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June 6 Scoreboard! South Caldwell Spartans Softball, Hibriten Women's Soccer, & South Caldwell Baseball! We remember NASCAR legend Ned Jarrett & recap Hurricanes Stanley Cup Final Games 1 & 2! Thanks to Bojangles' & Shuford Credit Union of Granite Falls! gofoothills.com/episode/the-…

Tonight, as I do every year at this time, I’ll be raising a glass to a scared young man, who 82 years ago was preparing to go ashore on the beaches of Normandy as part of an event code-named Operation Overlord. D-Day. I can’t imagine what was going through his mind. I’d be scared to death and I’m sure he was too. But in that first wave was a 21-year-old Private First Class from Henry County, VA by the name of Allen Homer Sink. Fortunately, he would survive that initial wave, participate in battle until it ended in August, then come home to marry and raise a family of four, including two daughters after the war ended. He would also become my father-in-law until his death in 2006. His nickname for some reason was “Hank” and when I asked him how he got it, he said some guy in the Army said he “looked like a Hank.” From the time I first met him, he was a salt-of-the-earth man who was never afraid of anything. He was a carpenter by trade, and he’d stand up on the tallest roofs, grab bumblebees with his bare hands when they tried to persuade him to move elsewhere, and never be bothered by anything. His hands were tough and leathery, but he was a softie. He spoiled his children, complained when my mother-in-law would gripe about something involving one of his alleged misdeeds, and always thought he was fooling everybody when he snuck around the back of the house and lit a cigarette, a habit everyone opposed but he could never part himself from. He could talk your ear off for hours at a time, and I always suggested he become a greeter at Wal-Mart when he retired because then he could talk all day to strangers and none of them would – like his wife and daughters often did – tell him to be quiet for a few moments. Yet for all his love of talking, there was one subject he just wouldn’t discuss. June 6, 1944. Omaha Beach. In 1998, when he was 76 years old, the subject came up again. The movie “Saving Private Ryan” came out and the beginning was gruesome. Reviews said it was incredibly realistic to what really happened that day. I asked Hank if he wanted to go see it. “No,” he shook his head. “I don’t ever want to see any of that again.” He did offer that he remembered the night before when troops were loaded into the boats for the amphibious assault. He said it was raining and that once everyone was in place, they gave everybody ice cream and told them to try to get some sleep. Then the next thing he knew, they were waking everybody up telling them to stay low and head for the beach. No, that doesn’t sound like somebody drugged the ice cream. Not at all. That’s all he would say about the subject, and he never said another word about it until the final months of his life. Alzheimer’s would gradually rob him of his mind, and as his condition deteriorated, memories of the past would briefly spill out. One evening he thought I was his commanding officer and he was back at Normandy. It is the only time I ever saw him where he appeared to be scared. Ever. It reminds me every day of something I had unknowingly taken for granted. The greatest generation did fight in and win World War II, then did incredible things over the next 50 to 60 years after the war. But many carried unspeakable memories from the War, ones they would never talk about and carry inside them to their graves. Those veterans lost a piece of themselves in battle they would never, ever, get back. I mean, how can you at the tender age of 21 storm a beach, see friends die only a few feet from you, wonder each night if you will wake up alive the next morning and then return home a year later and try to pick up on the same normal life you had before you left? I told him once that after seeing “Saving Private Ryan”, I understood why he was never afraid of anything; after you’ve made it through something like that, everything else pales in comparison. So tonight, I raise a glass to Hank and the 150,000-plus men, who like my father-in-law, were very young, very scared, and still charged that beach, paying a price that even for the survivors would last the rest of their days. Rest In Peace...

Let's win THREE today! Go Cobras! #CobraNation #CobraProud ⚾️🥎🐍

🥎Got work to do, but still here! Cobras play at 7PM Friday versus the winner of Patrick & Henry vs. Joliet College (they play at 5PM). #Believe #NJCAASoftball #CobraNation

Winners bracket finial!!!

Survive & advance! Down 7-0 to their biggest rival, Cobras battle back to walk it off 8-7 in 13 innings! No quit in this group! 2-0 so far in the World Series! They play Thursday at 7PM vs. North Dakota State College of Science. #CobraNation #SurviveAndAdvance #NJCAASoftball

RT @CaldwellCobras: 🥎Cobras play at 4PM Wednesday afternoon vs. Suffolk. Link to the games (behind a paywall): njcaa.org/network/landing/in… D…

All of our shows are great...some are better than others. I might be prejudiced, but today's show was excellent! #CobraNation @Draughnsports @SouthCaldwell_1 @ACcougarsports @caldwell_cobras @CaldwellCCBase1 @cccti @NASCAR

PROUD of both our teams! Since state funds cannot be used for community college athletics, support for Cobra Athletics comes through fundraising efforts & generous donations from supporters throughout our community. Any & all support is greatly appreciated! #CobraNation

🥎Ticket Punched to New York Cobras win the NJCAA D-3 Softball Appalachian District Championship two games to none over Delta College to earn a spot in the World Series! Game 1: Cobras 3 Pioneers 2 (8 innings) Game 2: Cobras 9 Pioneers 1 #NJCAASoftball #Reg10n #CobraNation

Congrats to the @cccti Class of 2026! Go be great! #Classof2026

🥎Region 10 D-3 Champions Cobras are 38-6 overall, will host the Appalachian District Champsionship, best two-out-of-three, next weekend. Opponent, dates, & time TBD. #Reg10n #NJCAASoftball #cobranation

Great guests stopping by the show today! Thanks to @LRBearsAD Daron Montgomery & future @Colts superstar @AndersonCastle7 for their time. @LRbears @wataugaboosters @AppState_FB @DukeFOOTBALL @CaldwellCobras @LinkJeffery @kicks1033 @dmjones66 👉gofoothills.com/episode/the-…

Great show as we thank Alex White from @FunkFactory1 wrestling and Dennis Cox from ESPN Radio and the Panthers Playbook Podcast for dropping by! @TheFanRookie @999TheFan @LinkJeffery @CaldwellCobras @kicks1033 @dmjones66 Listen here 👉gofoothills.com/episode/the-…

Go Canes! Up 3-0! And the Panthers took an offensive lineman to help Bryce! A good night for the Old North State! #CarolinaCulture #TakeWarning #KeepPounding

To quote "Major League", one of my all-time, favorite movies: "Ya know, they could be a lot worse. Ya know, these guys ain't so $&%@ing bad." Go Reds, keep it rollin' in Tampa! #ATOBTTR #Streaking

Check out the lineup and join us Saturday morning starting at 9 AM! Can't wait to talk to these guys!🏈⚾️ @WCWarriors828 @AppBaseball @SmithKermit @LinkJeffery @kicks1033 @dmjones66 @appstate @appstatesports

#neVerforgeT #Hokies

Not as dramatic as Alonzo's shot in 1993, but still a great shot by Ball! @hornets #NBAPlayoffs