Pepsiman

Husband / Father / Grandfather /Conservative / Navy Vet 1979-1985 - CTM2/ Woodworker / #MAGA #America First

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Private Carlton Barrett was possibly the smallest man in his regiment.

5 feet 4 inches tall. 125 pounds.

On the morning of June 6, 1944, he landed at Omaha Beach in neck-deep water, machine gun fire cutting the surface all around him. He made it to shore.

Then he turned around and went back in.

A soldier was drowning. Barrett pulled him out. Then another. Then another. For hours, under constant fire, this 125-pound man waded back into the surf again and again, pulling drowning men to safety and physically carrying the wounded to evacuation boats offshore.

But he didn't stop there.

He ran dispatches the full length of the fire-swept beach. He found soldiers paralyzed by shock and calmed them back into action. He appeared wherever the crisis was worst, doing whatever needed doing, treating rank and personal safety as irrelevant details.

He did this for hours without stopping.

His Medal of Honor citation says his courage had "an inestimable effect on his comrades." That is military understatement for: this small, anonymous man held that section of beach together through sheer force of will.

He survived the war.

His comrades later said his life darkened after he came home. He lived quietly and died in 1986 in California, largely unknown outside of military history circles.

5 feet 4 inches. 125 pounds. He went back in.

Remember him.

[Jackson2244 @PatriotWoman22]

Why hasn't the GOP gotten behind her??

@ChairmanGruters

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

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.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

The California Democrat cheating machine will never let Spencer Pratt advance in the LA mayor race.

However, this is finally going to wake up millions of Americans across this nation to see just how rigged the California elections are for Democrats.

[Stella X @Stellaaa]

Hey @realDonaldTrump FYI you have tens of millions of Californians that are about to revolt because we REFUSE to accept yet ANOTHER stolen election so might wanna fix this one fast. We are out of patience and we aren’t doing this again.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Most Badass Americans You Don’t Know D-Day Edition: John J. Pinder Jr.

Technician Fifth Grade John J. Pinder Jr. landed on Omaha beach on his birthday. He didn’t make it off.

Born June 6, 1912, in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Joe Pinder was the oldest of three children. His father worked in the steel industry.

He graduated as valedictorian of Butler High School in 1931.

Pinder spent the next several years as a right-handed pitcher in the minor leagues.

He played six seasons in the farm systems of the Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Washington Senators, and Brooklyn Dodgers.

In 1941 he won 17 games and was still chasing a shot at the major leagues when the war came.

He entered the Army in January 1942 after Pearl Harbor.

Assigned as a radio operator with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, he fought in North Africa and Sicily.

In Sicily he earned a Bronze Star for staying at an observation post under fire.

On June 6, 1944, Pinder landed with the first waves on Omaha Beach on his birthday.

Communications were shattered. His job was to get a working radio ashore.

He made it off the landing craft. They were 100 yards off the beach.

Then he was hit. A round tore into his face after only a few steps off the boat.

Pinder held the torn flesh of his face together with one hand, carried the radio with the other, and delivered the radio to his unit, while wading thru waste deep water.

That should have been enough. It wasn’t.

Weakened and bleeding, he turned around and went back into the surf and fire three more times to salvage communication equipment.

He even recovered another workable radio.

On the third trip machine gun fire hit him again, this time in the legs.

Still he kept going.

Weakening but exposed on the beach, he helped get the radios working so the men around him could call for support.

While doing so, he was hit for the third time and killed.

Medal of Honor. Posthumous.

It was presented to his father on January 26, 1945.

Pinder was initially buried in Normandy.

In 1947 his family brought him home to Grandview Cemetery in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania.

He was the only professional baseball player awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II.

John Pinder is an American Badass

Thank you, John! 🫡🇺🇸

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Good for them

[John M. Cameron @johnrockshomes]

I am a J6er.

A Pardoned Patriot.

January 6th, 2021, was my first political event ever. I walked into the Capitol peacefully through the upper west terrace Senate Wing Entrance, the same spot and 23 seconds behind Ashlii Babbit — just 22 minutes inside. I saw no violence. I committed none. Officers stood by as citizens walked in and out on a handicap ramp. No signs. No warnings. I chanted “Stop the Steal” in the Crypt, wearing the shirt that simply said “Count ALL Legal Votes.” I went because I love my country and still believed our voices could matter.

Then the hammer fell.

In unprecedented persecution Twenty-four FBI agents came after a misdemeanor. They knocked while my family was sick with COVID. They raided my home. I self-surrendered in chains — leg irons, waist belt, handcuffed like a threat to the nation. Processed, fingerprinted, mugshot. A federal judge who called January 6th the worst occupation of the Capitol since the War of 1812 sentenced me to 30 days in prison and three years of probation for the “crime” of illegal picketing. I became the first person in Washington State ever sentenced to prison for it.

The propaganda hut machine unleashed hell. Fifty-seven hit pieces. Facebook and Airbnb deplatformed me overnight, destroying the real estate business I had built for a decade. My community turned its back. Both fathers who raised me disowned me — one called me a “fvcking insurrectionist” on the very day it happened. My little girl cried, terrified her daddy was going to prison. And while I sat in that halfway house — breathalyzed, strip searched, haunted by the sound of train whistles — my wife emailed me a Dear John letter. She wanted a divorce. The marriage I thought would last forever ended in the cold, isolated darkness of incarceration.

The grief was a black ocean, a heavy weighted blanket crushing me. It pulled me under night after night. I stood at the edge and seriously contemplated ending it all. The darkness whispered that the hate-filled leftists who still want J6ers dead had already won. But faith — raw, stubborn, saving faith in God — reached down and pulled me back from the abyss. I chose not to let them win. I chose to live. I chose to fight.

Tempered by that fire and reborn in the grace of faith, I have fallen deeply in love with a beautiful blonde farmgirl named. She stands with me in all things, her soul radiating “LOVE MORE” and a fierce loyalty to the soil. Together I am healing hands in the earth, lavender fields swaying like a living promise of renewal. In her love and in the sacred toil of the land, I have found a serenity I never thought possible after the storm.

To every J6er reading this: Rejoice! The best is yet to come.

We are rebuilding our lives from the ashes. We are reconciling with God and with ourselves. We are reintegrating into the fight — speaking truth, organizing, refusing to be silenced. The grief is still strong. We lost who we were, our careers, our businesses, our families, our peace. The non-stop hate and attacks rain down every single time we announce ourselves as J6ers. But we are not alone. And we are not defeated.

Fear and faith can’t live in the same house.

We were and are being forged in the flames God wants us to be.

We are rising stronger.

God Bless the J6ers!.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: Scott Presler is pushing to team up with ELON MUSK to DEFEAT Alaska's Ranked Choice Voting scam and to oust Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), who opposed the SAVE America Act

YES! THIS WOULD BE GREAT!

PRESLER: "Elon, In order to defeat Senator Lisa Murkowski in 2028, we first have to DEFEAT Ranked Choice Voting."

"There is an initiative on the ballot this year in Alaska to defeat RCV: Alaska Ballot Measure 2. A YES vote would eliminate RCV."

@ElonMusk is on Team America, he sees the betrayal! 🇺🇸

[Sidney Powell 🇺🇸 Attorney, Author, Gladiator @SidneyPowell1]

Get rid of “rank choice voting” in Alaska and primary her sorry self‼️@lisamurkowski is a HUGE disappointment.

[Rupali Chadha, M.D.🩺 @RupaliChadhaMD]

In Playa del Rey, my home for a decade and a half, a boomer guy says to me, “I’m so glad Playa is shifting from a tiny Republican beach enclave to people who have some sense.” Of course, he assumed I’m a Dem cause, gosh golly, she’s a brown girl. I smiled and said, “Do you like the extra needles on the beach or is it the poop?”

The shock in the eyes of a man whose father came to San Diego to work on planes in WWII, only to become an insufferable ding dong… 🤪

Praying for the city of angels and @spencerpratt 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I’m about to offer the House-passed version of the SAVE America Act on the Senate floor in connection with tonight’s vote-a-rama

This one should get at least 51 votes

Will keep you posted

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Why would you do this unless you wanted to cheat. https://t.co/unymBF4EBV

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Congress needs a serious overhaul…
Agreed?

[Pepsiman @Pepsiman6977]

@tgbolts @MAGAVoice As long as we have Trump, he can veto the crap the Democrats pass.

[Jack Diven @JackDiven]

@MAGAVoice What happened today on the floor is inexcusable and those involved must be held accountable

[Pepsiman @Pepsiman6977]

@LovemyFLGov @MAGAVoice Sadly it looks like they are in charge already.

[Mia ♡ @Nglmia_x]

Took my 11-year-old daughter to a checkup today.
The nurse asked me to step out of the room.
I politely said no.
She said, "It's only for a moment."
I replied:
"My husband and I don't leave our children alone with anyone, including medical providers. Anything you need to say can be said with me here."
She looked annoyed and left.
The part that stuck with me?
As soon as she walked out, my daughter thanked me for staying.
Her eyes got huge the moment the nurse asked me to leave.
Maybe I'm overprotective.
But I'd rather be present and unnecessary than absent and regret it.

[John Sandor @RealJohnSandor]

The @RNC had better be gearing up for a big legal fight in California, we are watching a crime in progress. They are blatantly stealing the governors and mayoral primary races and from the Republicans in real time. GET LOUD …LOUDER!!!
@realDonaldTrump
#MAGA
#CAPrimary