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Navy corpsman with Marine Raiders ran into burning building to save French soldiers after Iranian attack trib.al/I5joRAO
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Specialist Ross A. McGinnis | Medal of Honor Recipient | U.S. Army
On Dec. 4, 2006, in Adhamiyah, Iraq, PFC Ross A. McGinnis made the ultimate sacrifice to save his fellow soldiers.
While manning the rear .50-caliber machine gun on a Humvee patrol, an insurgent grenade was thrown into the vehicle. McGinnis yelled "Grenade!" and had every right to jump to safety-as he was trained to do. Realizing his crew didn't know where the grenade landed and couldn't escape, McGinnis instead pinned his back over the explosive.
His selfless decision absorbed the blast, killing him instantly but saving the lives of four comrades inside. For his supreme courage and gallantry above and beyond the call of duty, PFC McGinnis was awarded the Medal of Honor. 🇺🇸
Never forget his
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Teddy Roosevelt was born 168 years ago today, and his life reads like someone made it up.
As a kid his asthma was so bad he sometimes had to sleep sitting up in a chair just to breathe. He was too sick for regular school, so he was taught at home and spent his time collecting dead animals. At 9 he opened the "Roosevelt Museum of Natural History" in his bedroom. He taught himself taxidermy and the maid complained about the smell.
His father told him he had the mind but not the body, and that he had to make his body. So he did. Boxing, rowing, hiking, lifting, for years.
He went to Harvard, then wrote his first book at 23, a naval history of the War of 1812 that the Navy actually used. He'd go on to write around 35 books and was known to read a book a day, sometimes more.
On Valentine's Day 1884, his mother died of typhoid and his wife Alice died after giving birth to their daughter. Same day. Same house. In his diary he drew a large X and wrote "The light has gone out of my life."
So he went to the Dakota Badlands and became a cattle rancher. Locals mocked the glasses and the Harvard accent until he knocked out a drunk who pulled two pistols on him in a saloon. Later, when thieves stole his boat, he built another one, chased them downriver in the freezing cold, captured all three, and marched them to the nearest jail. He read Anna Karenina while guarding them.
Back in New York he became police commissioner and would walk the streets at night in disguise to catch cops sleeping or drinking on duty.
In 1898 he quit his job as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to lead the Rough Riders in Cuba and charged up Kettle Hill under fire. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for it in 2001, making him the only president to receive one.
At 42, after McKinley was assassinated, he became the youngest president in American history. Weeks in, he invited Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House, and much of the South lost its mind over it. He didn't apologize.
On a hunting trip in Mississippi, guides tied a black bear to a tree so he could shoot it. He refused. A cartoon ran, a toy maker made a stuffed bear, and that's why it's called a teddy bear.
He put around 230 million acres of land under federal protection. He went down in a submarine. He became the first president to fly in an airplane. He kept boxing in the White House until a punch left him blind in his left eye. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Russo-Japanese War.
In 1912 a man shot him in the chest outside a Milwaukee hotel. The bullet went through his steel glasses case and a folded 50 page speech in his coat pocket. He coughed into his hand, saw no blood, decided it hadn't hit his lung, and went on stage anyway. He told the crowd "it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose" and spoke for roughly 90 minutes with a bullet in his chest. Doctors left it in. He carried it the rest of his life.
Two years later, in his mid 50s, he went to map an uncharted river in the Amazon called the River of Doubt. He got an infected leg, a raging fever, and lost about a quarter of his body weight. He nearly died. The river is now named Rio Roosevelt.
When WWI came, all four of his sons went to fight. His youngest, Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France in 1918. People who knew him said he was never the same.
He died in his sleep a few months later in January 1919, at 60. His son Archie sent a telegram to his brothers: "The old lion is dead." Vice President Thomas Marshall said death had to take him sleeping, because if Roosevelt had been awake there would have been a fight.
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Ted Williams sent to a letter L.L. Bean on November 9, 1960.
Inside the letter, Ted Williams proclaims that now that his playing days are behind him, and his plan is to spend more time on his outdoors business.
Williams states that he's very familiar with L.L. Bean's products and would like L.L. Bean to either merge with Ted Williams, Inc, or perhaps Williams could purchase the company.
The company’s founder, Leon Leonwood Bean, was a season-ticket holder at Fenway and would often make the drive down from his home in Maine, to take in a Sox game.
The company founder had three box seats at Fenway:
One for him, one for his wife and one for their coats.
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Texas Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Lemuel Lenoel Alewine was killed in action on October 17, 1967 in South Vietnam. Lemuel was 34 years old with 16 years of service. 3rd Platoon, A Company, 1st Recon Battalion. Remember Gunny today. Korean War Veteran #American Hero.🇺🇸
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🇺🇸 This is Ralph Rose. He was the U.S. flag bearer at the 1908 London Olympics. Every nation that marched past King Edward VII dipped its flag. Except Ralph and the United States.
Rose, a big shot-putter, kept the Stars and Stripes upright as the team passed the royal box.
The line later attributed to teammate Martin Sheridan, “This flag dips to no earthly king,” is almost certainly legend. The act itself was real.
The practice wasn’t locked in right away. Americans dipped at some Games and held the flag high at others. It became fixed policy ahead of the 1936 Berlin Olympics so the flag would not be lowered before Adolf Hitler.
In 1942 Congress wrote it into the U.S. Flag Code: the flag “should not be dipped to any person or thing.”
It has stayed that way. When the American flag passes a head of state at an Olympic opening ceremony, it stays aloft.
Thanks, Ralph! 🫡🇺🇸
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Good morning Patriots. A coffee toast in memory of the Sailors of the USS Cole.
Lest we Forget.
On this day in 2000.
Seventeen U.S. Navy sailors were killed and 37 to 39 others were injured during the terrorist attack on the USS Cole Bombing on October 12, 2000.
The 17 U.S. Navy personnel who lost their lives were:
🇺🇸Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter (Petty Officer 3rd Class)
🇺🇸Richard Costelow (Petty Officer 1st Class)
🇺🇸Lakeina Monique Francis (Petty Officer 3rd Class)
🇺🇸Timothy Gauna (Petty Officer 3rd Class)
🇺🇸Cherone Louis Gunn (Petty Officer 3rd Class)
🇺🇸James Rodrick McDaniels (Petty Officer 2nd Class)
🇺🇸Marc Ian Nieto (Engineman 2nd Class)
🇺🇸Ronald Scott Owens (Petty Officer 3rd Class)
🇺🇸Joshua Langdon Parlett (Seaman)
🇺🇸Patrick Howard Roy (Petty Officer 3rd Class)
🇺🇸Kevin Stanley Rux (Petty Officer 3rd Class)
🇺🇸Ronnie Deson Smith (Seaman)
🇺🇸Wraith George Augustus Sadler (Petty Officer 3rd Class)
🇺🇸Timothy Lee Saunders (Petty Officer 2nd Class)
🇺🇸Gary Graham Swenchonis Jr. (Fireman)
🇺🇸Andrew Triplett (Petty Officer 1st Class)
🇺🇸Craig Bryan Wibberley (Seaman)
Rest in Peace Warriors.
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US Army Green Beret and Medal of Honor recipient Major Nicholas Dockery.
On October 2, 2012, then-2nd Lt. Dockery’s platoon and Afghan partners were ambushed by an estimated 150 Taliban fighters in Kapisa Province.
Dockery crossed open ground under fire, rallied his soldiers, shielded a wounded man from a grenade blast, and killed enemy fighters who were dragging an unconscious sergeant away. He then gave lifesaving aid before exposing himself on a rooftop to mark the position for gunships. Every American in the fight was wounded. All of them lived.
That Silver Star was upgraded to the Medal of Honor and presented by President Trump at the White House on June 18, 2026. Dockery later earned a second Silver Star with the 7th Special Forces Group, and was at the time the only Army officer to receive two for gallantry in the post-9/11 era. He also earned two Purple Hearts, the Soldier’s Medal, and recognition as Soldier of the Year.
He retired as a major in May 2026 and has studied at Yale and Wharton’s executive MBA program.
Respect.
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Massachusetts Marine Lance Corporal Shayne Matthew Cabino was KIA on October 6, 2005 in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. Remember Shayne today. Semper Fidelis #American Hero 🇺🇸 Forever 19
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MEDAL OF HONOR MONDAY
June 21, 2006 Afghanistan.
SFC. Jared Monti was a cavalry scout with 3rd Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division.
During a fierce firefight in Nuristan Province, one of his soldiers was wounded and pinned down in an exposed position. Monti went after him.
The first attempt was driven back by intense enemy fire. He tried again, enemy fire forced him back once more. Then Monti made a third attempt. He moved forward into the enemy's fire to reach his wounded soldier. This time, he was hit and mortaly wounded.
SFC. Jared Monti was killed while attempting to rescue one of his own. Monti was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on September 17, 2009. He was the first Soldier to receive the Medal of Honor for service in Afghanistan.
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October 4, 2005: The 2nd Marine Division launched Operation River Gate in Anbar. About 2,500 Marines, soldiers, and sailors from Regimental Combat Team 2, with Iraqi security forces, pushed into Haditha, Haqlaniyah, and Barwana — the largest Anbar operation that year — to break al-Qaeda in Iraq’s hold on the Euphrates before the October 15 referendum.
The same day the military announced four Americans killed the day before in that fight.
Sgt. Bryan W. Large, 31, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Spc. Jacob T. Vanderbosch, 21, of Vadnais Heights, Minnesota. Pfc. Roberto C. Baez, 19, of Tampa. All 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry, 82nd Airborne, attached to RCT-2. Killed by an IED near Haqlaniyah.
Cpl. John R. Stalvey, 22, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines. Killed by an IED during Operation Iron Fist in Karabilah.
Others were wounded in those blasts and in the fighting that followed. Their names belong with the operation. Remember the lost and the injured.
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Ohio Navy Petty Officer Third Class John Brayton Harlow Jr. was killed in an accidental explosion (makeshift sandbag bomb) on October 3, 1968 in South Vietnam. John was a 22 year old Corpsman H&S Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines. Remember “Doc” today.🇺🇸
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Good morning Patriots.
It's coffee time. A toast in memory of those lost in the Battle of Mogadishu.
Lest we Forget.
On this day, in the summer of 1993 an elite special operations package called Task Force Ranger was deployed to Mogadishu, Somalia to find and capture a criminal warlord named Muhammed Farrah Aideed.
TFR was an un-precedented and formidable fighting force made up of Delta Force Commandos, Army Rangers from the 3rd Ranger Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment, Air Force Operators, Navy SEALS and the Nightstalker helicopter crews of the 160th Special Operations Air Regiment.
***Operators of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta***
🇺🇸MSG Gary Ivan Gordon33
Killed defending Super Six-Four's crew
Medal of Honor, Purple Heart
🇺🇸SFC Randy Shughart35
Killed defending Super Six-Four's crew
Medal of Honor, Purple Heart
🇺🇸SSG Daniel D. Busch25
Crashed on Super Six-One, mortally wounded defending the downed crew
Silver Star, Purple Heart
🇺🇸SFC Earl Robert Fillmore, Jr.28
Killed moving to the first crash site
Silver Star, Purple Heart
🇺🇸MSG Timothy "Griz" Lynn Martin38
Mortally wounded by an RPG on the Lost Convoy, died while en route to a field hospital in Germany
Silver Star, Purple Heart.
🇺🇸SFC Matthew Loren Rierson33
Killed by stray mortar shell that landed near him Oct. 6, 2 days after the initial raid
Silver Star, Bronze star, Purple heart.
**Soldiers of the 3rd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment**
🇺🇸CPL James "Jamie" E. Smith21
Killed around crash site one
Bronze Star Medal with Valor Device and Oak leaf cluster, Purple Heart
🇺🇸SPC James M. Cavaco26
Killed on the Lost Convoy
Bronze Star with Valor Device, Purple Heart
🇺🇸SGT James Casey Joyce24
Killed on the Lost Convoy
Bronze Star with Valor Device, Purple Heart
🇺🇸CPL Richard "Alphabet" W. Kowalewski, Jr.20
Killed on the Lost Convoy by an RPG
Bronze Star with Valor Device, Purple Heart
🇺🇸SGT Dominick M. Pilla21
Killed on Struecker's convoy
Bronze Star with Valor Device, Purple Heart
🇺🇸SGT Lorenzo M. Ruiz27
Mortally wounded on the Lost Convoy, died en route to a field hospital in Germany
Bronze Star with Valor Device, Purple Heart
Pilots and Crew of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment
🇺🇸SSG William "Wild Bill" David Cleveland, Jr.34
Crew chief on Super Six-Four, killed
Silver Star,
Bronze Star, Air Medal with Valor Device, Purple Heart
🇺🇸SSG Thomas "Tommie" J. Field25
Crew chief on Super Six-Four, killed
Silver Star, Bronze Star, Air Medal with Valor Device, Purple Heart
🇺🇸CW4 Raymond "Ironman" Alex Frank45
Super Six-Four's copilot, killed
Silver Star, Air Medal with Valor Device, Purple Heart
🇺🇸CW3 Clifton "Elvis" P. Wolcott36
Super Six-One's pilot, died in crash
Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, Air Medal with Valor Device, Purple Heart
🇺🇸CW3 Donovan "Bull" Lee Briley33
Super Six-One's copilot, died in crash
Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, Air Medal with Valor Device, Purple Heart
***Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division***
🇺🇸SGT Cornell Lemont Houston, Sr.
1st Platoon, C Company, 41st Engr BN 31, Member of the "Lost Platoon". Wounded by shrapnel from an RPG whilst recovering a severely wounded Malaysian soldier on the rescue convoy. Also shot in the leg and chest. Died of wounds at Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center.
Bronze Star with Valor Device, de Fleury Medal, Purple Heart
🇺🇸PFC James Henry Martin, Jr., 23. Member of 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon, Company A., Killed on the rescue convoy by a bullet to the head.
Purple Heart.
The planned sixty-minute raid had turned into a complicated rescue operation that had lasted nearly fifteen hours. In the aftermath of the battle several bodies of US soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by local civilians and clansmen. US and UN forces collectively suffered twenty killed (eighteen Americans and two Malaysians) with another eighty-eight wounded. Estimates of enemy casualties ranged from the hundreds to the low thousands. On October 14, the Somali captors released Durant and the remains of the other Americans killed after Ambassador Robert B. Oakley brokered a deal.
Rest in Peace Warriors.
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Reaching base almost half the time for two decades is the part of the Ted Williams story that gets lost behind the .406 season and the 521 home runs.
He walked 2,021 times in his career and struck out 709 times. Pitchers simply stopped giving him anything, and he had the discipline and the eyesight to refuse it.
He wrote later that his whole approach came down to getting a good pitch to hit, and he meant it literally, keeping a mental map of the strike zone broken into baseballs.
Now add that he missed nearly five full seasons flying combat missions in two wars. Those would have been his age 24 through 26 and age 33 and 34 years. The record he holds was set with the seasons he had left over.
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John Levitow was bleeding from forty wounds when he threw his own body onto a burning flare that was about to blow his aircraft and everyone on it out of the sky. He weighed about 145 pounds and he was twenty three years old.
He was born in November 1945 in Hartford, Connecticut, into a Jewish family. He first thought about joining the Navy, then changed his mind and went into the Air Force in 1966. He did not start out as anything glamorous. His first job was in civil engineering, and only later did he cross train into the loadmaster field, the enlisted man who rides in back and handles the cargo and the gear. In July 1968 he was sent to Vietnam with the 3rd Special Operations Squadron, flying aboard the AC-47 Spooky gunship, the same slow, deadly old transport packed with miniguns that prowled over battlefields at night.
On February 24, 1969, Levitow was not even supposed to be on that plane. He was filling in for the regular loadmaster on a gunship called Spooky 71 over Long Binh. His job that night was to set the timers on the big magnesium flares, powerful enough to light up a battlefield, and hand them to the gunner to drop out the cargo door. A flare like that burns at around four thousand degrees.
Then a North Vietnamese mortar round hit the wing. The blast tore a hole two feet across and punched more than three thousand holes through the fuselage. Everyone in the back was thrown down and torn up by shrapnel. Levitow took over forty wounds in his back and legs. And in the chaos he saw the thing that would kill them all. An armed flare, its fuse already lit and smoking, was rolling loose across the floor among the ammunition cans that held nineteen thousand rounds of live ammo.
He could not grab it. It kept rolling, and he was slipping in blood, and the plane was pitched over at a hard angle. So he did the only thing left. He threw himself on top of it, pulled the burning flare against his own body, and dragged himself and it toward the open cargo door, leaving a smear of blood the whole way. He shoved it out into the night a second before it ignited fully.
The flare went off clear of the aircraft. The crew lived. All of them. The pilot got the shredded plane home.
Levitow recovered and actually went back to fly more missions. In May 1970 President Nixon put the Medal of Honor around his neck, and he became the first enlisted airman in Air Force history to receive it. He carried that honor quietly for the rest of his life and spent years helping other veterans.
He died of cancer in 2000, at fifty five, and was buried at Arlington. The Air Force gave his name to its most important enlisted award, the Levitow Award, handed to the top graduate of Airman Leadership School. So every year, the best young airmen in the entire force learn the name of the skinny loadmaster who hugged a four thousand degree flare to his chest so that eight other men could go home.
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Semper Fi
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Exceptional Nebraska Navy Hospital Corpsman Gene Leander Twehous was KIA on September 17, 1967 in South Vietnam. Gene was a 19 year old Navy Corpsman with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines. Remember “Doc” today.
Bronze Star #American Hero🇺🇸🎖
