Mother B

It's always darkest before everything goes pitch black.

[Mother B @mabennett1982]

It took years of hard work and dedication, but I finally closed on a house 😊🎉

[e-beth @ebeth360]

it took years of hard work and dedication, but i finally closed on a house 😊🎉

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 6, 1944, a 56-year-old general with a secret walked onto Utah Beach under fire, armed with a cane and a pistol.

The secret: his heart was failing. He had hidden it from the army doctors so they wouldn't pull him from the mission.

His name was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Son of the President. He had begged three separate times to lead the first wave ashore at Normandy before his commanders finally said yes.

When his landing craft drifted 2,000 yards off course, every instinct said redirect the following waves to the correct zone. Instead, Roosevelt walked the beach himself, alone, under artillery fire, cane in hand, reading the terrain.

His verdict: "We'll start the war from right here."

He then stood on that beach and personally greeted every regiment that landed after him, pointing them inland, cracking jokes under shellfire, steadying 18-year-olds who had never seen combat. He did this for hours.

Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic act he had ever witnessed in combat.

His answer, without hesitation: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

Roosevelt's son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, also landed at Normandy that same morning. He was named after his uncle, Quentin Roosevelt, who had been shot down as a fighter pilot over France in World War I.

Three generations. Three wars. One family.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep 36 days later. Heart attack. The thing he had been hiding finally won. He never learned he had been awarded the Medal of Honor.

He was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery.

In 1955, his family had his brother Quentin, killed in WWI, exhumed from where he fell in France and reinterred right beside him. Quentin is the only World War I soldier buried there.

Two brothers. Two world wars. The same French soil.

Their father had once said: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Both of his sons did exactly that.

[Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP]

If anyone can take down LSU’s record for Jell-O shots, it’s you.

I believe in you. Have a time, Mountaineers.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

One of the greatest speeches of the late 20th century, given on the 40th anniversary of one of the most spectacular days in human history.

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

That’s a series W!

#BravesCountry

[Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered]

Auburn Board Takes Full Curricular Control, Dissolves Faculty Senate

The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared... https://t.co/zi9CHBa9n6

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

The Chapo guys (except the one who had the stroke), AOC, Mamdani, Platner, ‘Claire Valdez,’ etc. - they all have the same bios:

They come from affluent backgrounds and have educated and/ or wealthy parents but are downwardly mobile, they fail to launch and then find a foothold in leftist politics.

[Judge Glock @judgeglock]

Wait Graham Platner got a 100% disability rating from the VA? Why isn’t that the biggest scandal of the whole campaign?

In another era a clearly healthy young man running around with the same rating as a paralyzed veteran would be an outrage even if he wasn’t running for Senate

[Mother B @mabennett1982]

@ebeth360 Throw hay over the top of it

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

NEW: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) tells colleague @kayleighmcenany live on @FoxNews that if Graham Platner can prove all of the people he was chatting with on Kik & “sending dick pics to” were adults and there were no minors, he will wear a suit every day.

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Mother B @mabennett1982]

@ebeth360 @Stillsmack @KiKi1185 @DesiFlurane @danielp_reid Round 2 for #MinionsHappyHour

[Mother B @mabennett1982]

@ebeth360 @Stillsmack @KiKi1185 @DesiFlurane @danielp_reid Let's try some TN IPAs for #MinionsHappyHour

Round 1

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

Put a W in the books!

#BravesCountry

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

The water is ON, the Reflecting Pool is reflecting, and D.C. is looking better than ever.

We are so back. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP. 🇺🇸

[Mother B @mabennett1982]

@redsteeze https://t.co/yEnxm1Y3wc

[Mother B @mabennett1982]

Baseball is awesome.

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

Welcome back, Big Bear!

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

👇

[TraderJill (Leigh) @RealTraderJill]

Dear @McJuggerNuggets,

You just asked the world for empathy and sympathy because you aborted your unborn baby because you found out he had Downs Syndrome.

I'm not sure if this is some sick humiliation ritual, or you and your wife are simply dead inside, but I'd like to show you what you just ended for the sake of convenience:

[James Lee Bright Law @JLBrightLaw]

All it took was a female abusing, Nazi tattooed, veteran hating, nepo baby fake oyster fishing, Porto potty masturbating, rape shaming dude from Maine to finally kill the MeToo movement. And surprise, surprise it was the Left that killed it in pursuit of power.

Who’d a’ guessed?