Michael Carrillo

White male Non-denominational Christian with Eastern Philysophies who can't spell.

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

40 Years Ago Today

"THE TRIPLE LINDY"

"Back To School", starring Rodney Dangerfield as "Thornton Melon — the world's oldest living freshman"

Released June 13, 1986

[Every Movie Plug @everymovieplug]

They don't make cartoons like this anymore 😕

[Cartoon Clips @CartoonVidio]

classic cartoons for a reason.😆

[Cartoon Non Stop @CartoonNonStop]

These cartoons are too funny to ignore 💯

[Tex Avery Toon @TexAveryToon]

Shoot Shoot...

[Cartoon Non Stop @CartoonNonStop]

Cartoons with no logic

[Fun with cartoon @cartunplce]

Classic cartoons from the golden era never disappoint me 😛🎬

[Cartoon Fun Times @funcartun]

I loved watching it when I was a kid 😂🎬

[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.

[Fun with cartoon @cartunplce]

😛😛

[Cartoon Clips @CartoonVidio]

Retweet if this was part of your childhood. 😆♥️

[Cartoon Clips @CartoonVidio]

The reason why that era was the best.🥹

[Cartoon Fun Club @cartunfunn]

Classic cartoons from the golden era never disappoint me 😛🎬

[Tex Avery Toon @TexAveryToon]

What!!! When cartoons had no logic but guaranteed entertainment

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

“I didn’t know you wanted to get involved in the discussion, Mr. Helper.”

BACK TO SCHOOL (1986)

Love this scene.

#SamKinison #RodneyDangerfield

[Cartoon Clips @CartoonVidio]

Today’s kids will never understand the excitement for this😭

[FUNNY DROPS @toondrops]

I never get bored watching this show

[Cartoon Fun Club @cartunfunn]

😅😅

[Cartoon Non Stop @CartoonNonStop]

When your plan backfires