1 00:00:00,060 --> 00:00:03,920 (Gene Simmons) Oh, it's absolutely our honor. 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,060 Shannon and I are here, and I can't tell you what this means to us. 3 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:11,639 To me, it's personal. My family were all 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:16,340 wiped out in World War II. My mother was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany 5 00:00:16,340 --> 00:00:22,580 at 14 years of age, and I say this story all the time because there 6 00:00:22,590 --> 00:00:27,689 are even deniers that it happened. Were it not for America's military, I wouldn't 7 00:00:27,689 --> 00:00:31,189 be here. My mother wouldn't be here. Clearly, millions of other people 8 00:00:31,189 --> 00:00:37,140 wouldn't be here, and America sacrificed above and beyond anything you'd ever 9 00:00:37,140 --> 00:00:41,510 imagine by going overseas and fighting a war, 10 00:00:41,510 --> 00:00:45,719 multiple wars, overseas when we didn't really have to go. We're surrounded by 11 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:51,120 oceans and land masses. We can just stay here and let the world go to hell, but we 12 00:00:51,140 --> 00:00:57,560 don't. We go out there and sacrifice the ultimate sacrifice. Only the military does that. 13 00:00:57,940 --> 00:01:03,920 We have literally stopped concerts and said the Pledge of Allegiance 14 00:01:04,020 --> 00:01:10,140 before our encores, and you would be surprised at what happens. 15 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,900 The unruly, the crazy, the people who've had too many beers, they stand upright 16 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:20,880 and they put their hand over their hearts and the magic - it's in there. 17 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:25,860 Patriotism is alive and well in there. We just have to kindle that fire that 18 00:01:25,860 --> 00:01:31,829 reminds people what it all means, because right now somewhere in the world, someone 19 00:01:31,829 --> 00:01:36,860 is making the ultimate sacrifice and dying for the country and the flag.