Uncle David

Husband | Dad | Man of Faith | United States Marine | Survivor | Lover of Ice Cream

[Uncle David @Echo5_Kilo]

Yes we better remember.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

33 years ago this weekend, two Delta Force snipers made a choice almost nobody would make.

Master Sergeant Gary Gordon was 33, from Lincoln, Maine, with a wife and two young kids at home. Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart was 35, a farm kid from Newville, Pennsylvania.

On October 3, 1993, they were in a Black Hawk circling over Mogadishu when another Black Hawk, Super 64, was shot down. Pilot Mike Durant was alive in the wreckage with a broken back and a crushed leg. His crew was hurt. There were no friendly ground forces anywhere near them, and hundreds of armed militia and locals were already converging on the crash site.

From the air, Gordon and Shughart could see exactly what was coming.

They asked to be dropped in. Command said no.

They asked again. No again.

They asked a third time and finally got the green light.

Their helicopter set them down nearby and they fought their way to the wreck on foot. Two men, carrying only what they had on them. They pulled Durant out of the cockpit, set him up in a safer position, and started holding off the crowd.

For a while, it worked. They kept the mob back with precise, steady fire while the numbers against them kept growing.

Shughart was killed first.

Gordon kept fighting alone. When he was nearly out of ammunition, he went back to Durant, handed him a rifle, and told him good luck. Then he went back out. He was killed minutes later.

Durant was captured, beaten, and held for 11 days. He came home alive. He has said for decades that he's only here because of those two men.

In 1994 Gordon and Shughart were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the first since Vietnam. The Navy later named two ships after them, the USNS Gordon and the USNS Shughart.

They didn't stumble into that fight. They watched it from above, understood the odds, and asked three times to go anyway.

Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart. Remember their names.

[Uncle David @Echo5_Kilo]

Been there

[Itschi @Itschi1]

🇩🇪 Deutschland - Schönheit - Umwerfend 🇩🇪

[Uncle David @Echo5_Kilo]

And we have people in our country who celebrate this man.

[Victims of Communism @VoCommunism]

Want to know what evil looks like? Look no further than communist China under Mao Zedong.

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

In September of 1944, Marines of the 1st Marine Division on Peleliu. 🪖

Heroes 🇺🇸

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

What she said!

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

A display by the checkout in Walmart

Never forget how insanely blessed we are in this country.

[Uncle David @Echo5_Kilo]

So true.

[Just call me Gunny @JRM58506966]

You might have done this if you were in the military
Semper Fi. 🇺🇸
https://t.co/jYjrX7nAZn via @YouTube

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

So Zelensky can bomb Russia and they Celebrate, But Netanyahu fights back and it’s a Problem. NATO is a Joke. An evil Joke.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The NGOs end up increasing the number of homeless people they manage, because that’s the only way to increase their revenue! Incentives drive outcomes.

“Homeless” is a propaganda word used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs. The word implies that this is someone who fell a little behind on their mortgage payment and they’re one job offer away from getting back on their feet, which is obviously false if you’ve ever tried talking to a “homeless” person in SF, LA, NY, Austin or anywhere else.

The honest reality is that we need to bring back asylums for extreme mental illness or drug addiction for those who are a serious danger to themselves or others.

[Thought 💭 @Vigoroussvs]

"A man becomes honorable when suffering gives him every excuse to fall, and he still chooses to stand."

—Seneca.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

>Survive the trenches of WWI
>Devout Catholic
>Decides modern society is losing its soul and needs a proper mythology
>Writes The Lord of the Rings
>Bases the entire moral framework on Catholicism
>Also makes the heroes based on the European warrior mythos
>Refuses to let Disney or corporate studios anywhere near his books during his life
>Translate the Ave Maria, Lord's prayer and other prayers into elvish
>Creates the foundation of modern fantasy without compromising a single belief

Tolkien was unfathomably based

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.

The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.

A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.

Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.

The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.

Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.

"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.

Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.

The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.

The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.

How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 BREAKING: Victor Davis Hanson Drops a Fiery Truth Bomb! 🔥
“We didn’t storm the beaches of Normandy… didn’t bleed and die in the trenches of World War I… didn’t sacrifice everything in World War II… JUST TO BE LECTURED BY NEWCOMERS on why America is ‘racist’ and ‘flawed’!”
Do you think Hamilton and Jefferson fought and died for YOU?
250 years of American blood—from Gettysburg to Belleau Wood to Iwo Jima—only for first- and second-generation arrivals to march in and declare:
“Your Constitution is garbage. The Founders were racists. When we take power, we’re tearing it all down.”
ENOUGH.
This is OUR country. We built it. We defended it with our lives.
If you come here, assimilate—or go home.
What do YOU think, America? Drop your thoughts below! 👇
@VDHanson #AmericaFirst #NoMoreLectures #DefendTheFounders

[Francine @Francin28577060]

The antenna from the World Trade Center.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

The Man in the Arena
President Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

[Uncle David @Echo5_Kilo]

To all my brothers who didn’t come back.

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

82 years ago today, the 1st Marine Division arrived on Peleliu. 🪖

[Tony @EvacTony]

WANKER who did this, desecrated Winston Churchill found not guilty of criminal damage arguing in court the paint washed off.

A Green light for these bastards to do the same to anything else.

Imagine if you threw some of that on a Mosque, your feet wouldn't touch the floor. #TwoTierPolice #TwoTierJustice

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk just announced DOGE has found 100,000 federal workers who committed FRAUD by applying for and got unemployment benefits while they WORKED!

We're so blessed to have @ElonMusk!