Wednesday, Nov 11: The Bells of Peace

Welcome back to the program. It's Veterans Day. We're broadcasting live from the Military Museum at Fort Rodman here in New Bedford. My guest, Bill the Bear, is the president of it. Bill, what's the bells that you're going to do here? Okay, we have the bells for peace. The bells for peace, at the end of World War I, when the armistice was signed, all of the bells in the United States rang. Okay, on the 100th anniversary, I attempted to get the whole city and everybody involved because they did the Bells for Peace. And I had a little bit of a problem, and it didn't go through, but every Armistice Day and Veterans Day, I ring the Bells for Peace. The bell is rung 21 times as in a 21-gun salute. And we do that. I'll be playing the end of World War I. And it's a very unusual situation because you hear the guns, and you hear at 11 o'clock the guns stop. And then listen just after that, and you'll be amazed what happens then. Okay, all right. We're broadcasting live from the Military Museum. We're going to take some phone calls here at 508-996-0500. Oh, he's going to ring them, right? He will be ringing the bells shortly. All the call is on hold. We will be getting to you shortly. Yeah, we'll be getting to you shortly. He's ringing the bells. Good day folks. I'm Bill Levinich, I'm the president of the Military Museum. And on this day, Armistice Day slash Veterans Day, today we celebrate two occasions, the signing of the armistice on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 that ended World War I, the Great War, the war that had all of us. We found that that didn't work. We continuously had wars, and this Armistice Day became Veterans Day, that all of the men men and women who selflessly volunteer to serve this great country I assume all that have gone before, and all that are serving now, and all that will serve in the future. I'd like to play a recording of the end of World War I, and then we'll be signing the bell 21 times as a ceremony for this. Moving bell. That was very moving. I appreciate it. Of course, we're broadcasting live here from the Military Museum. Producer Matt is with me as well. We're going to take a couple of calls here. 508-996-0500. Good morning. You're on the air. Good morning. Hey, Scotty, how are you? I'm a little emotional. That was really beautiful. Oh, my God. I figured I waited this long to get on, and now I'm crying. That's no good. That's good. Well, we appreciate that. Got to keep it together. Yeah. I'm just so thankful and grateful that you're doing this show. I love listening to it all morning. It gives us a voice. Good question, too. My husband, he was in Vietnam War. Bronze, bronze star medal. Very proud of that, Sergeant. It's funny, I just got some paper money. It's real military money. What is this about? Because like one of them is only 10 cents. And I'm like, are you kidding? And the size of this money is like smaller than, well, thinner than a credit card, but not as long as in a credit card. Very small, though. You know what I mean? I was wondering. Yes, that's called That is called military script, okay? Instead of using American dollars where they could be counterfeited, the military printed out what is called script and gave it to the soldiers to spend in the PXs and commissaries, and they would change it out every few months when the locals began to learn how to counterfeit it. So, yeah, that's called military script. If you do want to bring it in and donate it to the museum, we'd be happy to have it. Yeah, because I don't know what to do with it. I definitely want to bring it there. Bring it to the museum. Bring it on in on a Sunday afternoon when I'm here, and we will take it in. Yes, because I heard you telling that gentleman that you're there on Sundays. Thank you very much. And I just got to say that that's wonderful about you raising the flag and stuff like that. I think that's amazing. And another thing I wanted to ask you, I have this dog tag, and he's got these pewter, very heavy love, peace. There's a lot of things that we're not supposed to wear that we did. Right. I had a cross that my mom had gotten blessed downtown at the chapel. And she handed that to me, and she says, wear this until you get home. And it's still underneath my shirt. I got it. Yeah. It's still there. That's amazing. Yeah, I have his dog tag. I should give him to his nephew because he was really always very impressed and the closest to him. I still have them, but I don't have children to pass them on to. So, yeah, I just. But thank you for answering the question about the paper money. Yeah, it's a way to keep the locals from counterfeiting the money. Did they do that in Germany as well for you? A long time ago, they did it in Germany during the occupational time. But then they were using the mark. Okay. And again, we ran into a lot of situations where soldiers would go down to the local bank to cash their checks, and they'd get fake money. Really, $500 bills, even in the 70s. Yep, I mean, it's just something that happens. I mean, it was just counterfeiting is counterfeiting anywhere in the world. We're broadcasting here on Veterans Day. Thank you. Bye, Skeddy. That was a great question. We're broadcasting live from the Military Museum. Bill, the president, is here with us. Yes. That was a great question because a lot of people have that in their home. Their husbands, their wives, whatever. Military artifacts, right? Ration cards. Ration cards. And people can bring that stuff down here. Yes, they can bring anything down that they would like. We'll take a look at it. Some stuff, again, we don't have a library, so we can't take a lot of books in. But some books about, like, naval trips and things of that nature, they have journals that they have. We do bring them in. We have all kinds of stuff all over this museum that people go, where did that come from? We have a picture, we have a poster from the Baader-Meinhof gang. They were terrorists in the 70s. Right. In Germany. Yep, yep. They were right around where we were. They were bad people. Yep. Communist, East German-sponsored. They did kidnappings, murders, bombings. Mm-hmm. Yep. So we have all of this stuff in the museum. It's just like people come in and go... I remember that, you know. And you have quite a weapons room. Yes, we do. I was just over there. Johnny Seabee brought me over there. He built a lot of those cabinets, he was telling me. And you have a very interesting air rifle over there. Right. We have an air rifle. It's on loan to us. And I'm trying to get it as to be permanent with the museum. But it's on loan as of the moment. It is an air rifle, a Garandani, which was actually, if I'm not mistaken, an Austrian weapon. It was used back in the Napoleonic Wars. And we also was used by Lewis and Clark with their expedition across the country. They used that due to the fact is that it was silent. It was just like a popping noise and no smoke. Now that weapon fired as hard as the black powder rifles they carried. And they could fire 22 shots without stopping, just flip it over and fire. The canister of air lasted for 40 shots and they usually carried three canisters. Now, it intimidated the Native Americans because it was as quiet as their bow and arrow. Right. And there was no smoke. It's quite a display case back there. What was the nickname? Oh, well, that would be helpful. The silence of the Indians had a nickname for it. All I know is that they didn't like it. Silent death. They were scared. They were scared the hell of it. Yeah. And they said, we got 28 more of us. There were 28 more rifles, but they only had one. And the Indians just said, well, that's it. Okay. We're broadcasting live from the Military Museum. Why don't we take a break now, Matt? We're right here. Come on down. We're happy to have you. This portion of programming on WBSN is brought to you by D's Hot Dogs in New Bedford, where you can get two hot dogs, chips, and a soda for just six bucks. South Coast Now with Chris McCarthy, weekdays on 1420 a.m. and 99.5 FM, WBSN. Welcome back. We're broadcasting here on Veterans Day live from the Military Museum. I think we're going to make this a tradition. You know, it should be a tradition having your Christmas party at Rose Alley Alehouse. Let me give you a little piece of advice. Your employees and your best customers, you know what they want for Christmas? They want an open bar party this Christmas. So throw them a company holiday party at Rose Alley Alehouse. It's very simple. Talk to Riley at Rose Alley Alehouse. Tell her you want to have an open bar party this Christmas at Rose Alley Alehouse. We're broadcasting live. From the military museum. Bill the Bear is the president of it. But so. So, Bill, that room in the back with all the rifles, all the machine guns, what are some of the really classic weapons that are back there? Well, like you mentioned before, we have a BAR. Running automatic rifle. Yes. And actually it was a World War I issue, and that's why it's in the World War I section. We have M1, we have the M1 carbine. We have the 1903 A3. We have... MG-42, we've got all kinds of weapons back there. We have a Vickers machine gun and all of these different items. Again, most of them have been donated to the museum, you know, and from people's collections. And that's how we do it. So they're all inert, no worries about any of that. Thank you for that. But they're all displayed so marvelously back there. Are there some foreign weapons back there, too? Yes, we have German, we have Italian, we have Russian, we have English. We have almost every major military group. We have French, everybody from World War I all the way up through present day. The French ones are interesting because they've never been fired and only dropped once, right? Nah, we can't say that. That's not nice. It is not nice. But, you know, they're a NATO ally. We love them. Yeah, except when they throw us out. So maybe we don't love them. They added to a lot to your workload, didn't they? Yes. Well, actually, the chemical weapons that I worked with were actually originally in France. And when they said that they needed all of Americans out of France, that's when they moved over into Germany, and that's where they ended up, on the top of a mountain that they flattened off and built bunkers on. And that's where they stayed. Now, the bunkers are going to stay there open. They'll stay there for 40 years under the agreement with Russia, because it used to be Soviet Union. But it's an agreement with them about them standing as we moved all the rounds out. The rounds went all the way out to... The South Pacific to a little place called Johnston Atoll. Bill, you worked with live chemical weapons. That's a dangerous business. Walking across the street is dangerous, especially in New Bedford. Thank you, Alfred. No, but, I mean, you worked with a lot of very volatile... Yes, like, you know, how would people, how do you say, the ones we had in Germany were the best in the world. Okay. Okay, they were the most upkept and everything else. Yes, we did have a few leakers. Happens. But we had the protective equipment to go in. We had the equipment to test the bunker before we went in to make sure we didn't have any problems inside. So there was all these different things that went on. I mean, safety was a priority. Never one person in the bunker. And that's one of the things I keep. I never want one person in the museum. Because you never know what's going to happen. Right. Yeah, sometimes I'll be in here by myself, but I don't like, you know, the doors open and one person. It just bothers me. Yep. So, again, it's just a force of habit. Bill, what were some of the items that you worked with, some of the substances in the chemical? Well, we had 155-millimeter sarin rounds, which is... Sarin gas? Sarin gas, yes. Everybody's, oh, it evaporates as fast as... Water. No, it evaporates as fast as alcohol because I've had some on my gloves. Okay. And the other one was VX. Now, VX is the only one that was not manufactured by the Germans. Farben is the one who started all of these weapons. They all started out as insecticides. Okay. But VX is a sarin you'd fire off, and it'd pop on the ground, and it'd turn into a gas and just... Evaporate, and people would breathe it in. VX is an aerial denial weapon. You put it up, pop it up in the air, and it rained down. It's like old, dirty motor oil. It doesn't go away. But when you put your hand on it, a size of a head of a pin hits your skin. It goes right through your skin and kills you. That's some crazy stuff. And you guys had that in Germany to try to hopefully slow down the Russians? Yes, they were there because there's a doctrine. If you use atomic weapons against us, we'll use atomic weapons against you. If you use chemical weapons, we'll use chemical weapons against you. If you use biological weapons, we'll use atomic weapons against you. Because in 1969, we stopped the unilaterally stopped doing any research or anything on biological weapons as a weapon, not as a defense. OK. And I know the gentleman used to run that program. So, Bill, you're here on Sundays. Mostly on Sundays, yes. And you're looking for people to bring down artifacts in their home. And particularly, if you're in the business of cleaning out homes, garages, sheds, things like that, and you come across military items, you want people to bring them down, right? Yes, and especially if you do a clean-out, please take the address down. If you see anything with a name on it, please bring that down, too, so we have some reference. I still have two pictures here. That I received back, I think, back during COVID. And it's a guy in a uniform, a Navy uniform, and another gentleman. We still haven't found out who they were. They were brought in, and they were just sat on the desk, and the people left. We found it in a clean-out. And I was like, I was on Channel 10 and everything else about these, and still haven't found out who they are. Bill, what about photographs? Photographs, we love them, because if you look around the museum, the whole museum is photographs. Yes. I always tell people, yes, it's a military museum, but it's not all about the guns and bombs. It's about the people who served. Yes. If you want to bring a photograph of one of your relatives or, you know, all of yourself, because mine's in here already. Five by seven. Okay, please, because as anybody who comes in, you'll notice we're running out of room. Boom. Is there thoughts of an expansion? I remember Scott Lang was in here one day on a thing, and because we have all this area where even the grass is, and he was out there in the rain pacing it out to see how much money we can add to the building. I thought it was hilarious. I'm like, what are you doing? He goes, well, you know, you can add this much here and that much there. And I'm like, okay. But he's the one who got us the new addition. Yeah, Scott's. Yep, and so it's like I was just laughing. I mean, he's out there in the rain. And everybody's looking out the window going, what is he doing? And he's pacing off the distance. He's a can-do guy. Oh, yeah. CBs. There's only one CB uniform in this building, I understand. Yes, sir. Like I said, that used to be the library over there, and they took all the library books out, and they said, John, can you go in there? We're going to build shelves. It has to match everything else, display cases. And I did it with honor. I beat an United States Navy CV. Our motto is can do. And I did it. I did it with pride, and I love it. And I look in there, and I see all the weapons in there because it was just empty cases when I left. Well, no, it is. Now to see it all filled up, I'm like, wow. It's fantastic. How many weapons do you have here, roughly? Over 100. Over 100. Yeah, I couldn't tell you off the top of my head. But you're a collector of them, too. Oh, yes, I have. I have a couple at home. Nobody has just one gun. That's like potato chips. For me, it's safes. We're broadcasting live from the Military Museum. It's Veterans Day. I'm really enjoying this. If you've never been here, you've got to come down. You can spend days upon days, really, down here. And uniquely, they have the pictures and a Medal of Honor. One of the nine local recipients over... Since the Civil War, right? Yes. The Medal of Honor came out at the Civil War. And it was the Navy first. Was it really? Yes, the Navy did the Medal of Honor first. And then the Army took it on after. And then after the Air Force split from the Army, they took it on. And the Marines. And the thing is, everybody comes down and we have our flags out front now. Because I got brackets so we could put actually the military flags out front. And it goes Army, Marines, Navy. And it goes, oh no, it's Navy next. They disbanded the Navy after the Revolutionary War, but never disbanded the Marines. So the Marines now have precedence. And yesterday was their birthday. They were. They were. I had Dan LeBlanc on because he's in the Marine Commandant's annual address to the nation and to the Marines. It's quite an honor to have Dan LeBlanc. And you were with Dan LeBlanc. You know, Bill, you were telling me there's only one school now in New Bedford that we know of anyway that does anything. Talk about that. Okay, yesterday I was honored to be able to go to the Roosevelt Middle School. When I went, it was junior high school. That's cool. And they do a program every year about the veterans, okay? Okay. Mr. Nolan and I think Ms. Riley, I'm sorry, I'm terrible with names, okay? But again, they put it on every year, and the school puts it on. We have a new principal, and he was fantastic working with it, and they do it every year. Yesterday's attendance by the veterans was huge. Really? Yes. That's great to see. And they do it, and I really am thankful for them because it shows the younger people. You know, I was at the Rev 250 group. And I was talking, I couldn't get it done because of illness, but I wanted to have the reading of the Declaration of Independence here. But all I wanted is young people, scouts, students, things of that nature. And they says, well, why do you want that? And I says, look around this room. We're all aging out. I says, who's younger than 30 in here? And nobody could say. I says, we need the young people. We have young people who will be here later on. One of the young men, he just started high school. We've had young people starting in the seventh grade and then all the way to they left high school and went off to college. You have the Boy Scouts here regularly, right? Well, every year when it comes up voting time, the scouts at Smith Mills, their scout area becomes a... voting area. Okay. And behind the fire station. Yep. So they have no place to meet. So one day they contacted one of our volunteers. He's not here right now anymore. But Manny Bogasso, who's with the Narragansett Council, says, hey, could they meet this? Yeah, no problem. Right. And we open it up in the evening. And they come in and they do things for the Dartmouth veterans. This year they took the stars off the deactivated flags. and they put them in a bag with a note from one of the scouts and they handed it out on with handing it out today so i i any scout troop that wants to come down anything of that nature we'd love to have the young people here i know that also i was with Dan LeBlanc yesterday and Dan was telling me he'd been at FreeTown Elementary School they're still doing veterans stuff out there And again, that's just a good sign. As the mayor said, young people have to see how you treat the men and women who serve in the military so that they may one day will hopefully stand up for the country. You know, we should have a recruiter here to sign up for do some math. Really, right? Give them a couple of drinks. Shanghai. Think about Army, Marines, Air Force. Marines would be the best. Yeah, absolutely. Seabees. You can be you can end up in the Seabees. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'll think about it. That's more of a lover than a fighter, I think. We build, we fight. And a rifle. 508-996-0500. That's how you can get through to the program here. We're broadcasting live at the Military Museum. So, Bill, not to put you on the spot, but we've been doing it all morning. Good morning. What's the future of this museum, do you believe? Oh, I hope that it continues on until long after I'm gone. Yes, and we don't think that's going to be for a while. Well, let's hope not. What is the, in other words, you want new blood to come down. There's plenty of people out there with veterans or an appreciation for the military history of this region. How do they get more involved? Well, I mean, they can come down usually on a Sunday because that's, again, when I'm here and the curator's here. Sunday is what we call the work day, because that's when we build displays and do this. Like Paul Sousa was here a few minutes ago. He's the one who puts together the monthly display that's in that case over there. Okay. Okay, and he gets with the, a lot of time, most of the time with the young people, the high schoolers, and they sit around and figure out what are we going to do this month. Right. Well, what's going on this month? And they figure out what's going on, and they do the case for it. This month is Veterans Day, so they did it all on veterans. It's a beautiful case. And we lit it. We make it so that everybody can see it. I want to get young people in here. I want to get young people interested. We've been having a great luck with Bridgewater University. Okay. We get interns. We have a gentleman right now who's an intern. We've had since I'm going back almost 2020, we've had an intern from Bridgewater every semester. Okay. Sometimes we have two. Really? And they're great because, yes, I can use the computer. I'm computer literate but some stuff I sit there and go and stare at the thing going look like a German shepherd sometimes you know and so uh but they get in there because we use a thing called past perfect all right which is the same thing that the uh Smithsonian uses to bring in all of our stuff and document it so these are some of the things that you know we need young people Like, I got Venmo working, could never get Cash App working. But you got Venmo working now. Yeah, Venmo's working down here. If you want to donate by Venmo, because everybody's like, you don't have Venmo? I'll have to figure that one out. You got a YouTube channel, though. We have a YouTube channel. We put all of our speakers on YouTube. Certain things, like when we sponsored the city's Purple Heart City Dedication. Yes. Talk about that, Bill. Well, we were asked, Bob Bromley, again, is part of the VAB, the Veterans Affairs Advisory Board. Yep. When we were going to have, when they were going to put it up, I'm like, there's no better place. I says, where else are you going to put that? Explain what being a Purple Heart designated city means. Well, a Purple Heart designated city is a city that, you know, takes care of its veterans. These are for the people who have had Purple Hearts. Our veterans representative here in the veteran service officer. It's Chris Combs, who is, he's got one. Again, so we put it all out. We got it done. Just about every year now, we do the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Day, and we do it down here. We've done, we help out when we're doing the Exercise Tiger. The problem with the Exercise, they're all gone. Explain what Exercise Tiger is. Exercise Tiger was an exercise just prior, the month, just about a month, two months before D-Day. And what happened was, is they had five landing ship tanks that slapped in Slapton Sands in England because the beaches were pretty much like Omaha Beach. OK, and they went in and they got attacked by German e-boats, which are torpedo boats. Two of them were sank. One of them was severely damaged. 749 service members lost their lives, not even in combat. But we learned a lot of things from it, which was. It was tough. It was a tough learning of things because they found out that the life jackets would actually turn the soldiers over in the water upside down and drown. So it's something. War is hell. Getting ready for it can be hell as well. We're going to take a break. We'll be back. It's Veterans Day. We're broadcasting live from the Military Museum. Give us a call at 508-996-0500. Back to Chris McCarthy and South Coast now on WBSN. Call 508-996-0500. Welcome back. It's Veterans Day. We're broadcasting live from the Military Museum. It's a beautiful day to make an appointment to get your car repaired. Winterized at Mac Auto Sales, located right in the south end of New Bedford on Rivet Streets. 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It's a very specific uniform from a specific soldier, a sailor, a marine. Again, we have to take a look at the uniforms. Right. Like I said, we had one uniform come in that we didn't even know anything about and come to find out it was Milton Silvius. Yes. So again, it's, you know, everything has their own frame of reference. Right. And we have to look at each individual one. What about if somebody has silver stars, bronze stars, awards like that? There's a lot in the community. We try to bring them in, okay? Again, a lot of that stuff I'd like to see passed down to the family because that's their family heritage. Right. But if there's nobody else, we'll try to bring them in, try to be able to place them some places. We have stuff here that have been brought in. We had a card. It looks almost like a business card. It was one of the cards that General Patton had printed out just before the Battle of the Bulge, asking for good weather to kill the Nazis. And you have that? We have a prayer card, yes, we do. It's an original one, and you can see that the gentleman carried it in his wallet for many, many years. You know when you put a business card in your thing and it gets frayed on the end? Yeah. It gets frayed on the end. One side is the prayer, and one side is the Christmas greeting. Bill. We have a lot of, let's call them fresh veterans, people who've been in the war on terrorism, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places. We'll have some from the Iran now. How active is that community? Well, we have a good relationship with the, I think it's VCC, the Bristol Community College's veterans. Center. Okay. And they've come down and they've had a town hall talk here. I invited them down and they were like, oh, there isn't really much of a better place to have it than there. Right. So they came down and did one here. They invite me to a lot of things that can't get to most of them. But we keep in contact. We actually have the veterans representative from Bristol Community College's uniform around the corner. Oh, nice. Right. And all of his stuff. So we have a lot of different. We have a lot of different things that we get here. I mean, we're starting to come in. We have a global war on terror. However, Cases already started. So we're continuously moving. We're buying new cases when we can afford them. Because most of the cases, the gray ones you see around, came off of, hey, that jewelry store is closing. Let's go grab cases. Okay. Yeah. Now we're getting some nice glass cases. I was able to find them at a cheaper price than what some places run. Oh, a museum case, that's $5,000. And I'm like, huh, I found them a lot cheaper. All right. So, again, things of that nature. So we're slowly putting in new cases. It's an ongoing project. I would love to see more people come in. And you don't have to be a veteran. Right. That's very important. You don't have to be an old fart like me. You can be young. We love kids. We love high schoolers. I have a young lady here. She started in seventh grade from Bishop Stang. Oh, nice. And she's not even from New Bedford. She's from Fall River. Sure. But she loves it down here. And anything you ask, Zoom, the kids get it done. And, Bill, this is a 501c3, so all corporate donations are accepted, and they are tax-deductible. If someone wants to make a donation, they got all the paperwork here for you. It is tax-deductible, and you certainly could use more corporate sponsorships. There's no doubt about that, Bill. Yeah, we could. There's no doubt about that. I mean, how would I say this? A couple of places that we put in for grants, one of them gave us a grant many years ago. And then found out that we're a military museum and says, don't ever darken our door again. Really? Yeah. We don't believe in the military. Well, those people are out there. Yeah. Those people are out there. But we've got a lot of great patriots. Oh, we do. In the corporate community that I think would love to be part of this. It's a boot blower, sir. Yeah, I know. I know. That's to put it right, yeah. Yeah. That's so the bugs don't crawl up on your poop. But again, we're trying to really get more corporate. Like, we have Udon Crane, who does fantastic work for us. Anytime I get a thing that's heavy lifting, I give them a call. Yeah. We got the mural of the 212 Field Artillery from their route from D-Day, well, their landing on Normandy, all the way to the end of war. And we got it back from Northeast Documents. It was so heavy that I'm listening to you. We're not going to be able to lift that. Okay. Call Dennis. He's right down. He'll get up for us. And how do people get in touch with you, Bill? Well, they can call here at the museum or contact me on info at forttabor.org. It's forttabor, all small letters, all one word, .org. That's the email for this. And, uh, that's about the easiest way. All right. Perfect. We're on Facebook and we'll be right back. Stick around. It's Veterans Day. We're at the military museum. welcome back to the program it is veterans day we've been broadcasting all morning long from the veterans museum here at fort rodman in the south end of new bedford uh what a marvelous place this is we have a lot of great people who served in the military honorably um and their their memories live on down here by the way one of the most American holidays is of course Thanksgiving. And we here at WBSM want to help local families celebrate together with our Hunger Heroes food drop. For 34 years now, we've been collecting food to benefit the United Way of Greater New Bedford's Hunger Heroes Project. This year, you can help a local family celebrate an American Thanksgiving. Join us at Aldi's in Dartmouth on Saturday, November 14th from 10 till Until noon. Donate the necessary Thanksgiving items. You can find all the details at WBSM.com. Hunger Heroes Food Drop is made possible by our friends at Carefree Homes and Aaron's Pools and Spas. Again, Aaron's Pools and Spas and Carefree Homes. Those two great American companies make the Hunger Heroes Food Drop possible this year. So, we're going to be leaving here, but you can stick around for Barry Richard, and after that, the great Howie Carr. I'll be back tomorrow, God willing. Matt will be on Fun 107. And I want to thank everybody here at the Military Museum. Hoorah, right? All right, guys, have a great Veterans Day. Have a great Veterans Day.