@CigarChairman1@TheJeffPutnam@EdLatimore
I’m pleased to introduce you to my latest venture.
Stateline Pipe & Products
Concrete Pipe & Structures fo American Infrastructure.
When I was a kind I played with toy dump trucks. Bull dozer, cranes… etc. building roads and towns.
Little did I know I’d end up selling the very materials it takes to build them.
GOD IS FAITHFUL!
Since 2026 became a reality, things have become really real.
Incredibly busy with more to do than hours in the day.
And yet, I feel extremely fulfilled beyond my wildest imagination.
Let me encourage you to dream too. Now is the time to make hay while the sun shines.
🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
Oscar Austin jumped on a grenade at 21. The Marine he saved lived. Austin did not.
He was a Private First Class with the Ist Marine Division near Da Nang. Just 21 years old. An assistant machine gunner on an exposed observation post 6.5 miles west of the city. It was early morning. The line was thin. The enemy attacked hard.
Automatic weapons ripped through the darkness.
Grenades exploded inside the position. The post was surrounded. Austin fired from his fighting hole as bullets tore the dirt around him. Then he saw a Marine lying unconscious in the open. No cover. No movement. If left there, he would be k*Iled.
Austin left safety.
He ran straight through gunfire. He grabbed his wounded brother and dragged him back. Then a grenade landed beside them. Fuse burning. No time to think.
Austin threw his body on it.
The blast shattered his legs and tore through his torso. Shrapnel ripped into his side. He was bleeding out when he saw an enemy soldier advancing, weapon raised to k*ll the helpless Marine. Austin moved again. He placed himself between them. He was shot and collapsed, still shielding the man until other Marines drove the attacker back.
The Marine survived.
Oscar P. Austin did not.
He received the Medal of Honor after his death in
1969. He was buried with honors. He never turned
22.
Most Americans will never know what he did that morning. 🙏
Florida Gators head coach Jon Sumrall:
“I’m ready to show the country what this roster can do when it’s finally coached the way it should have been all along”. Per @PeteNokos_
Can Sumrall turn the football program around ?