Edward Higbee

Mountain's twin peaks, I saw thru the trees in my yard growing up. Also the name of a school I went to. I rarely DM.

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

Avoid doing Evil.
A rule not as golden, don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you.
I.e., do no harm.
Laziness is better than evil. If you don't know how to be good, be lazy.

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@prieurdp I know retired highway patrol officer they always did it so they could leave faster if they got a call.
But, I also know a coworker who got a parking ticket for pulling thru a parking spot, the equivalent of backing in!

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@DChadwickAuthor @DrClownPhD My wife will not see anything with him in it!

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@GeorgeDAndrews2 The south had emigration also, and many of their soldiers were Irish, etc.

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@EchoesofWarYT $5 back then should be at least $500 now with inflation.
Years later in the 1920s my grandmother's college tuition was $10, and that may have included books!

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

While we are waiting for California election results, here’s the latest from my research for the @ScottAdamsSays biography. Scott’s Hartwick College yearbook photo, senior year. His quote: “It’s lonely at the top, and nobody likes to be a loser, so strive for mediocrity.”

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Two days ago we lost an American hero. His name was Bruce Crandall, and this is his story 🇺🇸

Before he was a legend, Bruce Crandall was a kid from Olympia, Washington, born in 1933, an All-American high school baseball player who joined the National Guard at 15. The Army drafted him in 1953, trained him as an engineer, then put him in a cockpit. His first real job as a pilot was mapping the parts of the world nobody had charted yet, flying for two years over the open desert of Libya, then over thousands of square miles of unmapped mountains and jungle in Central and South America. He married Arlene in 1956. They would raise three sons. He spent the early part of his career flying toward empty places. Then Vietnam asked him to fly toward the worst one.

Sixty years ago, in a clearing called LZ X-Ray, roughly 450 American soldiers were surrounded by an enemy force several times their size. The shooting was so heavy the medevac helicopters turned back. Landing meant dying.

Bruce Crandall made a different choice.

He was a 32-year-old major flying an unarmed Huey. No guns. No armor that mattered. Just a thin aluminum shell and a decision. He pointed the nose at the hottest piece of ground in the war and went in anyway, with his wingman Ed "Too Tall" Freeman right behind him.

Then he did it again. And again. Twenty-two times in a single day.

He flew in the ammunition and water that kept the men alive. He flew out more than 70 wounded soldiers, loading them while rounds punched through the airframe, the cargo bay slick with other men's blood. Each run he could have stopped. Nobody would have blamed him. He kept his word to the men on the ground instead: you will be resupplied, and if you fall, we are coming for you.

He never fired a shot all day. He saved dozens of lives with nothing but nerve and a helicopter.

The men called him "Snake." He went back for a second tour and was shot down in January 1968, this time by friendly bombs falling too close. By the end of the war he had flown more than 900 combat missions.

Then he did something quieter that almost nobody talks about. He went home and lived an ordinary life. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1977, earned a master's degree, ran a small California town as its city manager, and spent 17 years in the Public Works Department in Mesa, Arizona, fixing roads and keeping the water running. The man who once flew through a wall of fire spent his later years making sure the streetlights worked.

It took 40 years for the country to catch up to what he did at X-Ray. In 2007, President Bush hung the Medal of Honor around his neck. If you saw We Were Soldiers, that was him on screen, Greg Kinnear in the cockpit, though the real man was braver than any movie could hold.

Col. Bruce "Snake" Crandall died on May 31, 2026, at 93 years old. He outlived the war, the doubts, and most of the men who watched him come screaming back into that valley when no one else would.

Some heroes carry a rifle. This one carried the wounded home, then went back to work like it was nothing.

Rest easy, Snake. We have it from here.

In honor of Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall (1933-2026), the best of us and a true American hero. We won't forget you 🇺🇸

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@elonmusk Ruby ridge
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[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@deaflibertarian @Rothmus Ruby Ridge
https://t.co/1j9ItyDcyu

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@libsoftiktok @Delta Is an adoptive mother a non-birthing mother?

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@DChadwickAuthor @TheExMoCringe I was in Australia on the Bicentennial, the ward sang one verse of 'My Country, 'Tis of Thee' and one verse of "God Save the Queen"!!!
To let us all celebrate 🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸.

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@CTRyoda @TheExMoCringe Is 'My Country, 'Tis of Thee' in the new hymn book?
I was in Australia on the Bicentennial, the ward sang one verse of 'My Country, 'Tis of Thee' and one verse of "God Save the Queen"!!!
To let all celebrate 🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸.

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@deaflibertarian What I'm trying to say you never know if someone is going to bring a bazooka to a fist fight.

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@deaflibertarian Disputes sometimes lead to war, usually better to negotiate a settlement. You never know what the other side may do.
He probably broke the contract's no party or damage rules; and probably owed the money according to the contract.

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@deaflibertarian You never know when someone will use a sledgehammer to kill a fly!

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@nicoraytruth Actually
He said this is the right place.

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@MarcSpector12 @EricCMeadows The church newspaper published an article, telling free blacks how they could legally move to Missouri.
Press was destroyed, Mormons driven from Missouri!
Missouri didn't want any free blacks, only black slaves!!!

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@MarcSpector12 @EricCMeadows Yes being anti-slavery before the Civil War automatically put much of the country against them.
It's the main reason they were driven from Missouri and later Illinois!

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

LA PRÉDICTION LA PLUS
EFFRAYANTE :
L'EFFONDREMENT D'UN SYSTÈME 📷
Le 2 février 1905,
la philosophe et écrivaine américaine (d'origine russe)
Alissa Zinovievna
Et.mieux connue dans le monde littéraire sous le nom
d'Ayn Rand,
est née à Saint-Pétersbourg, et décédée en mars 1982 à New York.
VOICI SES MOTS :
« Lorsque vous remarquez que pour produire, vous devez obtenir la permission de ceux qui ne produisent rien.
Quand on vérifie que l'argent coule vers ceux qui ne s'occupent pas de biens, mais de faveurs.
Quand tu réalises que beaucoup s'enrichissent par la corruption et pour l'influence plus que par ton travail et que les lois ne te protègent pas contre eux, mais au contraire, ce sont eux qui sont protégés contre toi.
Quand vous découvrez que la corruption est récompensée et que l'honnêteté devient un sacrifice de soi.
Alors vous pouvez affirmer, sans crainte de vous tromper, que votre société est condamnée.»
Note : elle a écrit Atlas Shrugged traduit La Grève qui fut un immense succès. Kateri

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@EricCMeadows @Lew541207 Don't forget anti-slavery positions

[Edward Higbee @Ed_H_ivee]

@NasheCeezet_zw High school kids gave a teacher a dessert made with ex-lax to convince the teacher, it was good gave some to other students also. I was one of the students! I wish after I learned what they did, I would have told the teacher.