Mac Purvis Jr

Energy Distribution company owner, aviation enthusiast, Rotarian, Lehigh grad, Softball fan, founder Pittsburgh Curling Club

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Hello Senator....

This November it will be 50 years since you were first elected to Congress, so we want to be the first to say .

"Happy 50th Anniversary of drawing a taxpayer funded salary."

That is quite an achievement.

In fact - you are 2nd longest-still serving member in Congress.

It has been a long time since you held a private sector job.

AND yes 50 years ago - in 1976 (it was America's Bicentennial that year) - people still punched clocks back then. The world has changed a lot.

During your 50 years in Congress - you watched as the creators and inventors and producers changed the world, creating trillions in new wealth, millions of new jobs and dramatically raising living standards for everyone rich and poor alike.

And for 50 years you have voted to raise taxes and regulate and oversee every move of the private sector.

You have never created or invented or produced. Just taxed and regulated and outraged.

But thank you for using the platform the "TRILLIONAIRE class" has provided to the entire world for free to tell us all how disgusted you are.

We would never know otherwise.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

Most people know the Army stormed Normandy. The Navy bombarded the shore. The Air Force owned the sky.

Nobody thinks about the Coast Guard.

They should.

The United States Coast Guard is not a combat force. Their entire purpose, the reason they exist, is to save people from the sea. They are trained to swim into storms, to pull drowning sailors from sinking ships, to run toward disaster when everyone else is running away.

On June 6, 1944, the Germans gave them more drowning men than they had ever seen in their lives.

The Coast Guard brought 800 men to Normandy. Five major assault transports were USCG-crewed. Eleven tank landing ships. Twenty-four troop carriers running soldiers directly onto Omaha and Utah Beaches. The USS Bayfield served as the command ship for the entire Utah Beach sector, the nerve center through which an entire army was directed ashore. The USS Samuel Chase led the assault group landing the 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One, onto the eastern flank of Omaha.

But the thing almost nobody knows about is Rescue Flotilla One.

60 small Coast Guard cutters, nicknamed Matchbox ships because of how easily they burned, were assigned a single mission: pull men out of the water. As the landing craft were torn apart by German fire, as soldiers drowned in the surf under the weight of their own equipment, as wounded men on the beach were swallowed by the incoming tide, Rescue Flotilla One was already moving.

Their swimmers jumped into the Channel. Tethered to their boats by lines, they swam toward the men going under, grabbed them, and dragged them back. They did this 2,000 yards from shore. Under active German machine gun fire. Under mortar fire. Under artillery.

Again and again, all day long.

Two miles offshore a lookout spotted men from a sunken British landing craft floating in the Channel. One cutter went to them and pulled 24 soldiers and four Royal Navy sailors from the water before they went under.

One Coast Guard LCI was hit 25 times by German fire and kept going. Coxswain Delba Nivens kept driving his craft toward the beach after a grenade caught fire aboard his boat.

By the end of June 6, Rescue Flotilla One had pulled 400 men out of the sea.

400 men who would have drowned. 400 men who went home. 400 men whose families exist today because a Coast Guardsman jumped into the English Channel under machine gun fire and refused to let go.

Out of 800 Coast Guardsmen at Normandy, 15 were killed.

Every branch that fought on D-Day deserves its place in history. But the men who spent that day swimming between the dead to find the living, tethered to a burning ship with the whole weight of the German army trying to kill them, did something that has no good word for it.

They saved people. That's what they were built for.

On the worst day in the history of the sea, they were exactly who they were supposed to be.

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

🎂 Double-barrel birthday action featuring two rising sophomores! 🥳

Have a good one, Kyra and Maddie!

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

Coach Dani will be looking for future Mountain Hawks this weekend in New Jersey!

Drop those schedules ⬇️

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

Celebrating our academic success from the spring semester! 🥎📚

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

✈️ Head coach @frantroyan is headed to the west coast in search of future Mountain Hawks! Drop those schedules ⬇️

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

Another one for Kelly Fricker, who adds All-@ECACSports to an impressive sophomore ledger!

https://t.co/FOt4ODmgYg

[Adrian College Athletics @AdrianBulldogs]

Five Bulldogs From @AC_softball Earn CSC Academic All-District Team

📰 https://t.co/Euc5PTT1DM

#d3softball #GDTBAB

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

Congrats to the three Mountain Hawks named to the @CollSportsComm Academic All-District softball team!

https://t.co/G9waHWFFc6

[Mac Purvis Jr @Macpjr]

@Lehighsoftball Happy Birthday! Hope it’s a great day.

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

Celebrating senior outfielder Gracie Smith today! 🎉🎂

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

Second team all-region. Patriot League's top hitter. School record 82 hits. Kelly Fricker is our Outstanding Athlete for 2026!

[Mac Purvis Jr @Macpjr]

@BigJoeBastardi I am going with the idea he knows the intelligence and the entire country is collapsing so he can wait it out a bit more. Trump has brought back the Siege - use the military power with risking lives - Iran, Cuba - takes patience but can work

[Adrian College Athletics @AdrianBulldogs]

Taylor Gerhardt of the @AC_softball team earns First Team All-Region honors by the NFCA

📰https://t.co/zWTGnw4Ofc

#d3sb #GDTBAB

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

For the second straight year, Kelly Fricker is second team @NFCAorg All-East Region!

https://t.co/4BozgXA7ud

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fast becoming the greatest fabulist since Aesop. Her greatest work of fiction may be her claim that the Framers fought against billionaires and would have joined her and other socialists in seeking to eradicate them today.
https://t.co/6uju2cigxm

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

Another one for Peyton Sward!

At last week's University awards ceremony, Sward won the Class of 1904 Award, presented to rising seniors on the basis of character, scholarship, promise of future leadership, and extracurricular activities.

[Adrian College Athletics @AdrianBulldogs]

Gerhardt and Inskeep highlight the @AC_softball team on the All-MIAA Team

📰https://t.co/nz6WSJPcmu

#d3softball #GDTBAB

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

Juniors Holly Lovett and Peyton Sward have been named to the Academic All-Patriot League team!

https://t.co/XHufpzqd8l

[Lehigh Softball @Lehighsoftball]

𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐀𝐋𝐋-𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐓 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐆𝐔𝐄

Lehigh's middle infield duo represents the Mountain Hawks on the All-Patriot League teams!

https://t.co/Ov0rmAOjc4