Tom Hernandez

Father of two, husband to a beautiful wife, and fanatic about real estate.

[Sun Devil Wrestling @ASUWrestling]

74kg Nicco Ruiz USA Pan American Championships in Lima, Peru

https://t.co/NZAzUgCKrv

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

The greatest closer ever

[theendeavorpath @theendeavorpath]

"If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it."

— Stan Lee

[Deep philosophy @DeepPhilo_HQ]

"When the debate lost, insults become the losers tool "

- Socrates

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors."

~ Ernest Hemingway

[Words of Wise | Mindset Coach @Wordofwise_]

“The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”

— Sigmund Freud

[Words of Wise | Mindset Coach @Wordofwise_]

“There are two pains in life: the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.”

— Nick Saban

[theendeavorpath @theendeavorpath]

“Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?”

— David Goggins

[Joe Rogan Recaps @JoeRoganRecaps]

Joe Rogan can no longer hide how he really feels anymore after exposing to financial expert Caleb Hammer that Bernie Sanders is a total hypocrite:

ROGAN: “Bernie Sanders used to rally against millionaires, but now he’s a millionaire so he started moving the goalposts to billionaires being the problem. It’s adorable.”

HAMMER: “Even Gavin Newsom is starting to change his tune on the billionaire tax.”

ROGAN: “Yeah because all the billionaires are leaving his state. All he cares about is his personal gain. He doesn’t give any real answers to questions.”

HAMMER: “That’s true.”

ROGAN: “There’s a giant number of college kids now that think communism is the solution. They genuinely believe in it. It’s very scary.”

HAMMER: “They’re retarded. Communism has never worked anywhere ever.”

ROGAN: “These teachers and professors don’t live in the real world. They’ve never had their own business. They are brainwashing kids with ideas and concepts that don’t work at all in real life.”

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

This 👇

[Purler Wrestling @purlerwrestling]

Spot on

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“If you think the world is selfish and rotten, go to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer overlooking Omaha Beach. See what one group of men did for another on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.” — Andy Rooney

[Scott Harris @Harris_Mgmt]

Congrats to Coach Beckmann on this well-deserved recognition!

#CultureVsEverything

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

John Kruk after being "caught" smoking a cigarette after a game: "That's horrible, to see a professional athlete like you smoking." "I'm not an athlete, lady, I'm a baseball player"

[Words of Wise | Mindset Coach @Wordofwise_]

“The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.”

— Marcus Aurelius

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

The students heading to military academies, ROTC programs, or enlisting after graduation deserve more than a polite mention at an awards ceremony.

They're putting their country first.

That is the ultimate service to this country, and it should be recognized as such.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Two days ago we lost an American hero. His name was Bruce Crandall, and this is his story 🇺🇸

Before he was a legend, Bruce Crandall was a kid from Olympia, Washington, born in 1933, an All-American high school baseball player who joined the National Guard at 15. The Army drafted him in 1953, trained him as an engineer, then put him in a cockpit. His first real job as a pilot was mapping the parts of the world nobody had charted yet, flying for two years over the open desert of Libya, then over thousands of square miles of unmapped mountains and jungle in Central and South America. He married Arlene in 1956. They would raise three sons. He spent the early part of his career flying toward empty places. Then Vietnam asked him to fly toward the worst one.

Sixty years ago, in a clearing called LZ X-Ray, roughly 450 American soldiers were surrounded by an enemy force several times their size. The shooting was so heavy the medevac helicopters turned back. Landing meant dying.

Bruce Crandall made a different choice.

He was a 32-year-old major flying an unarmed Huey. No guns. No armor that mattered. Just a thin aluminum shell and a decision. He pointed the nose at the hottest piece of ground in the war and went in anyway, with his wingman Ed "Too Tall" Freeman right behind him.

Then he did it again. And again. Twenty-two times in a single day.

He flew in the ammunition and water that kept the men alive. He flew out more than 70 wounded soldiers, loading them while rounds punched through the airframe, the cargo bay slick with other men's blood. Each run he could have stopped. Nobody would have blamed him. He kept his word to the men on the ground instead: you will be resupplied, and if you fall, we are coming for you.

He never fired a shot all day. He saved dozens of lives with nothing but nerve and a helicopter.

The men called him "Snake." He went back for a second tour and was shot down in January 1968, this time by friendly bombs falling too close. By the end of the war he had flown more than 900 combat missions.

Then he did something quieter that almost nobody talks about. He went home and lived an ordinary life. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1977, earned a master's degree, ran a small California town as its city manager, and spent 17 years in the Public Works Department in Mesa, Arizona, fixing roads and keeping the water running. The man who once flew through a wall of fire spent his later years making sure the streetlights worked.

It took 40 years for the country to catch up to what he did at X-Ray. In 2007, President Bush hung the Medal of Honor around his neck. If you saw We Were Soldiers, that was him on screen, Greg Kinnear in the cockpit, though the real man was braver than any movie could hold.

Col. Bruce "Snake" Crandall died on May 31, 2026, at 93 years old. He outlived the war, the doubts, and most of the men who watched him come screaming back into that valley when no one else would.

Some heroes carry a rifle. This one carried the wounded home, then went back to work like it was nothing.

Rest easy, Snake. We have it from here.

In honor of Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall (1933-2026), the best of us and a true American hero. We won't forget you 🇺🇸

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

“I might have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for.” - Lou Gehrig

Today we honor the life and legacy of The Iron Horse as we continue the fight against ALS. #LouGehrigDay

To donate and learn more, visit https://t.co/geXPo7bMaN

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Nick Saban: "Everybody's smart that goes to medical school. But everybody doesn't make it through… It's the same kind of thing with athletes. Some of 'em have great talent but they don't have the right psychological disposition."

Mindset Matters.