Jeanne d’Arc

Jesus follower, Tiger Fan, Detroit lover, bibliophile, Francophile, music in my soul

[Jeanne d’Arc @Suziem13]

@ShawkanZeid So thrilled you are finally free. Can’t wait for your articles/books. Congrats on becoming parents.

[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!

[Jeanne d’Arc @Suziem13]

@BobEckstein @frickcollection @ChronicleBooks Hi Bob—I just finished reading the book footnotes from the most fascinating museums. I love it! I wrote to my sister-in-law in Columbus and told her she has been holding out on us and we have to go to the spam museum. Lo and behold it’s not in Columbus. It’s in Austin Minnesota!

[Jeanne d’Arc @Suziem13]

@GaryCardone Morning from Michigan!

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Let us thank God for all the ordinary Christians who daily love their neighbors and live by faith in the resurrected Christ.

They are the secret and sacred agents in the kingdom of God. The world will never know them, and it’s much better that way.

They work openly, yet in secret, in small acts of self-sacrifice that subvert the reigning egocentric ethos of a world saturated with emotion and dry of truth.

They consider others more important than themselves. They make it their ambition to lead quiet lives. And they raise their children to believe a life well lived is in the pursuit of serving others.

They daily pray, confess their sins, and cast themselves upon the mercy of Christ. He forgives and raises them up to forgive others, to show mercy, to speak the truth in love.

No one will reward them or applaud them. Nor do they seek such recognition.

They are simply living as children of God, content with his approval in Christ.

Their lives are an ongoing doxology whispered in holy anonymity while passing through this dying world on the way to resurrection.

[Jeanne d’Arc @Suziem13]

@ClownWorld Could’ve been filmed a years ago

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

What Samuel Adams wrote in 1776 applies to us today:
"I have long been convinced that our enemies have made it an object to eradicate from the minds of the people in general a sense of true religion & virtue, in hopes thereby the more easily to carry their point of enslaving them. Indeed my friend, this is a subject so important in my mind that I know not how to leave it. Revelation assures us that “RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH A NATION.” Communities are dealt with in their world by the wise and just Ruler of the Universe. He rewards or punishes them according to their general character. The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public Happiness, and the public Liberty will not long saved the total extinction of morals." Turning to God with our whole lives is the only way forward for America.

[Jeanne d’Arc @Suziem13]

@DrHenryCloud Hi Dr Cloud. I’m rereading your book Why I Believe & teaching a class on it at our church Wed nights. 3 weeks down, 3 to go. I am really enjoying it. My sister, Jan Stanfield, had a practice in Riverside and spoke very highly of you. Unfortunately, we lost her to cancer last yr.

[Jeanne d’Arc @Suziem13]

@ChuckCallesto @BuzzPatterson You were raised right!!

[Chris Martenson @chrismartenson]

Youtube is lying again. My YT channel has received two strikes over the past month for speaking about vaccines and only in terms of the latest scientific data coming in. They are lying corporate evil sacks O' excrement.

[Jack Graham @jackngraham]

It’s early on Sunday morning here in Texas…it’s time to get back to church. Maybe you’ve been out of church and not attending for a while….but I believe God has something very special in store to all who seek Him. Get up…get to your church today…He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek Him

[Jeanne d’Arc @Suziem13]

@DrHenryCloud Indeed!! Zechariah 4:10 “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin.” am listening to your podcast w/ Stacey re your book “Why I believe” wow. So powerful. Can’t wait to get the book & I am sharing this podcast w/ lots of friends/fam.

[Jeanne d’Arc @Suziem13]

@ScottAdamsSays I’m praying for Jesus to heal you, Scott!! ♥️

[Jeanne d’Arc @Suziem13]

@musk_news13 Yes!!

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Obituary for my father.

Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his feet.

He was born February 10, 1941 at Massachusetts General Hospital to a 15-year-old Swedish-speaking girl and placed in the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston, where he developed rickets from malnutrition. His legs were bent for the rest of his life. After years in foster homes, he was placed with the Carlson family in Norwood, Mass. His adoptive father, a tannery manager, died when he was 12 and he stopped attending school regularly. At 17, he was jailed for car theft, thrown out of high school for the second time, and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.

In 1962, in search of adventure, he drove to California. He spent a year as a merchant seaman on the SS Washington Bear, transporting cargo to ports in the Orient, and then became a reporter. Over the next decade, he was a copy boy at the LA Times, a wire service reporter for UPI and an investigative reporter and anchor for ABC News, covering the upheaval of the period. He knew virtually every compelling figure of the time, including Jim Jones, Patty Hearst, Eric Hoffer, Jerry Garcia, as well as Mafia leaders and members of the Manson Family. In 1965, he was badly injured reporting from the Watts riots in Los Angeles.

By 1975, he was married with two small boys, when his wife departed for Europe and didn’t return. He threw himself into raising his boys, whom he often brought with him on reporting trips. At home, he educated them during three-hour dinners on topics that ranged from the French Revolution to Bolshevik Russia, PG Wodehouse, the history of the American Indian and, always, the eternal and unchanging nature of people. He was a free thinker and a compulsive book reader, including at red lights. He left a library of thousands of books, most dog-eared and filled with marginalia. His reading and life experiences convinced him that God is real. He had an outlaw spirit tempered by decency.

In 1979, he married the love of his life, Patricia Swanson. They were together for 44 years, all of them happy. She died sixteen months before he did and he mourned her every day.

In 1985, he moved to Washington to work for the Reagan Administration. He spent five years as the director of the Voice of America, and then moved to the Seychelles as the US ambassador. In 1992, he became the CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and later ran a division of King World television.

The last 25 years of his life were spent in work whose details were never completely clear to his family, but that was clearly interesting. He worked in dozens of countries and breakaway republics around the world, and was involved in countless intrigues. He knew a number of colorful national leaders, including Rafic Hariri of Lebanon, Aslan Abashidze of Adjara, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, and whomever runs Somaliland. He was a fundamentally nonjudgmental person who was impossible to shock, and he described them all with amused affection.

He spoke to his sons every day and had lunch with them once a week for thirty years at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, always prefaced by a dice game. Throughout his life he fervently loved dogs.

Richard W. Carlson is survived by his sons, Tucker and Buckley, his beloved daughter-in-law Susie, and five grandchildren. He was the toughest human being anyone in his family ever knew, and also the kindest and most loyal. RIP.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Teach your kids to think for themselves, or the world will do the thinking for them.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Two guys who have more money than they’ll ever need are working for NO SALARY 16 hours a day to make the lives of hard-working Americans better.

And all the Democrats do is bitch and moan.

[Jeanne d’Arc @Suziem13]

@no_grave_ Who is the artist?

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

"It's pretty special. All of the hard work, all of that stuff that goes on behind the scenes in moments like this make it extremely worth it."

AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal talks about what this award means to him and who he's sharing this memorable moment with.

@tigers