🚨INCREDIBLE: During a multi-vehicle collision on the Route 90 bridge in Ocean City, Maryland, a 2-year-old girl was ejected from a pickup truck, falling nearly 30 feet into the Assawoman Bay below. Jonathan Bauer, who was driving across the bridge with his teenage daughter when the crash occurred, rushed over to inspect the wreckage. Looking down into the water, he saw the toddler floating face down and becoming unresponsive. Without hesitation, Bauer instructed his daughter to flag down first responders, removed his shoes, and leapt off the bridge into the bay. He swam to the little girl, lifted her onto his shoulder, and patted her back until she coughed up water and began breathing again. A passing pontoon boat quickly navigated toward them, pulling both Bauer and the toddler out of the water and transporting them to shore, where emergency personnel were waiting. The child was airlifted to a regional medical center for evaluation and released the following day in good condition. Bauer was later honored by local law enforcement and civic leaders for his decisive actions and selflessness.

A 101-year-old Marine who took bullets in the chest and arm at Iwo Jima played Taps on a harmonica for 9/11. They had to help Sgt. Frank Wright to his feet. Then this nation heard why we still stand. Never forget. Never fold. Semper Fi. Who else still gets chills from this? 🇺🇸

11-year-old Austin Sides thought he was throwing out the first pitch at a Royals game. He had no idea the catcher behind the mask was HIS MILITARY DAD! Air Force Major Robert Sides had been deployed to Kuwait for a year. Phone calls and FaceTime were all they had. Then Dad came home early, put on the catcher’s gear, crouched behind the plate and waited for his son to throw. Watch Austin’s face when that mask comes off.😭 A year of missing his dad disappears in one hug. This is the sacrifice military families make. Not a dry eye. 🇺🇸

Alix Pasquet reveals why he now treats technical analysis as paramount and loves hearing smart people dismiss it "Both of them explained technical analysis to me in a behavioral lens, that it wasn't about picking stocks, but it was about helping you explain what was going on with the other market participants out there that were actually trading this thing." "And it's very important to be a technician, especially in a post-2022 market, because you know who uses technical analysis? The algorithms, the quant funds, the pods." "So if you're in a stock and it breaks a sort of technical level, you better have the staying power, because it is going to crash and go down even more than you actually think." "So technical analysis is paramount in our opinion." "And by the way, there is no greater competitive pleasure than hearing really, really smart people say I don't do technical analysis."

Hey @daChartLife! Does this qualify as "Brobdingnagian"?

For all those who breathlessly follow every CPI print, they are missing the plot. This isn’t merely about inflation. More importantly, it is about rising REAL rates. Global capex boom meets unsustainable deficits. I remain passionately bearish on bonds. @daChartLife says 6% on the 10 year. @crossbordercap , @LukeGromen @biancoresearch @jaypelosky @biancoresearch @MichaelKantro please call your office. @robin_j_brooks is a must follow.

JUST IN - EU President Ursula von der Leyen says that people's savings accounts are a problem and that she must put this money "to the service of European companies" says her plan to "securitize them" and "supervise them" They're coming for your savings, Europe.

Clarence Sasser was a college kid from Texas, studying chemistry at the University of Houston, when the draft pulled him into the Army in 1967. They trained him as a combat medic and sent him to the Mekong Delta, the maze of rice paddies and canals in the far south of Vietnam. He was 20 years old, and what he lived through on January 10, 1968, is almost impossible to believe a person could survive, let alone keep working through. His company, about 115 men, air assaulted by helicopter into an open rice paddy and landed in a trap. Viet Cong opened up on them from three sides at once, and within the first few minutes 30 Americans were down. The men were pinned in the open, in the water and the mud, with no cover and wounded everywhere crying for a medic. So Doc Sasser got up and ran into it. He was hit in the leg almost immediately, and he kept going, splashing across the paddy from one wounded man to the next, dragging them to what little cover there was and patching them up under a storm of fire. A mortar round burst near him and drove hot shrapnel into his back. He refused to stop for his own wounds and kept moving to the next man. Then he was hit again, in both legs, and now he could not stand or walk at all. He still did not quit. For the next five hours, through the rest of that day and into the night, Clarence Sasser dragged his own shattered body through the mud and water of that rice paddy by his arms, pulling himself from one wounded soldier to another, treating them, calming them, keeping them alive. He could not walk, he was bleeding from multiple wounds, and he spent five hours crawling through a killing field so that other men would see the morning. When help finally came, he had kept alive men who would certainly have died without him, and he had never once treated his own wounds first. President Nixon gave Clarence Sasser the Medal of Honor in 1969, one of the first Black soldiers of the war to receive it. He came home, went back to school, worked in chemistry and later for the Veterans Administration, and lived a quiet Texas life for more than fifty years. He died in 2024 at the age of 76. A drafted college student who, with both legs torn up, crawled through a paddy for five hours because he was the Doc, and the Doc does not leave the wounded behind.

The time Dolly Parton and Kermit jammed to Sly and the Family Stone. This is always how I will remember her.

Scheduled to pitch for, '55th Fighter Group' in England during WWII, but as his plane was shot down, he radioed his fellow pilots: "Tell the boys I won’t be back for the game." After his plane crashed, he was captured, held in a POW camp and had his right leg amputated by a POW doctor. Bert Shepard’s recovery and running so impressed a POW camp doctor, that he asked Shepard to demonstrate his mobility for the hospital staff. After WWII, on the day that he officially signed with the Washington Senators, Bert Shepard caught a cab and returned to 'Ward 49' at Walter Reed, where he was fitted for a new artificial leg; His, “Baseball leg". "I got an awful lot of publicity right away. That sort of helped me to stay with the ball club until I could prove myself. I pitched several exhibition games and got ‘em out each time." His first MLB game box score after the war..... 5 1/3 innings, three hits, one walk, one hit batter, two strikeouts and one earned run. The Boston Globe called it: "By far the most inspiring performance by a limbless veteran of WWII." Bert Shepard remains the only player to have ever played in the major leagues on an artificial leg. Late in his life, when Bert Shepard was in his 70's, he said he often wondered: "Who carried me from the wreck?”, and “Who saved my life?" Little did he know that around the same time a British businessman, who knew of Bert Shepard's legend, went on a hunting trip to Hungary. There he met a fellow hunter, a retired doctor named Ladislaus Loidl, who told a story of how he had once rescued a wounded American flier from his downed plane. Loidl recalled that his wife had made a dress out of the airman’s parachute, and remembered reading the name Bert Shepard on the pilot’s dog tags. The British hunter suggested Loidl contact Shepard. He did! In May of 1993, the two men met at the doctor’s home in Austria, 49 years after their first meeting on a German battlefield. "I prayed for this. And after half a century, my dream has incredibly come true." Bert Sheppard.

It might be Double-A, but this is one of the greatest home run robberies I’ve ever seen

“Old Days”Shortly after the 1968 Cardinals-Tigers World Series,Pitchers Bob Gibson and Denny McLain meet up again,this time on”The Ed Sullivan Show” #STLCards  #Tigers #Detroit #CBS #Entertainment #1960s

Treasury yields bounced right back up.  Like I said @SecScottBessent is bringing a knife to a gunfight.   While this is happening (upper left here:  usdebtclock.org/ [usdebtclock.org]), and all the AI debt as well, there is not enough savings in the world to finance the government largesse globally and AI debt and everything else that is consuming capital:   cnbc.com/2026/08/20/bond-yie… [cnbc.com] @LukeGromen @biancoresearch @MichaelMOTTCM @SamKovX @ces921 @GordonJohnson19 @crossbordercap @daChartLife

Bob Love was a three time NBA All-Star and the second leading scorer in Chicago Bulls history. Seven years after he retired, he was washing dishes for $4.45 an hour. Because he stuttered, and nobody would hire him. Love spent eight seasons with the Bulls, led the team in scoring in seven of them, and made three All-Star teams and three All-Defensive teams. To this day only Michael Jordan has scored more points in a Bulls uniform. A back injury in 1976 started the end. He was traded, then landed with the Seattle SuperSonics, who cut him before the 1977-78 season. His playing career was over at 35. And then his real problem surfaced. Bob Love had stuttered severely since he was a child. It was so bad it affected him in huddles and made him unable to talk to reporters. Teammates called him Butterbean and he mostly stayed quiet. Now he needed a job. His own description of what happened: "After my retirement from the NBA, reaction by potential employers to my speaking difficulty turned the usually tough post-sports career adjustment into a living nightmare. I had a college degree, but personnel managers seldom call back someone who stutters on the telephone." He had a college degree from Southern University. It didn't matter. He worked as a bartender, a caterer, a construction worker. Anything that didn't require him to speak. His marriage ended. By the end of 1984, seven years after millions of people watched him play in the NBA, Bob Love took the only job anyone would offer him. Busboy and dishwasher in the basement restaurant of a Nordstrom in Seattle. $4.45 an hour. And this is where the story becomes what it is. Here's Love, in 1994, describing what it was like: "Every once in a while, former players, or even current ones in town to play Seattle, would come by for a cup of coffee or a sandwich. I'd be there in my apron and my little hat, pushing a cart and clearing tables for $4.45 an hour. 'Yeah, I used to be Bob Love.'" "I was embarrassed, and they were embarrassed for me. But there's only two ways you can go. You can take off the apron and the hat and give up. Or you can decide to be the best dishwasher in the world." "I kept on washing." Then his boss came to him with an offer. Nordstrom told him he'd been doing a great job and they wanted to promote him, but he'd have to do something about his stuttering. And then the company paid for it. In May 1986 he started working with a speech pathologist in Seattle named Susan Hamilton. Every day for six weeks. Then three times a week for six months. Then twice a week for four months. Then once a week. She later said his stuttering had been severe, with long blank spaces and no eye contact, and that the shame he carried from his playing days and from Nordstrom was at the top of the list of things he'd struggled with. She also said he was the most motivated person she'd worked with. In one of their first sessions, Bob Love told her: "I want to be a great public speaker." Within a while he was giving speeches all over Seattle. He became the corporate spokesman for Nordstrom's restaurants and ran health and sanitation for all of them. Then in 1992 the Chicago Bulls brought him home as Director of Community Affairs. On January 14, 1994, the Bulls retired his number 10. He was only the second player in franchise history to receive that honor. The man who couldn't get hired because he couldn't talk spent the last thirty years of his life making more than 300 speeches a year to schools and businesses, and picked up two honorary doctorates along the way. Bob Love died in November 2024 at 81. He decided to be the best dishwasher in the world. For more stories like this, follow us on any platform @thesportsontap

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