“We gave up our yesterdays for your tomorrows.”
98-year-old World War II veteran David Yoho delivered an emotional message at the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. as Americans gathered to honor the more than 400,000 U.S. service members who died during the war.
Standing before the crowd in the rain, Yoho urged younger generations to remember the sacrifices made by veterans and to keep telling their stories long after they’re gone.
“Tell them it was a 16-year-old boy in the hearts and mind and body of a 98-year-old veteran of World War II.”
Dave Ramsey explains how manhood and masculinity became "toxic" and why it led to 7.2 million men sitting at home doing NOTHING every day…👀
“Men have been devalued and trivialized and been the villain or the clown of everything for a good 20 years. You don't see a TV commercial where the dad is the hero... he's an idiot. Or a sitcom where the dad is the hero... he's an idiot.
The 12-year-old is the smart one, and they smart off through the whole script. And the dad's a doofus and the mother rolls her eyes at the doofus that she picked as a life partner.
If you do that to any segment of the economy long enough, eventually they begin to believe it. And so we have 7.2 million men that are able-bodied, able-minded, that are not engaged in the workplace right now.
They're doing nothing. They're sitting because the entire culture has said, 'You're a doofus, you're a buffoon, you're valueless. Manhood, masculinity is toxic by its very nature, and so you're of no value.'
And the problem is it's destroying not only economics, but social fabric as well because we do know the data on kids, particularly daughters. The cues they take from their dad are devastatingly impactful, good or bad.
And so an engaged dad who builds confidence and, gives their daughter hugs growing up, until she leaves home and even after she leaves home, builds a confident daughter. A daughter that is not sexually promiscuous. A daughter that finishes college. A daughter that will not be victimized in the marketplace. That comes from their dads. The data shows that.
And so when the dad is not engaged, it's horrible for the social fabric.”
*Not Pats related* I was listening to the press conferences on NFL Network.
Aaron Rodgers: "This league has changed a lot in my 21 years. When you hear conversations about the Mike Tomlins & Matt LaFleur's of the world ... When I first got in the league there wouldn't be conversation about whether those guys were on the hot seat. But the way the league is covered now, the way that there's snap decisions and the validity given to the Twitter experts and all the experts on TV now who make seem like they know what the hell they're talking about, to me that's an absolute joke."
Philip Rivers on his first game back from retirement:
"Hopefully, my sons and those ball players that I'm in charge of at the school, they'll say like, 'Crap, coach wasn't scared.'"
Tons of Nebraska fans told me Iowa fans were the worst in the conference. I thought they were exaggerating. Nope. Truly even worse than Oregon which I didn’t think was possible. What a miserable lot of people.
@BenScottStevens@Hassel_Chris this is the stuff you should be tweeting about with Iowa showing respect. Not the trash you tweet every week talking smack. You are the worst. And the reason why nobody likes Iowa fans. Biggest wannabe fan base I’ve ever seen.
Vice President JD Vance has a powerful message for young men 🔥🔥
“My message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you’re competitive.
Our culture “wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same.”
“We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men, and as young women. And we’re going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”
Amen.
Great speech by @CoachMattRhule & spot on!
There is nothing more humbling than getting that random message from a former player or coach.
To all players I've coached and coaches I've coached with: Thank You. You have always been my "why".
#GRIT
On this day 7 years ago Justin Rose pulled a fan out of the Ryder Cup crowd and laid $100 next to him. He told the fan the money is his if he makes this putt. Well, as they say, the rest is history.