@HHarcoy@vrillain0@DavidShann29662@DoubleODispatch Thanks H.H...I know DOD is appealing..Grok says can take weeks or months.I hope Genius also started the process.Seems like X is kind of a coping tool and place to reachnout for many people.Sad that this can happen with no real reason.given.Hooe this get fixed.
@StAnne1776@vrillain0@DavidShann29662@DoubleODispatch I'm sorry for replying now, but I didn't want to be next. Apparently, they respond to a high level of activity, which is why I held back. Anyway, I hope they're both doing well. And that they'll be back soon.🤜🤛
In 1943, an American pilot crashed into one of the most dangerous jungles in the world.
For 31 days, Fred Hargesheimer wandered alone through the rainforests of New Britain after his plane was shot down over Japanese-controlled territory during World War II.
He was starving.
Delirious.
Barely alive.
He survived on roots and stream water while hiding from Japanese patrols searching the island.
By the time voices finally emerged from the jungle, Fred thought he had been found by enemy soldiers.
Instead, it was a group of Nakanai villagers.
They carried the exhausted American pilot back to their village and hid him from Japanese forces fully aware they could be executed for helping him.
The villagers protected him anyway.
Fred was so weak he could barely eat.
Then a nursing mother named Ida began feeding him her own breast milk for days to keep him alive while also caring for her infant son.
Fred never forgot her name.
Whenever Japanese patrols approached, villagers blew a hidden conch shell warning so Fred could escape into the jungle.
Children even followed behind him sweeping away his bootprints in the sand with palm-frond brooms to hide evidence he had been there.
If the Japanese had discovered him, the entire village could have been massacred.
Nobody betrayed him.
The children called him “Mastah Preddi.”
Master Freddie.
He lived among them for seven months before Allied forces finally rescued him by submarine in 1944.
But Fred never forgot the people who saved his life.
Especially Ida.
Especially the children with the tiny brooms.
Years later, one thought still haunted him:
“How could I ever repay them?”
So in 1960, he returned to New Britain.
As his boat approached the shore, villagers stood waiting for him and began singing the only English song they knew:
“God Save the Queen.”
Fred stepped onto the beach and cried.
After returning home to Minnesota, he began raising money through churches and local donations to help the village.
Over the following decades, he helped build:
• schools
• libraries
• a medical clinic
At one point, Fred and his wife even moved there for several years to teach children themselves.
In 2000, the Nakanai people officially named him a tribal chief and gave him the title:
“Suara Auru” Chief Warrior.
Then, at age 90, Fred made one final trip into the jungle to visit the wreckage of the plane that had crashed there in 1943.
Villagers carried the elderly pilot through the rainforest on their shoulders so he could see it one last time.
Fred Hargesheimer died in 2010 at age 94.
The schools and clinic he helped build still serve the community today.
When people asked why he spent nearly 70 years repaying strangers he could have simply forgotten after the war, Fred always gave the same answer:
“They saved my life. How could I ever repay it?”
So he spent the rest of his life trying.
🚨 BREAKING: TINA PETERS IS COMING HOME! 🇺🇸
After years of fighting for election integrity, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters has received clemency from Colorado Governor Jared Polis and will be released from prison on June 1st.
@realtinapeters (who became one of the most high-profile figures tied to post-2020 election investigations) was seen smiling and waving from behind prison walls ahead of her release.
Supporters across the country, including @POTUS Trump and @realMikeLindell, have long called for her freedom - as her case exposed the weaponization of our justice system against those who dare question election security.
Gov. Polis said the punishment was too harsh... for a "first time offender".
@lippyent Funny!! I was thinking about all the kids using hand sanitizer and drinking bottled water.We drank from the hose and ate sandwiches with suspiciously crusty "just washed hands".