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- Retired Lieutenant GeneralJerry Boykin is a man's man.

He served 36 years in the military.

He was a founding member of Delta Force.

And he led teams of Green Berets

into hot zones around the world.

He says men today are under attack.

But not from enemies outside our borders.

Watch this.

- [Narrator] LieutenantGeneral William Jerry Boykin,

founding member and formerDelta Force Commander

and Vice President of theFamily Research Council,

says that men in Americahave never been under attack

the way they are today.

The assault of masculinity in our nation

has left many men feeling conflicted

about their role in society.

In his book, "Man to Man,"Boykin challenges men

to rediscover their God-given calling.

- Oh, General, it's so good tohave you with us again today.

- Thank you, Pat.

- Let me ask you, you sayin your book the Communists

are trying to destroymasculinity in America.

Well, what are they doing?

- Yeah, in 1958, the Communist Party USA

wrote a book called "The Naked Communist"

and they told us how theywould take over America.

And what they targetedmostly was the family.

And in targeting thefamily, they targeted men.

And what they said they were gonna do,

and what they've prettysuccessfully done so far,

is they would get men so distracted

with other things likepornography and gambling

and sports and computergames that they would

essentially fail to bethe fathers and the men,

the husbands, that theyneeded to be in the family.

And that would cause thefamily to disintegrate.

Now, if you don't know,

the single most-importantentity in America is the family.

I mean, it's really not the church,

it should be but it's notthe church, it's the family.

And when the family isdestroyed by virtue of the fact

that the man is notliving up to the standards

that God set for him, you destroy America

and then that facilitates what we see now

is this takeover by thesevery Leftist, very evil,

Progressive, if you wannacall 'em that, individuals

that, many of which wererunning for President

this year in the primaries.

- They have got somethingthey're attacking

called toxic masculinity.

What is that?

- Well, yeah, it's aterm that has come out

as a result of what wejust talked about there.

And they combine toxicwith the term masculinity

so frequently now thateven universities are

holding classes and doing courses

called Overcoming Toxic Masculinity.

Look, masculinity, whenpracticed according to God's word

and the plan that God hasfor a man, is not toxic.

And masculinity is not meant to be toxic.

But when you see menthat are out of control,

that their behavior isrough, out of control,

not recognizing what God's plan is,

then you could call that toxicbut that's not masculinity.

- You start your booktalking about a hero of yours

whose name was Cecil.

Who was he?

- Cecil was my dad.

He was a man's man, hewent off to World War II

at 17 years old and wasthe only of five siblings

that was wounded, he waswounded on D-Day at Normandy

driving a landing craft ashore.

And then he came backand, as a wounded warrior,

as a disabled veteran,he was eventually able to

go in the U.S. Army as afunctional wounded warrior

during the Korean War.

And then after that, he wentto work for the Marine Corps

for 32 years, so three timeshe took an oath that said,

"I do solemnly swear thatI will support and defend

"the Constitution of the United States."

He was a man's man, he was everything

you would want a man to be.

He was not an educated man,

he didn't have a high school diploma

but he understood whata man was supposed to be

and he imparted that to me.

And I am so thankful that he did.

And I miss him today, we lost him in 2001.

But

his impact on my life

has been very important.

- You trained some of thetoughest men in all the military,

the Delta Force and someof the Green Berets,

you went out with 'em.

What characterized those people?

Were they examples of true manhood?

- Yeah, most of them were.

Very, very infrequentlywe had one that was not

and we filtered them out pretty quickly.

But they had a transcendent cause, Pat.

They knew what was worth sacrificing for,

what was worth risking their lives for.

And ultimately, in thecase of some of 'em,

what was worth dying for.

And those were the kind ofmen that I was surrounded by

and I felt that it was a great blessing

to be able to be with these kind of men.

Even when some of themdidn't come home alive,

it was still God's blessingfor me to be there with them

when they paid that ultimate sacrifice.

- What can women do to support men?

Is there a clash betweenmen and women today?

Women, can they support theirmen in a particular way?

- Yeah, listen, in the book, "Man to Man,"

we have at the end of every chapter

I got a lady named LelaGilbert, a distinguished writer,

and she wrote a message to the women.

She wrote a page or two to the women

at the end of every chapter

based on the five thingsthat I outline in the book

that a man is supposed to be.

She wrote some wordsdirectly to the women.

Look, I think most women wanta man to step up and be a man.

They want a man to bethe leader in the home.

They want a man to be thespiritual head in the home.

They want a man to be the chaplain.

And the problem is that so many men

have turned away from that role.

And you look at the number of homes today

that don't have a man at all

and mothers are raising children alone.

It's a national plague.

And one of the things that we have to do

is get men back in thehome, get them back to being

the fathers and the husbandsthat they're supposed to be,

they're called to be.

- What about theimportance of role models?

- Yeah, that's a huge problem.

Look, if you're a Christianman, if your listeners,

if you're a Christianman, you need to go find

some young lad that you can mentor.

You need to take someyoung lad under your wing

and you need to start mentoring him

if he does not have a man in his home.

I think that is a Biblical mandate.

And I think that we'vegotta go out and look for

those young men that are growing up

using the guy on the streetcorner with all the gold chains

with nickel bags as his role model.

We've gotta change that, we'vegotta get away from that.

Or we've gotta changeour social welfare system

so that it is not more profitable for men

to stay out of work than toactually go and earn a living

by the sweat of theirbrow which is Biblical.

So we've got to establish role models

and you do that in part by going out

and finding these young men.

Look, that's what my dad did.

After my brother and my sisterand I were out of the home,

my dad adopted, I say adopted,he took in a young boy

that did not have a father in the home.

And by the way, the littleboy was of a different race.

But he took that boyin because he believed

the worst thing that could happen to a boy

is to grow up without a man in his life

or at least a man thatcould teach him the ropes

and help him on this path to manhood.

We need to do that as Christian men.

- General, it's so goodto have you with us.

The book, ladies and gentlemen,is called "Man to Man,

"Rediscovering Masculinity."

This is a man's man, General Borkin,

one of the great military heroes

and we're so gratefulfor you and this book.

And it's available where books are sold.

Lieutenant General WilliamBoykin, "Man to Man,

"Rediscovering Masculinityin a Challenging World."

Thank you so much, Jerry,God bless you, my friend.

- Thank you.

God bless ya.

- Great Father's Day book.

- Yes, it is.

- Wonderful gift.

- Yes.- Great.

- That's a good thought.

- Women can read it first,give it to their husbands.

(laughing)

- Give it to anybody.

- Exactly.

- You know, I am afather, I'm a grandfather,

I'm a great-grandfather,and I'm on the way

to 19 great-grandchildren.

- [Terry] Wow.

- I've got 15 of 'em and four on the way.

- Whew.

- Be fruitful and multiply.- And multiply.

- That's right.

- They take that seriouslyin the Robertson household.

- I've tried over theyears to show my children

what it's like to be a loving father

and a loving husband.

(hands knocking desk)Do it.

Okay?