A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....06-30-03....Military Monday

Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest
....Every Day

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A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001

So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I could no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I had been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.

Still that didn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why we've created a place for just that. This is a friendly room in JimRob's house where FReeper FRiends can gather every day and just say hello if that's all they want to do.

There's more of course. We sometimes feature different FReepers, with a little background information on who they are and what makes them who they are, along with a few photos you might not have seen on other threads; sometimes others write an essay for us to post as the feature for the day; sometimes our presentation is a human interest story found elsewhere that you might not have read; sometimes special holiday threads; but whatever the topic of the day, it is always with FR's Finest in mind and that is YOU!

If you would like to be featured, or would like to see someone else featured, please send me a private FR mail.

Every Monday we will post the photos of FR's Military Personnel that I have collected and put into groups; these will be available to view through a link the remainder of the week - every day just a click away. :)   If you would like to add a photo of yourself or a loved one in the military, past or present, please let me know; I will hold it until I have enough for a new group.

Thank you, and please have fun with us...every day! ~ Billie

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Thank You For Serving Our Country!

TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete
MIDDLE:  T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
BOTTOM:  YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1

TOP:  Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet
MIDDLE:  4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga
BOTTOM:  Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc

TOP:  mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette
MIDDLE:  Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid
BOTTOM:  gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf

TOP:  porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP
MIDDLE:  RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian
BOTTOM:  USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma

TOP:  g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett.
MIDDLE:  fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick,Leroy S Mort, Mark17.
BOTTOM:  Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau.

TOP:  ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam,
dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony
BOTTOM:  rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang

TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx
MIDDLE:  The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law
BOTTOM:  deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.

TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68.
MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797
BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack

TOP: Q6-God, Scan59, Mama Bear and JKPhoto's son, ofMagog.
MIDDLE:  Big'ol_freeper, JustAmy's great uncle, Prodigal Son.
BOTTOM:  JustAmy's husband, JustAmy's brother-in-law, JustAmy's brother.

TOP: dakine's wife, MeeknMing's dad, Auntbee's nephew, MilitiaMan7, AlasBabylon.
BOTTOM:  Joe Brower, Temple Owl, Temple Owl's wife, dutchess' dad, Aomagrat.

TOP: ladtx #2 son; DiverDave's twin Don; petuniasevan and husband
poorman; Mustard; ladtx #1 son;
BOTTOM: AlamoGirl's brother Floyd; AG's dad; AG's brother Jim (inset);
WVNan's husband; ladtx' Aunt Eva.




                     

THE WEEKEND THREAD 06-28,29-03 Week in Review

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' The guy's good, folks!

Thanks, Mixer!

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2) Once there you can click on any month and even click to the right to go into next year. Once you are in the month that you joined FR you will need to click on the number in the calendar and then an add item screen will come up.
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4) If any of the screens fail to load simply click on refresh in your browser and that will usually fix it.
5) If all else fails or simply if you want me to do this for you send me a FReepmail and I will gladly do it for you. ~Mixer

[Billie]

[Billie]

Good morning, All. Welcome to another Military Monday where we honor some of FR's Finest.

Have to post and run. Will be back later this morning.

[chance33_98]

LadyShallott says to say HI! to you all, she is still in CA soaking up the rays.

[The Mayor]

[GailA]

Good morning all

Cofee's on

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Billie.

[Joe Brower]

Good morning, everyone!

[ladtx]

Since this is Military Monday, how about a little military history.

On June 30th 1876 soldiers are evacuated from the Little Big Horn by steamboat: After a slow two-day march, the wounded soldiers from the Battle of the Little Big Horn reach the steamboat "Far West". The "Far West" had been leased by the U.S. Army for the duration of the 1876 campaign against the hostile Sioux and Cheyenne Indians of the Northern Plains.

The fast and relatively comfortable transport of the wounded by steam power undoubtedly saved numerous lives. From Fort Abraham Lincoln, General Terry's report of the disaster was telegraphed all over the country. Soon the entire nation learned that General Custer and more than 200 men had been massacred along the Little Big Horn River.

The FAR WEST

[ladtx]

Actually Custer was a Lt. Colonel instead of a General as noted in the narrative.

[Calpernia]

Good morning to you Billie!

[Pippin]

GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!!!

[Calpernia]

Nice graphic Ladtx.

click the pic

[martin_fierro]

HAPPY MILITARY MONDAY!!!

My dad (center) in South Korean military school uniform circa 1940

[Dubya]

Morning all

[LadyX]

While considering myself a loyal American, having lived a year in Rapid City, South Dakota, my perspective was forever changed about George Custer.
I no longer saw him as a hero - or even honorable.

Visiting a carefully preserved historic Fort in the mountains and reading there its history, Custer had signed a treaty for the American government to stop all further intrusion by Americans upon the sacred land of the Indian tribes.

His actions thereafter broke that signed treaty:

"Custer had been part of an army campaign to force Sioux and Cheyenne Indians off the plains and into the reservations. Gold had been found on Indian lands in South Dakota's Black Hills and now white men wanted that land for themselves. Indians were ordered off the lands but, refusing to leave, took to the warpath.

Going into the Black Hills, Custer had been warned that 2,000 to 4,000 Sioux and Cheyenne Indians were waiting there for him. Instead of a surprise attack, Custer led a full charge straight into the area. He met thousands of Indians, led by chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, who closed off Custer's retreat. Only a half-Indian scout for Custer's group survived the battle; Custer and all his men died. Back on the East Coast, newspapers interpreted the battle as a savage Indian attack on innocent Army personnel. The public responded by demanding war on the Sioux and soon the Army launched more ferocious attacks on the Indians."

This, as in other areas of a country wrested by force from Indians in our path, is not truly 'admirable.'
(True - parts of it were 'purchased,' as was Manhattan, but that was an exception. We expanded with vigor and 'claimed' anything we wanted.)

How could the Indians respond otherwise, but to protect what was fully theirs??

Greed drove the American settlers; in this case the discovery of gold, and we did not rest until the lands were ours.

Of course, much of the West also belonged to Spain and Mexico, up to close to Canada, and the same thing happened to them.

More than a little food for thought, considering how we decimated Indian tribes all over America, forcing them to live unnaturally on reservations where they could not hunt for food or till land that was not arable - most of those we would consider uninhabitable for decent life and prosperity.

No - to my knowledge, I have no Native American nor Spanish nor Mexican blood.
My forebears were mostly English and French Huguenot settlers of South Carolina in the 1600's - among them two prosperous plantation owners, at Charles Town and Georgetown. One was a Landgrave granted by King George most of what was 'Carolina,' becoming one of its early Governors.
Later, Scots and German forebears came to America in the 1700's and 1800's.

To whom did these lands belong before Europeans stepped on the North American shore? is a question to be seriously pondered.....

True; we cannot turn it all back or even make proper amends - but our methods are not a source of pride, to my thinking.

[LadyX]

What a marvelous and fascinating photograph, martin_fierro!

Hope 'Everybuddy' is fine this glorious June day - -

[martin_fierro]

[[[[courtly bow to m'Lady]]]

< hitting head on floor > OUCH!

[Dubya]

Owl Friend

Each evening bird lover Tom stood in his backyard, hooting like an owl -
and one night, an owl finally called back to him.

For a year, the man and his feathered friend hooted back and forth. He
even kept a log of the "conversation."

Just as he thought he was on the verge of a breakthrough in interspecies
communication, his wife had a chat with her next door neighbor.

"My husband spends his nights ... calling out to owls," she said.

"That's odd," the neighbor replied. "So does my husband."

[Dubya]

Recruiting any and all pilots
The chief of staff of the US Air Force decided that he would personally intervene in the recruiting crisis affecting all of our armed services. He directed a nearby Air Force base that will be opened and that all eligible young men and women be invited.

As he and his staff were standing near a brand new F-15 Fighter, a pair of twin brothers who looked like they had just stepped off a Marine Corps recruiting poster walked up to them. The chief of staff walked up to them, stuck out his hand and introduced himself.

He looked at the first young man and asked, "Son, what skills can you bring to the Air Force?"

The young man looks at him and says, "I'm a pilot!"

The general gets all excited, turns to his aide and says, "Get him in today, all the paper work done, everything, do it!"

The aide hustles the young man off. The general looks at the second young man and asked, "What skills to you bring to the Air Force?"

The young man says, "I chop wood!"

"Son," the general replies, "we don't need wood choppers in the Air Force, what do you know how to do?"

"I chop wood!"

"Young man," huffs the general, "you are not listening to me, we don't need wood choppers, this is the 20th century!"

"Well," the young man says, "you hired my brother!"

"Of course we did," says the general, "he's a pilot!"

The young man rolls his eyes and says, "So what! I have to chop it before he can pile it!"

[Aeronaut]

Hi Pippin.