FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Patriots Point, South Carolina ~ 08 JULY 2014

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[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Everyone.

Good morning to our

Thank you, Lauren, for preparing the
Canteen for today’s activities.

Today will be a good day to be near the water.
Make sure y'all bring sunscreen and hats!

As usual, it was a crazy Monday.
And today doesn't look much better;
had a dozen emails in my box this morning
(all after I left work),
which means I'll have to move into lurker mode.

So, for now, I need to make my rounds,
catch up on pings while it's still quiet.
Please stay.

Grab a cup of joe or tasty tea.

The FR Canteen is

Come on in and sit for a while.
There's always plenty of coffee, tea,
pancakes,
conversation,
silliness,
and plain old BS

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[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Beach. How’s it going?

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning to everyone at the Canteen. 77º at home and in Austin.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning beachy and (((HUGS))).

[MEG33]

Good Morning To The Canteen
Thank you for the Road Trip, laurenmarlowe.
I really enjoyed this...ended up reading the history of the USS Yorktown.
I also found a connection to my husband's ship, the USS Bexar.
Yorktown provided cover for the evacuation of the Tachen Islands in
Feb 1955...My husband had never seen such desperate people as
those civilians his ship had crammed aboard on deck. Over 28, 000
Nationalist troops and civilians were evacuated to safety from the
Communist Chinese govt.

Hope your day goes well.
*HUGS*
Thank You To All Who Have Served And Are Serving Our Country

[beachn4fun]

Good morning EG ((HUGS))

Busy...busy

Howz things out your way?

[beachn4fun]

Good morning dear ((HUGS))

Howz things out your way?

[beachn4fun]

Good morning Meg ((HUGS))

Thank you for that piece of history, which I don’t remember being aware of.

[beachn4fun]

well now....

[beachn4fun]

well now....

[beachn4fun]

well now....

[MEG33]

It is a generally forgotten piece of history..It was a tense time..Chinese communist artillery could reach the Islands and our ships ...There was a lot in the papers at the time...I did not know my husband’s ship was involved until later..Thankfully the Chinese chose not to engage us..The US then concentrated on protecting Formosa and more strategic Islands...
Our son was 7 months old at that time..He was 6 weeks old when my husband went to sea aboard the Bexar.

[E.G.C.]

It's going OK here in Oklahoma. A little hot though.

Yesterday during Bo and I's trip to the lake were running the lake road and he decided he wanted to look for turtles and gophers on the left side of the road where the golf course is. He crossed the fence to get on the course and I put on his leash to take him back to the road.

There were a couple of golfers and I didn't want to take the chance of him getting hit by a golf ball.

As we were walking the road, we saw a small little water snake slither out of the mud and get under a tree. Bo wanted to look under the tree to see where it was heading and I pulled him back. Don't like to take chances with snakes.

We ended the trip walking the beach. Bo swam in the water which was the best part of the trip.

Interesting stuff going on with the trip.

It's been pushing 100 the last few days. As Bo and I headed back into town, we saw the traffic lights flashing. Also heard PSO of Oklahoma dispatch some outages. Not sure if they were in the Tulsa or Lawton areas.

Wouldn't surprise me if there were outages due to all this heat.

Hopefully we'll get some rain today or tomorrow. Crossing our fingers.

I did do the grass cutting work with the lawnmower and the weed-eater yesterday morning.

Finally today is Patch Tuesday for Windows. Expecting updates for my Windows 7 computer.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning Meg and (((HUGS))). Just finished my walk and it is hot and muggy this morning.

[Arrowhead1952]

That’s all you have to do? You are supposed to be WORKING.

[beachn4fun]

I was not quite a year old at the time.

Where did the US take all of the refugees? The article I read didn’t say?

[beachn4fun]

That’s all you have to do? You are supposed to be WORKING.

LOL...I couldn't help it...it jumped right at me and said "take me...take me" LOL

[luvie]

...and yet, I'm still sleepy! Go figure!
EGC...sounds like you and Bo had a great adventure!
Hope you don't lose electricity in this heat!
Megs...how wonderful that you got to read about your dad's ship!
It's hot here, but could be MUCH worse!
So...I won't complain (for a change! LOL)
Hope all you Early Birds have lots of energy
.....and get 'er done early! :)
((((hugs))))

[MEG33]

Formosa/Taiwan some immigrated to the US.
This link is from someone aboard an LST and was involved.
The music is bad.. hit mute..info interesting.
http://lst1159tomgreencounty.com/p1tachen.html
Communista had been shelling and bombing the Islands and more impostant ones..John Foster Dulles threatened nuclear strike on the mainland...As I said..It was a tense time.

[MEG33]

My husband’s ship. I’m old enough to be everyone’s mother on FR I think..LOL