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[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

I go to bed tonight knowing, there was at least one man, one American hero, who showed us the courage, that this bullshit needs to stop.

[George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter]

For the last 13 years, the Bush Center has proudly carried the flag as the “new kid on the presidential center block.” Today, the @BarackObama Presidential Center takes on that role. On behalf of all of us at the Bush Center, congratulations to the @ObamaFoundation team. Take it from us: once the pomp and circumstance of opening passes, the real fun begins: serving the American people and guests from around the world. We’ll be cheering you on from Dallas!

📸: The 43rd President and the 44th President at the Dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, April 25, 2013.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

We’re about to spend $300,000,000,000 rebuilding Iran after spending $80,000,000,000 destroying it, while telling Americans on Medicaid to take a hike.

America First.

[Baldwinsville Bees @Bville_Bees]

Best of Luck to girls track and field athlete Kamryn Barton, Coach Galliher & Coach Spicer. Kamryn will compete in the NYSPHSAA track and field state championships today and tomorrow at Webster Schroeder H.S.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

If you have seen Band of Brothers, you remember the scene. Winters standing alone in the middle of a road, fully exposed to German machine gun fire, screaming at his pinned-down men to move.

That happened on this day, June 12, 1944. And the real story around it is even bigger than the show had time to tell.

Six days after D-Day, the Allies had a serious problem. The five invasion beaches were not one beachhead. They were separate pockets, and the gap between Utah and Omaha ran straight through a small Norma📷📷n crossroads town called Carentan.

Whoever held Carentan controlled whether the invasion became a front or stayed a collection of vulnerable footholds Hitler could crush one by one.

Defending it: Major Friedrich von der Heydte's 6th Parachute Regiment, some of the best infantry Germany had left, dug in behind flooded marshes that funneled any attacker onto narrow causeways.

Taking it: the 101st Airborne, men who had jumped into the dark on June 6 and had barely slept since.

On June 11, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole led his battalion across an exposed causeway under murderous fire. When his men stalled, Cole did something out of another century. He blew a whistle and led a bayonet charge through the smoke into the German positions. He won the Medal of Honor. He never got to wear it. He was killed by a sniper in Holland three months later.

On the morning of June 12, Easy Company of the 506th attacked into Carentan itself. They walked into interlocking machine gun fire at a T intersection and froze in the ditches. That is when Dick Winters stood up in the open, somehow untouched, and got them moving. The town fell that day.

The Germans were not done. On June 13 they counterattacked with tanks and assault guns, and Easy Company held a thin line at a spot the paratroopers named Bloody Gulch. They were minutes from being overrun when Shermans of the 2nd Armored Division arrived and shattered the attack.

With Carentan held, Utah and Omaha linked up, and the five beaches became one continuous Allied front. The door the Germans needed to split the invasion was closed forever.

One more detail. Von der Heydte, the German commander, later said his men had fought to the last of their ammunition. After the war, he became a law professor.

Winters became a farmer. He said he had promised God on D-Day that if he survived, he would find a quiet piece of land and live in peace.

He kept the promise.

[Matt @nosoupforgeorge]

TRIGGER WARNING for USA Republicans cheering for Folarin Balogun:

Born in Brooklyn.
To Nigerian parents.
Grew up in England.
Plays for #USMNT.

That's a lot of diversity, and that's what makes America great. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

I want to give you guys some facts about General Chappie James. He wasn’t a “DEI” hire—he was a complete badass that had to overcome MORE than any white pilot. Did 178 combat missions—that’s like 7 bomber tours on a B-17 in WWII.

His medal count? Impeccable. 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Air Medals, Two Legions of Merit, and a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. One of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first four-star African American General.

Hegseth couldn’t sniff the level of soldiering and warrior that was in Chappie’s DNA. God bless him. And Hegseth took down his picture from a hallway like a racist little child, which is what he is.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

The evolution of American people.

[David Shuster @DavidShuster]

Withdraw all forces from Persian gulf, lift all sanctions on Iran, give Iran $12B immediately and $12B more in 60 days, give Iran $300B in construction, let Iran control/toll Strait of Hormuz. US gets promise to discuss Iran nukes. This is not a deal. It is a US surrender.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Just a guy who flew 39 combat missions talking to a guy who was machine gunning on D-Day.

Greatest Generation. Built Different. 🫡🇺🇸

[Band of Brothers Behind the Scenes @BandBehind]

Tonight,
Is the night,
Of nights.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

"The beachhead is secure, but the price was high. Now that it is over it seems to me a pure miracle that we ever took the beach at all.”
~Ernie Pyle, June 1944
82nd Anniversary, D-Day 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

It's D Day. 4,427 Allied soldiers died today so that generations not even born, like mine, could grow up in freedom. See more at https://t.co/EEg00P06y6

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

The first wave is closing on Omaha Beach. This is why, as a Brit, I tell my American son always to hold his head high. Most of the men in this photo will be killed or wounded in the next couple of hours. My freedom is not free. See more on Substack: https://t.co/EEg00P06y6