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via: Combat Control Foundation · 12 April, 2024 We are grateful for our Armed Forces deployed around the world, carrying out their duties while away from their families and loved ones. Today is #Friday and on #RedFriday, we wear #RED & #RememberEveryoneDeployed. Invest in our mission as we are First There for Combat Controllers. Donate today to support our mission: https://www.combatcontrolfoundation.org/?form=CCF-web #FirstThere #AFSPECWAR #AFSW #STS #CCT #CombatControl #CombatControlTeam #SpecialWarfare #Airmen #SpecialOperations #CombatController #SpecialTacticsAirmen #USAF #AFSOC

via: Beloved Children of the Holocaust · Ida and Louise might best be described as “frumpy” - English spinsters, dressed in homemade clothes. They were nervous types, a little flustered, a little foolish, the kind of women that were easily dismissed… or so it appeared. In reality, however, Ida and Louise were something quite different. You see these two clever women had developed their own secret scheme for aiding Jewish refugees. It happened this way: Both sisters loved opera, and before the war they had developed a network of friends in the European opera community. Not surprisingly the community wanted to help their Jewish friends in danger from the Nazis. Louise was a secretary in London, but Ida was a writer of popular serial romances whose vocation provided a little extra traveling money. And so Friday evenings would find the sisters, without so much as a ring on their fingers, traveling to Germany or Austria, and Sundays would find them gaudily decked out in earrings, necklaces, brooches and pins as they returned. Of course, they traveled back by a different route so that no one would recognize them as the plain ladies of two nights past. Why the jewelry, you ask? Well, family jewels were often the only hope of escaping Jews trying to satisfy financial requirements for immigration to England. So Ida and Louise wore expensive jewels right out of Germany in plain sight of Nazi guards who assumed that these dowdy women must be wearing cheap, dime-store fakes! The sisters then arranged transport to get people out of danger and safely housed in England where their jewels and a new life awaited. All by themselves, these frumpy spinsters, a rescue committee of two, saved the lives of 29 people! Well done ladies! Ida and Louise Cook were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1964. ❤️

Hello Everyone I'm Lance or like everyone else calls me cowboy. Im a Volunteer Fire Fighter and EMR in Northern Indiana. I would like everyone support this upcoming weekend in helping me promote 30hrs. of Live Streaming gameplay to Stop Soldier Suicide. The link to Donate is. https://www.facebook.com/donate/750465310342527/ If you would like to watch some of the live stream and interact the link is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCry-fB-w6AXmo9StTiMzePg I will start streaming at 4p.m cst. Friday the 9th. Saturday will be 10:00 a.m. till 8 p.m. and Sunday 6 a.m. till 4 p.m. I hope you guys will all stop by and check out the live and donate what you can. Thank you for your support

Wake up on a #REDFriday and watch, listen and HEAR the story. Please like and share, ya never know who needs some time in the outdoors! Big thanks to the [The_Fall_In_1SG] & [The_Fall_In_Skipper] for having us on and spreading the word. Great job [MADDOX_UXO] :STK-26:

It's #REDFriday Fall In! After your many years of service making the world a better place, what are you doing to better your local communities? Get out and get involved, have a voice and make a difference; at home this time. As Ultimate Experience Outdoors Inc. gears up for the 7th Annual SFC Luke Hortenstien Memorial Turkey Hunt in south Alabama, we'd like to extend the opportunity to share camp with anyone willing to come see us. You can contact this page or [MADDOX_UXO] and we'd love to show ya what we're about. Word on the street is[The_Fall_In_1SG] will be on site 4-7 April 2024, shaking hands and sharing his first hand experience with UXO! #experiencethis #teamwork #fallin #sweethomealabama #stillserving

Airborne & Special Operations Museum Foundation: In this colorized photo taken on the evening of June 5th, 1944, Soldiers from Fox Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division are pictured waiting for their C-47 to take off to Normandy. Robert “Bob” Noody is pictured second from right with the bazooka. Looking back, Noody said he must have weighed at least 250 lbs., encumbered with his M-1 rifle, a bazooka, three rockets, land mines, and other assorted "necessities". Fifty feet of rope hung from his chest, which he later used to lower his leg bag to the ground, easing his fall and ensuring he was ready to fight. He landed behind the mayor’s house at Ste. Mere-Eglise. In the ensuing days, Noody utilized his bazooka to destroy a German tank that threatened his unit outside of Carentan. For this action, Robert Noody received a Bronze Star with Oakleaf Cluster. It was his first and last bazooka usage, as he expended the three rockets he carried into battle. A leg wound at Carentan ended his Normandy adventure. He was only 20 years old on D-Day, and later in the war, Noody made the Operation Market Garden jump and fought with Fox Company from Eindhoven to the Rhine. Noody was discharged from the Army in November 1945 at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and received two Purple Hearts, the Bronze Star for his actions in Carentan, two Presidential Unit Citations, and the French Croix de Guerre. What a hero! #FlashbackFriday #militaryhistory #airborne #WWII #DDay

Eclipse, a dog who gained notoriety for riding Seattle’s city bus alone, died in her sleep on Friday, according to her owner-run Facebook account. She was 10 years old. The big red bus with three doors had been a fixture of Eclipse's daily routine for years, owner Jeff Young told USA TODAY. Several green and yellow buses stopped right outside of Young's apartment, but Eclipse knew to take the red one to the dog park in Belltown because she had done it "a million times," Young said. He adopted Eclipse when she was just 10 weeks old. In 2015, the black lab-bullmastiff mix dog began commuting without Young two to three times a week after sneaking on the bus alone while Young was smoking a cigarette. Eclipse knew exactly where to get off the bus by looking out the window, Young said. Eclipse would hop off the bus and "fly" straight to the dog park about a block and a half away. Eclipse, a dog who gained notoriety for riding Seattle’s city bus alone, is seen riding the bus in October, 2021. "She would break off whatever conversation she was having or whatever interaction, jump down, go to the back door and start banging on the glass," Young said. And since that first solo ride in 2015, Young had to keep a closer eye on Eclipse. "The celebrity kind of got out of hand," Young said. Young said Eclipse has been his "best friend" for the last 11 years. "Missing her doesn't even cover it," he said. ~ Credits goes to respective owners