American by Birth a Farmer by the Grace of God, Blessed with beautiful wife n Best Friend! for 42 years on way to forever, 3 married Children n 7 grandchildren
Today is not only the U.S. Army birthday, but also Flag Day.
It is our duty and honor to defend the American flag and the nation it represents, today and every day.
Happy Flag Day, America. 🇺🇸
Most of us likely don’t deserve and can never live up to the sacrifices they gave us starting 82 years ago today.
But we must try!!
Live your freedoms every day and thank them all for what they did!
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Heavenly Father, you have clearly warned us in your word that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. We come before you humbly, acknowledging how easily our hearts can drift toward covetousness. In a world that constantly measures success by wealth, status, and possessions, we confess that we are often tempted to place our security, identity, and hope in material things rather than in you. Forgive us Lord, for the times we have loved money more than we have loved you. Forgive us when we have chased after riches and, in doing so, have wandered from the faith and brought unnecessary sorrow into our lives and the lives of those around us. Cleanse our hearts from greed, envy, and discontentment. Teach us to hold loosely to the things of this earth and to hold tightly to the eternal riches found in Christ. Lord, give us a right perspective on money. Help us to see it as a tool to be used for your glory, for generosity, and for meeting needs, rather than as a god to be served. Guard our hearts from the love of money that leads to compromise, anxiety, and spiritual shipwreck. Fill us instead with contentment, gratitude, and a deep trust in your faithful provision. We ask for wisdom to live simply, to work diligently, and to give cheerfully. May our lives reflect that our greatest treasure is knowing you and walking in obedience to your will. Let us not pierce ourselves with many sorrows by pursuing what will never satisfy. In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, we pray, Amen. #dailyprayer✝️
My thoughts about SPLC and the hate group that they are and have always been!
Also, a scolding of media outlets that promoted their hate towards good people like my colleagues at @Awake_IL and my friends from @Moms4Liberty
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"It's easier for me to sort out problems on top of a horse." — Ronald Reagan
President Reagan’s love for the cowboy lifestyle was evident, from his days on horseback at Rancho del Cielo to his portrayal of Western heroes on screen.
Don’t miss the final weeks of Cowboys: History & Hollywood at the Reagan Library: https://t.co/AkMGo6uRK1
Back when Chicagoland was great. Shakeys Pizza ruled. As kids, we could not wait to go to Shakeys Pizza in Hoffman Estates on Saturday night. They have been gone from Chicagoland since the mid 1980s. On another note, let's make Illinois great again and flip it red.
Mr. Samuelson. 1934-2026. He would have been 92 on 3/31. He loved birthdays and celebrated everyone else’s joyfully. Rare to work with someone 45 years. Thank you, O.
The USS Gerald R. Ford is not parked near Iran. It is parked off Israel. And nobody is asking the only question that matters: why.
The $13.3 billion crown jewel of the US Navy, the largest warship ever constructed, just positioned itself off Haifa. Not in the Arabian Sea where the Lincoln sits 850 kilometers from Iranian shores loaded for offensive operations. Not in the Gulf where strike range is optimal. Off Israel. Defending Israel.
This is not redundancy. This is architecture.
Two carriers. Two missions. Two entirely different strategic functions. The Lincoln is the sword, positioned to launch strike packages into Iranian airspace within hours of an order. The Ford is the shield, its Aegis missile defense systems creating an umbrella over Israeli population centers against the retaliation that follows the first Tomahawk.
America just split its carrier doctrine into offense and defense simultaneously. That has not happened since the Pacific theater in 1945.
But the positioning reveals something deeper than tactics. When Iran retaliates, and every wargame says Iran retaliates, its missiles and drones fly toward Israel. They will fly through the same airspace where a US carrier strike group is now stationed. Every Iranian missile aimed at Tel Aviv or Haifa must traverse the Ford’s defensive envelope. Shooting at Israel means shooting at, around, and through an American carrier group.
Iran cannot retaliate against Israel without engaging American naval assets. The Ford’s position makes that physically impossible. The carrier is not defending Israel as a favor. It is positioned so that any Iranian response to American strikes automatically becomes an attack on American forces, triggering the full unrestrained weight of US military response without a single additional political decision required.
This is escalation insurance written in steel and seawater. If the campaign goes longer than planned, if munitions run thin in 7 to 10 days, if allies hesitate, the Ford’s position ensures that Iranian retaliation does the political work Washington cannot do alone: it transforms a limited American strike into an act of self-defense that no ally can refuse to support.
You do not park a $13.3 billion carrier where the enemy’s return fire will hit it unless you want the enemy’s return fire to hit it.
The Ford is not there to prevent escalation. The Ford is there to guarantee that if escalation comes, it comes on terms that make American restraint politically impossible and allied participation politically unavoidable. https://t.co/BrzGRrU3VW