This is so cool I had to dust off the old blog. The 75th Anniversary was actually yesterday but as you know, the US media is focused on other “more important” things so I missed it.
There you stood, America.
Low on food.
Low on ammunition and medical supplies.Outnumbered.
Five Nazis for each American.In the dead of winter, they thought you'd surrender.
They thought they'd break through.They thought wrong.
#Bulge75 | #USApic.twitter.com/XHLiZCnDwu
— Canadian Forces in
How many soldiers did it take to stare down 500 Nazis?
How many soldiers did it take to delay for 20 hours an entire Division of Nazis?
18. It took 18 American soldiers.
We see you there at Lanzerath Ridge.
We see you, America.
— Canadian Forces in
https://twitter.com/cafinus/status/1206836381848395777
Bad weather prevented them from jumping into frozen Belgium.
So the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion went in by land.
They held firm at Rochefort.
They helped push back the Nazis.
They stood strong by your side.We saw you at the #BattleoftheBulge, America. pic.twitter.com/YSpZIf6ZPr
— Canadian Forces in
It’s all fine when Piers advocates going after other people’s right. How will he feel when they come for his?
Yeah I know. I’m yelling at clouds.
This is one of those rare instances.
Getting ready for bed Sunday night, I looked at Twitter before I closed up my laptop and saw something about Las Vegas police scanner reporting shots fired at a concert venue. Holy crap!
I turned on the TV, and sure enough it was on every channel already. My wife, daughter, and I are planning to go there in November, so this hopefully was a mistake. Fireworks. Something.
No. No mistake. You know the story already.
Well it turns out my friend Mike from my Seabee days was in Las Vegas at the concert where Jason Aldean was playing. Seems like not a week or two ago he just made Chief Petty Officer (E7), and I’m sure this was him and his wife celebrating.
Big and Rich had just been playing an hour earlier, and with cellphones lit, the crowd waved and sang “God Bless America” together:
“God Bless America”1 hour before the shooting.Besties video @mmeyer50 wanted to share
— Kaya Jones (@KayaJones) October 3, 2017
What the shooter hadn’t apparently counted on (hopefully) was the large number of first responders attending the concert off duty with their families. Active duty military and reservists were also in attendance, many with combat experience.
Big and Rich knows this, and they call out to bring some of them on stage with them, and shout out to those who remain in the crowd.
So the shooting starts during Jason Aldean’s final set, and in the first video I saw I was struck by the way the crowd moved. When the shooter was reloading, they were up en mass moving toward exits. When he started firing again, down they went to whatever cover they could find. The ones I saw weren’t stampeding, they were being led.
One of those leaders turns out to have been Mike.
His wife was the first to to post publicly about their horrific experiences escaping the carnage. Mike, as usual, was all business:
Finally they made it home to the LA area, and Mike posted a pic he took before the show started, back from where the better memories came.
We often wonder how we would react in a situation like that. I hope for myself I would be at least with half the poise as ol’ Chief Lopez.
Hoorah, brother.
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She deserves better than this, all women do. What happened to being a gentleman? Especially from the guys who are Christians? No, they’re NOT all “hypocrites”, but so many are fallen…
It’s not often you get to say you felt sexually violated twice in one day. I’d imagine most people never get to say that. But here I am. I cannot say I feel particularly inspired by this eventful day, but I can say I feel sad. And angry. And just generally not okay. I am not okay with what has happened. And if I don’t write it out, it will stay inside, fester, grow, continue to hurt. And I’ll be damned if I am going to give those who’ve hurt me more than the last 24 hours that they have stolen from me. So allow me to speak directly to these men, who somehow both felt like they had a right to my body.
It seems so cliché to wonder if maybe I invited your attention with my clothing. Like, as I was thinking it, I was also thinking how…
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I was on this ship for nearly three years and knew the author way back then.
A Sailor Brings His Ship Home
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May 9, 1960. Nearly a year after being launched in Bath, Maine, a new United States warship is commissioned. An Admiral opens with the statement “I hereby deliver the USS PREBLE”, then the commanding officer reads his orders and declares, “I hereby assume command of the USS PREBLE”. He orders the executive officer to set the watch. The XO directs the officer of the deck to set the watch, and the chief boatswain’s mate pipes the watch. The OOD and the other duty members take their watch stations and a new piece of naval history begins. This is the start of a period of over thirty years during which…
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McDonald’s is trying to hype the fresh beef being used in its Quarter Pounder sammiches:
Yabbut, Wendy’s uses fresh beef all the time. Plus they’re hip to Twitter:
https://twitter.com/cardinalbiggles/status/847525693084884992
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UPDATE: Culprit located –
UPDATE 2: “We were hacked! Or something!”
This book, in a home with a conservative, is good to stimulate conversation among our more liberal friends:
The above Twitter post should take you directly to the sale page. She’s not kidding, the book was number 4 at the time of the tweet, but I just checked and it’s number 1 now.
The reviews are well above 4.5 out of 5, and seem to be screaming “Masterpiece”.
If by now, in the event you’ve read all the way to here in this post, here is the secret to the books success – unvarnished truth. Solid, comprehensive research into all the reasons one should vote Democrat from the author himself:
https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/837508637530570752
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Responses?
https://twitter.com/edcoyne/status/839592067819003904
And an earnest question:
https://twitter.com/rachelehnert/status/839527056031399936
I just…I tried to…I mean I…
