William Whittington

I'm a retired UPS guy of 43 years, and before that I was in the USAF. I'm a husband, father, and grandfather. I'm also a lifelong Christian conservative who stands with MAGA, MAHA, and the American way. I study the Bible. It is God's word, period. I believe in the supremacy of the United States Constitution as the founders laid it out. I post original takes and some articles, and algorithm analysis. I post a lot of veteran stories to give them the attention they deserve. They deserve far more than that, but that's all I can do on X. I love finely crafted beer by local brewers. You might say I'm a beer snob, but I won't judge you if you simply like the factory beers. It's all good, it's beer. Patriots are always welcome on my page, whether as mutuals, commentary, or both. I block bots and burner accounts, both foreign and domestic, who try to follow me or attack me on my page. Everybody else I judge by the feed. If your feed is suspicious or you post from the left, you get kicked to the curb. If you never post, then I'm probably not going to follow back. If you're a reply-only account, you're welcome to follow, but I probably won't follow back. The only reason to follow an account is to see their posts. If you never post, there is no need. If you're here for real talk and the occasional fired-up run-on about our love for this country, pull up a chair. If you like to talk the algorithm and what makes X tick, then we can have a conversation. I like to talk about my genealogy research of my family and using Grok Bot to get that done. Absolutely no DMs without permission. All others get deleted. Put a link in the DM and you're blocked. No crypto. No coins. No "opportunities." Don't ask. I also need my coffee in the morning, so don't be surprised if I start the day grumpy. Though I'm mostly peaceful. I'm putting more about my experience in the first reply if you're curious. If not, that's fine, have a nice day.

Well, Goodnight X. My reach sucked today. Time to sleep it off. See you for coffee in the morning. 😴 🛌 💤

It finally sank. They should have started in darkness so we could have had a daylight view of the sinking. Well, that's that.

😂 I could watch him fail all day. Nice video @SoveyX

So what did everyone do for Veterans day?

Royce Williams joined up at 16, two months after Pearl Harbor, and served 37 years. In 1952, over Korea, the Navy pilot took on seven Soviet pilots by himself. The fight lasted 35 minutes and is credited with saving countless sailors' lives. More than 70 years later, earlier this year, he finally received the Medal of Honor at age 100. Today, at 101, he stood before the crowd at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans on Veterans Day, one of seven WWII veterans there. "It was God. I should not have survived 35 minutes. Longest air battle ever. But that's what I was made for." God bless you, Captain Williams. wdsu.com/article/new-orleans…

Kevin Rumley was 18, on a foot patrol in Iraq, when a bomb went off and sent shrapnel through his legs, his arm and his eye. Doctors told him he'd never walk again. He went through 32 surgeries. Today he stood up in front of a crowd and gave the keynote at the Veterans Day ceremony at the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville, North Carolina. His body healed, but the war didn't leave. He fought opioid and alcohol addiction for years before he found recovery. "War changes you forever." Now the Marine and Purple Heart recipient runs the Buncombe County Veterans Treatment Court, helping veterans caught up in the justice system get treatment and support. "I really feel called to pay it forward." Semper Fi, Kevin. wlos.com/news/local/ashevill…

Here's a Veterans Day story I love. Dennis Fisher was a young Marine in Vietnam who wanted to be a combat photographer. His lieutenant told him, "They need riflemen a lot more than photographers." So Fisher signed up for six more months in Vietnam just to get the job. He went out with a .45, a K-Bar and a Nikon camera. After every operation he sorted his film into two piles. One went to the archives. The Corps threw the other away. Fisher quietly kept those. Nearly 60 years later, the National Archives called. His photos are now in its permanent exhibit, "The American Story." When he held those old negatives again, he said, "The last time I held this negative in my hand, I was a young man, 21 years old, in the middle of a war." He still hasn't seen the exhibit in person, but he plans to. "We had some good guys over there. This is a chance to let them shine." Semper Fi, Dennis. stripes.com/veterans/2026-11…

Ever wonder who we have to thank for Veterans Day? His name was Raymond Weeks, a World War II vet from Birmingham, Alabama. After the war, Nov. 11 was still Armistice Day, set aside for the end of World War I. Weeks thought every veteran of every war deserved that day. So on Nov. 11, 1946, he walked a plan in to Gen. Eisenhower himself. Ike liked it. The next year, Birmingham held the very first Veterans Day, with a parade, a dinner and a memorial service. Weeks kept it going year after year. In 1954, Eisenhower, now president, signed it into law. Years later, President Reagan gave him the Presidential Citizens Medal and called him "the driving force" behind the holiday. Weeks passed away in 1985. A memorial to him stands in Birmingham, where they still gather every Veterans Day. One veteran with an idea. Thank you, Raymond Weeks. military.com/the-birmingham-…

Gulf War veteran Ellie Kennedy served more than 15 years in the Air Force and Army, including a deployment to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. "I went off to war perfectly healthy and came back a wreck, physically and mentally." In 2008 she learned she had ataxia, a brain disorder that wrecks balance. Doctors told her she'd need full-time care within two years. Her answer: "If I only got two years, I'll just do what I want to do." She took up para-cycling in her 60s. She won a World Cup bronze, made the U.S. national team, and is now the oldest woman in the world racing riders four or five decades younger. In 2025 she nearly died of pneumonia and sepsis. In 2026 she was back on the bike. At 69, she's training for the 2028 LA Paralympics. "If someone really wants to do something and there's something that they love and enjoy, there's a way to do it." Happy Veterans Day, Ellie Kennedy. military.com/female-gulf-war…

Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer left the Marine Corps in 2010. Fifteen years later, at 36, he reenlisted, the first Medal of Honor recipient ever to do it. Then at 38 he finished the training to become a reconnaissance Marine. He called it "probably the hardest thing that I've ever had to do." At 21, in the 2009 Battle of Ganjgal, he and Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez drove into an ambush again and again to pull out wounded troops while he searched for four trapped teammates. All four were later found dead. "I believe that the only time you've done your part is when you've done all that you can." On being a veteran: "It's something that we are doing, and it is something that we can continue to do." He's still doing it. Secretary Hegseth also put him on the Pentagon's Barracks Task Force, touring bases to fix the barracks our troops live in. Semper Fi, Dakota Meyer. foxnews.com/politics/dakota-…

Posting any and all veteran stories I can find today. I hope you all read them and share their stories. They deserve all of the attention they get.

Marine combat veteran Richard Casper says art kept him going after he lost friends in battle. Now his nonprofit, CreatiVets, is turning an abandoned Nashville church into a 19,000-square-foot "healing house" where veterans can heal through art and music. When he told Amy Grant about his dream of buying that church, she already knew the building. A week earlier she had parked outside it and prayed out loud that it would be used for good. "There's a reason God brought you here today," she told him. Gary Sinise donated $1 million toward the $3 million needed to secure it. The center is set to open in March. Casper's message to his fellow veterans: "This Veterans Day, know that you matter, you belong, and you don't have to figure out what comes next alone." Semper Fi, Mr. Casper. dailywire.com/news/a-marines…

Veteran Pedro Vera is 104. He was drafted at 22 off a farm south of San Antonio and landed on the beaches of Normandy about a week after D-Day, driving the wounded to the hospital with the 566th Ambulance Company. Last year France gave him the Legion of Honor, its highest award. He only went to school through the fifth grade. After the war he used his service benefits to get an education and worked at San Antonio's Kelly Field until he retired in 1982. He was married to his wife Magdalena for 79 years. They went dancing every weekend and were wanted at every wedding and quinceañera. "She liked to sing, and I played the guitar. That worked out pretty good." Last month his family gathered in Kyle, Texas, to hear his stories, and he brought his clippings and medals to share. Service runs deep in that family, back to WWI. His cousins Joey and JD Reyes retired as an Army lieutenant colonel and a Marine major. "It's never too late to go reach out to someone beyond your close circle of family," Joey said. Only about 30,600 of the 16.4 million Americans who served in WWII are still alive. Thank you for your service, Mr. Vera. stripes.com/veterans/2026-11…

Good news for my fellow veterans. The VA launched a new VA.gov today, on Veterans Day. The VA surveyed more than 90,000 veterans, and signing in was the most frustrating part of using the site. The new site adds: - Easier sign-in through CLEAR, with passkeys and password-free options - Better recognition of trusted devices - In-person identity checks instead of phone selfies - AI-powered search "It was hard to sign in, check the status of an application, and find what you needed. Starting Nov. 11, we're fixing all three," said the VA's Zack Schwartz. military.com/new-department-…

Today, on Veterans Day, "Soul Patrol" expands to more than 110 theaters nationwide, including more than 90 AMC locations. It tells the story of the Vietnam War's first all-Black Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol team, six men with Company F, 51st Infantry, who ran missions deep behind enemy lines around Cu Chi. The film is based on Vietnam veteran Ed Emanuel's 2003 memoir. He served on that team and helped make the film, which reunites the surviving soldiers to talk about combat, the men they lost and the memories they carried home. For decades their work got little attention outside military circles. Director J.M. Harper won the Sundance directing award for it. Thank you for your service, gentlemen. You deserve all of the attention you can get. military.com/soul-patrol-doc…

X updated the code behind its algorithm last night. The weights for likes, reposts, replies and quotes did not change. Here's what did change in plain English. The video carousel now skips videos you've already seen and filters out medium-risk videos by default. X also added a new way to label adult content on posts. X added a way to match posts to their topics and to what you've been viewing lately, plus a Grok Bot suggested-tasks section in the feed, but those are NOT LIVE YET. They're still switched off in the public code. Reposts count a little more than a like, but far less than a reply or quote. And replies and quotes carry equal weight in X's prediction model. So carry on with what your doing. Nothing that matters has changed.

Good morning, X! Happy Veterans day. Thank a veteran today for their service. Time to take Shadow for a walk and then it's coffee time, which is my favorite time. Cheers ☕

Best tool in analytics. You set it to one hour and you can see how many of your followers were on in the last hour. That numbers getting low and I'm seeing old posts now. So time to hit the hay. See you for morning coffee. 😴 🛌 💤