Dilly Dilly 🏌🏼️

Commercial Real Estate by day—dad/husband, golfer, hobby photographer. Go Utes!

[Dilly Dilly 🏌🏼️ @dillyman25]

Amazing stuff. Also, if you like history you should listen to this which tells this story

https://t.co/h8HbqzTkua

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

July 9th, 1755. The British Army got slaughtered in the woods of Pennsylvania.

Of 1,300 men, nearly 1,000 were killed or wounded in four hours.

Every mounted officer was shot.

Except one.

A 23-year-old colonel named George Washington had two horses shot out from under him. Four musket balls passed through his coat.

He rallied the survivors. Organized the retreat. Buried the dying general.

And walked off the field without a scratch.

15 years later, an old Indian chief found him in the Ohio Valley. Said he had personally fired 11 shots at Washington that day.

Missed every one.

"He cannot die in battle," the chief said. "He will become the chief of nations."

Twenty-one years after that prophecy, Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States.

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Thank you to all who fought and sacrificed in freedoms defense all those years ago. Incredible footage here. Blessed that both my uncles survived and will never forget the over 400,000 who did not come home.

[Dilly Dilly 🏌🏼️ @dillyman25]

Umm it's easy... You turn the TV off and don't watch a garbage product.

[Dilly Dilly 🏌🏼️ @dillyman25]

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸The Senate just killed the SAVE Act, 48-50.

Voter ID and proof of citizenship, supported by over 80% of Americans, dead.

Four Republicans voted no: Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell, Collins.

The uniparty showed its face today...

[Dilly Dilly 🏌🏼️ @dillyman25]

@Manhattva Beta behavior

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.” - C.S. Lewis

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

The Curt Cignetti College Football 27 cover looks like the poster for a 1994 Disney movie in which a recently divorced NFL head coach decides to coach an underachieving high school team of misfits as a way to reconnect with his son who's grown distant after his parents split up.

[Peacemaking Saint @PeacemakingSt]

Latter-day Saints believe the U.S. Constitution was inspired of God.

The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dallin H. Oaks (@OaksDallinH), gave a landmark speech on defending the Constitution.

Every American would benefit from listening to his words.

[᛭ Ian ᛭ @KnightspurHouse]

“The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. "
George Washington,1776.

[Dilly Dilly 🏌🏼️ @dillyman25]

@Bobby_Clayson @TNTJohn1717 And my favorite along these lines:

Know ye not that there are more nations than one? Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and that I remember those who are upon the isles of the sea....
8 Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word?

[Dilly Dilly 🏌🏼️ @dillyman25]

@Bobby_Clayson @TNTJohn1717 "And because my words shall hiss forth—many of the Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible."

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

I'd be like, "good thing I have an ID like every other adult I know."

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Lincoln Memorial architect Henry Bacon deliberately chose stones from across the nation.

He wanted to symbolize national unity for the man who saved the Union.

• Massachusetts granite for the terrace walls and lower steps

• Colorado Yule marble for the entire exterior facade, upper steps, and 36 Doric columns (36 states when Lincoln died)

• Indiana limestone for the interior walls and columns of the central chamber

• Tennessee pink marble for the floor of the chamber

• Alabama marble for the ceiling tiles

• Georgia marble for the 19-foot seated statue of Lincoln

National unity was popular 100 years ago 🇺🇸

[Dilly Dilly 🏌🏼️ @dillyman25]

Absolutely 🔥

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Most Badass Presidents: Combat Veteran Edition #1 George Washington

George Washington, our 1st President, was one badass President.

Was the Father of our country under the miraculous care of divine Providence?

You tell me.

We all know his stories. But these will leave you absolutely awestruck.

Born February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

At age 21, Washington volunteered for a 500-mile winter expedition through the frozen wilderness to deliver a warning to the French near Lake Erie.

On the return trip, the deep snow crippled their horses. He and his guide went out on foot and followed an Indian on a treacherous shortcut. When they reached a clearing, the Indian stepped ahead, turned, and fired at him point blank.

The bullet passed harmlessly by him.

In 1755, during the Battle of the Monongahela, Washington rode straight into a French and Indian ambush as aide to Gen. Braddock.

He was suffering from severe dysentery but dragged himself onto his saddle.

The slaughter was horrifying, and every other mounted officer was targeted and killed around him.

Two horses were shot out from under him.

Four bullets ripped through his coat and one his hat.

He emerged completely unscathed.

He later wrote in awe that “I was saved by the miraculous care of Providence.”

Fifteen years later in 1770, an old Native American chief traveled a long path just to look upon Washington’s face again.

The chief revealed that during that bloody battle, he had personally fired at Washington 17 times with a rifle that never missed.

He ordered his warriors to target him exclusively, but every single musket ball failed to pierce him.

Awed and terrified, the chief commanded his men to stop firing, declaring that Washington was under the special guardianship of the Great Spirit and could never die in battle.

In 1758 near Fort Duquesne, his own troops, mistaking the other for enemy, began firing wildly at each other in the darkness and smoke.

Washington charged between the two lines.

He desperately used his sword to knock up the presented muskets of his own men.

Bullets flew all around him.

14 men were killed and 26 wounded, but he came away untouched.

At the Battle of Kip’s Bay in September 1776, he galloped alone toward the British lines when his militia troops broke and ran without firing a shot.

He faced about fifty redcoats at close range as they leveled their muskets.
His aides seized his horse’s bridle and dragged him to safety at the very last second.

At the Battle of Princeton in January 1777, Washington rode his white horse directly between the British and American lines to rally his wavering troops.

He was 30 yards from the British front line.

He then ordered his men to fire.

An aide covered his eyes with a handkerchief, certain the commander would meet his death.

When the smoke cleared, Washington then chased the fleeing British alone shouting, “It’s a fine fox chase, my boys!”

At the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777, Washington was secretly scouted in the woods by British Captain Patrick Ferguson, the inventor of a revolutionary, rapid fire rifle.

Ferguson crept close, leveled his lethal weapon, and had him directly in his crosshairs.

As Washington turned to ride away, Ferguson’s gentlemanly code of honor stopped him from shooting an unsuspecting man in the back.

The sniper lowered his rifle and let him ride on, completely unaware that he could have ended the American Revolution.

Ferguson later wrote that he could have easily lodged half a dozen balls in him, but admitted, “I let him alone.”

Time after time he emerged from battle without a single scratch.

Did I mention this man also defeated the greatest empire on earth?

When King George III learned that Washington planned to surrender his military commission and return to farming at wars end, he said, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

Yes, he was.

And we were blessed to have him.

Thank you, Mr. President! 🇺🇸🫡

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

I will be reenacting Washington crossing the Delaware in an above ground pool on July 4th to honor America’s 250th birthday

[Dilly Dilly 🏌🏼️ @dillyman25]

@NewYorker

[Dilly Dilly 🏌🏼️ @dillyman25]

@GavinNewsom Why not $50? Are you scared? Do you not love workers enough?