Tim

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[Tim @timk104]

@ArtTherapy73 Happy Birthday

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the morning of June 6, 1944, Lt. Dick Winters had already survived one disaster before the sun came up.

His C-47 roared over Normandy through a wall of flak, flying too fast and too low. He jumped anyway. The prop blast ripped his leg bag clean off, taking his rifle, his ammo, and most of his gear. He hit the ground in occupied France armed with a knife in his boot.

Most men in that situation hide. Winters started walking toward the sound of the war.

By dawn he had scavenged a rifle, collected a handful of scattered paratroopers, and learned that his company commander's plane had gone down with everyone aboard. Just like that, a quiet lieutenant from Pennsylvania who didn't drink, didn't curse, and wrote letters home about wanting to find a peaceful farm someday was in command of Easy Company.

A few hours later a battalion officer gave him one of the great understated orders in military history. German fire was coming from a farm called Brecourt Manor, hammering the troops coming off Utah Beach. The order was basically: there's fire along that hedgerow, take care of it.

What was actually there: four 105mm howitzers dug into a hedgerow network, connected by zigzag trenches, covered by machine guns, and defended by roughly 60 German troops. The guns were dropping shells directly on causeway exit 2, where thousands of Americans were trying to get off the beach. Every minute those guns fired, men died in the sand.

Winters had 12.

He did not charge. He crawled forward alone to study the position, then briefed his men like he had all the time in the world. Machine guns here to pin the defenders. Compton, Guarnere, and Malarkey crawling along the flank. Hit the first gun with grenades and speed from a direction the Germans never expected.

It worked almost exactly as drawn. The first gun fell in minutes. Then his men used the German trenches as a highway, rolling up the battery one gun at a time, beating back counterattacks, and dropping blocks of TNT down the barrels to destroy them for good.

In the middle of the firefight, Don Malarkey spotted what he thought was a Luger on a dead German and sprinted into open ground to grab it. The German machine gunners held their fire, apparently deciding that anyone that reckless had to be a medic. He made it back alive. It wasn't even a Luger.

At the second gun, Winters found something better than a pistol: a German map showing every artillery and machine gun position covering Utah Beach. He sent it up the chain immediately. On the most important morning of the war, a 26-year-old lieutenant had just handed the Allies the enemy's entire defensive layout for the sector.

When reinforcements under Lt. Ronald Speirs arrived, they stormed the fourth and final gun. About three hours after it started, the battery was silent and the exits off Utah Beach were open for thousands of men who will never know his name.

The cost: one American killed, a few wounded. The Germans lost around 15 dead and a dozen captured. Winters received the Distinguished Service Cross and later said the best decoration he ever got was a sergeant telling him years later that his men trusted him with their lives.

The assault on Brecourt Manor is still studied at West Point as a textbook example of a small unit destroying a fixed position.

Around 60 defenders. Four guns. Twelve paratroopers and a lieutenant who started D-Day with nothing but a knife.

If it sounds familiar, it should. This is the same Easy Company from Band of Brothers. The difference is that none of it was fiction.

And when Winters was asked decades later if he was a hero, he gave the answer that still gets quoted at his statue in Normandy: "No. But I served in a company of heroes."

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

The Far Side was so fucking good it’s still ahead of its time …

[Jerry_Saiyan @JerryWillResist]

Keep talking about the Epstein File

[Tom Hoefling @TomHoefling]

Fool you once, shame on him. Fool you twice, shame on you. Fool you 39 times, you're as crazy as he is.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

ALL of these people have seen the tapes Epstein made of children being r*ped and tortured. He had cameras in every room. That’s how he rose to power.

How damage do you have to be as a human to see that to witness that and continue to protect the perpetrator?

[Tim @timk104]

@BBGreatMoments 1984

[Tim @timk104]

Great and sad read!!

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Friends— If you haven’t read the @nytimes 🚨‼️Bombshell Report🚨‼️on the Epstein Cover Up in the White House, it’s a MUST READ for your weekend reading list!

Article Below—https://t.co/ptmQQCzwqP

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

So this confession by an Epstein victim actually naming Trump as one of her rapists is why we are back at war with Iran…funny how war works

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

Obama used the situation room to get Bin Laden. Trump used the situation room to discuss how to squash his child raping scandal.

[Tim @timk104]

@theresagavarone Already have it!! I’ll be voting NO!!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Makes sense to me.

[W Smith Ω 🧢 @WesSmith123]

The pedophile protectors who gathered secretly in the Situation Room to cover up Trump’s alleged sex crimes against minors.

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

JD Vance was leading the White House cover-up of the Epstein Files from the Situation Room. This is explosive.

We must subpoena and hold accountable every single Trump official who’s protecting pedophiles and abusers.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Has anyone paused to understand the gravity of the fact that we have a sitting president who will bomb human beings in an attempt to hide the fact that he and Epstein sexually assaulted girls and women? This is truly a level of evil that is hard to comprehend.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

The NYT bombshell confirms what we already know. It’s not conjecture. It’s not a fabrication. It’s not a “Hoax.” Donald trump is a child-raping pedophile & the entire republican party is engaged in the most massive coverup in history to prevent the world from realizing this fact.

[Being J Wood @BeingJWood]

The larger picture gives perspective.

[Larry Legend☘️ @LarryBirdDaily]

Double overtime.. 42 points in 56 minutes..

Larry Bird left everything on the floor in Game 4 against Milwaukee in 1987..

Some playoff performances are great. Others become legend..