I’d like you to know that I am releasing my second book, Graceful Warrior: The True Story of a Son, a Father, and a Family Who Carried Each Other Through, on November 10- my son Mac's birthday. This project has been two years in the making and it is more deeply personal than anything I have ever done. I wrote this book not only to honor my son, but also to offer hope, strength, and comfort to others who are currently walking through their own challenging valleys.
I wanted to take a moment and share a little more about Mac - a snippet of what you'll hear more about in the book.
Mac was vibrant. He was a talented musician and composer, a proud uncle, and a loving son and brother. At 27, he was diagnosed with chordoma, a rare form of bone cancer. Mac never let this slow him down. He pushed forward, serving through the Gary Sinise Foundation until he needed to step back to focus on the fight. But even in that, he fully embraced every moment he could, writing, composing, and recording music for his album Resurrection and Revival,
I look forward to sharing more about Mac, my family's journey, and the love and faith that carried us through in the coming weeks. And my heart goes out to anyone struggling with a similar challenge. If you’d like to pre-order the book, you can do so through Barnes & Nobles, Amazon, or Premier Collectibles.
He was 16.
Iran’s Islamic regime hanged a child.
His name is Mohammad Hossein Shokri.
Not a criminal.
Not a fighter.
A boy.
They arrested him for protesting and hanged him in public.
Tens of thousands of protesters remain on death row in Iran.
No one in the UN seems to care. Please share if you do. Be their voice!
I reread this every year.
I cry like a baby every year.
Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We��ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
ACTION ALERT PATRIOTS!
Do Not Let CAIR’s Pressure Campaign Against Veteran Mike Adkins Over 9/11 Facebook Posts Succeed.
They came for one of our own. In September. On American soil.
His name is Alderman Mike Adkins - Ward 3, Quincy, Illinois. Six years in the United States military. Military intelligence. A sitting city councilman who still says NEVER FORGET. That is why they want him broken.
He marked 9/11 on Facebook. He wrote that he would remember it as long as he was alive.
He blessed the troops and the heroes of that day. He shared the hard truth that 19 jihadists murdered 2,977 Americans and Islam motivated them!
Then CAIR and its leftist enablers showed up with screenshots and the magic word/weapon: Islamophobia.
He did not burn a mosque. He did not pass a ban. He remembered the dead.
That is now a firing offense in Quincy if CAIR gets its way.
CAIR does not get to tell a U.S. military-intelligence veteran how he speaks about 9/11 or about Islam. The left does not get to run a pressure campaign against one of our own and call it “civil rights.”
If they want to live under Sharia, they can go to the Middle East and do it there. Not here. This is America. We can say what we want. We will not be silent in September so a Hamas-linked pressure group can feel comfortable.
Texas and Florida have already designated CAIR a terrorist organization under state law.
Federal prosecutors listed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas-financing trial. The FBI cut formal outreach. That is the organization demanding “full accountability” from a veteran who refused to apologize for remembering 2,977 murdered Americans.
They think they can break him before October 6, when the Quincy Human Rights Commission is set to vote a ��resolution of displeasure.” I think not.
DO THIS NOW:
Email Quincy City Council. Tell them CAIR does not set speech rules in Illinois. Tell them a 9/11 commemoration is not a crime.
Council directory: https://t.co/Gxc3n17ve6
Let Alderman Adkins KNOW you stand with him: [email protected]
Mark October 6. Show up. Send a statement. Forward this. Say his name.
A six-year military-intelligence veteran. Ward 3. They want him silent while America marks the dead.
We choose our veterans. We choose our heroes. We do not choose CAIR. Never forget.
RAIR stands with Mike Adkins. Thank you for your service, sir.
SEE OUR REPORT: https://t.co/fT4NEUKV4k
Dr. Gladys West, the brilliant mathematician whose work helped make GPS possible, has passed away at 95. Her contributions quietly shaped the world we live in. Rest in power. 1930–2026.��� 🙏🕊️❤️
Let me introduce you to a brave hero from my country, Iran.
She was 16 years old. Just a girl. And on the streets of Iran, she did something braver than most people do in a lifetime: she took off her hijab and burned it in public. Right in front of the regime. Right in front of the world.
That was her crime: civil disobedience. A teenage girl refusing to obey men who claimed authority over her hair, her body, her life.
Her message spoke for millions of Iranian women:
To every man who rules over women in the name of religion, honor, or culture: We do not obey you. Your laws were never made for us.
This is what real power looks like: unarmed, unafraid, unbowed.
For that defiance, she was arrested. Her family says she was tortured and killed after falling into the hands of security forces. The Iranian authorities denied responsibility and gave a different account of her death.
Her name was Nika Shakarami. She was 16.
Now ask yourself: How many women in the West know her name? How many know what she risked for a freedom they have never had to fight for?
Say her name: Nika Shakarami.
HERO: Madeline Amy Sweeney knew the plane had been hijacked. Instead of panicking, she started gathering information.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the 35-year-old American Airlines flight attendant was working aboard Flight 11, a Boeing 767 traveling from Boston to Los Angeles.
Not long after takeoff, something was terribly wrong.
The cockpit stopped responding.
Passengers were being attacked.
Crew members were injured.
The aircraft was no longer under the control of its pilots.
As chaos unfolded around her, Sweeney managed to connect to an American Airlines operations center using an Airfone. On the other end was supervisor Michael Woodward.
What followed would become one of the most important eyewitness accounts from inside a hijacked aircraft.
Sweeney didn't waste precious moments focusing on her own fate.
Instead, she began relaying information.
Carefully.
Clearly.
Methodically.
She described the men who had taken over the plane.
She gave their seat assignments.
She reported injuries among passengers and crew.
She explained that a passenger had been stabbed.
Every detail mattered.
Even as she faced the reality that she might never leave the aircraft alive, she continued feeding information to authorities.
According to later accounts, Woodward was struck by how calm and composed she remained. Her voice was steady. Her descriptions were precise.
Then she provided information that would later prove critical to investigators.
She identified Mohamed Atta as one of the hijackers and supplied details about the others involved.
As Flight 11 headed toward New York City, Sweeney stayed on the line, continuing to report what she could see.
At 8:46 a.m., the plane slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Everyone on board was killed.
Sweeney was just 35 years old.
The information she provided during those final minutes became some of the earliest and most valuable evidence available to investigators trying to understand what had happened.
She couldn't regain control of the aircraft.
She couldn't stop the hijackers.
She couldn't save herself.
But she could help others understand what was unfolding.
And she did.
Until the very end.
Madeline Sweeney left behind her husband and two young children—her son, Jack, who was four, and her daughter, Anna, who was seven.
They never saw her again.
Yet in the face of unimaginable circumstances, she chose to remain focused, courageous, and selfless.
Trapped aboard a hijacked plane with no way out, Madeline Amy Sweeney spent her final moments ensuring that the world would know exactly who had taken control of Flight 11—and what was happening inside it.
“Please don’t get in my comment section and try to shame me into supporting Palestine because I’m Black and I should be supporting brown people. No, I’m not going to do that, because you’re ignorant and skin-color obsessed.
You don’t even understand the fact that, in Palestine, there are neighborhoods called Al-Abid, translated as ‘the slaves,’ where Afro-Palestinians live. These are marginalized Black neighborhoods that are called Al-Abid, ‘the slave,’ and many Palestinians still refer to Black people as abid, meaning ‘slave’ in Arabic.
Why? For those of you who are unfamiliar and unaware, number one: the Arab Muslim slave trade is the longest-spanning slave trade in history. It’s even longer than the transatlantic slave trade.
Number two: many of the Afro-Palestinians who currently reside in Palestine were taken there during the Ottoman Empire, a large Islamic empire that was known for the forced servitude and enslavement of many cultures and groups of people.
So, many of the Afro-Palestinians in Palestine were taken there through forced servitude and enslavement, and they still reside there in neighborhoods where they are referred to as slaves.
Again, as a Black person, if you’re going to try to appeal to my race, which, by the way, I don’t make decisions based on race and skin color; I make decisions based on truth, then come up with something better, because it isn’t cutting it.”
TRUMP JUST REPOSTED JFK’S MOST TERRIFYING SPEECH — AND THE DEEP STATE IS PANICKING
JFK saw it coming. In 1961. And now, Trump has just made sure 300 million Americans see it, too.
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DEBATE. THIS IS WAR.
Hasan Piker — the golden boy Democrats are lining up behind, the loudest surrogate for Abdul El-Sayed — just told someone who dared say third-world countries are run by incompetent governments:
“You need to be shot against the wall… capital punishment.”
Let that sink in.
Shot. Against. The. Wall.
This is the energy they want flooding every Democratic campaign.
This is the ideology they are elevating.
This is what they are normalizing.
November is not left vs right.
It is the Republic versus communism.
Freedom versus the firing squad.
America versus the people who cheer for the wall.
They are not hiding it anymore.
They are saying the quiet part out loud — and smiling while they do it.
VOTE LIKE YOUR COUNTRY DEPENDS ON IT.
Because it does.
🔥 RETWEET this. Share it. Force every single person you know to see it before November.