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to have you on. 36 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:48,440 Just to remind our veteran radio listeners that Veterans Radio America has a partnership 37 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:53,240 with AMO to bring you a quick look at Michigan Military Organizations that support the history 38 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,920 of military service here in the state of Michigan. 39 00:02:56,920 --> 00:03:02,720 We encourage you to visit AMO on Facebook and this particular organization by visiting 40 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,320 it this season. 41 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:10,560 John, let's talk about what's sort of unique about the Michigan Heroes Museum in Frank & 42 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,840 Mooth, Michigan. 43 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:22,320 With the Michigan Heroes Museum, we tell the stories of over 850 Michigan servicemen, women, 44 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,240 and astronauts. 45 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:30,800 They're amazing stories, whether Al Warden from Apollo 15, the All University of Michigan 46 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:37,960 flight crew, or Dwayne Hackney, the most decorated and listed airman ever, or Sergeant Major 47 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:50,120 Ken Rice out of the Marine Corps, who was POW, captured in baton, and survived the second 48 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:59,360 atomic bomb as he was in a coal mine working as a prisoner of war after the attack on Anagasaki. 49 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:07,160 We've just got amazing stories of our individuals from throughout Michigan, whether they were 50 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:12,280 born here, whether they just served at a base here, whether they lived in Michigan their 51 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:18,400 whole life other than their service to our country, or maybe they just retired here. 52 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:24,840 We tell the stories of those individuals and they are our truest heroes. 53 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:28,720 In the Michigan Heroes Museum has a long history. 54 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,000 Tell us how it started and how it got to where it is today. 55 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Sure. 56 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:42,240 We've been in organization since November 1976, but the actual museum got started by 57 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:50,960 an amazing guy, Navy, Stan Bozic, before he joined the Navy and served during Korea. 58 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:58,400 He was actually starting maybe as early as 13 years old or so. 59 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:05,760 He and his brothers walk up and down the alleyways in Detroit area, in Metro Detroit area, and 60 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:13,600 see things that the World War II vets had brought home, whether it's their Navy duffels 61 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,200 or whatever. 62 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,920 Moms and wives were cleaning out the house and throwing that stuff away. 63 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:28,560 These guys had picked it up in their little red wagon quite literally and go and knock 64 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:34,880 on the door and try to find the servicemen or women that that belonged to and talk to 65 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,360 them and try to get their stories. 66 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:44,600 He really had a passion for that after he began to collect some of that stuff. 67 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:51,600 The brothers, they all just realized that it's so much more than just a collection of 68 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:52,600 things. 69 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:54,840 This is their histories. 70 00:05:54,840 --> 00:06:04,920 It's an amazing part of world history that dovetails into specific Michigan personal 71 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:05,920 histories. 72 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:11,080 Well, it's one of those things when you go through a museum such as this, you realize 73 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:17,280 what your friends and neighbors or maybe the grandparents of your friends and neighbors 74 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:19,560 did in service of the country. 75 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,760 It's really pretty surprising, isn't it? 76 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,520 Absolutely. 77 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:30,000 We've got so many stories that people come in here. 78 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:36,760 We just had somebody come in here and recognize the last name is the same name as they had. 79 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:41,040 They got just thinking and they said, well, boy, I bet you he's a second or third. 80 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:43,280 A third cousin somewhere down the line. 81 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:49,520 He started trying to track his history back to this particular individual. 82 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:53,000 I'm confident that they're related somewhere. 83 00:06:53,000 --> 00:07:01,160 But yeah, it's just quite amazing when we get somebody in here from Luddington or LaVonia 84 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:08,080 or Mackinaw or even above the Straits, they come in and they go, oh my gosh, you got somebody 85 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:14,160 from our town represented or from our county. 86 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:15,480 That's the thing. 87 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:20,000 People that have served our country, even though we're less than 1% of the population 88 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:25,680 serves nowadays today, they're still your hero next door. 89 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,840 The people that you never knew served or maybe you knew they served, but you didn't know 90 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,160 what they did. 91 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:38,320 We may have stories of people that you know or actually from your neck of the woods here 92 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,120 at our museum and I almost guarantee that we do. 93 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:46,800 And you tell not only the stories of these men, primarily men, but men and women who 94 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:54,080 served from all eras of combat, but you also tell their stories after they get out. 95 00:07:54,080 --> 00:08:00,840 There's a Medal of Honor recipient who went on to be a doctor who doesn't want to be known 96 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:05,120 for what he did in the service, but he's a Medal of Honor recipient. 97 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:12,200 Yeah, so Dr. Furlong, he was at the time World War I. 98 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:17,840 He's the only Michigan Medal of Honor World War I out of the US Army. 99 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:23,480 And as he was in service, he has a young first lieutenant. 100 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:37,400 Here in the battle with a German French line, their unit, his captain is shot down in this 101 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:38,600 battle. 102 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:44,880 And they're about 100 yards from the trench and he orders one of his grenade ears to crawl 103 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:54,680 up through the barbed wire in the bomb craters and get as close as he can to the opposition 104 00:08:54,680 --> 00:09:04,280 trenches there and try to throw grenades into render neutral the four Maxim machine guns 105 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,680 that they had set up above their trench. 106 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:12,400 And the grenade ear does that. 107 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:17,240 Over an hour or so, he gets close enough where he's able to start throwing the grenades 108 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:23,400 and he pulls the pins and throws them and Harold Furlong is back, like I said, about 109 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:30,040 100 yards away and he's watching as those foreign machine gunners in turn, those grenades 110 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:31,240 are getting awful close. 111 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:37,240 They stand up and jump down into the trenches so they can have more cover. 112 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:42,280 And once the fourth guy jumped into the trench, he jumped up and started running towards 113 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:43,280 the trench. 114 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:48,680 Now, when he realized that the end of the trench wasn't too far away, he actually ran 115 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:55,280 around the edge of the trench and he ran around behind the trench and he slid down there 116 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,040 and he waited for those gunners to show back up. 117 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:05,000 And after those grenades stopped going off, those machine gunners crawled back up into 118 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:12,320 their Maxims and they started returning firing upon his men. 119 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:17,400 And as they were doing that, they didn't pay attention that somebody had gotten around 120 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:23,840 behind them and he was able to work his way forward and fire four times, eliminating those 121 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:29,520 men, those Germans that were manning those Maxims, they couldn't hear him. 122 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,120 They were making too much noise themselves. 123 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:39,240 And he then stood up and he walked to the edge of the trench and he pointed his rifle 124 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:45,560 down the trench and those 20 men left in that trench all surrendered to that one man. 125 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:52,320 But this is a great Medal of Honor story in a great Michigander who went on to become 126 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,520 a medical doctor, delivered thousands of babies. 127 00:10:55,520 --> 00:11:01,680 And you tell that story and I want to get you to where I saw it because I think, tell 128 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:13,160 us about how the last year, the pandemic has nudged, encouraged, forced the museum to get 129 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:19,560 some of its stories out, its educational efforts out to a wider audience who couldn't visit 130 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:20,720 during the last year. 131 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,000 Yeah, exactly. 132 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,520 So we've tried Facebook Live videos. 133 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:27,960 We've done some of that. 134 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:36,880 We've done some YouTube videos where we've had actually Frank Beckman narrated the video 135 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:42,680 that I believe you probably saw with stories of Christina Hammett Cook, our astronaut from 136 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:43,680 the state of Michigan. 137 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:50,760 They're currently serving most recent astronaut who went up into space, spent 11 months up 138 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:57,160 there and was the longest female ever to fly American female to fly in space. 139 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:04,320 And she was part of the first all female spacewalk where she and Jessica Meir both went out on 140 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,760 a spacewalk together. 141 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:13,200 We also told the story of Dwayne Hattney, the most decorated and listed airman, and 142 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:14,880 Christina Hammett Cook. 143 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:23,880 We got a grant from a local service organization where they underwrote the cost for doing that 144 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:24,880 video. 145 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:34,400 They also allowed us to offer that video to classrooms and others that wanted to see what 146 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:39,760 it is that we have here at the museum and maybe try to teach some of the lessons we teach 147 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:44,920 in the museum without being able to visit the museum. 148 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:53,320 Well, the Michigan's Heroes Museum has been operating since 1976. 149 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,760 They had a couple of name changes over time, but it's always been housed in the greater 150 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,160 Frankenmuth area. 151 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:05,040 So if you're going up to Frankenmuth, build in time to stop into the museum. 152 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,200 We're talking to its executive director, John Reidner. 153 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,520 John, tell folks what your website is. 154 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:25,320 So our website is www.miheros.org, so MyHeroes.org with the Mi being the Mi of Michigan. 155 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:34,320 John, there are 850 stories here. 156 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:41,880 When people come in and you get back to, maybe it's next year when schools can come back 157 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:47,840 in and do classroom tours, what are some of the favorite things that they like to see 158 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:49,640 and do? 159 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:57,320 So I think what people are drawn to about our museum is that we tell their stories about 160 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:58,320 them, right? 161 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:06,840 So you can go to nearly any museum and you can find out information on weapons. 162 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:13,840 You can find out information on weapons platforms and tanks and planes and living conditions 163 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,720 and battles and things like that. 164 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:22,240 We tell those stories, but only as they relate to a Michigan service man or woman. 165 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:28,200 So the way the story is told is a little different than most museums. 166 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:33,120 Grass Lake Museum also does a little bit. 167 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:43,960 I mean, they do a lot of storytelling also like we do, but those type of military museums 168 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,920 are really rare. 169 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:52,360 Most of the times you hear and see the things that were used and people are just starting 170 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:57,360 to understand that the individual histories are what's really important. 171 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,800 So we've made sure that that's our number one focus. 172 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,880 We've got items around the museum that we don't label because we want people looking 173 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,800 at the individual stories. 174 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:14,720 Well you've got a great executive board and board members at large and advisory board 175 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:15,720 members and staff. 176 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:20,760 I mean, it's really well run organization. 177 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:29,800 But tell us why this kind of regional museum is important to, you know, or should be important 178 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,880 to the younger generation? 179 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:40,640 Well, you know, as people nowadays, like I mentioned earlier, only approximately 1% of 180 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,440 the people serve. 181 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:50,520 And a lot of people, you know, their grandfather served, their grandmothers maybe, great-grandfathers 182 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:55,560 and things like that, they themselves hadn't served. 183 00:15:55,560 --> 00:16:02,600 And they hadn't had the ability to understand what that service means. 184 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:08,040 What we'd like to do, and the rest of the ammo museums also would like to do, is let 185 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:15,600 people know what it is that people that had served had went through, whether they're going 186 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:21,480 up and touring the USS Henson, or they're over in Grasslake or East Point or over in 187 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:29,280 Jackson or Muskegon, that they can go to a local military museum there and they can learn 188 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:38,440 about just a little segment about what the service men and women that they know may have 189 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,280 went through and a little bit about their experience. 190 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:46,840 So we've got some amazing military museums here in Michigan. 191 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:52,840 And that's the reason why AMO is just such a unique organization where we've all decided 192 00:16:52,840 --> 00:17:00,780 to work together in order to tell these stories and make sure that these histories are not 193 00:17:00,780 --> 00:17:01,780 forgotten. 194 00:17:01,780 --> 00:17:08,640 Well, it's so important and nowadays there's just not enough time, whether it's in grade 195 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,880 school or high school, to teach this history. 196 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:18,800 And even in college there's not these kind of history programs that really tell what 197 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:26,040 service is about and what the sacrifices that these Michigan residents went through, whether 198 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:33,600 it be in Korea, Vietnam, World War II, World War I. 199 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:42,520 Is the museum also beginning to think about how it displays and tells the stories of Michiganders 200 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:46,480 who've been over in the Gulf Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? 201 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:51,880 Yeah, so we do have a war on terror gallery. 202 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:52,880 Kind of interesting. 203 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:57,120 We're just now starting to get the stories of the Vietnam veterans. 204 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:01,320 It took them over 50 years to realize that, hey, you know what? 205 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,800 What I did was important also. 206 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:10,320 Most of those individuals until the last five years or so, they didn't think they were deserving. 207 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:15,160 And that's what we're finding with our war on terror stories right now. 208 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,600 Most of the people that have served, they say, hey, you know what? 209 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,880 You got up the real heroes, the people who perished in the line of duty. 210 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:24,720 Those stories are the ones that need to be told. 211 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:32,280 But I don't care if you're a clerk typist or a cook or frontline battle company or just 212 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,480 what, guess what? 213 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:40,120 We want to tell your story here because there are so many people that have served that you 214 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:41,120 will represent. 215 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:44,920 And your story will dovetail with theirs. 216 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:53,920 And so many families that can learn about people's service through your story that we 217 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,240 would love to tell it here at our museum. 218 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,280 Well, I think that's a great point because so many of us serve. 219 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,200 But we're not at the tip of the spear. 220 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:04,200 We're a support team. 221 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,200 We're logistics. 222 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:11,480 We were the ship drivers as the Marines called the Navy. 223 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:17,120 Or the flying the planes. 224 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:23,200 So all those stories are important because it also educates the families of the kids 225 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,920 who want to join the service. 226 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,400 Maybe that's what my kid wants to do. 227 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:31,040 He wants to be a drone piloter and cyber intelligence. 228 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:32,200 And he's going to be fine. 229 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,000 He's not going to be at the tip of the spear. 230 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,600 So those are great stories to tell. 231 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:42,440 But this isn't easy to do and it isn't easy to keep it alive as long as you have up in 232 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:43,640 Frank and Muth. 233 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,440 John, how is this funded? 234 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:53,480 So we are funded exclusively private donations and corporate donations right now. 235 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,520 We don't receive any state monies currently. 236 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,800 And not that we wouldn't. 237 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,560 We just don't. 238 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:11,120 And we appreciate the individuals that support our museum, understand what it is that we're 239 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:17,080 doing and help us out as well as every ammo organization. 240 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:25,080 I'll tell you what, there's no museum that's going to make it unless they're subsidized 241 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,580 somehow. 242 00:20:26,580 --> 00:20:29,160 And you're never going to make it on just your admission. 243 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:39,480 So our subsidies come from our loyalist fans and the individuals who understand what it 244 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:47,240 is that we're doing and want to help us continue the legacy that we've begun here. 245 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:51,680 And we're talking to John Ryder, who's the executive director of Michigan Heroes Museum 246 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:53,520 up in Frank and Muth, Michigan. 247 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,560 John, if somebody's out there and says, man, this is a worthy cause, I'd like to support 248 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:58,560 it a little bit. 249 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:03,440 Maybe it's a business in a corporation who says, I want to get behind this a little bit. 250 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,480 How do they do that? 251 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:12,280 So they can call me directly at the museum at 989-652-8005. 252 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,000 I'll give that number again here in just a little bit. 253 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:21,560 But they can also go to our website and we have a little information there about donating. 254 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:34,200 And once again, that's at www.miheroes.org or like I said, call me at 989-652-8005. 255 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:35,880 My name is John Ryder. 256 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:45,440 And I'll be glad to help talk to you and we'll see if we can work together. 257 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:49,200 And the same is true with individual stories. 258 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:54,160 If somebody has a story they'd like us to tell here at the museum. 259 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:59,240 We would be glad to tell the stories of Michigan servicemen and women. 260 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:05,400 And we're always on the lookout for new stories that we can tell. 261 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:15,240 And so if you know a veteran or you have a family member that served and that stuff is 262 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:20,320 no better hands than with the family, right? 263 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,240 That story is loved and cherished by them. 264 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:34,400 But eventually the family generally will lose touch with great-grandfather or something. 265 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:40,280 Maybe not understand the story as much as the earlier generations had. 266 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:45,200 And that's where the museum can come in and help make sure that story never gets lost. 267 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:46,200 That's right. 268 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,600 It should not be forgotten. 269 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,040 And the Michigan Heroes Museum is a 501C3. 270 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:58,000 So if you'd like to donate, give John a call at the museum or go to the website and reach 271 00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,000 out there. 272 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:04,600 John, as we come to the end here, as people begin thinking about, hey, I want to do something 273 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:05,600 this spring. 274 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,880 You know, the family has been vaccinated. 275 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,240 We want to do a day field trip, something like that. 276 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:12,960 Is the museum open? 277 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,520 Tell us what spring and summer looks like for the museum. 278 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:22,600 Yeah, so we've been open since early June last year when the governor opened back up 279 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:23,600 the state. 280 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,200 We've remained open since then. 281 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:35,080 And we absolutely would love to have your family or your group stop into the museum 282 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:41,280 where we will happily greet you, tell you a little bit about the museum, allow you to 283 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:46,880 explore it yourself or accompany you as you go through the museum. 284 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:53,120 And we just ask that everybody follows whatever is recommended at the state by at the time 285 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:54,720 that you stop in. 286 00:23:54,720 --> 00:24:02,840 I know the governor has laid out a plan for relaxing the regulatory restrictions. 287 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:07,920 And we're going to comply with what we're asked to do. 288 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:16,600 And we're also going to ask that our public visitors remain just as safe as they can and 289 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,480 that they don't get themselves and their loved ones sick as well. 290 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:28,520 Well this is one of these steps that on something like TripAdvisor gets five stars all the time. 291 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:33,720 And you can bribe the rest of the family, maybe with some chicken or with some Christmas 292 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,240 decorations. 293 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,520 But make sure you stop in at Michigan Heroes Museum. 294 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,920 John Reiner, Executive Director, we want to thank you for spending a little time with 295 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,960 us today on Veterans Radio. 296 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,320 Thank you. 297 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,240 And I want to thank everybody for listening to Veterans Radio today. 298 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:52,760 I am Jim Fausone. 299 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,080 It's been a pleasure to be your host. 300 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,000 I'm a Veterans Disability Lawyer at Legal Help for Veterans. 301 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:07,440 And you can reach us at 800-693-4800 or legalhelpforveterans.com on the web. 302 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:12,320 You can follow Veterans Radio on Facebook and listen to its podcasts and internet radio 303 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,400 shows by going to veteransradio.net. 304 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,680 And until next time, you are dismissed. 305 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:24,040 If you have a VA claim denied by the Board of Veterans Appeals, contact Legal Help for 306 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:28,280 Veterans at 1-800-693-4800. 307 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,280 There are experts in handling cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for 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Kettles Chapter, Ann Arbor, Michigan, VFW Graf O'Hara Post 423 in Ann Arbor, and 313 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:13,160 the American Legion Press Corn Post 46 also in Ann Arbor. 314 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,920 They keep us on the air as does your support. 315 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:21,000 Go to Facebook, go to VeteransRadio.net, and support our efforts. 316 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,520 And until next time, you are dismissed. 317 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:56,080 With the Lucky Land Sluts, you can get lucky just about anywhere.