bill: personal story seeing many tonight, sunday is father s day and most dads i know are patriots. responsible fathers supporting their families and protecting them from danger is one of the highest callings a man can have, perhaps the highest. but many fathers have secrets and journalists rita cosby s father had a big one. she has written a book about it called quiet hero i spoke with her a few days ago. bill: now your father was captured a polish resistance fighter during world war ii young kid at that time. extremely young. germans are chasing him around, they get him. they sent him to dresden back to germany in a p.o.w. camp. to a camp for become 20 to 30,000 inmates. bill: he was lucky he was catholic because if he was jewish he would have went to auschwitz and they would have killed him. he gets out after world war ii and he is 90 pounds. they abused him. the germans abused everybody. he comes to america. all right? how did his experience, a p.o.w., polish resistan
bill: personal story seeing many tonight, sunday is father s day and most dads i know are patriots. responsible fathers supporting their families and protecting them from danger is one of the highest callings a man can have, perhaps the highest. but many fathers have secrets and journalists rita cosby s father had a big one. she has written a book about it called quiet hero i spoke with her a few days ago. bill: now your father was captured a polish resistance fighter during world war ii young kid at that time. extremely young. germans are chasing him around, they get him. they sent him to dresden back to germany in a p.o.w. camp. to a camp for become 20 to 30,000 inmates. bill: he was lucky he was catholic because if he was jewish he would have went to auschwitz and they would have killed him. he gets out after world war ii and he is 90 pounds. they abused him. the germans abused everybody. he comes to america. all right? how did his experience, a p.o.w., polish resistan
bill: personal story seeing many tonight, sunday is father s day and most dads i know are patriots. responsible fathers supporting their families and protecting them from danger is one of the highest callings a man can have, perhaps the highest. but many fathers have secrets and journalists rita cosby s father had a big one. she has written a book about it called quiet hero i spoke with her a few days ago. bill: now your father was captured a polish resistance fighter during world war ii young kid at that time. extremely young. germans are chasing him around, they get him. they sent him to dresden back to germany in a p.o.w. camp. to a camp for become 20 to 30,000 inmates. bill: he was lucky he was catholic because if he was jewish he would have went to auschwitz and they would have killed him. he gets out after world war ii and he is 90 pounds. they abused him. the germans abused everybody. he comes to america. all right? how did his experience, a
bill: oh, boy. i want everybody to check the book out. quiet hero, secrets from my father s past. qu ts rita cosby. such an honor to be here. rita is donating 20% of the proceeds from her book to uso s operation providing care which provides care for wounded warriors. bill o reilly is donating money for big charities because of your father s day buys. dad wants all of these great things, bold fresh, by the way, is out in paperback. so, it s easy to pick up. and we will get you what you buy by overnight delivery on saturday. so if you are a little tardy for dad, we will save your butt. get ton bill o reilly.com. when we come right back, glenn beck on how he is different from sarah palin and why he hates world cup soccer. beck, moments away.
what happened and thus the book quiet hero. do you hold any resentment because he wasn t an emotionally engaged dad? it was so hard, bill. we went back to poland and retraced his steps. he took me literally to the spot where he said rita this is where i lost all emotion. he saw 500 people killed. he basically walked away and came back he saw the remnants of what had happened. a german tank exploded it was booby trapped. he walked away, the ground shook and he ran back looking for a piece of his friend. and he said when he came back to that moment and saw nothing left of his friend, he lost all emotion and he said after that, after he took me to the scene, he said, rita this is where i lost everything. became numb and it didn t effect me to leave the family. bill: how did you get over it though? you were a kid and your father isn t emotionally engaged. did you ever come to grips with that. i don t resent him anymore. i think i did for the longest time. i did, of course, when you