Mitch Rushhton
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@rushhton
I love our country, I'm patriotic and im sick of the evil demonicrats. IFBAP Married to my wife. No DM's unless I know you.
Sadly, Colonel Robert Stirm's wife started cheating on him within the first year in his years-long nightmare as a POW of Communist North Vietnam. While he was being tortured regularly by the North Vietnamese, she was having illicit affairs with other men in the peace and safety of the United States. She had the gall to destroy his joy of being released by having a military chaplain hand-deliver her "Dear John" letter while he was on his way home from years of brutal captivity in Hanoi. In the divorce, she took 40% of his retirement pay for life as a reward for her cheating on him while he was on the receiving end of regular, vicious maltreatment from his evil Communist captors. This is one of the worst military spouse betrayal stories in American history.
🥀 Robert Stirm, the Vietnam War POW remembered from the iconic “Burst of Joy” reunion photo, has passed away at 92. 🕊️🇺🇸 Stirm was a U.S. Air Force officer who spent years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. When he finally came home in 1973, his reunion with his family at Travis Air Force Base became one of the most unforgettable images in American history. In that powerful moment, his oldest daughter ran toward him with her arms wide open, lifted off the ground in pure emotion — creating the photograph the world would come to know as “Burst of Joy.” That image became far more than a family reunion frozen in time. It came to represent relief after suffering, hope after heartbreak, and the overwhelming joy of loved ones made whole again after years of fear, pain, and uncertainty. In the middle of a war so often remembered for grief, that single photograph showed something deeply human and unforgettable. Behind that moment was a man who endured captivity, hardship, and the unknown — and still returned home to the embrace of the family who had never stopped loving him. 🕊️ Rest in peace, Robert Stirm. #TheVietnamWar #POW #RIP 🕊️
🚨 U.S. 🇺🇸 counties with more DEATHS than BIRTHS: 2010: 34% 2015: 43% 2020: 60% 2025: 65% 2030: Likely many more We need to change this. America 🇺🇸 needs to live. And to live it needs LIFE, children, and babies. 🚨
