Jim Zielinski

Dad, Husband, Proud Western New Yorker, Bills & Sabres fan, UB Staff Member and Alum, Student Housing Professional and Local History Buff! 🦬🇺🇸🇵🇱

[Jim Zielinski @niagarajames]

@donnyosmond Sadly Melody Fair was replaced by a Walmart!

[Donny Osmond @donnyosmond]

There’s something incredibly special about looking back on nights like this.

On June 23, 1979, I performed with my family at the Melody Fair in Tonawanda, New York. At the time, it was another stop on the road, another show to give our all to. But now, I see it for what it really was: a beautiful chapter in the story I was lucky enough to share with my brothers.

Music has taken me all over the world, but some of my favorite memories will always be the ones I made standing beside my family. 💜

[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.

[Jim Zielinski @niagarajames]

@TheCleanCarClub Malibu

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@Sandraziel88450

[Jim Zielinski @niagarajames]

@BadSpit @Sandraziel88450 we need this for the cottage 🐍

[Bad Spit @BadSpit]

In May, Festa dei Serpari (Festival of the Snake-Catchers) in Cocullo, Italy honors San Domenico, the patron saint credited with protecting locals from snakebites + toothaches.

A wooden statue of the saint is carried through the streets, draped with dozens of live snakes. If they wrap around the saint's head, it portends a good harvest; if they drop toward the arms, a bad year is feared.

[Thigh Doctor @ThighDoctor]

Fake psychic

[Matthew Barnaby @MattBarnaby3636]

What a series. Congrats to Mtl. but Buffalo be proud of this team. What a run. She happy for that city!!! Let's go Buffalo

[Circle The Wagons 2026 🦬 @AirAllen17]

NHL wants a Canadian team. It’s Buffalo vs the league, refs, broadcasters, and another country.

#LetsGoBuffalo

[Marcel Louis-Jacques @Marcel_LJ]

No!

[Carli Zielinski @carlifarley]

I want to throat punch that psychic! 😆

[Jason Woolley @jason15woolley]

Sleep well Buffalo

[Jim Zielinski @niagarajames]

@NickVeronica I missed it @Sandraziel88450

[Pat Washington @pwash86]

As I sit here, I feel zero anxiety. I only feel gratitude for what so far has been an amazing, completely unexpected, season. I think Montreal is the better team and this might be the end of the road, but damn, what a friggin ride it's been. Giv'em hell boys. Keep swinging!

[Jim Zielinski @niagarajames]

@BMaz1 Absent
Absent
Absent

[Jim Zielinski @niagarajames]

@hsimon62 @WGR550 I’ve been watching CBC and they’re more balanced than ESPN

[Sal Maiorana @salmaiorana]

Tage is back. My God that was lucky. But you know what, they deserved that after all this bullshit tonight

[Jim Zielinski @niagarajames]

@Sandraziel88450

[Luce @lucyshow11]

Admit it! You still say ‘pork chops and applesauce’ to this day!! 😅