Your excuse is invalid ... Thx Paul C!

Wow, that's all I can say

  

What a guy!  Please Lord, help me to stop complaining about The small stuff, the medium stuff and even the large stuff !

Anyone think they might be having a bad day?  This Marine should inspire everyone to be thankful for all their blessings.  How can one not admire this man?

Corporal Todd Love, a native of Georgia , became the third generation in his family to become a Marine when he joined the service immediately after high school.

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He was assigned to B Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and deployed to Afghanistan in 2010. 

Image Credit: Todd Love/Facebook

Five months into his deployment while on patrol in Sangin, Helmand Province , Todd stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED) and was transferred to Walter Reed Army Medical Center .

Image Credit: Todd Love/Facebook

The resulting injury cost him both of his legs and part of his left arm.

Image Credit: Todd Love/Facebook

Despite the extent of his injuries, and a very long road to recovery, Todd has never let anything hold him back from getting 110% out of life.

Exactly what does 110% look like? 

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He whitewater kayaks.

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He skis. 

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He free falls at 30K feet. 

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He wrestles an Alligator. 

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He has fun joking around with ladies.

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Aim. Shoot. 

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Though the rifle seems a bit larger now.

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Todd can balance his entire body on a dumbbell, using one hand and a prosthetic. 

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Todd competes in grueling Spartan Races.

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Where he climbs 20 foot barriers. 

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In the elements. 

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With his team. 

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And like a good Marine, he always finishes the race.

Such determination has served as an inspiration to not only other wounded warriors, but to other military service members and civilians around the globe. 

Todd describes his passion to inspire others this way:

I want to encourage others to uplift those around them. I might not be able to carry anybody physically but I want to return the favor by simply sharing my story to inspire people.

Todd still proudly wears his uniform.

Image Credit: Todd Love/Facebook

And has even inspired his own meme. 

Once a Marine, always a Marine. Semper Fi, Todd.

USMC vs ACLU ... Thx Paul C! Language bad but message great! ... Thx Paul C!

An optimistic outlook may not

speed your journey, but it does

improve the scenery along the way.

  

USMC vs the ACLU   

  
OOH RAH !!! - "SEMPER FI"     

THIS NEEDS TO GO AROUND THE USA MANY TIMES SO KEEP IT GOING!
If you look closely at the picture above, you will note that all the Marines pictured are bowing their heads.  That's because they're praying.  This incident took place at a recent ceremony honoring the birthday of the corps, and it has the ACLU up in arms.  "These are federal employees," says Lucius Traveler, a spokesman for the ACLU, "on federal property and on federal time... For them to pray is clearly an establishment of religion, and we must nip this in the bud immediately."     

When asked about the ACLU's charges, Colonel Jack Fessender, speaking for the Commandant of the Corps said

, 
"F*** the ACLU,  GOD Bless Our Warriors.  Send the ACLU to Afghanistan and then watch those SONS OF BITCHES pray   .   "   

Please send this to people you know so everyone will know how stupid the ACLU is getting in trying to remove GOD from everything and every place in America .

May God Bless America , One Nation Under GOD!
What's wrong with the picture?    ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

GOD BLESS YOU FOR PASSING IT ON!

At the Supermarket ... Thx Ramey H!

Best Email Of The Day! Probably one of the BEST I have ever had!!                                    

 

As I came out of the supermarket that sunny day, pushing my cart of groceries towards my car,  I saw an old man with the hood of his car up   and a lady sitting inside the car, with the door   open.

The old man was looking at the engine.

I put my groceries away in my car, and continued to watch the old gentleman from about twenty     five feet away. 

 

I saw a young man in his early twenties with a grocery bag in his arm walking towards the old man. The old gentleman saw him coming too, and took a few steps towards him.

 

I saw the old gentleman point to his open hood and say something. The young man put his grocery bag into what looked like a brand newCadillac Escalade. He then turned back to the old man. I heard him yell at the old gentleman saying:  "You shouldn't even be allowed to drive a car at your age." And     then with a wave of his hand, he got in his car and peeled rubber out of     the parking lot.

I saw the old gentleman pull out his handkerchief, and mop his brow as he went back to his car and again looked at the engine. He then went to his wife and spoke with her; he appeared to tell her it would be okay.

I had seen enough, and I approached the old man.

He saw me coming and stood straight, and as I got near him I said, 'Looks like you're having a     problem.' 

 

He smiled sheepishly, and quietly nodded his head.

I looked under the hood myself, and knew that  whatever the problem was, it was beyond me.

Looking around, I saw  a gas station up the road, and I told the old man that I would be right back. I drove to the station and I went inside. I saw three attendants working on cars. I approached one of   them, and related the problem the old man had with his car. I offered to pay them if they could follow me back down and help him

The old man had pushed the heavy car under the shade of a tree and appeared to be comforting his wife. When he saw us he straightened up and thanked me for my help. As the mechanics diagnosed the problem (overheated engine), spoke with the old gentleman.

 

When I shook hands with him earlier, he had noticed my Marine Corps ring and had commented about it, telling me that he had been a Marine too. I nodded and asked the usual question, 'What outfit did you serve with?'

 

He had mentioned that he served with the first Marine Division at Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal ...

 

He had hit all the big ones and retired from the Corps after the war was over. As we talked we heard the car engine come on and saw the  mechanics lower the hood. They came over to us as the old man reached for his wallet, but was stopped by me. I told him I would just put the bill on my AAA card.

 

He still reached for the wallet and handed me a card that I assumed had his name and address on it and I stuck it in my pocket. We shook hands  all around again, and I said my goodbye's to his wife.

I then told the two mechanics that I would follow them back up to the station. Once at the station, I told them that they had interrupted their own jobs to come along with me and help the old man. I said I wanted to pay for the help, but they refused to charge me.

One of them pulled out a card from his pocket, looking exactly like the card the old man had given to me. Both of the men told me then that  they were Marine Corps Reserves. Once again we shook hands all around and as I was leaving, one of them told me I should look at the card the old man had given to me. I said I would and drove off.

 

For some reason I had     gone about two blocks, when I pulled over and took the card out of my     pocket and looked at it for a long, long time. The name of the old gentleman was on the card in golden leaf and under his name was written: 'Congressional Medal of Honor Society.' 

I sat there motionless, looking at the card and  reading it over and over. I looked up from the card and smiled to no one but myself and marveled that on this day, four Marines had all come together because one of us needed help. He was an old man all right, but it felt good to have stood next to greatness and courage, and an honor to have been in his presence.

 

Remember,  OLD men  like him gave you FREEDOM for America .  Thanks to those who served and still serve, and to all of those who supported them, and who continue to support them.

 

America   is  not  at war.   The U.S. Military is at war.   America is at the Mall.   If you don't stand behind our troops, PLEASE feel free to stand in front of them!

Remember, Freedom  IS NOT free.  Thousands have paid the price, so  you can enjoy what you have today.

LET'S DO THIS -JUST 36 WORDS:

GOD OUR FATHER, WALK THROUGH MY HOUSE AND TAKE AWAY ALL MY WORRIES; AND PLEASE WATCH OVER AND HEAL MY FAMILY; AND PLEASE PROTECT OUR FREEDOMS, AND WATCH OVER OUR TROOPS, ‘WHO ARE DEFENDING THOSE FREEDOMS. 

AMEN. 

                                                                               

 

            IN GOD WE TRUST,

GOVERNMENT - NOT SO MUCH!

Greatest team he was ever on ... Thx Ron Walters!

When asked to name the greatest team he was ever on,

Ted Williams said, "The US Marines".

Ted Williams was John Glenn's wingman flying F-9Fs in Korea.

I didn't know this about Ted Williams...............

 

The Boston Red Sox slugger who wore No. 9 as a major leaguer, would now be

assigned to an F-9 Panther jet as a pilot. Ted flew a total of 39 combat

missions in Korea. He was selected by his commander John Glenn (later the

astronaut, senator, and 'septuagenonaut') to fly as Glenn's wingman.

 

While flying an air strike on a troop encampment near Kyomipo, Williams'

F-9 was hit by hostile ground fire. Ted commented later: "The funny thing

was I didn't feel anything. I knew I was hit when the stick started

shaking like mad in my hands. Then everything went out, my

radio, my landing gear, everything. The red warning lights were on all

over the plane." The F-9 Panther had a centrifugal flow engine and

normally caught fire when hit. The tail would literally blow off most

stricken aircraft. The standard orders were to eject from any Panther with

a fire in the rear of the plane. Ted's aircraft was indeed on fire, and

was trailing smoke and flames. Glenn and the other pilots on the mission

were yelling over their radios for Williams to get out. However, with his

radio out, Williams could not hear their warnings and he could not see the

condition of the rear of his aircraft.

 

Glenn and another Panther flown by  Larry Hawkins came up alongside Williams and lead him to the nearest

friendly airfield. Fighting to hold the plane together, Ted brought his

Panther in at more than 200-MPH for a crash landing on the Marsden-matted

strip. With no landing gear, dive brakes, or functioning flaps, the

flaming Panther jet skidded down the runway for more than 3000 feet. Williams got out of the aircraft only

moments before it was totally engulfed in flames. Ted Williams survived

his tour of duty in Korea and returned to major league baseball.

 

Pssst: Ted missed out flying combat missions during WW II, because his

flying and gunnery skills were so good that he was kept as an instructor

for much of the War. During advanced training at Pensacola, Florida Ted

would accurately shoot the sleeve targets to shreds while

shooting out of wing-overs, zooms, and barrel rolls. He broke the all time

record for 'hits' at the school. Following Pensacola, Ted was sent to

Jacksonville for advanced gunnery training. This is the payoff test for

potential combat pilots. Ted set all the records for reflexes,

coordination, and visual reaction time. As a result of his stunning

success he was made an instructor at Bronson field to put Marine aviation

cadets through their final paces.

 

By 1945 Ted got his wish and was finally  transferred to a combat wing, but weeks later

the War was over. He was  discharged from the military in December of 1945. Seven years

later, in  December of 1952, Ted was recalled to active duty as a Marine Corps

fighter pilot.

Why the Marine Hymn contains "To the shores of Tripoli" ... Thx Ramey H ... That is much before we elected a m uslim president

 

Why the Marine Hymn contains the verse “to the shores of Tripoli”

 

Muslim pirates of the past:  Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago, the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!

 

At the height of the eighteenth century, Muslim pirates were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic.  They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms.  Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart breaking letters home, begging their government and family members to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.
These extortionists of the high seas represented the Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers – collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast – and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic. 

 

Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain.  When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France.  However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets.  Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy.
Beginning in 1784, seventeen years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became America’s Minister to France.  That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by
following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States, rather than engaging them in war.
In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000.  It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments.  Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace.  A disinterested Congress decided to
pay the ransom.
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli’s ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be
found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."

 

Despite of this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years, the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over twenty percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.

 

Jefferson was disgusted.  Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming.  That changed everything.

 

Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand.  The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States.  Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit.  Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic
thuggery for long enough, decided that is was finally time to meet force with force.

 

He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget.  Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to
seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to “cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify”.

 

When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the might to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli.  The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years, and raged up again in 1815.  The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line “to the shores of Tripoli” in the Marine Hymn, and they would forever be known as “leathernecks” for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships.

 

Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply. America had a tradition of religious tolerance, the fact that Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen.  A religion based on supremacism, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers was unacceptable to him.  His greatest fear was that someday this brand of
Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States.

 

This should bother every American.  That Muslims have brought about women-only classes and swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned
from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged, Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities.
Ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah, public schools are pulling pork from their menus, on and on in the newspapers….

It’s death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America.  By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our own culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Islamists agenda. Sadly, it appears that today’s America would rather be politically correct than victorious.

 

Any doubts, just Google Thomas Jefferson vs the Muslim World

Marines and the enemies ... thx Ramey H!

Look Closely..... 

  

   Keep  looking 

 

    See  it now? 

If a Muslim sees a naked woman — they are supposed to kill themselves.  You got to love the Marines.  If you don't stand behind our troops, please feel free to stand in front of them.