In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima.
Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes.
Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse.
No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed.
So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history.
When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive.
The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy.
At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong.
They convicted him anyway.
For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy.
Case closed. For fifty years.
Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project.
He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay.
A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001.
The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader.
Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.
Hollywood: We must make Odyssey represent America which is why we need black Helen, trans Achilles, brown Athena, no Greeks, and questionable white men in a 2,500-year-old Greek myth.
Also Hollywood: We must have an all-Polynesian cast to honor the story we made up 5 years ago.
Folks, look at this NumbersUSA report card.
26 House Republicans with straight F’s on stopping amnesty.
Another 36 with D or D-.
That’s 62 members of the so-called majority actively working to keep illegal aliens here, while wages stagnate, housing explodes, and neighborhoods change forever.
This is exactly why we’re hosting the August 1 Mass Deportation Rally in Fishers, Indiana.
No more sitting out elections hoping for better…No more trusting RINOs who talk tough then protect cheap labor and open borders…
At the rally, I will personally provide the Bovino Voter Scorecard.
It arms you with clear facts and a simple 0-100 scoring system so you can instantly spot when politicians and RINOs are playing you with “worst of the worst” nonsense, H-1B defenses, or fake enforcement.
Print it! Bring it! Demand commitments on the spot! Only back the real fighters who hit 90+ on total deportation, a full moratorium, and America First!
I’m speaking unfiltered with Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith. Serious patriots only, limited capacity.
Request your spot now: [see PINNED post)
Deport them all.
Enforce the moratorium.
End the replacement.
Tag your reps. Bring the heat.
Let’s purge the weak and take our country back. 🇺🇸
Who’s coming to Indiana?
Mexicans are out in the streets protesting illegal migrants:
“Out Hondurans! We don’t want you here!”
“Immigrants yes, illegals no!”
“No to the invasion!”
Where are the human rights activists now?
Where are the immigration attorneys filing lawsuits?
Where’s the media calling this “xenophobic” and “heartless”?
Every country on Earth enforces its borders when it affects their people.
But suddenly it’s only controversial when America does it.
The hypocrisy is glaring. Sovereignty isn’t racism. It’s basic governance
Never forget that the janissaries were the result of one of the evilest systems ever invented.
Christian boys torn from their father's homes and their mother's arms to be beaten and raped until they converted to Islam then sent out to murder their own people.
Abominable.
Four innocent Americans kiIIed by foreign truck drivers in just the past two weeks.
Democrats sued Trump when he tried passing a rule to stop people we don’t speak English from getting CDLs
These deaths could’ve been prevented.
Insanely radicalizing
@GovTimWalz Attacking. Lol. Actually he’s just shining a light that entire American communities have been taken over by foreign peoples who move here and replicate their foreign religion, culture, and norms and turn American communities into copies of the foreign communities they left.
When Islamists take over, this is how they treat non-Muslims before executing them, like sub humans, worse than animals.
They're filming themselves, proud of it, no and not even hiding it.
We need to push back on this ideology while we still can.
I’m noticing something interesting.
We’re constantly told the plan is narrowly focused on “the worst of the worst, criminals first, very targeted. Relax.
Yet the official @DHSgov account posts: “The solution to high housing costs: mass deportations.” Backed by Fed data showing the prior surge drove 20-30% of rent and home price increases.
So which is it?
Telling us the limited approach is enough while the reality shows it won’t fix housing costs is gaslighting in real time.
The current method equals no meaningful self-deportations, it pleases the media and creates zero fear among the broader illegal population.
Only mass scale moves the systemic needle.
The DHS page gets it.
The public deserves the same clarity.
What are you seeing?
Today, we were told that the 15-year-old boy who killed our beautiful 9-year-old niece, Aria, with a single stab wound to the chest is NOT GUILTY of murder or manslaughter.
How is this justice?
#JusticeForAria
There have been 4 major revolutions in the past 250 years: American, French, Russian, and Chinese. Only one led to individual rights and prosperity. The others led to mass death and tyranny. The US revolution was unique because it said two things: 1. Our rights come from God not from the govt. 2. Humans are power -hungry so we need to limit govt power. So the next time someone attacks the nation of one revolution that succeeded and recycles the the idea of those that miserably failed, you can ask them: are you ignorant, or malicious?
@AdamKinzinger@GregoryKBovino Kinzinger is more concerned about fighting for Ukraine’s territorial integrity than America’s. Another phony Republican career advancing opportunist who sold his people out once he got in office which is why he was subsequently given the boot by his own constituents.
A great deal has been said about the birthright citizenship decision, but the central point is that Justice Thomas completely exposed the logical incoherence at the heart of Chief Justice Roberts’ “reasoning.”
You cannot reconcile a constitutional framework that denies automatic citizenship to members of Indian tribes, even when born on U.S. soil, with a doctrine that automatically hands out citizenship to Chinese and other birth tourists as if it were candy.
There is no logical, coherent, or even barely comprehensible way to square those positions. It is simply not possible. If Native Americans are not entitled to Fourteenth Amendment citizenship, then neither are birth tourists.
Required information at Ellis Island: "religion, relatives in America, amount of money, source of passage money, literacy, occupation, and the positive statement that the candidate for admission does not believe or practice polygamy or anarchy."
Today: Did you sneak in and have a baby?
https://t.co/2cCzjuvyxO
As we prepare for tomorrow’s 250th anniversary, it is worth remembering the 50th anniversary of American independence, in 1826.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had been bitter political rivals but later developed a friendship through letter exchanges.
Laying on his deathbed on July 4, 1826, Adams’ last words were, “Thomas Jefferson still survives.” In reality, Jefferson had passed away a few hours earlier.
Two prominent American founders both passing away on America’s 50th anniversary — how providential is that?
@AnnCoulter This should be the number one priority issue of this administration right now. It should be the principle organizing force for the party in upcoming elections. It is THE most important issue we face. The global adventurism for abstract foreign policy ideals MUST take a backseat!
@TTT_USA@SafiyahOne@IngrahamAngle You exist in an almost blissful permanent state of Dunning-Krueger, which is a great misfortune to the rest of society who unfortunately has to coexist with you as you blather on in your oblivious stupidity.