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Saint Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of hopeless and desperate cases, pray for us. Amen.
@japan_nobunaga Veterans came to provide freedom for people they never met in places they’d never been with a culture they didn’t know.
When that job was done, they went about securing those freedoms
Thanksgiving God for Veterans!
https://t.co/qwcYYNwo8e
Hundreds of millions rationed and worked extra shifts, invented computers, and new ways to make sure the beaches were clear so that people would be saved…
And yet when the landing gates dropped at Tarawa, Normandy, or dozens of other places… it took Marines and the Army to clear them.
So that people they would never meet in countries they had never been to of races they weren’t a part of could be free.
Thank God for Veterans!
@WhiteHouse Incredible sacrifice in lands they did not know for the freedom of people they would never meet. Thank God for Veterans https://t.co/qwcYYNwo8e
Hundreds of millions rationed and worked extra shifts, invented computers, and new ways to make sure the beaches were clear so that people would be saved…
And yet when the landing gates dropped at Tarawa, Normandy, or dozens of other places… it took Marines and the Army to clear them.
So that people they would never meet in countries they had never been to of races they weren’t a part of could be free.
Thank God for Veterans!
@Isabell91151031 Beautiful. Every person in this painting had strived, lived on rations, and more to keep that young man safe so that he could free people none of them would meet in lands none of them would go to. Thank God for Veterans https://t.co/qwcYYNwo8e
Hundreds of millions rationed and worked extra shifts, invented computers, and new ways to make sure the beaches were clear so that people would be saved…
And yet when the landing gates dropped at Tarawa, Normandy, or dozens of other places… it took Marines and the Army to clear them.
So that people they would never meet in countries they had never been to of races they weren’t a part of could be free.
Thank God for Veterans!
@IMPERATORAUS Freedom is never free except when the freedom of Heaven is granted by Christ!
Happy Veterans Day!
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Hundreds of millions rationed and worked extra shifts, invented computers, and new ways to make sure the beaches were clear so that people would be saved…
And yet when the landing gates dropped at Tarawa, Normandy, or dozens of other places… it took Marines and the Army to clear them.
So that people they would never meet in countries they had never been to of races they weren’t a part of could be free.
Thank God for Veterans!
Hundreds of millions rationed and worked extra shifts, invented computers, and new ways to make sure the beaches were clear so that people would be saved…
And yet when the landing gates dropped at Tarawa, Normandy, or dozens of other places… it took Marines and the Army to clear them.
So that people they would never meet in countries they had never been to of races they weren’t a part of could be free.
Thank God for Veterans!
What a life! Honor and duty defined a Medal of Honor winners existence. Receives a heroes welcome from future heroes and a place of glory!
For years, cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy walked past the quiet old janitor who mopped their floors and cleaned their showers. Most of them gave him little more than a passing nod.
In the fall of 1976, a cadet named James Moschgat was reading a book about the fighting in Italy in World War II. On one page he found the story of Hill 424, and a Private William Crawford from Colorado.
He turned to his roommate. "Holy cow... I think our janitor is a Medal of Honor winner."
On September 13, 1943, near Altavilla, Italy, Private Bill Crawford's company was pinned down by German machine guns. He went forward alone and destroyed the first gun with a grenade. Then he went after the second and destroyed it too. At the third, he killed one gunner, the rest ran, and he turned their own machine gun on them.
Soon after, he disappeared. The Army believed he had been killed. In 1944, his father accepted the Medal of Honor in his place.
He was alive. He spent about 19 months as a prisoner of the Germans and survived a forced march in the winter of 1945.
After the war he went back into uniform. He retired in 1967 as a master sergeant and took a job as a janitor at the Air Force Academy in Colorado.
He never told the cadets.
The following Monday, Moschgat brought the book to him and asked.
"Yep, that's me."
"That was one day in my life and it happened a long time ago."
Word spread. The man with the mop had never had the medal placed around his neck by a president.
On May 30, 1984, at the Academy's graduation, President Ronald Reagan told the stadium about a private on Hill 424 whose father had accepted his medal for him.
"Nearly 40 years have gone by, and it's time to do it right."
Then the President of the United States hung the Medal of Honor around the neck of the old man who used to clean the cadets' bathrooms.
Moschgat went on to fly fighters for 30 years and retired as a colonel. On his graduation day, the janitor had told him, "Good luck, young man."
Bill Crawford died in 2000. He is buried at the Academy where he once mopped the floors.
Tomorrow is Veterans Day. Look twice at the quiet old man with the broom.
Some of them already gave this country a day it can never repay.
@Catholic_bro Everyday, three times a second, somewhere on the Globe, Heaven and Earth touch at the Mass! Prayers always prayed, a pew is always open, water is always blessed. Christ is literally on the Cross and inside each soul! https://t.co/ZidMC2cmMM
Every soul has a home with Christ. Home is where we start and is our base. The mother and home Church of all churches is St John Lateran Basilica in Rome. From it through history comes the faith, Sunday services and masses we all share.
@japan_nobunaga Horrible, unrepeatable episode in human history that was overcome by bravery, duty, and the honor that comes only from faith which taken in full points towards our better angels! Great work here!
American teenager, shown kindness as an East LA youngster by an American family that happened to be Japanese, saves over a thousand civilian and enemy lives by caring enough to risk his life and use the Japanese he learned in LA to talk the scared families of Saipan to safety
In 1944, thousands of Japanese on Saipan hid in caves, sure the Americans would torture them if they came out. Many families chose the cliffs instead.
An 18-year-old American Marine from East Los Angeles walked up to those caves at night, alone, and called to them in Japanese.
His name was Guy Gabaldon. He was a Mexican American kid who had grown up partly in the home of a Japanese American family, the Nakanos. That is where he picked up his Japanese. When the war came, the Nakanos were sent to internment camps. Their twin sons, Lane and Lyle, joined the U.S. Army anyway and served in the 442nd.
Fifty years later, he still said it plainly: "These were Americans."
On Saipan, Gabaldon was a scout with the 2nd Marine Regiment. Right after landing, he slipped off on his own and came back with prisoners. His commanding officer, Capt. John Schwabe, threatened him with a court-martial for leaving his post.
The next night, he came back with about fifty.
After that, they let him go out alone.
He crawled to the cave mouths in the dark and promised the people inside water, medical care, and that nobody would hurt them. Night after night, ten or twenty at a time, they followed him out.
On July 8, by his own account, about 800 came out in a single day. Schwabe remembered that day too. It was the day they tagged him the Pied Piper of Saipan.
Not everyone listened. At the cliffs, he begged a mother not to kill her child. He watched her throw the baby and jump. He was still talking about it fifty years later.
His Navy Cross citation says that on Saipan and Tinian he brought in "well over one thousand enemy civilians and troops."
Schwabe recommended him for the Medal of Honor. He received the Silver Star. Sixteen years later, after Hollywood made a movie about him, the Navy upgraded it to the Navy Cross.
He died in 2006 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
I am Japanese. Those caves were full of my people, frightened, starving, and certain that the Americans were monsters.
An American teenager walked toward them in the dark and offered them water.
On this Veterans Day, Japan should know his name.
@Sachinettiyil Sin is an emergency that requires immediate absolution that can only come from Christ AND immediate penance that must be given by instruction received from His Church! Run to Him but clean your soul as you do even if it’s on the street you are running on! https://t.co/n6fXDtDsAI
Saints carried through for Christ's Victory. Human, struggling, men, women, children, sinners, carried themselves to the Cross and are there in Heaven right now praising Him for our sake!
@KevinPosobiec Perfect song callback of the horrible wreck. In answer to your question, the Love of God is always there. As a good Catholic, you know it as we know it. Christ didn’t spare Himself, His Mother, His Apostles because to defeating a tragic world requires sacrifice.
@Catholic_bro Glory Be to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit! https://t.co/n6fXDtDsAI
Saints carried through for Christ's Victory. Human, struggling, men, women, children, sinners, carried themselves to the Cross and are there in Heaven right now praising Him for our sake!
@Patrick1_Warren And just to be clear, Mary’s Immaculate Conception was hers not Christ’s! Our Mother was born without sin and strived and sacrificed everyday and stayed that way!
@Patrick1_Warren @BishopBarron Adoration is sitting in the presence of the Lord as He is in the Eucharist, which literally means ‘Thanksgiving’ as Jesus provided to His Apostles at the Last Supper.
Judas missed out because he left early.
Saints carried through for Christ's Victory. Human, struggling, men, women, children, sinners, carried themselves to the Cross and are there in Heaven right now praising Him for our sake!
Saints carried through for Christ's Victory. Human, struggling, men, women, children, sinners, carried themselves to the Cross and are there in Heaven right now praising Him for our sake!
@Pontifex Christ is always there for us. All of us from before time began until the end of the age!
@IMPERATORAUS Always there for us from before the beginning of time to the end of the age!
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