Chuck Dowd

Lifetime NYC resident. Catholic. 35 year vet of the NYPD. Retired Assistant Chief.

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The first time God Bless America was sung. Happy 250th Anniversary America!

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OFFICIAL CITATION
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, March 3, 1863, has posthumously awarded in the name of Congress the Medal of Honor to
STAFF SERGEANT MICHAEL H. OLLIS
UNITED STATES ARMY

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God bless our members of the armed forces that made the ultimate sacrifice. Staff Sergeant Micheal Ollis, our neighbor in Staten Island was postumously awarded the Medal of Honor on March 3, 2026.

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Doing right by our first responders https://t.co/urzTV9A6YU

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Hi there @SusanSarandon, this is my mom, my dad and me on the rail trail in Morgantown, West by God Virginia. Let me tell you what it means to be Muslim in America.

First, your backstory: At an anti-Israel protest in NYC, you just said, "There are a lot of people that are afraid, that are afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country.”

Let me give you “a taste” of what it “feels like” to be a Muslim in America:

✅🇺🇸 My dad didn’t have to become a second-class indentured servant to one of the many tyrants of Muslim countries that use immigrants from India, like my family, as essential slaves. In 1975, after getting his PhD at Rutgers, he was about to go to Libya — a Muslim country — led by a Muslim, Moammar Qhadafi, to work like a servant with a PhD for a wealthy dictator…but then the phone rang one day and I picked it up…

✅🇺🇸 It was West Virginia University calling, and my dad got a job as an assistant professor of nutrition. He got rejected first for tenure but being Muslim in America meant he got a right like everybody got — his right to appeal and guess what? He won and he became a full professor. That’s what it means to be Muslim in America. You get your full rights, like @DrZuhdiJasser has wished for his family in the Muslim nation of Syria, where a Muslim dictator destroys the lives of Muslims.

✅🇺🇸 My mom? Being Muslim in America meant she got to live FREE with the wind in her hair, like @AlinejadMasih fights for women in the Muslim nation of Iran to be able to enjoy.

✅🇺🇸 And what did living free mean for my mom as a Muslim in America? It meant in 1981 she got to start a business on High Street in downtown Morgantown, called Ain’s International. That is something that @miss9afi wished women could have had the right to do in the Muslim nation of Saudi Arabia. But guess what? That entrepreneurship and financial independence is denied Muslim women in so many Muslim countries.

✅🇺🇸 That summer my mom started her business, I got on a plane at Pittsburgh airport for Tahlequah, Oklahama, and I went away from home at 16 for a National Science Foundation camp — without a male chaperone, a right denied Muslim women and girls in Saudi for so long.

✅🇺🇸 In another “taste” of being Muslim in America? My family got a pathway to citizenship. You think the Muslim dictatorship of Qatar allows a pathway to citizenship for Muslim slaves, servants or Palestinian Muslims? Hell no. The Muslim Al-Thani family just buys citizenship for Muslim soccer stars from countries in Africa to steal World Cup wins. But otherwise it treats non-Qatari Muslims like slaves. America? My family waited, took the test, studied the constitution and we are citizens — hallelujah!

✅🇺🇸 I’m going to fast forward because this is just a “taste” of what it means to be Muslim in America. In 2002, I fled Pakistan with a souvenir that could have gotten me imprisoned or killed: a baby growing inside of me, a wedding ring not upon my hand. Sharia law makes sex out of marriage a crime in Muslim countries like Pakistan. My body? The mullah’s tyranny. And even dare to be atheist like @YasMohammedxx? It’s also a crime punishable by death — in Muslim countries but not in America!

✅🇺🇸 Where do you think I came to give birth to my baby in safety and security, without shame? West by God Virginia in the United States of America — where we enjoy equal rights as Muslim AmeriCANs, not AmeriCANTs.

This is a “taste” of life for a Muslim family in America. Please don’t minimize the experience of Jewish Americans by sanitizing the hell that it is for Muslims living in Muslim countries and vilifying America for the life — and freedoms — she offers Muslims like my family. Go, live like a Muslim woman in a Muslim country.

You will come back to America and kiss the land beneath your feet. 🇺🇸

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Hard to believe it's been 60 years today. May he rest in peace. It's one of those things in your life that you remember exactly where you were when you heard it.

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Having my morning cappuccino in Taormina Sicily

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@nyjerrykane Tim Dowd

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@nyjerrykane I remember it well. My father, I’m Dowd ran the investigation. NYPD detectives were then, and still are the greatest Detectives in the world. One of the Detective Bureau’s finest hours.

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https://t.co/cHqMPXY8vo Ed Sullivan show March 1965. 🍀Happy St Patrick’s Day🍀

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@Giants Apparently, we all have it wrong, according to this New York Post article, the Giants lost to the Bills yesterday.

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Apparently we’re all wrong. The Giants didn’t win yesterday, according to this New York Post article, they lost to the Bills

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We’re feelin’ GOOD this morning !!!!!

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And here I am thinking the Giants won yesterday. Little did I know they lost to the Buffalo Bills. who knew?

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Eight years.

Their assassination shook our city. It still reverberates for every NYC police officer. But POs Liu & Ramos were not just heroes. They were sons, husbands, fathers.

When you reflect on their sacrifice, remember: their families sacrificed the most.#FidelisAdMortem

[Michel R. Moore @LAPDChiefMoore]

Last night a Southwest GED unit was rammed by another vehicle trapping the passenger officer and banging up his partner pretty good. I visited the passenger officer this morning bedside at the hospital. Asking for prayers for his recovery.

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@declanganley @john_mcguirk You all are, I’m sure, are excited to be attending. God bless.

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@nyjerrykane Interesting story Jerry. But once it was identified by Sotheby’s by law she as to return it.

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Detective Cree Storm retired in 2006 from the @NYPDDetectives Manhattan Robbery Squad. Today, Detective Storm’s family was presented our Department Flag in her honor. May she rest in eternal peace. #NeverForget
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@Yankees I wouldn’t know what happened in the Yankee game last night. Because of the Yankees and MLB’s greed. I have an MLB TV account, I have a Yankees YES channel account, but if I wanted to watch the Yankees last night, I had to have an Apple TV+ subscription. Disgraceful