Peggy Keith

Vegetarian cancer survivor, wife, mom, dog mom, knitter and news junkie.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

My true book, read by me. Free. Short. About death, nature, & the uncanny. You will love.

The Stones, the Crows, the Grass, the Moon (Missing collection) - Kindle edition by Kirn, Walter. Health, Fitness & Dieting Kindle eBooks @ https://t.co/DRukiMYAoC. https://t.co/u032y1swY3

[Peggy Keith @m4keith]

@walterkirn Great book!

[Peggy Keith @m4keith]

@HarmeetKDhillon I officially have “yarn winder envy” 🧶➰❤️

[County Highway @countyhwy]

Live in or around Wichita? Can you find this billboard? If so, take a picture and we’ll send you a prize.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Shouldn’t we all be beyond angry that 250,000 non-citizens are on the voter rolls in just 4 states alone — CA, NJ, NV, & PA?

[County Highway @countyhwy]

https://t.co/QA1oZAgI9v

Read our in-depth reporting on the Point Reyes scandal. Over a year ago — and still unmatched.

[Gordon @gorcampbell]

I set up a sting operation to find out who is nicking my milk as it's been stolen for 3 weeks in a row. Milkgate mystery solved. I got them on camera.

If you see them around, let them know they've been rumbled.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

He told his students to go to the windows.
Get out. Jump if you have to.
Then Liviu Librescu walked to the classroom door and pressed his body against it.
He was 76 years old. He weighed 140 lbs
The gunman was in the hallway.
It was April 16, 2007. A Monday morning. Solid mechanics class at Virginia Tech, Room 204. Twenty-two students, most of them 19 or 20 years old.
At 9:45 AM, gunshots echoed through Norris Hall. Room by room, the shooter was working his way down the corridor.
Liviu heard it. He understood immediately.
He had survived the Holocaust. He had survived a labor camp. He had spent decades living under Communist oppression. He knew exactly what evil sounded like.
He told his students to escape through the windows. Second floor — it was a drop, but they'd survive. Then he walked to the door and held it shut with his body.
The shooter tried to force it open. It wouldn't move.
He fired through the door. Wood splintered. Bullets came through.
Liviu stayed.
Behind him, students were climbing out the windows. Dropping to the ground. Running. One by one, all twenty-two of them got out.
The shooter kept firing through the door.
Liviu held it shut until every student was safe.
Then the bullets killed him.
When police arrived, they found his body at the door.
All 22 of his students survived. Not one was injured.
Liviu Librescu was born on August 18, 1930, in Ploiești, Romania.
He was Jewish. In 1941, when he was eleven years old, Romanian authorities sent him and his family to a labor camp. His father died there. Liviu survived. When the war ended, he was fifteen.
He went back to school. Studied engineering. Earned a doctorate from the University of Bucharest.
But Communist Romania had no interest in allowing a Jewish intellectual to succeed. He was blocked from academic positions. Passed over for jobs he deserved. He applied to emigrate. The government kept refusing.
Finally, in 1978 when Liviu was 48 years old — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened. Romania let him go.
He had spent most of his adult life trapped in a country that didn't want him.
In Israel, he taught at Tel Aviv University. Published over 300 papers. Became an international expert in aeroelasticity — the science of how air flows over aircraft wings.
In 1985, Virginia Tech offered him a position. He moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. He taught there for 22 years. His students loved him — demanding but kind, high standards, genuine care.
He was still teaching full-time at 76. Still publishing research. Still showing up every Monday morning for solid mechanics.
April 16 was the first day of Passover — the Jewish holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and oppression.
Liviu Librescu died on the day his tradition sets aside to celebrate freedom.
He spent his entire life escaping death and oppression by luck, by persistence, by the intervention of others. And on his last morning, he chose to stand at a door so that twenty-two young people could have the future he had fought so hard to reach.
He could have run. He could have hidden. He could have climbed out a window with his students.
He chose to stay.
The Virginia Tech shooting killed 32 people that day — the deadliest school shooting in American history at the time.
Room 204 had zero casualties.
Because a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor held a door with his body until every student behind him was gone.
His funeral was held in Israel. Students from Virginia Tech flew across the ocean to honor him. The Israeli government awarded him the Star of David Medal posthumously. Virginia Tech named a scholarship in his memory.
His son said his father died the way he lived — protecting others.
A man who survived everything evil threw at him for 76 years.
On his last day, he made sure 22 kids survived too.
Professor Liviu Librescu. August 18, 1930 — April 16, 2007.
Holocaust survivor. Labor camp survivor.
302 published papers. 22 years at Virginia Tech.
22 students out the window.
He held the door.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

Firefighters and college football players showed up to a Tennessee senior home...to pull grandmas and grandpas down a MASSIVE slip 'n slide!!!

Seniors with dementia and Parkinson's laughed like little kids again.

This is the annual "Ride 'n Slide" at Adams Place in Murfreesboro, Tennessee where a giant tarp is stretched across the lawn and the Murfreesboro Fire Department keeps it soaked and lifts residents safely on and off.

The Middle Tennessee State football team spent their day pulling grandmas across the water on inner tubes and cheering them on every single ride.

One resident, Mike Mitchell, an Army veteran and a retired minister who preached for SIXTY YEARS, talked himself into it right there on the lawn.

One grandma went down FOUR times and came up smiling saying, "Well that was fast!"

Organizers say the residents with dementia and Parkinson's light up brightest of all.

For one afternoon, no diagnoses, no age, just water, laughter, and people cheering your name.

That's so amazing...

GOD BLESS THESE PEOPLE!!!! 🇺🇸

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Isn’t it weird how unsubsidized consumer goods like TVs, appliances, clothes, all get cheaper and cheaper…while anything government puts its hands on, healthcare, housing, food, tuition, cars, utilities…just gets more and more unaffordable?

Oh well. Probably nothing.

[Peggy Keith @m4keith]

@iamrodneysmith Totally awesome! Keep on keeping on Braden! This is something to be very proud of! 🙌🏻

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@olivegarden Olive Garden implemented the SAVE America Act more quickly than the US Senate.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Imagine this: you get paid by our tax dollars and you don’t even show up to do your job when it involves our tax dollars being stolen.

Wtf are these people doing in office if they don’t even care about our money being stolen and wasted? They are simply working against us.

[Peggy Keith @m4keith]

@guypbenson @brithume I am so sorry! My mom is the in advanced stage of dementia. It is indeed a cruel disease, but we can find ways, however small, to bring comfort, joy and beauty to their days. Your mom is lucky to have you!

[Second Lady Usha Vance @SLOTUS]

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[Xeriland @Xeriland]

The one in the mouth is the trouble maker.

[Rivers Hughey @RivsHughey]

Please imagine his wife’s face when he tell her he needs new clubs because “a bear stole them”

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is the full 53 minutes of my crew and I exposing New York fraud, we uncovered over $190,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters use the elderly and needy to commit fraud through adult and personal home care scams in NYC. Your tax dollars are paying for elderly Koreans and Chinese to play ping pong and do tai chi, while the fraudsters give $ kickbacks to those who enroll. Like it and share this video, the fraud must STOP.

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for fraudsters to steal from our pockets. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians. Time is up.

EXPOSE IT ALL AND END THE FRAUD.