RADIODecember 02, 2022

The TERRIFYING & AMAZING realities of brain chip implants

Elon Musk’s company Neuralink recently announced it hopes to begin human trials in six months. Neuralink develops ‘implantable brain-computer interfaces,’ or more simply, chips for your brain. And the health benefits could be AMAZING, Glenn says, especially for those with brain injuries. But the downsides of technological developments like this one can be TERRIFYING, too...especially if they're placed into the wrong hands.

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GLENN: By the way, did you hear the Neuralink thing? In human testing now.

This is -- gang, I know -- if you're a long-time listener. I know 20 years ago, you thought, I was just a babbling madman. When I would talk to you about the singularity. And talk to you about what tech was going to be like.

Ten years ago. Same thing. Five years ago, maybe you started going, I don't know. I mean, I guess people are talking about it.

Two years ago, same thing.

You need to understand the singularity. Because it's on our doorstep. And that is through Elon Musk. And neural link.

It will be heralded as a great thing. And believe me, as a father of a daughter who has had strokes, this would change her. It would make her probably whole. Because the problem with strokes is the pathways for information. If you think of the brain as a road map, there are bridges that are out. And so, it takes longer for information to go from one place to another. And sometimes, it can't go there at all.

STU: Right.

GLENN: What neural link promises to do, is to bridge from one part of the brain to the other part of the brain. Electronically.

STU: Incredible.

GLENN: It's incredible. Absolutely incredible.

STU: And has the potential to be a miracle, if it were --

GLENN: A miracle. People. If you had a stroke, you could go back to -- the promise is -- the hope is, back to the way you were before the stroke. I mean, that's -- that's a miracle.

However, it also would connect to the internet. And it is Elon Musk's way of saying, we've got to come up with something fast and cheap. Because this is what the left is going to do. And people want to control. And there's got to be something out there, that will be a good version of this. Where if you want to learn Spanish, you just download it. I mean, it's very matrix. It's here. Tonight dismiss this. It's here.

STU: Is neural link the same as AI.

GLENN: No. It's the beginning.

STU: Neural link is more health type reasons, isn't it?

GLENN: No. It's to digitize the brain for health reasons.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: But that's step one. The other steps, as it goes, links you to the internet.

So you can download and upload information. And remember, that's a pipe in your head. This is when the -- this is when economic forum says, yes.

We've lost some privacy. People know what I'm doing. Know where I am. Know what I'm thinking. Even what I'm dreaming. But it's all worth it, okay? That's what they mean.

Because you will be -- the government or these institutions or whatever. Will be able to go into your head. And know what you're thinking. Because you're using the back bone of the internet to think and research. And it can go into your head and retrieve dreams. It's extraordinarily dangerous.

STU: To think targeted advertising uses this. Like every time I think about Taco Bell. I get a coupon from Taco Bell. I mean --

GLENN: Or all the times you don't think about Taco Bell. And yet, you're thinking about Taco Bell.

STU: Should be.

There can't be more times I'm thinking about Taco Bell. That's not possible.

GLENN: If you're like most Americans. Have you heard what McDonald's is doing? I want one. I want one. Anyway, if you're like most Americans, you can probably spend a significant amount of your time just thinking about how to make more money. Or at least save more money, back more than you currently do.

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GLENN: So I want to talk to you a little bit about this rail strike. And I don't know about you. But, I mean, I'm not passionate about --

STU: Right.

GLENN: -- either side.

However, however, I do think --

STU: I'm worried about the consequences of it.

GLENN: Well, I'm also. I think I'm actually -- if it is, as is presented. Which I don't believe anything anymore.

But if it is as presented, these train companies can't let their employees have a few extra days for sick-leave?

STU: Yeah. I'm sure it's more complicated than that. That's the story from the media. I just don't want them to have a sick day. They interviewed a guy. I'm at home with the flu. And I have to have vacation time. Obviously, that's not the way it should be. Is that the only issue? Really?

GLENN: Yeah, so I'm not patient about it, because I don't believe either side. However, a couple of things.

One, the media said, Joe Biden solved this right before the election.

STU: Right. So he had all the preelection benefits of solving this crisis. And he found out later, well, no. It wasn't real.

GLENN: We actually knew. Everyone knew. But only sources said, he didn't solve it. He passed the buck, and it will happen in December.

The other thing that is quite concerning on this, is Mr. Most -- biggest union supporter --

STU: Job.

GLENN: Supporter of any president in the history of the United States, he also bails out the railroads all the time. Okay?

So government money is going to the business of railroads as well. He can't get a few sick days? This guy is toothless. Absolutely toothless.

STU: Completely incompetent. Or something else is going on.

GLENN: Yeah. And the media, again, the biggest problem, because you don't know what a rail strike would do to you and the country. In quick fashion.
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HOUR 3

GLENN: I have to tell you, there's some science news that is absolutely mind-boggling, that is out today. I just want to take a break, and just show you a glimpse of what we're dealing with, and what's coming our way.

We do that in 60 seconds. You ever find yourself just waiting for the other shoe to drop? Sometimes I do. Yeah. Sometimes.

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So, Stu, there are two stories I barely understand. Let me start with the one that I'm really a little foggy on. For any mammal, the loss of the Y chromosome should mean the loss of males and the demise of the species. However, the Amami spiny rat manages without a Y chromosome. And has puzzled biologists for decades. Now, a Japanese scientist and her colleagues have shown that one of the rat's normal chromosomes effectively evolved into a new male sex chromosome. I hate to get all sciencey. Because I don't know how these rats identify. I don't know any of their pronouns or anything else.

STU: Oh, no.

GLENN: So the reason why this is important, is because the Y chromosome seems to be getting weaker and weaker. And in a lot of mammals, including man.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: And once you lose the Y, then what happens? You've only got females.

End of the species. So that's why they're looking into this. Because they believe that we are headed for the same kind of thing.

STU: The end of the species. I think just involving car accidents.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh. Only women drivers. It would be crazy. And women presidents and CEOs.

STU: Gosh, just shut the thing down.

GLENN: Lord, please come down.

Anyway, so --

STU: So stupid. That's largely just to piss off Sara in the other room.

GLENN: Oh, it is. Largely?

100 percent.

STU: And, of course, the fact that it's true.

GLENN: Right.

So the next story is a quantum computer has simulated a wormhole for the first time.

Now, do you know what a wormhole is?

STU: It's a space thing. It's like a sciencey space thing.

GLENN: Yeah. So it's like you take a piece of paper, and you fold it in half. And then you I think fold it again. And you put a little hole in it.

And you would see, that there would be two holes, in the piece of paper.

STU: Yeah. Looks like a mask. With the eye holes.

GLENN: In fact, it's almost the perfect mask.

Okay. So -- and probably Fauci would have me wear this.

Anyway, so a wormhole is a way to collapse the distance in between those two holes. Okay?

In space.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And then they are right -- you go through one hole, and you're right there. Because they're next to each other.

STU: Right. Instantly.

GLENN: If space is folding. So that's the idea of a wormhole. You could travel great distances through that. Quickly.

So this is just been a theory. Scientists with a quantity uncle computer, have just simulated a wormhole for the very first time.

Now, it gets very complex, because they say, it was a holographic. But it's not exactly a holograph. It's -- they're just -- they just simplified things by taking gravity out of the equation, which gets into i Phone and the theory of relativity. So they had to have something that took relativity out. And see if they could simulate this. Well, they did. And what this means is, you could have, without any wires, cables, Wi-Fi, nothing!

You can take something, digitally, and send it from let's say, my desk, to a desk in London. Paragraph and it would exist in both places.

And you could close one of the doors, and it would either come back to me, and only be here. Or I could close my door, and it would be in London.

They just did this. This changes everything!

This changes everything. This is -- you remember i Phone when he was -- they talked to him about quantum physics. He said, God doesn't play dice.

Meaning, there is no super -- there is no super position of -- of a molecule, or I don't even know. Of a cubit they're new called. It can't be both positive and negative. It can't be both one and a zero.

But quantum says, yes, it can. That led him to say, God doesn't play dice.

It doesn't work that way. Remember, the theory of relativity is only a theory. It's the best theory we have on how things work.

Quantum buildings up, and says, I don't think the basic soup -- I don't think it really goes with any of those physics.

I think it breaks down at some point, and starts behaving completely illogically.

This shows that Einstein may have been wrong. Maybe God is playing dice.

This -- this -- this -- the things that we have on the horizon, are so ground-breaking. And just quantum computing. All of this stuff, will change life. In ways we -- it's like we're standing in the 12 hundreds. And trying to imagine today.

But it's going to happen in the next 50 years.

STU: Do we have any idea, where this would end up? Like, what would be the endgame of this type of technology --

GLENN: The biggest thing of quantum computing, is you will probably solve cancer in a week. You will solve these problems that cannot be solved.

Because it can model a million different things, all at the same time. So remember, Einstein -- Edison said, you know, I didn't find a -- a -- I didn't fail a thousand times. I found a thousand ways, the lightbulb doesn't work.

That will -- you'll only fail -- you'll fail and succeed, one time.

Because you'll try all of the combinations, all at once.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: And you'll have the answer.

STU: It feels like, there are so many things right now, on the fringes of science. Like where we are really -- where scientists are -- are playing, right?

They're at the very edges of understanding. Where they can go. But see the path forward. You know some of these problems like this one. Are just beginning to be solved. And there are so many different directions. Whether we talked about the singularity. Or whether it's quantum computing.

Or all sorts of different technologies. That it feels like, one of these is going to hit in a way, that totally changes the world, almost immediately.

GLENN: But in a way, let's look at the telephone for a minute. Put yourself back at Alexander who can't mean bell's time. Alexander Graham Bell comes up with this, this is great. Look at this. No one is going to have a telephone for a long time?

STU: That's what they say about everything. Even electricity.

GLENN: They say, I'll go to the town square, that has electricity. And I'll be able to call Washington, if I needed to talk to the president, if it was an emergency. They were thinking like that. They would have never thought. Think of the phone today.

It's no longer cordless. I mean, it's no longer corded.

STU: Right.

GLENN: It doesn't work with -- with wires. It doesn't -- it's a television. It's a camera.

I mean --

STU: It's no longer really even for phone conversations.

GLENN: Right.

STU: And that's I think a really interesting example for how this goes. Think of singularity for a second. Eventually, we merge with machines. My very terrible understanding of it. Eventually, we merge with computers. Where we're able to access information, instantly. Because we have maybe a chip in our head or whatever.

That allows us --

GLENN: Right. And we also have nanobot technology, in our bloodstream, that is keeping you alive. You don't have to take medicine anymore. The nanobots are programmed to take care of your body. And it repairs itself, through technology. Which is connected to AI. A giant machine, outside of your body.

STU: Right. So you're one with AI. You're one with machines. You're a hybrid person.

GLENN: That's the singularity.

STU: That's the singularity.

If you think about, let's say for information purposes. You want to get an answer something. In this world of the singularity, you want to know who is you know the president of France in 2004, right?

It would instantly, you would be able to access that information instantly, inside your brain.

GLENN: Yeah. Right now, you would have to go to Google, open up Google, and type in your question.

STU: Right.

GLENN: The singularity, where it would be imagined to be used at its highest level. Who was the president of France?

Oh, it was so-and-so.

STU: Right. You would know immediately.

GLENN: The minute you think it, the answer is there. Because you're connected to everything.

The ONE “forever war” Glenn Beck supports

This Fourth of July, Glenn Beck reveals the only “forever war” he supports. It’s the war Americans have been fighting since our nation’s founding, and we must continue the fight…

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GLENN: Two hundred forty-nine years ago, I think it is tomorrow. Right? Is tomorrow the second, or is it the first?

What day is it today?

So it was 200 -- 249 years ago, tomorrow, that somebody sat alone, in a -- in a one-room hotel room.

And scratched out the words, when in the course of human events. Those are the first six words of a document that is so dangerous!

Still today, so revolutionary.

It was whispered in those candle lit rooms by men who knew. Knew. That if I signed this document, that's a death warrant.

I'm dead!

I'm dead.

But in the course of human events, shh.

Jefferson wrote them!

33 years old. Adams would later say, you do well to revere Jefferson. But he didn't write alone. Basically, I was there too.

And so was Ben Franklin. The ideas were forged in the minds of men like Franklin, who is old enough to know better. And Adams, who was stubborn enough, not to care. And they weren't perfect men. But I love this about the left. They try to make you think.

That you think are perfect. I don't think they were perfect! I mean, Ben Franklin used to walk around naked in his house a lot. That shows, I mean, for as smart as that guy was. It shows, maybe he had a lack of mirrors. But they weren't perfect!

They owned slaves. They argued. They compromised.

How does that make them different than us?
I mean, we should be able to relate to them!

What is it that we tolerate right now?
What is it that we compromise on?

What is it -- what are our failures that future generations are going to go, these people just didn't get it? Perhaps what we should notice is that they, unlike most of us. They were willing to gamble their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

For something that had never, ever been done before. Something entirely new!

The idea that rights don't come from a government, or from a king, or from a parliament.

They don't come from the majority voting. Everyone has certain rights.

You know, for all these people who are, you know -- going in Macy's, and burning down towns. And then stealing clothing. And they're like, because I've been oppressed!

And you can't -- I've got rights, you know.
Yeah. Yeah.

You know who the first people were, to articulate those rights?

You know the only country that actually has stood for those rights?

And we're imperfect!

That idea came from the Founders, that you say you hate.

But the actual rights come from God, which you dismiss!

Think of this. Just ponder this for a second.

That all men are created equal! That their rights are given to them, by a creator.

It's not a political assertion. It's a genius. That's eternal truth!

That's theological dynamite, lobbed straight in to the thrones of Europe.

All over the world, it's still dynamite.

They knew what they were doing.

And I don't mean like, they knew what they were doing.

They had it. No. They knew that the British crown had the largest military force in the world. And these guys, they were farmers. They were printers. They were lawyers. They were a ragtag collection of intellectual and idealists, facing down an empire, where they said, the sun never set on the British empire. Meaning, the colonialism was everywhere!

You could not escape England. And yet, they declared it. We're leaving, without apology!

And they said that when a government becomes destructive of the ends of liberty, life, and the pursuit of happiness, it's not only the right of the people, it's their duty to throw it off!

Wow. And you know what is amazing? That's not rebellion.

That's -- that's not revolution. That's -- that's responsibility.

That -- that kind of language today, that would have you flagged, shadow banned. Labeled an extremist. In most countries, disappeared!

But that is the foundation of what we call America. The American experiment. And it's that. The American experiment.

And it's just that, an experiment. We didn't know if we could get it right. And we haven't gotten it right. But isn't it worth experimenting?

Isn't it worth trying to get that concept right?

When you fail on that concept, you're like, eh. That's a stupid idea.

That's not a stupid idea. That's the greatest idea of all time.

Why are so many people willing to just quit?

The experiment is self-rule. It's not perfect.

Never has been. Slavery. Jim Crow. Internment camps. Assassinations.

My God! Forgive us, for what we have done.

But at the same time, what nation has done more to correct its own errors?

What people have shed more blood, not for conquest, but for freedom.

Twice in the last century, we crossed oceans. Not to claim territory. But to liberate that territory!

Our sons and daughters fought and bled on foreign soil to push the darkness back, to fight against Naziism and fascism and Communism. And here we are. Here we are today.

After 249 years tomorrow of that experiment, standing at the lip of the very abyss, those men feared.

A godless chaos, rising in the east and a cold atheistic utopia, clawing at the foundations of the Western world. Islamism and Communism, two ideologies that have killed tens of millions of people. Now dressed all in new robes, selling old lies.

And we can't even teach a child where their rights come from. We have replaced Jefferson and Adams with TikTok influencers and bureaucratic groupthink.

We're raising generations to not even know the truth about their own identity.

But to question their identity. And they could be, oh, you're a funny, funny colored unicorn today. What do you want to be tomorrow?

We don't teach them anything about truth, or their inheritance, most importantly. Their inheritance. What good are hot dogs and fireworks, if the soul of the nation is up for auction? What is the meaning in Fourth of July, if we have forgotten the why? If we don't even call it Independence Day anymore. Most people don't even know who we fought against for independence.

They think we fought for its independence! Most people think we fought the South!

And yet, we'll light the sparklers, or blow our fingers off, because we're just that stupid.

This Independence Day weekend, would you do me and yourself and your country a favor, and read the words out loud. Speak the words out loud.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with one another.

And to assume among the powers of earth, the separate, but equal station, to which the laws of nature.

And nature's God entitle them.

A decent respect to the opinions of mankind, requires that they should declare the causes, which impair them to the separation.

What are they saying?

Look, we want to be decent people.

We want to be decent people.

And we have to separate them.

But we believe it's only right that we tell you why we have to separate. And it's not because of all the bad things you've done. We'll get to those later. It's because we're different. And you don't understand. You have been telling us all of these things, we no longer believe in. We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal, and they're endowed by their creator with certain inalienable. Unchangeable rights.

And just among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, government are his instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

My gosh. Read those words. And let your children hear what thinking and courage sounds like.

That to secure these rights, I'm telling you, the king, who thinks that your government was given to you, by God.

And you are the ruler.

And you will tell everybody what to think, what to do. What to buy. What to sell. What to tax. What not to tax. Who gets land. Who doesn't get land.

No, no, no. Government are his instituted among men, deriving their powers, their just powers, from the people. And that government is only there, established by those men to protect the rights that God has given each of those men.

Let them feel the chill, that runs down the spine, when Jefferson writes, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the government, or from the governed. Let them hear the words, of -- of responsibility. What responsibility sounds like, with courage and freedom. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these rights, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

And to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their a lot of and happiness.

In other words, you have the right, you have the responsibility to stop tyrants. And if the government has gone bad, to throw that government off.

But reconstitute a government, that will do a better job at protecting those rights. Not to form a communist government.

Not to do anything else. But you want a new government?

Fine! Let's find the way to make men more free. This is not a metaphor. This is a declaration of war on tyranny in all of its forms.

I mean, I said, yesterday, freedom isn't free.

It was paid for by somebody's blood. But you have to remember, they paid for their freedom, not for our freedom, necessarily.

We -- there comes a time, we have to pay for our freedom. And God forbid, that it comes down to blood.

But at least shake off the apathy. We -- we must renew this promise of this experiment of America.

We need to fight for it as well. An out-of-control government that seeks to rope us into forever wars, over and over again. We're all against forever wars. I'm against it.

I hate them.

But there is one forever war, that is required in a free society. A different kind of forever war.

A war against ourselves, a war against human nature in each of us. Because of human nature, we get fat. We get lazy.

We get tolerant of abuses. Let your children hear you speak these words. And when you speak them, ponder them yourself.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes.

And accordingly, all experience has shown, that mankind is more disposed to suffer while the evils are sufferable than to right themselves, by abolishing the forms in which they're accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a sign to reduce them under absolute despotism.

It's their right. It's their duty. To throw off such government. And provide new guards for such future security.

In one paragraph, we make the point twice. And they tell us, look, we've studied people.

We know you're going to get fat and lazy and apathetic. And you won't want to do stuff for transient causes. Because this is really not good.

But when push comes to shove. And everything is moving towards absolute despotism. Absolute tyranny. Then you must stand up.

I ask you to ponder this. This particular part, when a long train of abuses and usurpations. Prudence will indeed dictate that governments long established should not be exchanged for light and transient causes.

And accordingly, all experience has shown, that mankind is more disposed to suffer while the evils suffer, than to right themselves.

Aren't we exactly the same people, that their experience was talking about?

Aren't we the people that are more disposed to suffer, than to right ourselves? Because we're too comfortable. Or we're too afraid, just to stand up and simply say no to lies.

No!

There is a difference between men and women.

No! Communism is to be feared. It's killed over 100 million people, in the last 100 years.

No!

Muslims aren't bad. Islamism is!

It's evil. No!

You can peacefully protest, any time, any place. And I will fight to the death for your right to do that.

But when you start burn cities down to the ground, no!

We're just a few days away. And we have marked our 249th birthday. Maybe. Just maybe, this year, can we stop asking what America was, and start deciding what America will be?

Where it just slips quietly into history. In the dark of apathy and ignorance.

Because the only thing more dangerous than tyranny is the people who have forgotten what it took to break its chains.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

We need REAL jobs in America — Trump should do THIS now!

It is clear we need to create more productive, high-paying jobs for American citizens. But that doesn't mean bringing back the same exact jobs of the past in massive numbers. It means creating and supporting jobs of the present and future that will better the lives of Americans. Glenn Beck and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts break down exactly what this entails and how President Trump can make it a reality.

Watch Glenn Beck's FULL Interview with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts HERE

The most INCREDIBLE World War II story you’ve NEVER HEARD

One of the biggest American World War II cemeteries in Europe is in a small town in the Netherlands, where thousands of Dutch people continue the tradition to this day of “adopting” a fallen US soldier and checking in on his family. “The Monuments Man” author Robert Edsel joins Glenn Beck to tell this incredible story, which he documents in his new book, “Remember Us.”

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GLENN: Robert, welcome back to the program. How are you, sir?

ROBERT: Great to talk to you!

GLENN: It's great to talk to you.

Can you remind me? You were on with us, after Monuments Men. And you talked about this great service that is still going on, where people that -- they were still looking for paintings and pieces of art, that had been taken by the Nazis.

And if I remember right, didn't somebody in our -- our own audience reach out to you, and say, I think we found one of those paintings?

ROBERT: Yes, sir. Absolutely.

The Glenn Beck audience. And Glenn Beck, you yourself deserve a lot of credit.

Because I hadn't walked out of your studio last time. You know, in Dallas at Las Colinas.

Headed back to our office at Monuments Men and Women Foundation office, before someone in my office contacted me and said, we've already had a lead, as a result of your interview with Glenn. And it turned out someone whose aunt had been given two paintings during World War II.

She had worked for the government overseeing Germany, and these two paintings were missing.

We were able to identify who the rightful owner was, and get them back.

So it's a great thing that you performed. And, you know, it's a magnificent conclusion, though obviously a very difficult part of history.

GLENN: What was it like to give that back to the family?

ROBERT: It was a deeply moving experience. We -- the foundation found and returned more than 30 works of art, from paintings to documents, ancient books. Tapestries, to museums. Individual collectors, and so on.

And, you know, when we see, oftentimes, the people just stand there, and they cry.

They don't even know what to say. Because they may have worked 50 or 60 years, trying to find some work of art that's been missing. And they haven't had leads. And to -- to see us standing there, with something that belongs to them.

Not asking for anything in return. Don't charge anybody for doing it. Because we feel like everybody who went through World War II already paid enough.

Words -- words just fail. It's just pure gratitude.

GLENN: I can't wait for you to tell this new story.

Tell me the story of the care takers. The care takers of --

ROBERT: Well, it's a story that found me, just as Monuments did.

I have written about -- in the Monuments Men, I told the story of two Monuments Officers who were killed in combat, one British soldier and one American, Walter Huchthausen. And Huchthausen was killed. He once did a last casualty at war. He was killed in the last month of World War II, and is buried in the American benevolence, American cemetery, in Margraten in the Netherlands. I knew that story, and I had made mention of a young girl who was harbored in September '45, asking for the address of his mother, wanting to write her and tell her, that she walked 5 miles, several times a week, from her house to the American military cemetery. It was called then. To put flowers on his grave. Because her family knew them. And they were grief-stricken to know that they were killed.

And I knew that story too. I mentioned that. And then in 2015, the nephew of Huchthausen wrote me and included a photograph of this elderly lady with this crown of white hair. And he said, here's a photo with Frida, and I couldn't place who this was.

I had no idea who it was. And I realized, my God, this is that 19-year-old girl that is still alive. So I flew to England. She married a British soldier after the war. And I went to meet with her. She started showing me photographs of when the American -- Americans liberated her area of the Netherlands.

And all these American soldiers that they knew.

And she said, you know about the American military cemetery.

She said, have you been there?

And I said yes. And she said, so you know about the great adoption program?

And I said, what? She said, the great adoption program.

I said, I have no idea what you're talking about. So I started doing some research on this. And learned, at the end of World War II, our largest World War II cemetery in Europe, was not Normandy. It was the Netherlands American cemetery, where 17,800 boys and a few women buried at this cemetery by May 1946.

And by that time, every single grave had a Dutch person, a local person, who volunteered to be an adaptor of that brave.

Go out there on the first death date of the soldier, Veterans Day, Memorial Day.

And if they had the contact information for the next of kin, send them a photograph of the grave.
And a letter.

Because they realized, it was okay to adopt the bodies of dead boys.

But where the real need was, was to reach across the ocean, into the American homes and try to assuage the grief of the families.

And they knew some of these boys. And I found it the most heartwarming, uplifting, and certainly unique conclusion to a World War II story that I think has been written.

GLENN: So are they still some of them still doing this?

ROBERT: Not some. In fact, there were about -- in 1940, 748.

American families were given the choice to have their loved ones sent home, or to be left overseas in a military cemetery.

The Army had no idea, how many -- how many families would want their boys sent home, and as a consequence, they couldn't tell how many cemeteries they would need.

We thought almost everybody would want to have the families sent home. But it turned out not to be the case. So about 61 percent came home. About 39 percent stayed in Europe, which was about the numbers from World War I.

Although, the numbers in this area, in the Netherlands were higher.

The -- the graves that are there now.

There are 10,000 boys there. And four women.

8300 graves. 1700 names on the walls of the missing.

Every one of them has an adaptor for 80 years.

All those graves have been adopted, without interruption.

There's a waiting list of almost a thousand people in the Netherlands, to become a doctor. This is a -- not just a --

GLENN: This is --

JASON: A privilege. Because they take their kids out to the cemetery. They turn the cemetery into a classroom. And you go out there. And, yes, there's a somber element. They're instilling in their kids, you're able to think, and say what you want to. Because of the freedom that was given to you, by this American girl or boy. And we don't do that in our country anymore.

GLENN: So this is one of the most incredible stories that I've -- I've ever heard.

And I'm shocked that the world doesn't know this!

Is -- have you -- is there anything like this, anywhere else in the world?

JASON: No. We couldn't even find a comp of any nature.

There are -- that is not to say, the people in Normandy area, don't care about Normandy and other cemeteries. They do, of course. As do the Belgians in other cemeteries.

But there's no place that created an organic great adoption program, during the war, in January 1945!

These people in this area of the Netherlands were so grateful, having been neutral in World War I.

And having not lost their freedom for 100 years!

And they didn't like it!

And when the Americans liberated them in September 44. I'll never forget this woman Freda. This elderly woman I met, looked at me, the first time I interviewed her. I knew her for eight years. The last eight years of her life.

I delivered a eulogy two summers ago. She looked at me, there were the eyes of the 19-year-old. And she said, when I saw that first tank over the hill and I realized, we were saved.

I looked at my dad, and I said, Papi, these American boys come all the way across the ocean to say this. And there were tears in her eyes.

Because they didn't -- they couldn't imagine how we could have moved that equipment across -- across the ocean.

And why we would have cared so much.

So there isn't anything like it.

But January 45, these people in this little town of Margraten.

A mile from the cemetery, organized a meeting of the town leaders. The town who got 1200 people.

And they were trying to find an answer to the question: How do you thank your liberators, when they're no longer alive to thank? And they came up with this idea of this great adoption program, and it's a story that I tell, following the lives of about 12 different American combat soldiers.

Bomber recipients.

Tankers.

Because we don't know that story.

We don't what knows to an American story, when they're killed on the field of battle.

Because it's depressing.

We move on to the next scene in a movie.

Well, I want people to know, you started your program with freedom is not free.

It's ugly.

Let's talk about that. Let's talk about what the cost is.

Let's talk about the stripping line that the body goes through, and the removal of dog tags, one being put in the mouth, if there's still a head. And the other being nailed to the cross, because they don't have time to stencil the names on yet.

Let's talk about that, and let people know, it's not just a Marvel movie. Or a gang war.

This is real. This is painful. And, of course, at the end of the war, when we Americans declare victory, and move on with our lives, there's millions of family members in the United States, whose lives will never be the same.

So it is -- it's still happening today. It's still happening today.

GLENN: The name -- the name of the book is Remember Us.

And take us -- I mean, because that's really kind of the -- the -- the beauty of it.

Take us through the rest of the book, just briefly.

It starts with what?

ROBERT: Well, I follow -- I began what a nice life was in the Netherlands. Until May 10, 1940.

And the Netherlands does not get much attention from World War II, and yet everybody has heard of Battle of the Bulge. And Battle -- those are all within 50 miles of what we're talking about.

They happened around there. Of course, World War II, in western Europe, begins right here in this area. Because the German tanks roll across the border.

So I cover the life of these 12 different Americans. I interviewed all their family members. Some make it through the war. Some don't.

You read the book, you realize who makes it, who doesn't. But their lives converge around this area of the Netherlands. And when post-world War II stories end, with the war being over, remember us kicks into a transcendent moment when the Dutch come up with this idea of this great adoption program. The Americans refuse to provide the names and addresses of the next of kin.

So they're foiled with trying to achieve their ultimate objective. Which is to try to contact all the American families.

And frustrated, there was -- one of the key figures of the book.

A woman who is the mother of 12 children.

Who takes it upon herself. She's a woman of action.

She writes president Truman. And pleads for him to get involved.

When that doesn't work. She gets on the first airplane, she's ever flown on. She leaves her kids behind.

She flies to New York. Lands in LaGuardia Field.

She goes to Washington, and meets the members of Congress. Including a young guy from Texas, named Lyndon Johnson.

Who says, young lady, you need to go to Texas. Because there are so many military bases there.

She flies to our hometown. And lands in Lovefield.

In June of 1946. And is met by two family members. And for five weeks, she lives with American families, that lost somebody during a war.

And to each of them she says, leave your boys with us. When the election comes.

We will watch over them, like our own forever.

And they have done that. Now, today, these 10,000 Dutch doctors only have contact information for 20 percent of the American families.

They couldn't ever get the others.

GLENN: You're kidding me. Where is the list? Do you have a list?

ROBERT: Yeah. The Monuments Men and Women Foundation entered into a joint venture with the Dutch Foundation for Adopting Graves.

Not charging anybody for this. And we have created a website called foreverpromise.org.

And on that website is a list of all 10,000 men and women, more women that are buried at the cemetery, or whose names are on the walls missing.

And it's a searchable database. We're asking people to go and see. Do you have someone you know, or a relative, who is buried there.

And if so, we have a short questionnaire. What's your relationship? Are you aware of this great adoption program? Are you in contact with your adopter? Would you like to be? Would you allow us to share your contact information?

I connected a lady from Richmond, Texas. Saturday night. To her -- to this young Tammy, that's the adopter of her brother.

She's 93 years old.

She was in tears. At the thought when she leaves this world, there will be someone there to watch over her brother.

And that's what we're all about is this connecting.

GLENN: Rob, I have to tell you.

You've really done something with your life. I mean, I know you don't need me to say it.
But what a great job you have. And what a great service you have done for so many years.

Thank you so much.

Please, look this up.

The forever promise project.

You can find it at foreverpromise.org. Foreverpromise.org. Robert Edsel is the author's name. The book is Remember Us. It's a perfect read for this week.