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[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."

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

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[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST DROPPED A POST THAT BELONGS IN THE HALL OF FAME 🔥

[Jack @jackunheard]

BREAKING: President Trump has reportedly enlisted FBI Director Kash Patel to help identify the leaker behind The New York Times report claiming Air Force One was switched in Turkey because of a security threat.

If someone leaked sensitive information involving the President's security while he was overseas, they should face the full force of the law.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

In 2015, ISIS captured Palmyra and demanded its head of antiquities reveal where the treasures were hidden.

He was 81 years old. He refused.

Khaled al-Asaad had spent over 50 years excavating and protecting Palmyra, the caravan city that once rivalled Rome in the Syrian desert.

He learned Aramaic to read its inscriptions. He raised his children among its ruins and named his daughter Zenobia, after its rebel queen.

Before the city fell, he helped evacuate hundreds of artefacts to safety. ISIS interrogated him for weeks to find them. But he gave them nothing.

They executed him in the square and left his body among the columns he had spent his life defending.

Archaeology is not a soft profession. Sometimes the people who guard the past die for it.

- @MichaelButtonX

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When she discovered her new home

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

These communists are fucking crazy. They want to destroy America.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Joe Rogan: "If you do the sauna 4x per week for 20 minutes at 175 degrees it’s a 40% decrease in all cause mortality…It’s great for reduction in inflammation & increase in red blood cells."

[Eagle Ed Martin @EagleEdMartin]

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Disney charges hundreds of dollars to see a fake castle and eat mid food at fine-dining prices.

@SpaceX lets you park next to the largest flying object in HUMAN HISTORY for free.

Choose wisely.

[Rep. Wesley Hunt Press Office @RepWPH]

🚨Texas hospital caught advertising 'birth packages' right on the southern border.

$3,950 for a natural birth and…citizenship included?

This is straight-up exploitation of the 14th Amendment.

The amendment intended to protect the children of freed slaves after the Civil War, is now being used to hand out citizenship to birth tourists.

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

PALANTIR CTO:

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[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

Trump just fired the entire EAC. Great decision and long overdue. See me discuss it tomorrow on @AbsoluteWithE

[Revolver News @RevolverNewsUSA]

The whole "Russia Hoax" was sold to Americans as a story about Trump using his "foreign ties" in order to steal an election.

But according to new reporting from Joseph diGenova, his investigation is uncovering something drastically different.

Turns out the people screaming about “collusion” may have been standing next to the real foreign influence operation all along...

https://t.co/QjwijSfEjN

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Joe Rogan: "You say that China has 10 years to go..."

Guest: "At most."

Joe Rogan: "What do you mean by that?"

[Eagle Ed Martin @EagleEdMartin]

You die in squalor.

[ZekeinSouthTX @DaBlurb]

@RandPaul Have you paid a visit to your fellow Senator from Kentucky? That should be on your first thing to do list

[ZekeinSouthTX @DaBlurb]

@BrandonStraka We(his constituents) should have the right to demand proof that he’s not only alive, but capable to do his job that he’s been elected to do.

No, I don’t believe Scott Jennings. What I want to know more about is why he has made this statement and who/what put him up to this.

[John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. @MrJohnJnr]

🚨 JUST IN: Former CIA officer John Kiriakou says there is a 100% chance the Kurds move into Iran. The plan would be to seize Kurdish areas inside Iran and force the Revolutionary Guard to come out and fight. That would make them far easier targets. Massive problem for the Islamic regime. 🔥

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