Coacher33

Retired Texas CoachTeacherAdministrator.

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@VinnysCorner1 LeBron is not #2
Larry Legend is 1a
#3 could be Wilt, Kareem, or Magic

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@Hania16836 76-77

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@td_nash Mike Gaechter

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.@NBA Commissioner Adam Silver: President Trump was a fixture at Madison Square Garden. He had courtside seats. He was here all the time, he was at Drafts — so he's a genuine @nyknicks fan.

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@MikeDoocyFox4 Mixed. Better than the Commie mayor

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@grumpy_caribou @AEiffel95 @SpartyOn821 @notthefakeSVP Hooked on phonics dropout

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@Riffraff3232 Born in the USA

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@eharvey0501 @Riffraff3232 Panama Canal

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@Riffraff3232 A Hammer sandwich

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My Dad, Sgt Loyd Knight and his horse, Marie, 1942. 124th Calvary, Ft. Ringgold, Tx.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Ray Lambert had already been shot twice and blown up once before he ever set foot on Omaha Beach.

He had survived the invasion of North Africa in 1943. Then Sicily. Each time he had been wounded. Each time he had gone back. By June 6th, 1944, the 23-year-old Staff Sergeant and head medic of the 16th Infantry Regiment's 2nd Battalion was on his third invasion in two years. He had already won a Silver Star for running through German lines in North Africa to drag wounded men out.

He was not supposed to survive a third one.

Lambert landed in the first wave at Omaha Beach. Of the 31 men in his landing craft, only 7 survived the day. The other 24 were killed before they even reached the sand.

He started working immediately.

The first bullet hit his right arm and shattered the bone. He kept going. A second round tore through his right elbow as he was pulling a wounded soldier through the surf. He kept going. Something hit his leg and opened it down to the bone. He put a tourniquet on himself, injected himself with morphine from his own kit, and kept going.

He found a slab of concrete on the beach that offered a few inches of cover. He set up a treatment zone behind it, dragging men out of the water and working on them one by one under constant fire. That piece of concrete is still there today. People who visit Omaha Beach call it Ray's Rock.

Then a loose landing craft ramp swung loose in the surf and slammed into him. It broke his back.

He kept going.

Lambert lost count of how many men he treated. The official record credits him with saving at least 15 lives that morning. Other accounts say closer to two dozen. He worked until his body physically stopped, collapsing unconscious at the edge of the surf, bleeding from multiple wounds, his back broken, still in the water.

A doctor spotted him. A landing craft pulled him out.

Here is the part that does not feel real.

Lambert's brother, Euel, had also been wounded at Normandy that day. The two brothers were loaded onto the same evacuation landing craft. They were placed in the same wheeled ambulance. They were taken to the same tent hospital in England. They were brought into the same operating room at the same time.

Lambert spent almost a full year recovering before he could walk properly again.

He went home. He lived quietly for decades, rarely talking about what happened. In 2019, at the age of 98, he went back to Normandy and stood on the beach again. He published a memoir called Every Man a Hero. It became a New York Times bestseller.

In 2021, Ray Lambert died peacefully at home. He was 100 years old.

He had three invasions, four serious wounds, a broken back, a Silver Star, multiple Bronze Stars, multiple Purple Hearts, and two dozen men who came home because he refused to stop moving on the worst morning in American military history.

Today is June 6th.

Remember him.

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@Riffraff3232 Surfin Bird by The Trashmen

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@PTSportsFix True

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@crockpics Rubber Soul

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@Riffraff3232 It puts the lotion on or it gets the hose again

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@Noirchick1 Jayne

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Talk about an MVP robbery...

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@Riffraff3232 Otis Day and The Knights

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@tedgangi @Riffraff3232 Calling Donnie and Marie

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@Riffraff3232 Keep the change, Hammer