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[Remember The Fallen @44MagnumBlue1]

In a world where many universities root for evil, the Duke University men’s lacrosse team still wears the 75th Ranger Regiment patch on the back of their uniforms in honor of James Regan. Their brother who gave his life for our country.

[SK 🇺🇸 @eastonaxe]

@44MagnumBlue1 His initials and number have been worn on Duke lacrosse helmets since 2007. "JR 10" Never Forgotten. 🇺🇸

[RROC @ROCMLNYC]

The Rangers Lead the Way Foundation honors Jimmy’s sacrifice and assists the families of fallen Rangers‼️
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[Remember The Fallen @44MagnumBlue1]

U.S. Army Sergeant James John Regan died on February 9, 2007 from wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while on combat patrol in Northern Iraq. James was 26 years old and from Manhasset, New York. 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. Remember James today. American Hero.🇺🇸

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

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It could not last. In April 1942, Bataan fell. It was one of the worst defeats in American history, and the men who surrendered were forced on the brutal Bataan Death March.

Wermuth was too badly wounded to be driven on that march. Instead he began more than three years as a prisoner of war, an ordeal that was its own kind of nightmare.

He survived the notorious Japanese prison ships. In December 1944 he was aboard the Oryoku Maru when American aircraft, unaware that Allied POWs were packed below deck, attacked the vessel, killing hundreds of the prisoners aboard. He survived that, along with starvation, disease, and brutal transport in boxcars. By the end of the war he had earned four Purple Hearts. He was finally liberated in 1945.

The One-Man Army of Bataan had walked into the jungle to hunt an invading army almost alone, and somehow, against everything, he came home.

This was the story of Arthur Wermuth.

I post a story like this every single day. Most people never see them. Follow so you don't miss the next one.

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@4LeafCloverGirl Congrats 🎉🥳🎊Lisa‼️👍

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@CynicalPublius @mirandadevine ✅

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@usmc_colonel 💪🫡🪖⚓️🦅🌎🇺🇸‼️

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@Osint613

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@JSteveHolloway @Osint613 🤣🎣‼️

[Ava Grace @AvaGrace9211]

Arlington Cemetery ceremony and The changing of the guard is the most beautiful thing to witness! The guardians of our heroes our truly the best. 🫡✊🕊️💜🇺🇸🙏

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@IndianaGPA Those RATS were a very special breed‼️💪🙏🫡🪖🇺🇸🦅

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@HoltzHeroes @MiMiHogan Love those words‼️💪

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@StacyOnTheRight NEVER EVER FORGET‼️ 🫡🪖🇺🇸🦅

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@jtwill_76 Your words are a great tribute to Ian but Ian is looking down and is filled with pride at the way you have tried to live your life and there is no better tribute than that‼️🙏🇺🇸🫡🪖🦅

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

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@4LeafCloverGirl 🎯

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@ClayTravis KJ top dog on that list. VScully the GOAT‼️‼️For ND 🏈, Tony Roberts =GOAT‼️💚🏈🍀 In NYC Marv Albert=GOAT 4 NYKs &NYRs. I loved Scooter & Sterling 4 NYYs. Kiner&Nelson 4Mets. Can’t forget ⚾️Gowdy&Kubek&Garagiola No space for NFL=Lots of great ones‼️JackBuck,Madden?
2much ☕️ 😆

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Remember the guy who wouldn't take the flag pole down on his Virginia property awhile back? You might remember the news story several months ago about a crotchety old man in Virginia who defied his local Homeowners Association and refused to take down the flag pole on his property along with the large American flag he flew on it.

Now we learn who that old man was. On June 15, 1919, Van T. Barfoot was born in Edinburg, Texas . That probably didn't make news back then.

But twenty five years later, on May 23, 1944, near Cyrano, Italy, That same Van T. Barfoot, who had in 1940 enlisted in the U.S. Army, set out alone to flank German machine gun positions from which gunfire was raining down on his fellow soldiers. His advance took him through a minefield but having done so, he proceeded to single-handedly take out three enemy machine gun positions, returning with 17 prisoners of war.

And if that weren’t enough for a day's work, he later took on and destroyed three German tanks sent to retake the machine gun positions.

That probably didn’t make much news either, given the scope of the war, but it did earn Van T. Barfoot, who retired as a Colonel after also serving In Korea and Vietnam , a well deserved Congressional Medal of Honor.

What did make news was his Neighborhood Association's quibble with how the 90-year-old Veteran chose to fly the American flag outside his suburban Virginia home. Seems the HOA rules said it was OK to fly a flag on a house-mounted bracket, but, for decorum, items such as Barfoot's 21-foot flagpole were "unsuitable."

Van Barfoot had been denied a permit for the pole, but erected it anyway and was facing Court action unless he agreed to take it down.

Then the HOA story made national TV, and the Neighborhood Association rethought its position and agreed to indulge this
aging hero who dwelt among them.

"In the time I have left", he said to the Associated Press, "I plan to continue to fly the American flag without interference."

As well he should. And if any of his neighbors had taken a notion to contest him further, they might have done well to read his Medal of Honor citation first. Seems it Indicates Mr. Van Barfoot wasn't particularly good at backing down.

If you've read this post and don't share it, - Guess what -You need your butt kicked. I share this with you because I don't want MY butt kicked anymore and I'm tired of seeing those who hate our country yet march in our streets, tear down our statues, burn our stores and loot our businesses have a free hand to do whatever they want.

WE ONLY LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE! AND, BECAUSE OF BRAVE OLD MEN LIKE VAN BARFOOT!

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@cpg_95 @JeremiyahLove Definitely interested. That run is one of the greatest runs in all of football history‼️ I have watched it hundreds of times and still celebrate when he stretches for the TD‼️ 🍀🏈💚🫶