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Do not feel the need 2follow me back.Please do NOT add me 2public lists.Been crazy here & I need 2tweet less, but still โค๏ธtweets re:weather.
Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
I heard a story about two warriors who were blown up together.
One of them saved the other manโs life.
They survived.
They came home.
But the story didnโt end there.
The man who had once saved his brother on the battlefield later lost his own life at home.
And the one who had been saved was left carrying a question that cuts deeper than any wound:
Why couldnโt I save him?
That stayed with me.
Because we always ask:
Why didnโt he call?
Why didnโt he text?
Why didnโt he say something?
But maybe sometimes we need to ask ourselves:
Why didnโt I call?
Why didnโt I text?
Why didnโt I check?
And then the hardest question:
If I were the one drowning, would I have called?
Would I have texted?
Or would I have gone quiet too?
Some warriors make it home without ever really leaving the battlefield.
Check on your people.
Not just when they look broken.
Especially when they look strong.
John โTigโ Tiegen
Always Move Forward
Semper Fi
Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
BEING BORN IN AMERICA DOESNโT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE YOU LOYAL TO AMERICA.
You can be born and raised in the United States and still reject its culture, constitutional principles, traditions, and way of life.
Letโs understand the difference.
Assimilation: Adopting the customs, values, and social norms of the society in which you live. Being born here doesnโt guarantee it.
Anti-Americanism: Hostility toward America, its institutions, culture, or principles. Citizenship doesnโt prevent someone from holding those beliefs.
Traitor: Someone who betrays their country or its allegiance. A birth certificate doesnโt guarantee loyalty.
Treason: A narrowly defined constitutional crime involving levying war against the United States or adhering to its enemies and giving them aid and comfort.
Seditious Conspiracy: An agreement involving force to overthrow or oppose federal authority or obstruct the execution of federal law.
Domestic Terrorism: Criminal acts dangerous to human life, committed primarily within the United States, intended to intimidate civilians or coerce government policy or conduct.
Now, hereโs the distinction people need to understand.
Rejecting American culture isnโt automatically treason. Criticizing the government isnโt terrorism. Disagreeing with American values isnโt a crime.
But deliberately betraying your country, conspiring to use force against constitutional authority, or committing acts of terrorism doesnโt become acceptable simply because you were born on American soil.
Citizenship establishes legal nationality. It doesnโt establish loyalty, patriotism, or character.
And the same standard must apply to everyone, whether born here or naturalized.
If we donโt start standing up for our values, traditions, history, and the very foundation this nation was built upon, and stop allowing values that undermine those principles to erode them, we risk losing the United States as we know it.
A nation doesnโt have to be conquered by an outside enemy to fall. It can destroy itself from within when its own people stop defending what holds it together.
Your birthplace tells us where you came from. Your actions tell us where your loyalties stand.
Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
ALT Your first instinct is wrong
ALT Step 1: Disconnect everything
ALT Step 2: Secure your email
ALT Step 3: Check your money
Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
Medical gaslighting is rarely about bad intentions. It is what happens when a culture built for fast, definitive answers meets conditions that standard labs cannot see. In my latest op-ed, I write about closing that gap:
Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
Lest we forget: this was Ground Zero on September 11, 2001. We promised we would never forget.
Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
Teddy Roosevelt had it so rightโผ๏ธโผ๏ธ
In 1919, days before he died, Theodore Roosevelt wrote:
โIf the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone elseโฆ But this is predicated upon the person becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American.
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isnโt an American at all.
We have room for but one flag, the American flagโฆ๐บ๐ธ
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English languageโฆ
and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.โ
Equal rights. Undivided loyalty. That was the deal. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
#American #TeddyRoosevelt #OneFlag #OneLanguage #OneLoyalty
Madeline Amy Sweeney knew the plane had been hijacked. Instead of panicking, she started gathering information.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the 35-year-old American Airlines flight attendant was working aboard Flight 11, a Boeing 767 traveling from Boston to Los Angeles.
Not long after takeoff, something was terribly wrong.
The cockpit stopped responding.
Passengers were being attacked.
Crew members were injured.
The aircraft was no longer under the control of its pilots.
As chaos unfolded around her, Sweeney managed to connect to an American Airlines operations center using an Airfone. On the other end was supervisor Michael Woodward.
What followed would become one of the most important eyewitness accounts from inside a hijacked aircraft.
Sweeney didn't waste precious moments focusing on her own fate.
Instead, she began relaying information.
Carefully.
Clearly.
Methodically.
She described the men who had taken over the plane.
She gave their seat assignments.
She reported injuries among passengers and crew.
She explained that a passenger had been stabbed.
Every detail mattered.
Even as she faced the reality that she might never leave the aircraft alive, she continued feeding information to authorities.
According to later accounts, Woodward was struck by how calm and composed she remained. Her voice was steady. Her descriptions were precise.
Then she provided information that would later prove critical to investigators.
She identified Mohamed Atta as one of the hijackers and supplied details about the others involved.
As Flight 11 headed toward New York City, Sweeney stayed on the line, continuing to report what she could see.
At 8:46 a.m., the plane slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Everyone on board was killed.
Sweeney was just 35 years old.
The information she provided during those final minutes became some of the earliest and most valuable evidence available to investigators trying to understand what had happened.
She couldn't regain control of the aircraft.
She couldn't stop the hijackers.
She couldn't save herself.
But she could help others understand what was unfolding.
And she did.
Until the very end.
Madeline Sweeney left behind her husband and two young childrenโher son, Jack, who was four, and her daughter, Anna, who was seven.
They never saw her again.
Yet in the face of unimaginable circumstances, she chose to remain focused, courageous, and selfless.
Trapped aboard a hijacked plane with no way out, Madeline Amy Sweeney spent her final moments ensuring that the world would know exactly who had taken control of Flight 11โand what was happening inside it.
Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
Today is August 30th and New York City has forgotten 9/11 but we never will! This is a photo of the South Tower and my mother was only one floor above that trapped with her co-workers. The fact that people are trying to forget or whitewash what happened for political reasons is disgraceful and we must stand up for those that were lost!
@DollyParton I grew up listening to her music, even though she was only 15 years older than I am. I watched her TV show with her swinging & singing of butterflies. I have a lot of her albums. My nephew knew her as Aunt Dolly from Hannah Montana.
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In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly ๐บ๐ธ
If you want to watch a good show with your kids, or anyone, try 9/11: Reunited. Itโs was on NatGeoTV. Very touching. Seems like yesterday to me, but anyone under 35 could use the history lesson. ๐ข๐บ๐ธ #NeverForget @NatGeoTV @Sept11Memorial
Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
One of my buddyโs sons skipped college and became an electrician at 18.
He was told either college or military were his only two options.
His parents werenโt exactly excited when he went to trade school. Actually they were a little embarrassed.
Most of their friendsโ kids were going off to universities. Their son was showing up to job sites at 6am.
By 21 he was making $90k
By 24 he had his master electrician license making over $120k
At 27 he started taking his own jobs on the side for a total of $200k
Last year at 29 his little โelectrician businessโ did $1.8M with 4 vans.
Funny how that works.
His parents used to explain why he didnโt go to college.
Now they tell everyone he owns an electrical company.
We need more 18-year-olds to know this path exists.
Day 229 tagging @mikeroweworks until more parents start bragging about trade school too.
Consider to RT if you agree.
Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
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Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
I judge you by what you do and what you say. That is all you can be judged by because those are results of decisions you make.
You cannot be judged by your skin color, body type, or gender. Those are simply part of a bag you were dropped into at birth.
I look inside the bag. The bag itself is incidental.
Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
After perusing 25,000 comments in the past two days, most of which attempt to explain why Americans are voting for Communists, socialists, and antisemites in record numbers, Iโve done the only rational thing a man in my position can do; Iโve agreed to go on Real Time with Bill Maher this Friday to talk about it.
What could possibly go wrong?
I was also inspired by all the "sturm und drang" to make a quick commercial that highlights one of our many scholarship recipients who mastered a trade, and then went on to open her own business. Her name is Maryssa, and while I have no idea what her politics might be, I can assure you that her attitude, her initiative, and her work ethic are proof positive that the American Dream is still in reach, for any who would grab it and go.
Currently, we have $10 million in scholarships set aside to help people like Maryssa. People who want to build a prosperous life for themselves by learning a skill that's in demand and going to work. Apply at mikeroweWORKS.org.
Marie Smith ๐โ๏ธโ๐พ retweeted
#NassauCountyPD reports the arrest of a 39-year-old Baldwin woman for renting out multiple residential properties she does not own throughout Nassau County and fraudulently transferring the deed of a victim's home in West Hempstead to her name.
If you believe you have been a victim of this individual, contact NCPD ๐
โ๏ธ: 516-573-2815
โ๏ธ: 1-800-244-TIPS
๐ป: nassaucountycrimestoppers.coโฆ
