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Who is the greatest athlete to ever serve their country in wartime? For me, its Ted Williams.
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Twinkies beat Royals 6-5.
At least they didn’t start another losing streak after ending a winning streak.
Let me add D-MO Cori Bush to the list of idiots who don’t know what Memorial Day is. The “squad”. Elected morons.
I don’t know of any close relatives that died during military service, but I would like to honor by dad who served from 1942 to 1945. He was a 2nd Lieutenant that served in the Army Air Force, stationed at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. He was a pilot that re-trained pilots that were shot down during the war. He also joined again for a short stint around 1950 but that must have been relatively boring as I never heard any stories from that time. I believe he was stationed in Omaha during that period. It was way before I was born.
Also I would like to honor my brother-in-law who is 20 years older than me. He served in the Army during the early to mid 1960s. He was supposed to go to Vietnam, but instead they sent him to Korea. We are all very happy about that.
And my son who joined the Army in 2017 as a cardiovascular specialist. He is now a Sergeant and is a nurse who is stationed at JBLM (temporarily on medical leave due to his son’s leukemia). His plan is to get into the Physician’s Assistant program and make the army a career.
Hey VP, thanks for sharing. Hope your son and his son get through this, and he can pursue his career. We’re all pulling for them!
Dem Rep Omar doesn’t even understand what Memorial Day is.
Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia,and overtly hates on Israel. She complains about America relentlessly. Can’t stand her.
Hate her, with a passion.
And she hates you, with a passion.
She wants a piece of me anytime.
Are you talking about that great member of congress from the city of Minneapolis.
The trash that gets elected. Unreal.
RIP Bill Walton, 71. Didn’t know he was fighting cancer.
Yeah. He kept that under raps.
After Billions for EV chargers, the feds have made 8 total chargers.
😂
Then he says the increase in air turbulence is due to …..you guessed it. Climate change.
🤣😆😂
Sadly, there are people who will buy this malarkey.
If they buy 7 charging stations for $7.5 billion they should check themselves into St Elizabeths
Just buy lots of generators.
It’s perfectly fine for government to be incompetent. St Elizabeth probably gets a $1 million dollar royalty for each one produced.
Yep. And news organizations will confirm and report the malarkey.
Merry Memorial Day Monday Minny Maniacs!
Found this in my search yesterday – Pro Set released a set of Desert Storm cards during the first Gulf War. Pretty cool set. Saddam Hussein also has a card in this set, as does GHW Bush and Dick Cheney.
What an awesome baseball name…..
I have a bunch of those desert storm cards too, my dad was an avid collector, he had every set from 1969-1994, he stopped because it got ridiculous with how many different cards and subsets they started making. One benefit is I and my brother used to get to to pick the doubles he got, like draft style.
Very cool – I collected for years. Mainly football cards but quite a few baseball cards as well.
Got this one in a mystery box set a few years ago. It’s autographed – guy went undrafted and the Vikes signed him to as an UDFA. Now plays in Canada.
Yeah, it’s always fun to pull an autograph or game worn jersey card. I have a few of each, including an autographed Todd Marinovich rookie card I thought was going to be worth something when I pulled it. My dads way of collecting was to buy complete boxes of packs until he completed a set, every summer when the new cards came out he would take me to a card shop at the mall in Rapid City to buy the new season of cards. Once I became an adult making money I started doing the same, between Topps and Bowman I still have like 30 AD rookie cards. I haven’t bought anything in at least ten years though, I don’t think I’ve even seen cards for sale at the grocery stores or Walmart/target stores in a long time, seems like it isn’t as popular as it used to be.
It’s not – saw a resurgence during the pandemic but it’s waned. Got a close friend that buys/sells/trades cards online – he builds custom cabinets for card sets complete with personalized engraving, and makes a shitload, or did during Covid.
I started as a kid buying individual packs and then eventually pack boxes. Occasionally would buy team sets, mainly Fleer & Pro Set football cards. Frequently went to shows and set up a booth as a teenager.
Got back into during Covid and started buying cheap individual cards for about $3 a pop – was originally searching for a buyer for my Billy Ripken ‘fuckface’ cards and it just snowballed. Bought a few complete sets of the ‘93 Fleer & Donruss baseball editions – opened one and one is sealed. The Jeter rookie I bought came in the ‘93 Topps set – I bought the individual card for $1600 in Gem Mint Condition and lost a bid for the complete sealed ‘93 Topps set at the end of 2020 (my bid was 3k and it went for almost 9) literally wanted the set to try and add another Jeter rookie (but who knows if the card would have graded well)
I was at the Naval Academy Graduation on Friday.
Secretary Austin gave the speech.
I don’t really care much for him, but credit where credit is due – he gave a pretty solid, non-political speech.
Then, he stood there in his suit and tie on a hot day, standing in the sun and shook every one of the 1,050 graduates hands as they received their diplomas. Took about 90 minutes.
He did it right, and definitely, standing in the hot sun greeting every new service member personally was awesome. Secretary Austin was a real Army 4 Star, and he knows whereof he speaks, unlike Biden who at the United States Naval Academy’s Class of 2022 Graduation and Commissioning Ceremony, claimed that he was appointed to the military school in 1965. He wasn’t, and in fact has never served.
His mind is so gone he might actually believe it.
The greatest liars are the ones who manage to convince themselves that their lies are true.
Saw this with inmates all the time.
A pathological liar maybe.
‘A pathological liar is someone who excessively lies. They exhibit a pattern of consistent dishonesty that feels impossible to stop. Pathological lying involves an irrational need to fabricate stories, events, or facts.’
Sounds about right.
I’d say the shoe fits…
QOTD. Agree with Ted Williams. Maybe a close second would be Roger Starbach.
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FTP
SKOL!
Happy Memorial Day, and thank you to all who are or have served.
Good morning Surly. I think most folks know this day was originally known as Decoration Day, and it originated in the years following the Civil War. It became an official federal holiday in 1971.
The last 15 years, I observed Memorial Day by visiting Arlington National Cemetery, and participating in ceremonies to honor our fallen heroes. Now I’m down in Tampa though, and I will simply say a prayer of gratitude to them and their families for their sacrifices. My wife attaches her American flag to her Challenger and drives it around all day as well.
BTW today also marks the unofficial beginning of the summer season.
Arlington Nation is a very special place and especially so Memorial Weekend – a sea of American flags.
Participating in the actual ceremonies is certainly a special honor. Very, very few folks can say that.
From a rear guy to a tip of the spear guy – THANKS.
What did John Milton say? “They also serve, who only stand and wait”. Your service was/is valuable, and valued. Service members are there to protect this Nation from all enemies foreign and domestic, and their families by default serve too. We are all a part of this, rear guard, or trigger pullers. I salute you for your service as well, JR.
I visited Arlington National on Saturday. A special, solemn place. Let us remember and honor all of those who gave their lives so we can live freely (mostly).
Amen, Brother. Always remember.
Fleet week in NYC for Memorial Day.
Navy band playing near Times Square.
Got to say, I love visiting NYC.
Thank you to those that have served, in particular those that gave their lives for our great country.