What is the price of becoming a hero? How did Al Capone's lawyer save America? The true stories of two heroes (Easy Eddie and Butch O'Hare), who will inspire you to reconsider your choices by Radhanath Swami
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00:00Now during the prohibition in the 1920s Capone quickly became public enemy
00:05number one. Because the Mafia was killing people and he was getting them off.
00:11He ordered the murders of scores of people. The only thing these guys would
00:15do would be to respond with violence.
00:19His name was Easy Eddie. He was such a good lawyer that no matter what charges
00:29they had on Al Capone or his people, they couldn't put any of them in jail. He was
00:34so valuable that the Mafia gave him enormous amounts of money. The best of
00:39cars. The best of everything. And he had a son. But Easy Eddie was thinking I've
00:46given my son everything. Everything money could buy. But there's one thing I
00:53haven't given my son. An example of a father that he could be proud of. And
01:00Easy Eddie came to the conclusion the only way I could give my son a father
01:07with a legacy of a good name is I have to help the government put the Mafia in
01:15prison. He testified and many of the biggest people in the Mafia were put in
01:21prison. He knew full well that he would be killed for doing this. And one day he
01:29was riding in his car and another car came by and several people with machine
01:35guns filled his body with bullets and he laid on the street dead. He paid a very
01:44high price to give his son a father who he could be proud of.
02:01There was a man in the United States Air Force during World War II. He took off
02:10from his ship to go fight against the Japanese. He saw about nine Japanese
02:20bombers coming toward the USS Lexington to sink the boat and there were
02:26thousands of people on the boat. He was alone and he decided I have to stop them.
02:34So he single-handedly charged at these nine airplanes and was shooting and
02:42shooting and shooting and he actually had two of them fall into the ocean. And
02:46then he ran out of bullets and they were shooting at him and attacking him and he
02:51was so fearless that he was flying at these different planes that were
02:56shooting at him and he was he was knocking off their wings. And finally
03:03after five of the nine sank the other four thought this man is completely
03:10crazy let's get out of here and they all flew away.
03:15He was the first person in the U.S. Air Force in World War II to get the U.S.
03:20Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award there is. His name was Butch O'Hare
03:30and the airport in Chicago, O'Hare Airport, is named after him. He's
03:37considered one of the greatest heroes of American history because he was willing
03:42to sacrifice his own life for the higher cause of others.
03:48What makes this story so interesting is Butch O'Hare was the son of E.Z. Eddy.
03:59What are we giving our children? I've seen people work so hard for money, give
04:10it to their children, and then their children fight as enemies to see who
04:17gets it. Is that the legacy?
04:23Is that fulfilling life? Is that what we want to leave to the world? Our values, our
04:31character, the grace and the compassion of the love that flows through us is the
04:37greatest contribution we could make to our own life, to our families, and to the
04:42world. And when we have those values and we work and we build that foundation and
04:50we could have a wonderful, fulfilling, meaningful life beyond birth, beyond
04:55death, and we could leave that as a legacy for the world.
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