Flying High

[Wyndham Clark @Wyndham_Clark]

USA! USA! USA! 🇺🇸

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Just a guy who flew 39 combat missions talking to a guy who was machine gunning on D-Day.

Greatest Generation. Built Different. 🫡🇺🇸

[Love Music @khnh80044]

This is being a parent ...❤️

[German Shepherd Dad 🇺🇸 & 🔥 @FlagAndFire]

Ruby didn’t know what the yellow card meant.

She just knew someone stopped at her kennel… then sat with her… then clipped on a leash… then walked her past the doors she’d probably watched other dogs leave through.

Kimberlee drove 5 hours to meet her.

By the end of the day Ruby wasn’t staring through kennel bars anymore.

She was riding home, running in a backyard, and standing on a dock like she’d been there her whole life.

Freedom looks good on you, Ruby.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, a man stood up in a room full of nervous delegates and said the words that made America inevitable.

Not Thomas Jefferson. Not George Washington. Not Benjamin Franklin.

A Virginia planter named Richard Henry Lee.

It was June 7, 1776. The war had already been going for over a year. Men were dying. Cities were burning. And yet the Continental Congress still had not officially declared independence from Britain.

That morning, Lee rose and read aloud a resolution he had been instructed to deliver by Virginia:

"That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."

John Adams immediately seconded it.

The room erupted.

The debate that followed was so heated that Congress had to table the vote entirely. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and South Carolina were not ready. Their delegates had not been authorized to vote for independence. Some feared it was too soon. Some feared it was treason.

So Congress bought time. They postponed the vote for three weeks and quietly appointed a committee to draft a formal declaration, just in case the resolution passed.

That committee included Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and a soft-spoken 33-year-old Virginia lawyer known for his elegant writing.

Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson wrote the Declaration. It was adopted July 4. The world celebrated.

And Richard Henry Lee, the man whose words started everything, whose resolution is the reason any of this happened?

He had already gone home to Virginia. He missed the signing entirely.

Jefferson is immortalized. Lee is a footnote.

History is funny that way.

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

How much do you love your dog?

This much:

[Ben Verlander @BenVerlander]

Happy Shohei Ohtani Day to all those who celebrate! 🦄

He is hitting .415 with 12 XBH (3HR), 16 RBIs and 13 R in his last 27 games

On the mound he has a 0.82 ERA ON THE SEASON

G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time)

[💥Texas Girl💥 @Ilegvm]

Some laughter for Saturday night 🤣🤣🤣

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

it’s what he would’ve wanted

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

Shohei Ohtani is heading into June with a 0.82 ERA 🤯

That’s the 9th-lowest ERA entering June since earned runs became official in both leagues in 1913 (min. 50 IP) 👏

[Sophie Cunningham @sophaller]

This weekend we lift up all the fallen heroes and their families! We thank you for your service from the bottom of our hearts so we can live in the greatest country in the world! Jesus lift them up 🇺🇸

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: President Trump announces that 9/11 hero Welles Crowther will posthumously receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Known as “The Man in the Red Bandana,” Crowther repeatedly ran back into the South Tower on 9/11 to help others escape, saving as many as 18 lives before losing his own.

Allison Crowther said her son’s legacy continues to endure nearly 25 years later: “Welles’ light still shines brightly.”

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

Shohei Ohtani calls time to draw some attention to his New Balance shoes

[Eli Manning @EliManning]

Today, I’m wearing red sneakers in honor of Oakley Debbs — an 11-year-old boy who loved Giants football and tragically passed away from his nut allergy. Oakley loved his red sneakers, and now they’ve become a worldwide symbol for food allergy awareness.

Join me in posting a photo or video on social media to help spread awareness about food allergies #internationalredsneakersday

[Chris Henrique @ChrisHenrique]

I don’t care what team you root for, when the camera pans to the family of a player making his MLB debut, it’s incredible stuff every single time.

Alec Gamboa tossed a scoreless ninth inning for the Red Sox tonight, striking out two in his big league debut.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

This may be the most articulate response I’ve ever heard to this question.

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

They say a father is the one person who quietly roots for you to outgrow him—to go further, do better, and live bigger than he ever could. There’s something really powerful in that. 🥹💕

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

You could offer me footballer wages or any incentive in the world to stop helping dogs and I'd say no.

Nothing in the world beats sitting with Sienna tonight in her new bandana 5 months after she came in totally broken telling her about her new family home.

Priceless feeling