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Speaker:greetings and welcome to the talk with
Speaker:History Podcast I am your host Scott
Speaker:here with my wife and historian Jen
Speaker:hello
Speaker:on this podcast we talk about history's
Speaker:continuing impact on us and our personal
Speaker:journey through YouTube as we continue
Speaker:to explore record and share our history
Speaker:walks with you
Speaker:but now before we get into our main
Speaker:topic today Jan I want to lead off with
Speaker:our some of our five star reviews of the
Speaker:week
Speaker:so we did get a couple of five star
Speaker:reviews now folks listening may not
Speaker:realize this but it's been probably
Speaker:about a month we took about a month off
Speaker:around Thanksgiving yeah I think it's
Speaker:appropriate with doing this video too on
Speaker:this subject because I don't know if
Speaker:people realize that you are active duty
Speaker:military
Speaker:and I was that's how we met and so we
Speaker:moved very often and because of that
Speaker:movement when holidays come around
Speaker:sometimes it's really just inclusive of
Speaker:us to make the holidays happen for our
Speaker:family
Speaker:so we have to sometimes take a break
Speaker:to make sure that uh you know things at
Speaker:home are being taken care of like a
Speaker:Thanksgiving holiday for yeah absolutely
Speaker:so so the holidays get busy for us with
Speaker:uh being being military but in that
Speaker:month we got two five-star reviews uh
Speaker:one from someone I've known since I was
Speaker:very young and one from someone I
Speaker:believe that we've met most recently so
Speaker:the the first five star review is from
Speaker:patty1835. she said about the Halloween
Speaker:episode she said so fun and interesting
Speaker:maybe next Halloween you can do an
Speaker:episode on the famous radio broadcast of
Speaker:the War of the Worlds which I think
Speaker:would be a very interesting topic yes
Speaker:that show was so realistic and it cost
Speaker:mass panic you have an alien invasion
Speaker:which I believe was part of why it's
Speaker:it's so Infamous the second five star
Speaker:review is from Doug
Speaker:mcel52 I believe we know who this is and
Speaker:it was about the I Love Lucy episode he
Speaker:said I Love Lucy too thank you for
Speaker:another insightful episode I learned so
Speaker:much about Lucy and Desi that I did not
Speaker:know so thank you to those who are
Speaker:leaving reviews we encourage anybody
Speaker:else listening to if you have an apple
Speaker:podcast uh the Apple podcast app leave
Speaker:us a five-star review in there if not
Speaker:you can reach out to us other other
Speaker:places
Speaker:um and also don't forget to check out
Speaker:our other podcast the history Buzz
Speaker:where we interview folks while chatting
Speaker:about history over a couple of drinks
Speaker:and we let the conversation wander where
Speaker:it may
Speaker:thank you
Speaker:now there are a lot of cemeteries with
Speaker:famous people buried in them and we've
Speaker:covered a small portion of them
Speaker:and we've discovered that there's so
Speaker:much history and a lifetime of stories
Speaker:to be told but
Speaker:I will venture to say that none of these
Speaker:sacred places hold the Common Ground
Speaker:among all Americans that Arlington
Speaker:National Cemetery does
Speaker:for our walk with history YouTube
Speaker:subscribers this video really needs no
Speaker:introduction as it's our most popular
Speaker:video and as of recording this podcast
Speaker:it has around 53 000 views so Jen why
Speaker:don't you tell any of our listeners who
Speaker:haven't seen this video yet how
Speaker:Arlington came about for us
Speaker:so this video is on Arlington National
Speaker:Cemetery and for us it was just really
Speaker:important for me
Speaker:to do this video because it all started
Speaker:with Maureen O'Hara
Speaker:I was wanting to see what her grave
Speaker:looked like and I knew she was buried in
Speaker:Arlington because she had been married
Speaker:to a brigadier general in the Air Force
Speaker:and I had looked on YouTube to see if
Speaker:anyone had been to her grave and no one
Speaker:had been to her grave yeah and and for
Speaker:the for the audience too if you step
Speaker:back if you've listened to some of our
Speaker:past episodes this may have come up but
Speaker:Jen likes Maureen O'Hara the old movie I
Speaker:like Classic Movies she loves the
Speaker:classic movies but largely because of
Speaker:John Wayne yes I'm a big John Wayne fan
Speaker:Jan you were a huge John Wayne fan
Speaker:largely influenced by your father and
Speaker:you know John Wayne is John Wayne almost
Speaker:everybody knows John yes not as many
Speaker:people know Maureen O'Hara that at least
Speaker:not I would I'll say in my generation
Speaker:sure but if you're a huge John Wayne fan
Speaker:yeah Maureen O'Hara actually did quite a
Speaker:few movies with him yeah she was I mean
Speaker:he was her favorite co-star she says
Speaker:like and he loved working with her as
Speaker:well
Speaker:um made lots of movies with John Ford
Speaker:and they're known for that famous movie
Speaker:The Quiet Man together
Speaker:um most people remember Maureen O'Hara
Speaker:from Miracle on 34th Street she plays
Speaker:the mother she's also in The Parent Trap
Speaker:the original
Speaker:and she's in that as well so most people
Speaker:will remember her if they don't know her
Speaker:within the John Wayne so so that's
Speaker:really where the Genesis of yeah hey
Speaker:we're we're near yes we were going to be
Speaker:in DC yes we were going to visit family
Speaker:yes and so we brought we we made a point
Speaker:to say let's do a day in Arlington
Speaker:and we thought oh we'll get this done
Speaker:with the family it'll be so easy we'll
Speaker:get in there
Speaker:six or six other people yeah am i
Speaker:counting that right no five six yeah
Speaker:with us five of us so eleven six others
Speaker:so eleven all together right and no
Speaker:first of all what you need to know about
Speaker:Arlington is um you can't drive in
Speaker:Arlington you can take the tram you can
Speaker:pay the ticket the money to take the
Speaker:tram and the tram has a very
Speaker:um
Speaker:localized route it'll take you to the
Speaker:Tomb of the Unknown it'll take you
Speaker:around some more famous Graves but it's
Speaker:not going to go off Route and so if you
Speaker:want to I mean Arlington is
Speaker:639 Acres there's 400 000 people buried
Speaker:there so if you want to like see
Speaker:something in particular like us you've
Speaker:got to get ready to do some walking you
Speaker:have to be ready ahead of time and
Speaker:that's the one thing right and holding
Speaker:true to to what we're trying to do on
Speaker:this podcast of talking a little bit
Speaker:about behind the scenes right we're
Speaker:doing this with our family yes you know
Speaker:visiting we're kind of making the
Speaker:YouTube channel work at the same time as
Speaker:trying to carry out life yes we were
Speaker:like oh yeah we'll be fine doing it with
Speaker:the whole family and and we've we come
Speaker:to find out like man this place is
Speaker:massive we gotta take trams you know
Speaker:we've got kids and your mom and US
Speaker:walking around and figuring all this
Speaker:stuff out so we decided we did like one
Speaker:or two graves and then we said let's
Speaker:just do this you and I well my mom had
Speaker:offered to watch the kids for us the day
Speaker:we said let's we'll come back to
Speaker:Arlington and we'll do it so what was
Speaker:the first what's the first grave we're
Speaker:going to talk about uh well I want to
Speaker:give a little background about Arlington
Speaker:first and then get more into the graves
Speaker:we're going to talk about but um this
Speaker:first video was very important on people
Speaker:who were influencing that I thought were
Speaker:big movie influencers and who influenced
Speaker:me in my military career so that's kind
Speaker:of the twofold of what it is but I also
Speaker:give some history on Arlington because
Speaker:sometimes people don't know the whole
Speaker:story and so Arlington Cemetery
Speaker:was really Robert E Lee's home before
Speaker:the Civil War he had married Marianne
Speaker:custis Lee who was the great
Speaker:granddaughter of Martha Washington with
Speaker:her first husband Daniel custis and when
Speaker:she marries George Washington he
Speaker:basically adopts her children and
Speaker:then of course his he he adopts her
Speaker:children and then they inherit his land
Speaker:he his grandson has the money to buy
Speaker:Arlington build Arlington then leaves it
Speaker:to his daughter and that's just so
Speaker:George Washington's grandson yes okay
Speaker:and that's who he leaves it to his
Speaker:daughter who's Marianne custis who
Speaker:marries Robert E Lee
Speaker:so that's kind of how this all starts
Speaker:right and so then
Speaker:the Civil War happens and he leaves
Speaker:right away he lives in uh 1961 in in May
Speaker:and she's told pretty quickly that the
Speaker:union is going to come and start taking
Speaker:property
Speaker:outside of DC just to occupy it at this
Speaker:time it's not even thinking of a
Speaker:cemetery so she buries a lot of her
Speaker:possessions in the yard
Speaker:and takes a lot of her possessions with
Speaker:her and then within a month the troops
Speaker:the union troops have taken Arlington by
Speaker:May 24th
Speaker:so
Speaker:it's on May 14th that one of her
Speaker:enslaved women women
Speaker:um Selena Gray
Speaker:takes a lot of things that are of George
Speaker:Washington's possessions and one of them
Speaker:is the tent and we talk about the 10th
Speaker:that's at the Revolutionary War Museum
Speaker:we have that because of Selena gray so
Speaker:she had some forethought to save a lot
Speaker:of heirlooms and that we we have heard a
Speaker:thing for that
Speaker:so then what happens is there's a army
Speaker:quartermaster named Megs who goes to
Speaker:school with Lee and he joins the union
Speaker:and he's so mad that Lee has gone with
Speaker:the Confederacy that he's put in charge
Speaker:of finding land for federal cemeteries
Speaker:because
Speaker:by this time in the war it's been three
Speaker:years they don't they didn't think it
Speaker:was going to go on for this long they
Speaker:basically have started filling up all
Speaker:the federal cemeteries in D.C with Civil
Speaker:War dead
Speaker:so this is 1964. this is three years
Speaker:later and he's like Arlington is prime
Speaker:location
Speaker:he's gonna Stick it to his old buddy
Speaker:yeah he's like really mad and I'll tell
Speaker:you why how he does it too he buries the
Speaker:first body in the garden because he
Speaker:knows that that's where Marianne custis
Speaker:Lee's favorite spot is so the first
Speaker:person buried in Arlington is William
Speaker:Henry Cushman and he's 19 years old he
Speaker:dies in the measles and we've talked
Speaker:about this before that most people in
Speaker:the civil war will die from disease and
Speaker:he buries him right in the garden man
Speaker:that's like this so that was such an
Speaker:interesting fact to me of like this
Speaker:here's this guy who's holding The Grudge
Speaker:again someone that like he knew for a
Speaker:long time right respected respected and
Speaker:all that stuff and it was so mad that he
Speaker:joined the other side he's like okay
Speaker:this is this is my way to get to get
Speaker:back at him I don't want you coming back
Speaker:here I don't think you deserve this I
Speaker:don't think you deserve to be in this
Speaker:country and so much so that I'm gonna
Speaker:make it so
Speaker:your favorite spots will be taken over
Speaker:I'm gonna start bearing bodies in your
Speaker:yard yep and that's basically what
Speaker:happened so that's how Arlington becomes
Speaker:a National Cemetery
Speaker:so just to give some backgrounds just so
Speaker:people understand where where the word
Speaker:Arlington comes from it's it's actually
Speaker:um why is there a house in Arlington
Speaker:National City right yeah it looks like a
Speaker:big home it's called Arlington House yes
Speaker:that's where they lived yes it was it
Speaker:was
Speaker:um Mary Ann custis Lee's father who
Speaker:builds the home uh names it for
Speaker:Arlington glassdier England because
Speaker:that's where their ancestral family is
Speaker:from yeah and if you've never been to
Speaker:Arlington National Cemetery if you get
Speaker:up to Arlington House which is I think
Speaker:the highest point yeah you can look down
Speaker:Cemetery you can see the Washington
Speaker:Monument you can see all over DC I mean
Speaker:it's a it's a you talk about prime
Speaker:location it's a beautiful view it's a
Speaker:beautiful spot
Speaker:um and not only because of the nowadays
Speaker:setting but you can see the mall you can
Speaker:see all that stuff so it's it's pretty
Speaker:neat being there yeah so
Speaker:so that's why
Speaker:um
Speaker:Arlington National Cemetery has become
Speaker:it became a cemetery and that's why most
Speaker:of the bodies that are there are going
Speaker:to be from Civil War on
Speaker:so you're not going to have older
Speaker:military conflicts buried there
Speaker:now there are older bodies there I think
Speaker:some of the
Speaker:family of the Lee family of the custis
Speaker:family are buried there because they had
Speaker:died there and also anybody who was
Speaker:enslaved by the leaves could be buried
Speaker:there as well so there's a whole section
Speaker:to the enslaved of their family that is
Speaker:actual is actually buried there as well
Speaker:but so that is how Arlington now is the
Speaker:national cemetery of the United States
Speaker:and I when we went there one of the
Speaker:first people I wanted to find was Kara
Speaker:holtgreen and Carol holtgreen was
Speaker:important to me because as a midshipman
Speaker:of Penn State I had read her book call
Speaker:sign Revlon now Carol holgreen was
Speaker:buried much more recently yes she
Speaker:because she dies in 1994. she's the
Speaker:first Naval aviator
Speaker:um fighter pilot female
Speaker:so for me it was very inspirational
Speaker:she's the first female to qualify in an
Speaker:F-14
Speaker:and what happens is she she actually
Speaker:crashes her F-14 on the USS Abraham
Speaker:Lincoln off the coast of San Diego
Speaker:it's it's one of those things that she
Speaker:stalls out and as
Speaker:they're ejecting her co-pilot her nfo is
Speaker:fine but just like I think it was like
Speaker:point
Speaker:one second the plane had rolled to such
Speaker:a degree that she ejects into the ocean
Speaker:and she dies instantly yeah there was
Speaker:there was a cool you actually can find
Speaker:right as I was making the video I could
Speaker:find some news Clips because when
Speaker:there's usually there's a first of
Speaker:anybody doing anything in the military
Speaker:she was interviewing some interviews and
Speaker:some coverage and we I found out through
Speaker:you that her call sign was Revlon yes
Speaker:because she wore makeup she wore makeup
Speaker:um and so I thought that was really
Speaker:interesting and it was cool to to go and
Speaker:see that yeah and there was there's a
Speaker:lot of controversy around her crash
Speaker:right people like and you can imagine 60
Speaker:Minutes at a whole special or women how
Speaker:did she get where she was yeah
Speaker:you know all sorts all sorts of stuff
Speaker:and it's that's gonna
Speaker:stuff like that for those who aren't
Speaker:familiar with the military like we are
Speaker:stuff like that's going to come up
Speaker:regardless of how amazing you are or how
Speaker:bad you are exactly
Speaker:um so but it was cool just to go because
Speaker:she was a huge influencer yes and I had
Speaker:never been there so for me it was neat
Speaker:you'll see me actually like salute her
Speaker:grave in the video because I'm just very
Speaker:inspired by her
Speaker:the other grave we could so because we
Speaker:go to Marina O'Hara
Speaker:I was looking up other people kind of
Speaker:related to her movies and I had found
Speaker:that Lee Marvin was buried in Arlington
Speaker:and I loved Lee Marvin I really only had
Speaker:known him from The Man Who Shot Liberty
Speaker:Valance and that is an amazing John
Speaker:Wayne movie Jimmy Stewart John Wayne Lee
Speaker:Marvin black and white John John Ford
Speaker:directed it it's one of those movies
Speaker:that really makes you think about
Speaker:there is a time when you do need someone
Speaker:to fight yeah there is a time when it's
Speaker:not going to be enough to just be smart
Speaker:and know the words and know the law
Speaker:there is going to be somebody sometime
Speaker:who has to actually fight so so if if
Speaker:people don't know that movie you'd give
Speaker:us like a one or two sentence overview
Speaker:you have John Wayne old Gunslinger who's
Speaker:trying to make it on the frontier and
Speaker:you have Jimmy Stewart who comes into
Speaker:town who's a lawyer and he wants to
Speaker:bring the law to like a lawless
Speaker:a rural area out in the west somewhere
Speaker:that hasn't even found statehood yet Lee
Speaker:Marvin plays the antagonist the huge
Speaker:antagonist he's Liberty Valance he's
Speaker:like this bad guy who just as you can
Speaker:imagine the old west just comes in and
Speaker:terrorizes everybody and people just pay
Speaker:him off or do whatever it takes to get
Speaker:him away do I am I remembering right
Speaker:that he did he get nominated for an
Speaker:award for this not for this but he went
Speaker:to the movie In general the movie in
Speaker:general yes um best picture yeah and
Speaker:because it's shot in black and white
Speaker:John Ford makes a point to shoot it in
Speaker:black and white even though this is way
Speaker:past color you know um but because he
Speaker:wants that kind of grittiness
Speaker:but you have in the end Jimmy Stewart is
Speaker:trying to prove a point that he can take
Speaker:down this guy with just being smart he
Speaker:can take down this guy just being you
Speaker:know using books and stuff and and
Speaker:Liberty Balance is having none of it
Speaker:challenges him to a shootout yeah and in
Speaker:the I mean you have to watch it I want
Speaker:to give it away the end has a pretty
Speaker:good twist yeah and the one thing I will
Speaker:say and then we'll get into the kind of
Speaker:gravesite itself
Speaker:um again as someone who was not familiar
Speaker:with this movie and who's not as huge
Speaker:fan as old movies as you are right
Speaker:um but it's making this video if you're
Speaker:listening to this podcast and you've
Speaker:never seen some of these old movies I
Speaker:would encourage you to see if you can
Speaker:find them streaming somewhere or rent it
Speaker:for a night because these old movies the
Speaker:one thing that I realized is I've
Speaker:covered folks like Jimmy Stewart and
Speaker:John Wayne and some of these these
Speaker:actors right
Speaker:um
Speaker:they can't cover up a movie with special
Speaker:effects with you know music that's super
Speaker:catchy you know or whatever like this is
Speaker:just acting in its kind of golden age
Speaker:yes and the acting that I see even in
Speaker:just finding clips for these movies
Speaker:absolutely blows me away yes I mean he
Speaker:was fantastic and he went on to have a
Speaker:very long and and storied Hollywood
Speaker:career absolutely I always say there's
Speaker:few people that can hold their own
Speaker:against John Wayne as a and Jimmy
Speaker:Stewart and Jimmy Stewart as an
Speaker:antagonist yeah and Lee Marvin does it
Speaker:yeah he and I haven't seen anyone who
Speaker:can really pull it off quite like he
Speaker:does in this movie yeah yeah he he was
Speaker:fantastic and I was just again this
Speaker:happens to me multiple times I guess I
Speaker:should stop being surprised I'm looking
Speaker:up these old Super Famous super you know
Speaker:decorated actors
Speaker:um and actresses and just seeing how
Speaker:amazing they are yeah so that's a movie
Speaker:that I encourage folks to look up
Speaker:because Lee Marvin's gravesite was
Speaker:pretty cool it was pretty cool and you
Speaker:know his so
Speaker:so the section and then it gives you the
Speaker:grave number and Lee Marvin's I got to
Speaker:the section I'm looking to get the
Speaker:numbers and they're not in order and I'm
Speaker:looking all around I'm looking all
Speaker:around and then there's a very famous
Speaker:grave in that section of Joe Lewis which
Speaker:doesn't look like the other white Graves
Speaker:it's actually a different color and it's
Speaker:bigger and Lee Marvin's is actually
Speaker:right beside Joe Lewis yeah so I was
Speaker:like oh there it is not in sequential
Speaker:order at all
Speaker:um so that so it was easy to find in
Speaker:that regard but hard to find because
Speaker:it's not in the order it should be
Speaker:but he was a Marine
Speaker:and that's why he's in Arlington
Speaker:National Cemetery he was a Marine in
Speaker:World War II he is in the Battle of
Speaker:Saipan on June 18 1944 and he gets
Speaker:machine gun fire that severs his sciatic
Speaker:nerve basically he's shot in the
Speaker:buttocks like uh Forrest Gump and he
Speaker:spends a year in a military hospital so
Speaker:he gets the purple heart as well and
Speaker:it's after that that he decides to go
Speaker:into acting and he gets best actor in
Speaker:1965. that's the clip we use in the in
Speaker:the video for Cat Ballou which is also
Speaker:like a western and he plays a dual
Speaker:character so he's playing two different
Speaker:parts and I think people were just
Speaker:really impressed with his acting and
Speaker:that's I mean he wins best actor which
Speaker:is pretty big deal uh he's actually
Speaker:named in honor of Robert E Lee is he
Speaker:really yeah I don't think I knew that
Speaker:it's like his first cousin
Speaker:twice removed or third removed or
Speaker:something like that but he dies of a
Speaker:heart attack in 1987. he's 63 years old
Speaker:and he's buried in section 7A
Speaker:so that's the same section as uh Joe
Speaker:Lewis yeah yeah again uh a decorated he
Speaker:said marine marine decorate a marine who
Speaker:decides to like oh yeah I'm gonna go
Speaker:into acting and just then knocks it out
Speaker:of the park in acting yeah and people I
Speaker:mean people like Lee Marvin for like the
Speaker:dirty dozen he's known for a lot of
Speaker:different things yeah there's some old
Speaker:war movies uh that he's in that that are
Speaker:actually more famous than the man who
Speaker:shot Elizabeth yeah but that's what I
Speaker:know him yeah yeah
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Speaker:um one of the graves that we go to there
Speaker:that's what's interesting about
Speaker:Arlington to kind of go off is you don't
Speaker:really allowed to put a lot of things
Speaker:there they're allowed to stay permanent
Speaker:so they don't really allow Flags there
Speaker:they only allow flags on Memorial Day
Speaker:and they'll put a flag on every grave
Speaker:but um They Don't Really allow
Speaker:stationary flowers
Speaker:they usually remove those things they
Speaker:don't really allow I think they allow
Speaker:wreaths for Christmas but one person
Speaker:who's allowed to have flowers all the
Speaker:time is Audie Murphy
Speaker:really yes so that's another he's the
Speaker:only one that's allowed yes I think
Speaker:sometimes and maybe some the John F
Speaker:Kennedy that's just because of how
Speaker:decorated he was because of how
Speaker:decorated okay so so tell us who Audie
Speaker:Murphy is so Audie Murphy is actually
Speaker:the second most visited visited
Speaker:gravesite behind JFK wow yeah I don't
Speaker:think I knew that and his is I mean it's
Speaker:it's there's lots of stuff there but
Speaker:it's small it's it's not like so like I
Speaker:told you Joe Lewis will have a different
Speaker:grave it's bigger other people might
Speaker:have different Graves I think Ruth Bader
Speaker:Ginsburg has like a big black Marvel
Speaker:grave Audie Murphy just has a white
Speaker:pillar like most of the other Graves
Speaker:there and he is considered the most
Speaker:decorated soldier of World War II
Speaker:now there's some debate about that after
Speaker:I had said that in the video people had
Speaker:some debate about that so it is a couple
Speaker:other people but he's one of them or if
Speaker:not
Speaker:he's known for uh they've actually made
Speaker:a
Speaker:walkway to his grave since it's so
Speaker:visited it's on the tram tour it'll have
Speaker:flowers there you'll be able to pick it
Speaker:out what's interesting about his grave
Speaker:though is he's a Medal of Honor
Speaker:recipient and there was a time when they
Speaker:replaced all of the metal on a recipient
Speaker:Graves with gold leaf and he he had told
Speaker:his family
Speaker:that he doesn't want anything special
Speaker:about his grave so when they asked his
Speaker:family if they could replace it they
Speaker:said no so even it says Medal of Honor
Speaker:It Is Not Gold leafed or anything he
Speaker:said he didn't want to stand out yeah he
Speaker:did some movie stuff too right so yeah
Speaker:so he he actually was in like 47 films
Speaker:he had a 21-year movie career but
Speaker:what is interesting about Audie Murphy
Speaker:is he
Speaker:lies about his age and he's too thin to
Speaker:get into the Navy and the Air Force and
Speaker:the Marine Corps he's very like Captain
Speaker:America yeah and then he's finally
Speaker:accepted by the Army that's crazy it's
Speaker:crazy and so then what he does like his
Speaker:most famous
Speaker:when he when he receives the Medal of
Speaker:Honor it's in 1945 he holds back six
Speaker:tanks on his own he tells his company to
Speaker:to take cover and he holds off these six
Speaker:tanks for an hour and he does this I
Speaker:think he had just turned 19 years old oh
Speaker:my gosh can you imagine just turned 19
Speaker:years old and he does this and this is
Speaker:what this is how he um he's awarded the
Speaker:Medal of Honor but he has tons of I mean
Speaker:he has I think I go into all the awards
Speaker:he has received in the military and
Speaker:they're all on his not all of them are
Speaker:on this the stone but a bunch of them uh
Speaker:but yeah he so he has this movie career
Speaker:he comes back he processes his PTSD
Speaker:through movies he does like The Red
Speaker:Badge of Courage he does to Helen Back
Speaker:and those are military movies
Speaker:um I think to hell and back is about his
Speaker:about himself it's about his story but
Speaker:most of his movies are Westerns
Speaker:that's kind of what he does a lot of and
Speaker:he
Speaker:dies in a plane crash unfortunately in
Speaker:1971 right before he turns 46 years old
Speaker:so yeah and like I said he uh trying to
Speaker:think he was filming his last film it's
Speaker:called the time for dying so it's
Speaker:actually very ominous
Speaker:but um yeah that's Audie Murphy like
Speaker:he's like I said most people know him
Speaker:from movies most people know him
Speaker:actually as the most decorated soldier
Speaker:of World War II and he's again the
Speaker:second most visited his grave it's kind
Speaker:of convenient I use that word Loosely
Speaker:because it's right across from the um
Speaker:two in the Unknown Soldier yeah his was
Speaker:much easier to find but again it's it's
Speaker:one of the like I think it's literally
Speaker:probably marked as one of like the
Speaker:popular Graves that's on like visitor
Speaker:stuff there right it's the [ __ ] stops
Speaker:there yes
Speaker:um it's pointed out it's it's pointed
Speaker:out it's it's very clear it's a lot of
Speaker:people and and again my own ignorance
Speaker:here I had no idea who he was I had I
Speaker:had no clue my mom like people mostly
Speaker:know from the movies yeah because like
Speaker:he made a movie about his life so people
Speaker:know yeah he played himself played
Speaker:himself so people know him from the
Speaker:movies
Speaker:but
Speaker:I'd say right down the hill was it kind
Speaker:of down the hill from the Tomb of the
Speaker:Unknown was Maureen O'Hara or was she
Speaker:down the hill from Arlington House
Speaker:no it was down the hill from a too many
Speaker:unknown soldier it was in that area yes
Speaker:so mourin O'Hara is who we came to see
Speaker:yeah and when I even got there it looked
Speaker:like no one even knew she was there I
Speaker:wanted to like yell out to people this
Speaker:is Maureen O'Hara like to me it was like
Speaker:how do people not know she's right here
Speaker:now her stone is a little bigger right
Speaker:and she's not it's not I mean it's it's
Speaker:hers but she shares it with her husband
Speaker:her husband's first and she's buried
Speaker:there because because of him right so if
Speaker:you are married or a child
Speaker:and I think a child not quite of age you
Speaker:can be buried at Arlington Cemetery so
Speaker:the Arlington Cemetery is not just open
Speaker:for service members it's open for
Speaker:service members and her husband was what
Speaker:like a two or three star he was a
Speaker:brigadier general in the Air Force and
Speaker:and he was actually her second husband
Speaker:her second and his third yeah and
Speaker:um they met in 1971 he dies in 1978 he's
Speaker:69 when he dies so he was probably what
Speaker:62
Speaker:62 when they got married yeah I mean
Speaker:yeah you're doing the math I trust you
Speaker:yeah a public math so I mean they marry
Speaker:late in life yeah right but she says
Speaker:he's the love of her life and she will
Speaker:forever miss him and it's just a merry
Speaker:after him
Speaker:and no I think you're right I think he's
Speaker:her third
Speaker:and I think
Speaker:she's his third I think it's both the
Speaker:thirds and didn't you say I think you
Speaker:say this in the video too that like she
Speaker:always said that he was who John Wayne
Speaker:yes pretended to be so she always said
Speaker:that she said I married the man that
Speaker:John Wayne pretended to be in movies
Speaker:yeah because John Wayne will do like you
Speaker:know
Speaker:Where Eagles Fly the roughest of the
Speaker:toughness yeah like he'll play these
Speaker:aviators Right Where Eagles Dare To Fly
Speaker:and like those those war movies right
Speaker:right and he's playing like these really
Speaker:tough heroic men and she said I married
Speaker:that man he I married the real deal and
Speaker:so um
Speaker:and and so finding her gray there she
Speaker:has one of those bigger marble grave and
Speaker:she's married under Fitzsimmons Blair so
Speaker:she's married she's she's buried under
Speaker:Marine Fitzsimmons Blair and then it
Speaker:says smaller Merino Hera so you have to
Speaker:kind of be looking and if you try to
Speaker:look her up on the Arlington site it
Speaker:won't pop up under Merino hair you have
Speaker:to look up Marine Blair because that's
Speaker:his name Charles Blair
Speaker:uh so we we visited there we left a rock
Speaker:I talked a little bit about John Wayne
Speaker:and her and I talked a little bit about
Speaker:Lucille Ball because she was her and
Speaker:Lucille Ball had kind of started making
Speaker:movies at the same time kind of B movies
Speaker:and she claims to have been there that
Speaker:when Lucy met Desi for the first time
Speaker:and
Speaker:you know we just kind of go into John
Speaker:Ford
Speaker:and the other movies she made like I I'm
Speaker:a huge fan of
Speaker:Tyrone Power she had a movie with Tyrone
Speaker:Power she made a movie with Jimmy
Speaker:Stewart like she was this huge actress
Speaker:that was a great leading lady she played
Speaker:in a lot of roles opposite a strong
Speaker:leading man and she could hold her own
Speaker:and that's why John Wayne has that
Speaker:favorite famous saying she's the
Speaker:greatest guy he ever knew yeah
Speaker:that's a great quote because she could
Speaker:hold her own yeah and that's what he
Speaker:really liked about her and even when
Speaker:they did the quiet man there's that part
Speaker:where he's dragging her through the
Speaker:field and like he really did that you
Speaker:know and so and she had just had a baby
Speaker:you know but she was like all for
Speaker:whatever it takes so she she said that
Speaker:um when she would be interviewed she
Speaker:said Leading Men really appreciated that
Speaker:about her like she was willing willing
Speaker:to do whatever it took to get the shot
Speaker:and to do the stunt so
Speaker:um
Speaker:yeah it was really I was really really
Speaker:honored to find her grave I think I left
Speaker:her heart rock
Speaker:and she was very important so I'm she
Speaker:was the biggie and I think she's the
Speaker:picture on our yeah she's the thumbnail
Speaker:she's and I think to your to your credit
Speaker:I think she's the reason that that video
Speaker:kind of took off I do too right plus I
Speaker:think I did pretty good job making it so
Speaker:I think you did too although some people
Speaker:get upset a little bit but those uh
Speaker:cut-ins but yeah you know people have
Speaker:opinions about you know but when we're
Speaker:trying to keep it interesting and so I
Speaker:was actually looking again interesting
Speaker:behind the scenes here I was looking and
Speaker:YouTube analytics will actually give you
Speaker:Impressions so basically how many people
Speaker:it's been shown to it's been almost a
Speaker:million people oh my gosh yeah well I
Speaker:think it's a great video
Speaker:to do those types of people in Arlington
Speaker:those those Movie Makers those those
Speaker:history makers that are in the media
Speaker:because most people don't realize that
Speaker:they're there so yeah and an Impressions
Speaker:it's not like it's near in your direct
Speaker:feed it could be one of the 15 different
Speaker:thumbnails on your on your YouTube home
Speaker:screen or something like that but I just
Speaker:thought that was cool like yeah because
Speaker:it's it's one of our more popular videos
Speaker:so
Speaker:um
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Speaker:so the one last thing I wanted to talk
Speaker:about real quick was um the Tomb of the
Speaker:Unknown yeah
Speaker:that opened it was dedicated November 11
Speaker:1921.
Speaker:um the first person in turn there was a
Speaker:soldier from World War one right and so
Speaker:they just had that hundred year
Speaker:anniversary yeah that was some month or
Speaker:two ago yeah so November 11th yeah and
Speaker:Veterans Day yeah and that was the first
Speaker:time they allowed the public to get
Speaker:close to the tomb and lay flowers and
Speaker:stuff I think it's like the this was the
Speaker:first time ever in a hundred years yeah
Speaker:the first it's always been guarded yeah
Speaker:it's always been guarded so I thought
Speaker:that was really neat and again for for
Speaker:anyone listening who doesn't isn't
Speaker:familiar with the Tomb of the Unknown
Speaker:Soldier this
Speaker:is essentially more a monument yes right
Speaker:a memorial yes all of those people all
Speaker:of those soldiers that are killed in
Speaker:action that can never be brought home
Speaker:that are missing in action you know Etc
Speaker:and all that stuff and so the army
Speaker:actually has a dedicated unit that
Speaker:guards it 24 7 365 days a year rain snow
Speaker:doesn't matter it doesn't matter what
Speaker:you walk in there all night long all day
Speaker:long and it's actually incredibly
Speaker:prestigious for
Speaker:folks in the Army to go through this
Speaker:unit
Speaker:and Incredibly difficult to to get
Speaker:qualified to be screened to come in and
Speaker:do it and they take their job seriously
Speaker:super you cannot like be talking during
Speaker:Changing of the Guard there you cannot I
Speaker:mean they'll yell at you and it I've
Speaker:seen like random videos of people like
Speaker:trying to run up and trying to you know
Speaker:either mess with them or try to touch a
Speaker:thing they don't [ __ ] around yeah they
Speaker:don't they don't and I think I think you
Speaker:have to adhere to certain guidelines if
Speaker:you're on that in that group you can't
Speaker:drink right I think you're not allowed
Speaker:you have to always present yourself in a
Speaker:prestigious
Speaker:way yeah like I think there are these
Speaker:rules if you're going to be a part of
Speaker:the two million Soldier guard you have
Speaker:to take a take it upon yourself to
Speaker:uphold the standard for military wise I
Speaker:mean it's kind of like you're regarding
Speaker:some of the most hallowed yeah grounds
Speaker:yes that that you can that you can guard
Speaker:right this this symbol of all of those
Speaker:soldiers who who pay the ultimate price
Speaker:yes for the country that never came home
Speaker:that were never identified that you know
Speaker:they
Speaker:sell where they did yes and they gave
Speaker:their life and and they stayed there
Speaker:yeah because nobody was able to bring
Speaker:them home and that's you know when
Speaker:people go to Arlington that's one of the
Speaker:things people want to see is The
Speaker:Changing of the Guard it's really neat
Speaker:because those guys I mean they practice
Speaker:Ad nauseam and they are I mean to a t
Speaker:perfect yeah what they do they're
Speaker:Precision it's incredible it's like kind
Speaker:of like Ethan eye like the Marine Corps
Speaker:ethani like the drill stuff yes but just
Speaker:with something much more solemn yes yeah
Speaker:yeah so if you ever get a chance that's
Speaker:the one of the things that tram will
Speaker:take you to it's one of the things you
Speaker:get to see I think they change every
Speaker:it's like hour I thought it was 20
Speaker:minutes
Speaker:it's like it's it's every hour it's not
Speaker:every 20 minutes if somebody knows
Speaker:tell us yeah hit us up on Twitter I
Speaker:don't think it's an hour they're not
Speaker:going to make you march for an hour back
Speaker:and forth then they're doing this uh 24
Speaker:hours a day yeah it's about every 20
Speaker:minutes I don't think it's every hour
Speaker:we'll follow up in the next episode yeah
Speaker:we'll do we'll have a little uh podcast
Speaker:follow up in the next episode
Speaker:um but now they have women who are on
Speaker:that guard as well I think she was out
Speaker:there when we were she was out there
Speaker:when we were there yeah she was
Speaker:inspecting yeah because I think when
Speaker:they
Speaker:switch they not they not only switch the
Speaker:guard they have their inspector come out
Speaker:and then switch them you know so but
Speaker:that so we're gonna do more episodes
Speaker:with more of the people we saw because
Speaker:we want to give this time and yeah we
Speaker:don't want to do an hour-long podcast
Speaker:um that's not what talk with history is
Speaker:it's supposed to be kind of bite size
Speaker:um and so as you can tell by the stories
Speaker:of those that we covered just today and
Speaker:and how much there is to talk about
Speaker:we've all really barely scratched the
Speaker:surface of what we personally have
Speaker:covered at Arlington
Speaker:so you can look forward to the next part
Speaker:of our talk with history Arlington
Speaker:series next week bright and early Monday
Speaker:morning we'll continue doing this and
Speaker:there'll probably be multiple podcasts
Speaker:covering Arlington because there's so
Speaker:much detail and so many good stories
Speaker:there yes um it's going to take us a few
Speaker:episodes to cover everything because
Speaker:we've been back twice
Speaker:um so thank you again for listening to
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