Peg Mitchell

Nature loving grandma working to raise awareness of #climate change and preserve our environment for my grandchildren and yours too! Wannabe nature photographer

[Ben Volin @BenVolin]

In today’s @BostonGlobe

[Peg Mitchell @PegMitchell1]

@aHeartSoFull Not nearly as good as yours.

[BlackMountain @DBlack_Mountain]

REMEMBER IN
NOVEMBER

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Excellent point

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Jellenne 🇺🇸🌵🌞 @Jellenne]

Dear World Cup Guests,

Thank you for sharing your experiences with us online, we are so happy you're here, getting to see all the different parts of America and meeting new friends.

I would however on behalf of all of us normal, kind, hard working and helpful Americans, like to apologize for the few who insist on trying to rain on your joy in the comments and replies. We know they're annoying and ridiculous, just ignore them. They're miserable fun suckers and usually beyond help.

The vast majority of us are having a blast traveling around the country with you! If we can help in anyway please don't hesitate to ask!
Keep eating, drinking, singing and chanting!

Love,
All 50 of the United States 🇺🇸

[The Boabie @TheBoabie]

We were told we'd be shot by ICE, we never saw them
We were told the police would be tough, they partied with us
We were told the Americans didn't want us, they embraced us like family

Stop listening to the 'media' trying to divide us! live your lives and make memories! 🧡

[Peg Mitchell @PegMitchell1]

@AZ_Brittney I’d even donate $$ to the effort! Start a foundation now so we can be ready on Day 1 without taxpayer dollars!

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🧐Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Secretary of Defense, commented on the shortage of Tomahawk missiles in the U.S., claiming that “weapon stockpiles were depleted back under Biden due to shipments to Ukraine.”
In reality, the U.S. has never supplied Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine — Hegseth is simply lying.
They started a war without having the cards, and now they’re blaming Ukraine.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

They threw boots at him in the barracks.

They called him a coward.

His commanding officer tried to have him removed from the Army.

Everyone was waiting for him to break.

He never did.

His name was Desmond Doss.

And he became one of the bravest soldiers in American history without ever carrying a weapon.

Doss was a devout Seventh-day Adventist who believed the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" was absolute.

When World War II began, he volunteered to serve.

But he refused to carry a rifle.

He refused to take a life.

His fellow soldiers couldn't understand it.

Many hated him for it.

They saw him as a burden.

A liability.

A man asking others to fight while he stood aside.

But Doss wasn't trying to avoid danger.

He volunteered as a combat medic.

He intended to run directly into it.

By 1944, he was serving in the Pacific.

Under fire in Guam and the Philippines, he repeatedly risked his life to rescue wounded soldiers.

The insults started fading.

The men who doubted him had seen what happened when bullets started flying.

Doss always ran toward the wounded.

Then came Okinawa.

The Maeda Escarpment.

A place soldiers called Hacksaw Ridge.

A 400-foot cliff defended by heavily fortified Japanese positions.

On May 5, 1945, a massive counterattack forced American troops to retreat.

Most made it down.

Roughly 75 wounded men did not.

They were stranded on top of the ridge.

Abandoned under enemy fire.

Desmond Doss stayed.

Alone.

Unarmed.

He found one wounded soldier and dragged him to the cliff edge.

Using a rope, he lowered him to safety.

Then he went back.

And found another.

And another.

And another.

Each time he prayed the same prayer:

"Lord, help me get one more."

For hours he moved through gunfire, artillery, and chaos.

One man at a time.

By the end of the night, he had rescued approximately 75 soldiers.

Single-handedly.

Without firing a shot.

Days later, a grenade exploded beside him.

Shrapnel tore through his body.

While waiting for evacuation, he saw another wounded soldier whose injuries were worse than his own.

So he gave up his stretcher.

Then a sniper's bullet shattered his arm.

Using the stock of a broken rifle as a splint, he crawled hundreds of yards to safety.

On October 12, 1945, President Harry S. Truman placed the Medal of Honor around his neck.

Doss became the first conscientious objector in American history to receive the nation's highest military award.

One of the men he saved on Hacksaw Ridge was Captain Jack Glover.

The same officer who had once tried to force him out of the Army.

Years later, Glover called Doss one of the bravest men he had ever known.

Desmond Doss died in 2006 at the age of 87.

He never carried a weapon.

He never fired a shot.

He never compromised what he believed.

And when everyone else was running down the ridge, he kept going back.

Just one more.

Then one more.

Then one more.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

For those who are too young to remember: Mamdani’s New York is what the Obamas’ US used to feel like. Filled with joy, promise and hope. So much freaking hope...

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Fauci spent his life, decades, saving lives; you on the other hand, in just a few months in government helped ended 100s of thousands of lives around the world and some estimates suggest the death toll could be in the millions. Not sure how you sleep at night.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Happy Juneteenth.

Today we honor the freedom, resilience, and strength of Black Americans — and the generations of civil rights leaders who marched and sacrificed so this country could live up to its own promises.

We cannot honor that legacy without speaking the truth: that freedom is under attack. The Voting Rights Act gutted. Black voters silenced at the ballot box. This is voter suppression in broad daylight.

We don't just commemorate the struggle. We CONTINUE it.

Happy Juneteenth to everyone celebrating today.

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

Juneteenth is both a joyous celebration and a solemn reminder that the road to justice and equality is a long one that we must all walk together. Today, let’s renew our commitment to one another that we will stay vigilant, that we will not turn back, and that we will build a future we can all truly share.

[👑 Queen Beetle 😎 @QueenBeetleTN]

I could not have said it better myself. This is exactly how I feel. Thank you Steve.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

If Kamala Harris had become president of the United States, Trump would be in prison, the strait of Hormuz would be open, Ukraine would be victorious, gas would be under $3 a gallon, and the U.S. would STILL be respected and supported around the world.

[Peg Mitchell @PegMitchell1]

@aHeartSoFull

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

Dear Young Americans. All of these men and women served honorably while in office. They acted like Presidents & First Ladies. They were imperfect. They erred. But they never tried to divide us or make us turn on one another. What you see in the Presidency now is NOT NORMAL. And we apologize to you that for the past ten years of Trump, all you know is chaos, division, cynicism, violence, and ugliness. We will do better. We will have great and good leaders again. #Obamapresidentialcenter