David Nordquist

Likes dogs because they are honest. News junkie, hunter, and fisherman.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

The man who finally cleared the captain of the USS Indianapolis was not an admiral or a senator or a lawyer. He was not a man at all, he was a sixth grader.

In 1996 an eleven year old kid in Florida named Hunter Scott watched the movie Jaws, and there is a scene where an old sailor quietly describes surviving the Indianapolis and the sharks in the water. It stuck with him. He decided to make it his school history project. Most kids would have read a couple of articles and called it done. He did not.

He tracked down the survivors, the actual men who had been in that water, and he started writing to them and calling them and interviewing them one by one. Nearly 150 of them. He dug up something like 800 documents. And the more he learned, the more one thing became clear to him, the same thing those survivors had been saying for fifty years: their captain, Charles McVay, had been blamed for something that was never his fault, and he had died carrying it.

So this kid would not let it go. His project turned into a mission. The survivors, old men by now, saw a child fighting for the honor of the captain they loved, and they rallied behind him. The story got out. It reached the news, and then it reached Washington.

And in 1999 that boy, now a teenager, sat down in front of the United States Congress, next to the survivors, and told them they had gotten it wrong and it was time to fix it. In 2000 Congress officially exonerated Charles McVay. The Navy cleared his record the year after.

Fifty five years of Navy brass and politicians had let an innocent man take the fall and then let him rot in his grave. It took one kid with a school assignment and a refusal to quit to finally make them say the truth.

[David Nordquist @David_Nordquist]

2024 Arctic Fox 32A https://t.co/JyiPHK6eK1

[NOLLY @omoelerinjare1]

North Dakota farmer Lane Unhjem suffered a heart attack while harvesting crops near Crosby.

While fighting a fire in his combine, the 57-year-old went into cardiac arrest. He was rushed to the hospital for treatment and recovery.

What stunned him: Around 60 neighbours, friends, and family dropped everything, brought their own machinery, and finished harvesting his remaining ~1,000 acres of durum wheat and canola in about seven hours.

Unhjem had already harvested his peas, but the community stepped in during the critical window to save his crops.

As one family friend said, “This is just what we do around here when someone needs help.”A heartwarming story of rural neighbours looking out for one another.

[David Nordquist @David_Nordquist]

Florence VD Brandenburg turned 12 on March 19.

[David Nordquist @David_Nordquist]

Running my dogs on a brisk, beautiful morning in AZ.

[David Nordquist @David_Nordquist]

In the middle of nowhere.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

A farmer couldn't attend his aunt’s funeral, so he put out heart-shaped food for his sheep so that she could see it from heaven.

[David Nordquist @David_Nordquist]

Love the obedience with that many dogs!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Wonderfully trained dogs.

Their owner commands them to wait for the cyclist to pass.

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

Meet Piotr Szczerek, the hero who snatched a hat from a kid on live TV at the US Open.

He’s a millionaire CEO of a private company, and now he’s bravely threatening to sue anyone who dares to call him a “greedy POS” or anything equally hurtful.

So whatever you do, definitely don’t share this post. Just quietly warn your close friends not to call him mean names. Wouldn’t want to hurt his millionaire feelings.

[Pheasants Forever @pheasants4ever]

PF & QF President & CEO @vetter_marilyn had the opportunity to thank @BassProShops & @Cabelas owner Johnny Morris for his longtime commitment to wildlife habitat conservation today at the Iowa Speedway.

#pheasantsforever #thehabitatorganization

[David Nordquist @David_Nordquist]

Frankfort, MI salmon fishing.

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@JoniKni56808241 Cherokee Purple’s?

[Aunt Lyn @lynsioux]

Meanwhile in North Dakota...
"Dropped my cellphone outside of Target lastnight and my friend and I couldn’t find it anywhere. We eventually found it at the lost and found but I didn’t notice til later that the kids who found my phone took some good samaritan selfies for me to find lol. If this isn’t North Dakota Nice I don’t know what is! Shout out to your parents they raised some good kiddos! From a single mom who works two jobs it is very much appreciated!"

[David Nordquist @David_Nordquist]

@pheasants4ever Thank you for making it so easy!

[David Nordquist @David_Nordquist]

@BarbMcQuade Fresh strawberries, some dairy and some grain=health food!

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@jchotz We know your pain and grieve with you. Keep the memories alive.

[The Mackinac Bridge @mackinacbridge]

Mackinac Bridge closed again for falling ice; more closures likely https://t.co/qmbUyZwPQL

[MeatEater @MeatEaterTV]

Four Wyoming hunters “corner crossed” between public lands without touching private property in '21. They were cited for trespassing, sparking a legal battle over 8.3 million acres of access.

Today, a federal appeals court ruled in their favor—a huge win for public land hunters.