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Episode 88 | Rock N Roll Reveille | Vietnam Combat Veteran Spec-5 Joe Griffies, Artillery Combat Veteran Spec-4 Bob Reilly, USAF Captain Ralph Galati & US Army Vietnam Veteran Jerry Tempesta | 10-11-25

We’re back on the air for Show Number Eighty-Eight (#88). Our Guest today is Philly-born Joseph Griffies, Vietnam Combat Veteran, The Veteran’s-Veteran and host of Welcome Home Veteran, heard Saturdays, 2-4 PM on WIBG-AM (WWAC-AM) Radio 1020 KHz. Joseph and Colleen Griffies are dear friends of many years! Joe graduated Cardinal Dougherty High School in 1965 and served in Vietnam in the USARMY

Combat Infantry from July 1967-July 1968. I started our show with the # 1 Hit Song in 1965 by the Birds “Turn Turn Turn”, selected by Joe. Joseph – you have been called The-Veteran’s-Best-Friend. You shared with me that the BYRD’S Hit Song is reminiscent of WWII’s Nick Cooney’s life; A WWII Torpedo gunner in the Pacific>Joseph you attended his Funeral Mass in Cape May! Your life is a priestly-kind-of-life ‘serving’ our fellow-veterans! Please share with our Rock N’ Roll Reveille audience your Philadelphia roots, parents, family, schools and let’s talk about Nicholas and the many veterans that you have shared your Love and Life with!!!

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