Hank

Proud member of the Gator Nation living in Tennessee. ☕️and🥃addict, 4 daughter dad❤️, here for the noise. Reds ⚾️, Gators🐊🇺🇸🏈✝️

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@nunyabizz6773 Hey Tracy, it’s been too long. Haven’t seen you in a while thanks to my X feed.

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@miles_commodore Right after my dad got transferred, this was my first movie at the base theater at Camp Darby.

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😂😂😂😂brilliant

[RedAlways @PATRIOT2117]

Hilarious!🤣🤣🤣

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Hard pass

[john jackson @pvtjokerus]

Tell me again how I need to watch today’s NBA.

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I’m impressed

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

This has got to be the most incredible thing I will see today. Look at her GO!

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@RedmanT72 Happy Thursday back at you Red

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@dianeFLnative Happy Birthday!!!🎁🎈🎂

[Christopher Dyer 🐊🐊🐊 @CD3Gator]

“Inheritance is what you leave for someone, Legacy is what you leave in someone.”
@TimTebow
There might not be a more Gracious & Appreciative human being than Tebow.
Today’s #ThankfulThursday Tribute goes out to Tim & the work he’s doing to make the world a better place. 🙏🏼🌎

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

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@Jules_Atkinson Beautiful Julie…makes me want to be there.

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@LAfromLINY

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

JJ BLEMAY

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Two days ago we lost an American hero. His name was Bruce Crandall, and this is his story 🇺🇸

Before he was a legend, Bruce Crandall was a kid from Olympia, Washington, born in 1933, an All-American high school baseball player who joined the National Guard at 15. The Army drafted him in 1953, trained him as an engineer, then put him in a cockpit. His first real job as a pilot was mapping the parts of the world nobody had charted yet, flying for two years over the open desert of Libya, then over thousands of square miles of unmapped mountains and jungle in Central and South America. He married Arlene in 1956. They would raise three sons. He spent the early part of his career flying toward empty places. Then Vietnam asked him to fly toward the worst one.

Sixty years ago, in a clearing called LZ X-Ray, roughly 450 American soldiers were surrounded by an enemy force several times their size. The shooting was so heavy the medevac helicopters turned back. Landing meant dying.

Bruce Crandall made a different choice.

He was a 32-year-old major flying an unarmed Huey. No guns. No armor that mattered. Just a thin aluminum shell and a decision. He pointed the nose at the hottest piece of ground in the war and went in anyway, with his wingman Ed "Too Tall" Freeman right behind him.

Then he did it again. And again. Twenty-two times in a single day.

He flew in the ammunition and water that kept the men alive. He flew out more than 70 wounded soldiers, loading them while rounds punched through the airframe, the cargo bay slick with other men's blood. Each run he could have stopped. Nobody would have blamed him. He kept his word to the men on the ground instead: you will be resupplied, and if you fall, we are coming for you.

He never fired a shot all day. He saved dozens of lives with nothing but nerve and a helicopter.

The men called him "Snake." He went back for a second tour and was shot down in January 1968, this time by friendly bombs falling too close. By the end of the war he had flown more than 900 combat missions.

Then he did something quieter that almost nobody talks about. He went home and lived an ordinary life. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1977, earned a master's degree, ran a small California town as its city manager, and spent 17 years in the Public Works Department in Mesa, Arizona, fixing roads and keeping the water running. The man who once flew through a wall of fire spent his later years making sure the streetlights worked.

It took 40 years for the country to catch up to what he did at X-Ray. In 2007, President Bush hung the Medal of Honor around his neck. If you saw We Were Soldiers, that was him on screen, Greg Kinnear in the cockpit, though the real man was braver than any movie could hold.

Col. Bruce "Snake" Crandall died on May 31, 2026, at 93 years old. He outlived the war, the doubts, and most of the men who watched him come screaming back into that valley when no one else would.

Some heroes carry a rifle. This one carried the wounded home, then went back to work like it was nothing.

Rest easy, Snake. We have it from here.

In honor of Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall (1933-2026), the best of us and a true American hero. We won't forget you 🇺🇸

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@Jules_Atkinson Beautiful Julie

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@Hot_Pepper76

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@GenX_audiophile .

[Florida Gators Baseball @GatorsBB]

New season starts now.

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[Florida Gators @FloridaGators]

national alligator day 🙂‍↕️ celebrate accordingly

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@CD3Gator @volgirl07 As a poet from Gainesville once said “ the waiting is the hardest part.” 🎼