Mark Sullivan
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@Sullie
Never look back- 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Freedom, and the right to Life, Liberty, and the POH - STL Cardinals, Blues hockey, cigars and a good single malt doesn’t hurt either
🙏🇺🇸🙏 In 1942, an 18-year-old rebel with a history of getting expelled from schools walked into a recruitment office and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. His name was Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr. You know him as Lee Marvin. He hadn't been easy to raise. Restless, undisciplined, bounced between schools his whole childhood. But when America went to war, something clicked into place. He knew exactly where he needed to be. He trained at Parris Island, South Carolina, completed Quartermaster School, and was promoted to Corporal — then demoted back to Private First Class for disciplinary infractions. Some things never changed. What did change him was the Pacific. Assigned to I Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division, Marvin participated in 21 amphibious assaults on Japanese-held islands. He served as a scout sniper — the men sent ashore in rubber boats in the dead of night, before anyone else, to clear the way. Then came Saipan. On June 18, 1944, during the assault on Mount Tapochau, machine gun fire tore through him and severed his sciatic nerve. Moments later, a sniper's bullet hit him in the foot. In fifteen minutes, his company of 247 men was reduced to six survivors. Lee Marvin was one of them. He spent the next 13 months in naval hospitals, undergoing treatment that would have broken most men. He was medically discharged as a Private First Class — the rank still showing the demotion from years before. The Marine Corps was done with him, even if he wasn't done with them. Back in upstate New York, he took work as a plumber's assistant at a local community theater. One day, filling in for an ailing actor at a rehearsal, he discovered something unexpected: he loved the stage. What followed was one of Hollywood's most unlikely careers. The lean, scarred veteran with the gravelly voice and thousand-yard stare became one of the most compelling actors of his generation. The Big Heat. The Wild One. M Squad. The Dirty Dozen. And in 1966, the Academy Award for Best Actor - for Cat Ballou, of all things, a comedy Western. The toughest man in Hollywood won his Oscar playing both a drunken gunfighter and his villainous twin. But Lee Marvin never forgot what he considered his real role. He said he learned to act in the Marines — trying to look unafraid during combat when terror was all around him. When directors needed someone to show actors how infantry moved, how a rifle was held, how a man looked who had actually been shot at — they called Lee Marvin. He died on August 29, 1987, at the age of 63 - of a heart attack in Tucson, Arizona. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. His headstone doesn't say "Academy Award Winner." It reads: PFC — US Marine Corps — World War II. That was the title he chose. That was the one that mattered. Decorated with the Purple Heart, the Presidential Unit Citation, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the World War I| Victory Medal, and the Combat Action Ribbon. One of six men who walked away from a hillside on Saipan 🙏🇺🇸🙏
Disgraced Texas megachurch pastor free after 6 months in jail for sexually abusing 12-year-old girl: 'I am deeply sorry' trib.al/DrrUE0U
An independent Alberta would have the highest oil reserves per capita of any country in the world. Countries with less oil wealth than Alberta have 0% income tax. So why shouldn’t we?
WOW. A student at @TorreyPinesHS was suspended for putting up a poster at school which said "We❤️ICE. From real Americans." The school claims putting up these posters "incites pupils to create a clear and present danger" and produces a "hostile learning environment." This same school held an anti-ICE walkout last month. How many students were suspended for that @TorreyPinesHS? You can contact the principal here: robert.coppo@sduhsd.net
Look at how St. Louis began the 20th century and look at how it ended the 20th century .
The Trump administration must restore the legal status of potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States legally through a Biden-era pathway, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. abcnews.link/iAn9X3o
