#Sullivan brothers

[number1iowan]

I would like to make it clear that this is COMICS Clint Barton, not the mcu version. As a young boy, Clint and his brother escaped their abusive father by running away to the circus, where they learned the venerable art of trick shots, a skill he would use to become the hero Hawkeye. He is also Hard of Hearing as a result of his childhood abuse, and he has a dog named Lucky the Pizza Dog.

The Sullivan brothers were a real set of five brothers who served in the Navy during WWII. All five of them served on the same ship and, therefore, died when it sank, leading to the creation of the Sole Survivor policy that Saving Private Ryan is based on. At the end of the movie, the four older brothers who died first are walking into heaven, and the youngest brother runs up like, wait for me fellas!!!! Heartbreaking.

[mareislandfoundation]

Abandoned

On January 31, 1943, Navy Lieutenant (LT) Charles Wang checked into the hospital at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. His journey to the hospital had been epic as he joined the flood of World War II casualties to be treated at the hospital since the Pearl Harbor casualties arrived on Christmas Day two years before. Lt. Wang’s stay in hospitals stretched out to two years and 30 operations as doctors struggled to repair the damage that a plummeting radar antenna and 6 days of exposure had done to his mangled leg. By all rights, Lieutenant Wang should have been dead, but luck and two sailors had collaborated to save his life.

In the pitch black of night on Friday the 13th of November 1942, Lt. Wang with two other officers, were in charge of Gun Control 2 and had survived unscathed an epic naval battle in Iron Bottom Sound off Guadalcanal. US forces had captured a Japanese airfield on the island of Guadalcanal and in a desperate gamble Japanese Admiral Yamato was throwing everything he had at the US troops to dislodge them. The Americans had broken the Japanese codes and knew that the Japanese were coming. Forty-eight ships, including battleships, heavy cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers were coming through a narrow feature known as the slot intent on pummeling the US troops on Guadalcanal and destroying any warships they might encounter.

Steaming towards the Japanese fleet was a much smaller US fleet that Admiral Bull Halsey had hastily assembled to counter the Japanese move. The US fleet was outgunned and consisted of only two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers and eight destroyers. As the two fleets approached each other the Japanese searchlights suddenly lit up at about two in the morning. All hell broke loose as both sides opened on the other. By morning the two fleets were limping apart. While the Japanese had suffered heavy losses they had scored a tactical victory. Only six ships of the American fleet had survived and except for one destroyer all the remaining ships were heavily damaged. Lt. Wang’s light cruiser the USS Juneau (CL-52) was struggling back to the US base at Espiritu Santo 600 miles away. Lt. Wang survived the battle with no injuries, but the same was not true for his ship and shipmates both of which had been decimated.

The Juneau was built to provide anti-aircraft fire to protect carriers and was never expected to slug it out in a surface engagement. Juneau was riddled with gunfire and a Japanese torpedo had struck her forward boiler room killing everyone in it. Her mess hall had been converted to a sick bay during the battle and suffered a direct hit that reduced it to twisted metal and body parts. Juneau was down at the bow as she limped along on one engine while being steered from a jury-rigged apparatus at the rudder post. As Lt. Wang gazed across the water to the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38) he was looking at a similar mess. Her topsides had been struck numerous times leaving a jangle of twisted metal. Her crew had suffered hundreds of casualties, and her bridge was gone because of nearly the entire Japanese fleet focusing on her. Lt. Wang was not the only person looking at the San Francisco.

Staring through his periscope Commander Yokota of the Japanese submarine I-26 fired two torpedoes at the San Francisco. Those torpedoes missed their intended target streaking across her bow. One of the torpedoes found a different victim. Unseen until seconds before impact, that torpedo slammed into Juneau’s magazine. In a massive explosion the huge ship was blown in two and ceased to exist. As the hull sections slipped beneath the waves the ship's radar antenna came hurtling down and broke Lt. Wang’s right leg before he was dragged underwater. Lt. Wang survived the suction of the sinking and ended up on an improvised raft with about 140 survivors most of whom were also badly wounded.

As the men struggled to survive, they were stunned to see the entire fleet sail away. The fleet commander had reasoned that no one could have survived the massive explosion, and it was too dangerous to stay in the area with a Japanese submarine lurking. The men’s injuries, sharks, exposure and lack of fresh water now began whittling away at the survivors. Lt. Wang was in such bad shape that two men determined to set off with him in a raft to a nearby island to seek help. They reached the island 6 days after the sinking, dehydrated, sunburned and starving. Found by natives they were eventually rescued, and Lt. Wang was brought to Mare Island for treatment.

Lt. Wang and his companions were shocked to learn that of original 140 survivors, only 10 men were still alive. Included in the dead were the now famous five Sullivan brothers who had fought hard to serve together on the same ship despite Navy policy against such a practice. Lt. Wang’s war was over as his stay in hospitals stretched out for two years and 30 operations as doctors struggled to repair the damage that the plummeting radar antenna and 6 days of exposure had done to his mangled leg.  He returned home to Philadelphia, married, and earned his medical degree, perhaps influenced by his experiences at the Mare Island hospital.

Dennis Kelly

[gayestpiano]

i made a playlist of songs that have a duration as a title

points of interest in this one:

i spent a frankly insane amount of time calculating how long “One Hundred Sleepless Nights” is, which culminated in using government data and an actual spreadsheet

“52 Weeks” < “365 Days” = “525,600 Minutes” < “1 Year”

“5 Years, 3 Months, 18 Days” followed by “5 Years, 4 Months, 3 Days” followed by “5 Years, 8 Months and 12 Days”

[tkorhoh]

FEEDS ↳ cam's backyard roast performance.

[firststrikerr]

"I owe it to—"

(inspired by this piece by @gvalesdraws)

[supercap2319]

The beer shoved at Y/N's face was almost as shocking as the person attached to it. Not that being given a plastic at a high school party full of drunk teenagers was shocking, but it was the person who was handing out the alcohol that was the problem.

Tonight was a little party at Jonny's house, and even though they didn't talk much, Jonny invited Y/N. That's where this beer situation came into play. Everyone knew about Danny Sullivan Blake's little outburst at school after he found out that Y/N saved his little brother Finney from bullies.

People excepted Y/N to leave the school grounds in a body bag after Danny got through with him, but to everyone's shock; he let Y/N go. Now, here at this party by nothing short of the inevitable, Danny Sullivan once again came face to face with Y/N in the public eye of their peers. "I'm sorry."

"Excuse me?" Y/N asked. He was actually shocked. Did Danny just apologize to him? The same guy who beat the shit out of Vance Hopper last June?

"Look. I ain't really good at showing my emotions, and if you tell anyone about this, I'll kill you, but I was wrong to treat you the way I did at school. You were just protecting my little brother, and I think I owe you a big thank you for that. So here." He held up the plastic cup of beer once again.

Y/N took the cup and smiled. "Thank you, Danny."

"Don't mention it, L/N."

[lifelovemusiq]

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[callonpeevesie]

justiman enjoyers please accept my humble offering. inspired by @nadiajustbe's post about ben's guitar

putting this under the cut because i don't want the caption to get too long.

i Do Not know why justin looks like oscar wilde, i swear it was an accident. i Did draw the green carnation on purpose, and only later realised that green carnations being a symbol of homosexuality is a thing of our world and wouldn't be known in ingary. ....which means ben grew the flowers and gave that to justin Knowing the symbolism. dork.

most of the descriptions in the book are super vague so i just made up the designs. while ben canonically has ginger hair, i don't remember if justin's hair colour was ever mentioned in the books (his blue eyes Were mentioned in cita) but the strangian soldier had grey hair so i was going for dark grey. but the markers i used make everything too dark so it looks black now. not that i'm complaining.

justin's uniform is my design with some inspiration from these. all that was mentioned in hmc were green uniform and long shiny boots, and the green uniform was his disguise according to lettie so ??? i have no idea what he wears when he's not in disguise so have this i guess.

the guitar is mostly based on this. for ben's outfit i went for a cloak-ish thing to make him look wizardly but kept the shirt and pants casual since ben seems to me like the type to wear practical clothes in contrast with howl's flamboyance.

[lesbiansouhiyori]

listening to Ruddigore and I know G&S can be a lil wild but I actually have no fucking clue what's going on right now

[imthefkgsupreme]

Cam is never beating the comp flops allegations

[jackmkelly]

les taking jacks hand must be such a distinct and familiar feeling im sick

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 633/634: Now was the moment, or never at all

Suave warlock Nicholas has had bad news. His boss, Satan, will be recalling him to Hell, and does not plan to send him out to the world of the living again. Satan gave Nicholas two tasks to complete before his time runs out. He is to perform a Black Mass during which he will sacrifice Maggie, The Nicest Girl in Town, and afterward take her to Hell with him as his bride. He is also to complete the…

[tkorhoh]

BIG BROTHER 26 Cam Sullivan-Brown

[mjtheartist04]

A lil gifty for my beloved @hypocriticaltypwriter ✨💛

I know you have been going through a rough patch lately and have been not feeling too well🥺…so I made you something to cheer you up becuz I LOVE YOU and I wanted to lift your spirits up🫶

And becuz I adore and love these two sillies hehehjshvsbwgwhw

[nadiajustbe]

Modern AU Prince Justin would be the kind of a guy who works for this really rich famous family company but never usually tells people that. Not because he wants it to be secret or goes undercover, but just because he sees this information irrelevant and uninteresting so you wouldn't know he's the reachest guy in the country till he starts complaining about his brother getting him to sign this stupid expensive contracts.

He wears the same green T-Shirt for like forever. He went to a martial arts and fencing club when he was a child, thinks that's the coolest thing ever and can easily knock a person down, except he doesn't really gives a chance to show it. He has some kind of weird training at a street at five AM waking up everyone in the house and loves talking about his time in the army even though not many people actually believes he really ever was there.

His favourite hobby is feeding random street cast everywhere he goes. He gives every thingle one a the wiredest name possible (there were at least two Whippersnappers) and buys treats for them specifically. He saves various pictures of these same cats on his phone. He's almost in his thirties and doesn't feel any shame for anything described above. Especially the cat pictures.

He's also really educated and knows a thousands of linguistics rules, geography, politics, etiquette norms and conduct of speech or negotiations. His informal speech is still consists of street slang and insert words for more than a half.

He is always confused in directions and absolutely does not remember locations. He himself does not know how it happens. You can schedule a meeting on a specific spot under the neon sign and he still will call you an hour later telling you he's somewhere in the middle of Sahara desert. He says he knows the "shortcut" and then you end up wandering through jungles for another three hours.

He looks like the most pleasant person you've ever met but secretly he kinda despises half of the universe and prefers animals to humans as a company, with Ben being one of a few exceptions. He absolutely loves his niece and tells her the randomest life stories everytime they chat.

He ran away from home at least five times. He is still almost in his thirties. He quarrels with his brother a lot and then they both have to act like this had never happened. He knows the randomest forest survival lifehacks, never needs a single one ever. He's not really a spender but sometimes he throws a lot of money into things he thinks are really important for his life only for them not no work at all and ending up laying on a shelf.

He also surprisingly doesn't care about more of the things until they personally bother him. Like, at all.

Yes, he's still almost, If not is, in his thirties.

[lifelovemusiq]

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