A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....11-03-03....Military Monday

Aquamarine; Billie

[MeekOneGOP]

Soup's on ! These people really get 'into' their cooking !! ...

[dansangel]

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I have had you in my prayers for a fast and full recovery. I am so happy to see you out and about on the Finest!

:-)

[WVNan]

Oh ladtx, what a horrible thing to go through, yet I'm so happy that it turned out okay for your family. Indeed our prayers go out to all the families who were not so fortunate. It's the worst kind of hell, losing your children. May they find the strength of the Lord to get them through this.

[WVNan]

LOL, "our faily bread". There must be a sermon in there somewhere.

[dansangel]

(((((((MP)))))))

Thank you for the ping. Enjoy your "bonus days" in OH! :-)

[dansangel]

(((((((jwfiv))))))))

Have been missing you and will miss you again for the next few days from what you've said.

Hurry back!

[JustAmy]

Thank you for Military Mondays!!



Freedom Isn't Free

I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze
A young soldier saluted it, and then
He stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many Pilots' planes shot down?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No Freedom isn't free

I heard the sound of taps one night,
When everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That taps had meant "Amen"
When a flag had draped a coffin
of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard at the
bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.....
No -- Freedom isn't free!!

...Cadet Major Kelly Strong
Air Force Junior ROTC

[The Mayor]

Fabulous!!!!!!! You cheered me up!

[WVNan]

Prayers for your cousin Aqua.

[WVNan]

LOUIE!!!!!!! You're BACK!!!!!! We missed you!

[The Mayor]

LOL, "our faily bread". There must be a sermon in there somewhere.

I'll work on that one, LOL!

[WVNan]

Am I to conclude that some people at our Finest establishment were acting up in my absence. Sheesh, can't leave for a minute.

[WVNan]

I know....I've figured it out. You are some sort of wandering angel flitting in and out of people's lives wherever they happen to be. Otherwise you could not have so much in common with so many people. Our lady Angel.

[WVNan]

Hi Billie. How are things in Texas? Unlike my Sistah, I really love Texas, especially Amarillo.

[WVNan]

You surely jest? Aggghhhh! How can you stand it? I wouldn't like snow this early. Come to think of it, I don't like snow anytime. Guess it's the Southerner in me.

[WVNan]

Are you serious? You can't have lost your job. Didn't you just recently get that job, or am I thinking of someone else?

[Aeronaut]

How can you stand it? I wouldn't like snow this early.

Well, I live in Minnesota; its not entirely unexpected. Although, you'd never know it based on the local newsies going into hyperdrive last night about the impending storm. (You'll notice on the picture there's about 3/4 on an inch of snow.)

[WVNan]

My hubby went through something similar. He took a job that turned out to be totally a bad deal. He felt trapped, but that job put him in another town where he read an ad in the newspaper and learned that interviews were being held in the hotel where he was staying. He got the best job of his life that day. God always uses our misfortunes for good as long as we trust Him. You will find the perfect job for you. I affirm it in Jesus' name.

[WVNan]

LOL. Weather people do tend to hypervent at the prospect of snow don't they?

[The Mayor]

I took this job while I was still living in Virginia.
I moved back here to Buffalo at my own expense. I was working 60 to 70+ hours a week building this market.
When Home Depot opened the sales market there was nothing in place, no installers for windows or siding. I have hired dozens of crews, some of them friends of mine. They simply don't pay the installers enough.
Since the attack on 9/11 workmans comp and liability insurance has quadroupled. I built the installation end of this market from nothing and to date we have installed over a million dollars worth of windows and siding since June 19.
My mistake was to help out a homeowner and allow him to remove the existing siding off his house, and have the installer put up new plywood. What I did was buy time for the company. It was a $15,000 job and they were threatening to cancel.
Had I not done what I did the company would have lost a $15,000 job. So needless to say I have no job.
The Lord will supply a new one for me and my family.