviet Union.
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And I look at what's happening today with terrorism.
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And I say to myself, the polarization in the city where I have to go to work, Washington, D.C., the polarization is so great that a president, this president, cannot get the Congress to do what the Congress ought to do to protect our borders.
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And a nation that has no borders is not a country.
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I mean, the meeting yesterday with Pelosi and Schumer and the president of the Oval Office is an example of how incredibly left-leaning our Congress is today.
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That's a shock to me, quite frankly, because I would have thought the American people did not want this kind of thing to be happening.
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As I look at what's happening on our border, and I've been watching it for a while, and I've been comparing it to what's happening on the borders of Israel.
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I believe that we are at the beginning of, you know, almost a Palestinian little mini state there on our border where we are going to be used just like the Israelis are used by the media.
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They'll do things just to continue to bring America down to her knees.
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I think we're in a really bad place to where you can't even recognize truth.
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I mean, there are people who are refugees that should be allowed in, but there are also people who wish us ill that should not be let in.
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Well, and what you just point out, the Israelis did solve that problem.
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And doggone it, you can't argue with the effect of it.
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And it stopped the kind of terrorism that Israel is experiencing almost every day.
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And at some point, they're probably going to have to build a wall around Gaza.
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Look, the Iranians are stirring up trouble in that part of the world, the likes of which should never have happened, all because the last administration in Washington, D.C., let them get away with it.
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Gave money back to them that they used for that very purpose.
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What's going on in our southern border is not the direct consequence of that, but you've got to know that they're taking advantage of it.
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And everybody that knows what's going on in the border, you've been there, I've been there, many of our listeners have been, that open border is an abscess in the health of America.
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And what we saw happening before the tear gas was used with rocks and bottles and feces being thrown at U.S. Border Patrol, it's an outrage, and it should not be happening.
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My hope is that the president sticks with his guns.
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You know, everybody is talking about Cohen and Flynn and everything else today.
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You've been at the eye of a hurricane like that before.
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It was just a matter of how long it was going to take and how much it was going to cost to get there.
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I never once doubted what my attorney, Brendan Sullivan, told me repeatedly.
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It's just going to be a long, hard slog to get there.
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The challenge today is they'll never do what they did to me.
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They'll never put a hearing together like that.
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They should never have brought back the special prosecutors.
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You find the person who perpetrated it, and you give them justice.
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In this case, you find a person, and then you go try to look for a crime that they committed.
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And that's just the opposite of what justice really is.
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And unfortunately, I said this to the president at the time, don't let this happen.
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And unfortunately, they allowed the appointment, and you're going to get what you're always going to get with these circumstances is they've got a person.
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Now they're going to have to find a crime for which they're going to convict them.
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And, of course, that's what Flynn's going through right now.
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Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, president of the NRA and the host of American Heroes, now on NRATV.com.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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Lots of emails have come in in regards to the Tyler Perry Walmart idea where he just went in and just paid for people's layaway.
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And we've talked about it, and so many people are doing something similar.
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And I just want to give you some of the emails that have come in.
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Dear Mr. Beck, my husband and I listen to you every day.
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Today, while you were talking about the Tyler Perry story and challenged your listeners to do the same,
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We have been so stressed out and struggling financially, and with the season upon us,
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we've been worried about how to afford to buy our kids things that we wanted to buy them for Christmas.
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After listening to how your deeds affected so many people, we both realized how thankful we are for what we do have.
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And we don't have to choose whether or not to buy my children toys or food.
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This comes from a story that I told where a woman's layaway was paid off, and she said,
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I've been trying to figure out how to pay this.
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And through tears, she said, I now, because somebody paid off my layaway, I now have the food I need.
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I don't have to worry about a Christmas dinner.
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You know, we get so lost in what we want or whatever that we don't really recognize the people
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who might even be on our own street that are making that kind of choice.
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After listening how it affected so many people, we figured that we could cut some spending out of our weekly budget
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I went to my nine-year-old son and told him what we were doing.
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He gave me the last $15 he had from his lawn mowing money that he earned this summer.
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Together, we paid two strangers' layaway bills off in full.
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My son has a beaming smile on his face, and I am so proud of his generosity.
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We have decided to this as a family now every year.
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Dear Mr. Beck, I don't know how to go about things like this,
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and I've always had trouble with issues expressing my feelings,
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but I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart
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because somebody paid off my layaway, and now I have a Christmas for my kids.
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If it wasn't for a kind soul, my tree would be empty
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because I couldn't afford to pay away my layaway.
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I recently got married in November and found out that we were expecting our third child.
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I've been in and out of the hospital, missing work,
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and being sick that my paychecks were all we had to use for Christmas.
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As a parent, being able to see my kids happy with a smile on their face Christmas Day
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Thank you for giving me that joy and happiness on Christmas Day.
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You and your listeners are an answer to our prayers.
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Glenn, this might be the most memorable Christmas I have had in a long, long time.
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After listening to your segment, I went to Walmart and wound up paying for seven families' gifts on layaway.
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One family in line, plus we just finished shopping for two foster kids in the neighborhood.
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At the end, the manager shook my hand, thanked me, and wished me Merry Christmas.
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The lump in my throat prevented me from speaking.
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I just nodded my head in agreement, tried to hold my tears back, and briskly left.
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Tonight, I hope to make ten stockings out of paper to hang on the mantle.
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It'll be reminded of what Christmas is really all about.
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Thank you, Glenn, and thank you, Tyler Perry, for the great idea.
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Glenn, as a daily listener, you had the dad tears flowing today,
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as you shared the Tyler Perry challenge that you experienced.
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This year, I am so strapped that I can't even afford layaway,
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as my wife has had a double mastectomy this year and nearly a year of chemo and radiation.
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My precious bride of twenty-one years, becoming even more of a hero than she was
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when she gave birth and blessed me with my four beautiful children, all under sixteen, no doubt.
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But just hearing about the grandmother, hearing that she didn't have to cancel her Christmas,
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and the mother of four after the husband had left and losing the house,
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And for the first time in a long time, I was not cursing the traffic on the 405.
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Instead, I was sharing in a truly human moment, with you and with millions.
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You stoked the fire of hope within me this morning.
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I paid off three Walmart layaways as a result of your show.
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He didn't know he had to pay the whole thing and didn't have the money.
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So I tapped him on the shoulder and I told him,
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I came here today to pay off some layaways and I'm happy to pay yours.
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He was so thrilled that he called his wife and handed me the phone,
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we forget how easy it is to make an impact in somebody's life.
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we all went out to the Walmart and we were buying toys for a,
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we shop for these kids and then the moms come in,
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to where we have all the toys and then they just go shopping for their kids.
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we think about the people in the homeless shelters and we think about the people
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but we never think about the people who are just on the edge,
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And I think that's why I liked the layaway thing so much is because these people
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but these people were on the edge and they were trying,
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trying to do their best to be able to have something under the tree for their
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I challenge you and your family to put meaning in Christmas this year.
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find a way to find that person that thinks nobody even notices me.
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Cause I think that's what Christmas is really supposed to be about.
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We're supposed to humble ourself at Thanksgiving and we're supposed to be down on
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our knees and be able to see the child that is laying in the very humble manger
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in the straw and the family that struggled just to be able to sleep in the
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Let's celebrate this year by finding those families and helping them.
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We found something on a GoFundMe page that I wanted to bring your attention to.
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we should find a GoFundMe page that we could do and that we could point you to,
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My father was 19 years old and he's always wanted to go back,
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at Normandy on D-Day and he has always wanted to go back to France.
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He's now the only survivor of the four 53rd automatic weapons battalion out of Fort
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My mother never wanted to travel and he would never leave her side.
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And my sister and I are trying to make my dad's dream come true and be part of
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the D-Day ceremony in Normandy for the 75th reunion.
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They want to raise $12,000 and I think they are,
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it's a world war two veteran that wants to go to Normandy.
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And it would be so cool to put him back there for the 75th anniversary.
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And it'd be great if they could have this all wrapped up and give it to him for
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So go to GoFundMe.com and search for get to Normandy.
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put the receipt underneath your tree and open it on Christmas or put it in a
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stocking and sit on Christmas morning and talk about the people that you
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it's the best present you can give to your family and you is to share your
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but I don't want you just to do it and then feel great today.
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And then Christmas comes and you're not even thinking about it.
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Put the receipt to remind you and talk to your family and your children.
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but then print it out and make sure you talk about it with your family.
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So you can enjoy the idea that they opened up a present as well,
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And it was a great thing that they wouldn't have had for Christmas,