Marine

Retired Marine

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Folarin Balogun, the U.S. striker who scored against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the FIFA World Cup, shared a photo on social media wearing a Rosary around his neck.

[Marine @vinnycog]

@BuzzPatterson @BuzzPatterson Instead of Leavenworth, send him to serve with the Marine Corps for a while. A little with USMC would teach him what real discipline, honor, and military bearing actually look like.
We don’t do political stunts in the uniform. SF

[Marine @vinnycog]

@BuzzPatterson @Delta We loaded many of these aircraft. Was truly the workhorse. If I remember correctly, the planning cargo weight ACL what is 40 K?

[Marine @vinnycog]

@ustonymc What a legend.

[ustonymc @ustonymc]

Australia
April 19 1943

Lt. Col. Chesty Puller receiving his 3rd of five Navy Crosses, the second highest award for valor for his actions on Guadalcanal.

[Marine @vinnycog]

@Joeinblack Thanks for explaining SSPX. I must have been living in a bit of a bubble—I’d never heard of them before!

[T.E. Jentzen @Faithful2Pray]

Meet the Nine Choirs of Angels🙏🏻

[Marine @vinnycog]

@Joeinblack “Lord, empty me, fill me, and use me.”

[Marine @vinnycog]

@Hey_Marine_1775 Okinawa is a good tour.

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Cardinal Ernest Simoni, 97, who was tortured by Albaniaʼs communist regime, climbed Apparition Hill in Medjugorje on June 23, the day before the 45th anniversary of the start of the alleged apparitions.

Six young people claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary for the first time on June 24, 1981, the feast day of St. John the Baptist, on Mount Podbrdo. Since then, some of those visionaries say they still receive messages from the Mother of God on a daily basis.

Following a lengthy investigation, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith approved a document in 2024 titled The Queen of Peace, which acknowledges the spiritual fruits that have been borne, finds no obstacles in the alleged messages received, and makes no pronouncement regarding the supernatural nature of the phenomena.

Assisted by young people from the Cenacolo Community, who carried the cardinal part of the way as he was seated on a litter, the Albanian cardinal traversed a portion of the rocky path on foot, though not without difficulty.

Along the way, he blessed those present who stopped to greet him. Upon reaching the summit of the mountain, he prayed the rosary beside the statue of the Virgin Mary and blessed the water with which he sprinkled the crowd before returning.

The footage of this pilgrimage, provided by María Visión Medjugorje, bears witness to the determination of the cardinal who, as a priest, endured the communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, the man who proclaimed Albania to be “the first atheist state in the world."

Born in 1928 in the village of Troshani, the young Simoni underwent formation with the Franciscans from 1938 to 1948, until a bloody religious persecution eliminated the communityʼs superiors and forced him to continue his formation in secret.

In 1956, he was ordained a priest at St. Stephenʼs Cathedral in the Archdiocese of Shkodrë-Pult. Seven years later, after celebrating Christmas Eve Mass on Dec. 24, 1963, he was arrested by four agents and informed that he would be executed by hanging, accused of having celebrated a Mass for the repose of the soul of recently assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy at the behest of St. Paul VI.

According to his own account, an attempt was made to entrap him by placing another prisoner in his cell who began complaining about the Communist Party. News of his preaching about love for oneʼs enemies while in prison reached the dictator, who decided to commute his sentence to 28 years of forced labor. During those years, he continued to celebrate Mass and exercise his priestly ministry clandestinely.

In 1973, he was once again sentenced to death, accused of inciting a rebellion. However, exonerating testimony prevented the immediate execution of the sentence, and he remained in prison for another 18 years until his release in 1981.

He continued his pastoral work in secret for another nine years, until the fall of the communist regime in 1990.

“The Lord has helped me to serve so many people and to reconcile many, driving hatred and the devil away from the hearts of men,” he stated upon concluding his testimony before Pope Francis in October 2016.

A month later, Simoni was created a cardinal at the consistory held on Nov. 19, 2016.

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[Marine @vinnycog]

@BishopBarron God bless.

[Marine @vinnycog]

@fr_petros Amen.

[Vince Coglianese @VinceCoglianese]

I'm not a big golf guy, but back in the early days of The Daily Caller, a couple of us would stop by East Potomac once a week in the off-season to play the 9-hole par 3 before work.

It was awesome -- A cheap, quick round of golf, a breakfast sandwich in the pro shop, and right to the office. We felt like kings.

That said, once I had the chance to play on a few nice courses, I realized how rundown East Potomac is. On a nice course, it felt like we were putting on glass. East Potomac was like putting on sandpaper.

I couldn't imagine a better president to fix up this wonderful public course on an epic piece of real estate in the nation's capital. @realDonaldTrump and @SecretaryBurgum are going to rejuvenate this course into something truly grand, and every American will have a chance to feel like a king -- whether or not you voted for the guy.

[Marine @vinnycog]

@CorpBarnaby A true hero.

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Most Badass Americans You Don’t Know: Alford L. McLaughlin

One Marine, two machine guns, and a legendary night defense in Korea.

Born in 1928 in Leeds, Alabama.

He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1945 at the end of WW2.

Assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division.

On the night of September 4–5, 1952, during the savage fighting near Bunker Hill, he volunteered for a second consecutive tour of duty on an isolated position called Outpost Bruce.

The Chinese counterattacked in overwhelming battalion strength.

He had set up two separate machine guns and poured withering enfilade fire into the attackers, alternating between them so they wouldn’t overheat.

Wave after wave slammed into his position.

As the enemy got closer and tried to use cover, he stood up in full view and fired the machine guns from the hip until the heat blistered his hands.

He kept firing even after he was painfully wounded by shrapnel.

When the guns grew too hot to touch, he laid them down to cool and kept fighting with his carbine and hand grenades.

He stood fully exposed in the open to shout encouragement to his fellow Marines as the attacks kept coming through the night.

He helped beat back attack after attack as the enemy kept pushing forward in waves.

By the time the fighting finally died down, McLaughlin was still alive, still at his gun, and had accounted for an estimated 150 dead and 50 wounded enemy soldiers.

For his extraordinary heroism he was personally presented the Medal of Honor by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Alford L. McLaughlin is an American Badass 🇺🇸

[Marine @vinnycog]

@joaosilveiraaa Amazing

[Father João Silveira @joaosilveiraaa]

His Beatitude Mar Polis III Nona (Paul III Nona) is the new Patriarch of the Chaldean Church of Babylon. He was elected on April 12 and enthroned on May 29 at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Baghdad, Iraq.

Chaldean Catholics are largely Eastern-rite Assyrians who entered into communion with the Catholic Church in the 16th century.

The name “Chaldean” does not indicate direct descent from the ancient Chaldeans of Babylon (the people mentioned in the Holy Scriptures), but was adopted for historical and biblical reference (Abraham came from “Ur of the Chaldees”).

Today they represent one of the largest Christian communities in Iraq and in the diaspora.

May Our Lord bless Mar Polis III Nona with wisdom and strength to guide his people!

[Marine @vinnycog]

@fr_petros God bless you and what you’re doing… Stay in the attack. And thank you.

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

In 1979, not long before he died, Archbishop Fulton Sheen gave his final interview to Marie Torre of WABC. The 5 most important things he said in the interview were....

1. Modern erotic culture is a failure of purpose, not merely a failure of rules.

2. The family depends on sacrificial love, not mutual self-satisfaction.

3. The human heart wants life, truth, and love in an absolute form; this desire points to God.

4. The Church cannot become credible by copying the world.

5. Children require moral formation, not permissive abandonment disguised as freedom.

When he gave this interview, no one knew it would be his. Let us never forget his wisdom.

[Dick Vitale @DickieV]

It is amazing that @CaitlinClark22 who has brought so much publicity for the @WNBA has to take so much abuse from many of those that she has helped financially since her arrival .The physical pounding she takes is totally UNACCEPTABLE! https://t.co/PdJO1xl773