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"Setting. He went through second grade at Zeeland Christian School, and I asked him what what? What would have happened if you had stayed in a regular school setting? And he said, Mom, I would have been in juvenile detention before I was 14. And I believe him because he had so much energy. So much drive. And if you didn't channel that into something productive, he would make his own business and it wasn't always good. You guys grew up on it. He grew up on a farm hobby. Fire. Yeah, we have 10 acres and they raised four h animals. Um And he worked for a neighboring pig farmer. So I started working when he was 11th. Well on the farm. Yeah, he had, uh, There's a lot of stories about kids who grow up on farms and their work ethic. Yeah, when they're adults, he loved to work and he loved to work. And he was intense. But he was also, uh you don't think about this maybe special operations guys, but he also had a very tender side. Very tender side that would always look out for The underdog, and he would Protect like his sister. You know, they have great relationship with his sister, and he it was always Protecting her. Watching over her, and he's the oldest right here is the oldest. Yep, so there there's that protective side. I think that's just innate inside your DNA. Right? That's also part of what made him so angry with the World Trade Center attack Because there again it was the underdog. You know they were attacking civilians. In all the letters now that he's in the Marines in the back and forth letters, which is still how many people pen letters today we write emails. We text we call somebody we face time in this modern era we live in But there's still something intimate, beautiful and Memorable, nostalgic about a handwritten letter. What do you write to you back and forth when you guys were talking when they are in recruit training and Marine Corps. They do not have the opportunity to use tell we got two calls in 13 weeks. And that's it. They didn't have access to computers, telephones. Nothing. They take it all away. So, um, it was write letters are not communicate. I wrote a letter to him almost every day. And all he wanted to know about was what's happening at home. Just that every day, day to day stuff. He was painfully homesick. Um, just wanted to know. Uh and he wrote us. Maybe 33 times a week. I would gas And he just sent us what he's doing in training what things were concerning him. What things he was worried about as far as, um, different test that he would have to take or or do either physical or mental whatever. But he just He just wrote what he was doing. And as he got through training, and now you're entering the surreal world of combat. A lot of people will talk about that They notice a change or changes in someone's personality demeanor, communication. Did you see that from Daniel? Um, I would say he did change from what he was at home somewhat. He became more independent, especially throughout his first two deployments and his third deployment in 2000 and that, um, 2000 and seven He, um He went through some pretty intense combat and his attitude changed a little bit matured. Um He, um there was no glory and killing anymore. His first two deployments. He was pretty callous, Pretty young, immature. Just it was the adrenaline rush. Go in and do it and The third deployment kind of changed things he had gotten married. So he had a wife. Um, And so there were a lot of things that played into his maturing and just just growing just Becoming a little more grounded. I would say as far as, um His view of life and death. Did he talk to you about how combat was wearing on him? That the killing Carl between conversations you guys had whether it was calls or Emails or letters. Once he got past his training portion of his military career, he would. He talked me a few times about, um, like, Reuss said about that. About about the killing part because they don't send those guys to a calm area and you see a lot of combat and One of his, uh one big conversation that we had was. Well, we're Christians. And And, um He had a really hard time with, you know, it was the Muslims that that is fighting and he's in his, um, and he's killing them. And he says, You know, it's just a different viewpoint than what we as Christians had. And I said, You know, you just have to You. You have to know that there is not one person that dies. You're not. You're not sending someone here, someone there. It's God that's in charge of that. You're doing your job and your called By the government to do your job and he was doing his job. He was a very good at his job, and he loved his job. But he had some struggles there, but he got through that. And it was really, uh, an awesome thing as a dad. To see your son maturing. And Really becoming, Uh, Young man that Was really thinking about what he was doing and not just living willy nilly life. He had focused. He wasn't just gun Ho, and he's talked about got killed 40 guys this weekend, right? But that he was actually starting to have a conscience. Sweet. I don't think it out, right. We We did not He never any time he would ever tell us about the things that went on. It was never that gung ho. All that gunk whole thing. It was, uh, calm conversation about what his job was. And what was his job in the Marines. Killing people. He was a sniper. He was a sniper. Yeah. Uh, they they they would go out. Um, a lot of the times with 45 fiber. My man. Teams of snipers, not not just of snipers. Um, he was a sniper, but the other guys were, too but they would go out on missions and they would give them they gave him a mission to do. Um Sometimes it was reconnaissance. Sometimes it was going in to, um, take out some bad guys where they knew the bad guys were, and they they gave him a job to do, And they did their own mission. Planning five guys, right pretty much out on their own right. Drop them in either out of the sky or With a helicopter, you know, insertion in the middle of the night with their night vision goggles, and they would go in and and do their job. And they were and they all had each other's back, and they That's a tough job. It is the version the Marine version of the seals, Right, Right would be, you know, maybe Rangers in the Army, right? Green Rays, right? Hey, you know you haven't heard a lot about the Marine Raiders and on the stealth units and what they do, and when they go in As he's maturing as he's talking about, uh, being in combat on these missions. Um Did he ever discuss his mortality? Was that a conversation? Oh, yeah. You both of you had with Ted. Uh, he would say that. You know, you don't live real long, um, doing what I do..
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"zeeland christian school" Discussed on Sports Talk 1050 WTKA
"On today's broadcast. We look back at my conversations with Gold Star families in West Michigan about their son's making the ultimate sacrifice for the United States of America. Carl and Ruth Price from the beautiful city of Holland. They join us in studio to talk about their son, the late Daniel J. Price, Gunnery Sergent Marine Raider and Ruth. Thank you for driving in. I appreciate it. Thank you so much for having us and Carl. We talked before. Yes, we sure have. Carl delivered one of the best calls I've ever had. On the huge radio network. It was fantastic with his opinion and also connecting it to what he Looked at when he saw the flag in regards to his son, who died, making the ultimate sacrifice for his country. So Carl and Ruth good to have you in studio and what was the most touching thing going through everything. Connected to your son. That somebody from the military? I told you I'm sure you heard a lot at the funeral and after he had passed away, but something you discovered That really made you a proud mom. So many things. I guess the one big thing that stuck out to me was when I received the his military records. Um and I had access to all of his performance reviews. Um, and so I had probably three or four Well, probably more like six or seven years worth of performance reviews. And different deployments in different billets that he had served, and, um, throughout them all, it was promote ahead of his peers, Um, performs above and beyond his experience, and, um A level, you know, And so it was just I learned so much about Dan through those, but you didn't know that I didn't know And it was stuff that he maybe had told us, but he always said everything in such an understated way. That we had no idea of the magnitude of what he was doing. He was a true American serving his country serving his family, and definitely you talk about your faith and inspiring you to write the book. Ruth Price is a mother of Gunnery Sergeant Daniel G. Price, who made the ultimate sacrifice for his country in Afghanistan. He was a Marine Raiders special forces right, so he had worked his way up through the Marine process. Right. Everybody knows who the Navy seals are. The Marine raider is is basically the same. Type of their special special Special forces. Yeah, it's just summer. Best of the best, right? Best of the best. Yep. Well, what what inspired your son to join the military and service country? There's a lot of different things. I think that played into that. Um, there were, I think, um, the attack on the World Trade Center was huge. He was a junior in high school at the time, and he was so angry. That they would attack civilians on our own turf. Um, and so that made him angry, and he I think that was a huge motivation to join, and he looked at different, um, different branches of the military, but Decided that if he didn't make special forces, he wanted to be in the Marines because he most likely would see combat and travel the world anyway. And then he probably didn't realize that there was a Seal like you and another marine, because I'd never heard of the Raiders. Um there. I'd never heard of that until I looked at your book He originally joined Re Can the Marine recon? Um Italian and that also a special forces but then in 2000, and no can oppress my memory here. 2000. Yeah, 2000 actually, six, I think, um, the mire sack Marine Special Operations Command. Was, um Set up and so he didn't join it right away. It was 2000 and eight before he actually joined up with them. He wanted to give it a few years. Make sure that they were going to continue to be a, uh, Equality organization, a division of the Marine Corps and so Yeah. Then he joined. So originally was Maher Sack and then in 2014, they took over the name of Marine Raiders, which is a throwback to the World War Two Raiders. Where the special apps in the in World War two. Did he join to do four years and, you know, maybe get money for education? Or did he joined to be a career military man? I really don't know if he, uh He went in with an open mind to, um To be in for and to see how it was going to go. I believe and Once he got in, and even in boot camp, he excelled and was promoted in Brook in boot camp and then was in one of the school of Infantry, and he was on an automatic trial for Marine recon. So he went right from boot camp. Basically to Marine reconnaissance and Started deploying. So as parents when your child is inspired as a junior in high school. Where did Daniel go to school? We home school home school. Alright, So Daniel Daniel's a junior in high school, and he's inspired to want to go service country. It's probably the proud side. Of two parents looking at their son, who was inspired and cares about his country, but also Worried when he finally made that decision to join the military that that knock on the door could happen One day, right? Very mixed feelings. Um, it's a long ways from the farm in western Michigan. Um And so, yeah, But, you know, making that decision and his junior year and being home schooled. We took his senior year and work to really hired at preparing him. Um, he worked hard physically. Started running to work with his work boots on so that he would be prepared to run running to work with his work boots on how far was that? It was about a half a mile, but work was on a farm, so he's wearing like farm boots and Um, So yeah, that was just to prepare himself for working. Um, for running and combat boots. Um, so he worked on the physical part and I as his home school teacher. Worked on emotional, spiritual, psychological just kind of to prepare him and because when they leave for the military like that, it's it's you raise your Children to be independent, but it's a very abrupt independence. And Yeah, so we we took that senior year and works really hard at getting him ready. We're the type of kid, uh, into that young man before he joined the Marines, Carl and Ruth Price by the way in studio appearance. Of the late Daniel J. Price of Gunnery Sergeant Marine Raider. He was killed July 29th 2000 and 12 in Afghanistan. What type of kid was he? As he grew into a young man and then that day When you said goodbye, and he joined the military. What made him special? He was always extremely strong willed, very difficult to deal with. He would argue about anything. He would argue about the color of the sky. Um, very independent, very independent, um I was thankful for the opportunity to home school. Him. Um, I asked him one time after he was in the Marines. He was probably in two or three years and I said, so. What would have happened to you? Had you stayed in a regular school setting. He went through second grade at Zeeland Christian School, and I asked him what what? What would have happened if you had stayed in a regular school setting?.
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"zeeland christian school" Discussed on Sports Talk 1050 WTKA
"He was killed July 29th 2000 and 12 in Afghanistan. What type of kid was he? A Z grew into a young man. And then that day When you said goodbye, and he joined the military. What made him special? Hey, was always extremely strong willed, very difficult to deal with. He would argue about anything, Hey, would argue about the color of the sky, Very independent, very independent. Was thankful for the opportunity to home school him. I I asked him one time after he was in the Marines, his probably in two or three years, and I said, So. What would have happened to you? Did you stayed in a regular school setting? He went through second grade at Zeeland Christian school, and I asked him what What? What would have happened if you had stayed in a regular school setting? And he said, Mom, I would have been in juvenile detention before I was 14. And I believe him because he had so much energy. So much drive. And if you didn't channel that into something productive, he would make his own business and it wasn't always good guys. Groban. He grew up on a farm hobby. Fire. Yeah, we have 10 acres and they raised for H animals. Many worked for a neighboring pig farmer. So I started working. And when he was the 11th Well on the farm. Yeah, he had. There's a lot of stories about kids who grow up on farms and their work ethic. When they're adults. He loved to work and he loved to work. And he was intense, but he was also you don't think about this may be a special operations guys, but he also had a very tender side. Very tender side that would always look out for The underdog, and he would Attacked like his sister, You know, they had great relationship with his sister, and he was always Protecting her. Watching over her, and he's the oldest, right? Yes, Hell, let's help s Oh, there. There's that protective side. I think that's just innate inside. You'd know right. That's also part of what made him so angry with the World Trade Center attack. Because there again it was the underdog. You know they were attacking civilians. And all the letters now that he's in the Marines and the back and forth letters, which is still how many people pen letters today we write emails. We text we call somebody we face time in this modern era we live in But there's still something intimate, beautiful and Memorability nostalgic about a hand written letter. What do you write to you back and forth when you guys were talking when they are in recruit training in Marine Corps, they do not have the opportunity to use Tell we got two calls in 13 weeks. On DATs it they didn't have access to computers, telephones. Nothing. They take it all away, So it was write letters or not communicate. I wrote a letter to him almost every day. On doll he wanted to know about was what's happening at home. Just the every day, day to day stuff. He was painfully homesick. Just wanted to know. And he wrote us. Maybe 33 times a week. I would guess. On. Dhere just sent us what he's doing in training what things were concerning him What things he was worried about as far as different test that he would have to take or or do, um, either physical or mental, whatever. But he just He just wrote what he was doing. And as he got through training, and now you're entering the surreal world of combat. A lot of people will talk about that They notice a change or changes and someone's personality demeanor, communication. Did you see that from Daniel? Um, I would say he did change from what he was at home somewhat. He became more independent, especially throughout his first two deployments on his third deployment in, um 2000 and Dad, Um 2000 and seven. He, um He went through some pretty intense combat and his attitude changed a little bit matured. Um, he, um there was no glory and killing anymore. This first two deployments. He was pretty callous, Pretty young, immature. Just it was the adrenaline rush. Go in and do it. And the third deployment kind of changed things he had gotten married. So he had a wife. Um, And so there were a lot of things that played into his maturing and just just growing just Becoming a little more grounded. I would say as far as, um His view of life and death. Did he talk to you about how combat was wearing on him? That the killing Carl between conversations, you guys had weather was calls or Females or letters. Once he got past his training portion of his military career, he would he He talked me a few times about like, Roose said about that. About about the killing part because they don't send those guys to a calm area and you see a lot of combat. And One of his one big conversation that we had was. Well, we're Christians. And and, um He had a really hard time with, you know, it was the Muslim set that is fighting and he's and he's um he's killing him. And he says, you know, It's just a different viewpoint than what we asked. Christians had. And I said, You know, you just have to You. You have to know that there is not one person that dies. You're not. You're not sending someone here. Someone there. It's God that's in charge of that. You're doing your job. You're called. By the government to do your job and he was doing his job. He was very good at his job, and he loved his job, but he had some struggles there, but he got through that. And it was really an awesome thing as a dad. To see your son maturing. And Really becoming. Young man that Was really thinking about what he was doing and not just living willy nilly life. He had focus. He wasn't just going home, and he's talking about God killed 40 guys this weekend, right? But that he was actually started have a conscience. We don't think it out right way did not we? He never any time he would ever tell us about the things that went on. It was never that dung hole that gong whole thing. It was, uh, calm conversation about what his job was. And what was his job in the Marines. Telling people there's a sniper. Well, it was a sniper. Yeah, they would go out. Ah, lot of the times with 455. My man teams of Sybers, not not just of snipers..