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WATCH: 100-year-old veteran tells GB News he is 'proud' to have served his country
Nov 11, 2025
Michelle Dewberry was overcome with emotion live on-air after 100-year-old veteran Jim Gettings thanked the GB News star for "listening" to him.In an exclusive and heartfelt interview, Mr Gettings told the People's Channel that he appreciated Michelle for speaking with him, as the nation is "living in very bad times again".FULL STORY HERE.
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great pleasure of speaking to a veteran 100 years old or 100 years young shall I say
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Jim Gettings let's take a listen to him. So of course today is our miss this day it means a
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great deal to so many of us of course I know that lots of you will have stopped what you were doing
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this morning to take those two minutes to stick take stock and remember I'm so proud to be joined
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by a man that I regard as a hero. He's a man that hails from my hometown
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He currently lives in Hesel. He's a whole man born and bred
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Now, when he was 18 years old, he joined the Royal Marines
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He joined the 28th Battalion and his regiment was one of the very first
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to cross over into enemy lines on VE Day. I'm so pleased to say he joins me now
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Jim, Jim Gettings, good evening to you. Let me ask you this
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Our Mr. St, what does it mean to you? Well, it's a time to remember, isn't it
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Of all the people who didn come back home they the ones that we have to remember today And Jim were you proud to serve your country Of course I was proud to serve my country Back in 1940 we had our backs to the wall
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and it was Kennedy, President Kennedy, who said, don't ask what my country can do for me, ask what I can do for my country
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And everybody responded in that way. I went to work on a farm for my summer holidays to bring in the harvest
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because all the U-bots were sinking our ships. And it was on a farm in North Yorkshire that had been a sheep farm
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and they had very little staff and a lot of land. But he was made to plough it all up to sow all the corn and oats and barley And we did that at the strike form school
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and all we had was a little Victorian contraption that cut the corn, charred it into bundles
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and we followed on and we made stokes. and we did that day after day
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and we enjoyed ourselves and that was one of the ways in which I could help
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in the first place. Let me just ask you this, Jim. You're wearing your sash
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you're wearing your replacement beret and I know that that beret was your original one
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was something that you had to sell. Your little girl had whooping cough and you had to sell all of your belongings
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to help try and pay for her care. You've made it now to the ripe old age of 100 years old
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I'm so pleased to see you as well with your beret on. What's your secret to living to 100 years old
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Avoid dying Jim I was hoping you was going to tell me to drink alcohol every day or something like that Jim can I just say on behalf of the nation we want to say GB News myself GB News all of our viewers we want to say thank you for your service
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We are incredibly grateful for men like you and for everything that you did to ensure that we can have the life that we got right now
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So thank you. Well, thank you for listening to me. And God bless everybody
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because we're living in very bad times again, aren't we? So God bless. Bye-bye
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Oh, Jim, I mean, that just really touched me. Did you hear that sentence literally there towards the end
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Thank you for listening to me. And I've got to say, I do, I find it so important
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to try and talk to the veterans to try and listen to that experience it means
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so much to them that their experiences memories and all the rest of it are
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passed down through the generations as well what a guy
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