Kou Aurelius

[Radix Verum ☦︎ @NotRadix]

First episode of my series on Jim Keith's "Casebook on the Men in Black"

https://t.co/ImTP34YbLA

[CZ Firearms @CZ_Firearms]

The original CZ 75 Legend is back! Because Legends run forever!

[Kou Aurelius @KouAurelius]

With the proper soundtrack.

[Gaming NextDoor @GamingNextDoor]

Frieza destroying Earth has to be one of the biggest rage quits in Dragon Ball history. 😭💀

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name.

He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World War he went to France and was gassed and badly wounded at Soissons leading his men. That same summer his younger brother Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France. Ted came home with lungs and a leg that never fully recovered, and before he even left Europe he helped found the American Legion so that ordinary soldiers would have someone looking out for them.

Between the wars he did almost everything. Governor of Puerto Rico. Governor General of the Philippines. Businessman, explorer, writer. He could have spent the Second World War safe behind a desk. Instead, at 54, arthritic and walking with a cane, he talked his way back into uniform and into combat.

By 1943 he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily under Terry Allen, and their loose, unpolished, soldier-first style rubbed General Patton the wrong way. Patton had them both relieved of command. Roosevelt didn't sulk. He asked for another job, any job, as long as it kept him near the fighting. They made him assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division.

Then came D-Day. He hid a heart condition from the Army doctors. He wrote to his commander three separate times, in writing, begging to go in with the very first wave rather than watch from a ship. He was the only general to land in the first wave on any beach that morning, the oldest man in the invasion, walking through machine gun fire with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other.

The boats came in a mile off course. Officers froze. Roosevelt limped up and down the beach under fire, studied the ground, and said, "We'll start the war from right here." Then he spent the morning waving men forward and sorting out the chaos so calmly that terrified 20 year olds looked at this old man with a cane and decided that if he wasn't scared, they wouldn't be either.

His son Quentin, named for the uncle killed in the last war, landed at Omaha Beach the same morning. They were the only father and son to come ashore together on D-Day.

He died a month later. A heart attack in his sleep. And here is the part that gets me. On the very day he died, the orders had just come through promoting him to major general and giving him his own division. He never saw the paperwork. He never knew he'd earned the Medal of Honor either.

At his funeral his pallbearers were seven of the most famous generals of the war, Bradley, Hodges, Collins, Barton, Huebner, and George Patton. The same Patton who had fired him. Patton wrote in his diary that Roosevelt was one of the bravest men he had ever known.

Years later Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic thing he witnessed in all of World War II. He didn't pause. He said, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

[Kou Aurelius @KouAurelius]

@LizzyLuvsToons I've gotta get the pro controller first. Me and the existing controls are incompatible (stupid hands 🤣)

[Radix Verum ☦︎ @NotRadix]

My lastest video

https://t.co/Lvug6EQiY9

[Kou Aurelius @KouAurelius]

@ExoDust7755 Same. I've modded mine to kingdom come, it's still amazing.

[Kou Aurelius @KouAurelius]

@LizzyLuvsToons That looks like fun. Would be awesome for my desk at work.

[Kou Aurelius @KouAurelius]

One of my guilty pleasure movies. Saw it in the theater and loved it. Been too long since I rewatched.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the film that made Connery call it quits, turns 23 today. This steampunk “literary Avengers” with Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll, Mina Harker, and more was ahead of the curve. This transformation still looks great.

[Kou Aurelius @KouAurelius]

@AutismCapital Oh man I forgot about this one

[JeNiSe (ジェニス) ن 🍥 @geekyjenise]

OK! I figured out how to have money sent to my PayPal so that’s what I’m using from now on. I appreciate the help and I know my parents are thankful. Medicine is too expensive especially if your parents both went to the hospital like 4 months apart and now you’re stuck with their bills. Honestly, I am so appreciative to those of you who have donated or will donate. I literally wouldn’t have been able to pay for anything yesterday were it not for your help. Thank you. I truly hate asking but I don’t know what else to do or who to go to….

[INDYCAR Racing The Game @indycargame]

INDYCAR Racing The Game, the highly anticipated official standalone INDYCAR video game developed by iRacing Studios is set to launch in early 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox consoles, and PC via Steam!

[Kou Aurelius @KouAurelius]

@NotRadix That looks delish

[Kou Aurelius @KouAurelius]

@LizzyLuvsToons

[Kou Aurelius @KouAurelius]

@LizzyLuvsToons It's lovely. The only foe that truly conquered The Prince.

[Kou Aurelius @KouAurelius]

@NotRadix Right on time to keep the bs going