RADIOMarch 31, 2022

Donald Trump Jr. gives America the AGENDA-FREE news we want

Sick and tired of news organizations deciding for you which stories are important and which opinions you should have? Well, so was Donald Trump Jr. So, he and his team developed a new way to read the news: MxM News. It’s an app that ‘cut[s] through the censorship, mainstream bias, and institutional dominance that has left society divided and misinformed.’ MxM News provides you with information from all kinds of sources — ones that sway to the left AND to the right. ‘We let people actually use their brains,’ Trump Jr. tells Glenn, ‘and, you know, make their own opinions.’

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GLENN: Cofounder of MXM News, a new app that you should absolutely download and use. Donald Trump Jr. is on with us. Hey, Don, how are you?

DON: I'm doing well. Yourself?

GLENN: I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Thank you for this app, by the way. Tell people what it does exactly.

DON: My pleasure.

Well, MXM, like minute by minute, it's an app for people who actually want to see the news. Glenn, you have a lot of followers. I'm pretty sure that Apple's news algorithm has never shown anyone one of their stories that they want to --

GLENN: It used to be -- about ten years ago, it was pretty good. Now, nothing. Nothing.

DON: No. You'll never show up. Just like, you know, you maybe show up in my Twitter feed, 10 percent of the times you post.

GLENN: Correct. Correct.

DON: But 150 percent of CNN News shows up in my feed, whether I follow it or not.

GLENN: I know. I know.

DON: That's how the algorithm works. These stories, they do exist. The Hunter Biden laptop, people were writing about it. But the vast majority of America, did not see that story. We now know that 20 percent of Biden voters literally said they would not have voted for them, had they not voted about it. It was the cover of the New York Post. But big tech decided that no one saw that. Because it would hurt the odds of them forwarding their political agenda. So I said, you know what, enough is enough. I know people are writing these stories. I see it, but I spent all day looking at this stuff like you do. So we decided, a couple friends of mine. All super political guys, to come up with an app. Create an app. That will literally pluck from all stories. I mean, there's mainstream media in there as well, but you'll see the Glenn Beck stuff. You'll see stuff from TheBlaze. You'll see stuff from Breitbart. The stories that are being suppressed will also show up equally. So you can actually read about everything and then formulate your own opinion. That's what this was about. And we just saw that it literally didn't exist. The places were even conservatives were still getting their news. Were so heavily biased. The big hand of big tech was suppressing everything that they want to read. And we have to make sure that this stuff is out there, so that these disasters don't happen in the future. And until big tech decides to actually believe in free speech. And not censorship. And not controlling that type of message. Somebody will have to step up and do it.

GLENN: I will tell you, that this is so needed. And I appreciate the fact that you are putting in the mainstream sources, so you see it. I don't -- I want to read all of it. I want to choose, what to read, what not to read. You know what I mean?

CHIP: Yeah, 100 percent. I read four or five articles on a subject. I don't just take one as a gospel, because I'll always take out an extra point in something there. You know, you can see that bias, then when you actually -- oh, I didn't realize X, Y, Z. Right? You saw that with Kyle Rittenhouse. Oh, you know the people that he killed weren't African-Americans. I didn't know that. I was told he was a white supremacist, right? So you can see that bias. It really helps formulate your opinion. Literally, we created this app. It's totally free. You can download it for i Phone and Google. You know, if you don't like it, delete it. It's that simple. We're not asking for information or emails. We're literally just trying to make sure that people can have access to the news that exists, but they won't see elsewhere.

GLENN: So how do you do this? Is there an algorithm? Is this hand selected? How is this done?

DON: Right now. We literally have a team of guys going through all the sources. Picking the things that will be trending. They will show the diversity of both opinions. You know, mainstream as well as sort of the things that I still consider mainstream. I mean, I say you guys are mainstream based on simply the amount of following that you have.

GLENN: Correct.

DON: But no algorithm from the urine big tech suspects, is ever going to highlight that. It may show up. You'll get 10 percent of the following. It's like my Instagram feed. You know, 10 percent of the people who want to see my stuff, will maybe see it at best. Whereas I see stuff from people I don't even follow. And it magical shows up there, and every suggested follow is a Democrat politician, never a Republican, even though I don't know what would lead them to believe that I'm wanting to follow Bernie Sanders. But nonetheless, it's there.

(laughter)

GLENN: Yeah. I get the --

DON: They make it really easy for people -- honestly, you can just go to DonJr.com. Like at the top of my home page, just D-O-N-J-R.com, you see there -- you can click there. If you have Android, click the link there. It will take you right to the Android store. If you have the i Phone, it will take you right to the app and the i Phone store. It was leaving the downloaded app on Apple all weekend. Which was pretty cool for news and stuff like that. And so people are into it. It's a very simple platform. You choose the preferences of things that you want to see. And those are the things that will end up in your feed. And you will actually see the stories that you were missing all the time.

GLENN: Yeah. I'm looking. Business insider. TheBlaze. Politico. Associated Press. Breitbart. Rumble. TheBlaze. National Pulse. The Federalist. Daily Caller. The Hill. Daily Star. Bloomberg. Newsweek. You are covering -- you are covering the news.It not an agenda-driven thing. It seems to be a truth-driven thing, which is what we're lacking right now.

JASON: 100 percent. You know, there's no agenda behind it. We let people actually use their brains. And, you know, make their own opinions. And that's what it should be about. But it hasn't been for so long.

And, again, for so long, I use social for my news, but again, if I'm getting 90 percent of the other stuff in, I believed, based on the last five years. That, you know, I was working on Russia. I'm an agent of Russia. Based on the nonsense that's out there, not actually the truth.

So it's the kind of thing, literally in ten minutes, you could scroll through, and have all of the news from all of the sources, from all over the world, in one place. It's a great way to get educated quickly, without having to sort through the filter, without having to actively search the stuff that you would be looking for to maybe find the corollary opinion. So, yeah. We're pretty excited about it. And just trying to fight back against the nonsense that we've been seeing. I've been preaching about it for a long time. A lot of people were saying, build your own. So we did. We did.

GLENN: Don, I get a question all the time. What sites do we check? I check a million of them. But I follow one site done by an aggregator. He's got the best finger on the pulse for stories that I've ever seen. And most people don't even know about the website, it's called Spin Quark.

You should look that up for stories. Because it's a great selection of stories. Spin Quark.

DON: I'll check it out. Yeah, and this was really also in part to fill the void that Breitbart -- that Drudge left, and when Drudge sort of got -- I guess he sold and got woke. And the new guy is a liberal and all that stuff. But when you have the Drudge Report, that used to break big stories, now they won't even cover it, the Durham report. Mainstream media, talks zero seconds about Hunter Biden and the laptop. And, you know, now that they've got what they wanted, they can say, oh, yeah, I guess we were wrong, it wasn't really Russian disinformation, despite 200 intelligence officials, signing on to the letter, as though it's real, as though they had some information that it was Russian disinformation. You know, we're trying to cut out that nonsense.

Because there's plenty of it out there. You see it right now I'm sure with Russia and Ukraine. You know, I don't honestly know what to believe. Because I've been in the room for the last five years, as they've lied. As they've reported what happened in the room that I was in. And the true things have nothing to do with each other. They don't even resemble each other remotely. One is a messaging designed to derive a narrative, the other is what actually happened. And again, there doesn't have to be a correlation between the two anymore. And that's a shame. So we're trying to eliminate that.

GLENN: It's MXM, like minute by minute. MXM. You can get it wherever you get your apps. I highly recommend you download it and use it. It's a great way to stay in touch with the news, without the liberal algorithms telling you what you should read. Read it all. Read it all.

Don, I want to ask you a bit. Your dad said yesterday, that Russia should release what they have on Hunter Biden's, you know, bribes. What we think are bribes, and sure look like bribes.

Yesterday, also we found out the FBI, gee, what did I do with that Hunter Biden laptop? They don't know where it is.

Luckily, there are copies of it now, and it was entered in the Congressional Record, yesterday.

What is your -- what's your take on what's happening with not Hunter Biden, but how this will affect Joe Biden, because this story is about him think compromised?

DON: Yeah. And as this thing started weeks ago. I was like, hey, has anyone ever thought about maybe the fact that our response to the Russia Ukraine situation is totally misguided, because they're trying to cover up what they know still exists out there. That maybe we don't know about it. I mean, the FBI, who I guarantee you, has every text message to anyone who was within a 1500 mile radius of Washington, DC, on January 6th. Right? You're grandmother. They're spying on them. They haven't lost that text message. But they don't know where the Hunter Biden laptop is. Because, you know, it's just not that important, that Hunter was laundering money for Russian oligarchs, tied to human trafficking and sex trafficking rings.

And he was doing all sorts of shady business. That's not relevant to the FBI anymore, Glenn. That stuff doesn't matter. And that's just part of the swamp. And it's just totally acceptable. You know, again, if your grandmother took a selfie near the capital that week.

All right. She's in trouble. We're going to investigate her. I guarantee you, that they spent more time researching the garage pool door at Bubba Watson's supposed hate crime thing with Denmark, than they ever did looking into the Hunter Biden laptop.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

DON: This is a recurring pattern. These people and the leadership at the FBI is so corrupted. Imagine if it was my laptop. You think it would just go missing? Yeah, no, it would be exhibit A. It would be everywhere. It would be on the cover of every mainstream periodical in the country. It would be everywhere. It's Hunter Biden's -- now we know it's true. Now we know it's missing. These aren't coincidences, Glenn. These aren't stupid people. They may be biased. They may be partisan. But they're not stupid. They don't just lose these things. And, again, if it was about their political enemies, rather than the people who will get them their 10 percent in time, I guarantee you, it wouldn't be lost.

GLENN: We're talking to Donald Trump Jr. the cofounder of MXM. An app that you should download. Don, I have about a minute. A minute left. Can you just tell me. I mean, because when you look -- something is wrong with this war. Something is very, very wrong. The way Biden is playing this. It almost seems like he wants a really big war to happen. How much of -- of the Hunter Biden stuff do you think is playing a role, in what the president governor is saying about governor Putin, and the direction we seem to be moving in?

DON: Listen, I think it's pretty significant. Ukraine also -- there's not a country out there, that doesn't have a Hunter Biden laptop, or a clone thereof. I mean, all of our enemies seem to have a Hunter Biden laptop. The only people that don't have a Hunter Biden laptop are the FBI, because they lost it I guess.

So I guess I think our decision-making process is literally being done to protect Joe Biden. Hunter Biden. And their shady dealings abroad. And the fact that there is no one in the media, even questioning if that could be the case, is more scary, Glenn.

GLENN: Yeah. It is.

DON: Because it was sort of obvious. Right? He was doing all these deals for no reason, with no experience and millions of dollars, and yada, yada, yada. With both countries. And they're not even saying, hey, do you think maybe our response is biased, because of that? I mean, that to me is truly scary. I mean, literally has asked that question. I've been asking it for a month. I know if it was me. They would say, Trump is making this decision because he's compromised by this country. But Joe Biden is not? Give me a break. Is there anything in Joe Biden's history or Hunter Biden's history that would allow us to believe that they are taking the high road, and they're doing the right thing for the people of America? Like, we could be on the verge of World War III with Russia to cover up a Hunter Biden scam. We're going to send our kids over there to die, to protect a crackhead. Like are we out of our minds? And, again, the fact that no one is asking the question, makes it even scarier. But, again, you won't hear that reported. Which is a big reason why we created MXM News so that you can see it yourself.

GLENN: Thank you so much, Don. Appreciate it. We'll talk to you again. Our best to your family. God bless.

DON: Thanks a lot, Glenn. Be well.

GLENN: MXM is the name of the app. All right. Knowledge is power, but especially true right now.

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.”

Transcript

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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.