Graham Whitley

Proud Christian, husband, father, Anderson Alum, Clemson fan, Braves fan, American.

[Graham Whitley @gwhit4395]

@IWCorriher It puts more people in greater danger by not finishing the game

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Our state. 🌴

[Clemson Football @ClemsonFB]

Win the State 🐅✅

[Fore Play @ForePlayPod]

ONE OF THE GREATEST SHOTS IN GOLF HISTORY.

[The Masters @TheMasters]

Rory McIlroy is the Masters champion. #themasters

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Poised to make eagle. Rory McIlroy goes for glory on No. 15. #themasters

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THAT’S AN ALL-TIME SHOT BY RORY MCILROY

[Graham Whitley @gwhit4395]

Some season/off season thoughts:
-They never quit time & time again
-Down year and still a conference championship
-Wes HAS to go
-Keep this core together and find a couple pieces (punter, secondary depth)
-convince Adam Randall to stay & convert to RB

Go Tigers!

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The last 16 seconds… Titanic version 🐅

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ANOTHER!
CLEMSON!
CHAMPIONSHIP!

#GoTigers || @ClemsonFB

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NOLAN HAUSER JUST CALLED GAME FOR @ClemsonFB!!!

[Clemson Football @ClemsonFB]

The Clemson Tigers are the 2024 ACC CHAMPIONS!

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For all the fans of “It’s A Wonderful Life” and Jimmy Stewart . . .

Just months after winning his 1941 Academy Award for best actor in “The Philadelphia Story,” Jimmy Stewart, one of the best-known actors of the day, left Hollywood and joined the US Army. He was the first big-name movie star to enlist in World War II.

An accomplished private pilot, the 33-year-old Hollywood icon became a US Army Air Force aviator, earning his 2nd Lieutenant commission in early 1942. With his celebrity status and huge popularity with the American public, he was assigned to starring in recruiting films, attending rallies, and training younger pilots.

Stewart, however, wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to fly combat missions in Europe, not spend time in a stateside training command. By 1944, frustrated and feeling the war was passing him by, he asked his commanding officer to transfer him to a unit deploying to Europe. His request was reluctantly granted.

Stewart, now a Captain, was sent to England, where he spent the next 18 months flying B-24 Liberator bombers over Germany. Throughout his time overseas, the US Army Air Corps' top brass had tried to keep the popular movie star from flying over enemy territory. But Stewart would hear nothing of it.
Determined to lead by example, he bucked the system, assigning himself to every combat mission he could. By the end of the war he was one of the most respected and decorated pilots in his unit.
But his wartime service came at a high personal price.

In the final months of WWII he was grounded for being “flak happy,” today called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

When he returned to the US in August 1945, Stewart was a changed man. He had lost so much weight that he looked sickly. He rarely slept, and when he did he had nightmares of planes exploding and men falling through the air screaming (in one mission alone his unit had lost 13 planes and 130 men, most of whom he knew personally).

He was depressed, couldn’t focus, and refused to talk to anyone about his war experiences. His acting career was all but over.

As one of Stewart's biographers put it, "Every decision he made [during the war] was going to preserve life or cost lives. He took back to Hollywood all the stress that he had built up.”

In 1946 he got his break. He took the role of George Bailey, the suicidal father in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The rest is history.

Actors and crew of the set realized that in many of the disturbing scenes of George Bailey unraveling in front of his family, Stewart wasn’t acting. His PTSD was being captured on film for potentially millions to see.

But despite Stewart's inner turmoil, making the movie was therapeutic for the combat veteran. He would go on to become one of the most accomplished and loved actors in American history.

When asked in 1941 why he wanted to leave his acting career to fly combat missions over Nazi Germany, he said, "This country's conscience is bigger than all the studios in Hollywood put together, and the time will come when we'll have to fight.”
This weekend, as many of us watch the classic Christmas film, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” it’s also a fitting time to remember the sacrifices of Jimmy Stewart and all the men who gave up so much to serve their country during wartime. We will always remember you!

Postscript:

While fighting in Europe, Stewart's Oscar statue was proudly displayed in his father’s Pennsylvania hardware store. Throughout his life, the beloved actor always said his father, a World War I veteran, was the person who had made the biggest impact on him.

Jimmy Stewart was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 and died in 1997 at the age of 89.
H/T @mustangmarine

[Austin Pendergist @apthirteen]

Flag: planted
Revenge: complete

[Graham Whitley @gwhit4395]

OUR STATE.

[Clemson Football @ClemsonFB]

Under a Carolina sky, the Clemson Tigers win.

[Austin Pendergist @apthirteen]

If you've spent any time in this state or around this rivalry, you know how much this one means.

Beat South Carolina.

[Clemson Football @ClemsonFB]

There is no place like Clemson, South Carolina.

[Graham Whitley @gwhit4395]

This. Everyday and twice on Sunday.

[Clemson Addict (3-1, 2-0) @Clemson_Addict]

There should not be a single former player of Dabo’s on staff.

Eason, who didn’t play under Dabo, is the only former Clemson player that got his job based on coaching experience and merit

[The Clemson House @TheClemsonHouse]

If your name isn't Nick Eason, Wes Goodwin, Mike Reed, Mickey Conn, or Dabo Swinney you better start getting realtors on retainer.

You're gonna be on the move come November 26th

[Graham Whitley @gwhit4395]

Been quite a while since I’ve been here but my frustrations are boiling over… the Tigers have A LOT of issues but this guy is where many of them start

[The Clemson House @TheClemsonHouse]

Send this liability to the shadow realm