>>/177494/,  >>/177495/,  >>/177496/,  >>/177497/,  >>/177498/,  >>/177499/,  >>/177500/,  >>/177501/,  >>/177502/,  >>/177503/,  >>/177504/,  >>/177505/,  >>/177506/,  >>/177507/,  >>/177508/,  >>/177509/,  >>/177510/,  >>/177511/,  >>/177512/,  >>/177513/,  >>/177514/,  >>/177515/,  >>/177516/,  >>/177517/,  >>/177518/
G-PA INDY @GPAIndiana - Video: James Stockdale sat alone in a North Vietnamese prison cell in September 1965 and smashed a wooden stool into his own face, even though he knew the injuries would leave him permanently scarred and barely able to see.
He did it for one reason.
The guards were preparing him 
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2030091824417632256/vid/avc1/320x568/1ZL49OOoecmjdj18.mp4
Quote:
G-PA @IndianaGPA
Video: Bruce Crandall kept turning his helicopter back toward the gunfire.
It was November 14, 1965, in the la Drang Valley, Vietnam. American soldiers were surrounded and outnumbered. Enemy fire was so intense that medical evacuation helicopters refused to land.
Wounded men were bleeding out on the battlefield.
Crandall did not accept that.
Born on February 17, 1933, in Olympia, Washington, he was a 32 year old Army major commanding an air cavalry unit. When he learned that injured soldiers were trapped without ammunition or medical support, he made a decision that could cost him everything.
He flew into the landing zone.
Not once.
22 times.
Each time, bullets ripped through the air. His helicopter was hit repeatedly. The landing zone was barely secure. Soldiers dove for cover as he touched down. He delivered ammunition. He loaded the wounded. He lifted off again into enemy fire.
Other pilots refused to fly. Crandall kept going.
By the end of the day, dozens of soldiers were evacuated because he refused to leave them behind. Many later said they would have died without those flights.
For his actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. It was later upgraded to the Medal of Honor in 2007, 42 years after the battle.
He had already retired as a colonel.
For decades, few outside military circles knew his name.
He once flew straight into overwhelming fire 22 times so others could live. Recognition came nearly half a century later.
https://x.com/GPAIndiana/status/2030091884182302740

Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952 - To all of you morons saying “I’m not dying for (insert country),” or “I didn’t vote for us to go to war for (insert country),” let me explain to you why you are stupid.
Isolationism sounds appealing if one has never stepped outside the comfort of their own homes (or if you have the IQ of a cockroach). 
I have spent a decade and a half operating in the shadows of the world’s fault lines, where the reality is brutally clear: power vacuums do not remain empty. 
They are always filled—and rarely by benevolent actors. 
If the United States withdraws from the global stage, China, Russia, and every opportunistic authoritarian regime in existence will rush to occupy the ground we abandon. 
They will shape trade routes, control supply chains, dictate technological standards, and dominate the security architecture of entire regions. 
That is not speculation. It is how geopolitics has always worked. 
The global order that allows Americans to live in relative prosperity and security is not an accident; it exists because the United States underwrites it. 
Remove that foundation and the structure collapses. 
The fantasy of isolation ignores the fact that our economy, our security, and our alliances are interwoven across the planet. 
If we retreat, we do not become safer or freer. We become strategically blind while hostile powers consolidate influence over the very systems that sustain our way of life. 
In other words, isolationism would not protect the United States. 
It would guarantee that the future world order is written by nations that do not share our interests or values, and once that order solidifies, reclaiming it would cost far more than maintaining it ever did.
 26