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If it fits, it ships.

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Anti-vaxxers destroy the freedom of others.

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Shiny whistle

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Spin spin spin

Energy company has got some sass

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You never hear a dying anti-vaxxer take pride in their decisions.

The reality is: Republican faith is a joke. Republican responsibility is a joke.

They would skip a free vaccine and not wear an inexpensive mask, but thousands in hospital cost is an automatic response to getting sick.

Filling up hospitals with their selfish life choices gives them no shame. When they die, they wish they could have done it all different.

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A huge number of people are already getting fucked over when it comes to being allowed to cast a vote in the upcoming elections. Let’s try to minimize what that number COULD be as much as possible. It might also be useful to have the number for the ACLU written down (or already in your phone) so you can CALL THEM while still at the polling place and get whatever information is needed in order to see about having the ACLU sue them. Write down names. Get witnesses. Take photos. MAKE IT VERY CLEAR TO THE POLLSTERS THAT YOU ARE GOING TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. (Unless you have reason to believe they’re going to be assholes and try to have you arrested for doing so, in which case, be as subtle as possible.)

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Before vs After Adoption

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JUST LETTING Y'ALL KNOW WHERE THIS BLOG STANDS.

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when I tell u I LOST IT

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Geneviève de Galard is a French nurse who was dubbed “the Angel of Dien Bien Phu" by the Hanoi press, after being stranded there March 28, 1954 during the French war in Indochina. Galard volunteered to work at the field hospital and was the only woman on site managing a 40 bed facility for the gravely injured.

Geneviève was awarded the Légion d´honneur & the Croix de Guerre TOE (War Cross for foreign operational theaters) on 29th of April 1954.

On 7th of May the French troops at Dien Bien Phu were forced to yield to the Vietminh. Galard was allowed with other medical staff to continue to care for the wounded & she worked changing bandages despite short supplies. When the Vietminh began to steal medical supplies, she hid some of them under her stretcher bed.

Galard was evacuated (against her will) to French held Hanoi on the 4th of May. She was the first medical staff member to leave & quickly became a media sensation, appearing on the cover of Paris Match that week.

U.S. Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton urged the United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to invite the French nurse to the United States. On arrival in New York City in July, she was introduced as a “symbol of heroic femininity in the free world” & given a Ticker Tape parade down Broadway in her honor & then a reception at city hall.

She flew to Washington, D.C. on the 29th of July 1954 & President Eisenhower awarded her the Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, calling her the “woman of the year.” Geneviève was then sent on a tour of six states including Cleveland, Chicago, New Orleans & San Francisco

Today a 95 year old Geneviève lives in Paris with her husband.

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You may want to grab a tissue.* Posted in a secondhand treasures group by Heath Bates.*

My dad was in Vietnam when I was a kid. As a birthday present he sent me a GI Joe Jeep like this one. It was my favorite toy and I took it to one of my favorite places, my babysitter, so I could play with it while mom was at work. One day mom comes in and tells me I wouldn't be coming back and somehow my Jeep was left behind. Every once in awhile as I made my way through high school, college, career and family I'd see something that would remind me of the Jeep and I would try to buy one off eBay or wherever and never could seem to close the deal. Years later and I've moved back to my hometown and out doing what I love, going to yard sales. I'm in the next little community down the highway from my home and there's a house opened up with everything for sale. Tucked away in a corner with nothing but the grill sticking out is the Jeep you see in the pic. I dug it and the trailer out and couldn't pay for it fast enough. I was talking to the seller about my Jeep and this Jeep. She looks at me oddly and asks my name. I told her and she gasped "You know my grandma! She still talks about you all the time!". Yes, her grandma was my babysitter and this is my GI Joe Jeep circa 1972. We were reunited at a Shady Point, Oklahoma yard sale in 2018 for $5.

***Edit*** I had already paid for the Jeep before we made the connection. She offered to give my money back but I insisted she keep it. $5 was a very reasonable storage fee.

***Edit #2*** my dad did make it home from Vietnam. He passed in 2000 after also serving in Desert Storm.

***Edit #3*** I was in contact with my babysitter until she passed. The last time I saw her she was so excited to tell that "little Heath" had came to see her. I didn't have the heart to tell her who I was.

***Edit #4*** I left the daycare because my mom lost her job.

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