Blade Taylor

[Blade Taylor @BladeTaylor01]

@BFW Lincoln Kienholz????

[Kobe Bryant Stories & Motivation @kobehighlight]

Captain America 🇺🇸

[Kobe Bryant Stories & Motivation @kobehighlight]

Mamba Mentality forever 🐍

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

If you have seen Band of Brothers, you remember the scene. Winters standing alone in the middle of a road, fully exposed to German machine gun fire, screaming at his pinned-down men to move.

That happened on this day, June 12, 1944. And the real story around it is even bigger than the show had time to tell.

Six days after D-Day, the Allies had a serious problem. The five invasion beaches were not one beachhead. They were separate pockets, and the gap between Utah and Omaha ran straight through a small Norma📷📷n crossroads town called Carentan.

Whoever held Carentan controlled whether the invasion became a front or stayed a collection of vulnerable footholds Hitler could crush one by one.

Defending it: Major Friedrich von der Heydte's 6th Parachute Regiment, some of the best infantry Germany had left, dug in behind flooded marshes that funneled any attacker onto narrow causeways.

Taking it: the 101st Airborne, men who had jumped into the dark on June 6 and had barely slept since.

On June 11, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole led his battalion across an exposed causeway under murderous fire. When his men stalled, Cole did something out of another century. He blew a whistle and led a bayonet charge through the smoke into the German positions. He won the Medal of Honor. He never got to wear it. He was killed by a sniper in Holland three months later.

On the morning of June 12, Easy Company of the 506th attacked into Carentan itself. They walked into interlocking machine gun fire at a T intersection and froze in the ditches. That is when Dick Winters stood up in the open, somehow untouched, and got them moving. The town fell that day.

The Germans were not done. On June 13 they counterattacked with tanks and assault guns, and Easy Company held a thin line at a spot the paratroopers named Bloody Gulch. They were minutes from being overrun when Shermans of the 2nd Armored Division arrived and shattered the attack.

With Carentan held, Utah and Omaha linked up, and the five beaches became one continuous Allied front. The door the Germans needed to split the invasion was closed forever.

One more detail. Von der Heydte, the German commander, later said his men had fought to the last of their ammunition. After the war, he became a law professor.

Winters became a farmer. He said he had promised God on D-Day that if he survived, he would find a quiet piece of land and live in peace.

He kept the promise.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

this is the most perfect “Seinfeld” callback joke in the history of “Seinfeld” callback jokes

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[Tour Golf (not PGA Tour) @PGATUOR]

They didn’t have to do Dave like this

[The Pryce Is Right @Hoiballed]

Arkansas fans getting up to do the pig sooie chant

[Blade Taylor @BladeTaylor01]

@elonmusk @mcuban

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

I would like to buy the Washington Nationals. If youre a billionaire pls reply to this tweet. I am an easy guy to work with, and youll look really tall next to me in pictures. Look forward to doing business with you

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

I would like to buy the Washington Nationals. If youre a billionaire pls reply to this tweet. I am an easy guy to work with, and youll look really tall next to me in pictures. Look forward to doing business with you

[Blade Taylor @BladeTaylor01]

@TyLawson3 @Ballislife Yes just based off of pre injury Paul George

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@JeffNadu Bone in cowboy with classic Mac n cheese with corn pudding

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@BarstoolBigCat Where are you buying your meat at?

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@ESPNNBA Cleveland since tip off!

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@tyschmit @PatMcAfeeShow can you get this guy on the show????!?

[Ty Schmit @tyschmit]

Super Humman appears to have found the fastball again. 103 on the paint.

[Footballism @FootbaIIism]

Imagine watching this classic of a game and deciding that Mitchell Trubisky should be the No. 1 QB taken