President Trump while speaking at the WWII Veterans' Day Event bragged how the U.S. Military with its B-52 Bombers 'Wiped-Out' Iran's Nuclear Programme in a 'matter of seconds'. The ceremony began with the traditional wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns, followed by a Parade of Colors and tributes from military leaders and dignitaries. President Trump joins veterans and their families to honor the courage, sacrifice, and legacy of America’s heroes who served in World War II and throughout the nation’s armed forces.
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00:00Thank you, J.D. Thank you very much to our great Vice President. It was a good decision I made.
00:13This morning on these hallowed grounds where generations of American heroes rest in eternal glory,
00:21we gather to fulfill the sacred duty of every free man and woman. On Veterans Day,
00:28we honor those who have worn the uniform, who have borne the battle, who have stood to watch,
00:35whose ranks have formed the mighty wall of flesh and blood, bravery and devotion that has defended
00:43our freedom for 250 years. Today, to every veteran, we love our veterans, we say the words
00:54too often left unsaid. Thank you for your service. Thank you very much.
01:05And we want to also say thank you for carrying America's fate on your strong, very broad,
01:13proud shoulders. Each of you has earned the respect and the gratitude of our entire nation.
01:19We love you. We salute you. And we will never forget what you have done to keep America safe,
01:25sovereign and free. Thank you very much.
01:27And we're also honored to be joined by a great man. He will go down as a great man someday.
01:39Speaker Mike Johnson. Speaker.
01:45Wherever you may be, Speaker. We love you.
01:49There he is right there. Good. Got a good location.
01:51He always gets a good location. And congratulations to you and to John and to everybody on a very big
02:02victory. We're opening up our country. Should have never been closed. Should have never been closed.
02:10I want to thank Secretary Doug Collins, who's outstanding, just done a fantastic job for the veterans.
02:16We have a 92 percent approval rating. We took that up from 38 percent from a certain previous administration
02:24that we won't mention. Also, Secretary of War. We like the sound of that better than the other.
02:31Secretary Pete Hegseth. Pete, thank you very much. Thank you, Pete. Great job.
02:38Our great attorney general, Pam Bondi. Pam, thank you very much. Thank you.
02:44Secretary Doug Burgum. Doug, thank you. Thank you very much for being here, Doug.
02:52A number one energy person anywhere in the world. Acknowledged. I was I was amazed that he took the job
02:59and he did it without hesitation. What he gave up, what Doug gave up, what all of them gave up.
03:04Nobody would ever know. But Secretary Chris Wright, number one anywhere in the world.
03:08Acknowledged and drill, baby drill, Chris, right? Drill, baby drill.
03:12The energy prices are way down. They're going further.
03:16Secretary Linda McMahon. Education. Moving education back to the states. Linda, right?
03:23Getting it back to the states where it belongs. Secretary Laurie Chavez de Reamer.
03:29Thank you, Laurie, very much. Director Russ. Vote.
03:35Director, thank you. What a good job he's doing. Cutting, cutting, cutting, but fairly cutting.
03:40Director Tulsi Gabbard. Thank you, Director.
03:46Ambassador Jamison Greer. What a job he's done. We've taken in trillions of dollars in tariffs and
03:52we want to keep it that way. It's been good for our country, I can tell you, including national security.
03:59General Dan came. General, thank you. He's a real general.
04:05And congratulations on wiping out the nuclear capability of Iran in about a matter of seconds once they got there.
04:15They traveled a total of 37 hours.
04:18But once they got there, they were very quick.
04:22And also to many other very distinguished guests.
04:25We have an amazing group of people. I'd like to name every one of you.
04:28But I think a lot of people would be upset. It's a little cold.
04:33The pages of American history are filled with the tales of titans, icons, innovators,
04:39and trailblazers who built this country into the greatest, most ambitious and most prosperous nation
04:45the world has ever seen. And we brought it to new levels.
04:48I'll tell you, we were going in the wrong direction for a period of time.
04:52But we've never been hotter than we are right now.
04:55This is the hottest country anywhere in the world.
04:58Yet every captain of industry, every pioneer of science,
05:01and every star whose brilliance has lit up the lights of Broadway,
05:05all share one thing in common.
05:09They only had the chance to soar because the veterans had the courage to serve.
05:15They took care of those people. They took care of all the stars.
05:19The stars that you read about wouldn't be here without our veterans.
05:22Everything we have, everything our country has achieved,
05:25has been purchased by the muscle, spine, and steel of the United States military.
05:32We owe it all to the fierce and noble men and women of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force,
05:37Space Force, Coast Guard, and the United States Marines.
05:45Here's a guy.
05:47Our service members, our own words, are the greatest possible tribute to their immortal valor.
05:57Shortly before the Battle of Bull Run,
05:59Major Sullivan Ballou, of Rhode Island, became a big name, didn't he?
06:07Wrote to his dear wife, Sarah.
06:11He said,
06:12I know how great a debt we owe to those who went before us, he said.
06:17And I'm willing, perfectly willing, darling, to lay down all my joys of this life,
06:23to help maintain this government, and to pay that debt.
06:26And one week, just one week later, Major Ballou did just that.
06:33He gave his life to save our country.
06:35On the night before he jumped into the dark skies over Normandy on D-Day,
06:40Colonel Bull Wolverton knelt with his men in prayer.
06:44Dear God, he said,
06:45We ask only this, that we, if we die, we must die, and we as men would die without complaining,
06:56without pleading, and safe in the feeling that we have done our best for what we believed was right.
07:03We must do what is right.
07:06Colonel Wolverton, too, died for us so bravely in battle.
07:11Today we remember, with overwhelming gratitude, the more than one million American service members
07:17who have made the supreme sacrifice and laid down their lives for the good old USA.
07:24Generation after generation, America's warriors have left behind the comforts of home and family
07:31to face violence, evil, and death, so that our families could know joy, goodness, and peace.
07:38We honor them so strongly.
07:40Our heroes have lived through unthinkable nightmares so we could live the American dream.
07:47And the American dream is coming back again, stronger than ever before.
07:52And you'll see that as the next few years evolve.
07:58They have volunteered to give their last breaths to all of us so that we could breathe free.
08:05And today we know, without any doubt, in our hearts, that after two and a half centuries,
08:11America stands tall because America's veterans stood so strong.
08:18And soon our country will be stronger than ever before.
08:23The American veteran has forged a legacy of gallantry and daring without parallel in human history.
08:29In September 2009, Army Captain William Swenson was driving through the Afghan mountains
08:37when his convoy was ambushed by over 60 Taliban insurgents.
08:43He and his comrades were pinned down for hours without artillery or air support.
08:48A fellow soldier was shot in the chest and Captain Swenson crossed an open field to aid his brother in arms.
08:57People said, don't do it, Captain, don't do it.
08:59He did it.
09:01When the terrorists closed in around them and demanded their surrender,
09:04Captain Swenson threw a grenade at the enemy and rallied his men to break their advance.
09:10He then carried the wounded soldiers hundreds of yards to a rescue helicopter
09:16before charging back three times, back and forth, back and forth into the fire
09:21to save the wounded and bring them home.
09:26Even after seven hours of fighting, he refused to leave any man behind.
09:33Retired Lieutenant Colonel William Swenson is here with us in Arlington.
09:38And for his actions that day, he proudly wears the Congressional Medal of Honor.
09:46Colonel Swenson, thank you very much.
09:48Thank you very much, please.
09:53Thank you very much.
09:54Thank you very much.
10:08The ultimate honor.
10:13Another person who shows the medal of the American veteran is Dale Stovall.
10:19As an Air Force helicopter pilot in Vietnam, Captain Stovall was assigned to rescue a downed
10:25American airman deep in hostile territory.
10:28Despite the extreme peril, Captain Stovall took off in his HH-53C helicopter and soon came under intense fire,
10:38forcing him to turn back.
10:40But the captain refused to abandon his mission.
10:42The next day, he willingly plunged back into the danger while taking fire from all directions.
10:48He didn't have a chance, he felt.
10:50But he said, I got to do it.
10:52He rescued the downed American pilot who had been stranded on the ground for 23 days and brought him back home alive,
11:00completing the deepest rescue behind enemy lines in the entire Vietnam War.
11:06For this and 11 other harrowing rescues, he was a brave guy.
11:12Dale received the famous Air Force Cross and the Distinguished Flying Cross and two silver stars,
11:20making him the fourth most combat decorated Air Force Academy grad of all time.
11:26He retired as a brigadier general after 31 years of service.
11:30General Stovall, you are a legend.
11:33Please, thank you, General Stovall.
11:38Thank you very much.
11:47You look good, General.
11:49You look, I wish I looked that good.
11:53You look good.
11:55Thank you very much, General.
11:57America's warriors never quit, never surrender.
12:00They fight, fight, fight, and they win, win, win.
12:03That's what we do.
12:04We win battles.
12:06As you know, today is not only Veterans Day,
12:08but it's my proclamation that we are now going to be saying and calling Victory Day for World War I.
12:19Victory Day.
12:20You know, I was recently at an event and I saw France was celebrating Victory Day, but we didn't.
12:28And I saw France was celebrating another Victory Day for World War II and other countries were celebrating.
12:36They were all celebrating.
12:37We're the one that won the wars.
12:38And I said, from now on, we're going to say Victory Day for World War I and World War II.
12:46And we could do for plenty of other wars, but we'll start with those two.
12:51Maybe someday somebody else will add a couple of more because we want a lot of good ones.
12:55But when I see other countries celebrating Victory Day, I watched it.
13:00I watched UK.
13:02I watched Russia.
13:03They were celebrating Victory Day, World War II.
13:07And I said, we got to have a Victory Day.
13:09Nobody even talked about it in our country.
13:11But from now on, we're going to be celebrating Victory Day for World War I, for World War II,
13:18and frankly, for everything else.
13:20Under the Trump administration, we're restoring the pride and the winning spirit of the United States military.
13:27That's why we have officially renamed the Department of Defense back to the original name, Department of War.
13:37And remember, we won World War I.
13:40We won World War II.
13:42We won everything in between.
13:44We won everything that came before.
13:48And then we brilliantly decided to change the name of this great thing that we all created together.
13:58And we became politically correct.
14:00We don't like being politically correct.
14:02So we're not going to be politically correct anymore.
14:05From now on, when we fight a war, we only fight for one reason, to win.
14:11We fight to win.
14:12And under my leadership, we're also fighting for the great veterans who have always, always been there for us.
14:22And especially when we needed them and needed them most.
14:27In nine months, the Trump administration has cut the backlog of VA benefit claims in half.
14:34That's a big achievement.
14:36That's a big achievement.
14:37And Doug is going to get it down to zero during the Biden administration.
14:43The backlog exploded like we had never seen before.
14:47And I'm going to eliminate 100 percent of that backlog.
14:50We're moving at that pace.
14:52And already, we've processed more than three million backlog claims, the most of any year in the history of the VA.
14:59We've added more than one million extra service hours across the VA centers.
15:05And we've opened 20 new facilities in 13 states, something that people said just not possible to do.
15:13We also have brought back VA choice and VA accountability, taken away by the Biden administration, so that when you have to wait online, you go out and you get yourself a doctor.
15:26We pay for the doctor if you have to wait.
15:28And the other thing is we fired thousands of people who didn't take care of our great veterans.
15:36They were sadists.
15:38They were sick people.
15:39They were thieves.
15:40They were everything you want to name.
15:42And we got rid of over 9000 of them.
15:45And then when Biden came in, he hired them back, many of them.
15:49But we got rid of them.
15:50And I think we got rid of them permanently.
15:52We replaced them with people who love our veterans, not people who are sick people.
15:58We're also confronting the challenge of veterans homelessness.
16:02And earlier this year, I signed an order establishing the National Center for Warrior Independence to house up to 6000 veterans in need.
16:10And we will not stop until we have ended the tragedy of homeless veterans once and for all.
16:16I'd see in New York where people that came into our country illegally, they came in illegally would be put up in hotels and veterans would be sitting on the sidewalk outside of that hotel where these other people are put in.
16:33And many of the people that came in were put in from prisons, they were murderers, they were drug dealers, they were people that we didn't want in our country.
16:42They were staying in hotels, luxury hotels.
16:44And our veterans were sitting on the sidewalks watching them go in.
16:48And I said, that's never going to happen under this administration.
16:53I also signed the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act because no veterans should be kicked out of their home for what they call a late payment.
17:04It's not happening.
17:06And I'm pleased to report that since January, the veterans unemployment rate has fallen by more than 26 percent.
17:13That's amazing.
17:14I work hard on that.
17:17And I also want to give a very special thanks to all of the veteran service organizations that work so hard.
17:24They're all represented here today.
17:26But they work so hard on behalf of our great veterans.
17:29And one of the heroes who reminds us of why we fight for those who served in uniform is Army.
17:37Major and West Point grad Jonathan Turnbull.
17:40In 2019, Jonathan was conducting an operation in Syria when a suicide bomber approached and detonated his vest, leaving Jonathan gravely wounded.
17:52So, so badly wounded, they thought he had no chance.
17:57The injuries were so severe.
17:59The doctors gave him everybody.
18:02They just looked.
18:03They all cried.
18:04They knew him.
18:05They loved him.
18:06And they were just crying.
18:07They said, no chance.
18:09He was resuscitated three separate times and underwent, he underwent 22 surgeries.
18:18But he refused to give up.
18:19He wanted to live.
18:20He loved this country.
18:21He loved his family.
18:22He wanted to live.
18:23He was going through hell.
18:25I visited Jonathan and Walter Reed in 2020.
18:29Remembered so well.
18:30And today I'm delighted to say that Jonathan is not only alive, he is here with us, back at his feet and living a great life alongside his beautiful wife, Samantha, and their three incredible children.
18:46Jonathan, Samantha, please.
18:49God bless you.
18:50God bless you.
18:52Where are you?
18:54There he is.
18:56There he is.
18:57Beautiful.
18:58Thank you very much.
19:03You're a tough guy.
19:05You're a tough one.
19:07Nobody could have gone through what you went through.
19:09He's doing good, isn't he?
19:11Huh, Samantha?
19:12Thank you very much, both.
19:13And in conclusion, from the very beginning of our country, our great American flag has always been shielded and protected by a special cast of citizen who has stepped forward to safeguard liberty's cause.
19:28When danger came, when duty called, when almighty God asked who had the will and the strength to defend the land of the free, each and every American veteran stood up and said, here I am.
19:42They've come from every corner of this nation, from the cornfields of Iowa to the hills and valleys of California, from the steel towns of Pennsylvania to the vast plains of Texas, from the banks of the mighty Mississippi to the five boroughs of New York City.
20:04With selfless commitment and unyielding conviction, they made themselves America's ramparts and became the shield between our homeland and those who would do us harm with everything they had.
20:21They did one thing above all else.
20:24They put America first.
20:27On the decks of destroyers, beneath the thunder of cannon fire and the cockpits of our beautiful B-2 bombers, aren't they beautiful now?
20:38We respect them so much.
20:41What a job they did.
20:43That in an instant, completely obliterated Iran's nuclear capability, of which we have just ordered, I have to say, many more of the updated versions of that incredible,
20:57piece of art, piece of art.
21:00They defended the American Republic, dispensed American justice, crushed the enemies of freedom, and vanquished the forces of wickedness and evil.
21:11That's what we've been doing.
21:12Because of what every veteran has done today, the flame of liberty shines bright.
21:17The people of our nation sleep safe.
21:19The American dream surges forward, and our magnificent destiny stands more splendid and glorious than ever before.
21:29So I want to say thank you once again to every American veteran.
21:34You are very, very special people and always in our heart.
21:40Thank you very much.
21:42And God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
21:46Thank you very much.
21:46Thank you, everybody.
21:48Thank you very much.
21:57Thank you very much.
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