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⚓ June 17: Happy Birthday to the United States Navy Hospital Corps! ⚓ On June 17, 1898, the U.S. Navy officially established the Hospital Corps, creating a profession that would become one of the most respected in military history. For more than 128 years, Navy Corpsmen have served wherever American sailors and Marines go on ships, submarines, battlefields, disaster zones, and humanitarian missions around the world. They are the medics who run toward danger when everyone else is seeking cover, often providing lifesaving care under some of the most difficult conditions imaginable. For Marines especially, “Doc” isn’t just a title it’s a badge of trust, respect, and gratitude. Countless Marines owe their lives to the courage, skill, and selfless dedication of Navy Corpsmen who stood beside them in combat. The Hospital Corps is the most decorated enlisted corps in the U.S. Navy, earning thousands of awards for valor, including numerous Medals of Honor. Today we honor the men and women who have carried medical bags, worn caduceus insignia, and answered the call to save lives for more than a century. Fair winds and following seas to every Corpsman past and present. Happy 128th Birthday, Hospital Corps! Semper Fi, Doc. We never forget who runs toward the wounded.

I remember many years ago when my boys were 4 and 6, I was on nights and was dispatched to a crash where someone had run off the roadway and overturned several times, rejecting everyone in the car. Mom, dad and two children. Three were dead. One - the 4 year old little girl - was dying as I got there. Her lungs gurgled for air as she struggled to breath through the blood filling them. I knew she would stop beathing in a minute or two, so I held her in my arms and whispered to her. The ambulance was a hour away. There was no hope. I investigated, gathered information and documented everything a thousand times and after an hour or so, I cleared the scene and drive to the coroners office where the bodies were taken. With cold and robotic methods, I photographed the injuries and the damaged faces and listened to the examiner as he told me what a third grader could see - all had died from massive trauma, blood loss and brain damage. Then I noticed something. The children, were the same ages as my own. The y year old boy even had the same Superman tshirt that my youngest boy loved so much. The next morning as I drank my coffee, I guess they could tell I was bugged because I didn't say much. "Are you sad, Daddy?" My 4 year old asked as he climbed up into my lap. The question caused my 6 year old to walk over and stand at my feet in front of my chair. "Whats up, Daddy? These are the times we lie to our children when we swore we never would. "Nothin, guys. I'm just still tired. Gotta wake up!" That satisfied them and off they went to play in their room. But I wasn't okay. The youngest - a little girl - had died in my arms as I kneeled next to her in the dirt and wheat grass of the median, of Interstate 80. She was on my mind. This is the life of a resident state trooper in a one man duty station. There are no support teams. No peer groups. No shift to meet with and unwind with at roll call. Nobody. This was on my mind

Did You Know? Kept secret for many years, a body double used in the famous shower scene in "Psycho" was Marlie Renfro, a burlesque dancer who had no qualms about nudity during the filming. She was paid a grand total of 500.00.

@MaryTilesTexas Mary, great question!

Favorite war style game on steam and go WW2 gets bonus points

Dr. Joseph Warren died on this day in 1775, and he might be the most important Founding Father you were never taught about. He was born in Roxbury, went to Harvard, and by his early thirties he was the most sought after doctor in Boston. He inoculated the Adams family against smallpox. He took on apprentices. He treated patients on both sides of the growing fight, redcoats included, because he was a doctor first. He was 34 and a widower raising four small children alone after his wife died in 1773. He was also the quiet engine of the entire revolution in Massachusetts. He wrote the Suffolk Resolves. He ran the Committee of Safety. He stood up twice to give the Boston Massacre orations, and the second time, with British officers packing the room to intimidate him, the story goes that he climbed in through a window rather than be turned away, then delivered the speech to their faces. On the night of April 18, 1775, it was Warren who learned the British army was about to march. He sent Paul Revere out one way and William Dawes the other to raise the alarm toward Lexington and Concord. There is no midnight ride without Joseph Warren. People have argued for two centuries about where he got his intelligence, and one long running rumor is that his secret source was close to General Gage himself. The next morning he didn't sit safe behind a desk. He rode out to the fighting at Lexington and Concord and got into the thick of it. A British musket ball came so close it knocked a pin out of the hair beside his ear. Three days before Bunker Hill, the Provincial Congress made him a major general. When he walked onto the hill on June 17, the officers there offered to hand him command of the whole field. He refused. He said he had come to fight as a volunteer, not to give orders, and he took a musket and went into the redoubt with the ordinary men, in the most dangerous spot on the line. The Americans held off two British charges. On the third, low on powder, they were overrun. Warren stayed to cover the retreat and was shot in the head. The British knew exactly who they had killed. They stripped him, ran him through with bayonets, and threw him into a shallow pit with another body. A British officer later bragged that he had stuffed the scoundrel into the ground. General Gage is said to have remarked that Warren's death was worth that of 500 ordinary men. Ten months later, after the British finally gave up Boston and sailed away, his friends went looking for him. The body was beyond recognition. The only reason they ever found him is that Paul Revere, a silversmith by trade, had once wired a false tooth into Warren's jaw with silver wire. Revere dug through the grave, saw his own work in the teeth, and knew. It is remembered as one of the first forensic dental identifications in American history. His orphaned children were nearly forgotten too, until people like Benedict Arnold, years before he became a traitor, chipped in money to make sure they were raised and educated. The most famous painting of the battle, by John Trumbull, isn't really about the battle at all. It's about the death of one man in the smoke. The doctor who could have commanded an army chose to die in the dirt as a private soldier. He was 34 years old. 251 years ago today. Remember him 🇺🇸

More video of the blue, striated shelf cloud in southeast Iowa this morning ahead of a potential tornado outbreak.

Most people have never heard of Founding Father John Hart. That's a crime. Here's the story. Picture a guy with no college, no money handed to him, no famous name. Just a farmer in Hopewell, New Jersey working the dirt his father left him. People trusted him so much they just called him "Honest John Hart." He kept getting elected to office year after year, not because he was slick, but because he wasn't. He had thirteen kids. Then 1776 comes. He's around 63 years old, which back then was basically ancient. He could have stayed home, kept his head down, and lived out his life quiet and safe. Instead he rode to Philadelphia and signed the Declaration of Independence. Put his real name on a piece of paper the most powerful empire on Earth treated as a death warrant. The bill came fast. That October his wife Deborah died. He barely had time to grieve. Weeks later British and Hessian troops poured into New Jersey, and they knew exactly who he was. Soldiers came hunting for him. They tore up his farm and his fields. He ran. So here's a man in his sixties, just buried his wife, kids scattered, being chased across his own home county. The story handed down says he slept rough, hid in forests and caves, moved at night, never the same spot twice, just trying to stay alive long enough to outlast them. He made it. The British eventually pulled back and he came home. But home was wrecked. His health was broken. He never really recovered, and he died in 1779, still in the middle of the war, never living to see the country he bet everything on actually win. No statue you can name. No face on your money. Just a farmer who had every reason to stay quiet and signed his name anyway. Honest John Hart. Remember him.

Super manly and gross. Better stay far away

The Eyre Peninsula in Australia is home to a vivid salt lake with rosy-pink waters, split by a thin causeway and edged with bright white salt. 📹 australiahiddengems

Time-lapse of assembling a LW2800A tower crane.

Can you believe this powerful earthquake lifted part of the Philippines out of the ocean? [🎞️ earthsignalofficial]

He's back 😄 #archaeohistories

1/x In 2010 Kyokuyo Shipyard in Japan delivered the pure car carrier City of St. Petersburg, followed by its sister ship City of Rotterdam in 2011. These introduced the world’s first SSS-Bow (Semi-Spherical Shaped Bow), a radical redesign of the forward hull above the waterline.

Beauty is proof that human beings aren't here just to survive.

James Woods dropping truth bombs as usual. America isn’t divided by race, color, gender, or orientation. We’re divided into wise people and fools. And the fools? They obsess over those very divisions. 💯

Newly elected Mayor of Shimotsuma Toyoji Sudo launched a program to crack down on illegal immigration in Ibaraki the Prefecture with the most illegal immigrants in Japan. Now he has been found dead in a drainage ditch. His death is being treated as a suicide

SCOOP: Gina Marwick, a school counselor at Vacaville High School in CA, changed her profile to "8647," a symbol used to call for the ass*ssination of President Trump. She also wants people who oppose Pride month to feel "uncomfortable" This person is paid with your tax dollars to counsel struggling children. You can contact the superintendent here: eds@vacavilleusd.org

Athanasios Psilopoulos, a Greek marble mason who has been working on the restoration of the Parthenon since 1995, talked about what he discovered: "When we took down the last column from the pronaos (the porch at the front of the temple), we found an ancient wooden dowel that had been there for 2.500 years. The fact that it hadn’t rotted away means that not even air was getting in. They took it and immediately put it in a vacuum chamber so it wouldn’t deteriorate. This is astonishing, two pieces of marble sealed so airtight that no air could enter. It’s incredible that you can join two marbles together and, after 2.500 years, find the wood inside still perfectly intact, and discover what was inside. I was stunned when I saw it. I said to myself, “We are nothing.” That’s what I said." I hope that one day we get to see the Parthenon fully restored and complete, exactly as it was 2,500 years ago, with its original colors and the mythological representations of the ancient Greeks on the pediments.

Want to save the West? Start by telling your children the truth. A society that teaches its children to hate their inheritance shouldn't be surprised when they fail to preserve it. Teach your children gratitude. Teach them why freedom matters. Teach them what made the West successful. Because if you don't tell them the truth about their civilisation, someone else will tell them a lie.

When I was in the paper mill on Saturday I was standing in the saftey area watching the forklifts loading trailers. A driver next to me was asking about the green and red lights by the dock doors. It took me a bit to figure out what he was saying. I told him Red light stop do not enter trailer green light go enter the trailer just like a traffic light. He smiled and said ok. I asked where he is from, he said East Africa but wouldn’t be specific and walked away. Very broken English but it was his not understanding red light green light that really bothered me. On the outside of the dock is the same light system. Green light save to back in or leave Red light Do Not Move. Maybe that’s why that Mill will not allow drivers to remain in the truck while it’s being loaded and the truck must be shut off. And that’s happening at more and more docks all the time.