Ed Padley

First a son, then a brother, then a husband, then a father, now a grandfather, with Christ, to eternity and beyond!

[TheRealCherokeeOwl 🦉 @CherokeeOwl]

On Dec 7, 1941, Doris “Dorie” Miller — a Black mess attendant with no gunnery training — became a Pearl Harbor hero.🫡

He carried wounded officers to safety under fire, then manned a .50-cal gun and blasted Japanese planes. First Black sailor awarded the Navy Cross. 🇺🇸🦉

Born in Waco, Texas, 1919. Big, strong farm boy turned sailor on USS West Virginia. Amid the chaos of bombs and torpedoes, Miller showed incredible courage when it mattered most.

Admiral Nimitz pinned the Navy Cross on him in 1942. Many believed he deserved the Medal of Honor. His bravery pushed against segregation barriers in the military.

Miller gave his life in 1943 aboard USS Liscome Bay. True American hero who proved valor has no color.

Remember Dorie Miller today — what’s one act of courage you admire from WWII history?

#PearlHarbor #WWIIHeroes

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

Elon Musk: “Mamdani is a charismatic swindler, I mean you got to hand it to him, he can light up a stage. But he has just been a swindler his entire life."

Thoughts?

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

Make no mistake — we are in a fight to SAVE the Republic, and every American MUST take this seriously.

We WILL NOT let MINI MAMDANIs take over the greatest nation in the history of the world.

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Team USA gathers to pray after their elimination from the World Cup.

In all circumstances, pray without ceasing 🙏

[Rick Scott @SenRickScott]

It’s inspiring to see this.

When I was a kid, I sold TV guides, cut grass, and worked at gas stations to make extra money. That hard work became a cornerstone of my American dream story.

That’s exactly what our great country was built on and it’s great to see young Americans still taking that initiative.

[CBN News @CBNNews]

Dr. Pamela Pyle wasn’t a believer when she started her career in medicine, but a series of supernatural events changed that reality.

When Pyle reached her mid-30s, something happened that shifted her faith dynamic: her husband accepted Jesus after a near-death experience (NDE). Her husband experienced a “cold darkness” and a troubling NDE that left him thinking quite differently about life once he survived.

FULL STORY: https://t.co/JpK6hi0ac0

[Samaritan's Purse @SamaritansPurse]

Rejoice with us! 🎉

We are praising God for bringing healing to many of our patients! Moments like this make the challenging work of fighting Ebola worth it.

You can be a part of changing lives and sharing the hope of Jesus with those battling this deadly virus. Learn more about joining our Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) today! https://t.co/rrxMNGTNIS

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

Listen to this man’s story. He was buried in the rubble for two days after he fell six floors during the earthquakes in Venezuela. Our Emergency Field Hospital opened 7 days ago, and we have already treated nearly 1,000 patients. There is so much need. Almost every patient that we are caring for has lost a family member or a friend. Pray for the people of Venezuela and pray for our teams as they continue to provide medical care, clean water, tents for shelter, and so much more in Jesus’ Name.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

He was supposed to be on vacation. Spencer Stone, 23 years old, was half asleep on a high-speed train racing across Europe toward Paris. He was traveling with his two closest friends — three young men trying to enjoy freedom before life pulled them in different directions. Then a man stepped out of the bathroom carrying an AK-47. Spencer had no weapon. No strategy. He stood up and charged at him anyway.
It was August 21, 2015. Train 9364. 554 passengers. Moving nearly 200 miles per hour through the French countryside with nowhere to escape and no immediate help coming.
A French-American professor named Mark Moogalian grabbed for the rifle the second he saw it. The attacker shot him in the back.
The gunman also carried a pistol, a box cutter, and 270 rounds of ammunition.
Spencer Stone had nothing.
He sprinted down the aisle straight at an armed attacker who had already opened fire. His childhood friends Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler followed right behind him. A 62-year-old British businessman named Chris Norman — a stranger who owed them nothing — joined them too.
None of them had to do it. Every instinct in a life-or-death moment tells you to run the other way. All four ran toward the danger instead.
Stone reached the attacker first and locked him in a headlock, forcing him to the floor.
What followed was 90 seconds of chaos. The attacker fought back with a box cutter, slashing Stone’s face, neck, and hands. A deep wound tore across his throat. His thumb was nearly severed. Blood covered the train aisle.
Stone refused to let go.
For a minute and a half, four ordinary people restrained a man prepared for mass murder. They knocked him unconscious and tied him up with belts and a necktie before the train finally stopped.
Then Stone collapsed.
He was losing blood fast, struggling to stay awake. Nearby, Mark Moogalian lay wounded while his wife cried for help.
Stone crawled to him.
With one hand holding pressure against his own neck wound and the other helping stabilize Moogalian, he kept talking to him, keeping him awake and breathing until paramedics arrived.
Doctors later said Stone’s neck injury came within millimeters of killing him.
When he woke after surgery, his first question was not about himself. Not about his injuries or recovery.
He asked if anyone else had been hurt.
They told him no one else had died.
Because of what four people did in 90 seconds on a sealed train, 554 passengers made it home safely to their families that day.
French President François Hollande awarded all four the Légion d'honneur — France’s highest honor. President Obama later welcomed them to the White House. The world paused to recognize what they had done.
Stone answered every compliment the same way:
“I just did what anyone would do.”
But that’s what makes this story unforgettable.
Most people wouldn’t. Research on human behavior during sudden violence is clear — most freeze, flee, or hide. Running unarmed toward danger for complete strangers is incredibly rare.
Three friends from Sacramento and a British stranger heard fear and screaming — and made a choice together. In one unplanned moment, they decided the lives of everyone on that train mattered more than their own safety.
Tha choice lasted only 90 seconds.
Its impact lasted a lifetime — for 554 people who never had to experience the alternative.
How much of a hero is this Man ?

[CBN News @CBNNews]

A prominent Christian pastor has been freed from prison in China and is now safe inside the U.S. Pastor Ezra Jin Mingiri arrived in Los Angeles on July 4, 2026. The release happened after President Trump brought up his case when meeting with Chinese leader XI Jinping in Beijing two months ago.

FULL STORY: https://t.co/GZWdqtUPNI

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Marco Rubio in 2020: “At the core of democratic socialism is Marxism. And at the core of Marxism is this fake offer that if you turn over more of your individual freedom, we're going to provide you security … and you don't get it back…”

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

After the destroyer USS Strong was sunk by a torpedo #OTD in 1943, former Alabama quarterback LT Hugh Miller washed up on the Japanese-held Arundel Island. Though wounded, alone, and without a rifle, he launched a month-long guerrilla campaign using grenades he found on a dead Japanese solider. He attacked patrols and destroyed several machine gun nests before being rescued by a U.S. Navy J2F Duck float plane. Awarded the Navy Cross and two Silver Stars, Miller also was recommended for the Medal of Honor but it was never granted.

[Remember The Fallen @44MagnumBlue1]

United Stated Navy Petty Officer First Class (SEAL) Joshua Thomas Harris died on August 30, 2008 while conducting combat operations in Bagram, Afghanistan. Joshua was 36 years old and from Lexington, North Carolina. Remember Joshua. Warrior. American Hero.🇺🇸🎖️

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

Please help me honor Marine Lance Cpl. Scott E. Dougherty. He died July 6, 2004 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.

The grandfather of a 20-year-old Marine thought it was his grandson home early from a second tour of duty in Iraq when he saw a man in uniform walking up his gravel drive. But the smile on Cyril Dougherty’s face faded when he realized it was another Marine coming to his home to tell him Lance Cpl. Scott Eugene Dougherty had been killed.

He was a member of the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
“He was on a mission, and his vehicle ran over a tank mine, flipped over a ravine and exploded,” said Keith Dougherty, the slain Marine’s father. “They told me it was quick, that he didn’t suffer.”

“He died doing what he loved doing. If I could have been there beside him, I would have been,” Keith Dougherty said. “He was proud of what he was doing. This is what he wanted to do with his life. This was his dream.”

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Made in the Image of God

No child should be aborted

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

The Moabite Stone is one of the most important biblical archaeology finds ever discovered. Written by King Mesha of Moab around 840 BC, it mentions Israel, Omri, Yahweh, and a conflict that lines up with 2 Kings 3. A stone witness from Israel’s enemies.

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

Please help me honor Army Pvt. Anthony M. Mazzarella he died July 5, 2005 serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom when the Humvee in which he was riding accidentally rolled over in Iraq.

Thank you for your brave and honorable service.