Michael Douglas @northdad

Minnesotan. proud dad of 3 great sons & grampa to 3 wonderful girls & a wonderful boy. NW MN closer to Winnipeg, MB than Minneapolis by 4 hours! Joined June 2009

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Michael Douglas @northdad

2 weeks ago

@6dollarwheatguy 😂😂🤣

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Michael Douglas @northdad

4 weeks ago

@CarlEller81 Favorite season!

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Dolly Parton @DollyParton

2 months ago

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

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Michael Douglas @northdad

3 months ago

@6dollarwheatguy @kulmweatherman Uff da. Not good.

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On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name. He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World War he went to France and was gassed and badly wounded at Soissons leading his men. That same summer his younger brother Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France. Ted came home with lungs and a leg that never fully recovered, and before he even left Europe he helped found the American Legion so that ordinary soldiers would have someone looking out for them. Between the wars he did almost everything. Governor of Puerto Rico. Governor General of the Philippines. Businessman, explorer, writer. He could have spent the Second World War safe behind a desk. Instead, at 54, arthritic and walking with a cane, he talked his way back into uniform and into combat. By 1943 he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily under Terry Allen, and their loose, unpolished, soldier-first style rubbed General Patton the wrong way. Patton had them both relieved of command. Roosevelt didn't sulk. He asked for another job, any job, as long as it kept him near the fighting. They made him assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division. Then came D-Day. He hid a heart condition from the Army doctors. He wrote to his commander three separate times, in writing, begging to go in with the very first wave rather than watch from a ship. He was the only general to land in the first wave on any beach that morning, the oldest man in the invasion, walking through machine gun fire with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other. The boats came in a mile off course. Officers froze. Roosevelt limped up and down the beach under fire, studied the ground, and said, "We'll start the war from right here." Then he spent the morning waving men forward and sorting out the chaos so calmly that terrified 20 year olds looked at this old man with a cane and decided that if he wasn't scared, they wouldn't be either. His son Quentin, named for the uncle killed in the last war, landed at Omaha Beach the same morning. They were the only father and son to come ashore together on D-Day. He died a month later. A heart attack in his sleep. And here is the part that gets me. On the very day he died, the orders had just come through promoting him to major general and giving him his own division. He never saw the paperwork. He never knew he'd earned the Medal of Honor either. At his funeral his pallbearers were seven of the most famous generals of the war, Bradley, Hodges, Collins, Barton, Huebner, and George Patton. The same Patton who had fired him. Patton wrote in his diary that Roosevelt was one of the bravest men he had ever known. Years later Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic thing he witnessed in all of World War II. He didn't pause. He said, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

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Michael Douglas @northdad

4 months ago

@kowalchukfarms1 Oh, man, that hurts.

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Günter Jochum🧢🇨🇦 @gmjochum

5 months ago

@Plantmore1 @ColinMartel91 We got 7-9.5” across our whole farm. It’s done, there will be little to harvest

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Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales

5 months ago

“The Flintstones” had some wild commercials in the 1960s

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Michael Douglas @northdad

5 months ago

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Michael Douglas @northdad

5 months ago

@mcglynn_melanie This is so awesome! Way to go Zach!!

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Michael Douglas @northdad

5 months ago

@kowalchukfarms1 Whatta find!

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Michael Douglas @northdad

6 months ago

@855horsepower1 Hate those frickin things!

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Michael Douglas @northdad

6 months ago

@2oldfogie @kowalchukfarms1 We need more info on this Frankenstein!

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6 months ago

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Michael Douglas @northdad

7 months ago

@MorganHuseby @TwinsAlmanac I just came here to say that! 💯

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Minnesota Vikings @Vikings

7 months ago

End of an era for two Minnesota natives who defied the odds and became #Vikings Legends. @cjham28 and @athielen19 will retire as Vikings on Thursday.

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Minnesota Twins @Twins

7 months ago

Today would have been Kirby Puckett's 66th birthday. We miss you, 34! Happy Birthday ❤️

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Michael Douglas @northdad

8 months ago

@dish_answers so disappointed with all that we pay for dish that we now don’t have our local NBC and CBS stations in NW MN. Frustrating! Maybe time to hook up the old antenna and then stream any extra channels we want to watch.

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Michael Douglas @northdad

8 months ago

@kowalchukfarms1 @FBNFarmersCAN Cool!

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The Twins Almanac @TwinsAlmanac

9 months ago

The temperature in Tower, MN on this date in 1996 was 48°. Why is that noteworthy? Because it had been a state-record low -60° just six days earlier—a swing of 108 degrees! Can you imagine the temperature in Arizona fluctuating by over 100 degrees in a week?!