In August 2014, he did what seemed impossible.
As Russia was fueling the war in Donbas, one Ukrainian quietly made his way to the spire of one of Stalin's skyscrapers in the heart of Moscow.
He spent the entire night nearly 180 meters (590 feet) above the ground.
He painted the top of the Soviet star blue, turning it into a blue-and-yellow symbol, and raised a Ukrainian flag above it. In doing so, Pavlo Ushyvets, better known as Mustang Wanted, wished Ukraine a Happy Independence Day and captured the world's attention.
The stunt sparked a major scandal in Moscow. Russian authorities opened a criminal case, arrested several people who had nothing to do with the action, and placed Pavlo on a wanted list. He later publicly stated that he had acted alone to help ensure innocent people would not be punished.
He also sold the exclusive video of the operation to a Russian state propaganda TV channel and donated the proceeds to a Ukrainian volunteer battalion. In the end, Russian propaganda had unknowingly helped fund Ukrainian defenders.
But the most important part came afterward.
Pavlo didn't remain just the hero of a daring stunt. He went on to defend Ukraine with a weapon in his hands. During the full-scale war, he has continued serving in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Some people deserve to be remembered more often.
Because true legends are not born on television or social media.
They are born where someone has the courage to do what almost no one else would dare.
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An Irish man went to confession in St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.
‘Father’, he confessed, ‘it has been one month since my last confession. I had sex with Fanny Green twice last month’.
The priest told the sinner, ‘You are forgiven. Go out and say three Hail Mary’s then put $5 in the collection tray’.
Soon after, another Irish man entered the confessional. ‘Father, it has been two months since my last confession. I’ve had sex with Fanny Green twice a week for the past two months’.
This time, the priest questioned, ‘Who is this Fanny Green?’
‘A new woman in the neighbourhood’, the sinner replied.
‘Very well,’ sighed the priest, ‘Go and say 10 Hail Mary’s then put $25 in the collection tray’.
At mass the next morning, as the priest prepared to deliver the sermon, a tall, voluptuous, drop-dead gorgeous red-headed woman entered the sanctuary.
The eyes of every man in the church fell upon her as she slowly sashayed up the aisle and sat down right in front of the priest.
Her dress was emerald-green, very short, and she wore matching, shiny emerald-green shoes.
The priest and the altar boy gasped as the woman in the green dress and matching green shoes sat with her legs spread slightly apart, just enough for them to realise she wasn’t wearing any underwear.
The priest turned to the altar boy and whispered, ‘Is that Fanny Green?’
The bug-eyed altar boy couldn’t believe his ears but managed to calmly reply, ‘No Father, I sure it’s just the reflection from her shoes’.
i spent the day
in the long corridor of time
remembering
remembering
until my body turned to stone
as my heart bled
the bright red of loss
and i couldn’t
remember anymore
~ RC deWinter
There's some very weird, strange and dangerous sh*t going on in America. A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president.
- Bruce Springsteen
ZELENSKYY: I want to emphasize this. Unlike Putin, we're not fighting this war for pleasure or for geopolitics. Russia brought this war to Ukraine and killing our people. Russia wants to destroy our independence and from the first day of this war, we're only defending ourselves.
On September 11, 2001, 24-year-old Welles Remy Crowther was working on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center’s South Tower when Flight 175 hit the building.
He was trapped 27 floors above the impact zone a place almost nobody survived.
But instead of only trying to save himself, Welles stayed behind to help others escape.
Before heading into the smoke, he left his mom a voicemail:
“Mom, this is Welles. I want you to know I’m OK.”
Welles was also a volunteer firefighter back home in New York, and he always carried a red bandana his father gave him as a kid.
Survivors later remembered seeing a man with a red bandana covering his face, leading people to safety, carrying injured victims down stairs, and going back up again and again to help more people.
He reportedly saved at least 18 lives before the South Tower collapsed.
For months, nobody knew who “the man in the red bandana” was.
Then in 2002, his mother read survivor stories in a newspaper and realized they were talking about her son.
Welles Remy Crowther will always be remembered as a real hero.