Meet 38-year-old Bonnie Pierce. She ran out of her burning home in St. Paul last week, only to realize her toddler was still inside. Without hesitation, she ran back in.
Firefighters found her 15 minutes later unresponsive on the floor of her burning house, her body wrapped around her baby’s. She didn’t make it. Her daughter did.
Since everyone seems to have forgotten, THIS is what a good mom looks like.
For the next 12 days, I’m going to tell the story of Benghazi.
Not just what happened during those 13 hours on September 11 and 12, 2012.
I’m going back before that night.
Back to the warnings, back to the attacks that had already happened.
Back to what was going on in Benghazi months before 4 Americans were killed.
Some of what I’m going to share is already documented in congressional investigations and government records.
Some of it comes from people who have spent years digging into what happened afterward.
And some of it I know for one simple reason.
I was there.
I was serving on the CIA’s GRS Annex Security Team in Benghazi in 2012.
I was there while the security situation was getting worse.
I was there when the U.S. compound was attacked months before September 11.
I was there while Benghazi was becoming more dangerous and the warning signs kept piling up.
And on September 11, 2012, I was there when all of it came crashing down.
This isn’t about reopening some old political argument.
It’s about telling the story in the order it actually happened and remembering the 4 Americans who never came home because of OUR failed government and policies.
Ambassador Chris Stevens
Sean Smith
Tyrone “Rone” Woods
Glen “Bub” Doherty
Tomorrow I’m starting at the beginning.
September 1.
Day 1 of 12.
12 Days of Benghazi.
#12DaysOfBenghazi #Benghazi #13Hours #NeverForget #HonorTheFallen
Alabama ICU nurses buy an inflatable pool to fulfill a dying patient's final wish: to be baptized.
Three Huntsville Hospital ICU nurses say they were going to stop at nothing to fulfill Jeannie Guffey's wish of being baptized.
"It was just a really sweet, emotional moment. The nurses went above and beyond to make this happen at the 11th hour when we were running out of options," Guffey's daughter-in-law said.
Guffey passed away peacefully one week later.
What a beautiful story.
While we wait on the verdict, I want to keep remembering who this case is really about.
This is Dawson. ❤️
A little boy with a backpack, a smile, a whole personality, and an entire life that should have been ahead of him.
There will be endless arguments about Lindsay Clancy, mental health, experts, medications, and what the jury decides.
He is a victim in this tragedy. His own mother who was supposed to be his protector, murdered him.
So while we’re on verdict watch, I’m going to continue to keep putting the children at the center.
Dawson. Cora. Callan. Remember their names. They are the victims.
If you are the sort of republican who is saying today that you are cool with taking down Stonewall Jackson’s statue because he served in the confederate army, just know, they are coming after Thomas Jefferson and George Washington too.
And you have given them every bit of the justification that they are going to use to tear those down next.
If Lindsay Clancy is found innocent because hormones made her emotionally unstable, women better be very careful celebrating that verdict.
Because the law loves PRECEDENT.
From that day forward, every job application is going to have a new question:
“Are you currently hormonal?”
“Well, I’m a woman.”
“Thank you. I think we’ll be going in another direction.”
You can’t carry a weapon anymore. No female police officers. Sorry, but we cannot hand a loaded gun to somebody whose legal defense might eventually be, “My hormones were acting up.”
No more high-stress jobs, either. No air-traffic controllers. No surgeons. No nuclear-launch codes. One bad hot flash and boom 💥 Canada is glowing.
And women definitely can’t be judges. How can you decide whether somebody else is emotionally stable when your own gender just established in court that hormones can make you kill three people?
No female politicians, either. You can’t be trusted to run the country if, according to your own argument, your endocrine system occasionally takes over the government.
And custody hearings are going to change overnight.
The judge will say, “Ordinarily, children belong with their mother. However, according to the Lindsay Clancy precedent, she may be only one hormone away from a Netflix documentary. The children go with Dad.”
Dad doesn’t know their shoe sizes, the pediatrician’s name or which one is allergic to peanuts, but his testosterone has never been successfully used as an insanity defense.
Feminists spent a hundred years saying women are not hysterical, irrational creatures controlled by their biology and one defense attorney walks into court and says, “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury… have you considered the uterus?”
You cannot demand equal authority and then ask for discounted accountability.
If women want equal rights, great. But equal rights come with equal wrongs.
Otherwise, that glass ceiling is about to become a padded ceiling.
This is so disappointing that Goodwill
would not let go of one pair of donated
shoes for a homeless woman when asked by a police officer.
We have donated many goods to
Goodwill over the years, and may have
to re think who we donate to.
I have tagged @GoodwillIntl here.
Devastating news from Nigeria as more Christian pastors slaughtered by Muslim terrorists while the Church stays silent & the majority of Christians across the world do nothing.
I have the worst news…
Sadly, 29-year-old Chris DeLong, a police officer in Columbia SC, father of 2 and husband, has been k*lled in the line of duty.
He was responding to a call involving a violent, repeat offender who was arrested across 3 states.
His widow is devastated.
In her words:
“i can't find the energy to respond to everyone right now. i'm living a nightmare. this will be the last post I'll be making for until I can understand what I am going through.
I am heart broken. My person. My love. The best dad to our babies and the person I've been with since I was 16 was killed today in the line of duty.
someone's selfish decisions took away the one person I loved and i knew I would always have, and my babies now have to grow up with their daddy.
i can't process this. i want to wake up from this. I can't respond to everyone but i needed to take a minute to update everyone.
I'm going through every stage of grief while also still remembering there's two babies having to go through this as well.
I'm pissed. I'm heartbroken. I'm everything. Somebody wake me up. I've never had to be without Chris.
I'm going to figure this out because I have to live for my babies. I am not okay. I need Chris. I need my person. I need him!! I love you Chris. I need you.”
Please pray for her and Chris’s kids… I cannot imagine what they are going through.
Remember Mark Houck?
Pro-life father of seven.
FBI agents smashed through his door at dawn in 2022, guns drawn, arrested him in front of his wife and kids — all because Biden’s DOJ wanted to make an example of him.
He just won a 7-figure settlement from the Department of Justice.
Injustice just became sweet justice.
#MarkHouck #ProLife #DOJ #FACEAct #BidenDOJ
Somewhere along the way between all the podcats, the debates, the in-fighting, and the e-drama we lost sight of the fact that a good man was murdered and robbed from our nation and his family decades too soon
This wasn’t some news cycle
Charlie was killed
Cora was five. That is the detail that stays with you.
Unlike Dawson, who was three, or Callan, who was eight months old and still lived in a world of warmth, milk, and faces that meant safety, Cora had already crossed the threshold where a child begins to understand. She knew her mother’s voice. She knew the person strangling her was supposed to protect her.
In her final terrifying moments she would have understood that something was terribly wrong. The person she trusted most had become the source of her terror. A five year old can recognize danger, feel the shift from comfort to threat, and look into a familiar face that no longer matches the love she expected. That sudden, complete betrayal is almost unbearable to imagine. Horrifying.
Dawson and Callan were spared that knowledge. Cora was not. She was old enough to know what was happening, and that knowledge makes her death twice a brutal.
Justice for Cora, Dawson, and Callan.
The news will tell you of a newborn who died of measles. They blame it on not getting the measles vaccines.
We don't vaccinate for measles until 12 months old.
These people do nothing except lie.
This is Dawson William Clancy. 💙 He was only 3 years old.
During Dawson’s autopsy testimony, Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Olson described trauma to his neck and petechial hemorrhaging inside his mouth, around his eyes and across his face. She described a horizontal ligature furrow around his neck, along with abrasions associated with it.
The prosecutor specifically pointed out that the petechial hemorrhaging across Dawson’s face appeared darker and more extensive than what was seen on his sister Cora.
Dr. Olson agreed: the hemorrhaging was more prominent in Dawson.
She explained that this indicated there were moments during the compression when blood was able to push through, causing increases in pressure and additional hemorrhaging.
When prosecutors asked what could cause that movement, Dr. Olson explained that it could come from movement of the ligature, movement of the person handling the ligature — or movement of Dawson himself.
Reporting from the courtroom summarized her testimony as saying Dawson’s hemorrhaging could have resulted from him struggling or from changes in the pressure of the ligature.
That testimony is incredibly difficult to hear when you remember we are talking about a 3-year-old little boy.
And then there is a Facebook post Lindsay made about Dawson years earlier.
When Dawson was 19 months old, Lindsay wrote in a parenting group:
“My 19-month-old is the most difficult human I have ever encountered.”
She went on to say that she meant it with love but couldn’t make it through a day without becoming frustrated with him and wrote:
“EVERY. SINGLE. THING. with him is a battle.”
She described battles over diaper changes, getting dressed, putting on shoes and a jacket, and getting in and out of his car seat. She wrote that he fought her “every step of the way.”
Knowing what ultimately happened to this little boy makes those words extraordinarily difficult to read now.
Dawson wasn’t a diagnosis.
He wasn’t a piece of evidence.
He wasn’t simply “one of the Clancy children.”
He was Dawson.
He was 3 years old.
He deserved birthdays, first days of school, scraped knees, Christmas mornings, baseball games, teenage years and an entire lifetime that he never got to have.
Whatever verdict comes back in this case, please don’t let the person on trial become more important than the children whose lives were taken.
Remember Dawson William Clancy.