WE DID IT!
The hardest physical challenge I’ve taken on since my injuries.
But never doubted I’d make it, because I knew who we were climbing for.
Please donate below for all the heroes we were climbing for.
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I don’t think newspapers should endorse candidates anymore..it puts a ‘bias target’ on the news reporters who are trying to do their job reporting facts but if the opinion people are endorsing and yes, they are opinion people, it falsely suggests the fact reporters necessarily agree…I realize endorsing has been going on forever, but time to reconsider whether it is good idea…what do you think?
This is why people think we in media are silly - @cnn just teased it has an EXCLUSIVE interview with Sen Sullivan ?huh ? Exclusive??He did an interview w/me on Friday and probably 5 other news shows
To all Bears fans - yes, I know you have not been Packers fans all these years (I am a shareholder) but this is a formal invitation to become a Packer fan since the Bears are moving out of state. I am very sad about their move. It is wrong to move out of state.
The USA persuaded Russia to release Evan Gershkovich (Wall Street Journal) and Brittney Griner (WNBA) (she admitted her guilt) but have COMPLETELY IGNORED JIMMY WILGUS (musician from New Jersey in prison since 2015) Why? Jimmy is just as important.
I am literally shaking. Some teenager threw a rock off an overpass and did this to my truck. I caught him, and his dad had the nerve to say, "He’s just a kid being a kid, I’ll give you $50 for the 'inconvenience'." $50?? This is a specialized windshield with sensors! He told me I was "ruining a child’s future" by calling the police. I feel like he’s raising a criminal and expects me to pay for it. Do I press full charges?
On June 6, 1944, before dawn, 13,000 American paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines into occupied France. By first light, nearly 160,000 Allied troops were crossing the English Channel in the largest seaborne invasion in history.
We call it D-Day, and the name itself carries history worth understanding. The Army has long described it as simple alliteration, much like H-Hour, while the French connect the D to "disembarkation." Some call it the "day of decision." When someone wrote to General Eisenhower in 1964 asking for a definitive answer, his executive assistant, Brigadier General Robert Schultz, replied on his behalf: "Be advised that any amphibious operation has a 'departed date'; therefore, the shortened term 'D-Day' is used." Whatever the origin of the name, what happened on that day needs no translation.
The boys hitting those beaches, Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword, were not hardened veterans in most cases. They were 18, 19, and 20 years old. They were farmers from Iowa, steelworkers from Pittsburgh, and fishermen from New England. They were young Americans who had grown up during the Depression and answered the call when their country and the free world needed them most.
At Omaha Beach alone, American forces suffered nearly 2,000 casualties in a matter of hours. Men were cut down in the surf before their boots ever touched sand. The ones who survived pushed forward over the bodies of their friends. They took the bluffs. They broke the Atlantic Wall.
They turned the tide of the Second World War.
I think about those men often. I think about what they carried, not just the weight of their packs, but the weight of knowing what was at stake. They were not fighting for a political party or an ideology. They were fighting for the idea that free people have the right to govern themselves, that tyranny does not get the last word, and that some things are worth dying for.
82 years later, that charge has not expired. It passed to us. Say a prayer today for every man who fell on those beaches and in those fields, then ask yourself whether you are living in a way that justifies what they paid. God rest their souls. God bless this Republic.
Some were young men, some of them were still boys, many never came home — but all those who stormed the beaches of Normandy and parachuted into Europe were heroes.
On the anniversary of D-Day, we honor the sacrifices the members of our armed forces — including my father — made 82 years ago today in the fight against evil and tyranny.
We are forever grateful for their courage and the freedom they fought for 🇺🇸
82 years ago, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in defense of freedom. On this #DDay anniversary, the McCain Institute remembers their courage and sacrifice. Their legacy of bravery inspires our continued fight for democracy around the world.
DUCK CROSSING: Spotted this family of ducks milling around on K Street NW (near George Washington University) in Washington DC.
They were safely escorted to a quieter area with less vehicular traffic 🦆