Pam Blied

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

REAL FOOTAGE OF OMAHA BEACH | 4K COLORIZED

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

June 6, 1944

[Dan Bongino @dbongino]

The men who put country before self, and freedom before their own personal safety, deserved to be remembered today in all their glory for their remarkable heroism on D-Day.
Operations Overlord and Bodyguard were successful only because of the oceans of blood shed on those beaches by the patriots buried there. You will never be forgotten for saving humanity from the black clouds of evil that hovered over the world. Thank you patriots. 🇺🇸

[Pam Blied @pblied]

Eternally thankful

[Paul Mauro @PaulDMauro]

Look at that kid in the middle. Damn, so young. The Greatest Generation, indeed.

[Dave Scarangella @DaveScarangella]

Tonight, as I do every year at this time, I’ll be raising a glass to a scared young man, who 82 years ago was preparing to go ashore on the beaches of Normandy as part of an event code-named Operation Overlord.

D-Day.

I can’t imagine what was going through his mind. I’d be scared to death and I’m sure he was too. But in that first wave was a 21-year-old Private First Class from Henry County, VA by the name of Allen Homer Sink.

Fortunately, he would survive that initial wave, participate in battle until it ended in August, then come home to marry and raise a family of four, including two daughters after the war ended.

He would also become my father-in-law until his death in 2006.

His nickname for some reason was “Hank” and when I asked him how he got it, he said some guy in the Army said he “looked like a Hank.” From the time I first met him, he was a salt-of-the-earth man who was never afraid of anything. He was a carpenter by trade, and he’d stand up on the tallest roofs, grab bumblebees with his bare hands when they tried to persuade him to move elsewhere, and never be bothered by anything.

His hands were tough and leathery, but he was a softie. He spoiled his children, complained when my mother-in-law would gripe about something involving one of his alleged misdeeds, and always thought he was fooling everybody when he snuck around the back of the house and lit a cigarette, a habit everyone opposed but he could never part himself from.

He could talk your ear off for hours at a time, and I always suggested he become a greeter at Wal-Mart when he retired because then he could talk all day to strangers and none of them would – like his wife and daughters often did – tell him to be quiet for a few moments. Yet for all his love of talking, there was one subject he just wouldn’t discuss.

June 6, 1944. Omaha Beach.

In 1998, when he was 76 years old, the subject came up again. The movie “Saving Private Ryan” came out and the beginning was gruesome. Reviews said it was incredibly realistic to what really happened that day. I asked Hank if he wanted to go see it.

“No,” he shook his head. “I don’t ever want to see any of that again.”

He did offer that he remembered the night before when troops were loaded into the boats for the amphibious assault. He said it was raining and that once everyone was in place, they gave everybody ice cream and told them to try to get some sleep. Then the next thing he knew, they were waking everybody up telling them to stay low and head for the beach.

No, that doesn’t sound like somebody drugged the ice cream. Not at all.

That’s all he would say about the subject, and he never said another word about it until the final months of his life. Alzheimer’s would gradually rob him of his mind, and as his condition deteriorated, memories of the past would briefly spill out. One evening he thought I was his commanding officer and he was back at Normandy. It is the only time I ever saw him where he appeared to be scared. Ever.

It reminds me every day of something I had unknowingly taken for granted. The greatest generation did fight in and win World War II, then did incredible things over the next 50 to 60 years after the war. But many carried unspeakable memories from the War, ones they would never talk about and carry inside them to their graves. Those veterans lost a piece of themselves in battle they would never, ever, get back.

I mean, how can you at the tender age of 21 storm a beach, see friends die only a few feet from you, wonder each night if you will wake up alive the next morning and then return home a year later and try to pick up on the same normal life you had before you left? I told him once that after seeing “Saving Private Ryan”, I understood why he was never afraid of anything; after you’ve made it through something like that, everything else pales in comparison.

So tonight, I raise a glass to Hank and the 150,000-plus men, who like my father-in-law, were very young, very scared, and still charged that beach, paying a price that even for the survivors would last the rest of their days.

Rest In Peace...

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@LeaderJohnThune To those that call South Dakota home,

@EarlyVoteAction is hiring field staff that will ensure Senate Majority Leader Thune has a Texas-sized primary in 2028

if the SAVE America Act does NOT go into effect by this November 2026.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Senator Lisa Murkowski is the ONLY Republican Senator that did NOT vote to fully fund DHS & ICE.

Alaska, you can defeat Ranked Choice Voting this November by voting ✅ YES

“Vote YES to end the MESS.”

[Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash]

So California has been found to have:

Hospice fraud
SNAP fraud
Homeless shelter/funding fraud
Healthcare/Medicare fraud
Immigration fraud
And many other forms of fraud...

But NO voter fraud? Sure, Jan.

[Pam Blied @pblied]

@Excellentsalvic I do if it's a fair election

[Pam Blied @pblied]

@BasedMikeLee It's more important that we like you...and we do!!

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

ELECTION SHAMBLES: Newsom says "nothing to do with him."

Where's the pride and ambition? We should do everything BEST in California. Under Democrats we're a laughing stock.

Now they give us Bumbling Becerra. If he was in charge of the Olympics the 100 meters would take 6 days!

Today outside the San Mateo County Registrar of Voters I laid out my Election Count Acceleration Plan to bring this farce to a speedy conclusion.

And as governor I will bring common sense reform:
- No mail-in ballots after Election Day
- Mail-in ballots by request only
- Pre-count ballots as they come in
- Voter ID

Read the full plan below. Change is Coming! ☀️

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Finally. Some real action in California.

A top federal prosecutor just confirmed: multiple active election fraud investigations with the FBI, plus a major voter rolls audit with @AAGDhillon heading to the Ninth Circuit.

Universal mail-in ballots and no voter ID isn’t “convenience,”it’s a structural invitation to fraud that cancels out legal votes.

No more looking the other way. Every illegal ballot undermines our Republic.

Thank you, @USAttyEssayli. Clean elections or bust.

[Billy Graham @BillyGraham]

"Noah was saved because he put his trust in God. The days of Noah are returning to earth, and a catastrophe as great as the flood awaits those who refuse to enter into the ark of salvation, which is Jesus Christ." —Billy Graham

[Pam Blied @pblied]

@ChuckGrassley Ty

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

Election Shambles Update:

1. California Democrats have turned our state into a global laughing stock. India counts 600 million + ballots in a day. California counts less than 10 million in a MONTH.

2. Make sure YOUR vote is counted. Watch this video for the steps you should take.

3. We're watching everything closely and have lawyers standing by if needed.

4. We're as confident as ever that we will make the top two.

5. As governor I will replace this absurd system. We cannot have another election that makes us look like a "failed state", as @NateSilver538 put it.

Link to check that your vote is counted:
https://t.co/3nhM0DvAZH
Link to report any incidents:
https://t.co/ajEO5EFY0a

Thank You - stay focused - Change is Coming!

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.

But this one broke me:

Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.

I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.

I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.

But bro, you know what shook me?

There’s a night missing.

After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.

A lamb is slaughtered.

Its blood painted on the doorposts.

And death passes over every house covered by that blood.

The Passover.

I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.

Islam just skips it.

And here’s what wrecked me.

The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.

Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.

70 times.

So I had to ask myself the honest question:

If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?

You don’t forge a document 70 times.

That’s just not corruption.

That to me is preservation.

And then I read the line that finished me off.

1 Corinthians 5:7.

“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”

That’s when it hit me.

The whole story was never just about Moses.

It was always pointing to a King.

The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.

Forever.

The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.

Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…

he’s one step away from the cross.

[Pam Blied @pblied]

@BuzzPatterson do you have connections to make this happen. Rodney is the real deal!

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Pam Blied @pblied]

@USATRUMPMAN1 Raindrops keep falling on my head

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