🇺🇸 Most Badass Ballplayers: Combat Veteran Edition #1 Hank Bauer
Hank Bauer, United States Marine and eight-time World Series champion, was one badass ballplayer.
Born July 31, 1922, in East St. Louis, Illinois.
One month after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.
He volunteered for the elite Marine Raiders and was sent to the Pacific Theater.
He fought in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war, including Guadalcanal, Guam, and Okinawa.
On Guam, Bauer went ashore on the very first day.
He earned his first Bronze Star for demonstrating exceptional valor during intense, close-quarters jungle warfare.
He was wounded in the back by enemy shrapnel from an exploding shell. He refused to leave the battlefield.
It was his first Purple Heart.
Years later, pieces of shrapnel from that wound were still embedded in his back. His Yankees teammates would sometimes pick metal fragments out of him in the clubhouse.
The fighting he experienced on Okinawa was even more brutal.
Bauer was a platoon sergeant leading 64 Marines.
Only six of them survived the battle.
On April 15, 1945, under heavy mortar and machine-gun fire, he repeatedly exposed himself to evacuate wounded men.
When stretcher bearers were no longer available, he carried casualties himself to the aid station. For that action he earned a second Bronze Star.
He was also wounded in the thigh by an artillery shell, tearing a massive hole in his left thigh. He received his second Purple Heart.
As he was being carried off, he turned to a buddy and said, “There goes my baseball career.”
Throughout his time in the Pacific, Bauer also battled malaria, contracting it twenty-four separate times (that’s not a typo).
After the war he returned to baseball.
He made the Yankees in 1948 and became a key part of their dynasty, winning seven World Series titles as a player over 14 seasons.
He hit safely in a then record 17 straight World Series games.
He later managed the Yankees to the 1964 pennant and the Orioles to a World Series championship in 1966.
32 months of combat. 11 campaign ribbons. 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts. 8 World Series Championships.
Thank you, Hank! 🫡🇺🇸⚾
🚨 SHOCKING BETRAYAL IN THE SENATE! 🚨
Rep. Tim Burchett just grilled Senate Leader John Thune: Why has the House bill to STOP U.S. taxpayer dollars from funding the TALIBAN been sitting for nearly 11 MONTHS with ZERO action?!
Thune admitted he hadn’t even READ it.
Every week of delay = $40 MILLION more of YOUR money flowing to terrorists in Afghanistan!
This is INSANE. Americans are funding our enemies while Congress sleeps?!
DEMAND A VOTE NOW!
RT if you’re furious! Tag your Senators! #FundTheTalibanNoMore #DrainTheSwamp #AmericaFirst
THUNE ON DEFUNDING THE TALIBAN: “I HAVE NOT SEEN IT.”
LindellTV’s @Alisonintheknow asked @LeaderJohnThune why the Senate has yet to act on @RepTimBurchett's bill to stop U.S. taxpayer dollars from reaching the Taliban - despite the House passing it nearly a year ago.
Meanwhile, every week of delay means another estimated $40 million flows into Afghanistan.
When asked when the Senate would finally vote on the bill, Thune responded:
“I don’t know when. We don’t have that currently on the schedule here... I have not seen it... that’s something that we'd consider putting on the floor at this point.”
Eleven months later, the bill still hasn’t received a Senate vote.
The House passed it. The Senate hasn’t acted.
How many more months - and how many more millions - will pass before this gets a vote?
Pass the bill. Stop the money flow. Now.
FACT 🚨
@JDVance can walk into the chamber, take the presiding officers chair as Senate President & enforce the rules that would enable a "talking filibuster"
If you want JD Vance to use the powers we vested in him, to do what Thune refuses to do.. let him know, he's tagged
NEW: @JudicialWatch announced that it forced the release of 48 heavily redacted pages from the FBI about the July 13, 2024 shooting of @RealDonaldTrump. The records detail that a SWAT officer recovered a “gray remote device” with an antenna from shooter Thomas Crooks’ pocket after he was killed. The FBI continues to withhold and stonewall the release of 75,000 pages of documents about the assassination attempt.
“If I had my way, elections would last 2 months, they will be publicly funded and if a billionaire looked at a TV ad the wrong way, we'd put 'em in jail.” ~ Graham Platner
Says the #NippleNazi who went to a $75,000 a year prep school and receives campaign donations from billionaires George Soros, Pat Stryker, Jon Stryker & Jennifer Pritzker. @grahamformaine
https://t.co/TLO4bg3fCD
Judicial Watch’s new lawsuit alleges at least 873,000 inactive names remain on CA voter rolls. Officials aren’t maintaining the lists and ballots are still sent out. It’s an invitation for fraud that undermines confidence in election outcomes. @TomFitton
https://t.co/267JQBEM21
Who didn’t see this coming? Raman has magically pulled almost even with Pratt—only 7500 votes behind and likely to pull ahead in the next ballot dump. She’s wildly over performing in the after Election Day count.
A complete forensic audit of this race is a start. This system that allows the Democrats to see how many votes they need on election night, and then allows weeks to magically fabricate those votes is CORRUPT. The whole thing wreaks.
This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.
Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.
It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.
One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.
Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.
🚨 $29 BILLION GREEN ENERGY SCAM JUST GOT CRIMINALLY REFERRED TO THE DOJ
EPA Chief Lee Zeldin just exposed the biggest self-dealing heist of the Obama-Biden era.
They funneled $29 BILLION in “green energy grants” straight to:
✴️Former cabinet secretaries
✴️Democrat donors
✴️Political activists
…including Stacey Abrams
Your tax dollars—their pockets.
Zeldin didn’t just talk — he’s already filed multiple criminal referrals.
This wasn’t a “mistake.”
This was organized theft from American taxpayers to bankroll their elite buddies.
ENOUGH.
Lock them up.
Claw back every dime.
Drain the swamp for real this time.
🇺🇸Trump’s EPA is cleaning house.
RT if you want every single crook prosecuted and your money returned