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04/12/2023

A rather nice talking point about rest, success and everything in between.

Whether you talk to your friends, colleagues or family members for advice, or just to vent, this process helps you put things in perspective which helps build your resilience and cope better when things don't go to plan.

Good communication forms a part of your self-concept, and it helps you to better understand yourself and others, solve problems and learn new things, and will also build your career.

Bring back the front porch and having better forms of conversation ✌️😀

02/07/2023

Laissez les bon temps rouler! The Mistick Krewe of Okeanos Carnival Parade is San Marcos's annual Mardi Gras celebration featuring floats, music, and lots of fun.

06/21/2022

East Texas Businesses: Don't miss this Thursday's Governor’s Series in Kilgore! Hear from an exceptional lineup of speakers, including Chet Garner, Host of the award-winning series The Daytripper. Register: https://bit.ly/3mVaSQz

Kilgore College I Kilgore Economic Development Corp. I Texas Workforce Commission

06/15/2022

/ Confucius /
"Confucius was a Chinese philosopher, poet and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who was traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Confucius's teachings and philosophy formed the basis of East Asian culture and society, and continues to remain influential across China and East Asia as of today."
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Confucius: Analects

06/07/2022

7 June 1944
U.S. paratroopers (front row) of 'Easy Company' 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division with soldiers from the Army’s 4th Infantry Division that came from Utah Beach, France, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont.

From the right: Forrest Guth, Frank Mellet, David Morris, Daniel West, Floyd Talbert, and C.T. Smith.
Photograph taken by Walter Gordon.
Colour: https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/

06/07/2022

78 years ago today, 225 men from the 2nd Ranger Bn loaded ships and landing craft to storm the beaches of Normandy today, and take 'the high ground' at Point Du Hoc.

If they failed, it was believed that all of D-Day would have failed. Point Du Hoc was (and is) the only site from where German artillery fire could cover the whole beach.

A few hours ago, they would have been climbing 100ft cliffs, on ropes secured by rifle and small rocket-propelled grappling hooks and ladders (on loan from the London Fire Brigade) under downward heavy fire and grenades. In the first 'special operation' of the D-Day landings.

If they were lucky enough to make it across the beach to the cliffs (Note: under withering machine gun and mortar fire), they would fire off the grappling hooks, and up they went. Two Rangers would climb, stop every 10-15ft, and provide covering fire straight up as two more climbed up behind them to take their position. And the whole thing would start over.

Successive bounding on ropes going straight up a cliff while Germans are shooting straight down at you from above (as well as from the flanks).....think about it.

Of course, once they scaled to the top of the cliffs, the guns that were supposed to be on-site had been moved inland approximately 1 mile, a measure implemented by the Germans to protect the guns from sabotage, so the Rangers had to push through bunkers and endless lines of enemy troops to get to the gun emplacements and set the charges. So not only did they have to scale a cliff under fire and then ensure a foothold at the top, the men of 2nd Ranger Battalion also had to battle through German fortifications, mazes of trench systems, and through hedgerows, in order to complete their mission, silencing the guns, and securing a victory that day.

Out of 255 from the 2nd Bn, only 90 survived. That doesn't even count the wounded. But they "displayed the intestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission, though they be the lone survivor.

Balls that clanked. These men truly 'Lead the Way'. Rest easy, my WWII brothers.

! -Michael Kirk

06/07/2022