WE0209

Christian,Conservative, Husband, Father & supporter of clean, safe, reliable nuclear power. Independent voter = Person over party affiliation.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

I think it’s always important to share this.

Absolutely brilliant from 2014 by Joan Rivers on Israel and the “Palestinians”

No mincing of words. We really lost a real one with her.

The bit at end about Selena Gomez gets me every time 😂

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

Dusty in here. RIP, sir.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Two days ago we lost an American hero. His name was Bruce Crandall, and this is his story 🇺🇸

Before he was a legend, Bruce Crandall was a kid from Olympia, Washington, born in 1933, an All-American high school baseball player who joined the National Guard at 15. The Army drafted him in 1953, trained him as an engineer, then put him in a cockpit. His first real job as a pilot was mapping the parts of the world nobody had charted yet, flying for two years over the open desert of Libya, then over thousands of square miles of unmapped mountains and jungle in Central and South America. He married Arlene in 1956. They would raise three sons. He spent the early part of his career flying toward empty places. Then Vietnam asked him to fly toward the worst one.

Sixty years ago, in a clearing called LZ X-Ray, roughly 450 American soldiers were surrounded by an enemy force several times their size. The shooting was so heavy the medevac helicopters turned back. Landing meant dying.

Bruce Crandall made a different choice.

He was a 32-year-old major flying an unarmed Huey. No guns. No armor that mattered. Just a thin aluminum shell and a decision. He pointed the nose at the hottest piece of ground in the war and went in anyway, with his wingman Ed "Too Tall" Freeman right behind him.

Then he did it again. And again. Twenty-two times in a single day.

He flew in the ammunition and water that kept the men alive. He flew out more than 70 wounded soldiers, loading them while rounds punched through the airframe, the cargo bay slick with other men's blood. Each run he could have stopped. Nobody would have blamed him. He kept his word to the men on the ground instead: you will be resupplied, and if you fall, we are coming for you.

He never fired a shot all day. He saved dozens of lives with nothing but nerve and a helicopter.

The men called him "Snake." He went back for a second tour and was shot down in January 1968, this time by friendly bombs falling too close. By the end of the war he had flown more than 900 combat missions.

Then he did something quieter that almost nobody talks about. He went home and lived an ordinary life. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1977, earned a master's degree, ran a small California town as its city manager, and spent 17 years in the Public Works Department in Mesa, Arizona, fixing roads and keeping the water running. The man who once flew through a wall of fire spent his later years making sure the streetlights worked.

It took 40 years for the country to catch up to what he did at X-Ray. In 2007, President Bush hung the Medal of Honor around his neck. If you saw We Were Soldiers, that was him on screen, Greg Kinnear in the cockpit, though the real man was braver than any movie could hold.

Col. Bruce "Snake" Crandall died on May 31, 2026, at 93 years old. He outlived the war, the doubts, and most of the men who watched him come screaming back into that valley when no one else would.

Some heroes carry a rifle. This one carried the wounded home, then went back to work like it was nothing.

Rest easy, Snake. We have it from here.

In honor of Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall (1933-2026), the best of us and a true American hero. We won't forget you 🇺🇸

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

@NotNoahCount Indeed. Thanks

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

Good morning from Wabash, IN. Since my wife's Uncle was sleeping when we stopped by the care facility yesterday PM, we are stopping by on the way home this morning. Hopefully he'll be awake.
Happy Wednesday!

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Massive damage at Kuwait airport after an Iranian ballistic missile was targeting civilian passengers.

Over 60 were injured.

[Eric Bott @EricJBott]

Stunning.

If you’re lucky, I bet you get an employer match up to 6% to your 401k. You pay the rest.

If you’re lucky.

Every Democratic candidate for WI Gov wants you to pay for government workers to contribute zero, zip, zilch too their retirement.

Not matches.

No employee contributions.

Just you paying higher taxes so a small % of workers pay zero.

I bet you pay something for your health care.

I bet it’s a lot.

Every Democrat below thinks you should pay much, much, much higher taxes so that government workers pay nothing for their health care.

That’s just not fair.

But that’s what they promise to do.

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

@EshaAA33 Doctor Detroit

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

@BenMullin Woke up this morning and remembered this propaganda clown falsely claimed to have served in combat in multiple theaters because he read TV lines near real soldiers. Low-rent Brian Williams behavior.

[The Gormogons @Gormogons]

@mkhammer RX When the guy who sued nuns for Obama is the least shitty Democrat, you need to start navel gazing

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

@JayWeber3 @Michael_Haz Makes sense

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

@MarkHeath45 Negative

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Warren of Oak Harbor, Wa who recently signed up for the 50 yard challenge , mowed his 4th lawn !

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

Jewish Senator: "I will support a Nazi as long as I can be Majority Leader next year. " 🙄

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

@physicsgeek It was magnificent.

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

@IzaBooboo And he never will.

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

@EllenZelda @maddenifico

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

@NotNoahCount Yep.
We had dinner with my wife's cousin and his wife last night and he filled us in on the events of the last few months. Multiple falls at home, including breaking his pelvis. He's not going home, but they haven't told him.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Timmy & Vinny from Bellevue, NE completed our 50 Yard Challenge a few months back. They’ve decided to take on one of our Special Edition Challenges, available to kids who complete the original challenge. Their choice? The Military Edition: 50 free lawns mowed for veterans and active-duty service members. Here’s their 20th lawn for a Air Force veteran !

[Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day @NormSNLJokes]

This week in the O.J. Simpson trial, after grisly photos of the murdered Nicole Brown Simpson were shown in court, O.J. turned his head away and wept.

It was at that moment that he realized... he would never be able to kill her again.

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

@outdoorswi1 Good morning

[WE0209 @Pro_Nuke]

@Dogman1013 Good morning