90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.
Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.
I recently asked a doctor, "How can you detect a mental deficiency in someone who appears completely normal?"
"Nothing is easier," He replied.
"You ask him a simple question which everyone should answer with no trouble. If he hesitates, that puts you on the track."
"What sort of question?" I asked.
"Well, you might ask him, 'Captain Cook made three trips around the world, and died during one of them. Which one?"
I thought about it for a moment, and then with a nervous laugh, "You wouldn't happen to have another example would you?
I must admit, I don't know much about history."
A nice Finnish joke I found ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฎ
Finnish general Adolf Ehrnrooth was visiting in England after the World War II.
British general asked him how many Russian troops were stationed in Finland.
"A few hundred thousand" answered Ehrnrooth.
"Where in Finland are they stationed?" The British general asked.
Ehrnrooth answered: "Two meters underground around the border."
A World War II pilot is reminiscing before schoolchildren about his flying days during the war.
โIn 1942,โ he says, โthe situation was really tough. The Germans had a very strong air force. I remember,โ he continues, โone day I was protecting the bombers and suddenly, out of the clouds, these fokkers appeared.
I looked up, and right above me was one of them. I aimed at him and shot him down. They were swarming. I immediately realized that there was another fokker behind me.โ
The teacher stands up and says, โI think I should point out that โFokkerโ was the name of the German-Dutch aircraft company.โ
โThatโs true,โ says the pilot, โbut these fokkers were flying Messerschmitts.โ
To test the zeitgeist of the Maine Senate race my son wore a "Graham Platner 2026" shirt today. He's been verbally abused twice, spit on and smacked with a shoe. Who knows what will happen when he finally leaves the house.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower asking 1LT Wallace C. Strobel where he's from on the day before D-Day. June 5, 1944.
Strobel repled, "Michigan, Sir."
Eisenhower: "Oh yes, Michigan, great fishing there. Been there several times and like it."
Sometimes, just a simple, lighthearted conversation is all a person needs to get them through tough times.
Strobel lived to be 77.
Poster for the SAVE ACT, if ever there were one. A masked Antifa criminal stuffing a ballot box.
Whoโs more of a traitor? This masked Democrat operative or Republican fraud John Thune for failing to stop the likes of her(him?)
I wonder who at The White House might be able to make this happen? This man has earned it, and what a GREAT thing he's doing for people in need around America! This is what "Love Thy Neighbor" is all about๐บ๐ธ
Letecia Loadholt, head of the Mecklenburg's Department of Social Services, has struggled to answer lawmakers' questions during today's hearing. Despite earning $135,000 a year, she appeared unable to explain anything about her department's operations. What a waste of money #ncpol
Nobody asked them to do it. Nobody trained them for it. They were just two teenage boys โ the kind you pass on the sidewalk and barely notice โ 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 โ while most of us would have been paralyzed, reaching for a phone, waiting for someone with a uniform and a badge to show up โ 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." โ Lancaster Police
Minutes. Because two boys closed the distance fast enough to interrupt it. Because they were raised โ by someone, somehow โ 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 โ and did it anyway.
.@NC_Governor has sold us out time and again to his Green New Deal donors and special interest cronies.
Today, the NC House fought back and passed the Ratepayer Protection Act to shield North Carolinians from subsidizing data centers and give citizens more control.
Hey @WhiteHouse I've been following Rodney for years. His org is amazing and he is a premier example of the American spirit, lifting up children across the nation and helping them become the next generation of entrepreneurs and caretakers. Make this guy your next Trump lawnmower meme!