Ken

I'll Never Be Your Beast Of Burden....

[Ken @Kenc05]

@joshgio23 @DavidHarns It's not the School.
It's the Political party that nominated her
And all the people who voted for her. The BOT is not hired by MSU nor selected by alumni & students but by the general populce of the state of MI
So real blame lies on the Dem & Rep party for nominating morons

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Ray Lambert had already been shot twice and blown up once before he ever set foot on Omaha Beach.

He had survived the invasion of North Africa in 1943. Then Sicily. Each time he had been wounded. Each time he had gone back. By June 6th, 1944, the 23-year-old Staff Sergeant and head medic of the 16th Infantry Regiment's 2nd Battalion was on his third invasion in two years. He had already won a Silver Star for running through German lines in North Africa to drag wounded men out.

He was not supposed to survive a third one.

Lambert landed in the first wave at Omaha Beach. Of the 31 men in his landing craft, only 7 survived the day. The other 24 were killed before they even reached the sand.

He started working immediately.

The first bullet hit his right arm and shattered the bone. He kept going. A second round tore through his right elbow as he was pulling a wounded soldier through the surf. He kept going. Something hit his leg and opened it down to the bone. He put a tourniquet on himself, injected himself with morphine from his own kit, and kept going.

He found a slab of concrete on the beach that offered a few inches of cover. He set up a treatment zone behind it, dragging men out of the water and working on them one by one under constant fire. That piece of concrete is still there today. People who visit Omaha Beach call it Ray's Rock.

Then a loose landing craft ramp swung loose in the surf and slammed into him. It broke his back.

He kept going.

Lambert lost count of how many men he treated. The official record credits him with saving at least 15 lives that morning. Other accounts say closer to two dozen. He worked until his body physically stopped, collapsing unconscious at the edge of the surf, bleeding from multiple wounds, his back broken, still in the water.

A doctor spotted him. A landing craft pulled him out.

Here is the part that does not feel real.

Lambert's brother, Euel, had also been wounded at Normandy that day. The two brothers were loaded onto the same evacuation landing craft. They were placed in the same wheeled ambulance. They were taken to the same tent hospital in England. They were brought into the same operating room at the same time.

Lambert spent almost a full year recovering before he could walk properly again.

He went home. He lived quietly for decades, rarely talking about what happened. In 2019, at the age of 98, he went back to Normandy and stood on the beach again. He published a memoir called Every Man a Hero. It became a New York Times bestseller.

In 2021, Ray Lambert died peacefully at home. He was 100 years old.

He had three invasions, four serious wounds, a broken back, a Silver Star, multiple Bronze Stars, multiple Purple Hearts, and two dozen men who came home because he refused to stop moving on the worst morning in American military history.

Today is June 6th.

Remember him.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Kids who watch Looney Tunes cartoons turn into better adults.

[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

Two Hall of Famers were among the 160,000 troops who took part in the Allied Forces’ invasion of Normandy during D-Day, which began on June 6, 1944.

Yogi Berra was a gunner’s mate on the USS Bayfield, and Leon Day delivered much-needed supplies to Utah Beach with the Army’s 818th Amphibious Battalion.

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

D-Day is underway. Some would argue that what's happening right now is the most daring and ultimately successful operation in the history of military Alliances.
Note: the majority of troops are friends of the US from eight countries. Eisenhower has been told that three-quarters of the 23,400 airborne troops will be lost. He's hoping that the prediction will be wrong.

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

Timelapse of the Allied advance from D-Day on 6th June 1944, to VE-Day on 8th May 1945. The largest seaborne invasion in history and the liberation of Western Europe.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

USA - Blue
UK - Orange
Canada - Red
Germany - Black

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

So, I make $100 and the government takes 1/3 of that.
I take the 2/3 remaining to me and I buy something that I need.
They tax that.
I take what is left over and split it in half: half to the bank and have to an investment account.
The interest I make from the bank?
They tax that.
The interest I make from my investments?
They tax that.
If somehow, after all the confiscations, I’m able to buy myself a piece of land they will tax my purchase.
Then, even though they pretend I owe the land, they charge me every year for the right to live on it.
While the Democrats and Republicans keep us fighting each other over how much billionaires are taxed, we stop looking at how much money they take from us and pour into a monstrous bureaucracy that every day seems to take away a little more of our freedoms and give us less in return.
Just a note for all of you who have picked a side in the tyrannical two party system.

[Ken @Kenc05]

@Lynn_Henning The statement I made is factual. Your statement is opinion. How about we stick to the facts of how the university board is elected.
And how the candidates are nominated as political favors to political parties.

[Ken @Kenc05]

@followingnone @MSU_Football You understand the Big Ten did this not Michigan State

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Do you know what the perfect environment for a virus grow is?

Election Years.

[Ken @Kenc05]

But @Johnubacon wrote a book saying that the U of M coaching staff was so honorable
This can't be accurate can it

[The Athletic @TheAthletic]

On “Good Morning America,” Paige Shiver said she was pregnant with Sherrone Moore’s child during their relationship.

She was advised by “multiple doctors and experts” that it “wouldn’t be right or healthy for me to keep the baby” because of a medical condition called Pompe disease.

[Ken @Kenc05]

Michigan man
They love to victim shame

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

This girl can cry me a fucking river. You knowingly fucked a married man with kids. You can’t now cry woe is me.

[Ken @Kenc05]

I'm sure @danajacobson @tracywolfson @NicoleAuerbach
Are going to very thoroughy report this because they claim to be very empathetic to victims and wanting to report the truth
That is if they're not too busy updating their Twitter profile pics of them with um athletes

[College Sports Only @CSOonX]

Holy shit:

Paige Shiver told "Good Morning America" that former Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore got her pregnant & that their affair was an open secret in the athletic department.

How does Michigan AD Warde Manuel still have a job???

[Ericks🟢n Kiva Presented by Acrisure @EricksonKiva]

Are you telling me the Michigan fanboy who used his office to prosecute rival players with felonies for a postgame fight while allowing a UM player to avoid gun charges so he could finish out a football season is unethical?!

[Ken @Kenc05]

@Graham_Couch @sarge____ A) then call out your fellow media members for not doing their job

Or
B) ask anyway if you are a medium member you're not obligated to only ask MSU affiliated athletic personnel questions you can ask UM affiliated people questions.

[Ken @Kenc05]

@Graham_Couch @sarge____ It is not the most asked question by MSU fans.
Ridiculous statement.
I will say did anyone ask Warde Manual if he was still loaning his cars out to basketball players after they won the championship? it is the most asked question by U of M fans
See how silly that sounds

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

Food trucks used to sell you 3 of the best tacos you've had in your life for $5 cash only and then people with Masters degrees started buying them and now it's 3 of the worst tacos you've had in your life for $18.50 plus a recommended 20% tip

[Intrinsic @intrinsicvalyou]

〽️🇨🇳UMich is ADDICTED to Chinese cash — and refuses to audit the national security nightmare that comes with it

UM-Ann Arbor took in **$618.5 million** in foreign funding since 2015 — including **$66.7 million directly from China**

Now the university is INFESTED with Chinese spies: caught photographing U.S. military gear at Camp Grayling during Taiwanese training… and a researcher dead the day after FBI questioning.

And all the local CBS Detroit news cares about is covering it up demanding we “protect international scholars.”

Yet Grasso admitted under oath: “We did not do an audit.”

Taxpayer-funded treason. Shut it down. #ChinaThreat #NationalSecurity