Craig Ellis Denson

#HA1LSTATE! WWII & History Buff. A cool Oregon Pinot Nior & steak after 27 holes of golf! Proud American in debt 2 ALL VETERANS 4 THEIR SERVICE & SACRIFICE!

[Craig Ellis Denson @craigedenson]

@charliewinfield I saw the pilot smile in the cockpit.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

WWII vets, the Greatest Generation, on the stage last night watching the fireworks in DC. We’re losing them, folks. God Bless them!❤️🇺🇸🙏

[Craig Ellis Denson @craigedenson]

@AndyGipsonforMS He is a freaking embarrassment.

[OutKick @Outkick]

Things that rock: Thunderbirds flying over the Hoover Dam with a giant American flag on it

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

“God Bless the beaver”

This dude from France went to Buc-ees and his life changed forever

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Europeans discovering America is some of the best content of the internet right now:

[USA NEWS 🇺🇸 @usanewshq]

Another masterpiece at UFC 250!

This event will go down as the turning point in American history.

Patriotism is back and it is here to stay 🇺🇸

[USA NEWS 🇺🇸 @usanewshq]

They just played this at UFC America 250 and it is one of the greatest things I have ever seen 🇺🇸

God bless America

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: The energy in Washington DC is legendary right now. A massive audience went crazy when a bald eagle flew into the UFC venue.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 6, 1944, a 56-year-old general with a secret walked onto Utah Beach under fire, armed with a cane and a pistol.

The secret: his heart was failing. He had hidden it from the army doctors so they wouldn't pull him from the mission.

His name was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Son of the President. He had begged three separate times to lead the first wave ashore at Normandy before his commanders finally said yes.

When his landing craft drifted 2,000 yards off course, every instinct said redirect the following waves to the correct zone. Instead, Roosevelt walked the beach himself, alone, under artillery fire, cane in hand, reading the terrain.

His verdict: "We'll start the war from right here."

He then stood on that beach and personally greeted every regiment that landed after him, pointing them inland, cracking jokes under shellfire, steadying 18-year-olds who had never seen combat. He did this for hours.

Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic act he had ever witnessed in combat.

His answer, without hesitation: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

Roosevelt's son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, also landed at Normandy that same morning. He was named after his uncle, Quentin Roosevelt, who had been shot down as a fighter pilot over France in World War I.

Three generations. Three wars. One family.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep 36 days later. Heart attack. The thing he had been hiding finally won. He never learned he had been awarded the Medal of Honor.

He was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery.

In 1955, his family had his brother Quentin, killed in WWI, exhumed from where he fell in France and reinterred right beside him. Quentin is the only World War I soldier buried there.

Two brothers. Two world wars. The same French soil.

Their father had once said: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Both of his sons did exactly that.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Private Carlton Barrett was possibly the smallest man in his regiment.

5 feet 4 inches tall. 125 pounds.

On the morning of June 6, 1944, he landed at Omaha Beach in neck-deep water, machine gun fire cutting the surface all around him. He made it to shore.

Then he turned around and went back in.

A soldier was drowning. Barrett pulled him out. Then another. Then another. For hours, under constant fire, this 125-pound man waded back into the surf again and again, pulling drowning men to safety and physically carrying the wounded to evacuation boats offshore.

But he didn't stop there.

He ran dispatches the full length of the fire-swept beach. He found soldiers paralyzed by shock and calmed them back into action. He appeared wherever the crisis was worst, doing whatever needed doing, treating rank and personal safety as irrelevant details.

He did this for hours without stopping.

His Medal of Honor citation says his courage had "an inestimable effect on his comrades." That is military understatement for: this small, anonymous man held that section of beach together through sheer force of will.

He survived the war.

His comrades later said his life darkened after he came home. He lived quietly and died in 1986 in California, largely unknown outside of military history circles.

5 feet 4 inches. 125 pounds. He went back in.

Remember him.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

One of the greatest speeches of the late 20th century, given on the 40th anniversary of one of the most spectacular days in human history.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

"Bloody Omaha" where 34,000 US troops are now headed.

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

82 years ago today, paratroopers bound for Normandy. 🇺🇸

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.

[Craig Ellis Denson @craigedenson]

@BBGreatMoments @CopiahDawg It was so damn hot for those 11 am games. The humidity was as thick as molasses…

[Craig Ellis Denson @craigedenson]

@BaseballCentraI Would have hit his punk self…

[Craig Ellis Denson @craigedenson]

@TimBrando GREAT call on the game yesterday. You and Joe Dean Junior are missed in the SEC.

[Craig Ellis Denson @craigedenson]

@HenryFrank02 A

[Craig Ellis Denson @craigedenson]

@TimBrando I would agree with ya Timmy B.. next time you are in Madison let me treat ya to play Reunion. Beautiful course and club across the street from Annandale. Daylight savings time can’t get here soon enough. Hope all is well on your end my friend…