WEBVTT 00:09.680 --> 00:11.030 Workers and you can. 00:12.950 --> 00:14.960 When the shaken. Up at. Home. 00:18.150 --> 00:18.940 Woo all gone. 00:20.130 --> 00:21.510 The the live for that. 00:22.170 --> 00:25.030 We're than the level of that it's the one side. 00:25.940 --> 00:27.360 Oh so in Melbourne I. There. 00:31.170 --> 00:33.540 She looked from the above the real I will. 00:34.550 --> 00:36.550 A lot harder working. Well with you. 00:37.560 --> 00:39.330 If you don't go you. Shave. 00:43.460 --> 00:47.330 Night late night in their late night became that people and I 00:47.330 --> 00:50.350 never be buddy gray provided the played about it. You know when 00:50.630 --> 00:54.260 somebody felt loser sensibility. So just you just what you do. That. 00:57.360 --> 00:59.650 Known for was a part of my life was intimate. 00:59.720 --> 01:03.620 Okay. Obviously like some people I'm them but you could play 01:03.620 --> 01:04.970 the part in way. Um. 01:14.000 --> 01:17.710 When professional athletes hit the field of play the battlefield 01:17.710 --> 01:22.260 is often far removed war is a headline in the paper were a piece 01:22.260 --> 01:26.900 on the evening news these men are focused on the gate their uphold 01:27.330 --> 01:28.350 bringing home aware. 01:29.090 --> 01:32.760 The line between the playing field and the battlefield wasn't always. 01:32.760 --> 01:33.420 So clear. 01:34.010 --> 01:37.220 For a number of the year is baseball players and fall ballplayers 01:37.420 --> 01:41.910 moved seamlessly from a team uniform to a military one and back again. 01:42.420 --> 01:46.200 They served with a sense of duty for a love of country and for 01:46.200 --> 01:50.630 some there would be no more opening day at knole more championship 01:50.660 --> 01:55.360 games no more ticker tape parade. It's what motivated an athlete 01:55.410 --> 01:57.010 to move from one field to one other. 01:57.540 --> 02:00.130 For many it was a single moment in. History. 02:06.890 --> 02:09.260 A sober Simon's 19 40. One. 02:12.830 --> 02:13.150 The. Show. 02:21.660 --> 02:25.440 For the first time in you west history the safety of america's 02:25.440 --> 02:27.300 shores was called into question. 02:27.900 --> 02:30.770 Young man from around the country answered that call. 02:31.310 --> 02:35.200 Among the main swore suited to the back of the churh seek tennis 02:35.200 --> 02:39.000 set a dog to acts willie. It's donna's it so. 02:39.710 --> 02:44.140 For these athletes there was no hesitation. They knew they had 02:44.140 --> 02:44.840 to cirques. 02:45.570 --> 02:49.280 In many ways the response a reflected. What was going on in the 02:49.280 --> 02:51.390 country and it reflected the country people. 02:53.370 --> 02:55.660 I think so many athletes when I talk to them. 02:56.360 --> 02:59.550 Said that they felt that the country was in trouble you know 02:59.920 --> 03:01.400 that there was a real sense that he. 03:01.970 --> 03:03.720 And on Pearl harbor hit. 03:04.670 --> 03:05.190 The season. 03:06.020 --> 03:08.580 This isn't good you know this isn't going the right where this 03:08.580 --> 03:09.440 out of germany. 03:10.610 --> 03:12.220 This going to a year up. 03:12.910 --> 03:17.250 And then to the japanese entry that fell in the country's interim 03:17.580 --> 03:20.960 we need to do something and so just like every other American 03:21.040 --> 03:23.140 they react with him a about that. 03:24.110 --> 03:27.230 Service was what mattered most didn't matter what you were doing away. 03:27.230 --> 03:28.370 The educationalist. 03:29.030 --> 03:31.510 So that's the Most important thing that I. 03:32.060 --> 03:33.220 So they did their part. 03:35.240 --> 03:39.380 Bob cellar was an Iowa farm boy in a 60 year in the majors with 03:39.380 --> 03:41.300 the world changed and in instead. 03:41.840 --> 03:45.310 Is to re a classification allowed him to stay Holman take care 03:45.310 --> 03:48.850 of the family and the flaws but from father when the newest came 03:48.850 --> 03:51.690 down staying home was not an option. 03:53.190 --> 03:56.110 Well when they're Pearl harbor and onward issue cargo which is 03:56.340 --> 03:58.690 where you between Cleveland and the more and more from one or 03:58.880 --> 03:59.540 more area. 04:00.090 --> 04:02.430 And they're Iowa marches. He mulled what's in the morning. 04:03.260 --> 04:06.590 Heard about the attack on Pearl harbor when they're form call 04:06.590 --> 04:09.690 plump all models for until to look for them when we're shooting 04:09.920 --> 04:13.670 the screen fly on on monday use live reappointed to the every 04:13.710 --> 04:16.990 meantime in their undefeated heavyweight having the world looking immediate. 04:16.990 --> 04:17.680 Physical gabor. 04:18.230 --> 04:21.680 Saw Wendell moore college upper Newport. But I don't handed out 04:21.730 --> 04:23.330 to my going cream yellow bell. 04:24.050 --> 04:27.750 In 19 41 bomb celery went from being one of the highest paid 04:27.840 --> 04:31.880 him best players in major league baseball to would job as a donor 04:31.940 --> 04:35.950 on the USS elam damn. The soul combat on board the ship from 04:35.950 --> 04:41.410 19 43 to 19 45 and although baseball was supported this military 04:41.410 --> 04:44.420 glides there was only one building that matter. 04:45.460 --> 04:49.970 We play jackson more just a lot and see that it's into rockford. 04:51.800 --> 04:55.370 Millimetre you obligation union the show anyone who don't I. 04:55.900 --> 04:57.110 Don't want all of whom are. 04:57.780 --> 04:58.460 White jacket. 04:59.150 --> 05:00.460 Looking for enemy. 05:01.310 --> 05:04.170 He played catch for them. They had game winning the world surely 05:04.170 --> 05:07.910 is the Un-mold new it's insurgence all it even abusive age he 05:07.910 --> 05:11.440 wanted to buy into the many more of like after that I want to 05:11.440 --> 05:11.750 do it. 05:14.020 --> 05:16.430 She likes to play can connect and if. 05:17.070 --> 05:17.730 We leave you. 05:18.320 --> 05:21.550 On them the Then went from thinking with the going them from 05:21.550 --> 05:22.590 winning world through them. 05:23.450 --> 05:23.930 And the ball. 05:24.830 --> 05:27.400 Uh to have him pitch that hit the ball a couple years. 05:28.500 --> 05:33.500 A lot here help where the war and to confront the Moment in the 05:34.050 --> 05:34.480 In three. 05:35.130 --> 05:38.530 Twitching before we manage pension when finland was like involved 05:38.750 --> 05:40.050 with me in the pot have. 05:40.570 --> 05:41.890 Finally won one wheel. 05:43.350 --> 05:46.340 During those years and that was to win world war. 05:46.940 --> 05:49.230 Two. One way that satisfied. 05:50.310 --> 05:53.110 No onward to the more to for the war to the world. 05:54.070 --> 05:55.880 Or you wanted to tell us. 05:57.370 --> 05:59.450 When the second best is about the. Whole. 06:05.570 --> 06:06.210 Thank you. 06:06.770 --> 06:08.730 For me to do it. 06:10.700 --> 06:14.810 Bob celery was away from the key you've lost almost three years. 06:14.990 --> 06:18.110 He was a highly decorated war veteran when he came back to the 06:18.110 --> 06:21.110 problems and work to retain his dominance on them now. 06:21.770 --> 06:25.390 Baseball historians are often note that color stances of pitcher 06:25.550 --> 06:29.520 with it to even higher nichols idiot played that when he wraps 06:29.550 --> 06:34.710 its is dominance at that time making within this or was and question 06:34.750 --> 06:37.370 and he was the best pitcher my one shut. 06:37.970 --> 06:40.510 We came back you are still the best pitcher that there's that 06:40.540 --> 06:42.430 gap that really did have. 06:42.950 --> 06:46.220 Um a significant impact. I was file numbers are they get when 06:46.220 --> 06:48.550 you talk to him the you say. 06:49.400 --> 06:52.310 You know hey you would jivago Vernon says he looks set to like 06:52.310 --> 06:56.590 a crazy you know a set up without question my service and a war 06:56.590 --> 06:59.940 was way more important hours taken that one big when rather than 06:59.940 --> 07:01.390 another hundred wins any day. 07:02.310 --> 07:05.780 Bob seller was elected to the baseball hall of fame on the first 07:05.780 --> 07:10.310 ballot in 19 62 experts say that without his time in the navy. 07:10.450 --> 07:13.990 He would've had another 500 wins than others towels and strike 07:13.990 --> 07:17.560 acts these are standstill or simply didn't think about. 07:18.620 --> 07:22.210 I made a lot of mistakes and my wife and I mean the like machines 07:22.210 --> 07:22.950 and all this. 07:23.640 --> 07:27.720 I say that while walking like from your some the I've been coming 07:27.720 --> 07:29.350 onto the more on the every to people. 07:30.620 --> 07:34.390 Like yeah long decisions like an undersea kitchen ball game played 07:34.420 --> 07:35.960 by actor but because I want to do. 07:36.590 --> 07:38.080 The course for one of the warning that. 07:39.260 --> 07:43.000 For usually awards for years award for baseball. 07:43.580 --> 07:44.390 Mean nothing to. 07:45.200 --> 07:47.960 Donation to be in the room free nation. 07:48.710 --> 07:50.060 A greatest nation on earth. 07:50.870 --> 07:52.250 But what about the part of it. 07:54.240 --> 07:59.080 Within 300 major leaguer serve during world war two in some 3000 07:59.080 --> 08:00.660 athletes from minor league ball. 08:01.240 --> 08:04.500 But they weren't the only professional athletes on the. Battlefield. 08:06.530 --> 08:07.100 I can talk. 08:07.640 --> 08:08.840 Closer to that. 08:09.770 --> 08:12.860 You're good germany on the right now we'll get your grid yacht. 08:13.630 --> 08:16.300 There was right to work for the called baked cool. 08:17.050 --> 08:21.100 I've got a well I got it other on a three of corporate. Before. 08:41.900 --> 08:45.570 One december seventh 19 41 when many of the biggest names in 08:45.570 --> 08:49.830 the majors left for the war baseball was america's for but the 08:49.830 --> 08:54.620 fledgling NFL wasn't far behind a long list of grid iron greats 08:54.620 --> 08:58.460 and future NFL hall of fame ers jewel in the fight on the front 08:58.460 --> 08:59.940 lines of world war two. 09:01.200 --> 09:04.590 You know when you're a good to be made in high school who got 09:04.810 --> 09:05.930 the mary Kate. 09:06.910 --> 09:11.990 Uh. It added that the other men's with the threat would go dare 09:11.990 --> 09:15.240 in the Geico book goes. So slow journey shows that. 09:16.120 --> 09:19.280 You're good joni army right. Now. We're good you're good dried. 09:19.970 --> 09:22.870 Here one for a short soviet called bed goals. 09:23.380 --> 09:27.490 That you've got to go out a father on a very of corporate fitter war. 09:28.120 --> 09:28.550 The pope. 09:29.150 --> 09:33.570 Those who were opposed beguiled that that every thing and there 09:33.570 --> 09:37.360 were a day if you had a really that good given the marines pour. 09:37.930 --> 09:39.650 That of press to call a blight that. 09:40.490 --> 09:41.500 So there was. 09:42.780 --> 09:46.510 You're a pair of them and as or I'd go all there will be a quote too. 09:47.240 --> 09:48.150 Throw home. 09:48.820 --> 09:52.920 And about two weeks word really good fellow the Report cute dress 09:52.920 --> 09:55.660 up for like read good ride down the Show. 09:56.270 --> 10:00.700 Should on occurred father grant quote color word for the Vatican 10:00.700 --> 10:01.450 the birth of blob. 10:02.700 --> 10:06.820 Our dunovich NFL hall of fame or and the longtime Baltimore called 10:06.990 --> 10:11.380 grew up in the Bronx sports were a part of his wife is grandfather 10:11.380 --> 10:15.090 taught theatre Roosevelt kinda spock his father was a famous 10:15.090 --> 10:19.440 boxing referee his dream was to become a football player but 10:19.440 --> 10:21.090 the marines would come first. 10:21.800 --> 10:23.090 The right before I left. 10:23.610 --> 10:26.120 Five private gone away and he was in the summer. 10:26.690 --> 10:27.570 The time. 10:28.320 --> 10:29.290 Forty was then. 10:29.970 --> 10:33.760 And uh I wanted them or above the that will I travel a start up. 10:34.570 --> 10:37.840 I feel you know bought a that we're all gone molly and all. 10:38.340 --> 10:39.880 Of them live before you leave it. 10:40.700 --> 10:42.890 A issuers have really awarded go. 10:43.800 --> 10:46.120 The auto will leave home and all I. 10:46.840 --> 10:49.400 And she looked the man the mobile you rely wishful. 10:50.150 --> 10:52.400 He's a lot to our for more to roll with you. 10:53.260 --> 10:55.160 But if you don't go. I do. Shape. 10:57.710 --> 10:58.780 As fun as more. 10:59.410 --> 11:00.200 An they have their. 11:01.140 --> 11:02.500 Entered the worst form of. 11:03.650 --> 11:07.420 But because of the japan that was about his father with the kyle of. 11:08.660 --> 11:10.830 And also you know what I'm nuts. 11:12.290 --> 11:14.200 You don't want to go buddy. 11:14.820 --> 11:17.240 The and A handful the that. 11:19.310 --> 11:24.560 From 19 43 to 19 45 part donovan served on the USS sandy us into. 11:25.100 --> 11:28.870 He was told he was in 10 battles and after is time on the carrier 11:29.100 --> 11:32.490 he went to the city where we infix which landed him in the middle 11:32.520 --> 11:34.010 of combat on open now. 11:35.430 --> 11:38.660 After for use in the war on hand to the. Balkans. 11:40.420 --> 11:42.340 That's just drive some bain that that will. 11:42.940 --> 11:46.330 Uh we had a go back to boil more to get the train to go there 11:46.330 --> 11:46.790 may your. 11:47.600 --> 11:49.840 That would just a tool wine go on that. 11:50.360 --> 11:51.780 The go due to a in. 11:52.460 --> 11:53.860 That go on missile boring. 11:54.710 --> 11:56.040 And 34 straight. 11:56.600 --> 12:01.570 And of the But for parboil blood. Good the train station. 12:02.240 --> 12:04.380 Uh the shawl voice a sure warped of. 12:04.890 --> 12:08.390 This stuff she might because it was right there before and They 12:08.390 --> 12:12.280 are the in naughty are bring 44 straight up to this. 12:13.100 --> 12:16.560 The second quarter bark about was one of the bought my mother 12:16.560 --> 12:18.230 was addicted to bake a band. 12:19.110 --> 12:21.590 Nobody of the fourth about their experiences. 12:22.290 --> 12:26.600 The was led we left that might be for one all and came back there 12:26.600 --> 12:29.410 that night and hailey up on a cool. 12:30.930 --> 12:34.610 Martin played ball led boston college and at the right old age 12:34.610 --> 12:38.510 of 26 the started teased championship career with the Baltimore 12:38.510 --> 12:41.750 call us but he never forgot his military training. 12:42.470 --> 12:46.890 That was doesn't like going through prayer asylum like the way through. 12:47.630 --> 12:48.660 And the way they to you. 12:49.220 --> 12:52.500 And the drive in a two of the fish can that be true. 12:53.430 --> 12:58.200 And amid the a such a moche used i've made before you with us 12:58.550 --> 12:59.130 a bit too. 12:59.820 --> 13:01.420 Bravest like a bunch O. 13:02.180 --> 13:03.030 But showed up. 13:03.650 --> 13:06.780 The made the he'll lead the iphone probe here. 13:07.340 --> 13:10.630 A mark of four balkan. We're ryot you'd realize. 13:11.280 --> 13:12.600 That and it's I. 13:13.110 --> 13:15.810 I I shouldn't really an actor diner room read. 13:16.360 --> 13:19.320 For viewed cute you for does does a boy. 13:20.100 --> 13:21.760 And that was it and you know what. 13:22.500 --> 13:25.880 If I had the than all of us the I wish they'd. Memory. 13:28.240 --> 13:32.520 One donovan ended up in the NFL the whole of a over 60 years 13:32.520 --> 13:34.800 later his memories are crystal clear. 13:35.330 --> 13:37.410 But is viewed is on on the future. 13:38.710 --> 13:41.590 And um look for the award no more to do work. 13:42.530 --> 13:43.990 The one that one and this. 13:45.920 --> 13:50.170 In world war two cleaned the winds of 21 and a film matt two 13:50.170 --> 13:53.730 players more reese break and jack lew miss received. The medal 13:53.730 --> 13:54.130 of honor. 13:54.660 --> 13:57.960 And it would not be long before the NFL was represented on the 13:57.960 --> 13:59.150 battlefield. Again. 14:04.580 --> 14:05.940 And as oppression. 14:06.580 --> 14:07.790 More to go. 14:08.600 --> 14:11.040 Means a Phantom of the bubble blown. 14:11.640 --> 14:13.530 And the chain issues down there. 14:14.430 --> 14:15.960 Results lock them up to Wall. 14:16.840 --> 14:19.640 And I couldn't wait to join. 14:20.750 --> 14:24.910 Analysis was close to use them use three things that was emphasized 14:24.940 --> 14:29.420 the odd family country. I just thought it was a duty add that. 14:30.120 --> 14:32.840 The only had to take care of him responsibilty. You know when 14:32.840 --> 14:36.360 I when am I had no idea what I want to for pulled. I thought 14:36.360 --> 14:38.850 I'd just on a short stay there was and over korea. 14:39.480 --> 14:42.490 And uh that's a we were sent down there for you know I had no 14:42.960 --> 14:46.180 I had and I never asked for the for many everest to stay there. 14:46.180 --> 14:49.190 I never as for anything in all that debt tiny put me anyone. 14:49.730 --> 14:52.040 You know the main the main did it was what a last. 14:53.840 --> 14:56.190 Yes. About that off. 14:57.020 --> 14:57.840 The three. 14:58.580 --> 14:59.680 She touched us.. Yeah. 15:00.440 --> 15:06.580 Yeah. Which most honey in time. You sick had more in common than 15:06.580 --> 15:10.220 a sense of duty. They boasts let sports for military service 15:10.440 --> 15:13.350 and they both came out and play professional football for the 15:13.350 --> 15:17.420 dengue boston patriots. That's a tiny delight dads are by a team 15:17.420 --> 15:20.100 unsure if I would've been call for the vietnam war. I've what 15:20.100 --> 15:22.730 I what a medical I mean it would've been a question of bother 15:22.760 --> 15:25.530 I play the guys use or a dinner of played with guys you came 15:25.530 --> 15:26.500 back eagle when. 15:27.200 --> 15:30.110 And uh and I never heard the buddy Greco bothered or complain 15:30.110 --> 15:32.990 about it. You know in everybody felt lose your sense of duty. 15:32.990 --> 15:35.010 So he just you just what you do that. 15:35.810 --> 15:39.080 Baseball info called were still missing some of their big names 15:39.080 --> 15:41.290 when the us and are to korean conflict. 15:42.020 --> 15:46.530 Boston red sox. Great ted williams all mehdi 34 years old thought 15:46.530 --> 15:50.030 this time of the military beautiful was ah but ended up flying 15:50.070 --> 15:52.400 39 combat missions over to read. 15:52.960 --> 15:55.760 About state would who played for the new york so-called giants 15:55.790 --> 15:59.430 after serving with the marines during world war two also served 15:59.430 --> 16:03.160 in korea and was soon to become the only professional athlete 16:03.310 --> 16:04.640 and three war veteran. 16:06.410 --> 16:10.010 Ultimately it was the conflict in vietnam that would stem the 16:10.010 --> 16:13.000 tide of professional ballplayers serving their country. 16:14.230 --> 16:15.890 It's like whomever work. 16:16.740 --> 16:21.210 Rude helicopters come in and gunships come in and preaches. Ball. 16:29.120 --> 16:29.800 I'm in a. Button. 16:33.050 --> 16:36.820 The pinnacle life. You know and to whose to have the basics that 16:37.120 --> 16:41.950 he was basically between wars eisenhower was president no so 16:41.950 --> 16:43.960 grown up and let a part of the fifties thick. 16:44.760 --> 16:49.100 Oh and the phones go on a human life. He had the neighborhood 16:49.180 --> 16:53.550 to injured like rocky bly or grew up playing football sell when 16:53.550 --> 16:57.190 the telegram came from legendary coach era percy agenda Covent 16:57.190 --> 17:00.570 play for the university of notre dame rocky thought his play 17:00.570 --> 17:01.380 bach was set. 17:01.970 --> 17:05.040 Or or something one and the aground and he was on par my life. 17:05.040 --> 17:09.410 Right didn't affect me at that moment in time. So I went to college 17:09.410 --> 17:14.440 or to notre dame in 19 64 and graduated in 19 68 was my head 17:14.470 --> 17:18.210 in the city and to so to speak maybe it was a me my world consisted 17:18.210 --> 17:22.890 of final school of twine trying to cram a graduate a in didn't 17:22.890 --> 17:26.840 to class plain and playing and playing football on planes works 17:27.110 --> 17:31.840 um and so I'm in that was our full kristen that necessary. 17:31.840 --> 17:34.510 What was happening a in all roam the world. 17:35.250 --> 17:39.340 Rocky bly or had he's oddly on the products and net prize was 17:39.340 --> 17:44.300 a roster spot on an NFL team to rocky the draft meant the NFL 17:44.300 --> 17:47.790 draft in his new unit was the pittsburgh Steelers. 17:48.310 --> 17:52.790 Where and I came to pittsburgh the happiest day of muddle why 17:52.790 --> 17:59.200 if it was in training kick them and uh I I'm when she uh we're 17:59.200 --> 18:02.130 going in between meetings and goal Austin was head coach in the 18:02.130 --> 18:03.060 picks me aside. 18:03.650 --> 18:05.280 And use of us Rockies of them. 18:07.040 --> 18:08.170 We got to slaughter mobile. 18:08.820 --> 18:13.960 In the accident weekend was opened um and which in my one eight 18:13.960 --> 18:18.220 classification he said we think you were good enough to make 18:18.220 --> 18:19.510 this team and we will. 18:20.320 --> 18:21.150 Take care of us for. 18:22.700 --> 18:27.060 It was 19 68 many professional athletes were finding themselves 18:27.100 --> 18:30.770 places in the research awards the national dark it was also the 18:30.770 --> 18:34.460 height of the week in the clock on Rockies craft noticed was taking. 18:35.170 --> 18:38.950 Was now in october and so on day or I I want them the office 18:38.950 --> 18:41.340 to pass because anything happening with. 18:41.920 --> 18:44.640 That's money classification that are you have. 18:45.970 --> 18:46.370 You. Know. 18:48.950 --> 18:50.390 You know anybody back and appleton. 18:51.340 --> 18:55.620 When they said this when no one was trouble and they an with eighty. 18:56.830 --> 19:00.180 Conflict that is taking place a war that is happening over here 19:00.180 --> 19:04.830 hold a sudden Kutcher's my one for in this regards shell. I did 19:04.920 --> 19:09.150 a good draft. I got drafted like you thousands of other young 19:09.180 --> 19:10.770 Mandarin that print of a. 19:11.330 --> 19:14.450 You know and so you have choices. I mean you have choices in 19:14.450 --> 19:16.200 your lives a which you can make cannot do. 19:16.800 --> 19:17.960 Show the choices. 19:19.190 --> 19:23.410 For. And try says well I could leave the country. Well what to 19:23.410 --> 19:27.830 do that um I can be a a a I didn't go to jail. 19:28.600 --> 19:31.070 Little that's a two we see in a level of one of the gonna do 19:31.070 --> 19:34.780 that and um could be a conscientious objectors grip. 19:36.380 --> 19:38.110 Uh and so it was. 19:39.760 --> 19:40.240 The sort of. 19:40.770 --> 19:41.290 Um lists. 19:41.920 --> 19:47.440 Hey a Within 24 hours rocky was signed sealed and delivered to 19:47.440 --> 19:48.610 the United States. On. 19:51.230 --> 19:52.830 Made 19 60 not. 19:53.390 --> 19:56.890 Rocky wire was thousands of miles away from pittsburgh in the 19:56.890 --> 20:00.690 Steelers these new formation was in the jungles of the get knock. 20:01.260 --> 20:04.680 Instrument saying and the report came down that there was an 20:04.680 --> 20:06.030 in the activity in the every. 20:07.550 --> 20:11.990 Like her brother was dark and dirt a again there was a. 20:12.560 --> 20:16.750 Helicopters coming and gunships come in and trenches for gold 20:16.780 --> 20:20.830 that forced um and with helicopter getting hit. There are trying 20:20.830 --> 20:25.370 to extract those will be the other that area in we finally got. 20:26.900 --> 20:27.460 To build. 20:28.790 --> 20:33.800 Ultimately there was a stream which we had to cross and as work 20:33.800 --> 20:38.530 for people get that stream was a machine gun the open the fighter. 20:39.140 --> 20:39.950 To we all stop. 20:41.750 --> 20:45.390 Was alone in mid are mad dash across the Street the from the place. 20:47.160 --> 20:49.970 Almost and mortars started this command. 20:51.000 --> 20:54.580 And they started to move out and mixed mortar fire running as 20:54.580 --> 20:55.570 fast as possible. 20:56.220 --> 20:57.440 Until there was silence. 20:58.850 --> 20:59.280 And then. 21:00.140 --> 21:01.330 Shocked stillness. 21:02.870 --> 21:07.700 The book down in the keeping didn't go wait in so uh it's all 21:07.700 --> 21:11.180 whole into my tactics. You know what the and so would it be the 21:11.180 --> 21:15.360 get my left fire in one through the most of them but to. 21:16.670 --> 21:17.080 The like it. 21:18.230 --> 21:19.350 The fighting continued. 21:19.880 --> 21:22.800 With there had been mortar rounds there were mal Kearney. 21:22.890 --> 21:26.570 It's always the most of another grenade come flights of it in Cape. 21:27.120 --> 21:31.050 Town for free are my commanding officer on the back he was about 21:31.050 --> 21:31.800 six feet from me. 21:32.330 --> 21:36.890 And um the bounced off a rolled tours for I was and I had its 21:37.130 --> 21:38.210 side which was to. 21:38.720 --> 21:41.750 Jump away in as I got up um it blew up. 21:43.150 --> 21:45.780 Then we will for my right foot like the side. 21:46.520 --> 21:50.200 Rocky bly who weighed one a national championship it notre dame 21:50.410 --> 21:53.760 and and play this season with the pittsburgh Steelers a guy who 21:53.760 --> 21:57.630 made his living on speed and finesse was on his way to tokyo 21:58.060 --> 22:00.260 the fear of the had a future playing football. 22:01.100 --> 22:02.800 When I was in a. 22:03.360 --> 22:07.450 Tokyo on and and I asked my doctor would like to play this beautiful 22:07.490 --> 22:12.190 will a get and I and I did the man stuck in on his wrist ponce wings. 22:13.660 --> 22:16.740 One of the pocket and then basically was like cool crazy. 22:16.770 --> 22:20.010 You have no alternative and he amy said no you're not going to 22:20.180 --> 22:23.720 in all be able to because of the damage. You know of that to 22:23.720 --> 22:28.460 your for specifically and and the uh uh and the tendency I'm 22:28.720 --> 22:31.930 a more them port. We may that the nerve and many was cracked 22:32.350 --> 22:34.770 you know from his idol such an impression of but. 22:35.390 --> 22:38.200 But but as I like to tell people loosen was going. 22:39.440 --> 22:41.680 Liu name y'all phone was like glue. 22:42.990 --> 22:43.870 I get a postcard number. 22:45.140 --> 22:47.830 Two lines to rock teams determine. Well we need trip. 22:48.470 --> 22:52.270 Art Rooney and their becomes a crocs of a better than the evening. 22:52.320 --> 22:57.020 I mean but he put the time and effort to write he to let you 22:57.060 --> 23:01.250 know that you're in ersatz joking and in the watch it a comeback. 23:02.160 --> 23:06.130 Rocky went back to pittsburgh and got back to work the Steelers 23:06.130 --> 23:09.200 put him on injured reserve which gave him a year deceive the 23:09.200 --> 23:12.300 devastating wounds. He suffered on the battlefield for which 23:12.300 --> 23:15.770 he received a purple heart and bronze star could be overcome. 23:16.460 --> 23:20.690 Against all odds the views of some coaches and his first doctors 23:20.690 --> 23:24.500 invites rocky. Why are we turn to the Steelers back field in 23:24.500 --> 23:25.660 19 70 one. 23:26.230 --> 23:28.340 Three year after he came back from. The 23:32.930 --> 23:35.020 Women keep that uh it. Begins. 23:37.220 --> 23:37.910 The the in them. 23:39.110 --> 23:42.500 Into people go move is a known for him because he was. 23:43.160 --> 23:43.860 So that the can. 23:44.510 --> 23:48.610 In the story here inputs for the and I had to talk about. 23:49.370 --> 23:51.610 Add to the into that of us. 23:52.610 --> 23:54.630 And they need to be in a. 23:55.310 --> 23:57.570 And the think about my and specific. 23:58.350 --> 24:02.300 That was repressed by a a really every other but from the them 24:02.300 --> 24:06.690 can that nobody else that a whole they fill a woodroof of a book 24:06.690 --> 24:07.190 cuz. For. 24:09.620 --> 24:13.860 One people why are you just make a comeback. He spent 11 seasons 24:13.890 --> 24:17.220 with the Steelers played with nine hall of fame others and has 24:17.220 --> 24:20.310 four super bowl rings the show freeze time in the. NFL. 24:23.930 --> 24:28.720 One people on your these many figures a vietnam veteran and NFL great. 24:29.330 --> 24:32.220 That ultimately rocky bly or the is a team flight. 24:32.940 --> 24:36.220 I'm very proud of the fact that I was in I say that in all of 24:36.220 --> 24:41.120 us to be identified this a soldier and time spent with Austen's 24:41.120 --> 24:45.890 of men that have gone to that same experience defending my country. 24:46.490 --> 24:50.160 Molten was a part of my life was in to my vocation obviously 24:50.160 --> 24:54.720 like some people uh. I'm me but it get it played a a a a played 24:54.720 --> 24:56.020 a part in Kuwait. Them. 24:58.760 --> 25:04.090 But times change contracts change conflicts change in today's 25:04.090 --> 25:07.120 world professional athletes are not called upon to leave the 25:07.120 --> 25:08.610 game and enter the battle. 25:09.170 --> 25:12.730 There is no draft the rare athlete that does choose to surf makes 25:12.730 --> 25:16.590 held talks whether or not it see exception that proves the rule 25:16.890 --> 25:19.970 even some of the clothes from the past saying that it doesn't 25:19.970 --> 25:22.190 diminish their effort and where they're still. 25:23.640 --> 25:27.540 I asked players when I talk to them for more to her was. 25:28.460 --> 25:30.460 Um. He's a fair. 25:31.160 --> 25:32.450 To equate. 25:33.320 --> 25:34.120 The day with. 25:35.000 --> 25:35.490 Back that. 25:36.320 --> 25:38.090 And all of them said no. 25:38.750 --> 25:42.500 You can't be grise fair and actually the money that he's making. 25:43.040 --> 25:46.830 Um. And you can ask the question la. 25:47.670 --> 25:49.340 Yeah flittick today ghosts or. 25:49.910 --> 25:51.490 If a acts. 25:52.150 --> 25:55.570 Because they were so different and it goes back to that question 25:55.570 --> 25:55.880 the of. 25:56.700 --> 25:59.420 What was happening in the country at that time and they all said. 26:00.050 --> 26:04.190 If They felt that the country was in danger which is what they 26:04.280 --> 26:09.340 really felt like I'm december eighth 19 41 um they all thought 26:09.380 --> 26:13.050 that the after did today was closer to push comes to show of 26:13.520 --> 26:16.920 the of it was a national um. 26:18.410 --> 26:22.150 All warm weather. So they can you know everybody had this sort of. 26:22.730 --> 26:26.600 One thing that are you know I think that our athletes would you 26:26.600 --> 26:29.530 know would step up with them to and make the choice. But you 26:29.530 --> 26:32.570 don't have to trips more because we have an all volunteer. 26:32.920 --> 26:38.500 I'm a army now you know and to you you choose to to do that something 26:38.530 --> 26:41.530 dad that can chose to this so that I can sit them. 26:42.300 --> 26:43.110 What could..