J.J. French

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Alien Invasion?!?!?

Project Skyfall

On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name. He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World War he went to France and was gassed and badly wounded at Soissons leading his men. That same summer his younger brother Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France. Ted came home with lungs and a leg that never fully recovered, and before he even left Europe he helped found the American Legion so that ordinary soldiers would have someone looking out for them. Between the wars he did almost everything. Governor of Puerto Rico. Governor General of the Philippines. Businessman, explorer, writer. He could have spent the Second World War safe behind a desk. Instead, at 54, arthritic and walking with a cane, he talked his way back into uniform and into combat. By 1943 he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily under Terry Allen, and their loose, unpolished, soldier-first style rubbed General Patton the wrong way. Patton had them both relieved of command. Roosevelt didn't sulk. He asked for another job, any job, as long as it kept him near the fighting. They made him assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division. Then came D-Day. He hid a heart condition from the Army doctors. He wrote to his commander three separate times, in writing, begging to go in with the very first wave rather than watch from a ship. He was the only general to land in the first wave on any beach that morning, the oldest man in the invasion, walking through machine gun fire with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other. The boats came in a mile off course. Officers froze. Roosevelt limped up and down the beach under fire, studied the ground, and said, "We'll start the war from right here." Then he spent the morning waving men forward and sorting out the chaos so calmly that terrified 20 year olds looked at this old man with a cane and decided that if he wasn't scared, they wouldn't be either. His son Quentin, named for the uncle killed in the last war, landed at Omaha Beach the same morning. They were the only father and son to come ashore together on D-Day. He died a month later. A heart attack in his sleep. And here is the part that gets me. On the very day he died, the orders had just come through promoting him to major general and giving him his own division. He never saw the paperwork. He never knew he'd earned the Medal of Honor either. At his funeral his pallbearers were seven of the most famous generals of the war, Bradley, Hodges, Collins, Barton, Huebner, and George Patton. The same Patton who had fired him. Patton wrote in his diary that Roosevelt was one of the bravest men he had ever known. Years later Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic thing he witnessed in all of World War II. He didn't pause. He said, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

Don't call me crazy. Even you learnt physics from my cartoons.

Gotta keep movin' the horizon calls...

Romans 3:19

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.” -Rudyard Kipling

Legend of Foxy

Great song... youtube.com/watch?v=KeX3hI…

@russcar10now I drove by here once and my truck broke down.

Good morning from Wyoming

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A skateboarding pickle ...!!??

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Ayn Rand nailed it decades ago. “There is no difference between Communism and Socialism, except in the same ultimate end: Communism proposes to enslave men by force, Socialism — by the vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.” She saw it coming. We’re living it right now in Canada. The Liberals aren’t coming for your guns with troops in the street. They’re doing it with the vote. They’re not seizing factories at gunpoint. They’re taxing you into poverty, flooding the country with people who don’t assimilate, running up a trillion-plus in debt, and calling it “progress.” They use democracy as the weapon. Floor-crossers to steal a majority they couldn’t win. Bills to control what you see and say online. Carbon taxes that punish success while they jet around the world. Deficits so massive our kids will be paying for their failures long after they’re gone. It’s slower than the old communist model. But the destination is the same: a country where the individual exists to serve the state, where freedom is gradually voted away, and where anyone who objects is labeled the problem. Rand called it suicide by vote. We’re watching Canada bleed out one “democratic” policy at a time. She was right then. She’s still right now. Time to stop the bleeding. #cdnpoli #AynRand #SocialismKills #CanadaFirst #WakeUpCanada

Anyone recognize this President?

Does this hat make me look old?