Travis Heasley

Christian/Teacher/Coach/Athletic Director “My greatness won't be defined by my achievements but by the achievements of those that came in contact with me"

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

June 6th, 1944.

The English Channel is angry and half the men in the landing craft are seasick. Diesel fumes mix with saltwater and vomit while rifles are checked for the fifth or sixth time by hands that need something to do. Nobody talks much anymore because the jokes have all been told and the bravado has finally burned away somewhere behind the English coast.

You are nineteen years old and carrying more weight than you’ve ever carried in your life. You don’t know it yet, but it’s the most weight you will EVER carry in this life. However long or short it may be.

Your rifle rests across your knees. Your life hangs from a few pounds of steel, wood, and training. Somewhere beyond the gray horizon sits a continent that has spent five years tearing itself apart, and in a few minutes you are going to step into the middle of it.

Across from you sits another kid. He can’t be much older than you. His jaw is clenched. His knuckles are white around his weapon. Neither of you says a word because there is nothing left to say.

Then your eyes drift toward his shoulder.

That red numeral catches your eye: “1”.

You’ve seen it a thousand times before. In barracks hallways, on training fields, in motor pools, and on long marches. It never meant much beyond belonging to the same outfit.

Now it means everything.

Because in a few minutes the world is going to ask something terrible of both of you, and there is comfort in knowing that whatever waits on that beach, neither of you will face it alone.

The historians will eventually reduce this day to arrows on maps and casualty figures. Politicians will give speeches. Journalists will write books. None of that exists inside the landing craft.

What exists is fear, and duty.

What exists is the understanding that courage was never the absence of fear. Courage was always charging into the maelstrom anyway.

The shoreline emerges through the smoke. You can see flashes now. You can hear the distant percussion of artillery. Men stop checking their equipment because there is no point anymore. Whatever mistakes were made are already made. Whatever prayers were going to be said have already been said.

The coxswain throttles down.

The boat grinds forward.

The ramp is about to drop.

Into the abyss.

Overlord.

[Nebraska Football @HuskerFootball]

GRIT: The Story of Tommie Frazier

[Will Compton @_willcompton]

Holy shit man

Take two minutes to listen to this

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

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[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

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[605 Sports @605_sports]

Jayce Pugh paces Miller girls to team title at Class B Classic #sdpreps
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[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

🚨 GIVEAWAY TIME 🚨

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[Travis Heasley @theasley83]

@HuskGuys 1.Tommie 2. Vick 3. Tebow

[Travis Heasley @theasley83]

@JoshPateCFB Rhule

[ᴅᴏxx ⚡️ @new_era72]

My rookie don’t take shit from anybody

[ᴅᴏxx ⚡️ @new_era72]

Calais Campbell: I got 115 Sacks

Grey Zabel: You ain’t getting 116 on ME though

That is my franchise Offensive Lineman

[Will Compton @_willcompton]

My thoughts

Nebraska played their ass off last night and the fans made that place an absolute JUICE FACTORY

Could not have asked for a better 1st half and we were in the fight until the end

USC is one of the best offenses in the country that averages 500 yards/game & we held them to 337

They average 40 points/game & held them to 21

We lost our QB and were down to our 3rd OT in the 3Q and the boys kept swinging

Didn’t lose hope

Didn’t give up

The entire game felt like a next-play mentality

Hats off to Lateef coming into a moment like that

Hats off to the team for rallying around him

Hats off to that damn secondary that showed the hell up!!! (Andrew Marshall I SEE YOU on the fake CB blitz and baiting that RPO into an INT)

And also shoutout to everyone for embracing the Blackout ☠️ —that place looked awesome and it 100% has to happen every year

Entire game felt like a war mentality and unfortunately we came up short

Everyone will talk trash, bring up our past, talk about what their “expectations” are —but they don’t know shit.

I see it

And I’m still fired up to root for this damn team every week

🌽

[Hail Varsity @HailVarsity]

WILLY C GETTING THE CROWD JUICED 💪

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

Grey Zabel is an ABSOLUTE DAWG

I love this move by John Schneider #PMSLive

[Margo Martin @MargoMartin47]

“Who is the best player?!”

President @realDonaldTrump polls the North Dakota State University football team

[#GoWolves @WolvesAthletics]

The 23rd Head Coach in @nsuwolves_mbb program history! Welcome to #WolvesCountry @Coach_Wilber!

#GoWolves🐺 | #maroonNgold🐾

READ MORE ⬇️
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[Travis Heasley @theasley83]

Explaining to my non wrestling friends what just happened with Hendrickson vs Gable, Rocky just beat Clubber Lang (Mr T). Unbelievable @NCAAWrestling

[Travis Heasley @theasley83]

RIDGE LOVETT!!!!!! @HuskerWrestling Hell Yeah.

[Derrick Pearson @derrickpearson]

If you try to love your life, you will find the fun in it "
Brock Hardy
@HuskerWrestling
@937TheTicket
@NCAAWrestling
WRESTLING IS FUN!

[Travis Heasley @theasley83]

How good will this @Huskers Wrestling team be next year. They lose 1. They are putting on a show.