Back when D.C. was covered in snow and the government was closed, soldiers at Tomb of Unknown Soldier never quit.
The Tomb guard vigil never ends. The requirements are insane and it’s considered one of the highest honors to serve as one.
This is the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery.
As Sentinels, people watching this video may wonder why they move the way they do. They are not meant to move like ordinary guards.
Every step, pause, turn, and rifle movement is part of a tradition going back to 1926 - guarded around the clock since 1937, honoring service members who died and were never identified.
Esse é o senador James Talarico, eleito no estado do Texas. O primeiro democrata por lá em quase 40 anos. O recado não pode ser mais claro e cristalino que isso.
He asked ten times for the suitcase so he could change before meeting the Prime Minister. But Netanyahu didn’t care.
Yaniv came off the replacement flight into Ben Gurion still in the shirt he wore in the cockpit. The blood stains were the attacker’s. He apologized for it like a man late to a wedding. Netanyahu pulled him in, called him the honor and the hero, and asked how he’d done it.
Yaniv didn’t give a speech. He said we’re a nation of lions. Then he introduced his wife Meital and his daughters, because that’s what you do when you’ve just pulled a diving aircraft out of a hole and the first thing on your mind is not to look sloppy for the country’s leader.
The plane was about an hour from home when the lights went out and someone screamed. The stabbed captain got the door open before he went down. Yaniv went in, pulled the man off the instruments, called two others, and hauled the yoke back because the nose was pointed at the ground. He later said he knew what to do because he had watched Air Crash Investigation.
That’s a civilian deciding, in a split second under immense pressure and chaos, that the aircraft was not going to finish the job.
Western capitals will spend the next week talking about procedures and statements. What this video actually shows is the thing the West lacks in equal measure.
Israelis still move toward the door. They still put their hands on a man who is trying to kill everyone on the aircraft, then worry about a suitcase, then stand there with their children while the Prime Minister touches the blood and doesn’t flinch. That instinct is why our people are still here. The rest of the West keeps waiting for someone else to open the door.
I’m so proud, more than ever today, to be an Israeli. The world can hate us all it likes. We fight to save innocent lives no matter what the cost. Our enemies kill innocent lives for a false god and a fake prophet. And the rest sit terrified of shadows, watching their own demise, shouting at the only people who refuse to die at the hands of savages.
Am Israel Chai 🇮🇱💪🏼
O Serginho não falou neguinho em momento algum. Achei bizarro como eles inventaram o negócio e passaram a afirmar como se fosse verdade. #RoçaAFazenda#AFazenda18