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Whatever suits you, just tickles me plum to death. - Howdy Lewis

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Not only was Roberto Clemente a hell of a baseball player. He also served for the US Marine Corps.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Colonel Lewis "Chesty" Puller reading the US Marine Corps Birthday Proclamation, Korea, 10 November 1950

[Babaken @babaken_0]

This is the exact type of scene that made me question everything as a kid. 🎬🍿😁

[Sheri Tunes🎵🎶 @SheriCarter18]

The Who
‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’
1978
“Tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again, no, no
Yeah
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss” 🎵🎸🎶

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Elephants rushing over to welcome a newly arrived orphan at an elephant sanctuary

[Ashley @Ashley1_55]

Dogs have mastered the art of teasing their humans! 😂🐶 They know exactly how to push our buttons and get away with it! 🤣

Who’s really training whom here? 👀

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

"Safety and Snuggles’ survival need not be mutually exclusive."

City of Tucson and Pima County—you've lost the narrative. You've lost the police.

Veterans Day would be a great day to #SaveSnuggles and let this veteran's family be whole again.

https://t.co/4fP02rvuiS

[Blonde of War (JJ) @BlondeOfWar]

Lulu, a 4-year-old white huskydoodle, was found alive after more than 50 hours alone in the snow following an October 10, 2026, avalanche in Alaska’s Chugach State Park near Anchorage.

She was hiking with her owner Brian Shum and his climbing partner Rachad Rayess. Snow was only about 5 inches deep where they were, but a wind-loaded pocket above them released and swept the two men roughly 500 feet down rocky terrain. Both survived with serious injuries (Brian: broken jaw and degloved hand requiring later surgery; Rachad: three broken ribs and a fractured vertebra). An Alaska National Guard helicopter rescued the men within about two hours, but they did not see the dog.

Lauren Padawer, Brian's partner, was overseas celebrating her father’s 80th birthday when she learned of the incident. She immediately organized a remote search effort via Facebook and other contacts, reaching out to pet rescue groups, hiking/avalanche/mountaineering communities, and more. Dozens of volunteers responded, including ground searchers, a scent-detection dog (using pieces of Lulu's bed), a thermal-imaging drone, and helicopter teams. Lulu’s Apple AirTag on her collar provided location pings that helped narrow the search area.

After about 50 hours, commercial pilots Amanda Barker and Dave Beckett got another ping, spotted paw prints in fresh snow, and saw LuLu sitting upright and watching them. They landed, hiked roughly 20 minutes (a couple hundred feet) up through deep snow to her.

She was taken to a vet and then reunited with her owner on October 14. LuLu had a broken toenail and a chipped canine tooth but was otherwise healthy and recovering well. Her owners described her as mellow at home yet “born for the trail” and skilled at following paths back—traits that apparently helped her.

Tracking data suggested she may have followed the men’s slide path and then returned to wait near the start.

A happy ending for this resilient pup and her family! 🐶❤️

[law @curdog69]

@bigspanky2911 All it takes is someone that knows how to use a rope, and has the balls to do it. That probably leaves a lot of people in the UK out, otherwise it would have been done already

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Lions accidentally rescue an eagle from a black mamba snake

[law @curdog69]

@sciencegirl

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

For years, cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy walked past the quiet old janitor who mopped their floors and cleaned their showers. Most of them gave him little more than a passing nod.

In the fall of 1976, a cadet named James Moschgat was reading a book about the fighting in Italy in World War II. On one page he found the story of Hill 424, and a Private William Crawford from Colorado.

He turned to his roommate. "Holy cow... I think our janitor is a Medal of Honor winner."

On September 13, 1943, near Altavilla, Italy, Private Bill Crawford's company was pinned down by German machine guns. He went forward alone and destroyed the first gun with a grenade. Then he went after the second and destroyed it too. At the third, he killed one gunner, the rest ran, and he turned their own machine gun on them.

Soon after, he disappeared. The Army believed he had been killed. In 1944, his father accepted the Medal of Honor in his place.

He was alive. He spent about 19 months as a prisoner of the Germans and survived a forced march in the winter of 1945.

After the war he went back into uniform. He retired in 1967 as a master sergeant and took a job as a janitor at the Air Force Academy in Colorado.

He never told the cadets.

The following Monday, Moschgat brought the book to him and asked.

"Yep, that's me."

"That was one day in my life and it happened a long time ago."

Word spread. The man with the mop had never had the medal placed around his neck by a president.

On May 30, 1984, at the Academy's graduation, President Ronald Reagan told the stadium about a private on Hill 424 whose father had accepted his medal for him.

"Nearly 40 years have gone by, and it's time to do it right."

Then the President of the United States hung the Medal of Honor around the neck of the old man who used to clean the cadets' bathrooms.

Moschgat went on to fly fighters for 30 years and retired as a colonel. On his graduation day, the janitor had told him, "Good luck, young man."

Bill Crawford died in 2000. He is buried at the Academy where he once mopped the floors.

Tomorrow is Veterans Day. Look twice at the quiet old man with the broom.

Some of them already gave this country a day it can never repay.

[law @curdog69]

@Carrie_CengWong The buried in a dog crate idea would work for me too. Either way, just as soon as possible

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

In 1944, thousands of Japanese on Saipan hid in caves, sure the Americans would torture them if they came out. Many families chose the cliffs instead.

An 18-year-old American Marine from East Los Angeles walked up to those caves at night, alone, and called to them in Japanese.

His name was Guy Gabaldon. He was a Mexican American kid who had grown up partly in the home of a Japanese American family, the Nakanos. That is where he picked up his Japanese. When the war came, the Nakanos were sent to internment camps. Their twin sons, Lane and Lyle, joined the U.S. Army anyway and served in the 442nd.

Fifty years later, he still said it plainly: "These were Americans."

On Saipan, Gabaldon was a scout with the 2nd Marine Regiment. Right after landing, he slipped off on his own and came back with prisoners. His commanding officer, Capt. John Schwabe, threatened him with a court-martial for leaving his post.

The next night, he came back with about fifty.

After that, they let him go out alone.

He crawled to the cave mouths in the dark and promised the people inside water, medical care, and that nobody would hurt them. Night after night, ten or twenty at a time, they followed him out.

On July 8, by his own account, about 800 came out in a single day. Schwabe remembered that day too. It was the day they tagged him the Pied Piper of Saipan.

Not everyone listened. At the cliffs, he begged a mother not to kill her child. He watched her throw the baby and jump. He was still talking about it fifty years later.

His Navy Cross citation says that on Saipan and Tinian he brought in "well over one thousand enemy civilians and troops."

Schwabe recommended him for the Medal of Honor. He received the Silver Star. Sixteen years later, after Hollywood made a movie about him, the Navy upgraded it to the Navy Cross.

He died in 2006 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

I am Japanese. Those caves were full of my people, frightened, starving, and certain that the Americans were monsters.

An American teenager walked toward them in the dark and offered them water.

On this Veterans Day, Japan should know his name.

[Music Jim 🎩🪄 @MusicJim2]

Harry Nilsson 🎩🪄 Nilsson Schmilsson

This fantastic album was released on November 11th, 1971.

Packed with classics, including “Without You,” “Coconut,” “Gotta Get Up,” and “Jump Into The Fire.”

What a timeless album! 🎶

#HarryNilsson

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Still waiting on biopsy results for Clyde. Lab hasn’t sent them back yet.

He’ll stay in hospital a few more days as his wound is still leaking a little.

Clyde now insists on taking his comfort banana with him everywhere…

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Nobody could get near this dog for days. Leg slowly being strangled by a snare.

Thats when our dog catcher called Arm came along. The skill, determination and passion to pull this off by her is insane.

A very wild street dog but one that is saved because of Arm

[Ben Stevens @BenScottStevens]

“24-team CFP” this, “what is the committee thinking?!” that…

We just had an Unsportsmanlike Conduct penalty for “depiction of field goal uprights on the scoreboard” in #MACtion.

Focus on the things that matter!

[Paul Tucker @PaulTuc60970024]

Happy Birthday Marines!