Mr. Shurtleff - Art Of Thinking Teacher
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Mr. Shurtleff - Art Of Thinking Teacher
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🇺🇸 Countdown Until America’s 250th Birthday: Day 50 Exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826. These two great Patriots passed on the very day the nation they helped create turned 50. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Countdown Until America’s 250th Birthday: Day 50 Exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826. These two great Patriots passed on the very day the nation they helped create turned 50. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
#OTD in 1903, Theodore Roosevelt stepped off his presidential train at Raymond, California, climbed into a stagecoach, and began one of the most consequential camping trips in American history. His guide was John Muir — naturalist, writer, founder of the Sierra Club, and the most passionate wilderness advocate of his generation. Muir had been pestering Washington for years to extend federal protection over Yosemite Valley. Roosevelt had finally said: "don't tell me about it; show me." That first night was spent in the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. Roosevelt slept beneath the Grizzly Giant — one of the largest living things on earth — on a bed made up of forty wool army blankets that park rangers had laid down beneath the tree. Muir built a fire. The two men talked late into the night about glaciers, forest fires, sheep grazing, and the federal government's responsibility to protect what was here long before any of us. It would be hard to overstate what those four days did to American conservation. By the time Roosevelt left Yosemite, he had decided to push for federal control of the valley. By 1906, Congress had returned Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove to federal jurisdiction. Within a decade, his administration would protect more than 230 million acres of land — five national parks, 18 national monuments, and over 150 national forests. It started here. With a stagecoach, a sequoia, and a man named Muir. #OTD #OnThisDay #TheodoreRoosevelt #TeddyRoosevelt #JohnMuir #Yosemite #Conservation #PublicLands #TRHistory
Over the next 50 days, I’ll be counting down the United States—one state at a time—from newest to oldest, marking each state’s admission into the Union. From Hawaii back to Delaware, this is the story of how a nation was built—state by state, frontier by frontier. 🇺🇸 50 Days to Independence begins now. Day 1 — Hawaii (Aug 21, 1959) Pacific Crown of the Union Hawaii entered as the fiftieth state, extending America into the Pacific. Its cultural richness and strategic importance marked a new chapter in national identity and global presence.
Roosevelt's father once told him: "You have the mind but not the body. You must make your body." Teedie Roosevelt was a sickly child. Asthma so severe he could barely climb a flight of stairs. His father would take him on carriage rides through Manhattan in the middle of the night, hoping the cold air would open his lungs. The family tried everything — black coffee, cigar smoke, prescription medications that would horrify a modern parent. So when his father challenged him to build his body, the boy took it literally. He started boxing. He started lifting weights. He started running and hiking and pushing himself beyond what anyone thought his constitution could bear. By the time he arrived in the Badlands at age 24, he was still thin and bespectacled — but he was no longer fragile. And the Badlands finished what his father's challenge had started. Two years of ranch work, hunting, and riding transformed him physically into the vigorous, barrel-chested figure the world would come to know. The Library tells the full arc — from the boy who couldn't breathe to the man who couldn't sit still. The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opens July 4 in Medora. trlibrary.com/visit #TheodoreRoosevelt #TRLibrary #Medora #NorthDakota #AmericanHistory #StrenuousLife #Leadership #OpeningJuly4
🇺🇸 Most Badass Marines You Don’t Know: #7 Stephen W. Pless Stephen W. Pless is an American Badass. A Marine Huey gunship pilot who became the only Marine aviator awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam. Born September 6, 1939, in Newnan, Georgia. He enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve while still in high school and went on active duty after graduating from Georgia Military Academy in 1957. After recruit training at Parris Island, he served as an artillery surveyor before entering flight training. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1959 and designated a Naval Aviator in 1960. Pless deployed to Vietnam as a helicopter pilot with Marine Observation Squadron 6. He flew an incredible 780 combat missions during the war. On August 19, 1967, while serving as a captain near Quang Ngai, Pless was on an escort mission when he monitored an emergency call. Pless diverted his UH-1 Huey gunship to the scene without hesitation. Four American soldiers from a downed Army Chinook were stranded on a beach and being overrun by a large Viet Cong force. Captain Pless flew to the scene and found 30 to 50 enemy soldiers in the open. Some of the enemy were bayoneting and beating the downed Americans. He launched a devastating low level rocket and machine gun attack against the enemy force, killing or wounding many and driving the remainder back into a treeline. He then landed the Huey directly on the beach between the wounded soldiers and the enemy, using the aircraft as a shield so his crew could retrieve the men under intense fire. During the rescue the enemy directed intense fire at the helicopter and rushed the aircraft again and again, closing to within a few feet before being beaten back. After loading the three surviving wounded soldiers, the heavily overloaded helicopter struggled to rise from the soft beach sand. Pless skillfully turned the aircraft out toward the open sea while still taking enemy fire. Four times the skids settled deep into the water as the overloaded Huey bounced across the waves and nearly swamped. Pless jettisoned his rocket pods, ordered the crew to throw out everything possible to lighten the load, and finally coaxed the struggling bird aloft. He flew the wounded soldiers to safety and saved their lives. Captain Stephen W. Pless was awarded the Medal of Honor. It was presented by President Lyndon B. Johnson on January 16, 1969. Tragically, Major Stephen W. Pless was killed on July 20, 1969, at age 29, when his motorcycle plunged off an open drawbridge in Pensacola, Florida. The Huey helicopter which Pless flew during his Medal of Honor mission is on display at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. Stephen W. Pless is a Marine Badass 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 The Roosevelts had the ONLY father-son duo that stormed D-Day together BG Theodore Roosevelt Jr. hit Utah Beach in the first wave at age 56. Captain Quentin Roosevelt II stormed Omaha Beach on the first wave under fire at age 24. No other father and son duo fought on D-Day. Quentin was named after his Uncle who died in WWI. Pure Roosevelt steel 💪🇺🇸
Happy Mother’s Day! Moms should have a special day today; perhaps shooting a cannon if need be. “Molly Pitcher” became one of the enduring legends of the Battle of Monmouth (1778) and the Revolution Made with ChatGPT and checked against sources for accuracy. #aihistory
