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Horses can sense your fear, calm, or energy from a very young age. They remember the people who treat them with kindness — their scent, their voice — and show trust and affection with soft eyes, a relaxed lower lip, and by happily coming closer on their own.

America knew him as the man who couldn't outsmart a pig. The Marines knew him as the man who drove into hell 47 times to bring them home. For six seasons, Eddie Albert made millions laugh as Oliver Wendell Douglas on Green Acres — the eternally optimistic city lawyer hopelessly lost on a farm. He argued with tractors. He lost battles to chickens. Each week, he faced absurd defeat with unshakable dignity. The show climbed to number six in the ratings. He became a household name. But two decades before Hooterville, Eddie Albert stood in the bloodstained waters of the Pacific, pulling dying men from the surf while machine-gun fire tore through the air around him. November 20, 1943. Tarawa. Betio Island. The assault became a massacre within minutes. Coral reefs trapped landing craft hundreds of yards offshore. Marines abandoned their boats and waded through chest-deep water in full combat gear — completely exposed. Japanese machine guns opened fire instantly. Men fell by the dozens. The wounded floated helplessly, too injured to move, waiting to drown or be executed by snipers. Eddie Albert was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the USS Sheridan. His orders didn't include rescue operations. He didn't wait for orders. He commandeered a Higgins boat and drove straight into the gunfire. Japanese forces fired from fortified pillboxes, destroyed vehicles, and the pier. Bullets punched through his hull. Water erupted in deadly geysers around him. Albert kept going. Trip after trip, he loaded wounded Marines onto his craft while enemy snipers tried to kill him. When his boat filled, he turned around and went back for more. 47 Marines. That's how many he personally pulled from death. He coordinated the rescue of 30 more. The U.S. Navy awarded him the Bronze Star with Combat "V" — a medal reserved exclusively for valor under direct enemy fire. Afterward, when people asked about Tarawa, he never spoke about himself. He only mentioned the men who didn't make it home. After the war, Albert returned to acting. He earned an Oscar nomination in 1953 for Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn. He built a respected career in serious dramatic films throughout the 1950s and 60s. Then in 1965, he made a decision that baffled Hollywood: he accepted the lead in a television sitcom about a lawyer who abandons New York City to become a farmer. Green Acres became a cultural phenomenon. For six years, America watched Oliver Wendell Douglas lose every argument with rural logic, his wife, and a pig named Arnold. The show was absurd, surreal, and wildly popular. It ran 170 episodes before CBS cancelled it in 1971. Most actors would have been typecast forever. Not Albert. In 1972, he earned his second Oscar nomination for The Heartbreak Kid. He worked for three more decades. He became a passionate environmental activist, dedicating his later years to conservation causes. Eddie Albert died in 2005 at age 99. Here's what haunts me. Millions watched him as a gentle, perpetually defeated optimist who couldn't keep chickens out of his living room. They laughed at a man who seemed permanently overwhelmed by life's absurdities. They never knew that same man had driven a fragile boat into a hurricane of machine-gun fire — not once, but 47 times — refusing to leave until every wounded Marine within reach was safe. Oliver Wendell Douglas never surrendered, no matter how impossible the odds. He stayed kind. He kept trying. He refused to quit even when everything screamed at him to stop. Eddie Albert didn't need to study that character. He'd already become him on the bloodiest beach of the Pacific War, when the only thing that mattered was bringing one more man home alive. That wasn't acting. That was his soul.

@hinsonashley @IowaRealtors @johnthune Oh goodie. You spent time with the guy that REFUSES to secure our elections. Tells Iowans all they need to know when they vote in the primary

Spent the morning with @IowaRealtors and Leader @johnthune. We talked about ways we can make it easier for families to buy their first home — the pinnacle of the American dream.

THIS is the work this ranch does! If you want to support a great cause, look no further! BEAUTIFUL STORY!💯🎯❤️❤️❤️👍🙏

Cancer royally sucks wife’s in hospital with bad infection and they believe her cancer has now migrated to her bone marrow as her platelet count is super low sad beyond belief Prayers for her healing May God have mercy and Jesus places healing hands upon her amen

@mattkalita 🙏🙏🙏

@GretchenPSmith I do, I do!

Who thinks I will find love again?!?

One of these days I will make this happen. Diego Ranch Coffee Co. to help children and veterans. every flavor will have one of our therapy horses with a young me on the label. Just need to figure it all out. DREAMS DO COME TRUE

Tomorrow I am going to start putting together the business plan for #codeofvets Veterans will be assisted in real time again. Pray for guidance. Wisdom. We are going to raise millions and assist thousands. Who is ready to see more veterans get their keys?!? Second chances. #codeofvets

AOC is correct about one thing, SHE could never become a billionaire. She’s way too dumb to generate any societal value in a meritocracy. However, she’s just dumb enough to make a fortune as a democrat politician appealing to the liberal freeloader class.

In your charity, pray for Rick Coyle, a Crittenden County, Kentucky Deputy, who was shot on April 2nd in the LOD, died on 4/30, and is being buried today. Rick served on the Chicago Police Department for 28 years before retiring to KY in 2019 and joining the Sheriff's Office.

🚨 BREAKING: Hyundai just announced a stunning $26 BILLION DOLLAR investment into the United States over the next 2 years 25,000 direct jobs created, and over 80% PERCENT of their vehicles will be made in the USA HUGE win for President Trump, experts proven wrong again 🔥

Hey @AOC, you say no billionaire earns their billion dollars so did @Beyonce earn her billion dollars or not? I’ll hang up and listen, thanks.

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@EchoesofWarYT @SoldiersWhisper Thank you. I knew NONE of that!

Most people picture Martha Washington as a quiet woman in a bonnet, pouring tea while George won a war. The real woman was something else entirely. She was 5 feet tall. George was 6'2". When they married in 1759, she was a 27-year-old widow with two small children, and the richest woman in Virginia. She brought 17,500 acres and roughly 84 enslaved people to the marriage. George Washington didn't make her wealthy. She made him wealthy. When the Revolutionary War broke out, she didn't stay home. For 8 straight winters, every single year of the war, Martha left Mount Vernon and traveled hundreds of miles by carriage, through territory crawling with British soldiers and Loyalists, to spend the freezing months in army camp with George. She was at Morristown. Cambridge. Newburgh. Middlebrook. And Valley Forge. In 1776 she got herself inoculated against smallpox in Philadelphia, a procedure that killed plenty of people who tried it, so she could keep traveling to the front. While there, she sewed shirts for soldiers, organized the other officers' wives to mend uniforms, and walked through the camps visiting the sick and dying. By the time the war ended she had buried both of her surviving children. Patsy died of epilepsy at 17. Jacky died of camp fever right after Yorktown. She raised two of his orphaned kids at Mount Vernon. She hated being First Lady. In a private letter she described her own life as that of a "state prisoner." She wasn't being cute. She meant it. When George died in December 1799, Martha did something historians have been mourning ever since. She sat down at the fireplace and burned nearly every letter they had ever written each other. Forty years of marriage. Gone. Only three letters survived. She lived two more years. Then, quietly, she freed George's enslaved people about a year before her own death, reportedly because she had grown uneasy about so many people having a personal incentive to wish her dead. In 1886, the U.S. Treasury put her face on the $1 silver certificate. She is, to this day, the only woman ever featured on American paper currency. Almost no one alive has ever seen the bill. Almost no one alive knows any of this. That's Martha Washington.

@PeteButtigieg You weren't crying when Biden ran the WH & gas was thru the roof. Jennifer Graholm said POTUS doesn't control gas prices. You can stop with the bullshit lies anytime

I love a good road trip, but this is brutally out of touch: a Trump Cabinet member making a documentary about himself while regular families can’t afford road trips anymore, because Trump and his war put gas prices through the roof.

@pastorlocke @Maga4Justice I am so sorry for your loss. 🙏🙏🙏

Today, words fail us. It’s been a long, hard battle the last few years. In times like this, the sacrifices and the struggles don’t even matter. A few hours ago we received the most earth-shattering news that our 20 year old son, Evan Roberts Locke, could not be revived after his heart stopped due to an overdose. His struggle was very public. It was used as a warning to many, a punchline to the haters but an overall reminder that even in our deepest pain, the grace of Jesus will sustain us. I’ll address the church family with arrangement details this Sunday. Please respect our privacy. He has 5 heartbroken siblings and a world of people that helped him along his journey.