Welcome to the Malth Podcast.
I'm John Good, your host for this week.
Originally coined as Armistice Day by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919,
the day we now hold this Veterans Day is a day that elevates and celebrates those who stood up post around the world in defense of freedom.
Every year, on November the 11th, we remember and honor their commitment, service, and sacrifice.
Our first story this week comes from Scott Young.
Scott told this story at a grand slam in London, where the theme of the night was lost and found.
Here's Scott, live at the Moth.
If I'm complimented at all on my physical appearance, it's usually one of two things.
My thick full beard or my beefy muscular legs.
I get both from my mother.
She's only 5'2", but she is built thick and has her suit-ness many men would envy.
I grew up to the accurate smell of the wax she boiled mornings to remove the whiskers from her chin.
Yet all he ever heard growing up was, just like your father.
Now I knew that wasn't physical
because my dad six four and had a baby smooth face and as my mother liked to say had to run around in the shower to get wet he was so skinny Not the jeans I got So what was it about me that made me like my father?
It's hard being compared to a ghost See my father died fighting in the Vietnam War when I was only two He was 21 and he had a choice He could get released from active duty one month early,
or he could spend a week on leave in Hawaii with my mother and I.
He chose to get out of active duty early.
He died a war hero, killed by mortar fire, rescuing injured soldiers.