Dennis Lorio

Christian. ❤️ Annette, Craig, Renee', Thomas, Alyssa, Avery, Sydnie, Laynie Brodie!, Evelyn and Ada. Enjoys coaching, traveling, LSU FB/Base, helping others

[Dennis Lorio @dlorio1]

@KathleenWinche3 Dude is alt reality

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Amazing bravery! 🇺🇸💪🇺🇸💪🇺🇸

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, on June 29, 1776, New Yorkers looked out at the water and saw a nightmare on the horizon. The British fleet had arrived, and so many ships filled the bay that witnesses said the masts looked like "a forest of pine trees" growing out of the sea. The timing could not have been more brutal.

This was the empire's answer to the rebellion, and it was overwhelming. The first wave of around 45 warships and transports dropped anchor off Sandy Hook and Staten Island carrying General William Howe and roughly 10,000 troops. Within days it kept growing. Then his brother Admiral Richard Howe arrived with more. It would eventually swell into one of the largest seaborne invasion forces of the entire 18th century, hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of professional soldiers and German mercenaries, aimed at one city.

Now sit with the timing. While that forest of masts was filling the harbor, delegates down in Philadelphia were in the final days of debating whether to declare independence. They voted for it on July 2 and signed off on the wording on July 4. So at the exact moment America was being born on paper, the most powerful military on earth was already anchored off its coast, getting ready to strangle it in the cradle.

The people of New York understood exactly what they were seeing. Alarm bells rang, panic spread through the streets, and soldiers sprinted to their posts to stare at a force they had almost no hope of matching. Washington's army was outnumbered, outgunned, and about to get badly beaten in the battles for New York that followed.

That's the part that gets lost in the fireworks every Fourth of July. Independence wasn't declared from a position of strength. It was declared with an enemy armada already sitting on the doorstep, knowing full well what was coming. They signed their names anyway.

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@feelgoodtale 🙏🙏🙏

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@CoreyDixon33 🙏🙏🙏

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@SaltyGoat17 Just the facts mam 🤨

[Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 @ProudElephant]

Kevin Sorbo is right! 🎯

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@BasedMikeLee @rreactor Dane bramage 🤡🤥🤪 And what does that say for those who voted for her 🤔 She may have been a good bartender. 😉

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@sassyz59 🙏🙏🙏

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@AntiLeftMemes Please go where you want to go 👍

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@Trustintrump47 Thought the victims were gonna release some names 🤔

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@MilitaryCooI 🙏🙏🙏

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@daniellealvarez Angry old dude, trouble reading his scripts more than ever. AND still doesn't know HOW or WHEN to leave 🤪😳🙄

[Dennis Lorio @dlorio1]

Maybe fly 2-3 American flags to help the 5 yr old get more "adjusted" to US.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Get this.

We have flown a regular-sized American flag on the front of our house every day of the 24 years we've lived here.

We have newer neighbors that I would guess are in their early thirties. They have a five-year-old son.

My hubby is friendly with them.

Yesterday, the husband came over and had the nerve to ask my hubby to remove the flag because it, “triggers his son”.

Two things.

First, how does a five-year-old become “triggered” by the flag of his birth? Can you imagine what the parents are drilling into this poor kid?!

Second, the complete NERVE of this guy to ask.

Needless to say, today my husband replaced our regular-sized flag with a HUGE one.

[Dennis Lorio @dlorio1]

@Q_TheStormRider Well ... the predictions of earthquakes in that area may be real 🤨

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@AntiLeftMemes Excuse me, are you a WWE star?

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@SheriffClarke Let me think about it for 1-2 hours. Then I'll be sure which one to save 🤔🤨😉

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@itsrosesm Pleased 😀

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@TrumpsHurricane And Joe Byedumb is alert and in total control 🤥🤨🙄

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@DavidJHarrisJr Takes one to know one 🤨🙄

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@AntiLeftMemes 🤡🤥🤡🤥🤡🤥🙄