RADIOMay 12, 2023

Did the Biden family have financial deals in ROMANIA, too?!

It wasn’t just China and Ukraine. House Republicans claimed in a Wednesday morning press conference that the Biden family pocketed money from a businessman in Romania while Joe Biden was VP, too. In this clip, Glenn runs through the evidence against the Biden family, and he asks a vital question: Why does it seem like nobody in the press cares?!

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GLENN: I want to start on the Biden thing. And please excuse me today, but I am a little sidetracked, and maybe later today I'll give you some information on what is happening. But nothing is happening in my life that isn't happening in thousands of American's homes. And I -- I am no different than you. And what you're going through.

So let's just get through what we can. I have not been paying attention to the news. But I have been paying attention enough, to see what yesterday, Jim Jordan revealed 170 suspicious activity reports, surrounding what he is calling the Biden crime family.

This is something that as our audience member, you have known since 2016. 2015. Peter Schweizer has been on this program, often.

And the first time I heard anyone mention crime and Biden in a serious educated way. Was with Peter on this program.

When he said, Joe Biden may be the most corrupt vice president in our nation's history. And that is continuing.

All of the stuff that was released yesterday, the 170 suspicious activity reports. They all come from the Treasury Department.

They were put together by the Treasury Department of our government, in the Obama and Biden administration. One hundred seventy of those, the committee has reviewed.

Plus, thousands of pages of bank records, that the committee has reviewed. And they have gotten these from four -- is it four or five of the banks? But they believe there's as many as 12 banks involved. It looks like a very elaborate money-laundering scheme of the Bidens.

The Bidens are all involved. It looks like the entire family is involved. And not just immediate family members.

And they are in receipt of millions of dollars. There are offshore LLCs, that seemingly all of the members of the family have opened up another offshore business.

I don't know what these people have done, in the Biden family all to suddenly be receiving payments from foreign governments to the tune of millions of dollars. But that is exactly why this investigation is going on. The FBI and the Justice Department, and the Treasury Department. Have been investigating this, for years.

It is clear, they are not doing their job. And before we get into this, I just want to tell you, we have been working on this topic. And the -- the biggest problem that I have, the reason why nobody cares, is not that we don't care.

It's that we don't think any justice will be served.

We now are at a point in our republic, where we are so corrupt, that we know if you're an elite nothing will happen to you.

Unless you're on the wrong side. If you're on the wrong side, of course, you'll pay a price. You may even pay a price for something you didn't even do.

But you will pay a heavy price. If you're on the wrong side of the New World Order.

This is not America. We have been talking about this, for several months, internally. And next week, we are going to do a special next Thursday. I'm going to do my regular Wednesday night special. It's going to be on AI. Which is a really important topic.

And then on Thursday night, we're going to be doing a network-wide special. I believe it will be at 8 o'clock on Thursday. I'm not sure yet

But we are going to give you the constitutional stick, that will make justice blind once again. And we will have constitutional experts on.

We will have law enforcement, former law enforcement. Former prosecutors on.

We are going to outline not only the crimes. But we are also going to show you exactly how to constitutionally -- I'm not going to give you any more than that right now.

We are going to -- I don't want to reveal it in -- give anybody any time to prepare an answer against it. Just know, justice will be blind if you do your part.

There will be consequences. The special is the Biden crime family. The reckoning.

Next Thursday, I believe at 8:00 p.m. Eastern.

Okay. So, Stu, there is no explanation on what any of these family members do to get the millions of dollars. How many offshore LLCs do you have?

STU: I have zero offshore LLCs, Glenn.

GLENN: Okay. Well, that's different than me. Because I have none. You have zero. And I have none.

I don't know anybody that has an offshore LLC.

And I don't clearly know what they're doing. I don't think I know anyone with an offshore LLC. But I do know people who have companies overseas. And I don't know if that would count as an Offshore LLC.

STU: Right, sure.

GLENN: You know what I mean?

And I don't think it does. That's legitimate. The offshore is a way to launder money.

And I don't know anyone that has that. I don't know any legitimate reason for having an offshore LLC.

For a business that you don't really do anything. It's not your business.

STU: Right. You're talking about a Shell company, right? A pass through, where this money is just being funneled into some foreign entity into a Shell company. And then being distributed to Biden bank accounts.

GLENN: So there's some new information. The Romanian businessman who was charged in a bribery scheme in Romania. Funneled more than a million dollars, to Hunter Biden and other family members of the then vice president. Joe Biden.

And Joe Biden was at the time, going over to Romania. And he was saying the same thing he was saying in Ukraine. Which was? Do you remember?

STU: We have to stop the corruption.

GLENN: Stop the corruption.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And so he and George Soros partnered together to stop all of the corruption.

So he was over preaching anti corruption members in Romania. And the businessman, who later went to jail for corruption. Wired more than 3 million dollars into the account of Rob Walker. Rob Walker is also the guy who worked with the Bidens in China, that got another $3 million from the China energy. Or whatever.

And that was split up, into a whole bunch of different Biden's accounts.

So 16 of the 17 wire payments, were made while Joe Biden was in office.

STU: Oh. So not all of them were made while he was in office. Sixteen of 17.

GLENN: Yes.

And in 2014, a year before the payments began. He went and called corruption a cancer and a form of tyranny before the Prime Minister and the parliament.

They began then after, right after that trip. Hunter goes over and starts doing business with this corrupt businessman.

He was facing an investigation for fraud, and bribery.

So what is the younger Biden do?

He recruits the former FBI director, Louie Free, FBI.

To work on the case, to see if they can help him get out.

He leaned on his FBI contacts and his State Department contacts and Romanian officials to intervene in the case.

Now, this is all outlined in the Hunter Biden laptop. And all of the wire transfers have been verified by the banks.

It didn't work out, in 2017. He was sentenced to seven years, on charges of fraud and bribery.

So now we have the Biden family, we have the State Department in not only Romania, but also in Ukraine, and we have the FBI.

Now, why wouldn't the FBI be investigating the FBI's role in the Hunter and Joe Biden crime family business.

Gee. I can't imagine.

They are also investigating the relationship with another guy, a former Serbian foreign minister, who worked with the SEFC. That's the Chinese energy company.

This guy contacted Biden in December, while he -- of 2015, while he was still vice president, to arrange a meeting, with the chairman Ye Jong Ping, according to the emails from the laptop.

They made a 3 million-dollar suspect donation. To the -- the other guy from Serbia. His, quote, think tank. The center for international relations, and sustainable development.

Let me say that again.

The think tank for international relationships and sustainable development. They got $3 million.

And then a million of that, was wired again to the Biden family.

STU: Same percentages almost on every one of these transactions. Right around a third.

GLENN: One-third.

STU: 33 percent, right in there.

PAT: Correct. Then right after that, Hunter Biden arranged for this Serbian think tank, you know, sustainable development guy, to meet his father's security adviser.

Because he was trying to run for the United Nations secretary general. Okay.

So now let's see what we have. The last one, we have the State Department and the FBI.

And Joe Biden and his family.

Okay?

In Romania. We also know the same thing happened in Ukraine. This one, we know involved also the FBI, the White House, the banks.

Who else? Who else am I missing here?

The Biden family. And the State Department. Now, a third one with Serbia.

And Serbia involving itself in another sustainable energy deal. What was the deal in -- in Ukraine?

STU: International relations. And sustainable development?

GLENN: Oh, yeah. And it involved corruption, anticorruption.

And energy.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Huh. And China too.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: It seems weird. And it's always the same amount of money, going to the Biden family. Who have no experience on any of this stuff.

STU: Certainly Hunter doesn't. Right?

GLENN: Correct. Correct. And now let me just add: This last one involves now the United Nations. And the United Nations. And the United Nations sustainable.

Are you feeling good yet about global warming and all of the money, that is going over to Ukraine?

And all of the money that we're giving, for instance, that billion dollars to China, for sustainable development? Anybody feeling good about this?

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STU: So let me see if I have this right.

I want to keep this as basic as possible. We will fill in.

And I know you will do this on the special.

GLENN: Yeah. By the way, the ultimate chalk board.

We have the biggest chalkboard, we've ever put together.

STU: Wow. That's saying something.

You've built chalkboards from scratch for certain shows. This will be a big one. But taking out all -- sucking out all the details. You will go through them later. And we need to learn these names. And understand these entities.

GLENN: Correct.

STU: But basically, the pattern of behavior is a foreign country, a foreign entity. That is corrupt.

GLENN: That is corrupt.

STU: Passes money to some other intermediary. A think tank. A politician. Someone in that realm.

GLENN: Usually anticorruption or sustainable development. Or energy related.

STU: They pass money it a shell company.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: And then a Shell company gets the money to the Bidens. And that percentage is always about a third of the initial amount.

GLENN: Correct.

STU: So we have middlemen taking their piece throughout this process. But basically about a third of the money is getting to the Bidens in some way.

GLENN: Correct. You know what our people on the ground say, how much of a percentage of money, of the United States money that we're shipping over.

A hundred billion dollars, let's say. We ship that over.

STU: To Ukraine.

GLENN: Do you know how much is getting to the actual front from those donations?

STU: I do not.

GLENN: About a third. About 70 percent of it is gone.

STU: What do you mean gone?

GLENN: Gone. It's all -- it's all going to bribery. You have to pay this guy. And then he'll take it to the next guy. Oh, you want that? You'll have to pay this guy. And that guy.

It's all bribery. About a third of our money. And they think maybe even less. But a third of our money is actually going to do anything.

The rest of it is going to criminals. So you were saying?

STU: I just -- this seems like this is such a well-developed scheme.

GLENN: Oh, it is.

STU: And I guess what the thought was essentially, no one would ever look?

GLENN: You have everybody --

STU: There's so much here.

GLENN: You have everybody involved. You have the FBI involved. You have the State Department involved. You have the media doing cover.

Here's what the New York Times said in today's paper. In response to yesterday.

House Republican report finds no evidence of wrongdoing, by President Biden.

STU: That's their --

GLENN: That's the headline. That is the headline.

Here's the first paragraph: After four months of investigation, House Republicans who promised to use their new majority to unearth evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden acknowledged on Wednesday.

That they have yet to uncover incriminating material about him, despite their frequent insinuations, that he and his family have been involved in criminal conduct and corruption.

If you are only -- this is going to lead me to Tucker Carlson and Twitter. I'm going to address that next.

This leads me right directly to that. If you are reading the New York Times, you have absolutely no idea what's really going on.

None! That's half the country is getting their news. If the mainstream media covered this at all yesterday. They covered it this way.

I could only find one story, and that was from NBC News. Yesterday, and it had this spin.

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.

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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.

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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.