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Stop and look closely at the young Marine officer climbing over the concrete seawall on that wooden ladder.
He has less than two minutes left to live.
His name is First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, twenty-five years old, the proud son of Spanish immigrants from Tampa, Florida, and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.
On September 15, 1950, during the amphibious landing at Red Beach in Inchon, Lopez was the very first man in his platoon up the scaling ladder into enemy fire. A combat photographer snapped this frame as Lopez vaulted over the wall with his M1 carbine in his left hand, leading the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines forward.
Moments after this shutter clicked, Lopez crawled up to a North Korean concrete pillbox that was pinning his Marines down on the beach. He pulled the pin on a hand grenade and cocked his right arm back to hurl it through the firing slit.
At that exact split second, a burst of automatic fire tore straight through his right shoulder and chest.
Lopez dropped into the trench, bleeding heavily, while his live, primed grenade rolled loose near the boots of his own Marines. His shattered right arm was paralyzed; try as he might, he could not lift it high enough to throw the grenade over the wall.
With only seconds left on the fuse, Lopez refused to shout for someone else to grab it. Instead, he swung his broken right arm in a low arc across the dirt, swept the hissing grenade underneath his own chest, and pressed his body tight over the blast.
Every single Marine around him walked away alive. Whenever someone asks what American leadership looks like, show them the young man at the top of that ladder.
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He wrote a farewell letter to his wife before deploying. He never imagined she would have to read it after he was gone.
On March 4, 2002, Navy SEAL Petty Officer First Class Neil Christopher Roberts fell from a damaged MH-47 Chinook onto a snow-covered mountain in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda. He was 32 years old, a husband to Patty and father to their young son Nathan.
Born in Woodland, California, Roberts followed his fatherβs example and enlisted in the Navy after high school. He became a SEAL in 1992, later serving with DEVGRU (SEAL Team Six).
As the helicopter approached the summit of Takur Ghar, enemy fighters opened fire. An RPG struck the aircraft. Roberts fell from the rear ramp onto the mountainside, alone on enemy-held terrain.
Evidence indicated he survived the fall, set up a defensive position, and fought back before being fatally wounded. His teammates launched a desperate rescue that turned into one of the bloodiest small-unit battles of the early Afghanistan War.
Seven Americans died on what became known as Roberts Ridge:
- Navy SEAL Neil C. Roberts
- Air Force Technical Sergeant John A. Chapman
- Air Force Senior Airman Jason D. Cunningham
- Army Sergeant Philip J. Svitak
- Army Corporal Matthew A. Commons
- Army Sergeant Bradley S. Crose
- Army Specialist Marc A. Anderson
Roberts was posthumously awarded the Silver Star. He was the first Navy SEAL killed in action during Operation Enduring Freedom.
In the letter he left for Patty, he wrote that he loved being a SEAL and that if he died doing something for the Teams, he died doing what made him happy. Very few people have that luxury.
To the nation he was a warrior who answered the call. To Patty he was a husband. To Nathan he was a father. To his parents and eleven siblings he was a beloved son and brother.
His brothers never stopped fighting to bring him home.
Rest in Peace, Petty Officer First Class Neil Christopher Roberts.
Amen
π¨ BREAKING NEWS: Jesus Christ is the Messiah. He died for our sins, rose again and is coming back. This is the greatest news the world will ever hear!
Donβt sleep on this sophomore.
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Stats
Total tackles 48
Sacks- 3.5
Caused fumbles 2
Blocked FG 1
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And he was rewarded for it. Outstanding, young man.
As a retired master sergeant, I love that this young man is more afraid of his sergeant than he is of the secretary of defense.
He was following orders and doing exactly what he was trained to do. π«‘
Outstanding
At Arlington National Cemetery, the Changing of the Guard was one of the most beautiful and memorable things Iβve ever witnessed.
Itβs more than a ceremony. Itβs a promise made with every measured step:
βYou are not forgotten.β
Watching the Sentinel, the discipline, the precision, the quiet dignity, gave me chills. The training and dedication it takes to carry out every movement with such care is truly amazing.
Then you look beyond the guard, toward the rows of white headstones. Each one represents a life. Someoneβs child. Someoneβs friend. Someone deeply loved and forever missed.
Thatβs when it really hits you.
What youβre witnessing isnβt a performance. Itβs respect, for the fallen, for their families, and for the profound responsibility of standing watch over those who gave so much.
The guard changes. The promise remains. πΊπΈ
So true. In 40 years of Coach and Iβve never heard a young man say I wish I hadnβt played. But Iβve heard hundreds say I wish I had played.
βΌοΈ High School Football Reality βΌοΈ
Most people, donβt really understand what it means when a senior football players season ends. They donβt understand the true finality of it for 95% of these young men. You can play baseball/softball/basketball in rec leagues forever. You can always play a game of pick up basketball. You can play golf and tennis as much as you want when you get older. You can run Track and enter a 5K or marathons till you die. But most high school football players will never ever put on a helmet and play the same game again. You go from being totally and completely immersed in a game you love to being totally and completely shut out from it. That is incredibly difficult. Football is not a lifetime sportβ¦ but high school football IS a once in a lifetime experience.
Amen
Bible prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyesβ¦. whether you like President Trump or not (please hold your commentsβthis isnβt about him, nor do I care to hear it), he has already fulfilled one of the last prophecies in the Bible prior to Jesusβ return. Like it or not, President Trump has done far more for Christians than any other sitting President. Moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel back to Jerusalem and recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is one of the prophecies that must be fulfilled. No other President in history has done this, but Donald Trump did.
We havenβt seen anything yet!! What the world is experiencing right now is just the tip of the iceberg!!!
Just in case anyone wonders where I stand: The 7-year tribulation will be worse by far than anything anyone could imagine. If you think this is our last pandemic or βnaturalβ disaster, you are sadly mistaken. Read the book of Revelation. As a Christian, Iβve heard about the corruption and debauchery of the end-times most of my life. It appears the book of Revelation is unfolding right before us. We shouldnβt be shocked either, given the state of immorality in our world. Every day, the boundaries of sin seem to be pushed further and further, and allowing Muslims to be elected into office is just speeding things up. The line between right and wrong has slowly been erased by society, television, and pop culture. Witchcraft, spiritualism, and βNew Ageβ belief systems are being celebrated and exalted, even among some who profess to be Christians. We have been removed further from the world God created and intended. We need to take this time to re-evaluate ourselves. We need to prepare and repent. Jesus will return just as His Word tells us. This is a huge wake-up call to all who take the time to read this, and I am taking it seriously. I want to go home to my Father when my time is up.
Until the Lord calls me away from this world to the next, I want to make it clear that I believe in Jesus Christ as the true Lord and Savior. I believe that Jesus is the Son of God, was sacrificed on the cross, died for our sins, and rose again. He loves us all dearly (far more than we deserve) and forgives our sins if we repent. His Word says, βwhoever believes in Me will not perish but have everlasting life.β
Please shareβdonβt EVER fear spreading the word of Jesus Christ! ππΌ
In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History teacher at RobinsonHigh School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks in her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.
'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'
She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'
They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.' 'No,' she said.
'Maybe it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'
And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.
The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom. Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'
At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.
Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'
By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded the Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year for the State of Arkansas in 2006. She is the daughter of a WWII POW.
Do you think this email is worth passing along so others won't forget either, that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by our U.S. Veterans?... I did.
Let us always remember the men and women of our military and the rights they have won for us.
Outstanding.
These get me every timeβ¦ πΊπΈ
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Sorry that I have not posted today, but my blood pressure has been up and not feeling well. I hope tomorrow is better
End of Regular Season Game film π₯
Stats:
Offense - 78 receptions | 1109 yards receiving | 125 yds rushing | 17 total TDs | 1443 All-Purpose yardsβΌοΈ
Top 3 in the state for Receiving yardsβΌοΈ
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Amen
πΊπΈGood morning America. After all we have seen this lately, this is the Lords day. Let-βem hear you.πΊπΈ
Trust me, he got the better end of the deal. Nothing can replace a degree from one of the academies. The discipline, the accountability and the hard work are ever present there. Outstanding young man.
He finished high school in Macon, Georgia with 499 tackles.
Two hundred and ten of them came in his senior season alone, which MaxPreps ranked as the most in the state and the ninth most in the country.
He was the Georgia High School Association's Class A Private School Defensive Player of the Year at First Presbyterian Day School, all-state twice, and he lettered four times in football and four more in baseball.
He had zero scholarship offers.
His name is Coleman Cauley.
Three schools invited him to walk on. Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Mercer. Not one of the three made it a preferred walk-on spot, which is the version where somebody is at least expecting you.
"It really upset me when I didn't get an offer from Georgia Southern, after a really good senior season," he said.
He was ready to quit football.
His mother had been doing the work he would not do for himself. Coaches tweeted when he won something, and he never passed any of it along.
"I remember telling him that this is not the 1980s anymore," Becky Cauley said. "You need to market yourself."
So she did it for him. She retweeted the news of his senior award and added a tag for an account called Recruit Georgia.
A Navy assistant named Robert Green saw the tweet.
Green called the account and asked why nobody had taken this kid yet.
"Because he is humble," the man told him.
In late January of 2022, Green called the house in Macon and got Coleman's father, Scot, on the line.
Coleman's own answer arrived as a text message to his dad.
"I am not going in the navy."
He went and visited Annapolis anyway. The offer came after that trip, and he took it.
He is a senior now, studying political science, playing MIKE linebacker, and through eight games this season he has 63 tackles with 35 of them unassisted. Navy is 2 and 6. He has not missed much.
On January 2 he picked off a pass in the fourth quarter of the Liberty Bowl and ran it back for a touchdown in a 35-13 win. He had 10 tackles in that game too. No Navy player had ever scored on an interception return in the program's bowl history.
"And he is a hammer who plays really fast on Saturdays," his head coach Brian Newberry said.
He graduates in May. What he wants out of it is a commission as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps.
On SATURDAY, Navy plays Temple in Annapolis.
Four years ago, three schools would not promise him a locker. The only reason anyone in college football ever looked at his film is that his mother hit the retweet button on something he was too embarrassed to share.
π for you.
Amen
Faith doesnβt mean life will be easy. It means knowing that no matter how difficult the road gets, God is walking beside you.
When the world feels uncertain, trust in Jesus Christ. His love never fails, His promises never change, and His power is greater than anything we face.
KEEP YOUR FAITH. GOD IS ALWAYS IN CONTROL.
No doubt whatsoever. You better get one great one of each. Third would be a secondary coach.
From another friend:
JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible. Rusk responded, "Does that include those who are buried here?"
DeGaulle did not respond. You could have heard a pin drop.
When in England, at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush. He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those who did not return."
You could have heard a pin drop.
There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?" A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships. How many does France have?"
You could have heard a pin drop.
A U.S. Navy admiral was attending a naval conference that included admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian, and French navies at a cocktail reception. He found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks when a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?" Without hesitating, the American admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies, and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German."
You could have heard a pin drop.
AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...
Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously. "Then you should know enough to have your passport ready." The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it." "Impossible. Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France!" The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to."
You could have heard a pin drop.
I am proud to be an American, and proud of this God given heritage!
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