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Posted on 05/19/2004 4:36:20 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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Sure glad you did, (((((wolfette))))).
Have a good evening my fave fuzzy brothah!
Thank you, enjoy yours, fuzzy sistah! : )
What he gets for being nasty!
I'm getting ready to log off and go home
Will you still be here when I get on my computer at home in an hour and a half?
ya gonna be here long?
I'm getting ready to log off and sign out and go home to my own PC and come back online in about an hour and half.
His buddies are still here though.
*sigh*
I'm getting ready to log off and go home
Will you still be here when I get on my computer at home in an hour and a half?
Afraid not, babe, maybe later this eve. : )
Evening Billie .. hoping y'all had a lovely day
Oh, all right!
Seeya later!:O)
no rest for the Republicans!
Or Freepers!
When done in the manner it was done which is in humor there is nothing wrong with it.
To "Almighty God; We make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large. And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
Your Prayer is wonderful, there are many many times that I will willingly and openly argue against the democrats, liberals and any other person that has the desire to destroy our country..
It is the democrats that are doing the best they can to keep Prayer out of everything we do, it is a shame that 'we', people of Faith, that Love the Lord with all our Heart, Soul and Mind have allowed this all to happen.
So often I poke 'fun' at them but that is what it is is fun!
Just get me going someday talking about how they are destroying our Country, our Religions, killing of the innocent yet against the death penalty, they can be reformed just to be let back out into society to kill, rape and maim again?
The democrats like hillary, ted kennedy whine moan and complain about the Iraqi's having underwear on their heads and say nothing about the beheading of an innocent citizen.. They want us to be tolerant and treat these blood thirsty animals like they are part of a civilized society when they are animals and want to kill you.
Don't come preaching to me ! You have no idea apparently.
see ya
Correct.
Aquamarine, I must commend you for the way you presented such a fascinating and virtually unknown fact about this wonderful symbol!
Sounds like the first of a "Learning to Love America" Series..:))
Have scanned through the thread, and note, too, how many of us were privileged to witness the launch of the spacecraft that went to the moon.
My husband had just left the service that July of 1969, and we were visiting his brother in Titusville. Jack worked at the Cape, and we took a position by the Indian River directly opposite the launch site, and what a glorious sight and sound it was!!
I, however, had lived at home with my parents in Brevard County from 1957 to October 1961, so had witnessed most of the early space flights, including the first manned ones. They all were awesome, with the sound rolling thunderously after the blaze went aloft.
Many of you will remember something funny I've related here that happened when I was dating my husband in 1960. He was fairly new to the area, and we went to a drive-in movie theater.
This, mind you, was the middle of the Cold War when drills were conducted in schools to prepare children for guided missile attacks, getting under their desks or into a center hall, or going into a shelter at home.
The movie screen happened to be in a direct line with Cape Canaveral, and all of a sudden, behind it was an enormous fireball that lit up the sky and following that the thundering sound - -
My Hero (one year out of the Air Force) yanked open the driver's door, grabbed my hand, and was literally pulling me out with him, intent upon throwing me on the tarmac and covering my body with his to minimize radiation damage from the nuclear missile...:))
Sorry, but I couldn't help laughing as I stopped him, recognizing it for what it was....
Wish I'd known you then and since, Aqua and dansy...
((((LADYX))))!
By Rudi Williams
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2004 - When tragedy struck Ruth Ann Young of Kirkland,
Wash., during the summer of 2003, she turned her bad luck into good luck for
more than 6,000 service members on the battlefields of Iraq.
It was Father's Day 2003 - June 15 -- when fire ravaged a business next door to
Young's "Spirit of Christmas" store and caused substantial smoke damage to her
little shop. Young owns and operates a year-round shop devoted to selling
Christmas items. Smoke damage to her merchandise was so bad that she wasn't
able to open her shop for the rest of that year.
Though she was deeply saddened, she wanted to do something positive in the
community in which she and her husband, Robert Young, had lived for eight
years, Young said during the Armed Services YMCA's recent 17th Annual
Recognition Luncheon on Capitol Hill. Her idea won the 2004 Raytheon Program
Achievement Award in the Best Use of Volunteers category at the Junction City
(Kan.) Family YMCA.
"I wanted to touch the hearts of my service people overseas, and that's what I
chose to do," said Young, who was in Washington with her husband and
representatives from the Junction City YMCA and Fort Riley, Kan., to accept the
award. "So I hung a banner and told everyone we were doing 'Operation Iraq:
Spirit of Christmas' and we were going to send packages overseas to all of our
military troops for Christmas."
Telling everybody she wanted to send at least 1,000 Christmas boxes to soldiers
in Iraq, Young said she secretly set her goal at 5,000 boxes. And to her
delight, she got a lot more.
Young and her supporters in Kirkland created a Web site and advertised their
goals any way they could. Then the stuff started coming in: reading material,
compact discs, lip balm, beef jerky, peanuts, trail mix, eye drops and a host
of other things.
"And," she asked with a laugh, "would you believe 30,000 bags of apple chips?"
More than $200,000 in merchandise was donated, and nearly 21,000 volunteer
hours were logged in support of the project.
Young's only request was that the boxes go to the service members on the front
lines. She wanted commanders to ensure that everyone who didn't get anything
for Christmas received a gift.
"It was the spirit of Kirkland, Wash., that stood up to the plate and touched
the hearts of our military," Young said.
After getting thousands of boxes of gifts for the troops ready, "How do I get
them there?" was the daunting question Young asked herself.
"Them" was more than 6,000 boxes weighing more than 6 pounds each - two 18-
wheeler trailers full of goodies for service members on the battlefields of
Iraq. "There" was more than 1,800 miles from Kirkland to the Junction City
Family YMCA that serves Fort Riley.
Diane E. Hardy, the Junction City YMCA's chair of the board of directors, who
attended the Capitol Hill ceremony, explained how the huge number of boxes made
the long trip. "This was a spiritual journey for the hundreds of people who
were involved in this. God had a big place in this. It took on a life of its
own," said Hardy, wife of Army Maj. Gen. Dennis E. Hardy, commander of Fort
Riley.
Hardy said that after being unable to find someone in or around Kirkland to
transport the boxes, "Ruth Ann contacted Ted Hayden, who is our local YMCA
director in Junction City, Kan. The Armed Services YMCA comes under the YMCA in
Junction City. He found a local gentleman named John Trygg, who owns a
construction/trucking/street-paving company (Konza Construction) in Junction
City. He provided trucks to go to Kirkland to transport the items.
"Ruth Ann tried closer to home, but she wasn't successful in finding someone
who wanted to run with her idea," Hardy noted. "So she started searching and
just happened to come to Fort Riley. We said, 'Yeah!'"
Reportedly, soldiers and several generals unloaded the big rigs in just an hour
and 20 minutes. They then loaded the boxes onto pallets, wrapped them and put
them on an Air Force cargo plane headed for Iraq.
"We managed to have coordination with the Air Force to get the items flown to
Iraq, and the service members were the beneficiaries," Hardy said.
Instead of whining about being surrounded by liberals over here, I should be getting ready to have some fun making them, er, shall we say, "slightly" uncomfortable?
I mean, they sometime provide good entertainment, watching them get thier panties in a wad a lot! LOL!
I saw a car yesterday with a Bush/Cheney sticker, then this morning I saw a car with a W04 sticker on it. Then this afternoon I saw a sight that causes sore eyes, it was awful! LOL
It was a car with a Kerry sticker on it! ARRRGH!
Let the games begin!
Get them!
LOL!
LOL!
Nice title, I may use it one day. lol
I love the stories about Cape Canaveral especially the one about the drive in movie. :)
Glad you survived the Hedge Wars and got to spend some time here this evening (((Lady)))
Good evening (((Aqua)))!
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