Douglas Taurel

A lover of Bourbon and Scottish Whiskey and the creator of award-nominated Off-Broadway play, "The American Soldier" and TV Series "Landing Home."

[Douglas Taurel @DouglasTaurel]

A series for Veterans and Military Families!
"Landing Home" is a poignant portrayal of a veteran's journey back to civilian life. **Best Drama at the GI Film Festival
**5 stars on Amazon!

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Some cultures are better than others

[FIFA @FIFAcom]

The reason Japan fans clean the stadium after each game. Respect. 🤝🇯🇵

[Actu Foot @ActuFoot_]

Les Japonais 🇯🇵 ont laissé leur vestiaire dans un état impeccable après le match face aux Pays-Bas 🇳🇱. 👏

Respect. 🫡

[Douglas Taurel @DouglasTaurel]

Content makes poor men rich, discontent makes rich man poor.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Japanese fans brought their own trash bags to help clean up after their World Cup game

Incredible

[Brandon @Primewave96]

The track fell silent as hope began to fade. Jockey Kosei Miura stayed beside the injured horse, refusing to walk away. Then, in an unforgettable moment, the horse rose to its feet—and the grandstand erupted in applause. 🐎❤️
A moment that reminded everyone what heart and resilience truly look like.

#Japan #HorseRacing #Respect #Inspiration

[Douglas Taurel @DouglasTaurel]

We are all born ignorant, but no one must work hard to remain stupid - #BenFranklin

[⚽️ Kyle Sheldon @kylesheldon]

15,986,000 VIEWERS 🤯

Last night's U.S.-Paraguay game was the MOST watched @USMNT game ever on U.S English language television.

AND it was the second most watched FIFA Men's World Cup game ever. EVER.

We are a soccer nation.

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Love hearing nuggets like this...USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino was only hired because hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin (and others) helped cover his salary worth several million dollars annually.

[Sports Spectrum @Sports_Spectrum]

The entire USMNT squad joined in for the postgame prayer after their World Cup victory over Paraguay. 🙏🇺🇸

Mark McKenzie led the prayer.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 POV: You’re a Boston cop during the World Cup and decide to show everyone who the real baller is.

The crowd lost it.

Skills > donuts.

Writer: Sol

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Great game AMERICA.

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

JUST A REMINDER.

Paraguay beat Brazil and Argentina and had the best defensive record in South American World Cup qualifying.

They just lost 4-1 to the USMNT in their opening match at the 2026 World Cup final.

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Opening Statement. 🇺🇸

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

NOW.

[Douglas Taurel @DouglasTaurel]

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. - #BenFranklin

[Douglas Taurel @DouglasTaurel]

A good example is the best sermon - #BenFranklin

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

She woke up on September 11, 2001 with bronchitis.

She almost called in sick.

Instead, she went to work.

That decision saved her life.

Her name is Joanne Capestro.

She worked on the 87th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

At 8:46 a.m., she was sitting at her desk with a cup of tea.

Then the building moved.

American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the tower between floors 93 and 99.

Just six floors above her.

The impact felt like an earthquake.

Ceiling tiles crashed down.

The smell of jet fuel filled the air.

Tea spilled everywhere.

Joanne never saw her desk again.

She found the emergency stairwell and started walking down.

87 floors.

In stocking feet.

At some point her heels came off.

She left them behind.

Years later, what she remembered most wasn’t panic.

It was order.

People descending on the right.

Firefighters climbing on the left.

Hundreds of them.

Carrying heavy gear.

Heading toward the fire she was escaping.

She passed them one after another.

Most would never come back down.

As Joanne continued descending, the second plane struck the South Tower at 9:03 a.m.

She didn't know it yet.

She just kept moving.

Floor after floor.

Step after step.

Eventually she reached street level.

And then everything changed again.

Moments after she escaped, the South Tower collapsed.

A massive cloud of dust and debris raced through lower Manhattan.

Joanne ran.

The cloud swallowed the city.

Visibility vanished.

The sky turned gray.

A firefighter helped her find shelter near St. Paul’s Chapel.

There she found coworker Dominique Davis.

Together, they kept moving.

Nearby, a young photojournalist named Phil Penman was documenting the disaster.

After taking cover during the collapse, he stepped back into the streets and began photographing survivors emerging from the dust.

One of those photographs captured Joanne.

Covered in ash.

Pointing forward.

Still moving.

That image became one of the defining photographs of 9/11.

What viewers couldn’t see was everything that had already happened:

• 87 floors descended on foot
• firefighters passed on the stairs
• smoke and jet fuel fumes
• the collapse of the South Tower
• the realization that the world had changed forever

And what Joanne didn’t yet know was that one of her coworkers, Harry Ramos, had stayed behind helping others evacuate.

He never made it out.

The years that followed were difficult.

PTSD.

Survivor’s guilt.

Memories that never fully disappeared.

She kept the dust-covered shoes and clothing from that day.

Today, they are preserved in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Then something remarkable happened.

In 2015, a museum curator recognized Joanne in Phil Penman’s photograph.

Fourteen years after he captured her image, the photographer and survivor finally met.

They became close friends.

In 2018, Phil photographed Joanne’s wedding.

The same man who documented one of the worst moments of her life was there to capture one of the happiest.

Look at that photograph again.

She isn’t standing still.

She’s moving forward.

A woman who walked down 87 flights of stairs while the world collapsed around her.

A woman who survived.

And when everything became gray and impossible to see...

She just kept walking.

[Douglas Taurel @DouglasTaurel]

Necessity never made a good bargain - #BenFranklin

[john jackson @pvtjokerus]

People forget that Burt Reynolds was a D1 college football player and a stuntman.

The real deal.