 How's everybody today? We've got visitors. Don't we anyone? We have sure do. We have one more coming in And this is Memorial Day weekend in the United States So we thought we'd celebrate by talking about the Medal of Honor winners that we have on wiki tree And if we have time we're gonna fit in the role of honor as well But we brought guests this time hey when I thought we'd do something a little different There's there and we thought we'd do something just a little bit different and instead of inviting a project leader per se We invited fellow wiki-triers that have been in the military So let me without further ado introduce our esteemed guests here We've got Aaron Aaron you can wave and as we do that Aaron was in the Navy And just a door the little dress on your daughter So cute and that's also your husband right on the top. Yes in the blue And then we have and and was in the army And it's not way in the same force to right was that you're gonna sing as well And it was in the army and these are pictures of the I love the former one But I always love you guys and camos too because it's that shows you're probably day in day out You guys were hard workers with that and then we have Mike and there's only one picture in this entire world of Mike as a Marine cameras And for those that you might not know Mike is my husband So we've got our esteemed guests here for bingo and welcome guys Welcome Thank you So what we're gonna What we're gonna do is we're gonna showcase the medal of honor winners So I asked each of you three to pick one that you wanted to discuss That's one wiki tree a when this gave us a little bit of a bonus too because they had to go and freshen up the profiles So we put them to work just a little bit hey guys, I have the first bingo card listed I'm going to list it put it up on the chat one more time. Y'all get your cards ready and Erin we're gonna go probably with yours first. So let me see if I can pull this up. Give me just a second because Obviously I prepared for bingo and not for The medal of honor winners and you were gonna go with Oscar Palmer, Austin, correct? Yes. There we go All right, it's a little bit. Why'd you pick him and who is he and what then tell us about him? So Oscar Austin was a marine. He was killed in Vietnam and I chose him because I actually served on the destroyer that was named for him DDG 79 Sorry, sorry. I got the wrong one Hey and His mother and his aunt were actually our ship sponsors Oh, really? It was really amazing to be able to meet them and to hear about him While I was on I believe it was 2009 or 2010 He had a nephew who grew up hearing the stories of you know what he did and that he was a medal of honor winner and he actually became a Rise through the ranks and was an army general and so he came on board and we had a big ceremony And he got to meet the crew. It was really really amazing. Oh wow, and I even have my oh That's cool. Oscar. Austin. This is my actual ball cap that I wore on the ship, which is why it's all ratty But this was our working uniform. Oh Really? So they had was he wore the hat because it was the name of the ship as well So that was a part of your uniform Yeah, and we sort of Honor him every day even the the call sign of the ship was Nagadotius, which is where he's from and we sort of Honor his legacy with the ship and It's a destroyer is support for a carrier, but they can also steam on their own So all the missions that we do are kind of in his honor. Oh, that's kind of cool And I will also echo Patty's words. Thank you all three of you for your service as we celebrate to this Memorial Day weekend That was that was pretty cool that you how long did you serve on the ship? Five years Wow, and that's where I earned my sailor of the year Wow. Well, that's amazing. Congrats on that too. That's amazing. Um, I I'm going to say no Carol because I think Well, maybe not I don't know as have any of you been stationed on Okinawa or Korea Mike, I know your dad was in Okinawa Yeah, he was in Okinawa between Coming in and out of Vietnam. I Went for a bunch of exercises over and over years in Korea. So we we spent a lot of time both in the US Doing a home station work and then going to Korea to do the exercises and then before coming home So I did spend quite a bit of time there And Erin were you ever at China Lake? I was not the I was mostly west coast Western Pacific and then the Oscar Austin is stationed out of Norfolk And that's where I met my husband and retired That's pretty cool. Okay, let's move on to Ann. Ann has an extremely Interesting medal of honor winner this one. She educated me on probably about a year ago almost now but if you will describe Dr. Walker for us. She is a character so Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is the first and only Female recipient of the medal honor of honor She was one of the first cohort of people to get it. So the standards were a little bit different than they are today. So What she did might not seem like it matches like what one of the more modern recipients has done but She she was also the second female physician in in the United States and she Was actually a contract surgeon. So she Couldn't it couldn't become a military officer in the United States under the standards of the day But she wanted to volunteer anyway. She was brought up as an abolitionist So it was something that was it was very central to her like So she that bull run and chikamunga and she was captured by the Confederacy and was a prisoner of war and one of their prisoner of war camps and you may or may not have heard about how horrible some of the prisoner of war camps during that war were but they were they were absolutely terrible and Caused her a lifelong problem with it with her eyes with her vision and So she was it ordered it for service services rendered. She's one of a very a handful of civilians ever ordered it and She lived until 1919 1917 she and 915 or 916 other recipients had their medals rescinded They it Bunch of a bunch of different reasons, but they changed the standards and decided that that they shouldn't have that anymore But she continued to wear her medal Openly every day for the rest of her life after it was rescinded and then 60 years later in 1977 President Carter restored her her medal on her. So she's still on the list of recipients now I could not know that we had Women so many women in prisoner camps in the Civil War. So that was enlightening to me as well I did they just kind of threw her in there Yep, and she and they they designated her as the physician did it care for all the other female prisoners While she while she was in the prisoner of war camp, which was I believe on her citation It did it what else is interested? She died in 1919 and as those of you that are kind of older like me I I was I guess in elementary going middle school Maybe when Carter was there that is a long time afterwards that he restored her medal of honor Yeah, 60 years. I mean now that's amazing up and we have Joku and see the bingo mug We love the bingo run Okay, Mike you ready to talk about yours Let me bring yours up. If you give me just a second here. Let me get the link for everybody and Mike is going to talk about Dan Daly Yeah, Dan in the in Marine Corps boot camp as you learn Marine Corps history Which is part of which you have to do to be a good Marine They always teach us about three Marines chesty polar Of course, he's a lake the legendary Marine when five Navy crosses but Dan Daly and Smedley Butler are Marines who have won two congressional medals of honor and Dan Daly actually is one of the rare guys where he actually did not receive his second medal of honor posthumously So he got his first one during the Boxer Rebellion in China where he's single hand single handedly fought off a boxer attack and then he got his other one serving in the Hit war in Asia Haiti and then in World War one he really cemented himself as a legend in the Marine Corps During the battle of bellow wood when the Marines were going up against the Germans The Marines had been training with the Enfield 03 rifles to shoot to 500 yards. So when the Germans attacked They were hitting them before the Germans got in range, but the Germans kept coming and when it became time for hand-to-hand combat He stood up yell to his men and I'm gonna clean this up. So yeah Come on you so bees Do you want to live forever and they charge the Germans and the Germans after the battle Said it was like fighting devil dogs or toys will honed and that's how the Marine Corps got the nickname devil dogs so That's really so how many how many went to Do that initial charge Men they were outnumbered by the Germans So but when they attacked the Germans just like him The the counter-attack was so fierce the Germans just were almost convinced they were outnumbered retreated And interestingly after after he retired from Marine Corps He hit let a simple life as I if I remember correctly as like a postman No didn't seek out Deloitte or anything like that Those are the problems. Yep Let me show you guys too. We created a little slide based on the Medal of Honor And I'm good because we've got a couple people just now coming in so I just dropped the bingo card again get your bingo card up and Let me show you a little presentation on the Medal of Honor for those of you that might not know This is pretty much the United States highest honor that you can receive From the military, you know, I say bravery, but it takes something as well as bravery It takes this this in or something to get a Medal of Honor that these are the different medals that a Medal of Honor, excuse me medals for the different services that we have and They come from being exceptional in combat and this was kind of interesting too So Abraham Lincoln established it a lot of people I think don't know that this was established for Civil War And that's why I was thrilled that and picked Dr. Walker because that is kind of the start of our Medal of Honor And it's been earned through every major conflict in our history Can I share one interesting little quick story? Sure something people may not realize Who haven't been to military if you're a Medal of Honor winner and you walk into a room And you could be a private Everybody of a rank in that room all the way up to a five-star general has to salute you So Audie Murphy who we all know from World War II is like one of the most decorated persons ever Was on a movie set when a general went to visit him and the general walked up said hi And he just stood there and stared at him and finally the general saluted him and then he would talk to him. Oh So Audie wouldn't talk to the general till he recognized it with respect. Yeah Enter us it so we have over 3500 individuals that have been awarded this since the Civil War's and the criteria is really going above and beyond the call of duty Our president is the one who actually awards it and I will have three that I'm going to showcase real quick as well So Desmond Doss was a conscientious objector, but he saved 75 lives during the Battle of Okinawa Is we're talking about that and then Alvin York is someone really dear to me As a World War I hero who captured 132 soldiers almost everybody knows Alvin York story with the military There's been movie almost everybody knows that but what most people do not know that was when he came home Everybody wanted him to talk about his war experiences and he did not he did not want to have anything to do with it Not because he was tired of it or embarrassed of it or just didn't want to discuss it The reason why is he took every bit of notoriety that he had To give back to his home state of Tennessee and nearby Appalachian areas to try and educate kids and poor kids Throughout the depression he spent every last time he had giving to his foundation to do that So for us in the Appalachians We know him probably a little bit better for what he did after his service Then as much as beforehand and we talked about Audie Murphy Definitely check out Audie's a profile wiki tree. It is fantastic I give lots of kudos and benefit to the people that have worked on his profile It's amazing and Audie is just an amazing character too because he did have this whole second life after He left the war. He you know, like Mike said he had this huge movie career And and he wasn't a big man at all The the tendency is to think that that people who've received such an honor will be larger than life, but he was actually Very not a tall man very slender. So Larger than life definitely didn't it didn't reflect physically for him. Yeah, and interestingly in the movie they made about him in World War two He played himself Oh I don't think I knew that One thing you mentioned earlier that there have been over over 3,500 awards Received but there's only 65 medal non-recipients alive and that's because partially because so many are posthumous Oh, that's interesting too. We were talking about that yesterday actually with mic stad mic stad is A retired from marine corps as well. We were talking about The purple heart. Do you automatically get a purple heart? Um, you know if you're alive or not and you know, there was a debate over people were saying purple heart's only for the living but not Not entirely true And that that we'll talk about a little bit more with the role of honor as well So I just wanted to point out this is the these are the medals and You can see the totals Listed for each branch The postcard had two one. Excuse me one In the air force 19, I would have thought the air force would have had a little bit more But again, I think what they're doing is back When they were combined the army air force were kind of one unit. So some of those army might be Air force as well Yeah, the air force wasn't a separate force until after world war two. So That really affected the numbers Hey, this is cool. So Taylor's bonus son is named already Murphy. That is so That is very very cool Okay, you guys ready for some bingo. Let me let me get the bingo set up here And we will talk bingo bingo will go pretty quick because we have some other files That we want to show you on wiki tree. We have some other stories to share with you as well We ain't get to know our three wiki trees here Hey sandy Sandy, yes, I was just gonna throw out there that we do have a profile for the one coast guard or something Oh, you do. Yeah Who is it anyway? His name is Douglas Albert Monroe And what did he do? That's canadian. Let's see. Um Well for one he was killed in action On a higgins boat at the guadalcanal at the Solomon Islands during the second battle of the I'm gonna butcher that metanacal metan Metanacal by the metanacal It says for extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry in action above and beyond the call of duty as petty officer in charge of a group of 24 Higgins boats engaged in the evacuation of a battalion of marines trapped by enemy japanese forces at the guadalcanal After making preliminary plans for the evacuation of nearly 500 beleaguered marines Monroe under constant strafing by enemy machine guns on the island and at great risk of his life Daringly led five of his small craft towards the shore As he closed the beach he signaled the others to land and then in order to draw the enemy's fire and protect the heavily Loaded boats he valiantly placed his craft with its two small guns as a shield between the beach head and the japanese Wow When the perilous task of evacuation was nearly completed Monroe was instantly killed by enemy fire But his crew two of whom were wounded carried on until the last boat had loaded and cleared the beach how he put his his Wow right in between to protect wow What year was this? uh 1942 yeah That's pretty impressive if that doesn't call for a metal liner I don't know what That's pretty impressive. So he knew It is kind of like a ship kamikaze. He knew he wasn't going to make it and he still did it. Yep That's amazing. I'm so glad you found that Okay, you guys ready for bingo learning to explain the rules So for bingo you can get a horizontal vertical diagonal I do not believe there are free spaces in these today There might be but if there is go ahead and click on that now And if you have won bingo at all With wiki tree since we started this you're not eligible for the prize yet next month It does start to roll over. It'll be six months. Can you believe it anyone six months? No Just like that and and I will tell you guys we all started this because um, we were kind of addicted to bingo during wiki tree day so So that's how it kind of started So remember click on each one. This will go fairly quickly. They're they're pretty easy to do if you win Then we will show you or how to get a prize. Ms. Ewan will be the one that's awarding that prize out to you guys It's up to a 30 dollar value for some cool wiki tree branded information like joku just got the uh mug I love the mug and I sorry. I don't have my mug with me today And you guys ready? Let's go the first person who gets bingo is the first person who types it in the chat So the first word is remember and that's appropriate for this weekend because for us here in the united states Memorial Day weekend is the day that we remember. I'm sure a lot of you have gone through your downtowns and a lot of crosses flags with the Members names are on there. I know in our downtown they have them I think what they would they have mike. I think they had over a thousand this year Yeah and this is also a time that people go to national cemeteries as well to decorate in air forces one of our militaries And then of course the marines And I will point out a couple things. So the army are called soldiers The air force are called airmen. I don't know if they call air person air woman air But airman the marines and the navy marines called marines and navies called sailors A salute now. I'll ask annan erin are you guys Is pretty neurotic about your salute so much so that when you're watching movies You instantly know who's which actor is doing it poorly It sticks out like a sore thumb In general presidents are the worst It's true Because I know mike will see a movie because that's what I'll see I'll see you this with the thumb down Well, that's why she says If I yell at the screen drop and give me 50 Hero and that's really what we're talking about. It's really these meadow of our winners They have something in them that just I think it Is in them naturally but at the spur of the moment at that moment They become a hero that probably even surprises themselves sometimes Yeah, um, I meant to say with oscar austin. I got so excited talking about the boat He left cover. Um, there was a marine that was injured and he went to go get them And on his way to get them he actually went on a grenade because It was going to hit both of them and he knew that he was Going to be able to block the other guys injuries And I mean that just is amazing that that is someone who at that moment Makes that decision and knows they're not going to survive I it takes it takes a really amazing person to come come around to that in artillery combat Commitment, this is a really interesting thing. So let me ask ann and erin if your Child comes up to you and says they want to join the military What do you say? I can't imagine either of mine actually doing that, but But I would absolutely support them Oh, we lost a one. We're there um in error my husband and I have discussed it and uh as As difficult as it would be for us both of us were in Um, and we know the hardships that you face Um, we'd be really proud Let me tell you that mike and I have discussed it with our son and he he came close, but um a lot of people are surprised because as you know marines love talking about marines And a lot of our friends and neighbors are surprised mike has never ever really talked to our son about it because Then they're bringing this up because of the word commitment And you three know this already, but as mike says that's a check That your body signs to the u.s. Government and there's only one person who can really make that commitment And that's the person signing the check I will say that sandy you missed an opportunity to talk about the last one because I ended my career as a air defense Artillerist Oh really? Yep I started my career in artillery So you missed two chances to talk about you guys look in Military this is pretty much what we're talking about today Militia now this is a term that really goes back to before the civil war This is really around that time frame Where local communities would come together and create What a militia to kind of protect And then the civil war adopted some of those well kind of goes back to revolutionary war. Yeah, I'm sorry The National Guard traces its roots back to militia as National Guardsmen for Long time That's blank carol. Um, you might have a bad card, but it might be because you're enjoying vacation without us That's why you have a bad card We're jealous Infantry who wants to describe infantry and? um There The infantry are are the ones uh ones In the front. They're they're the they're the basic building block all the rest of us are are Important, but but if you don't have the infantry for instance the artillery it has a hard time protecting itself Yep, there's usually an infantry assigned to to Be there be there for us and protect the the artillery so that the artillery can do its job um tanks tanks Tanks are supposed to be run with infantry To assist because tanks are really not great at doing stuff close up In valor which are all our metal of honor Recipients definitely had to valor and that that could be like you said erin that that's that something that just pops up at that time link for austin that just Comes comes up Sacrifice and again, that's another thing and when when we say sacrifice I don't always think for any military worldwide. I don't think that this means You know death I when you sign up for the military You do sacrifice a lot you travel Imaginary it's got to be really hard to have littles, you know to start a family in the military You and your husband could be at different places Uh, we actually waited So long into my career to have children because we saw so many retirement ceremonies where the people's kids Were getting ready to go to college and they had missed everything You just you deploy so much and you're gone for so much, you know every time the ships would pull in We'd let all the new dads off the boat to go meet their children Oh interesting And I will say this is interesting because uh mike's dad did not meet him for two weeks Because he was on you know a boat and that so the sacrifice Is also for the children too. We but on a different way I know my stepdad was in the military in the travel every time you got to a location you get friends You know exactly where all the stores and where you ride your bike and then guess what new deployment orders and you're moving out But that's interesting. So you let all the new dads off the boat first. That's that's an interesting story Yeah, new dads and we raffle off the first kiss Courage And how long would you be what was the longest you were on the ship? Without getting back to see your family are off the ship Uh 10 months What can happen with a kid, you know or family in 10 months. Yeah It's tribute and that's pretty much what we're doing today And even though we are talking about metal bonner winners that that is a us-based thing We do give tribute to everybody Around the world they we had a lot of partners in our world worlds And soldier now soldiers you're going to hear that from more army you would for example never call Somebody from the navy a soldier I can't believe no one's won bingo Perseverance This goes a lot of ways wouldn't you guys think? Okay, we have a bingo but keep playing because I believe Mary has won earlier. So keep playing guys And metal of honor is exactly what we're talking about What happens to the metals? I wonder after the recipient passes away do they They stay with the family. They stay with the family I don't didn't know I know that um in texas. There is the metal of honor museum I didn't know maybe they got donated there probably they can something We're gonna keep Because I think careful. Would you say in so some families do things like Building a shadow box, which is which is a display of their family members metals and so forth. I'm actually planning on doing one for actually multiple family members Sometimes you know Well, that brings us to an interesting point too a lot of military our families Oh, it's a tradition that goes through. So, you know, I mentioned that mike is a second generation marini Ann and erin. What about you guys? Um, my my dad decided to join the peace course and peace corps instead Both of my grandfathers were were military um my grandfather my father's side was it was a navy cb and my grandfather my mother's side was it was um a pilot instructor for the army air corps Both of my grandfathers were navy and I actually found out Since I joined wiki tree and started researching that my great grandfather was also a pharmacist mate in the navy Oh, that's cool. That's really cool. So doing researching your tree You come up and you find military records Okay, and liberty that's that's kind of the heart of it all I would say especially for those of you that know Our history as a country. This is kind of the heart of it all And probably for any country that wants to keep their their liberties. You're You're gonna fight for them. That's one of the things that we fight most for We have had I think four three or four bingo winners so far, but they have been past winners And that's why they keep saying keep playing This is kind of funny And usually we have a bingo winner right now. Okay, davie I will say that uh Aaron before you joined, uh, we were having a little discussion on the um songs of each branch And I know everybody has probably heard anchors away Uh, there we go. It's catchy There we go abby you won bingo Okay, abby, what you're gonna do. Let me remove this you are going to email Bring it up real quick. Hey one and Email her let her know that you won the bingo for the medal of honor bingo the very first one And she will get back to you with a link to the store. It's up to a 30 dollar value I do not have my bingo mug with me. I'm very sorry, but the bingo mug is the most popular item in the store It's really really cool. But take a look there are Shirts sweatshirts tote bags hats mugs all kinds of things So I agree with carol the mug truly is the best and the mug that we get is I think most people are getting Is the entire black mug with the bingo logo on it So definitely email a one that she will let you know. I we lost her feed So she might pop back in real quick. So let me ask then you guys since you're here We tend to have project leaders come in to talk about Their project and you guys are the guests and you talked about the medal of honor We're going to talk about the role of honor in just a moment But let me ask each of you the one singular question. Why did you join? So we've got why did you join the marines the army the navy? So erin you want to start? um, I felt a debt of honor and just an immense amount of gratitude to all the people that came before me and The life that I was able to lead um, you know grow up in safety and Just having the freedom that we do And I always knew I wanted to be in the military. I actually walked into the recruiter's office at 12 And I said I want to join and they laughed me out of there and I came back When I was 16 and started my paperwork. I actually had my parents sign me over at 17 Really? So they knew you were dedicated that you were not going to be talked out of this. Yeah What about you an um I was a little bit older. My my mother is a quaker. So Um, it was very hard decision for me because I knew that my mother wouldn't support it. Yeah, um but um I wanted I wanted to learn to lead and that was that was one of the best ways I could do it And I could give back to my country at the same time. I was I was doing it. So um, that that was What what my main motivation was how's your mom take it? She didn't talk to me for a long time um, I'd call her when I was in in basic craning and And she didn't answer the phone, but she wouldn't she wouldn't say anything She's probably so scared too because you know The quaker has a belief but I gotta imagine being a mom myself. I gotta imagine you you worry you worry about your kids. Yeah Mike Interestingly, my father never talked to me about joining the recor, but growing up around marines It just kind of developed a calling in me that that's what I was gonna do You see him you want to be like him So you see it's kind of interesting too. I will tell you a funny story about mike's dad. He um He was a fun guy when he was younger apparently and he was from minnesota and He needed a job wanted wanted a job and Right the time I wasn't might that the You know the military was the best He was basically failing out of college because he was spending all his time in a fraternity playing cards and drinking beer So he decided he was going to go in the military And he wanted to go in the army first and be a parrot trooper But the army was going to make him wait three months and he wanted to go in now And the marine said you can go in right now So he joined so he joined and he was in boot camp in a couple days Oh really so he went with who he wanted to go first whoever took him first Okay, let's talk a little bit. Let me see if I can bring this up as well Let's talk a little bit about the role of honor with wiki tree the role of honor is a Global it's not just based on the us even though we're gonna talk mostly probably about the us Is basically for wiki tree or anywhere if you died in battle then you're gonna be on the role of honor It's the it's somebody wanted to describe it's it the medal of honor is really just for those really extreme valor acts, but the role of honor is for those that just passed away because of their Injuries in battle, right? So if if if I was injured saying World War one And I died five years later. Would I still be on the role of honor? technically if if you're If your wound is what killed you the ones what killed okay, so um Because I think that we get confused we think that the role of honor is if you've been in the military and then you live a long happy life Then you pass away. You're on the role of honor and that's not truly the purpose of the role of honor It's more if you you died in battle or because of battle wounds, correct? Would you say? it's Yeah, it's it's kind of it's kind of um, not very well Very well delineated. That's what I thought that I'm glad you mentioned that because that's what I thought and I know that Almost every country recognizes that phrase role of honor. So it's not just a Part of you united states history and well, I know um, I've been working just this weekend on the uh, uss, arizona um And the sailors that went down during pearl harbor attacks And for example, we may not know Exactly what actions were taken because everything was so hectic and everything happened so fast So we may not be able to say, you know, so and so took this action unless it was very early on Seen by a survivor, you know, and and the story was carried on um But all of the sailors and marines that lost their lives Are on the role of honor because they still made that sacrifice Let me answer to a bingo question. So june, um What what I do is I list the bingo cards the link in the chat and then you pull it up And when I call the names or the words Then you click on that particular word on your bingo card to get bingo There's I made it easy. There's no fill in the blanks I already gave you all the words and the words are randomized nobody's ever asked us words are randomized So everybody gets ideally a different card To get bingo Okay, let's answer a couple questions, but you guys can help What about those who died of illness while serving and I believe those are on the role of honor as well And I know that wiki tree does have Those type of categories as well. I will take the us civil war only because that's what I know But I know that they are through different branches different countries For example, the us civil wars has died During battle died as prisoner of war died of disease So those type of things I have seen typically are Consider a role of honor because they died while they were in service And usually to die is disease is connected to their service Okay, and then this is interesting. So steve and his great uncle made it through pearl harbor And I showed erin a picture if anybody Has a twitter account or their us s arizona and I'll tell you about that in just a minute Has a twitter account feed and they show a picture of pearl harbor where all the ships Are literally, you know side by side down a row And when the japanese came in That's how they easily took them out Battleship row was full That's a good way to put it but erin has a good point about this that was a learning situation It forever changed the way that we bore our ships the way that we home port our ships Who we have imported at any one time and You know, that's a lesson written in the blood of thousands And we'll never you know forget that In it's interesting too because surviving pearl harbor I can't even imagine micah that we're talking about this earlier this week when we're working on the us s arizona profiles two wiki trick A lot of these people were asleep a lot of these people had You know, there's no warning. There's no aircraft warning like there is now It just happened and then with all those ships taking out and severely Damaging our ability to even fight for ourselves Okay, let me see. Does anybody else have any questions for our guest? Okay, does the second be no hard work guys Maybe a couple questions about that. I want to make sure it works Um and carol I had another question. This is good. So if there were soldiers who served in world one and were exposed Mustard gas and died say 15 years later Applications would they be on the role of honor? What do you guys say? so the u.s role of honor Organization site doesn't actually even require you to to have Been wounded. It just it Says you must have served to be to have a profile on the site so The problem is that there's different people have different ideas about yeah required And I would say yes, if it's one of those, uh, you know a biological or a chemical agent that was used against The soldiers, you know, that's something that their service specifically exposed them to Um, and and that was the reason for their death And that would be same as the agent orange. I guess in vietnam as well um Oh, sorry guys that it says being instead of being go. I get it now. I gotta tell you I did it really really quick And the reason why is this one was um at the second being go card was actually given to me Um by somebody who created the the words not a wiki tree or I might add or else it would have been spelled check Oh, here's another question. How does the distinguished service cross differ from the medal of honor? um, the medal of honor is basically a in combat Valor kind of the thing Distinguished current service cross is for those who have distinguished themselves through meritorious service to the government so it's one is kind of a distinguished service one is kind of a You know matter of metal for valor um The medal of honor is the highest right guys. Yes Yeah, the distinguished service crosses is one rank below. Um The the description of the distinguished service crosses, uh, the second highest military For military members who display extraordinary heroism in combat with army force. So they're There are non combat medals, but the it's the second high combat related at all and for the navy be the navy cross. Yeah Okay, let's bring up. Let me bring up the second card. No, I'm sorry guys Like I said, I should have uh proofed us a little bit Well, I don't know my says medal of honor bingo too. Let me make sure you guys have the right card And it is it is a smaller one. Oh, I get it. Okay. I see because it's only four four squares across So I get so it definitely is a smaller one. My apologies But that just means that somebody will win quicker, right? Okay, you guys ready to go. Oh, here's another quick question. Um, do generals salute the distinguished service cross? No Oh, so There's another difference. Um the the Medal of honor actually comes with monetary and other compensations too. That's true Which lesser medals do not And I know from just Hanging around might for the past 30 years. They also typically have a licensed tech That has the blue ribbon in the middle line And you can if you ever see one of those in your grocery store parking lot or wherever it is Stop, you know, give yourself a moment to realize that you are among someone is driving that car that has extreme bow Okay, let's go ahead and start same rules apply if you have won bingo so far this year You're not eligible to win just yet. Our next bingo is the start over again Point for but you have to wait six months from when you won your bingo prize horizontal diagonal vertical I do not believe since this was a short one that there is a free space But if there is go ahead and click it now When the work comes up go ahead and click it with your mouse the first person to win bingo Is the first person that gets bingo on their card and also Types him bingo in the chat Do not close down your bingo card because as we've seen in the last one I think four or five people Won bingo, but they say keep playing so never close down your bingo card until we have it confirmed Okay, so prisoner of war and there are Prisoner of war as we talked about dr. Walker was a prisoner of war As a medal of honor winner And there she is. What timing And again the only female and what was really interesting is ann and I were talking about this She's the only female in it her ward was taken away So ann actually went back in to make sure that she was listed as a medal of honor winner in wicking tree so another thing that uh And actually I I have to go back in there's a there's a problem with the medal of honor page It only goes up to the letter p. Yeah We have a lot. I think there were about 300 in the category And like we said, there are over 3,000 Medal of honor winners. So if anybody wants to Add to the medal of honor winners of military profiles Or something that you enjoy doing and there is a wealth of information for every medal of honor Winner you will not want for a source. There are tons of sources and everything that would be a way to Help wiki tree and the military and war project on wiki tree In the korean war korean war doesn't get talked about as much as the bigger wars the war one and two in the republic of vietnam And again my apologies for the thing but private oscar awesome. This was Erin's pick for the medal of honor winner. You can tell I was going fast Erin I have this thing we come from the same area and a lot of times we We leave out words in our sentences because we know what we're talking about But it is a function of the area we were raised It drives my husband crazy Camp lejeune and this would be one of the main uh I guess boot camps for the Rink or base camp lejeune. Okay. Do you think I'm going to get the merit points for that one? Yeah, those guys on paradise paris. I want to get pissed. Yeah The medal of honor and that's what we're talking about today And thank you carol carol's correct me. It was a conflict not a war going for the korean war and uh, mohawklyn actually had a cousin on the uss arizona and Before we leave today. I do want to share a really really interesting and great thing to do this weekend with wiki tree And war war one Am I allowed to win? No Didn't think so. I'm just playing anyway Next time you can win Purple heart medal This way is always tricky for me for wiki tree and I don't I don't know how to answer this one But if anybody has ever had A profile where you add to purple heart, you'll notice that there are different options for it And they're not always designated which option In the sources. So this one's always kind of tricky for me Oh jupe bingo, that was really quick That was really really quick. Congratulations June didn't you say this was your first time too? That's awesome This is interesting. So we'll be setting up over 600 flags at our cemetery on saturday. Okay, june Let me tell you how to get your bingo prize You're what you're going to do is you're going to email a went and she's going to email you back the link to the store And it's up to 30 dollars. It's wiki tree branded store. So you can get the bingo mug which everybody loves I think um over all of wiki tree The bingo mug is the number one's item in the store You can get bag a hat a long sleeve t-shirt short sleeve whatever you'd like that's up to 30 dollars But email her and let her know that you won the bingo from the medal of honor and she will get you all Set up. So congratulations. I love it. It is a first time winner. I always tell people come bingo You never know you you could be really really lucky and it went Let's talk about something else that's going on this weekend real quick. So as I mentioned, this is Memorial Day weekend for us in the united states and There is something going on a pop-up wiki tree has these little pop-up challenges that pop up at any time And they usually relate to something going on in the world or the date that's going on And we have a uss arizona Pop-up going on the uss arizona was Bombed at pearl harbor. It sunk something. I did not know Is 85 up or up to 150 of those sailors and marines were actually buried on land And they were commingled. It was is not a An individual cemetery. So there is a group called operation 85 That is dna testing and they're giving free dna tests out to family members and they're trying to dna test these Sailors and marines so they can repatriate them and let their family have a proper Burial so it's something that if you are interested in military profiles It's really really easy to do. Don't you think erin? The sources are up there. It's oh, yeah Um, the uh, the uss arizona memorial has done a great job of collecting like even Newspaper interviews with family and everything else So there are sources that you might not even usually get to work with, you know A lot of times we're just working straight off of census birth death records Um, there are really you can really enrich these profiles and and make these people, you know Honor their lives It's really amazing too. I'm I'm going to get this wrong and there is a g2g on it Let me see if I can pull it up real quick and you guys will be amazed Erin and I have been posting up on the g2g as well interesting finds that we have I have one marine that joined the ship literally the night before And he was waiting for his, you know service orders to come through where he's going to go to next Erin you had an interesting one as well with best friends Yeah, um two Guys from a small town in colorado They had grown up playing football together and they graduated high school together They signed into the navy together and they were actually both on ships at pearl harbor one survived and One was killed on the arizona And the surviving member even 70 years later He was interviewed and he said he never could bring himself He walked up to his friend's house and couldn't bring himself to ring the door because he just didn't know What to say to his friend's parents because he had so much survivor's guilt I don't know what to do. Yeah. Yeah, there was a story I read while we I knew we were doing this I did some reading a lot of the survivors of the arizona upon their death were cremated and had their ashes spread And I mean I've walked arlington, you know And arlington is a powerful thing. You see all those crosses But when I went to the arizona memorial it affects you in a different way Like I don't know if it's because when you go to arlington, you know A little bit of what to expect, you know, you're gonna see a field of stones and Maybe this this field is so large that at times you can't take it in in the moment But uh, you know, when you go to the arizona and you actually Walk through that that building they have over the water And you know What you're standing over. Yeah In the arizona had over three dozen sets of brothers and three sets of three brothers who are on the ship when it went down I can't imagine the parents, you know, because I think you you think oh good. They're going together. They'll protect each other They'll be safe And this was a common thing in the military and in the navy and Because of so many ships it went down Like the u.s.s. Juno with the five Sullivan brothers that they actually put into the the navy did at first that um Family members can no longer serve on the same ship And I'll put the link into one of the Sullivan brothers pages that describes that I know that um, we we were going to try and show it We're running a little late, but I'll put the link in you guys want to click on it And review it when you have time. I'm amazed. This is really great I really appreciate you guys sharing all your stories as well. This is fabulous So Juno was my my son was honor guard during 9 11 And he was at the white house for 4th of july in different ball parks and supposed to be at the church cross The street from the towers. I that's just I just got chills from that And I know barry said that um her son was working with the dna project from the uss arizona as well and They so they pulled a wisconsin's sailor from the mass grave That is amazing. And that's really what we're trying to do with the uss arizona pop-up that's going on this weekend Is if we can fulfill all The profiles up on wiki tree Maybe those that are doing the dna search would make it a little bit easier knowing that We source well. We give the full bios. They can actually come to wiki tree to help find Ancestors or excuse me to send it so they can get proper burials for these sailors and marines So I mean that's that's amazing And and I agree if you know why is great and fun, but if you do Ever go anywhere near pearl harbour You just just make sure you go to the memorial for the uss arizona It's something that you can't even describe right mike Yeah, you can't you really when you're there you just really got to describe it pretty well it just Reaches inside you and grabs you I have to say as a sailor You know pulling into port is always fun everybody's looking forward to going out on liberty and and you know seeing family and things like that But when you pull into hawaii When you pass the arizona everyone topside renders a salute until You're out of the view And it's So emotional You know, it's it's very heavy It's your brother, you know, it's it's it's your you know your people when you're there And you realize that they went before you they did the exact same thing you did sign papers Joined you know went through your training to do the exact same thing that you're doing now and and you realize they didn't make it So it is it it's humbling. It's humbling So I want to thank everybody that joined us today Please go look at wiki tree's medal of honor category There like I said, I think there's only 300 some in there and there's over 3000 that need added to wiki tree If anybody wants to chip in that will be fabulous like the sources are out there They're so easy to find if you come across any Soldiers marine sailors as you were working Through and you see that maybe someone died during battle add the category role of honor That would be helpful as well And if you have time this weekend to do even just one or two Profiles for the us s arizona pop-up. Please do so. There's 1177 And I think when fellow wiki tree or susan created this idea in the space page There were about 25 and I noticed they're almost 60 in there now. So people have been working on them So please even like I said, you might think uh, you probably need a lot of help You're gonna want me to do a whole 50 of them Just one or two would really really help the sources are out there Susan's given the page that has the sources the categories the stickers She's made it very easy for everybody. Just do a pop-up. I want to thank all three of you for joining us This has been fun having wiki tree years And to talk about not only the military Categories on wiki tree, but also your lives. So I want to join everybody. That's also mentioned. Thank you Thank you for your service and thank you for joining Thanks for having us you Okay, guys, then I will see everybody in a couple hours. We have another interesting bingo coming up to celebrate the newest US space force we're gonna talk about astronauts So if you are an astronaut fan Join us But if you're not an astronaut fan and you still like bingo join us anyway because we have david randall That's coming on board for that And we're also going to discuss what happens if you have a particular interest in something and you want to create a mini project He's going to show us how to do it because that's exactly how the uss arizona mini project happened and Astronauts so thanks everybody for joining us. See you next time