JK Lockhart

Conservatarian. Military history, geo-politics, US foreign policy. Give me liberty. Ardent supporter of the US Military. BBQ snob. Braves & UGA football.

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

I knew I’d seen this hairdo before…
#GOPDebate

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Tennessee❤️

When people told us at the beginning of our road trip that people in the South are different, we didn’t really know what they meant. But after spending several weeks here, we finally understand.

The hospitality here is just something else. Everyone knows everyone, and it feels like people are living one big shared life. Someone is always stopping by, doors are always open, and everyone is welcome.

One guy told us he hasn’t locked his house in 23 years. When we were out on the lake, we met some people who immediately invited us to their lake house to hang out. They offered us drinks, chicken wings, and made us feel completely at home. It’s a kind of hospitality I’ve never experienced before.

When we got back to the dock late that night, one of the guys on the boat said something that really stuck with me:

“You don’t have to live in some big, exciting city. What matters is the people who live there. That’s what makes you happy. I’ve lived in many places around the world, but nothing comes close to Ocoee, Tennessee. And you know the best part about living here? We’re going to do the exact same thing again tomorrow.”

We will be back.

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

@dren_braves This way was WAY funnier lol

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

@JediSportsRadio Phuck the Phillies

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

Massive respect for Jordan Walker sticking it up the Phillies’ fans’ asses.
#PhuckThePhillies

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name.

He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World War he went to France and was gassed and badly wounded at Soissons leading his men. That same summer his younger brother Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France. Ted came home with lungs and a leg that never fully recovered, and before he even left Europe he helped found the American Legion so that ordinary soldiers would have someone looking out for them.

Between the wars he did almost everything. Governor of Puerto Rico. Governor General of the Philippines. Businessman, explorer, writer. He could have spent the Second World War safe behind a desk. Instead, at 54, arthritic and walking with a cane, he talked his way back into uniform and into combat.

By 1943 he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily under Terry Allen, and their loose, unpolished, soldier-first style rubbed General Patton the wrong way. Patton had them both relieved of command. Roosevelt didn't sulk. He asked for another job, any job, as long as it kept him near the fighting. They made him assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division.

Then came D-Day. He hid a heart condition from the Army doctors. He wrote to his commander three separate times, in writing, begging to go in with the very first wave rather than watch from a ship. He was the only general to land in the first wave on any beach that morning, the oldest man in the invasion, walking through machine gun fire with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other.

The boats came in a mile off course. Officers froze. Roosevelt limped up and down the beach under fire, studied the ground, and said, "We'll start the war from right here." Then he spent the morning waving men forward and sorting out the chaos so calmly that terrified 20 year olds looked at this old man with a cane and decided that if he wasn't scared, they wouldn't be either.

His son Quentin, named for the uncle killed in the last war, landed at Omaha Beach the same morning. They were the only father and son to come ashore together on D-Day.

He died a month later. A heart attack in his sleep. And here is the part that gets me. On the very day he died, the orders had just come through promoting him to major general and giving him his own division. He never saw the paperwork. He never knew he'd earned the Medal of Honor either.

At his funeral his pallbearers were seven of the most famous generals of the war, Bradley, Hodges, Collins, Barton, Huebner, and George Patton. The same Patton who had fired him. Patton wrote in his diary that Roosevelt was one of the bravest men he had ever known.

Years later Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic thing he witnessed in all of World War II. He didn't pause. He said, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

I like Pulisic, but for two cycles in a row he has been anointed as the star and leader. The output has yet to match the hype. The most important ability is availability, and we haven’t seen him show on the biggest stage

I’m not sure Berhalter and Tillman aren’t the midfield pieces of the future

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

Amazing! 🇺🇸

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

@BarrettSallee

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

@mlbbowman How will Braves solve rotation at the deadline? AA will only take a deal that he believes completely fleeces another team. So we will have to get lucky signing someone off the discount rack at the Dollar Store

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Kolby Branch hits a HR for Georgia in his last college AB.

His brother, who was his opponent that night gets a high five as he rounds the bases with parents in attendance

What a moment

[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

How can you not be romantic about baseball

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

@djohnstonuga @jeffdantzlertv Geaux Dawgs from the 2D 11U World Series from Biloxi, Mississippi!
#GoDawgs #DawgsOnTop

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

@OutOfKenTroll @CFB_Pat Not going to argue with a troll

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

@OutOfKenTroll @CFB_Pat You can always find the ones who never played baseball pretty easily…

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

@OutOfKenTroll @CFB_Pat So your offense goes 0-12 with runners on base & 0-3 with RISP and you’re blaming the coach? Haha

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

@CFB_Pat How was that on Wes?! lol what a bad take

[Olivia Sayer @OliviaKSayer]

Texas coach Jim Schlossnagle on Joey Volchko:

"I was actually super impressed — in an era of baseball where there's strikeouts and emotional things happen in the game, I didn't see him, once, scream at our team or do anything that some of those kids do these days. I thought he was super professional and was outstanding."

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

Let’s Geaux @USMNT
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[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Why is Georgia catcher Daniel Jackson nicknamed “The Rhino?” 🦏

@ESPNMcGee tells the story of his record-breaking season and nickname ⬇️

[JK Lockhart @chattslim]

@BillShanks So Holmes is going to the rotation & the pen?