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@emerald_trekV

Love GOD_FAMILY_COUNTRY Working class American, sugar and spice everything nice kinda southern gal

North Carolina, USA Katılım Ekim 2024
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Today is the day! We are so excited. 5:00 edt. Please join us for great discussion.
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Chad Caton🎙🇺🇸@ImFiredUp2·
Turn on notifications I will be live tabling at Coastal Carolina University today with their @TPUSA chapter. 🔥🔥 Should be interesting 🤔
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Billy Bowling  𝕏@babowling12·
Canaan Valley things on *checks notes* April 20th. 😂
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Winona@emerald_trekV·
@0hour1 good morning 🇺🇸
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0HOUR1@0hour1·
Good Morning America 🇺🇸
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radioface@RadioFaceAz·
The Last of the Firsts How America Is Losing Its True Superheroes in Silence. They never wore capes. They never asked to be called heroes. They reserved that word for the ones who never came home. Yet without them, the world we know would not exist. In quiet hospice rooms, small-town kitchens, and veterans’ halls across this country, the final members of history’s most consequential units are slipping away. One by one, the last of the firsts leave us, often with only a brief obituary, a folded flag, and a handful of mourners who truly understand what has been lost. We are witnessing the end of living memory for the men and women who: Bombed Tokyo when defeat seemed certain and lifted a broken nation’s soul (Doolittle Raiders) Turned a forbidden Native language into the only truly unbreakable code of World War II (Navajo Code Talkers) Painted red tails on P-51s and proved excellence knows no color while escorting bombers without a single loss to enemy fighters (Tuskegee Airmen) Parachuted behind Nazi lines in three-man teams to arm the Resistance and delay entire Panzer divisions on their way to Normandy (Jedburgh Teams) Marched a thousand miles through jungle hell to open the road that kept China in the war (Merrill’s Marauders) Flew every dangerous stateside mission so male pilots could fight overseas, only to be denied veterans’ benefits for decades (Women Airforce Service Pilots – WASP) Interrogated Nazi prisoners in flawless German while their own families fled the Holocaust, then broke the Wehrmacht’s will with psychological warfare (Ritchie Boys) Rescued Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and the cultural soul of Europe from Hitler’s salt mines (Monuments Men) Each group was told it was impossible. Each group did it anyway. Each group changed the war, shortened the war, or saved the very idea of civilization itself. Today we grow closer to all being gone Richard Cole, co-pilot on Doolittle’s lead plane, died in 2019. Chester Nez, the last of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers, died in 2014. Charles McGee, Tuskegee legend, took his final flight in 2022. Gabriel Kinney, last Marauder, crossed the river in 2024. Today, only a tiny handful remain. Peter MacDonald (96) and Thomas Begay (101), the final two Navajo Code Talkers who actually transmitted in combat. James Harvey III (102), one of the very last original Red Tails. A scattered few Ritchie Boys in their late nineties and early hundreds. Soon there will be none. When the last voice that spoke the code falls silent, when the last pilot who painted a red tail taxis into eternity, when the last man who jumped with the Jedburghs or walked out of the Burmese jungle closes his eyes, something irreplaceable leaves with them. Not just stories, Not just history. The living proof that ordinary Americans, when everything is on the line, can do the impossible.... We owe them more than a moment of silence. We owe them our voice, loud, grateful, and unrelenting. Teach their names in every school. Put their stories in every library. Name airports, bridges, and scholarships after them. Make their reunions national events while even one still breathes. Because when the last of the firsts is gone, the watch passes to us. Let it never be said that America let its greatest heroes slip away unnoticed. They earned the right to be remembered out loud, forever. For the Raiders who launched when no bomber had ever flown from a carrier. For the Marines who spoke an ancient language into radios and saved divisions. For the Red Tails who flew so perfectly they shattered segregation with every mission. For every last warrior who turned the impossible into victory. We still remember. We always will. This history is ours to defend. Their watch has ended. Ours has just begun
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@emerald_trekV please share this space out and spread the word!
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