Mike B 🇮🇱
@1Mike_B
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Be afraid. Be very afraid. But do it anyway. Do it anyway. -Jason Isbell. I am with you always, even to the end of the age. -Jesus Christ
Gumbo, MO
Joined January 2010
Just to avoid any talk of stolen valor, I did not earn that NDSM ribbon in the photo. I missed the cut-off date by 24 hours due to family pressure to delay my active duty so I could be an usher in my sister’s wedding. Um, it wasn’t terrific.
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I've opened up three birthday cards and I'm already up $150. I love being a postman!
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He hadn't smiled in days, terrified of his upcoming 12-hour surgery. Then, two Navy SEALs walked into his room. 10-year-old Cody had been in the hospital for weeks, his body broken from a terrible car accident. To save his spine, doctors had to put him in a "halo brace," a metal
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When you join the Marines and start basic. Make sure to tell the senior drill instructor that you are aware that there are illegal orders, and that you intend to pick and choose which orders you intend to follow. They really love when you tell them what orders you intend to
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🍗🦃 The Thanksgiving Story They Never Teach You Here’s the part they scrub out of the textbooks: The Pilgrims started with socialism. Everyone worked the fields together. Everyone got equal rations. Nobody owned anything. No incentive. No productivity. No future. And guess
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The despicable video urging @DeptofWar troops to “refuse illegal orders” may seem harmless to civilians — but it carries a different weight inside the military. This was a politically-motivated influence operation: ☑️ It never named a specific “illegal order.” ☑️ It created
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🔥 WHEN JESUS PUTS HIS HAND ON THE THING YOU DON’T WANT TO LET GO John 15:2 wrecked me tonight. “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” Pruning. Cutting away what looked alive to me
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"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces. But I see everything. Like the black sedan that circled the lot every
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In 1969, while serving together in a bunker during intense combat in Vietnam, Marine Pvt. DeWitt Nelson and his best friend Cpl. (later MSgt) William H. Cox made a solemn promise to each other: “If one of us doesn’t make it home, the other will stand guard over him one last time
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A groom gives his bride the sweetest surprise... by letting her students with Down syndrome deliver the wedding rings. ❤️🥹
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He knew he might never walk off that plane… but he still chose to fight. When terrorists hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 on the morning of 9/11, 32-year-old Todd Beamer didn’t freeze. He didn’t surrender. He picked up an Airfone and spoke to operator Lisa Jefferson —
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