@FarmGirlCarrie I remember when I grew so fast, my pant legs got so short, my mom added to the length with bell bottoms. the bell bottoms were a blueish purple color from cloth she had left over from something she made. The good old days.
Olathe man identified as 1 of U.S. Marines killed in helicopter crash
The U.S. Marine Corps Friday identified a 21-year-old Olathe man as one of five Marines killed in a helicopter crash this week.
The Marines said Crew Chief Lance Cpl. Donovan Davis, 21, of Olathe; Sgt. Alex Langen, 23 of Chandler, Arizona; Capt. Benjamin Moulton, 27, of Emmett, Idaho; Jack Casey, 26, of Dover, New Hampshire; and Capt. Miguel Nava, 28, of Traverse City, Michigan, died when their helicopter crashed Tuesday in a remote snow-covered area in southern California.ποΈ
#Military #RIP #USMC
>American airman asleep on a train in France, on vacation with his childhood friends
>Wakes up to the sound of screaming & breaking glass
>Sees a terrorist step into the aisle carrying an AK-47
>Doesn't look for an exit, doesn't hesitate
>Sprints 30 feet down the aisle straight at the barrel of the gun, completely unarmed
>The terrorist pulls the trigger; the rifle miraculously jams
>Tackles him, gets slashed in the neck and hand with a box cutter, almost losing his thumb
>Ignores the bleeding, chokes the attacker unconscious with his bare hands
>Credits God for the jammed rifle and his survival
>Saves everyone on board
Patriot airman Spencer Stone is a hero.
These women, most barely in their early twenties stood at the front lines of human suffering.
Working 12-to-18-hour shifts in understaffed field hospitals and MASH units, they treated horrifying wounds from bullets, shrapnel, napalm burns, and landmines, often while mortar rounds exploded nearby.
With blood-soaked scrubs and trembling hands, they stabilized soldiers who arrived by helicopter in shock, missing limbs, or clinging to life. Many had never seen death before arriving in-country, yet they held dying boysβ hands, wrote their final letters home, and somehow kept going day after brutal day.
These courageous women of the Army Nurse Corps faced not only the horrors of war but also the emotional weight of watching thousands of young lives slip away, forever changed by what they witnessed in the bloodiest conflict, the Vietnam War.
#WarNurses #TheVietnamWar
It has been over a month since I lost my dad, and not a single day goes by without thinking about him and praying for him.
He gave 28 years to this country, earning the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Purple Heart, and multiple Bronze Stars for valor in Vietnam. He was the most decorated graduate The Citadel ever produced.
My dad spent most of his life serving this country. He did not do it for recognition or applause. He did it because service was who he was. And he made sure it became part of who I am.
He taught me what real service looks like. He taught me you do not quit when things get hard.
When I am standing up for the people of South Carolina, when I am taking on Washington, when I refuse to back down under pressure, I am doing exactly what he raised me to do.
I do this job for the people of South Carolina. And I do it the way he taught me, with everything I have.
I miss you, Dad, every single day. I will never stop being exactly who you raised me to be.