Colonel Chris Wyatt is live at Gettysburg with Lielie!

[00:00:00]You see the shirt blowing around. I'm with Lilly Fundepus. We're out here to talk about a visit she had today with me to the Gettysburg National Battlefield and also a little surprise for tomorrow.

[00:00:09]Tomorrow morning we'll be doing a live broadcast. Lilly's going to talk to you along with I believe with their their boss. Yeah, with your boss. And we're going to talk about employment opportunities for South Africans here in Pennsylvania. And it's not one or two.

[00:00:21]We're talking about quite a few more.

[00:00:23]So, that's a big surprise for tomorrow morning. So, please tune in for that.

[00:00:26]But, Lilly, we've gone around now to the Virginia Monument. We saw where General Buford his cavalry troops dismounted, where the battle started on the Chambersburg Pike, then the Virginia Monument down to the Devil's Den, up to Little Round Top, to the Minnesota Monument, to the Pennsylvania Monument.

[00:00:44]What are your thoughts?

[00:00:45]>> Insane. It's just It's incredibly sad.

[00:00:49]And what these guys went through I can't put words to it.

[00:00:54]>> I mean, today is actually nice and we're not wearing wool and marching in full shoes full of mud.

[00:00:58]>> marching over rocks.

[00:01:00]>> And up the rocks, yeah. And oh, by the way, nobody's shooting at us, at least not yet.

[00:01:04]>> [laughter] >> We're We're not at the hill now.

[00:01:05]Nobody's shooting at us. But, I mean, that that was part of it, too. I mean, these guys been marching for days.

[00:01:10]They're hungry. You know, guys have got blisters on their feet from the crappy shoes that they're wearing.

[00:01:14]>> If they were wearing shoes.

[00:01:15]>> If they were wearing shoes. Some of the Confederates weren't wearing shoes. And then they're told to charge across where the spot where Pickett's Charge occurred, where General Armistead died about 100 m Well, 70 m from where we're standing, right there. I mean, can you just imagine what it must have been like?

[00:01:29]>> No.

[00:01:31]>> It's insane.

[00:01:32]>> I can't I can't I will not be able to walk this, never mind march through this.

[00:01:36]>> Yeah. Well, let's see. When I was here in January with the Stoltz family, the kids were much more talkative than Lilly is. If she doesn't start contributing to this, I'm going to have to end the stream.

[00:01:46]>> [laughter] >> Well, I might cry because it it is incredibly sad. You don't realize what they went through until you are here.

[00:01:54]>> Yeah.

[00:01:54]>> Until When see the signs.

[00:01:55]>> a story until you've walked the ground.

[00:01:57]>> Yes. And then you've got goosebumps, especially from the Pennsylvania Monument.

[00:02:01]>> Oh, because because the Pennsylvania Monument, it tells you all the members of the regiments and then it marks with a star who died.

[00:02:08]>> Yeah, all the fatalities. It's really then it makes it real.

[00:02:12]Um and I'm just so incredibly blessed to have had you. I think a lot of people who heard us thought who did how did they get this God? Cuz he knows everything. And yeah, we are we are really blessed and I'm so grateful for you taking your your time that you're not getting paid for.

[00:02:29]>> That's right.

[00:02:30]>> And I'm sure that >> no, I'm making money off of FGs.

[00:02:32]>> Oh.

[00:02:32]>> Yeah.

[00:02:33]>> Oh, so I'm already paying you.

[00:02:34]>> Oh, so so give me give me the money for the tour.

[00:02:37]>> [laughter] >> No, but seriously, uh it's it's I've been to War of Gettysburg and Shiloh.

[00:02:41]Those are amazing, but unfortunately, Shiloh has fallen to disrepair. The government is not maintaining it. The dioramas like you see here with all the information from the battlefield, the ones that at Shiloh, you can't even see.

[00:02:52]They're bleached out by the sun. Uh the last time I was there a couple years ago in 2022, I was heartbroken.

[00:02:57]>> Yeah. So, it's just Well, yeah, that's a stone though, but I'm talking about the plastic. Those can be replaced easily and they haven't replaced them at Shiloh. She's talking about a stone over here. It's just difficult to see it, but it's also the light. When it's a little darker out here, you can read that stone. But so many people touch that stone because that's where General Armistead was mortally wounded at the high point. They call it the high point of the Confederacy. This is the point where they got furthest into the line.

[00:03:18]The problem is that so many had fallen from artillery and bullets in route across 1 mile of open terrain across that field in the summertime. By the time they got here, there were so few soldiers left that they didn't have anything. So, the Union troops were able to reinforce it and capture the troops that got here. It was really sad. The rest were able to escape and run back, but they walked back and they were just disgusted because what they'd been asked to do was pretty crazy. So, we're very fortunate in that the big rush will come shortly. Lots of people including reenactors come here for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd of July and that'll be coming up soon, especially this year with the 250th anniversary in the United States Declaration of Independence. there's going to be a lot of people showing up here. And while there were plenty of people here today, at least >> a lot of reenactors.

[00:03:59]>> But at least at least we found parking spaces. You know, when you come here in July, you won't find any parking spaces.

[00:04:03]It's just a nightmare. People park everywhere and the police come along and you park police and give you a ticket for parking where you can't park. So, and then also the reenactors is going to be something else, but this was also nice weather. You know, usually July it's quite hot.

[00:04:16]>> Except for the for the wind, but I'm grateful for the wind.

[00:04:18]>> Oh, the wind feels good, but it's kind of you know, fortunately I'm not worried about my hair, you know. So, >> Oh, no, no. I'm not worried about my hair. I used to be not even brushing my hair.

[00:04:26]>> Exactly. So, you know, if we worried about our hair, we'd be really concerned. But behind us here, behind Lily, let me move the camera that way.

[00:04:33]You can see off in the distance the big monument. Where's it at? The Pennsylvania monument there.

[00:04:39]I'm not seeing it there. Anyway, the Pennsylvania monument's right over there. It's huge. It's the largest monument on the battlefield and it's just it's just amazing. Every regiment from Pennsylvania that participated in the Battle of Gettysburg has a bronze plaque that goes around that that monument and there are I don't know how many of them there. It must be 60 or 70 of them and they list all the soldiers and the officers assigned to the regiment and then if they were killed or mortally wounded this battle >> they got a star next to them. Kind of sad. And throughout the battlefield, of course, you see all of these cannons that are placed all over the and then every monument here, Lily, I told you this is every monument here was produced not by the government but by either private organizations of the regiments themselves or their descendants or in some cases the state from where they came from. So, for instance, the state of Virginia put >> Beautiful monuments.

[00:05:23]>> It's incredible. It's incredible.

[00:05:24]>> I'll post some photos.

[00:05:26]>> Okay. Cool beans.

[00:05:27]>> I've got some I've got some photos and I'll tag you in it.

[00:05:30]>> All right. Well, that'll be great. So, tomorrow, folks, our big surprise, this is the big reveal. Lily and her boss are going to talk, we do an an interview, we're going to talk about what's available for people who are in Pennsylvania here as refugees looking to hire people from South Africa, but also as I've told you from the very outset, ever since Lily's been recruited to be a recruiter for this organization, she's finding jobs for people all over the country. So, Lily, want to give a little sneak peek, a little a little taster of what tomorrow morning will be about?

[00:05:55]>> Tomorrow morning we'll talk about why it's beneficial to hit the ground running. Um to get that job, to get all the benefits. Uh how it can impact your life way in America. Uh we do not only recruit in Dallas or Texas as a matter of fact. Um what kind of job opportunities we're looking at, new clients we've got uh testing that will be involved for certain positions. Uh yeah, so get those questions ready.

[00:06:28]We are on it.

[00:06:29]>> Yep, folks, tomorrow there'll be a special live broadcast tomorrow morning.

[00:06:32]We'll do that uh and then they've got to hit the road. They're flying back to Texas and I'm sorry to say they've got to go back to Texas.

[00:06:39]>> [laughter] >> Listen, now I have to say >> All they keep telling me is how beautiful Pennsylvania is.

[00:06:43]>> Pennsylvania is incredibly beautiful.

[00:06:46]Like everyone told me >> it's terrible. Don't come here. Get off my lawn. No refugees. We don't need you, Pennsylvania. [laughter] >> I thought everyone told me, "Oh, no, you have to see Tennessee." I saw Tennessee, it's beautiful. And then we saw Pennsylvania.

[00:07:02]And we sat in the car this morning driving, talking, talking and then we started seeing all the scenic views and the bridges and the this and it was quiet. We were just at a loss for words.

[00:07:13]It is so beautiful, yeah.

[00:07:15]Like I know why you're here.

[00:07:18]>> So, now Lily is dead to me now that she's going to get people coming to Pennsylvania. We got enough damn people here. We don't need any other people showing up.

[00:07:25]>> why you're here.

[00:07:25]>> Everybody can out-migrate down to Texas.

[00:07:27]They can go to Texas or they can go to Florida. [laughter] Or if you want, you're crazy, go to California. Don't come to Pennsylvania.

[00:07:33]And you sure as hell better not go to Wyoming, just saying. By the way, I discovered, I didn't know this, but Wyoming, I always wondered where the name came from. It's is after a county in Pennsylvania. There was a Wyoming County in Pennsylvania. People moved out west. They called it Wyoming. I thought it was like a Native American word.

[00:07:48]Nope.

[00:07:48]>> It's not >> Nope. Nope. Anyway. All right. So, tomorrow is special broadcast. Lily I and her boss will be talking without this wind. We'll find some place that don't have wind. Be sure to hit the like button. Leave a comment behind. If you're a hate waker, keep moving. Nobody wants to hear from you.

[00:08:02]>> Yeah, please scroll away. It's easy. Do this.

[00:08:05]>> There you go. Turn that frown upside down. It's only for happy people or people who want to be happy. None of this sourpusses. None of you Debbie Downers. I've had enough of that nonsense. I'm done with you. I'm hot full of the haters.

[00:08:17]It's time for people to love this. There you go.

[00:08:19]>> Let's Let's live. Be happy.

[00:08:22]>> That's right. What is it? Don't worry.

[00:08:23]Be happy. We're going to do that one.

[00:08:24]Okay. All right. Cheers, everybody.

[00:08:25]We'll see you later on.

[00:08:26]>> Bye.

[00:08:29]>> You're correct.