Suz Eez ✝️🇺🇸
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High school friend killed during TET 1968. Semper Fi my brother
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Please help me honor Chief Special Warfare Operator Adam Lee Brown, DEVGRU.
Adam was a Hot Springs, Arkansas kid whose entire life was a story of getting back up, and continuing to fight.
Adam was a daredevil who broke his own bones jumping off roofs and bridges. A football player and wrestler with an oversized heart and an undersized frame. A young man who later spiraled into addiction and ended up in jail before turning his life over to his faith and his future wife, Kelley.
He enlisted in the Navy in 1998 with one goal: to become a Navy SEAL. He earned his Trident, served at SEAL Team Two from August 2002 to June 2006, and survived two events that would have ended almost any other operator’s career. He lost his right eye in a training accident, then taught himself to shoot left handed. Years later, in a freak convoy accident in Afghanistan, his dominant right hand was mangled and stripped of fingers. Instead of attending to his own injury, Adam tended to other casualties and stayed in the fight.
He became the only SEAL of his year to attempt and pass sniper school with one eye, and he shot near perfect scores doing it. He was then selected for Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU/SEAL Team 6), the first man to ever earn his place inside that unit while operating with one functional eye.
On March 17, 2010, while attached to an Omega Team conducting a raid on a Taliban commander in Komar Province, Afghanistan, Adam’s element came under heavy fire from a barricaded enemy position and surrounding high ground. Pinned down and watching his teammates take fire, Adam charged the enemy from a more advantageous position to draw the fire onto himself, allowing his team to maneuver and assault. He was mortally wounded but kept firing until he could no longer fight. He was 36 years old.
He left behind his wife Kelley and two children. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with Valor, and the Purple Heart.
His story is told in the New York Times bestseller “Fearless,” by Eric Blehm. In a letter Adam wrote to his children before that final mission, not meant to be read unless the worst happened, he said: “I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this Earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.” Some warriors are remembered for what they overcame.
Adam Brown is remembered for the fact that he never stopped overcoming.
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Today, I remember my father ,He Volunteerd, for the Vietnam War at 18 , Fought three tours, shot three times, saved his platoon from an ambush, and recipient of three purple hearts,Bronze star,Navy Commendation medal 🏅 combat V, Never spoke about it, He would just say I did my part. 🇺🇸 R.I.P. 1999 🙏
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On Memorial Day, I remember Delta Force snipers Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart.
During Black Hawk Down, they inserted into a crash site to save pilot Mike Durant.
Both men died after a prolonged gunfight that saved Durant’s life. Both earned the Medal of Honor.
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“Those poor souls. They didn’t have their fathers here”
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Marine Colonel Francis Fenton kneels beside his son, Private First Class Mike Fenton, near Shuri, Okinawa, May 1945.
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They had met once during the fighting when their paths crossed at a partially destroyed Okinawan farmhouse. After exchanging news the two family members returned to their work. They would never talk again. On May 7, 1945, while beating back a Japanese counterattack the younger Fenton, 19, was killed.
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When his father received the bitter news, he traveled to the site of his son’s death and knelt down to pray over the flag-draped body.
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Upon arising, Colonel Fenton stared at the bodies of other Marine dead and said: ‘Those poor souls. They didn’t have their fathers here’
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If you’ll remember in the past, I posted a photo of Captain Ike Fenton of 1/5 in Korea, 1950. Ike Fenton was another son of Col Fenton.
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This Memorial Day, and every day, remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and spend the day how you feel best honors their memory.
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“Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
~ Isaiah 6:8
This Memorial Day, we Americans remember the brave men and women who answered that same call. I wore this scripture on a chain around my neck for 20 years.
They heard the voice of duty — of God and country — and said, “Send me.” They left homes, families, and futures behind to defend liberty on distant battlefields.
Some never returned. Their sacrifice was total. Their “Here am I” became eternal.
Today we honor their courage, their faith, and the freedom they secured for us. We owe them a debt we can never fully repay — only remember and live worthy of.
To every Gold Star family, every veteran who carried the weight: Thank you.
May we never forget those who said “Send me”… and meant it with their lives.🙏✝️
Goodnight, ya’ll.
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🇺🇸 PFC Cody Calavan 🇺🇸
Cody Calavan enlisted in the Marines shortly after high school. He had already endured the tremendous loss of his mother at age 12, and later his 15-year-old brother to a drunk driver while Cody was in boot camp. As the only surviving son in his family, he was given the option to avoid combat deployment, but chose to serve alongside his fellow Marines.
In 2004, during some of the heaviest fighting in Ramadi, Iraq, Marines with 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines faced a growing threat from roadside bombs every day. Midway through their deployment, the unit finally began receiving factory up-armored Humvees designed to withstand many of the early IED attacks. But those vehicles could only carry five Marines at a time, so larger Humvees without true armor protection were also used.
The Marines did what they could: they bolted steel plates onto the sides, added L-shaped steel doors, and lined the floors with sandbags. Even so, Marines riding in the back remained dangerously exposed, and machine gunners had almost no protection.
On May 29, 2004, a convoy passed what appeared to be an abandoned station wagon in Ramadi. The vehicle had been packed with artillery rounds, plastic explosives, and ball bearings, then detonated remotely by insurgents as the convoy moved past.
The explosion tore through one of the Humvees, killing four Marines and wounding six others, three critically. Among those killed was 19-year-old Private First Class Cody Calavan, the machine gunner on the vehicle. He had already distinguished himself during intense fighting earlier that April.
At just 19 years old, he did what most could and would never do. He fought and gave his life for the freedoms of people he never knew.
This Memorial Day, we remember Cody Calavan and all those who gave their lives for us. 🇺🇸 Our freedoms are not a birthright. They are a gift, paid for by those who believed in them enough to die for them. It is our job to make sure they are never taken from us.
The photos below shows the kind of bomb-proof vehicle that was available to the Pentagon as the Iraq War began. The second photograph shows the Humvee Cody was riding in when he was killed.
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TRAGIC: Pro-Trump Army Veteran Kerry Sheron Murdered at 69 in Brutal Attack
Heartbreaking news out of San Diego, Kerry Sheron, the proud owner of a well known Trump House and a dedicated Army Veteran, has passed away after being savagely attacked outside his own home by a Leftist psychopath.
This patriot was known throughout the community for boldly flying the flag and standing strong for America First values. Now he’s gone, taken out in an act of pure evil.
The violence has to stop!
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Left an ice-cold Coors for you at the bar, amigo. We miss you.
Always faithful. Always forward.
SGT Wolf Weninger, Critical Skills Operator. 16JUN2020
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Thinking today of my beloved father who served both in World War II and the Korean War.
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My friend, Scott “Scottie” Rose was killed in Iraq in November 2003.
Scottie’s first and only daughter was born while he was deployed.
He never got to hold her.
Miss you Scottie. ✝️🇺🇸💕
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This Memorial Day, I want to honor CPL Benjamin Kopp of the 75th Ranger Regiment.
Ben was the kind of young man America desperately needs more of. Courageous. Humble. Faithful. A warrior in every sense of the word.
He was critically wounded fighting Taliban forces in Afghanistan in July 2009 during a brutal firefight deep inside enemy territory. Eight days later, he passed away from his wounds at Walter Reed. He was 21 years old.
I’ll never forget hearing that Ben had accepted Christ during Ranger School after reading my book A More Elite Soldier. That was never about me. It was about a young Ranger searching for truth and finding it in Jesus Christ.
Ben went on to serve honorably on multiple deployments in defense of this country and the men beside him. He lived with purpose and died with courage.
Today, we remember a hero who gave everything for others.
Please take a moment today to remember CPL Benjamin Kopp and all those who laid down their lives for our freedom.
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:13
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Remembering both of these guys today.
Two best friends that did everything together.
Both took their lives about a year apart from each other after coming back from deployment.
Many of the wounds of war are unseen.
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My friend, Phil Johnson, was killed in Iraq in January 2004.
I met Phil while stationed in Korea. While I knew him only a short time, the bond of brotherhood remains…
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U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Alan Wayne Shaw died on February 9, 2007 in Baqubah, Iraq of wounds suffered from an explosion during breaching operations. Alan was 31 years old and from Little Rock, Arkansas. 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. Remember Alan. He is an American Hero.🇺🇸🎖️
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Thank you to all of my frens and all other military folks that serve/served our country. Me and mine appreciate you all. And, thank you to the families that made sacrifices, too. I’m not great with words so I hope the true sentiment comes through.
✝️🇺🇸❤️🤍💙🇺🇸✝️
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