8th Of November (Spoken Intro Only) (Spoken Intro Only Album Version)-Big & Rich

[ti:8th Of November (Spoken Intro Only)] [ar:Big & Rich] [al:Comin' To Your City (Revised)] [offset:0] [00:00.52]8th Of November (Spoken Intro Only) (Spoken Intro Only Album Version) - Big & Rich [00:00.52]Hello, I'm Kris Kristofferson. [00:03.55] [00:04.30]On November 8th, 1965, the 173rd [00:08.32]Airborne Brigade on Operation Hump [00:10.75], War Zone D in Vietnam were ambushed [00:13.76]By over 1200 V.C. Forty-eight American [00:18.09]Soldiers lost their lives that day. [00:20.39] [00:21.81]Severely wounded and riskin' his own life, [00:24.42]Lawrence Joll, a medic was the first livin' [00:27.70]Black man since the Spanish-American [00:29.68]War to receive the United States Medal [00:31.78]Of Honor for savin' so many lives in the [00:33.88]Midst of battle that day. [00:35.30] [00:36.90]Our friend, Nialls Harris, retired 25 years, [00:40.50]United States Army, (the guy who gave Big [00:43.88]Kenny his top hat) was one of the wounded [00:46.48]Who lived. This song is his story. [00:50.26] [00:51.70]Caught in the action of 'kill or be killed' [00:54.17] [00:54.86]'Greater love hath no man to lay [00:57.44]Down his life for a friend'. [00:59.20]