TJ 🌵🦅🦅

If you have 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@WVUBaseball @WVUSports @Big12Conference @NCAABaseball Bring the racoon ⚡️

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Jay Don Takes @Skulledwedge]

Playing a round of golf:

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@InsideTexas Children these days……

Does her mother know she’s out past curfew?

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@flatland_sports Big Tyme 🔥

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@SamiMokbel_BBC

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@ScottWarner18 Mom used to set it up on the front porch for Halloween night and put dry ice behind it so it came out the mouth/drawbridge 🔥

[80's & 90's Throwbacks @80s90sJukebox]

Ferris Bueller took his "Day Off" 41 years ago today. June 5th 1985. Happy Ferris Bueller Day #80s

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@geniuswaitres23 @nw3 @BarryOnHere Came here to say this 🎯

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@NannrTickl @Kaneh7890 @CRELeasingLawTX @YIMBYman I don’t disagree about that section of LBJ. Total shit show.

I think team performance for the Stars will help keep them popular.

The Mavs is a total toss up.

Neither site has the access Victory Park has.

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

Jesus Christ,

That’s Tiger Woods…….

[NUCLR GOLF @NUCLRGOLF]

I mean it’s pretty valid… that’s a lot of green 🤣

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@BenRollTide @techsan7 @barstoolsports They have the history and pedigree

Tuscaloosa is a solid spot as well so that helps for sure.

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@NannrTickl @Kaneh7890 @CRELeasingLawTX @YIMBYman So your personal experience

Can’t figure out why the team didn’t consult you

How much of the GP/LP split are you taking down on the covered land play?

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@BenRollTide @techsan7 @barstoolsports Fair. Not sure Bama’s gonna fair any better in the long run

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@NannrTickl @Kaneh7890 @CRELeasingLawTX @YIMBYman Based on what exactly?

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@lackmeftwich806

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@BenRollTide @techsan7 @barstoolsports If only the SEC were in a rich area for natural resources

[TJ 🌵🦅🦅 @dr_pickls]

@NannrTickl @CRELeasingLawTX @YIMBYman Dallas, Texas 75240

Post Office doesn’t lie

[OState AD @AlldayOstate]

Imagine someone trying to convince you that Texas hasn’t spent their way to the top of college sports for 50+ years 😂. Tech does it for 2 years and they are now magically a financial villain 🤣🤣🤣