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@CopWatchUSoexc Apparently I'm late to this party. Why is she in her bra?

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@MargeD77015D 🙏🙏

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@BrandonFalco121 Some child was left behind.

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@jk_rowling I hope they made him pay for that.

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@PatriciaHeaton The loves of our lives 💞

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

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@Melgibsonact 💯

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@jk_rowling You are beautiful enough to wear anything you like! Happy birthday 🎉🎂

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@UnbiasednBiased @OptaSTATS @IndianaFever Yes! Her assists would always be in double digits if her teammates scored more on her passes.

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Hero

[Steve Clemans @Steve09812]

Her name was Uli Derickson.
She was born in Germany, immigrated to America, married, had a young son in New Jersey, and worked as a purser for TWA. On the morning of June 14, 1985, she was working a scheduled flight from Athens to Rome — breakfast trays being cleared, coffee smell in the cabin, 153 passengers settling into their seats.
Then two men sprinted up the aisle.
One held a 9mm pistol. The other held a grenade with the pin already pulled. They slammed Uli against the galley wall, forced their way into the cockpit, struck the pilot with the gun, and ordered the aircraft diverted to Beirut. The hijackers spoke Arabic and German. Of the entire crew, only Uli spoke German.
She became the sole line of communication between the men with the weapons and the people in the seats.
The first test came quickly. The hijackers ordered her to collect all passports and separate out those belonging to Jewish passengers. She walked down the aisle with a plastic bag, opening document after document. When she found passports with Israeli stamps or Jewish-sounding names, she did not put them in the bag.
She slipped them under an empty seat cushion.
She handed the bag to the hijackers. They didn't notice the missing names.
The plane flew erratically — Beirut to Algiers and back, over and over, for more than two weeks. In Algiers, the fuel ran out. The ground crew refused to pump without immediate payment. The hijackers threatened to start executing passengers. TWA had no mechanism to authorize an emergency international transaction in real time.
Uli reached into her purse and pulled out her personal Shell Oil credit card.
She handed it out the cockpit window. The ground crew ran the charge — $5,500 for jet fuel. The pump turned on. The plane could keep flying. One hundred fifty-two people stayed alive because a flight attendant had a credit card.
On the tarmac in Beirut, the hijackers identified an American Navy diver named Robert Stethem — 23 years old, unarmed, his military ID giving him away. They bound his hands with elastic luggage cords and beat him with metal armrests torn from the seats. Uli physically inserted herself between the blows and the passenger, absorbing hits to her own body trying to shield him.
It wasn't enough. They shot Robert Stethem and threw his body onto the tarmac. Uli was forced to close the door behind him.
She sat in the jump seat, covered in his blood. One of the hijackers pointed his gun at her and demanded she sing him a German folk song to calm his nerves.
She sang "Muss i denn."
Her voice shook. He lowered the weapon.
For 17 days she stood in that aisle. She translated demands to control towers. She negotiated the release of passengers at each stop. She bandaged head wounds with cloth torn from galley supplies. She wiped blood from people's faces. She kept talking, kept translating, kept the fragile thread of communication from breaking — because if it broke, people would die.
By the end, 152 of the 153 people on that plane were alive.
When she stepped off the aircraft in Algiers on the final day, she was dehydrated and bruised, still carrying the plastic bag of hidden passports.
She went back to New Jersey. She went back to work. She transferred to Delta Airlines and flew international routes until she retired.
In 1989, she stood in a German courtroom and pointed her finger at the man who had held the grenade to her neck and forced her to sing in a blood-stained cabin. He received a life sentence. He was paroled in 2005.
The Navy named a ship after Robert Stethem. The USS Stethem still sails.
Uli Derickson received the Department of Transportation's Award for Outstanding Achievement — one of the few civilians ever to receive it.
She was ordered to hand over the passports of the people they wanted to kill.
She hid them under a seat cushion instead.

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@Super70sSports You don't see interactions like this anymore. The players are all multimillionaire primadonnas now.

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@FreddyLA7 I second Ole Miss-LSU! Go early and experience tailgating in the Grove!

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@Fun_Viral_Vids Video would've been perfect if not for the obnoxious soundtrack.

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@cessonmute Account based in Southeast Asia

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@catturd2 In spite of whatever surgeries happened, she's still a girl.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I just read this whole speech and it's so awful I don't know where to begin.

Thousands of words praising every group that ever came to America...

...then your conclusion is that the country that made ALL of it possible is rotten, greedy, and cruel.

Screw you.

That's not patriotism.

You are just resentful.

Nobody crossed an ocean to get to a "socialist seminar with fireworks" Zohran.

They came because America was freer, safer, and more decent than everywhere else on earth.

Because rights come from God here, not the government.

Because power is limited by law.

Because a nobody can become a somebody... LIKE YOU!!!!

It takes zero bravery to stand behind George Washington's desk and sneer at the nation George Washington bled for.

The Founders risked their lives and fortunes for liberty.

They didn't fight King George so a City Hall UGANDAN RADICAL COMMUNIST could rebrand America as a taxpayer-funded asylum program 250 years later.

America DEFINITELY didn't become great because activists scolded it into greatness.

You know what we DID DO???

We freed the slaves.
We beat fascism.
We crushed communism.
We split the atom.
We walked on the moon.

No civilization in human history has given more people more opportunity.

Period.

So when someone's first instinct on America's 250th birthday is to lecture Americans about how awful their country is...

...maybe the problem isn't America... MAYBE the problem is YOU.

GOD BLESS AMERICA. 🇺🇸

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.

Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with “soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.

No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.

And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.

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@Super70sSports Polo Grounds, Mets /Cardinals

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@MrAndyNgo Where are the feminists? Either silent or debasing.

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@HowieRose Howie, my grandson is 21 now, this is what he wanted for Christmas about 6 years ago.