The Glenn Beck Program - “Someone Has to Go First”： Glenn Beck’s Inspiring Speech from the USS Midway

00:00:00.000 I think about providence often these days, the idea that we're stewards of our families, our communities, our own safety.

00:00:06.560 The founders understood this.

00:00:08.160 It's woven into the fabric of who we are as Americans.

00:00:11.080 And I want to share something with you. 0.68

00:00:12.140 It's called BURNA, B-Y-R-N-A, and it's changed how I think about personal protection. 0.92

00:00:17.380 Here's the thing.

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00:00:22.980 But BURNA is legal in all 50 states.

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00:00:27.000 Because your right to protect your family shouldn't require anyone's permission.

00:00:31.240 The range on this is 60 feet.

00:00:32.760 That's not pepper spray distance.

00:00:34.220 That's real distance that gives you time to think, to move, to get your family safe.

00:00:38.800 It's simple enough that anyone can use it, anyone.

00:00:41.560 And it's built in Fort Wayne, Indiana, right here in America, in American hands, American craftsmanship.

00:00:46.960 And that matters to me, and I think it matters to you.

00:00:49.360 I'm not here to scare you.

00:00:50.420 I'm here to tell you being prepared isn't paranoia.

00:00:52.780 It's love.

00:00:53.600 It's what we do for the people that you'd do anything for.

00:00:56.000 So go to Byrna, B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Glenn.

00:01:00.080 I've always been told not to follow children.

00:01:08.320 I want to thank the city of San Diego for giving us a time limit so I can now follow the big finale.

00:01:18.080 California, it makes more sense every day, doesn't it?

00:01:21.720 I would have reprinted.

00:01:25.020 I was backstage trying furiously to edit my speech.

00:01:28.860 I was like, we got to print it again.

00:01:30.460 All the printers are busy just printing up new ballots

00:01:33.160 so they can count.

00:01:34.860 So, jeez.

00:01:42.540 Well, hello.

00:01:44.700 Thank you so much for coming.

00:01:47.400 And thank you, Mobs for Liberty. 0.86

00:01:49.720 You are really, truly amazing. 0.83

00:01:53.080 I said in 2008 or 2009, I was on the air and I said,

00:01:56.980 you know, there's going to be two groups of people that save the world

00:01:59.840 and it's going to be alcoholics.

00:02:01.940 I mean, recovering alcoholics.

00:02:04.240 Although I am pulling for the alcoholics at this point.

00:02:06.760 But, and mothers, because how do you argue with a mom? 0.99

00:02:13.160 They've found a way to do it, but not very effectively. 1.00

00:02:17.340 Our moms are the ones who raise us.

00:02:19.260 We get so much from our mothers. We learn our values and our principles from our mothers.

00:02:24.340 None of us want to disappoint our mothers.

00:02:28.100 Mothers have played a huge role in all of history, and they are playing a huge role again.

00:02:35.680 And, Tina, thank you for you and your organization.

00:02:42.080 I love history. Somebody asked me – this is probably the number one question people ask me about history.

00:02:47.600 Have you always loved history? No, no, actually no. Bored to tears with history as a kid.

00:02:56.560 I love history because of David Barton. David Barton showed me history, and when I said that

00:03:04.980 can't be true, he pulled out the document and said, well, you can argue with me, but

00:03:09.020 here it is in their own handwriting. And I started to learn stories of history,

00:03:14.820 And I started learning the men, not just memorizing the names and the dates of history.

00:03:19.500 And that's what made me love American history.

00:03:22.700 So, David, thank you sincerely and wall builders for everything that you do.

00:03:28.520 And our...

00:03:29.820 I want you to close your eyes here for just a second.

00:03:35.760 And I want you to imagine that you are on a ship in the Pacific.

00:03:40.240 Okay.

00:03:41.600 You're so creative.

00:03:44.080 Wow, it's almost like it's really happening.

00:03:47.340 You're on a ship in the middle of the Pacific, and it's 1859.

00:03:52.960 And it's endless and isolating, a little bit terrifying,

00:03:58.880 and it's an expanse of blue water that just seems to go on and on and on.

00:04:04.900 And you are thousands of miles in any direction away from any kind of civilization.

00:04:10.280 And then, suddenly, you spot out on the horizon what appears to be an island.

00:04:19.720 It's actually three little tiny islands.

00:04:23.040 They just barely peek over the waves.

00:04:27.160 There's no trees on them or anything else.

00:04:30.840 It's in the middle of nowhere.

00:04:33.720 This island has something moving on it as you get closer.

00:04:38.840 And you realize they're birds, they're albatross.

00:04:44.720 And you think, I've struck gold.

00:04:49.560 That's what happened in 1859.

00:04:52.960 There was Captain Middlebrook.

00:04:55.860 He was a seal hunting captain on his vessel.

00:05:01.420 And he's out in the middle of nowhere.

00:05:03.380 and he sees the albatross on this just bleak island.

00:05:10.380 And the reason why he thinks this is a great find 1.00

00:05:13.420 is because it's full of crap, bird crap. 0.99

00:05:18.140 And in 1859, we were having a shortage of fertilizer. 0.99

00:05:24.300 And when he found the islands,

00:05:26.760 he thought, I claim it in the name of the United States of America.

00:05:31.440 That's exactly what happened.

00:05:33.380 And they named that island, those three islands, Midway, because it was midway between California and Asia.

00:05:46.060 Nobody could have known at that time that some seal hunting captain would find an island full of crap and that island would change the course of the world.

00:05:59.700 But that is exactly what happened.

00:06:03.380 60 years after, nothing happened except birds pooping and removing it and putting it on our corn.

00:06:13.680 After that, it's now the late 1930s.

00:06:19.640 Don't I tell history in just a really very scientific way.

00:06:25.460 You'll see the show on PBS soon.

00:06:30.440 The late 1930s come.

00:06:32.800 Nothing has happened on this island. 0.94

00:06:35.420 But now growing tension is happening with the Japanese, 1.00

00:06:38.080 and so we decide we need to take that two-and-a-half square island 0.97

00:06:42.760 and build airstrips on it.

00:06:46.660 We need to put gun boxes on it.

00:06:51.980 We need to have a seaplane base there at Midway in between Asia and California. 0.98

00:06:59.340 A few months after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, the Navy codebreakers, they realize they're coming for our bird crap. 0.99

00:07:10.700 We can't let the Japanese have that. 0.98

00:07:14.780 And they find out that they're attacking, they're going to take Midway from the United States. 0.98

00:07:21.140 And so Admiral Nimitz sent three aircraft carriers out, the only three that the U.S. had left in the Pacific, and it was going to surprise them at Midway.

00:07:35.500 So now it's 1942. It's early in the morning. It's in June, June 4th.

00:07:43.180 108 aircraft from Japanese carriers attacked the base at Midway.

00:07:49.220 heavy damage, except on the runways. So I don't know what they killed or what they did, but

00:07:55.940 they missed the runways. Good for us. Meanwhile, on our side, the carriers, the Enterprise,

00:08:03.220 the Hornet, and the Yorktown send 41 torpedo bombers. What people don't realize is how good

00:08:11.340 we are right now, how accurate we can be, and what war used to be like.

00:08:20.380 We send out 41 torpedo bombers.

00:08:24.040 They are low-flying, they are lumbering, and they don't have any protection.

00:08:31.100 There isn't a fighter around.

00:08:33.920 And they are supposed to go out and take out the Japanese aircraft carriers.

00:08:40.220 The night before, John Waldron, he's 41 years old, he's the commander of the Hornet Squadron.

00:08:47.140 He was a Naval Academy graduate.

00:08:52.220 He had two children back at home.

00:08:55.100 And he said this, my greatest hope, men, is that we encounter a favorable tactical situation.

00:09:01.680 But if we don't, and worse comes to worse, I want each one of us to do his utmost to

00:09:07.380 destroy our enemy.

00:09:09.540 If there is only one plane left to make that final run in, I want you to be that man, to

00:09:19.780 go in and get that hit. 0.94

00:09:22.940 May God bless all of us, good luck, happy landings, and give them hell. 0.95

00:09:31.360 The next morning, they found themselves right before they took off being served steak and

00:09:39.780 eggs for breakfast.

00:09:42.160 And all of the pilots looked at each other and said, we're condemned men.

00:09:47.240 Thirty-five out of those 41 planes were shot out of the sky.

00:09:54.040 They all dropped their bombs.

00:09:57.360 They missed everything.

00:10:01.220 Some of them had enough fuel to turn around and try to get back to the aircraft carrier.

00:10:08.700 Most of those had to ditch in the middle of the ocean, shark-infested waters.

00:10:15.980 Thirty-three of the 41 pilots of the first wave were killed, including the commanding

00:10:22.200 officer.

00:10:25.400 As they were then mopping up, the Japanese were mopping up what was left, and we were

00:10:31.080 wiped out, 47 other bombers suddenly arrived.

00:10:39.340 These dive bombers had come from three other U.S. carriers.

00:10:43.740 And they all left at different times, and they all came from different routes.

00:10:49.000 You want to talk about divine providence.

00:10:52.120 Each group was on a separate mission to attack and search for those Japanese carriers.

00:10:59.140 And suddenly, they all came to one place, and just beneath them were the Japanese carriers.

00:11:07.260 At the same time, at the same point.

00:11:11.360 When the Battle of Midway was over, Japan had lost four aircraft carriers, 275 planes,

00:11:19.240 and 3,000 men, including almost all of their most experienced pilots.

00:11:25.820 The Americans had lost one carrier, 132 planes, and 307 men.

00:11:34.320 It was the turning point in the war.

00:11:37.900 We had won the Battle of Midway.

00:11:41.940 One Japanese officer who saw it, he said, because they were describing this as all of

00:11:47.460 these planes. Remember, there are these beautiful silver planes in the sky. He said it looked like

00:11:53.740 a silver waterfall. He said he saw all these planes up above and suddenly they started to

00:11:59.900 dive down one after another. And it was as if it was a waterfall coming down to the carriers.

00:12:06.360 He said the American dive bomber success was only made possible by the earlier martyrdom

00:12:12.540 of those torpedo planes

00:12:15.720 that failed to hit anything.

00:12:19.260 I want you to take that first story here

00:12:21.840 and just remember,

00:12:26.920 someone always has to go first.

00:12:31.920 The older I get, the more I think about trust.

00:12:34.900 I think about the people in my life

00:12:36.360 who have my trust and earned my trust

00:12:38.840 and the trust that I have placed in some people

00:12:41.360 who I later learned abused that trust.

00:12:43.900 I know we're alike in that way.

00:12:45.320 We don't trust a lot of people anymore.

00:12:47.140 It's like we're all Ronald Reagan,

00:12:48.780 trust but always verify to make sure

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00:13:32.200 The first group of people we should remember and salute tonight are the 41 American pilots

00:13:43.020 that had to ditch their plane and didn't hit anything.

00:13:47.400 But they were first.

00:13:50.620 Also today, June 6th, 82nd anniversary of D-Day.

00:13:55.740 I want to talk to you a little bit about D-Day.

00:13:58.760 160,000 Allied troops, 5,000 ships, 13,000 aircraft, 9,000 Allied troops killed or wounded on D-Day.

00:14:12.520 Largest operation, amphibious operation in the history of the world.

00:14:19.520 Nobody in my family served in World War II.

00:14:24.080 My father tried to join right after World War II.

00:14:27.800 he had flat feet. And then I met my wife, Tanya. And her family is Italian. Very Italian.

00:14:44.660 And I was sitting at a wedding. I was dating my wife for probably about six months.

00:14:54.360 and her uncle leo who is like right off the boat italian um used to call me michelangelo

00:15:03.240 every time i'd see him he'd be at the house and i'd come over and he'd i'd walk in and he'd say

00:15:10.940 michelangelo six months into it i said uncle leo why do you call me a michelangelo and he said

00:15:16.340 ah, look at her, look at you.

00:15:22.240 I don't need to learn your name.

00:15:24.500 You won't be around long.

00:15:29.340 Yeah, true story.

00:15:32.240 So we're at this wedding, and it's me and Uncle Leo.

00:15:37.940 And we're sitting off to the side,

00:15:40.700 and I said to Uncle Leo, Uncle Leo,

00:15:44.160 tell me the story of the family.

00:15:45.860 how did you get here? He said, I was born in America, lived in America till I was two.

00:15:56.540 He said, then the family moved back and they lived in Italy.

00:16:02.900 And then the war came and the family, they were afraid, would be completely wiped out.

00:16:09.400 and so somebody had to keep the family going and i was the only american

00:16:15.260 so i went to america he was 18 or 19 years old went all by himself

00:16:20.800 i said oh yeah so did you experience mussolini and he said mussolini a good man i said keep it

00:16:28.900 down uncle leo keep it down

00:16:30.800 But when he got to America, he joined the military.

00:16:39.500 He wanted to serve.

00:16:41.660 But because he was right literally off the boat, they thought he was a spy.

00:16:47.860 So he was one of the first people, whenever there was danger, his commanding officer said,

00:16:56.020 Leo, you go first.

00:16:59.080 He was one of the first people on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.

00:17:05.120 He told me a harrowing story of courage of not just him, but all of those around him.

00:17:18.020 Telling me exactly what it was like on the beaches on that day, running for the cliff, trying to stay alive.

00:17:24.760 seeing all of your friends his best friend couldn't swim they had these huge backpacks on

00:17:31.640 they were ill designed and they actually floated and forced when they would float

00:17:37.500 it forced you face down not face up all the way over his friend kept saying i can't swim i can't

00:17:47.320 swim. I can't swim. Didn't matter. When the gate came down, he and Uncle Leo got off the ship

00:17:56.080 and his friend went down and never came back up. Somebody has to go first.

00:18:09.360 I don't know how many of us have seen the D-Day Memorial. I don't know how many people even know

00:18:15.320 where the D-Day Memorial is, but it's tucked away in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

00:18:22.400 Why would it be there? It's there in a small town in Virginia called Bedford.

00:18:30.260 It's located there because the town of Bedford, in proportion of the population,

00:18:38.900 no community lost more people than Bedford, Virginia on D-Day.

00:18:45.320 it lost dozens of people. If you saw Saving Private Ryan, that was Company A. Company

00:18:57.500 A was from Bedford. There were 34 men that went. Out of the 34 men that landed on Omaha

00:19:08.020 Beach that day, 23 of them died on the very first wave of attacks. Six weeks after D-Day,

00:19:18.120 the young telegraph operator at Green's Pharmacy in Bedford was overwhelmed at the news. She's

00:19:31.220 there in the pharmacy and she also works the telegraph and the telegraph kept going off

00:19:38.740 and it was the deaths one after another of all the people in her town that she knew there were

00:19:45.940 so many telegraphs that were coming in she couldn't deliver them and so she asked the customers that

00:19:52.980 were in the store this one is for this family you live right by them can you deliver this

00:19:59.060 this one is for this family and the whole town delivered the news name after name

00:20:07.380 all of the people in the soda shop in bedford among those that were killed in action from bedford

00:20:14.900 were um bedford the name and raymond hoback they were brothers um bedford was the older brother

00:20:24.420 kind of rambunctious. He had a fiance that was home waiting for him to come home. Raymond was

00:20:31.400 the quiet one. He was more disciplined, and he was the one that could usually be found quietly

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00:21:57.140 Bedford and Raymond barely made it out of the ramp,

00:22:00.260 off the ramp of the boat

00:22:01.380 as a swarm of bullets came and cut through them.

00:22:05.660 There was also Ray Stevens and his twin brother, Roy.

00:22:10.280 They were on separate boats that morning.

00:22:12.780 They had plans to meet up

00:22:14.320 after they made it to shore on the beach.

00:22:17.480 Roy's boat never made it to shore.

00:22:19.420 It was struck by an artillery shell.

00:22:22.000 Roy was dumped into the English Channel.

00:22:24.500 He was later rescued.

00:22:25.580 He was picked up.

00:22:26.900 He fought for several weeks in northern France until shrapnel from a landmine took out his shoulder, parts of his jaw, parts of his neck.

00:22:35.600 It ended the war for him.

00:22:37.020 He lived, but he carried the wounds and the scars with him the rest of his life. 0.72

00:22:43.720 But his greatest loss with his brother, Ray, like the Hoback brothers, Ray never made it off of Omaha Beach that day.

00:22:52.420 Bedford and Raymond Hoback's mother, Macy, learned about her son's death, the first one on a Sunday, and the next son the next day.

00:23:04.580 Their younger sister, Louise, or Lucille, I'm sorry, said mom was devastated and dad just went out to the barn because he didn't want to see, he didn't want anybody to see him cry.

00:23:18.260 And he wept in the barn.

00:23:21.540 These are the people that we celebrate and we forget about all too often.

00:23:29.340 Without those 41 torpedo bombers, there's no perfect timing.

00:23:33.960 There's no perfect anything. 0.97

00:23:37.700 But without those 41 bombers at Midway, we lose to the Japanese. 0.99

00:23:44.140 Without the Higgins boats and all of those men from Bedford that died, we don't march 0.98

00:23:52.420 into Paris. 0.81

00:23:54.000 We don't stop Nazi rule. 0.99

00:23:55.840 Somebody has to go first 0.90

00:23:59.700 The qualities that these men have

00:24:03.640 Do we have those qualities anymore?

00:24:07.760 Are we willing to do these things?

00:24:11.360 Selflessness, bravery

00:24:13.120 You know, not all of them wanted to go

00:24:15.880 Not all of them wanted to die

00:24:17.740 I'm sure most of them didn't

00:24:19.420 They were men, mostly in their 20s

00:24:22.180 But in the heart of the battle when asked

00:24:25.740 they were willing to give their life.

00:24:27.400 Are we that selfless now?

00:24:31.660 The heroes at Midway and D-Day,

00:24:34.520 some of them believed and some of them didn't.

00:24:40.180 But God surely was not a foreign concept at the time.

00:24:45.100 God played a huge role.

00:24:47.700 He always, it kills me when people say

00:24:49.680 our founders were deists.

00:24:51.740 A deist believes God is a watchmaker.

00:24:55.740 He makes the watch, sets the time, and then puts it away and never looks at it again and is completely uninvolved.

00:25:04.360 Every one of our founders talked about the miracles that they saw.

00:25:09.000 You don't believe in miracles if you're a deist.

00:25:13.720 You only believe in miracles if you believe the truth that God is God, God is active then, now, and in the future.

00:25:25.740 The day after D-Day, a soldier from West Virginia, not from Bedford, but from West

00:25:40.100 Virginia, was walking along Omaha Beach, and he saw something jutting out of the sand.

00:25:48.340 He picked it up.

00:25:50.460 It was exactly what David showed you earlier.

00:25:53.440 It was a heart shield Bible.

00:25:55.740 It was stuck in the sand. He reached down to pick it up. It clearly didn't save this soldier's life. It apparently had fallen out of his backpack as he fell.

00:26:11.080 The inside cover said, Raymond S. Hoback, from Mom, Christmas 1938.

00:26:24.180 He wrote a letter and took the Bible, he packaged it up, and he sent it to Raymond's mom in Bedford, Macy.

00:26:36.200 It was her most cherished possession and the only personal belonging that she ever got back from her son.

00:26:45.120 There are no atheists in a foxhole.

00:26:49.300 Miracles happen.

00:26:51.060 But here we are in a different time and a different age.

00:26:54.180 And in this black hole of globalized technology, atheism seems to be thriving right now.

00:27:02.680 Or worse yet, maybe you do believe in something, but it is the ultimate darkness.

00:27:12.680 We are now more connected than man has ever been connected before.

00:27:20.680 But we're plugged into the wrong things.

00:27:22.680 things. We need to be plugged into something much, much bigger than our internet, our devices.

00:27:35.420 We need to plug in to God. So how do we honor the men of D-Day and Midway and those like them

00:27:47.920 who served on this ship and that plane

00:27:50.620 and those ships now just across the water from us.

00:27:53.980 How do we honor them?

00:27:57.040 The first thing we have to do is remember.

00:28:02.080 How many times in the scriptures does God say,

00:28:06.700 remember, remember.

00:28:11.980 It is a commandment to us over and over and over again.

00:28:16.440 And he instructs us from Adam and Eve all the way along to construct an altar, to build a monument, to remember.

00:28:30.980 We live in a society now that's tearing down our monuments, tearing down our statues, tearing down the things that help us remember.

00:28:41.320 And if we don't remember, and we don't remember the stories, we forget who we are, where we came from, and where we're going.

00:28:53.200 By remembering, we become better citizens, better people, and we can be the caretakers of freedom.

00:29:02.920 World War II has a unique time in our history.

00:29:08.480 And that generation, there are very few left.

00:29:11.320 I don't know about you, but I went back to say thank you to the two guys that unfolded

00:29:19.440 the flag.

00:29:21.440 Coe, the older gentleman, the shorter gentleman, was truly remarkable.

00:29:32.700 I wanted to hear his story.

00:29:37.240 I just said thank you and he saluted me.

00:29:46.660 We talk an awful lot about rights now.

00:29:50.460 We were just at Ellis Island with a Statue of Liberty and everybody was talking about

00:29:55.200 rights.

00:29:56.200 It's time that we start talking about our responsibilities.

00:30:01.180 Right now, we are the first time in human history can actually be entertained every

00:30:06.120 waking hour of our life. There was a book out in the 1980s, Amusing Ourselves to Death.

00:30:15.080 He was worried about television. Look at what we're facing now. What has technology done to us?

00:30:23.560 It has made it very hard for us to look at our responsibilities, to look at sacrifice.

00:30:31.240 We're all owed something.

00:30:34.960 It can all be better, even though I'm not going to work for it and I'm not willing

00:30:38.720 to sacrifice for it.

00:30:41.580 Our founders lost everything, many of them.

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00:31:38.540 Remember where we have come from.

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00:32:54.040 Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address, he gave us his marching orders, our marching orders today.

00:33:00.540 It is rather for us here to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us,

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00:33:12.660 that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain,

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00:33:23.920 and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

00:33:31.280 This, he said in the 1800s, this I beg of you today.

00:33:39.640 Let us all here highly resolve.

00:33:43.200 Let us be the first to remember and honor the past.

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00:33:53.200 A future that is brighter than today, is better than today, is more glorious than today.

00:34:01.880 We're only defeated when we believe we're defeated.

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00:34:14.340 Let us resolve to be that next generation.

00:34:19.240 Let us persevere.

00:34:21.940 Let us sacrifice gladly.

00:34:25.360 Serve on the front line.

00:34:27.780 Let us all say someone has to go first.

00:34:31.980 Let it be me.

00:34:33.300 as we will write a new chapter

00:34:36.240 as the country that is, was, and will be again tomorrow

00:34:41.600 the last great hope on Earth.

00:34:45.880 Thank you for coming.

00:34:47.360 Good night.

The Glenn Beck Program - July 04, 2026

“Someone Has to Go First”： Glenn Beck’s Inspiring Speech from the USS Midway

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