David Hopkins @david413

Retired Senior Reactor Operator, U.S. Navy veteran. Submarines USS Skate (SSN578), USS Florida (SSBN728). #0445club Jefferson City, MO Joined April 2009

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David Hopkins @david413

3 weeks ago

Aftermath. Cloudy, cool, misty. Perfect. #0445club #disciplineequalsfreedom #getafterit #autumn

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David Hopkins @david413

4 weeks ago

“The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever.” Isaiah 40:8

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A serious question. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, there were many movie stars that joined up (Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, etc.). Which stars enlisted after 9/11? I genuinely wonder, I can’t think of one.

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

“Brothers and sisters: None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.” Romans 14

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

It’s science.

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

Another year, another Tunnel to Towers 5k in the books. The eleventh annual here in Jefferson City, and I’ve done them all! #neverforget #0445club #disciplineequalsfreedom #getafterit #t2t

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

@gymlifeanimal 😍

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

NEVER FORGET. #0445club #disciplineequalsfreedom #getafterit #neverforget

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

Finally back at it! #0445club #disciplineequalsfreedom #getafterit

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

“From new moon to new moon, and from sabbath to sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, says the Lord.“ Isaiah 66:23

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

Before church we sit outside and enjoy the quiet of a Sunday morning.

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

Still rib season here…

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

@BuzzPatterson @FoxNews Kiss ass, principled journalist. Ignorant sycophant, intelligent, inquisitive human. Life is rarely fair, but Maria will do well, she doesn’t need someone to tell her what to believe or say. Jessica would be lost with her provided talking points.

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Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele

a month ago

A Hero That Trusted His Intuition. The problem wasn’t that Morgan Stanley didn’t believe him. Rick Rescorla had already been right once. After the 1993 basement bombing of the World Trade Center, the firm’s security chief walked the towers, studied the site, and reached a conclusion most people preferred not to hear: the World Trade Center was still a target. Next time, he said, it would not be a truck. It would be an airplane. An airplane. In a 1993 report. Executives listened. Then they looked at the lease. Morgan Stanley was the largest tenant in the complex—twenty-two floors of the South Tower, thousands of brokers, and a trading infrastructure that could not be packed into boxes and wheeled across the Hudson. They literally made it a trading center. The contract with the Port Authority ran until 2006. Walking away from premium Manhattan space of that scale would have meant penalties measured in the hundreds of millions, plus the operational chaos of relocating an entire downtown machine. So the company stayed. Rescorla adjusted. If they could not leave the building, they would learn to escape it. He built a protocol and treated it like doctrine. Unannounced drills. No exemptions. Brokers who billed by the minute were pulled off their desks and sent into the stairwells two by two, starting from the top floors, leaving a lane for firefighters coming the other way. People complained. He did not care. Practice, he believed, was the only thing that would beat panic. On the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower. From the 44th floor of the South Tower, Rescorla could see the fire. Then the Port Authority came over the speakers: the South Tower was secure. Stay at your desks. Rescorla grabbed a bullhorn and ignored them. He started the drill his people already knew by heart. Floor by floor, two by two, down the stairs. He sang as he moved—Cornish songs from childhood, then “God Bless America”—keeping the line moving, refusing to let the stairwell become a stampede. Seventeen minutes later, the second plane struck the South Tower. By then, most of Morgan Stanley was already on the way out. Of the 2,687 employees in the building that morning, all but 13 survived. It was stunning. Rescorla could have been outside with them. He went back up instead. Colleagues told him to leave. He said he would, as soon as he was sure no one was left behind. He was last seen around the 10th floor, heading higher. The South Tower fell at 9:59 a.m. They never found him. He was one of the 13. He was a hero in every sense of the word. Remember Rick Rescorla, he remembered for us.

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David Hopkins @david413

a month ago

“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23

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Phantom II @Phantom2Phlyer

a month ago

There is a form of circular logic in the Lindsay Clancy trial. It goes like this: only an insane woman would ever kill her children. An insane woman is not responsible for her actions. Therefore, no woman who kills her children can ever be held responsible. That is the logic the Lindsay Clancy jurors used. Fortunately, one of them realized that the first statement is not true. A woman doesn't have to be insane to kill her children. She can be sociopathic. She can be evil. She can be like Scott Petersen and just not want to be a mother any more. As long as people use emotion to decide guilt or innocence, this is where we'll be from now on.