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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 6, 1944, a 56-year-old general with a secret walked onto Utah Beach under fire, armed with a cane and a pistol.

The secret: his heart was failing. He had hidden it from the army doctors so they wouldn't pull him from the mission.

His name was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Son of the President. He had begged three separate times to lead the first wave ashore at Normandy before his commanders finally said yes.

When his landing craft drifted 2,000 yards off course, every instinct said redirect the following waves to the correct zone. Instead, Roosevelt walked the beach himself, alone, under artillery fire, cane in hand, reading the terrain.

His verdict: "We'll start the war from right here."

He then stood on that beach and personally greeted every regiment that landed after him, pointing them inland, cracking jokes under shellfire, steadying 18-year-olds who had never seen combat. He did this for hours.

Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic act he had ever witnessed in combat.

His answer, without hesitation: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

Roosevelt's son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, also landed at Normandy that same morning. He was named after his uncle, Quentin Roosevelt, who had been shot down as a fighter pilot over France in World War I.

Three generations. Three wars. One family.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep 36 days later. Heart attack. The thing he had been hiding finally won. He never learned he had been awarded the Medal of Honor.

He was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery.

In 1955, his family had his brother Quentin, killed in WWI, exhumed from where he fell in France and reinterred right beside him. Quentin is the only World War I soldier buried there.

Two brothers. Two world wars. The same French soil.

Their father had once said: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Both of his sons did exactly that.

[Ray Cartwright @RayCartwright]

Kirk Saarloos’ dream pitcher

[Frogs O’ War @FrogsOWar]

#TCU baseball has added Rhode Island RHP transfer Manny Santos, who totaled a 2-2 record and a 5.27 ERA with 41 strikeouts and 24 walks over 27.1 innings pitched in 2026!

Santos held opposing batters to a .208 average in 2026.

https://t.co/n1sjmhaSst

[Real App @realapp]

Olivia Miles among rookies this season:

— 1st in PPG
— 1st in APG
— 1st in SPG

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

"The beachhead is secure, but the price was high. Now that it is over it seems to me a pure miracle that we ever took the beach at all.”
~Ernie Pyle, June 1944
82nd Anniversary, D-Day 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦

[Alex Vindman 🇺🇸 @AVindman]

On the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, let us remember the courage and determination of those who served and sacrificed to secure our freedoms.

Their bravery will continue to inspire generations to defend the values those heroes fought to protect.

[Lynx Lead @LynxLead]

NATASHA HOWARD TODAY

▪️ 27 POINTS
▪️ 12/16
▪️ 5 REBOUNDS
▪️ 1 ASSIST
▪️ 3 STEALS
▪️ 2 BLOCKS
▪️ +22

[TCU Stats @TCUStats]

LA tech to TCU pipeline starting even earlier nowadays….

[Andrew Dukowitz @adukeMN]

Cheryl Reeve on Natasha Howard’s comments about the team just loving to hoop together

“That’s well said by Tasha and I feel that with them, there’s just not a whole lot of other stuff with them, they do enjoy playing together. They enjoy hooping together… there’s something to be said for wanting to be somewhere, Tashy chose being here, Nia chose being here, obviously Mac and Courtney to return here and Phee, there’s something to be said for that”

[J.D. Andress @Jdandress11]

TCU is landing some really quality arms out of the bullpen, love this addition for the Frogs

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Please take a moment today to reflect on what they fought for:
#DDay82

[Andrew Dukowitz @adukeMN]

Natasha Howard on why the Lynx have gelled so quickly and continue to stack wins

“We love basketball and we like to hoop, that’s all, it’s that simple. We got people on the team that love to hoop and there’s no egos on this team, everybody loves each other”

[BuffFrog @BuffFrog]

@AZ_Brittney Forgettable

[Dylan Jaeger @DylanJaeger2027]

10’4” Broad Jump at 210lbs ‼️

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

💥 Russia: Ukraine struck the Antipinsky Oil Refinery in Tyumen, 2,000km away.
Annual refining capacity 9 million tons.
180,000 barrels per day.

[Yulia Svyrydenko @Svyrydenko_Y]

Three years ago today, Russia destroyed the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant and dam, creating one of the world's greatest environmental catastrophes.

The resulting flood swept through communities across southern Ukraine, forcing thousands from their homes, contaminating water supplies, destroying farmland, and leaving deep environmental scars that will endure for generations. Nearly 100,000 people were directly affected, while the consequences extended far beyond the immediate flood zone.

The destruction of the Kakhovka dam was a deliberate attack on critical civilian infrastructure and one of the largest acts of environmental destruction in Europe in recent history.

Rescue workers, volunteers, local authorities, and ordinary citizens worked tirelessly to save lives, assist families, and rebuild what Russia sought to destroy.

Today, we remember those who suffered and honor the heroes who responded. Russia will be held accountable for every crime committed against Ukraine and our people.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

An Iowa woman moved to South Dakota to single-handedly save 950 acres of native prairie.

Her name is Tracy Rosenberg. She grew up on an Iowa farm in a state that had once been 85% Northern Tallgrass Prairie. By the time she graduated high school, that number was down to one-tenth of one percent.

She spent 35 years in Des Moines. A divorce forced the sale of the small farm she'd been planning to convert. She started looking for native prairie to buy in Iowa, but there wasn't any left to find.

Then she read a 2012 Star Tribune article about prairie conservation that mentioned Pete Bauman, an ecologist with the Nature Conservancy working in the Dakotas.

She emailed him. Within an hour, he wrote back and told her that the Benedictine monks at Blue Cloud Abbey near Marvin, South Dakota, were closing and selling their land, including some of the last unplowed native sod in the state.

So she packed up and moved to a place she had never been.

In 2013, Tracy bought almost 1,000 acres of virgin tallgrass prairie. She named it Abbey Grasslands of the Prairie Coteau. Then she got to work with prescribed burns, intensive rotational grazing, and integrated pest management.

She's spent the last 13 years restoring degraded sections and protecting the intact ones. The federally threatened Dakota Skipper butterfly, gone from most of its historic range, has been documented on her land.

Tracy received the USDA NRCS Earth Team Individual Award and was named Conservationist of the Year by the National Organization of Professional Women.

She gives talks at national prairie conferences, hosts educational tours for ranchers and tribal college students, and runs the property as a working classroom.

Less than 4% of America's tallgrass prairie remains. The nearly 1,000 acres Tracy is protecting is some of it.

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

He died in 2016 at the age of 100, the last surviving Midway dive-bomber pilot.

Seventy-four years earlier he had done something no other American pilot at Midway managed. He scored direct hits on three enemy ships over three days, and all three sank.

He never wanted the credit. The title of his memoir was a plea. Never Call Me a Hero.

This is the story of Dusty Kleiss..🧵1/7

[Transfer Portal @TransferPortal]

TCU is set to host a transfer pitcher, @PeteNakos reports.

Intel: https://t.co/YqyYMoymJf

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

If you have sometime this weekend, watch my latest explainer on what the Supreme Court is doing to democracy and voting rights and what to watch for this month as the biggest, most important opinions get released.

Then share it with a friend. https://t.co/1ChI7w50He