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clayton: welcome back. memorial day restoring honor to those who gave their lives for this country. one man is doing that one grey stone at a time. abby: great story. last five years greg loomis spent every single sunday polishing neglect grave sides of fallen veterans. just like many of those veterans, is he volunteering his service. clayton: joining us now is andrew who is live for us bright and early. what compelled to you start doing this? good morning, everybody, thank you for having me. it was organic to be honest with you, it was organic situation whereas it was an observation i made walking through cemeteries. and i have connections with some friends that are in the military. where i noticed that there were problems where the monuments were forgotten of soldiers who sacrificed their
last couple days who don t need any names to back up their story. used to be you had these great journalists that would provide the american people background on a story that impacts us all. now it s more about that individual reporter than it is about the story they are going to write. they want to click. they want people to read their headline and story it doesn t have to be accurate. pete: almost like independent journalism is dead. clayton: yesterday pete and i were hanging out on facebook. abby: as you do all theme. clayton: looking on trending topics. why is angela merkel trending on a sunday afternoon? it s because she says she needs to now go it alone. after president trump s visit with her on g-7. germany is on its own. we can t rely on the united states any longer. pete: running for a fourth term of office. on the campaign trail she had this to say. following the talks with president trump and other leaders in europe last week, this is what she said on the campaign trail. the
this question which was a great response about what keeps him awake at night. what keeps you awake at night? nothing. i keep other people awake at night. pete: boom. i absolutely love it. clayton: they are wondering where next bombs are going to come. they have been forced out of their strategy out of the past year to start shifting their strategy, not using phones and they have to come out of their bunkers and drive face-to-face meetings and they re bombed. pete: what he said is not going to let you skirt off to another battlefield and occupy planned land. we are going to annihilate you is the words mattis. that will keep a puny little isis fighter awake at night. abby: that line is going to live on. pete: many of mattis lines live on. abby: jillian mealy is with you us. jillian: good morning to you guys and to you at home as well. a navy seal falls to his death when a hair chute fails to open sending him plunging into the hudson river.
lives for our country. it was bothersome to me so i decided to do something about it. abby: it s incredible. a special story you want to tell. tell us about some of the things have you experienced along the way. sure. it s been great because some people have been touched by what i do in a variety of ways. sometimes what i do is i will tell the story and i tell the story. we do the restorations and then tell a story about their life. one particular story that really is touching to me is there was a gentleman, young man, he just turned 18 years old, he was the last surviving sibling of his family. so he had lost three siblings at a very young age. the parents had. and he made the choice to join the military in world war i in 1918. and he was killed by the germans about 9 months into service. so his i always imagined the family in the conversation that they would have had prior to him joining the service. because they had already lost