Katie Uphoff

GBPackers/STLCardinals fan. Country girl. Bookworm. Christian. Beer drinker. Bowler. History enthusiast. Travel seeker. Medical coder. I do crosswords in pen.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Incredible view of Norwegian fans at Gillette Stadium doing the Viking row during their match their match

[Katie Uphoff @uppy84]

Read "Cody Campbell’s words should make everyone pause on the Brandon Sorsby case" on SmartNews: https://t.co/vWDb88VTs7

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Thank you to all who fought and sacrificed in freedoms defense all those years ago. Incredible footage here. Blessed that both my uncles survived and will never forget the over 400,000 who did not come home.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

ESPN sources: Green Bay WR Christian Watson and the Packers reached agreement today on a four-year, $110.5 million contract extension that includes a $31 million signing bonus.

[Katie Uphoff @uppy84]

Honor and Remember. #Remembrance #memorialday

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

Happy Memorial Day! 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

On this Memorial Day, we honor the American service members who gave their lives in defense of the Republic. From the fields of Lexington and Concord in 1775, where the fight for independence began, to the beaches of Normandy in 1944, through Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, their sacrifices secured our liberty across generations. We remember their courage and the enduring price of freedom.

[Katie Uphoff @uppy84]

Read "8 Most Mysterious Lakes In The United States" on SmartNews: https://t.co/phoMLfgWdr

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died.

Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today.

His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing.

He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it.

He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages.

In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted.

As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan.

His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century.

After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless.

Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23.

The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president.

Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

Psalm 46:10

[Katie Uphoff @uppy84]

https://t.co/xel7mPOfhS

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

This Masters commercial absolutely nailed it

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Welcome to the Midwest

Winter is at 6 am
Spring is at 10 am
Summer is at 3 pm
Fall starts around 8pm

Dress accordingly

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Bison roam the open field, feeding on a variety of plants that sustain them through the seasons

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

Looking back, it's crazy how much hate @TimTebow endured for being relentlessly earnest & unashamed about his faith.

In reality, he was just ahead of the curve.

Look at his life now:
-Caring for special needs children
-Rescuing kids from s*x slavery

We need more Tebows.

[ESPN @espn]

Lou Holtz has died at the age of 89, his family announced Wednesday.

The legendary football coach and ESPN analyst led six college programs and won the 1988 national title at Notre Dame.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

As good as gold 🥇

[ESPN @espn]

Put an entire nation on his back 🇺🇸

Connor Hellebuyck's gold medal game performance will be talked about for years to come 👏

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This dude wins