Thank God for this country and all those who protect and defend her!
Thank God for this country and all those who protect and defend her!
COme check out the Flag Day thread!!
Fabulous thread, Star!
*HUGS*
Flag Day WooHoo!!
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..WAR is LOVE, not Fear = 'Modern Day Heroes' Co-Author PETE MITCHELL..
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/news/1152991/posts?page=3
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Thanks, Star, for all the flag information. Great thread.
Terrific Flag Day Presentation. Thanks.
Hi Star...
Why are we in Chit Chat today? Usually we are in News Activism.
Hi Star...
Why are we in Chit Chat today? Usually we are in News Activism.
Hi Star...
Why are we in Chit Chat today? Usually we are in News Activism.
The Helmsman
Butch Rankin
One bright summer day
The gallant destroyer Durant swept proudly on her way
Bright faces clustered on her deck or, leaning o’er her side
Watched carelessly the feathery foam that brushed her worn sides
Ah, who beneath that cloudless sky, the smiling bends serene
Could dream that danger, awful, vast impended o’er the scene
Could dream that ere an hour had sped that frame of sturdy iron and oak
Would sink beneath the ocean’s waves, black with fire and smoke
A Seaman sought the Captain’s side, a moment whispered low
The Captain’s swarthy face grew pale as he hurried down below
Alas! Too late! Though quick and sharp and clear his orders came
No human efforts could avail to quench the insidious flame
Bad news quickly reached the deck, it sped from lip to lip
And ghastly faces everywhere looked from the doomed ship
Is there no hope, no chance of life? A hundred lips implore
“But one,” the Captain made reply, ‘To run the ship ashore.”
A sailor whose heroic soul that hour should yet reveal
By name John Calvin Groen, stood calmly at the wheel
“Head her Southeast,” the Captain shouts above the smothered roar
“Head her Southeast without delay; make for the nearest shore!”
No terror pales the Helmsman’s cheek or clouds his dauntless eye
As in a sailor’s measured tone, his voice responds, “Aye, Aye.”
Three hundred souls crowd forward, wild with fear
While at the stern the dreaded flames above the deck appear
The Helmsman watched the nearing flames but still with steady hand
He grasped the wheel and steadfastly steered the ship toward land
“John Groen, can you still hold out?” he heard the Captain cry
A voice for out the stifling smoke, faintly responds, “Aye, Aye.”
But half a mile, a hundred hands stretch eagerly to shore
But half a mile, that distance sped, peril shall be all o’er
But half a mile! Yet stay the flames, no longer slowly creep
But gather round the Helmsman bold, with a fierce and terrible sweep
“John Groen,” with an anxious voice, the Captain cries once more
“Stand by the wheel five minutes yet, and we shall reach the shore!”
Through flame and smoke that dauntless heart responded firmly still
Unawed, though face to face with death, “With God’s good help, I will.”
The flames approach with giant strides, they scorch his hand and brow
One arm, disabled seeks his side, ah, he is conquered now
But no, his teeth are firmly set, he crushes down his pain
His knee upon the stanchion pressed, he guides the Durant again
“One moment yet, one moment yet!” the Captain shouts more
“Brave heart, thy task is o’er
The pebbles grate beneath the keel, the ship is on the shore!”
Three hundred grateful voices rise in praise to God, that he
Hath saved them from the fearful fire and the all engulfing sea
But where is he, that Helmsman bold? The Captain saw him reel
His burned hands released from their task, he sank beside the wheel
The Captain lifts his listless form and carries him to the bow
The Crew lets out a mighty roar
As the Helmsman is gently lowered to waiting hands upon the shore
The Captain bellows so all could hear
“John Calvin Groen, a tin can sailor and Helmsman you be
And when you are fit once again, I want you to sail with me.”
And through scorched and swollen lips, “Aye, Aye, sir..
As soon as I am well, we’ll sail into Hell if need be.”
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Good morning, Star! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY! 
TROOPS!
Me for PREZ! VOTE !!!
Today's FEEBLE
YOKE:
A US Border Patrol Agent catches an illegal alien in the bushes right by the border fence, he pulls him out and says "Sorry, you know the law, you've got to go back across the border right now."
The man pleads with them, "No, noooo Senior, I must stay in de USA! Pleeeze!"
The Border Patrol Agent thinks to himself, I'm going to make it hard for him and says "Ok, I'll let you stay if you can use 3 english words in a sentence".
The man of course agrees.
The Border Patrol Agent tells him, "The 3 words are: Green, Pink and Yellow. Now use them in 1 sentence."
The man thinks really hard for about 2 minutes, then says,
"Hmmm, Ok. The phone, it went Green, Green, Green, I Pink it up and sez Yellow?"
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On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on June 14:
1736 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)
1805 Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1820 John Bartlett US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
1855 Robert Marion La Follette Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive)
1856 Andrey Markov Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain)
1864 Alois Alzheimer Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Disease)
1868 Karl Landsteiner immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930)
1874 Edward Bowes radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
1908 John Scott Trotter Charlotte NC, orch leader (George Gobel Show)
1909 Burl Ives Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1917 Lash La Rue Gretna La, cowboy actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp)
1918 Dorothy McGuire Omaha Neb, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic)
1919 Sam Wanamaker Chic Ill, actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal)
1921 Gene Barry NYC, actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law)
1925 Pierre Salinger newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy)
1928 Ernesto (Che) Guevara Latin American terrorist
1929 Cy Coleman [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity)
1940 Benjamin Earl Davidson (football: Oakland Raiders defensive end: Super Bowl II)
1943 Muff Mervyn Winwood singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1946 Donald Trump master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle)
1954 Will Patton Charleston SC, actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun)
1969 Steffi Graf West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam 1988)
2160 Montgomery Edward Scott Aberdeen, Scotland (Star Trek)
I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands;
one nation UNDER GOD,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you members of the Armed forces for my Freedom.
