A Kevlar combat helmet is designed to protect the head of the Marine wearing it. On April 14, 2004, twenty-two-year-old U.S. Marine Corporal Jason Dunham ripped his helmet off his own head to save the two Marines standing beside him. Weeks earlier, Dunham could have gone home to New York when his enlistment ended. Instead, he signed an extension paper so he would not leave his squad behind in Iraq, buying his younger Marines birthday cakes and calling home so their mothers could hear their voices. While patrolling the dusty streets of Husaybah near the Syrian border, Dunham's squad stopped a white SUV packed with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles after an ambush on a Marine convoy. When the driver lunged out of the vehicle and grabbed Dunham by the throat, the two men tumbled to the dirt street in hand-to-hand combat. Two of Dunham's Marines rushed in to help their squad leader. Suddenly, Dunham saw the insurgent release an armed fragmentation grenade right onto the dirt between their feet. Why could Dunham not throw the grenade away or tell his men to dive behind the Humvee? Because the insurgent had already held the lever down before dropping it, leaving less than two seconds before detonation, and Dunham's two Marines were standing right over it in the open street. Even worse, a human body alone cannot always contain heavy grenade fragments at point-blank range. In a fraction of a second, Dunham made a calculation that saved both of his men. Shouting "No, no, watch his hand!", Dunham ripped his Kevlar helmet off his bare head, slammed the hard ballistic shell directly over the live grenade, and threw his own chest on top of the helmet to hold it down. The explosion shattered the Kevlar helmet into fragments and mortally wounded Dunham, while both of his fellow Marines survived. Doctors kept Dunham alive long enough for his mother and father to fly to Bethesda Naval Hospital. When his parents held his hand, the young Marine squeezed his father's fingers once before passing away. Today, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Jason Dunham sails the oceans bearing his name.

Some of you DeSantis supporters who are vehemently opposed to Byron Donalds are making the argument that Florida would actually be better off with Jolly as governor. Why? "At least there will be gridlock!" The argument many are making is that Jolly would be powerless against a Republican-controlled Legislature, which would serve as a safeguard against his agenda. Really? It's almost as if some of you have forgotten that the biggest challenges DeSantis faced during his second term didn't come from Democrats. They came from the very same Republican legislators you're now counting on to protect Florida from a Democratic governor. The same Republican legislators who repeatedly clashed with DeSantis over immigration enforcement, property taxes, gun rights, and other conservative priorities. And let's be honest, some of those Republican legislators are flat-out HORRENDOUS. These are the people you're relying on as your safeguard? Oh, and here's another question. What's your plan for 2028? What happens if the country elects a Democrat president? Are you seriously confident that Governor Jolly, a DEMOCRAT would stand up to President Gavin Newsom? Or President AOC? Because like it or not, Florida's governor plays an enormous role in determining how this state responds to the federal government. Do you honestly believe Jolly would stand up to a Democrat administration? Get real. I get it. You don't want Byron Donalds. Neither do I. I've made my frustrations with the Republican primary process clear. But there's a difference between being frustrated with the Republican establishment and deliberately handing the governorship to a Democrat to teach that establishment a lesson. Especially when your entire strategy depends on trusting the very same Republican legislators you've spent years criticizing. So I ask again, what's the plan here? So far, all I'm hearing is how much you dislike Donalds and how I'M responsible for anything Donalds will do that we disagree with. I'm not hearing a convincing argument for why Florida would be better off with Jolly. "But, Data centers!!" lol ok...

HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD: Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS. Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed. Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets. 1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary], 2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed], 3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible], 4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent], and 5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed]. Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following: Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it? A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate. Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding? A: The Democratic Party. Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities? A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US AND MY FAVORITE: Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants? A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it! Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away! And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though. Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so.

The U.S. has a trillion dollar defense budget It also has dudes like this, just in case Writer: Michael

People who have never lived through a catastrophe love to ask why America spends billions of dollars building giant nuclear aircraft carriers. Tell them to ask the mothers of Banda Aceh, Indonesia what they saw on the ocean horizon in January 2005. When the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than two hundred thousand people, the entire coast of Sumatra was erased. Every bridge, road, and water pipe was gone. Tens of thousands of children were dying of thirst in the mud, and no truck on earth could reach them. Two thousand miles away in Hong Kong, the U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was on holiday port call. Within hours of the news, young American sailors walked out of restaurants and hotels, left their vacation behind, ran back up the gangway, and pushed the ship's two nuclear reactors to flank speed. When the Abraham Lincoln dropped anchor off the shattered coast of Aceh, it did not launch a single fighter jet. Instead, the American sailors turned their nuclear warship into the largest floating water factory on earth. Using the ship's four massive steam distillation plants, the crew purified nearly 100,000 gallons of fresh drinking water from the sea every single day. For weeks without sleep, young sailors stood on the hangar deck filling five-gallon plastic jugs by hand, while seventeen Seahawk helicopters flew nonstop from sunrise to sunset. They flew more than 1,500 missions into jungle clearings, delivering over 400,000 gallons of pure water and nearly six million pounds of food and medicine to people of a different faith who had been taught for years to fear the United States. America did not ask for one barrel of oil or one dollar in return. When the local hospitals were running again, the giant gray ship quietly raised its anchor and sailed away. A small mind looks at an American aircraft carrier and sees only a weapon. A survivor looks at that flat gray deck and sees five thousand young Americans bringing water from the sea.

🇺🇸Unbelievable, listen to what happens when you are infested with Islam. This is a warning to parents in American.🇺🇸

He might be from kindergarten 🤔?

#BREAKING: Haiti says it's “overwhelmed” by illegals deported from the United States.

Anonymous of course she's a felon her whole family has a rap sheet and look at the fraud from state taxes to our charity plus she's unstable the perfect Democrat