{"id":13536,"date":"2013-01-10T19:57:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-10T19:57:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T19:57:38","slug":"call_from_a_real_live_hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/10\/call_from_a_real_live_hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Call from a Real Live Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I want to go to Apple Valley, California. Larry, are you there? Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. I\u2019m honored that you took my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it says up here that you\u2019re a former SEAL, and I\u2019m honored that you\u2019re in the audience and that you called.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I wanted to tell you a couple things, if I may.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I won\u2019t waste any of your time. After losing my right leg and part of my right arm and fingers and disfigured on my face, I come to a country that, after lying in a bed at Walter Reed, I\u2019m lying there, and I\u2019m listening to the gentleman who was next to me. He was a lieutenant in the Army. He was all screwed up, too.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: When was this, Larry? When did this happen?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Seven months ago.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Seven months ago. Oh, wow. Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I did four tours in Iraq, four tours in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When did you suffer your injuries?<\/p>\n

CALLER: About eight months ago.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was in Ramstein in Germany for three weeks, and then Walter Reed, and now I\u2019ve been transferred out here closer to where my father lives in San Diego for rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you still in a medical facility or are you living with family?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m with my dad, and he does the best he can. You know, I can\u2019t drive or anything now. There\u2019s a lot of new things I have to learn, but the reason for my call today wasn\u2019t to whine about my issues. When I came back from that part of the world and trying to do the right thing and honor my commitment… I took the same oath of office as this president took, and apparently only one of us got it.<\/p>\n

I was next to many, many, many wonderful young men, certainly younger than me. I\u2019m 33 years old. The only thing I\u2019ve ever known as work in my life has been the Marine Corps and being a SEAL, and I thank God I had the opportunity to do so. But as you come out of this and you come out of all the medications they have in you, what they can\u2019t stop is the feeling that you are a different person now. A lot of things in your life have to change now.<\/p>\n

And when I read papers and I listen to you on the radio… It wasn\u2019t even my radio. It was my fellow ward person\u2019s radio, and I asked him to turn it up so I could hear it every day, and I\u2019m listening to you talk. And while I was giving up, you were propping me up, that there\u2019s somebody still left in this country who gives a damn. And for your work which you\u2019ve been doing for so many years — you call it “informing the uninformed.”<\/p>\n

There has to be something else that happens, Mr. Limbaugh, that will make people understand these issues. Why have elections if the only thing that people are going there for is themselves? They\u2019re not there to represent constituents. They\u2019re there to represent themselves. Get a seat on a committee and maybe you\u2019ll get to be a vice-chairman or a chairman. Until there are term limits put in place to where these people can\u2019t sit there for year after year after year…<\/p>\n

Where he comes out of a congressional district and the people can hold him absolutely accountable and have a recall opportunity like they did on the governor of Wisconsin. If they\u2019re not doing what the people want \u2019em to do, yank their asses out of there. And guess what? A lot of the things that you talk about every single day could be solved. As soon as the Nancy Pelosis and the Harry Reids — and it isn\u2019t only them.<\/p>\n

There are so many quiet ones like you were talking about earlier today, the Republicans who call themselves Republicans who are so weak they probably can\u2019t even spell “Republican.” They don\u2019t know about the values of the Republican Party; they don\u2019t know what conservatism is. I know. I took an oath of office. I understood what morality means. I understand more than that, Mr. Limbaugh. I understand honor.<\/p>\n

And, sir, you have a lot of honor for what you do. And I can tell you, in Washington and out here near San Diego where Apple Valley is, I listen to you every day. I listened to you before, and I don\u2019t think I completely got it. But I get it now. But you were there with me every day, every step of the way, and made me think about something other than myself. And for that, sir, I\u2019ll tell you: You are my hero.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me first thank you. I profoundly appreciate what you\u2019re saying, but I think the truth is that the reason that I still do this — and everybody else that\u2019s still committed to doing whatever it is they do that\u2019s oriented toward the same thing does it — is because there are people like you in the country still. I don\u2019t know that we\u2019ve reached the tipping point. Of the people who vote, we appear to have reached the tipping point.<\/p>\n

But we can maybe change the universe of people who vote. But it really is \u2019cause of people like you that I thank God for this country, not people like me. This isn\u2019t anything. I\u2019m sitting here talking for three hours. Look at you. I know we all have our roles, but still. You have every reason in the world to be ticked off and check out and be one of these people that thought only about yourself, but you obviously are not doing that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, sir, I\u2019m not willing to do it. (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughs) And thanks to you, now I\u2019m going to have to work and study and enroll back in school, and by God, I\u2019m gonna try to make it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, hang on just a second. We have to take a break here. I\u2019m really up against the clock. Just don\u2019t hang up. We\u2019ll be back here in just a second.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was Larry from Apple Valley, California. Where else, ladies and gentlemen, can you hear from real life heroes on the phone? You know, in the long-time past, Hollywood would be making movies about guys like Larry. Guys like Larry would be the kind of hero that kids would be reading about in school, the kind of heroes kids would learn about in movies. And, of course, you know, the media is not covering the wars anymore. Obama ended the wars. “Oh, yeah, those are Bush\u2019s wars!” They\u2019re not covering them anymore. The body counts have stopped and all that.<\/p>\n

But thank God for people like him in the country.<\/p>\n

Thank God we still have people like that.<\/p>\n

Honestly.<\/p>\n

Thank God we have people like that in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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