Massachusetts Silver Star Warrior
First Lieutenant Mark Henry Rivest
Gave All June 4, 1970 forever 24
Remember our Bronze Star/Valor American Hero 🎖️🇺🇸🦅
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all
Nobody asked them to do it. Nobody trained them for it. They were just two teenage boys — the kind you pass on the sidewalk and barely notice — leaning on their bikes in the summer heat when they saw something no child should ever have to experience.
A man walked away with 5-year-old Jocelyn Rojas. She was supposed to be playing outside. She was supposed to be safe.
And in that single, awful second — while most of us would have been paralyzed, reaching for a phone, waiting for someone with a uniform and a badge to show up — these two boys made a choice.
They got on their bikes and they went after him.
No hesitation. No waiting for permission. No "someone else will handle it." Just two pairs of legs pumping hard through the streets of Lancaster, eyes locked on a stranger who had a little girl that wasn't his.
They tracked him. They stayed close. They didn't let him disappear into the afternoon like something that was never going to be found.
And then they confronted him.
Two teenagers. On bikes. Against a grown man who had already done the unthinkable. They forced him to stop.
He let Jocelyn go.
"The entire thing lasted only minutes." — Lancaster Police
Minutes. Because two boys closed the distance fast enough to interrupt it. Because they were raised — by someone, somehow — to believe that other people's emergencies are your business too.
When reporters asked one of them afterward why they did it, he gave the most deflating, most beautiful, most teenage answer imaginable.
He shrugged.
"I just felt like it was the right thing to do."
No speech. No GoFundMe. No press conference. Just a kid who saw a little girl in danger and couldn't make himself look away.
Jocelyn went home. She was reunited with her family. She got to grow up.
Because of two boys on bikes who hadn't been asked, hadn't been trained, hadn't been paid — and did it anyway.
To all the antisemites posting #TheLiesOfIsrael
Let's debunk your all your racist and hateful talking points, shall we?
🔹Israel is NOT an apartheid state: https://t.co/FUgHTXesvv
🔹Israel is NOT committing genocide: https://t.co/ZkSk9ZUQ7R
🔹Israel belongs to the Jewish People: https://t.co/1gDxRSn4Ag
🔹The top seven lies about Israel: https://t.co/WuHnOpokJ9
🔹Lying about about "Synagogue of Satan" to malign Jews and Israel: https://t.co/taEc3EUFaU
🔹There has NEVER been a nation called Palestine: https://t.co/0RQVF8c5Qw
🔹How the Palestinians became "refugees": https://t.co/nIanRDZklX
🔹Pallywood: What is it? https://t.co/QcbF9ivLL3
27631
🔹Why there will never be a 2-state solution: https://t.co/UJpjokULzP
🔹Islam and Sharia Law: https://t.co/SweeD22W9F
🔹The truth about political Islam: https://t.co/d0UY0zyLGc
🔹Yes, anti-Zionism ACTUALLY IS antisemitism: https://t.co/KUaQNj9OAa
🔹Christian hatred of Israel and Jews is an actual Biblical sin: https://t.co/qtGpxW4c2u
And now you know.
From the river to the sea that land belongs to the Jewish people.
@rabindraX238 There is ZERO wrong with the US getting oil commodities under control so the bad guys don’t profit off of it and kill people. You missed that part. 🤔
🚨 BREAKING: Trump SBA Chief Kelly Loeffler just CAUGHT $1.1 BILLION in suspected PPP fraud, FREEZES 27,000 borrowers in Ohio ALONE
$9 BILLION caught in CA, MN and ME 🤯
This is huge!
"The SBA referred 560,000 borrowers to the DOJ and Treasury. That's over half a million borrowers to start collections and prosecutions for $22 billion in suspected PPP fraud."
"We've announced suspensions for 140,000 borrowers across California, Minnesota, and Maine totaling $9 billion."
"And today, I'm here to announce suspensions for over 27,000 Ohio borrowers tied to $1.1 billion in suspected PPP fraud."
AAG MCDONALD: "The war against fraud has come to Ohio, and we plan to leave no doubt as to who will win. That will be the team behind me, federal and state partners who have come together as one to battle the fraud crisis that has crippled our taxpayer-funded programs and robbed the American purse for too long." @RapidResponse47
🚨 @SBA_Kelly in Ohio: "Today, I’m here to announce suspensions for over 27,000 Ohio borrowers tied to $1.1B in suspected PPP fraud... This task force is exposing the fraudsters, making them return what they stole, and sending them to jail."
BREAKING: The Trump administration is putting every state on notice in a massive crackdown on Medicaid fraud.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson just announced that Hawaii has been officially decertified for failing to enforce the law and address the fraud problem plaguing the state.
"Everyone is on notice. And today, Hawaii is being decertified for its abject failure to enforce state and federal law to prohibit fraud."
🚨BREAKING: The United States government has sent official condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom
The US cares more than Keir Starmer.
This is Henry Nowak’s family
He had an older sister and two baby siblings
“Henry did nothing wrong. He was one of the kindest, friendliest… person you’ll ever meet.”
Never forget what they did