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Explore EVs that fit your life at electricforall.org. This is our American Stories and we tell stories about everything here on this show and our favorite types of stories in the end, well they come from our listeners. And this next story comes from one of our listeners, Richard Munez. Today, he tells us two stories on living in history from the perspective of those who experienced it. and didn't even know it at the time.
Here's our own Monty Montgomery with the story. Punctuality is an important virtue to a lot of people. But for Richard Munez, it was his senior-year history teacher that changed his outlook on life. by skipping out on the dates in class. When I was in the 12th grade, I had a history teacher by the name of Bill Mayhan.
Now Bill was a heck of a lot older than I was at the time and he had kind of a unique approach to history. He felt that dates What's important? In fact, he also felt that dates are what turned people off about history. You know, you had, well, Columbus came here in 1492 and stuff like that, but what was learned out of history? To him, most of it was boredom.
They couldn't see the relation. that what happened yesterday How it impacts us today. If certain things hadn't happened, we probably wouldn't be here today. But history is also a lot more than about dates and about great people. It's about little people.
It's about the stories. that are told, stories that are usually forgotten within a generation or two. For example, I thought about Columbus coming to the Americas. Important event, yeah. Without it, like I said, most of us probably wouldn't be here.
However, What stories were told by the sailors who grew up with Columbus? What stories were told by the Native Americans that met them? What actually happened? We have these events in our head. We have these events that history gave us.
But in most cases they're Kind of Bear bone.
Well, I've been lucky enough to have met a lot of people who are at pivotal moments in history. Are there events that history is kind of glossed over. I've been in a few of those myself. And It's very rare that you ever see the big picture. You're part of it.
And all of a sudden there you are. You know, you've gone through it and stuff like that, and afterwards you're telling the story about what happened. And a lot of times you have no real understanding of what you went through. For instance, I was in the Gulf War. I was in two of the biggest battles of the Gulf War and it wasn't until years later I even learned that they had names.
And I wound up talking to people and I've uh discovered that their stories were at pivotal moments. For instance, There's a j a man by the name of Levi Martinez. Here's the battle of the bulge. I remember when he told me this story. I was getting ready for Levi for basic training.
Levi was my. father-in-law at the time. And I'd asked him, if he would give me something That belonged to him that I could take with me. Kind of as a, I guess you might say, it's a good luck charm, whatever the case may be.
Well he gave me Here's Army Ribbons. And sitting right smack in the middle of this is the bronze star. And I asked him, I said, why did you receive this? What was the story behind receiving your blonde star? And he showed me the citation.
The citation it was usual. military stuff. Using fire and maneuver, Private Levi Martinez was able to close upon and capture a German machine gun nest.
Okay, that's pretty cool stuff. Then he told me his version of the story. This story happened like this. He was in Germany. Trying.
with Patton's Army. And they've been advancing and whatnot. And It was getting cold. Christmas was coming in. Winter was here.
And They were kind of slowing things down a little bit.
However, he also got word at this time. that his mother had passed away. And that it was he wanted desperately to go home. and at least see the family.
Well, that wasn't about to happen after all, you know, here they are in the middle of a war. He was seriously needed right where he was.
So what wound up happening was this. They receive orders The turn 90 degrees and start walking. He called this the Long Walk. And um They walked and they walked and they walked, and it was storming on them. It was cold.
and it just kept going. They knew that the Germans had attacked. And that this is A desperate situation. That they had the 101st Airborne and several other units just literally pinned down. It was good for us.
They had to get up there and take care of things, but again, he wasn't Blood concentrated on the war at the time. He wanted to go home and be with his uh with his people. After all, you know, his heart was breaking over there and here he is unable to even express his grief. I remember him telling me that as they were walking one day, all of a sudden a guy shoves him and throws him into a snow drift. And he gets up and asks, What the heck that was about?
And the guy said, You almost walked into the path of a tank there. He had literally fallen asleep while he was walking. And if this guy hadn't shoved him, he'd have probably fallen under the um the threads of the tank and been ran over. when they start getting up into uh area around Bastone and whatnot, The Germans had seized this one small town and had established a machine gun nest outside of the community. And this Machine gun nests opened up on him and his people and um Just firing away from hand pinned down pretty good.
Well, in the middle of all this, he's thinking about his mother, and all he wants to do is stand up. And go home.
Well, Fi said, heck with this. I'm gonna go and I'm going home one way or the other.
So he stands up and starts approaching the dr machine gun nest. There's no fire maneuver to this. There's no running from one point of cover to another. and while firing at the enemy, here just a nice little casual stroll right up to the machine gun nest. And they're shooting at him.
His people are yelling at him to get down. He's just walking. He wants to go home and he's going to go home one way or the other. Eventually, he winds up on the crest of the machine gun nest looking down at the seriously astonished Germans. And while he's up there, he decides, well, well, I'm here, I might as well do something about it.
Points his rifle at them and they surrendered. That's the story how he got his bronze star. Yeah. That's what history is about. It's about people involved in.
Extraordinary things. Extraordinary events. and not realizing it. An example from my own personal history. happened during the Gulf War.
Now this doesn't involve a battle, doesn't involve lining up an enemy tank and firing on it or anything like that. No, this involves almost the aftermath. I mean the war was over to all intents and purposes. We've beaten the Iraqis.
Now what we were doing was we were getting ready to go home. I was a military policeman at the time. And what a military police do is they are responsible for movement. We move the division. And part of our job was to performed the route recon.
from Iraq through Kuwait And back to Saudi Arabia. And we were excited about this. I mean, we've been over there for about six months. and this meant we were one step closer. to going back home.
I mean, it was great. We've made it through the war.
Now here's the problem. The war might be over. The weapons of war are still out there. and they're still very much alive. Despite the ceasefire, you can still get yourself hurt or killed out there.
So what we did was my platoon we were told to go back and perform as route recon.
Well, so we're going down high highway seventy. and ahead of us we saw a bus. And on the back window was a placard that had a British flag uh printed on it. It was the Brits.
Now it pulled over. and a bunch of guys started getting out. It's obviously, you know, on the road bathroom break. We're about 50 yards away from when all of a sudden we heard a ka-boom and there's this burst of dust up and several of the British guys wanted to fallen over, falling back.
Well, we knew what had happened right away. What had happened was it pulled over and walked right into a minefield that was on the side of the road.
Now Our first instincts as human beings is, oh my god, we see people in trouble. We're police officers. We have three people with us who are trained as medics. Why not pull over and help them? Our allies, fellow human beings on top of that, were hurt.
We were in a position to help him. That's what we were going to do.
Well, as we're starting to pull over, all of a sudden this one British guy comes around the thing and he's waving ass and yelling at us not to stop, to keep going. And that's why our lieutenant yelled, we have medics with us, and he said, so do we. It's too dangerous here. We'll treat our own wounded. Keep moving.
So we wound up going past. To this day, I don't know what happened to these men. I don't know if they Any of them were killed. I don't know if any of them were just injured and have recovered from their injuries again. It's history.
You get your little teeny tiny segment of it and you don't know what happened next. Richard Munes' story, two of them. Two soldiers' stories here. On Our American Story. Hot take.
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