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Posted on 11/09/2025 7:17:33 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Nov 9, 2000 I created my first & only account on FR, after a few years of merely lurking. The urge to post grew too strong to resist joining. Easily the best www-related decision I've ever made!
My sister Mollynme discovered FR first and alerted me to it. (She succumbed to cancer 8-1/2 yrs ago).
Unfortunately, today I learned of the passing of another Freeper who was with me and 8 or 10 others from the Fall of 2000 until at least 2006, in a faithful group who engaged in street corner activism, each of us making our own signs/posters: Former residents of Johnstown CO - WeldGOPHardline & his wife FireEngineRed (she had bright red hair) - moved out of state a few years ago, and her health later went seriously downhill. She just died this morning. How sad it happened on my 25 FRanniversary.
I guess the lesson here is that Freepers get old & sick too, just like everyone else.
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Congratulations! I just looked mine up, seems I hit 20 years a few weeks ago. Time certainly flies, doesn’t it? I know I was a serious lurker for several years before joining up.
Congratulations... and many more...
What going on today? At least 3 have similar posts.
Happy Anniversary!
Congrats to all you old FReepers!
27 years here — 11/02/1998.
Lurked until the March for Justice convinced me that FRee Republic was the Right Place and that FReepers were the Right People to hang out with!
My 25th FR anniversary is November 22!
GET OFF MY LAWN!!! :)
It’s also the 25th anniversary of the Bush vs Gore election / Florida recount / saga. I am sure that had something to do with a boom in FR membership.
Heh, heh. GMTA.
So that’s it... yes.
Sharp observation.
I was four days behind you, sir.
Congratulations! 🎈🎈🎈
27 years for me as well. Even went to Washington for that FR celebration dinner way back in the day.
You have me by a month. I’ll hit 27 years on New Year’s Eve in seven weeks.
Can’t imagine sitting down to the computer and not scanning the FR headlines!
There were a bunch of us "newbies" in the fall of 2000 - AKA "The Al Gore Insurrection". it was a relief to find there were a TON of like-minded Patriots on this site called, "Freerepublic".
If the Lord tarries, I will hit 25 years in a few weeks (Dec 1, 2000).
Mine was about 3 weeks ago...October 17.
Mine was November 6, 1998. Totally forgot. Anyway, happy birthday!
And happy birthday USMC!
Rookie!
Happy FReepaversary!
Sorry to hear about FireEngineRed, and your sister.
I joined up in ‘98 or ‘99 (i was just 10 years old but very precocious ;) ) but I changed my handle a few times and lost my history :) :/
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