David Sorrell

Christian. Pro-life. Conservative.

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 The Boatlift That Was Bigger Than Dunkirk

At 10:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, a Coast Guard lieutenant named Mike Day keyed a radio in New York Harbor and said the only sentence that mattered.

“All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island.”

The boats were already coming.

The bridges were closed. The tunnels were closed. The subways were dead. South of the towers, hundreds of thousands of people had nowhere left to walk. Some jumped into the Hudson. Some stood on seawalls that were never meant to be docks and waited for anything that floated.

Dunkirk took nine days to pull 338,226 Allied soldiers off a beach in 1940.

On 9/11, roughly 800 mariners on about 150 vessels moved as many as 500,000 civilians off Manhattan in about nine hours. Ferries. Tugs. Dinner boats. Pilot boats. Yachts. A retired fireboat. Rubber dinghies that held two people. The largest water evacuation in history.

NY Waterway did not wait for the official call. After the second plane hit, the whole fleet moved. Captain Rick Thornton nosed his ferry against a seawall that was not a slip and started taking people off. Some of them he pulled out of the river. His company alone carried about 158,000 people to Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, Brooklyn, and Queens.

On a normal Tuesday they carried 34,000.

The Staten Island Ferry moved more than 50,000 people and came back the other way with water, bandages, and men who still had work to do in the dust.

The old fireboat John J. Harvey, already retired, tied up near the Museum of Jewish Heritage, took civilians off the seawall, then pumped water when the hydrants downtown died.

Lt. Day later admitted what the day required. “I broke more rules that day than probably I’ve enforced in my whole Coast Guard career.”

In raw numbers it was bigger than Dunkirk. No boat went down. By nightfall the southern tip of Manhattan had been emptied by people who were not on anyone’s list of heroes when the morning started.

They were tug captains. Ferry deckhands. Pilots. A lieutenant with a microphone. Ordinary boats answering one sentence.

All available boats.

[OnThisDayInGaming @OnThisDayGaming]

Final Fantasy for the NES was released on this day in North America, 36 years ago (1990)

[Seascape Nature @SeascapeNature]

Fireworks in Los Angeles, California 🇺🇸

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Delegates have gone home for the night, some visibly distressed.

It is a hot and sultry evening in Philadelphia.

Perhaps something shall happen in the morning.

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

A short rant against the envy cult, which would, if empowered, happily turn the United States into Belgium. https://t.co/NBmHMUGzjW

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

ARTEMIS II AS SEEN BY THE OFFICIAL NASA CESSNA

THIS IS THE BEST LAUNCH VIDEO AND IT ISN'T CLOSE

[Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash]

Let me explain to you what Candace Owens is doing:

Candace is trying to coax those who are bound by the gag order in the Kirk assassination case (which is normal for cases of that magnitude to ensure a fair trial) to violate the gag order.

This could trigger a mistrial. If it does, she will say that a mistrial occurred because "the case fell apart" due to there being "too many holes" when, in reality, SHE will have caused the case's collapse due to procedural violations.

When she is then threatened and possibly charged with witness tampering and obstruction, she will claim she is being "censored" and that *THEY* are trying to "shut her down" for "asking questions."

This ends with no justice for Charlie Kirk and all eyes on Candace Owens, which is precisely what she wants.

This is all transparently a grift and it is time that everyone stops being afraid to call it what it is.

[seanfucious @Seanfucious]

I am white guy, in my 30s. I have never used group chats, that have existed most of my life in some form, to make racist jokes.

You don’t have to defend it! You don’t have to say other people did worse! Stop creating room for racism to enter polite society again.

[David L. Bahnsen @DavidBahnsen]

Many are writing me to point out the things Charlie said or did that are worthy of critique (sometimes that I actually did critique in real time). And while I can’t really understand why the first 4 days after someone’s assassination are the days in which people feel the need to “set the record straight,” I get that it is not the case that Charlie was perfect or above reproach.

But the more I think about the stuff that drove me bonkers about Charlie, the more I wonder how much was youthful immaturity that was in the process of being worked through. Just in the last 24 months anyone paying attention to Charlie’s public life saw extraordinary maturity and growth. It is so hard for me as a 51-year old to critique the 26-year old version of Charlie without wondering what the 36-year old or 41-year old might have been like. I certainly understand we can’t know that he would evolved into a patron saint of maturity, but I believe the 31-year old was exponentially more mature than the 26-year old, and I believe that trajectory was continuing.
I also believe if my life had ended at 31, basically every single thing I’m proud of or that is worthy of mention would have NEVER HAPPENED. All of my attempts at growth, sanctification, improvement, productivity have come out in the last 20 years, not the 15 years that preceded age 31. It’s sort of humbling.

You don’t have to deify someone or pretend you agree with everything to recognize that:
A - his murder is a reprehensible tragedy
B - he was a special talent in his work ethic, discipline, and cultural instincts
and,
C - he was a work in progress, and thank God none of us peaked at 31

Before you post about something Charlie said or did at age 27, think about your own life at 27. When I do that, it makes me want to really keep my mouth shut.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

The reason "conservative cancel culture" is effective is because these people are acting in an objectively immoral way that is so horrific that it is shocking the normies

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

Link, and please read: https://t.co/lp5m1mKWHM

[(((Aaron Walker))) @AaronWorthing]

So just to be clear, when someone bombed the 16th St., Baptist Church in 1963, killing four innocent black girls as they went to Sunday school, that was a failure of their faith?

It’s OK for you to be an atheist but at least understand the thing you are rejecting. According to Christian doctrine, Jesus himself was murdered. Having faith, even being the son of God, doesn’t absolutely protect you from every bad thing that can happen in the world. it’s not some kind of bulletproof shield.

After the bombing of the 16th St., Baptist Church, reverend Martin Luther King Jr. had a different perspective than yours: “God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.”

[Kyle Smith @rkylesmith]

LOL the French claim air conditioning results in "thermal shock"

[OnThisDayInGaming @OnThisDayGaming]

Legend of Mana for the PS1 was released on this day in Japan, 26 years ago (1999)

[Missouri Society, Sons of the American Revolution @MissouriSAR]

Compatriots! A call to action! Please give a most hearty welcome to the NEW MOSSAR Chapter in development SAR Poplar Bluff MO Chapter!
@SarHeadquarters #SAR

[David Sorrell @Rayado2011]

@spacewxwatch Happy birthday! From May 2024.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins & Roy Orbison performing "This Train" in honor of Elvis Presley (1977)

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Stop elevating Cardinals to Pope! Shake things up by electing a Cub