Neal O'Brien

2 Samuel 22:38; Ephesians 6: 10-17; Isaiah 6:8 🇺🇸

[American Battlefield Trust @Battlefields]

After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led the 7th U.S. Cavalry in the Great Sioux War for control of the Black Hills. He was dispatched by Brig. Gen. Alfred Terry to locate a combined Sioux and Cheyenne village led by Native American leader Sitting Bull. Once he found it, he attacked the village, and in the ensuing confrontation, he and his battalion were killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn 150 years ago #OnThisDay June 25, 1876. https://t.co/BFc5Vm6roW

[Tyler Horka @tbhorka]

Manti Te’o Notre Dame highlights just because, via @NCAAFNation247. ☘️

[Neal O'Brien @Neal_OB10]

@espn @WNBA one game is not enough.

[ESPN @espn]

"[Caitlin Clark] is not called the same way as everybody else is called. The fist in the throat is crazy. ... It's dangerous."

Fever coach Stephanie White went off on the officials for not calling what she deemed two "cheap shots" on Clark.
https://t.co/UQqeeengDm

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Caitlin Clark continues to get beat up with no help from WNBA refs

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Caitlin Clark and every WNBA player should be protected from this targeted behavior.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

George Foreman vs. Michael Moorer, Round 10. Trailing on the scorecards and running out of time, a 45-year-old Foreman catches the undefeated 26-year-old heavyweight champ with a perfect right hand to regain his crown 20 years and 6 days after losing it.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

What are we even doing here? Brutal cheap shot. These women would still be flying commercial without Caitlin and this is how she is treated. Insane

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1863, a Union general pulled off one of the slickest campaigns of the entire war, and history basically forgot it because the timing was terrible.

His name was William Rosecrans, and facing him in Middle Tennessee was the Confederate Army of Tennessee dug into a strong line of mountain gaps. The easy thing, the thing everyone expected, was to smash straight into those defenses and pile up bodies. Rosecrans refused to do that.

Instead he faked. He made a loud show toward one set of gaps to fix the enemy's attention, then sent his real strength swinging wide through other passes to get around behind them. It rained for eleven days straight. Roads turned to soup. His men slogged through it anyway, popping up where they were not supposed to be, again and again, until the Confederates realized they were about to be cut off and had to abandon their whole position and run for Chattanooga.

He cleared the Confederates out of Middle Tennessee in less than two weeks and lost only around 600 men doing it. By the brutal math of that war it was almost bloodless.

And here is the cruel part. The campaign wrapped up right as Gettysburg was being fought and Vicksburg was falling. Every headline in the country went to those two. Rosecrans pried a state loose with brains instead of blood, and the news cycle buried him on the back page. He never really got over being ignored.

[Tyler Horka @tbhorka]

What if Notre Dame won the national championship?

@GregMcElroy says it would be college football’s “loudest possible ending.”

The Indiana story was cool and cute but IU is not ND. Ohio State and Michigan aren’t either. Nobody else is.

An Irish natty would shatter souls.

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

U.S. Army Sergeant First Class: Eric
M. Emond, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), who was sadly killed in action on November 27th 2018, when an enemy IED detonated near to his patrol in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. He started his military career in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served as a Scout Sniper in the Infantry for 7 years. During this time, he completed Ranger School, and deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, before being honourably discharged. He then enlisted in the Army as an Infantryman, and eventually attended and passed Special Forces Assessment & Selection, followed by the Special Forces Qualification Course. After earning his Green Beret, he was assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) as a Special Forces Weapons Sergeant. In 2009, he was severely wounded by an enemy RPG in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, and was down to be medically discharged. However he fought against this and rehabilitated himself to a point where he could rejoin his team. He served 21 years in the military both in the Marine Corps and the Army. Rest Easy Warrior 🫡🇺🇸

[Remember the fallen @war_fallen]

Remembering Private Joe Whittaker, 4th (Reservist) Battalion The Parachute Regiment, killed by a suspected Improvised Explosive Device, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on the 24th June 2008, aged 20. Joe was from Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire. #Afghanistan

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

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[Remember the fallen @war_fallen]

Remembering Warrant Officer 2 Michael Williams, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, killed during a firefight with Taliban forces in the upper Sangin valley, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on 24th June 2008 aged 40. Michael was from Cardiff. #Afghanistan

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1780, the British made their last serious push into New Jersey, and a furious chaplain handing out hymn books may have been the reason they failed. This is one of the best Revolutionary War stories almost nobody knows.

Two weeks earlier, the British had burned through Connecticut Farms, and during that raid a soldier shot and killed Hannah Caldwell, the wife of local Presbyterian minister James Caldwell, inside her own home with her children nearby. The killing of a pastor's wife enraged the whole region. The British were trying to break American morale. They lit a fire under it instead.

On June 23 about 5,000 British and Hessian troops marched on Springfield, aiming to punch through to Washington's supply base at Morristown. Standing in the way were maybe 1,500 Continentals under Nathanael Greene and a few hundred local New Jersey militia. Badly outnumbered, defending their own homes.

Then came the moment that made the legend. American troops at the bridge started running low on paper wadding for their muskets, the stuff that held the powder and ball in place. Reverend Caldwell, the same man who'd just buried his wife, ran into a nearby church, grabbed armfuls of hymn books by the famous hymn writer Isaac Watts, and threw them to the soldiers shouting "Give 'em Watts, boys! Give 'em Watts!" They literally fired the pages of hymns at the enemy.

The outnumbered Americans held. The British took the village, burned most of it, then turned around and retreated all the way back to Staten Island that same night. They never seriously invaded New Jersey again. Historians call Springfield "the forgotten victory" because the war's spotlight moved south right after.

A grieving preacher turned a hymnal into ammunition and helped end an invasion. Sometimes the most dangerous person on the field is the one with nothing left to lose.

[War Times @wartirnes]

Battle of Ia Drang: First Contact at LZ X-Ray (1965) 🇺🇸🇻🇳

On November 14, 1965, troopers of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry established positions and patrolled the dense jungle around Landing Zone X-Ray during the opening stages of the Battle of Ia Drang.

Fought in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam, Ia Drang became the first major battle between U.S. and North Vietnamese regular forces, testing the capabilities and resolve of both armies.

The brutal three-day struggle would claim thousands of lives and later inspire the book and film We Were Soldiers Once… and Young.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

After Col. Shaw was killed in battle, Confederate forces buried him in a mass grave with the Black soldiers he commanded, intending it as an insult. When offered the chance to recover his remains, his father refused, writing, “We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers.” What was meant as a humiliation became a lasting symbol of honor and solidarity.

In Glory (1989), Matthew Broderick, who portrays Col. Shaw, carries a sword into battle. For more than 150 years, the real sword’s fate remained one of the Civil War’s enduring mysteries.

Shaw carried it during the 1863 Battle of Fort Wagner, where it vanished amid the chaos. Historians long believed it had been taken from the battlefield, sold, or lost forever, and its disappearance became the subject of decades of speculation.

Then, in 2017, researchers discovered an unexpected truth: the sword had never truly been lost. A Black soldier from the 54th Massachusetts had recovered it after the battle and returned it to Shaw’s family. It was later stored in an attic and forgotten for generations, remaining hidden in plain sight for more than 150 years before finally being identified.

Today, the long-lost sword is on display at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

[Michael Mathes @MichaelMathes]

“England historically has struggled here in Massachusetts”
— #WorldCup announcer on Fox
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[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

COACH is an extremely underrated sitcom and has one of the best bloopers of all time 😂

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

That throw to home and the pick by the catcher was INSANE 🤯