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HTTR❤💛 Hokies🦃 Cubs

🎵 Oh won't you do this for me son,if you can?

It's a Republic if we can keep it.

#NeverForget 9/11/01 4/16/07

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@johnny_iceman Wow!! What a way to ring in my Birthday!! Top 5 rating, I believe!!!
#HTTR❤️💛 #RaiseHail

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@BuzzPatterson You're a lucky man!!

🎵 All I want for you, my son, is to be satisfied

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@SteveNelson1021 My old haunt!!

Yes, I was one of those singing waitresses, back in the day.

Enjoy!!

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@karl_diesel I'm going to have to make a trip to see all of the renewed splendor!!

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@johnrich A man after my AG Econ father's heart! Family Farms going bankrupt is a relatively new phenomenon when placed in historical context.

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@EchoesofWarYT While our Founders were giants, they did have their own pettiness and drama moments...

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@rossiadam Pretty cool, isnt it?? We are a land-grant, AG School, not just "Technical"!!

One of the reasons my farm-boy, turned AG Econ, father was so thrilled when I was accepted. And programs like this helped him find his path...

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And God made a Farmer 🚜(and received some help from Hokies 🦃🦃 with implementation)

[William Seely @william_seely]

Did you know that the FFA was founded at Virginia Tech in 1925 by four agricultural education teachers? Today, the National FFA Organization is a school-based national youth leadership development organization of well more than 850,000 students as part of the almost 9000 local FFA chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. @NationalFFA #service #LeadershipMatters #UtProsim #FutureLeaders

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#HTTR ❤️💛

[JayVA @dc_dummies]

My neighbor is hanging on to it! Respect, sir.

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Ok. Who else has been on the giving or receiving side of the never ending playdate?? (Obviously not with an unknown parent/home).

[smv @slimvnsn]

My son is 3. He has a best friend named Marcus from daycare. Marcus's dad and I nod at each other during pickup. That's our whole relationship.

Last Wednesday he texts me: "Marcus won't stop asking about Eli. Saturday work?"

I say sure.

He picks Eli up at 10. By 11 I'm on the couch. Not doing anything. Just. Sitting. I didn't know I missed sitting.

Noon I eat a full meal. Hot. At the table. No one grabbed anything off my plate.

2pm my wife asks what I want to do. I didn't have an answer. I forgot I got to have one.

Marcus's dad texts at 5: "They're good. Eating now."

Cool. Great. Perfect.

7:45 he calls. "Marcus is losing his mind about Eli leaving. Sleepover?"

I said yes so fast I scared myself.

Drove home. Stopped for gas I didn't need. Just stood outside in the parking lot for a minute.

Went inside. Told my wife.

She had already opened a bottle of wine.

We watched two full movies. Nobody woke us up at 6am. I laid in bed until 8:47 just because I could.

Marcus's dad drops Eli off Sunday. Eli walks in, looks at me once, and goes straight to his toys.

Didn't ask where I'd been. Didn't care.

Bro same.

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@DaveScarangella I had to do a doubletake as I originally read 1995...

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@DaveScarangella Been there, done that...

With a diabetic dog...

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@BuzzPatterson @johnthune It's a feature, not a bug.

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@BuzzPatterson @doj Sadly, we have all seen this movie before.

Hollywood really needs some original scripts....

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@SKOLhokies

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Nooooo!!!

[Bob Kostic @causticbob]

Look what Da Bears started.

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@johnnylocal

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@SKOLhokies

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America. Made in Virginia.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, a man stood up in a room full of nervous delegates and said the words that made America inevitable.

Not Thomas Jefferson. Not George Washington. Not Benjamin Franklin.

A Virginia planter named Richard Henry Lee.

It was June 7, 1776. The war had already been going for over a year. Men were dying. Cities were burning. And yet the Continental Congress still had not officially declared independence from Britain.

That morning, Lee rose and read aloud a resolution he had been instructed to deliver by Virginia:

"That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."

John Adams immediately seconded it.

The room erupted.

The debate that followed was so heated that Congress had to table the vote entirely. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and South Carolina were not ready. Their delegates had not been authorized to vote for independence. Some feared it was too soon. Some feared it was treason.

So Congress bought time. They postponed the vote for three weeks and quietly appointed a committee to draft a formal declaration, just in case the resolution passed.

That committee included Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and a soft-spoken 33-year-old Virginia lawyer known for his elegant writing.

Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson wrote the Declaration. It was adopted July 4. The world celebrated.

And Richard Henry Lee, the man whose words started everything, whose resolution is the reason any of this happened?

He had already gone home to Virginia. He missed the signing entirely.

Jefferson is immortalized. Lee is a footnote.

History is funny that way.

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🎵 In between the lines there's a lot of obscurity

I'm not inclined to resign to maturity

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@PolitiBunny @LibertyBelleCJL