๐งก Oklahoma State University Alum ๐บ๐ธ|| Husband to an amazing wife and Proud father of 4 amazing kids || T1D Dad ||#diabetes || #gopokes || #thunderup
Bennett Stirtz deeep 3.
His 36% from 3 last year at Iowa is misleading. Stirtz was the entire offense so most were self created, off the dribble and with the defense focused on stopping him.
Great shooter. Unlimited range.
They left home as boys 8 decades ago to go out and save the world. Last night they sat at the WWII Memorial together and celebrated their country's 250th. Still heroic.
๐จ#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...
...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY
He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."
His name is Rishi Sharma.
He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.
He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.
He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...
...FOR FREE
So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.
Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.
He does it out of pure gratitude.
In his words:
"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."
As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:
"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."
THAT is America.
250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...
God bless our veterans. ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ
๐บ๐ธ The U.S. plans to keep the B-52 bomber flying until 2050
Think about that.
When the B-52 entered service in 1955, the first iPhone was still 52 years away, the Soviet Union still existed, and most of today's air forces hadn't even been born.
Yet nearly 100 years later, this Cold War giant will still be carrying out missions for the United States.
With massive range, enormous payload capacity, and major upgrades underway, the B-52 continues to prove why it remains one of the most feared bombers ever built.
Aircraft have come and gone. Empires have risen and fallen.
The B-52 just keeps flying.
๐บ๐ธ 1955 โ 2050
One bomber. Nearly a century of service.
๐จAt midnight, President Trump walked off the stage on the National Mall as fireworks lit up the sky, after delivering a patriotic speech to tens of thousands of Americans celebrating the greatest nation on Earth. โItโs an honor to be your president,โ he told the crowd, and that one line said everything. No shame, no apology, no weakness, just a President standing before the American people on Independence Day and reminding the world that this country is still proud, still strong, and still blessed. โGod bless you all,โ Trump said as the fireworks began, and for a moment DC actually looked like America again. ๐บ๐ธ
Two immigrants.
One American dream. ๐บ๐ธ
@RealStevenAdams
America gave us freedom and opportunity.
Oklahoma gave us a home, lifelong friendships, and memories weโll never forget.
Home isnโt always where youโre born. Sometimes itโs where youโre given the freedom to dream.
Weโll never forget where we came from and weโll never stop being grateful for where we are.
Kenrich Williams asked what it meant to be a part of the Thunder 4 years ago by @AndrewKSchlecht:
โIt means a lot, man. Like I said earlier in the season, I love being here. I would like to retire here.โ
Kenrich has reiterated that sentiment several times since.
The USS Constitution, aka Old Ironsides, is the worldโs oldest commissioned war ship still afloat!
She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed. The name โConstitutionโ was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March or May for the frigates that were to be constructed.
Happy Independence Day America! ๐บ๐ธ๐ซก
#america250 #america #independenceday #july4th
I had no idea..
"This man was born in 1809.
In 1816, at age 7, he was forced to work because his family was expelled.
In 1818, he lost his mother.
In 1828, he lost his sister.
In 1831, he opened his first business and went bankrupt.
In 1832, he stood in the legislative elections and lost.
In 1833, he borrowed money to open another business and went bankrupt again.
In 1835, he met a wonderful woman. He falls in love with her, they get engaged, and she dies.
In 1836, he entered a dark period of his life: deep depression.
He remains bedridden for 6 consecutive months. But he gets up.
He gets up and in that same year of 1836 he runs in the legislative elections and loses again.
In 1840 he presented himself as an elector; he loses.
In 1842, he met the woman he would end his life with.
They fall in love, get engaged, get married and she gives him 4 children and they lose 3 (three).
In 1843, he appeared at the congresses and lost.
In 1845, he appeared again at the congresses and lost again.
In 1850, his son died.
In 1854, he ran for the Senate and lost.
In 1856, he ran for Vice President, he didn't even have 100 votes.
In '58, he ran again for the Senate and lost again.
And in 1860 ABRAHAM LINCOLN was elected President of the United States of America ๐บ๐ธ.
He was elected for two exceptional terms (he was assassinated in beginning of the second term.) He was one of the most respected and impactful Presidents in the history of the United States ๐บ๐ธ.
It's important to tell this story of perseverance because we see the hero, but we don't see the backstage of the afflictions. "
Wow. ...
I think this is a great example of Never Never Never Give Up! ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ
OMG ๐ The F-35b Lightening 2 just stole the show at the National Mall for America 250!!
Watch the most advanced war fighting aircraft come to complete hover mode!
Greatest military in the world ๐ซก ๐บ๐ธ
She made it!
Kelsey Pfendler just shattered records by completing her solo, unsupported row from Monterey, California to Honolulu, Hawaii โ a grueling ~2,400-mile journey across the Pacific.
In just 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes, the 32-year-old became:
-The fastest person ever (beating the men's record by ~7-9 days)
-The fastest woman (crushing the previous record by over 40 days)
-The first American woman to do it solo
-The youngest woman to achieve the feat.
Sheโs one of only a handful of people to conquer this epic mid-Pacific row. What an incredible achievement! ๐บ๐ธ๐ฃโโ๏ธ
The worldโs THREE BEST strategic bombers just flew over DC at the SAME TIME
The B-2 Spirit, B-1 Lancer, and B-52 Stratofortress ALL just overflew the US Capitol and National Mall
Can we do this every day? ๐คฃ
Have you ever heard the Declaration of Independence read out loud?
You should. Itโs the greatest break-up letter ever written.
At just 33 years old, Thomas Jefferson, with cold moral clarity, told the British government to pound sand:
โWhenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to ABOLISH it.โ
The power of that line isnโt just what it says. Itโs how itโs said.
Jefferson wasnโt writing from a place of outrage. He was transmitting convictionโmoral clarity delivered from a steady frame of mind.
Itโs said Jefferson revised the Declaration of Independence with the help of Franklin and Adams dozens of times before it was finalized.
And that deliberate, cutting language, paired with emotional steadiness, is precisely why the words still land 250 years later.
Today, weโre blessed to be the inheritors of the great nation those steady hands wrote into existence.
Happy Birthday, America. ๐บ๐ธ
Mount Rushmore Fireworks Display:
2020: Fireworks Allowed
2021: Blocked
2022: Blocked
2023: Blocked
2024: Blocked
2025: Fireworks Allowed
2026: Fireworks Allowed
Republicans love and celebrate America. Democrats hates America and everything we stand for