Pepe

I identify as Transparent. My pronouns are who/where.

[Robinkehlchen @Mellon_Colly42]

just got to this scene again and actually started crying, fuck this still hurts so much

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

Those who want gun control laws wish to do things to you that you'd be justified shooting them for.

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

“Discipline is boring until you calculate what the lack of it has cost you.”

[HarrierBR 🧯 @QualityTimeNow]

there are things worth fighting for

[n0ttomuch (commisions open) @n0ttomuch]

Doom Primarchs , next Primarch voting will be soon

(Funny details about this animation voting bellow)

[Champ✨ @Ib_ra_himm]

“I believe in God, just like a blind person believes in the sun.
Not because he sees it, but because he feels it.”

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

June 6, 1944. An American paratrooper jumps into Normandy in the dark and lands on the roof of a church.

By the end of the war he had been declared dead, held a funeral he didn't attend, escaped the Nazis, and fought his way toward Berlin in a Soviet tank unit.

His name was Joseph Beyrle. He's believed to be the only American soldier to serve in both the US Army and the Red Army during World War Two.

Beyrle was from Muskegon, Michigan. He joined the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles. His buddies called him Jumpin' Joe.

On D-Day night his plane was hit by flak and he jumped early. He came down on a church roof, slid off, and lost his unit in the chaos. For a few days he fought on his own, blowing up a power station and cutting German communications.

Then he was captured.

Here's where it gets strange. A German soldier ended up wearing Beyrle's uniform and dog tags. That German was killed. When the body was found, the Americans identified it as Joseph Beyrle.

The army told his parents their son was dead. His hometown held a funeral mass for him. His obituary ran in the local paper.

Meanwhile, he was very much alive, being moved from one German prison camp to another.

He escaped more than once. One time he and two other prisoners jumped off a train heading east. They thought they were heading for Russia and freedom. They got lost and ended up in Berlin, where they were caught by the Gestapo, beaten, and tortured.

In January 1945, from a camp in eastern Germany, he finally made a clean escape. He went east, toward the gunfire. Toward the Soviets.

When he found a Soviet tank unit, he walked out with his hands up, holding a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes, and shouted the only Russian he knew. American comrade.

It worked.

He asked to join them. And they said yes.

For about a month, an American paratrooper rode with Soviet tank crews as they pushed toward Germany. He used his demolition training. He fought. He was reportedly welcomed by a Soviet officer who was one of the rare women commanding a tank battalion.

Then a German dive bomber attacked. Beyrle was badly wounded.

He was evacuated to a Soviet hospital. Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov reportedly visited, heard his story, and gave him papers to get to the American embassy in Moscow.

When he showed up, the embassy didn't believe him. As far as the US was concerned, Joseph Beyrle was dead. They held him under guard until his fingerprints proved who he was.

He made it home to Michigan in April 1945.

In 1946 he got married. In the same church where they'd held his funeral.

Decades later, in 1994, he was honored at the White House by President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin for serving both countries.

And the last twist. His son, Joseph Beyrle II, grew up to become the United States Ambassador to Russia.

[Crazy Clips @crazyclips_]

This coffee shop exclusively employs people with Down syndrome 🥹❤️

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

Onism

[Adrian F. Pascal 🇻🇦 @AdrianFPascal]

What kind of religion?

[صالح الشمري | X @saleh_X98]

سبحان الله ، هكذا يكون الطفل فور خروجه من الرحم

[Romain Revert @romainrevert]

I'm very very sad tonight. I just learned that Stephen Biesty passed away in 2024 at 63... He is one of my favorite artist. Rest in peace.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

a hand-drawn architectural notebook page created by Turkish industrial designer Ege Argüden

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Mexican Student invented a portable acoustic fire extinguisher and won a gold medal in Indonesia

[Stephen @StephenOjukoma]

Every man has had this conversation with God at least once in their life

[Wendigoon @Wendigoon8]

I often think about how He was born in a wooden manger, grew up working with wood, and died on a wooden cross. The fabric of Earth carried its creator from cradle to grave. I wonder if, despite His suffering, if for a moment hanging up there, the dogwood cross smelled like home.