David Hookstead

Always monitoring the situation with a love for America 🇺🇸

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

Every person involved in this attack on a defenseless American citizen should be arrested by the Israeli government and immediately handed over to the U.S. to be charged under 18 U.S.C. § 2332.

Horrific and unacceptable.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.

Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://t.co/9YLUuU9ktP

[Fanatic 🇺🇸 @crusade_enjoyer]

The United States has more guns in civilian hands than every military in the world combined.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

@Geoffery_Clark @sjoseph_sports @TMZ The biggest fear is they would launch drones from a ship disguised as a cargo ship.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

Wisconsin football is finally fun again. The dark days appear to be in rearview mirror.

Let’s keep it rolling!

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

"Gordy's gone, man. I'll be outside. Good luck."

Gets me every single time. Impossible to watch Black Hawk Down and not feel incredibly proud of all the men who served in Mogadishu and fought to the end knowing no help was coming.

The best of America.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

The Battle of Mogadishu (known as Black Hawk Down) started on this day 33 years ago on October 3, 1993.

An elite team of roughly 100 Delta Force operators and Army Rangers found themselves fighting a city of a million people.

They fought to the bloody and brutal end, and their heroic actions will never be forgotten.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

The ending of Black Hawk Down can make any man cry. A group of patriotic Americans went to a foreign land they didn't speak the language of, and 18 didn't make it home alive.

The survivors carry the scars, memories and injuries with them.

Courage words can't sum up.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

We truly do not deserve dogs. The greatest animal God ever created.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Rescue dogs are recalled from Ground Zero, as there are clearly no more survivors under the rubble.

The dogs had been getting demoralized, so rescue workers had been playing dead so that the dogs could “discover” them.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

Your wife murdering your three children is no longer a justified reason for divorce in 2026, according to this moron.

[Natalie Jean Beisner @NJBeisner]

“How did the marital love end so quickly…in sickness and in health.”

Sarah Haines of The View gripes that Patrick Clancy isn’t still married to Lindsay Clancy, the woman who murdered his kids.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

The amount of weather delays today in college football is insane.

Last time I checked, it was raining on the morning of D-Day and those men still stormed those beaches.

If you can fight a war in bad weather, then you can absolutely play football.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

Dare I say Wisconsin football is officially back?

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

There are 195 countries in the world, and only one is playing college football all day:

The United States of America.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

The 9/11 attack was one of America’s darkest moments, but it also represents why the American spirit is unbreakable.

Nineteen hijackers murdered 2,977 of our people, and amid the chaos and death, thousands more rushed to save complete strangers.

That’s the USA at its best. 🇺🇸

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

Impossible to read this and not feel incredibly proud to be an American.

Amid the chaos, destruction and death on 9/11, ordinary people helped evacuate 500,000 innocent lives in the largest boat evacuation in human history.

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 The Boatlift That Was Bigger Than Dunkirk

At 10:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, a Coast Guard lieutenant named Mike Day keyed a radio in New York Harbor and said the only sentence that mattered.

“All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island.”

The boats were already coming.

The bridges were closed. The tunnels were closed. The subways were dead. South of the towers, hundreds of thousands of people had nowhere left to walk. Some jumped into the Hudson. Some stood on seawalls that were never meant to be docks and waited for anything that floated.

Dunkirk took nine days to pull 338,226 Allied soldiers off a beach in 1940.

On 9/11, roughly 800 mariners on about 150 vessels moved as many as 500,000 civilians off Manhattan in about nine hours. Ferries. Tugs. Dinner boats. Pilot boats. Yachts. A retired fireboat. Rubber dinghies that held two people. The largest water evacuation in history.

NY Waterway did not wait for the official call. After the second plane hit, the whole fleet moved. Captain Rick Thornton nosed his ferry against a seawall that was not a slip and started taking people off. Some of them he pulled out of the river. His company alone carried about 158,000 people to Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, Brooklyn, and Queens.

On a normal Tuesday they carried 34,000.

The Staten Island Ferry moved more than 50,000 people and came back the other way with water, bandages, and men who still had work to do in the dust.

The old fireboat John J. Harvey, already retired, tied up near the Museum of Jewish Heritage, took civilians off the seawall, then pumped water when the hydrants downtown died.

Lt. Day later admitted what the day required. “I broke more rules that day than probably I’ve enforced in my whole Coast Guard career.”

In raw numbers it was bigger than Dunkirk. No boat went down. By nightfall the southern tip of Manhattan had been emptied by people who were not on anyone’s list of heroes when the morning started.

They were tug captains. Ferry deckhands. Pilots. A lieutenant with a microphone. Ordinary boats answering one sentence.

All available boats.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

Wisconsin Badgers football is back, and you all know what that means.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

Michigan fans storming the field after beating Western Michigan might be the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen.

Have some respect for yourselves, Michigan fans.

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

The lone Lindsay Clancy jury holdout when the mob comes for him.

Thank you for your service, patriot. 🫡🇺🇸

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

I miss the days when I could watch sports without seeing a million ads and commercials for gambling companies.

We get it. Sports gambling is legal. Everyone knows it. Stop shoving these nonstop ads down our throats.