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Married 49 years•4 Kids/4 Grandkids•Retired USN Civilian•Purdue AGR 1980•BOILER UP🖤🤎•MY WIFE IS A LYMPHOMA WARRIOR•Jeremiah 29:13

[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

I was sitting with my Dad in a pickup in a cornfield listening to the radio. We'd been combining corn all day. The sun was setting & the evening sky was beautiful. The late, great Joe McConnell was calling this as only he could. Dad is gone, but the memory will always be with me.

[Big Ten Network @BigTenNetwork]

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#OTD in 2000, Drew Brees connected with Seth Morales to send No. 16 @BoilerFootball past No. 12 Ohio State.

#B1GFootball

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨BREAKING: The State of Florida is launching a study on Ivermectin to see if it can potentially cure cancer.

This is HUGE.

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@AnthonyG0528 My faith in hormanity is restored. I mean humanity. Sorry.

[Voices From Vietnam @VoicesfromNam]

Joe Jackson was a Georgia man who had already fought two wars before Vietnam. He flew B-25 bombers in World War II and 107 combat missions in Korea. By 1968 he was a lieutenant colonel flying something far less glamorous than a fighter, a C-123 Provider, a big, slow, twin engine cargo hauler. And it was in that lumbering transport that, on May 12, 1968, he did one of the most astonishing things any pilot did in the entire war.

The Special Forces camp at Kham Duc was being overrun and evacuated. In the chaos, a three man Air Force combat control team was accidentally left behind on the airstrip, three men alone as the enemy poured onto the field. The North Vietnamese had already set up guns right on the runway and were raking it with mortars, machine guns, and recoilless rifles. The strip was flatly declared impossible to land on. Aircraft that tried to get in were being shot up. Those three men were, by any reasonable measure, lost.

Joe Jackson volunteered to go get them, in his cargo plane. He could not do a normal approach, so he did something insane and brilliant. He rolled his C-123 into a steep dive from altitude, plunging toward the runway at maximum speed to give the enemy the smallest possible window, then slammed the big transport down onto the cratered, burning strip and stood on the brakes. The three trapped men sprinted from cover and threw themselves aboard. As they did, a North Vietnamese recoilless rifle round skidded across the runway straight at his aircraft and stopped just in front of it without exploding. Jackson shoved the throttles forward, hauled the loaded plane back into the air through the gunfire, and flew all three men out alive.

An American aircraft circling overhead happened to photograph his C-123 sitting on that runway in the middle of it all. It is said to be possibly the only photograph in existence of a Medal of Honor action as it happened.

President Johnson gave Joe Jackson the Medal of Honor in 1969. A veteran of three wars who, in a slow cargo plane everyone said could not do it, dove into an overrun airfield to bring three strangers home. He lived a long life and died in 2019 at the age of 95.

[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

@saras76 This would be a nice option...

[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

@MomsPostingLs @saras76 You win today's internet 🏆👏👏👏

[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

@BoiledSports K State was looking like a potential Ntl Champ when they went into their Conference Championship at 8-0. Then they lost to Texas A&M by three points (36-33). I remember their fans grumbling on forums about having to play a twinkie like Purdue in, of all things, the Alamo Bowl.😅

[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

@vscalabrino2 @Clipsbaba21 The episodes with Glenn are hilarious. I became so impressed with James Spader's acting that I started watching Boston Legal again, which costs nothing, BTW.

[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

@vscalabrino2 @Clipsbaba21 Last winter my wife and I started watching it at $20+ a season on Prime. We've stalled in season 5 for a few months. If that's where it's heading, I'm done. We'll watch the rest of S5, but that's it.

[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

@vscalabrino2 @Clipsbaba21 What?

[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

@adamgrag A more efficient future is a good thing. What could go wrong?

[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

@TheLucyShow1 My sister filled my Dad's '78 Olds Delta 88 diesel with gas once. Fortunately someone noticed the error before the engine was fired so all that was involved was draining the tank.

[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

@1True_American_ "Genuinely good person?" Like, a Pharisee?

I choose to come to Jesus like a tax collector, because I know in my heart who I truly am.

[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

@a43767796 @histories_arch To your point, I grew up in a town in S Indiana of about 2200 souls. There was one little old black lady, Mary, who lived in a modest house outside of town. The only black in the community. Everyone knew Mary, & she was treated more like a celebrity than someone who was different

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[Not Joe Tiller 🚂🏉🚂 🏀🇺🇸 @DrewBreesHelpUs]

@EchoesofWarYT "Jesse went to his rest with his hand upon his breast
And there are many who never saw his face
He was born one day in the County of Clay
And he came from a solitary race"
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@CFBHome One of my first true heartbreaks as a sports fan

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@ianpsomerville @CFBHome I will always contend the decline of Purdue Football occurred in that exact moment 😥
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