Aquila

History nerd discussing interesting things with the world.

[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

@nolibertarians That’s a wild statement

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name.

He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World War he went to France and was gassed and badly wounded at Soissons leading his men. That same summer his younger brother Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France. Ted came home with lungs and a leg that never fully recovered, and before he even left Europe he helped found the American Legion so that ordinary soldiers would have someone looking out for them.

Between the wars he did almost everything. Governor of Puerto Rico. Governor General of the Philippines. Businessman, explorer, writer. He could have spent the Second World War safe behind a desk. Instead, at 54, arthritic and walking with a cane, he talked his way back into uniform and into combat.

By 1943 he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily under Terry Allen, and their loose, unpolished, soldier-first style rubbed General Patton the wrong way. Patton had them both relieved of command. Roosevelt didn't sulk. He asked for another job, any job, as long as it kept him near the fighting. They made him assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division.

Then came D-Day. He hid a heart condition from the Army doctors. He wrote to his commander three separate times, in writing, begging to go in with the very first wave rather than watch from a ship. He was the only general to land in the first wave on any beach that morning, the oldest man in the invasion, walking through machine gun fire with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other.

The boats came in a mile off course. Officers froze. Roosevelt limped up and down the beach under fire, studied the ground, and said, "We'll start the war from right here." Then he spent the morning waving men forward and sorting out the chaos so calmly that terrified 20 year olds looked at this old man with a cane and decided that if he wasn't scared, they wouldn't be either.

His son Quentin, named for the uncle killed in the last war, landed at Omaha Beach the same morning. They were the only father and son to come ashore together on D-Day.

He died a month later. A heart attack in his sleep. And here is the part that gets me. On the very day he died, the orders had just come through promoting him to major general and giving him his own division. He never saw the paperwork. He never knew he'd earned the Medal of Honor either.

At his funeral his pallbearers were seven of the most famous generals of the war, Bradley, Hodges, Collins, Barton, Huebner, and George Patton. The same Patton who had fired him. Patton wrote in his diary that Roosevelt was one of the bravest men he had ever known.

Years later Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic thing he witnessed in all of World War II. He didn't pause. He said, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

[Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA]

I believe in one God,
the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.

God from God,
Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
consubstantial with the Father;
through Him all things were made.

For us men and for our salvation
He came down from heaven,

and by the Holy Spirit
was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.

For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
He suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures.

He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead,
and His kingdom will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the Giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.

I believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.

I confess one Baptism
for the forgiveness of sins,

and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come.

Amen. 🙏🏼

[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

@FBIDirectorKash What in gods name was the purpose of adding that last part to the end of this tweet.

[Metatron @pureMetatron]

Hell is empty. All the devils are here.

[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

The passing of Lindsey Graham is sad. I have no interest in degrading him and I don’t think there’s any value in that nonsense.

There are always going to be people who celebrate a political death due to biases but he was an American and I’ll pray for his soul. It’s imperative that we maintain a degree of decency in order to ensure a future for America’s progeny.

I disagreed with him on a host of issues but none of that matters now. I also recognize that other commentators are going to differ with this position but I’ve seen people celebrating the deaths of politicians or pundits in the last few years and what, in the end, does that achieve?

How can we ever expect any genuine souls to step forward and lead this society if this is how they are treated? Democracy requires a degree of forgiveness and if we cannot deploy it for those we disagree with then the great project of our forebears has already failed.

[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

@ZiaYusufUK Why don’t you just execute the freak then?

[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

@Empireaesth I don’t even watch soccer that much but I hope this match happens just so we can all see the insane edit war that goes down in the lead up.

[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

Ah yes, nothing more indicative of a transparent and trustworthy justice system than telling people to stop sharing a video on X.

[Birmingham Police @BrumPolice]

The incident has been reviewed, and we have no concerns over the officer's actions and we are satisfied that they were reasonable and proportionate in the circumstances.
We would ask that footage is not further shared to allow the legal process to take its course.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

A nation built on unity.

[Harry Payne @HeadOfTVDept]

"My child was born in the Shire. It's a Hobbit."

[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

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[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

Read my latest article on Substack. Link Below.

[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

@pegobry_en It has all the hallmarks of a slur. It inherently others a group of people of which you are not a part. It is derogatory in nature and it does not require intent on the part of the user to be perceived as offensive. Terrible take.

[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

@esjesjesj You admitted it’s a derogatory term. That’s literally the definition of a slur. Utter lunacy.

[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

If the response to this isn’t to do whatever is necessary to remove the foreign vermin from Britain, then the country is lost. Either way no generation of leaders has ever been weaker. Such a betrayal of the most innocent in a society requires capitol punishment for those who stood idly by and allowed to this happen.

[Aquila @AquilaPolemics]

@EndWokeness Black women who are able to hug their black male children know a degree of serenity that the metcalfs mother will never know again.