RADIOMay 19, 2025

Are the Feds covering up Diddy’s REAL crimes?

The criminal trial of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs has been very disappointing so far, BlazeTV host‪@realjasonwhitlock‬tells Glenn. Instead of focusing on the biggest story – that Diddy may have been running an Epstein-style blackmailing/trafficking operation – the trial has just focused on Diddy’s own degeneracy. Why is NO ONE going after Diddy’s possible accomplices? Whitlock gives Glenn his terrifying theory: “I think they raided Diddy’s home to strip him of his power…all this is really about is taking away Diddy’s leverage and handing it over to the DOJ or whoever’s responsible for this.”

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GLENN: Jason Whitlock, welcome to the program. How are you, sir?

JEH: How are you, Glenn?

GLENN: I'm great. I'm great.

I'm not following the Diddy thing. I mean, just -- what I have read this week is absolutely disgusting. I mean, beyond -- I mean, I've read disgusting.

You read it kind of like you watch a car wreck.

I can't even read this stuff. It's so grotesque.

What is actually being exposed here?

What do you think actually happened?

And why aren't they going after anybody, but Diddy?

JASON: I've got my tinfoil hat as I'm talking to you, Glenn.

GLENN: Oh, crap.

Now I can't read his mind.

JASON: So I want the audience to be aware.

So listen, I think that they're holding a trial about Diddy is a really bad person.

He's a sexual degenerate. He turns violent against women that he's dating.

In terms of racketeering and sex trafficking within and all that.

None of that is being addressed.

And I think there's probably a good chance that Diddy either walks, or the jury just convicts him as you're a bad person.

But in terms of this actual sex trafficking. And he's this ringleader of this sexual exploitation deal. They're not proving that case. And I'm not sure that they even have an interest at arguing that case, at this point, Glenn, four or five days into the process. I think they raided Diddy's home to strip him of his power and leverage and blackmail material. And all this is really about is taking away Diddy's leverage and handing it over to the Department of Justice or whoever is responsible for this.

Or stripping him of the most damaging information he had on key people, that they don't want harmed. But in terms of a serious criminal prosecution, of -- of Sean combs.

That's not what transpired here.

GLENN: Well, that was a mouthful. I need my tinfoil hat for that one. What the hell.

So wait a minute. You're saying that maybe he was an operative. Or if he wasn't an operative. He was collecting stuff on people.

And now the government wants that? To either protect those people?

Or to have the power over those people?

JASON: And to strip Diddy of his power. To me, at this point, four or five days in, based on what they're arguing. Yesterday. They basically argued that his girlfriend had -- I don't know about the prosecution, argued that she was the one that paid the sex workers. I mean, this trial is a farce! It is proving that Diddy is a sexual degenerate. Diddy is violent towards women he's dating.

But in terms of, you know, the major, major sex trafficker and all that, no.

They're not even attempting to argue that.

And so I think that Diddy, being a bit of an idiot, probably got too full of himself, and started threatening the wrong people with the information he had. And someone needed to put him in his place. Like, no. You're an operative. You're a tool. You're an asset. You're not some ringleader. You haven't ascended to a place of power, where you can actually use this information, to start blackmailing people. So they stripped him of his information.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

JASON: They totally destroyed his reputation. And, again, maybe this jury will be so repulsed by Diddy. Which they could be.

That they'll just convict him of something that hasn't been proven in court.

GLENN: So who are the mysterious they?

JASON: The people that attended Diddy parties.

Who Diddy may have threatened.

And the -- look, look, I hate to use this. Because I'm just spit-balling here.

GLENN: Yeah. You're just speculating.

JASON: Let's take LeBron James, who said he is an important asset in the Democratic Party. And clearly LeBron James is an important asset in the Democratic Party.

And trying to push black people to stay on the democratic plantation.

And so if LeBron James is on tape somewhere.

And he admitted, he went to Diddy's party. Ain't no party like a Diddy party.

If I'm the -- the left, you know, and LeBron is an important asset for me.

I want that information stripped from Diddy. I want control of that information.

LeBron James is our asset. Not Diddy's asset.

I'm using LeBron James. But there may be other people like that. I'll just tell you, if you watch the case. What transpired in the courts.

You can't watch -- they're just basically arguing, hey, man. This guy is basically a pervert.

And him and his girlfriend did some really perverted things. They're not proving there's a criminal case, so now I have to go, well, what was the motive?

What was the big -- they raided this guy like he was Pablo Escobar, and now they're in court, arguing that he's Hugh Hefner?

No! That's not what we were promised. That's not what -- you don't do a raid like that, just, oh, this guy is Hugh Hefner. He hosted sex parties at his house. They raided him like he was Escobar.

And right now, four or five days in, you know, maybe he's -- maybe Diddy is Bill Cosby, but that's it.

GLENN: I have to tell you, I think I'm more disgusted by your answer, if it's true. If it's right, than I am by Diddy and what he was doing.

What I've heard in testimony, which is disgusting and despicable. But I think I'm more disturbed by the answer of, of this, you know, I own these people.

You don't own these people.

My gosh, you want to talk about a plantation!

I -- it's the only thing that makes sense to me, at this point.

Diddy is -- again, he's some talentless rapper of -- from a very questionable background.

And should -- should never -- again, when you build a system, as corrupt as the globalists have.

The -- very corrupt people rise to power.

GLENN: Yes.

JASON: And people that shouldn't have power, end up with power.

And Diddy is potentially one of those people. They created Frankenstein. Well, how do you kill Frankenstein? This is how you do it.

GLENN: Wow. And when is this trial supposed to end?

JASON: I think it's supposed to be six weeks. And, again, this is a distraction. This is sensational.

It's, hey. Look over here.

Diddy and baby oil.

And look at all these sensational stories. But there's no real meat here, and no substance.

You know, is rap music and that industry, nihilistic, and perverted, and sexually degenerate? Yes. We knew all that. We don't need a trial to prove that.

GLENN: And you can't go to jail for that.

JASON: No. No.

GLENN: Well, you can if it gets so perverted, and you're slavery.

JASON: No, no, no. What I mean by that, we have seen juries so repulsed by the defendant, that it just doesn't matter what the government is arguing or whatever. And he may go to jail, just for being a horrible, awful person. And no one is going to feel sorry for him, if that's the case.

But in terms of some sex trafficker. Again, I don't see it, at this point.

GLENN: So this goes to what -- because my question has been. Why are you not going after anyone else, but Diddy?

Because he couldn't have done all of this by himself.

So why is the guy? And it's the same story as -- as Epstein. They're only talking about him. And, you know, Maxwell. That's it!

Nobody else. Haven't even heard a name of anybody else.

JASON: Let me differentiate from my perspective, the difference between Epstein and Diddy.

And based on what's been argued in court. We're not even seeing them suggest that Diddy was doing this with underage people, so far.

He and, you know, the Epstein part, is about underage. And all that.

We haven't even gotten there, with Diddy. We've -- we spent the first four or five days, talking about the sexcapades of him and his girlfriend.

They tried to paint her as a victim. But she looked like a willing participate, so far in court.

GLENN: But this is why this is disturbing me. Because if what was said about these parties, it does -- it does lead to --

JASON: It involves children.

GLENN: It involves children. It involves drugs that people pass out. And it involves rape and everything else.

And on top of that. Probably poor language, is the idea that they're both Diddy and Epstein, are both operatives for some political or governmental entity.

Or group of people, that are trying to control people, and keep them in play.

JASON: Yeah, and James Comey's (inaudible), who is on the prosecution case, he's not going to argue that.

They're not going to go in. Or maybe later, the trial. Because Diddy certainly was someone that was out there. Promoting the democratic party.

Or a guy. He was certainly a political operative for the democratic party. So far. And even in opening statements or whatever, based off my understanding. None of that is being argued.

That his -- his political involvement. His political engagement. None of that is being put on the table. They're keeping this in a very safe space of, hey. Look at how sexually perverted Diddy and his girlfriend were.

GLENN: Hate this.

I absolutely hate this.

Because if we don't clean this stuff up. We have no chance of survival.

You know, it's like the stuff that was happening with the Muslim pedophile rings.

Over in England. Where everybody knew what was going on. And I'm not saying, we know over here, what's going on. But over there, it just became so obvious.

And the government was just covering it up for it. Because it served their purposes. Whatever those purposes might have been. And you can't have a civilization.

You can't have a society that is cohesive at all if these kinds of things are just not taken care of. If they're just -- special favors are paid to both sides, and just make it go away. You don't have a real system of government.

JASON: I'm going to go a step further, Glenn. Or from my perspective.

You can't have a society that allows the form of music that Diddy was involved in. That promotes special degeneracy. And violence.

And drug use.

If that is going to be at the center of American music culture.

If that's going to be promoted at Super Bowl halftime shows. And Diddy is going to be a powerful figure in politics, and in culture.

You can't have a society that properly functions.

GLENN: Okay. So let me take a one-minute break. And I want to ask you, so what is the solution on that? One minute, and we will back with Jason Whitlock.

GLENN: Jason Whitlock is with us.
So what is your solution to that?

JEH: We have to reapply affinity laws. And quit allowing porn and this type of degeneracy. To be protected under allegedly free speech.

And, you know, there was a long time, in America, where, you know, we had laws. And there were things you couldn't do. And say on public airwaves.

And in movies. And things like that. And now, all of a sudden, everything is under free speech.

And I just tonight -- you know --

GLENN: Well, the key there was -- not in movies.

But you just said it, public airwaves. I mean, I remember 1982.

I'm working on the morning show. WPGC in Washington, DC.

I'm 18 years old. The guy across the street is Howard Stern.

He is just making his big impact in Washington, DC.

And I said, on the air, one time. I'm 18 years old. And I said, the word, what I know really pisses me off.

I wish I would have saved this letter. Because I would have it framed today.

It was a full page memo from the program director saying, I don't know who you think you are.

And I don't think you know where you work.

But this is the nation's capital. And we do not use language like quotation mark, pissed on the air. That's how far we've come.

Because now that -- that's nothing. That's nothing. I don't know how you reverse that. I mean, it -- if you believe in freedom, it -- it really should be reversed internally by the people. And I don't know how to make that happen. Other than, you have to find God, people.

JASON: There was a time when we had this. And in the name of freedom, we have now allowed all types of degeneracy. And obscenity, to go mainstream.

GLENN: Right!

And it was in the name of freedom.

Because you have no civilization, if you're just shooting to the bottom of the barrel.

So it was done in the name of freedom, as well.

And it did keep us free!

JASON: There you go. And look, where I go. Well, let's protect the freedoms and the innocence of children!

Rather than just Hugh Hefner's freedom, or Diddy's freedom.

Or whoever runs Porn Hub's freedom. I want to protect the freedom and innocence of children. And it's so obvious the consequence of this pornographic, degenerate freedom that we have allowed.

It compromises the innocence and the freedom of young people, we mainstreamed. A nihilistic mindset. And a perverted degenerate mindset that is harming the freedom.

And so --

GLENN: That is something that I can get behind. In saying, you know, there's rules for children. And what you expose children to.

I'm completely with that. However, how are you going to do that, when you have got drag shows in kindergartens?

JEH: And, again, it's an old slipper slope. It's we've got there because we moved away from obscenity laws.

And we said, we can't infringe on anyone's freedom to be as degenerate and perverted as they want to be. You know, that's un-American.

You know, we're going to have to penalize. Again, I don't understand.

If you're in the rap music industry. And putting out this type of -- you should be taxed in a different rate. There should be different laws and rules. For me, in the sports world. You go into any basketball arena. Anywhere. And I'm talked about high school level. They pump in this hip-hop music, with all this profanity.

And your children are playing basketball.

We have to put a stop to it.

It is -- it's music, in this form of part.

Has so much influence over your heart and mind.

And your culture.

GLENN: It does. Jason, I've got to --

JEH: We have to say, enough is enough.

GLENN: I have to cut you off. I don't know if we agree on the solutions. But we both agree on the problem.

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

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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.