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🚨 JUST IN: Incredible moment as SecWar Pete Hegseth just STEPPED OFF the plane in France to honor WWII Veterans at the Normandy Cemetery ceremony 🙏🏻
They are SO GLAD Pete is there!
He cares. This is why morale is so high 🇺🇸
"Oh come, let’s sit down with them,
but we must be really well-behaved,
so that dear Mary herself thinks
we are also two little angels."
Holy card illustrated by Austrian illustrator, Ida Bohatta (1900-1992)
GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡
My respect 96 years .
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AMERICAN MADE .
The GOAT !!
Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .
When western civilization was on the brink of collapse, it was our boys who ran towards the fire.
Remember the heroes of Normandy— today and always.
And lets never stop fighting for a country that they would be proud of.
"I am a man. See me as a human being—not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated."
Frank Stephens pleads for the humanization of people with Down syndrome, studies suggest 67-90% are aborted in the United States due to faulty prenatal screenings.
Pro-life Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy credits her baby girl with Down syndrome, Valentina, for “perfecting their family.”
This child, with an extra chromosome, is valuable and worthy of life. ❤️