USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Thanksgiving Salute and Messages to the Military ~ 27 NOV 2003

MoJo2001, Fawnn, Kathy in Alaska , and FRiends of the Canteen

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good morning to all of our military at home and abroad and to everyone at the Canteen. Thanks for your continued service to our country.

Folks, my trips to the internet are going to be limited until further notice. My local ISP Internet access number is down and I'm using a long distance number to get on the internet.

Happy Thanksgiving from our house to yours.
E.G.C.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[MEG33]

I just saw Sgt. Major Vera Harris from Dallas,2nd Cav. being interviewed while our coldiers were in line for Thanksgiving dinner in Baghdad.

.She was wearing the "Order of the Spurs" black stetson and spurs.I think the officers were helping serve the troops in appreciation.Happy Thanksgiving troops!

There was a race and there will be football today the report said.Thank you to all who serve our Nation.

There was also a video of Hillary ,dressed in a black pantsuit,visiting Afghanistan.

[radu]

I just saw Sgt. Major Vera Harris from Dallas,2nd Cav. being interviewed while our coldiers were in line for Thanksgiving dinner in Baghdad.

I saw that, too.
Also several video messages from troops in Iraq to their families. I should have been in bed loooooong ago but I keep watching in hopes of seeing even one of my pen pals. It would be wonderful to see their faces.

[MEG33]

I didn't use spellcheck..coldiers/soldiers!

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Thanksgiving !

Have a cup while you Freep !

For those who prefer hot chocolate.....

[MeekOneGOP]

[tomkow6]

SALUTE!

 

 

[tomkow6]

Good morning, MoJo! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOODMORNING

TROOPS!

 

[tomkow6]

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

Why do people buy their Thanksgiving Day Turkeys in Los Angeles?

Because they all had breast enlargements!

 

 What sound does a space turkey make?

Hubble, Hubble, Hubble!

 

 Why should you keep your eye off the turkey dressing?

Because it makes him blush!

 

 If the Pilgrims were alive today, what would they be most famous for?

Their age!

 

 How do you make a turkey float?

You need 2 scoops of ice cream, some root beer, and a turkey!

 

 What kind of music did the Pilgrims like?

Plymouth Rock!

 

 How do you know your family is dysfunctional?

If Thanksgiving Dinner consists of Wild Turkey instead of roasted turkey!

 

 What did the mother turkey say to her disobedient children?

If your father could see you now, he'd turn over in his gravy!

 

 How do you hold a turkey in suspense?

Got Ya

[tomkow6]

 

Chicagoland Weather

November 27, 2003
Chicago, IL
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[tomkow6]

Thanksgiving Thought

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over head and a place to sleep...
You are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace...
You are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...
You are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...
You are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...
You are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If your parents are still alive and still married...
You are very rare, even in the United States.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful...
You are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can hold someone’s hand, hug them, or even touch them on the shoulder...
You are blessed because you can offer healing touch.

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore...
You are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

Have a good day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.

[tomkow6]

 

Hi,  Farmfriend!

Welcome to the Canteen!

Wanna buy a burka?

 

[tomkow6]

 

Hi,  Libbi!

Welcome to the Canteen!

Wanna buy a burka?

 

[tomkow6]

 

Hi,  CyberCowboy777!

Welcome to the Canteen!

Wanna buy a burka?

 

[Valin]

On this Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on November 27:
1701 Anders Celsius Sweden, scientist, inventor (centigrade temp scale)
1746 Robert Livingston delivered oath of office to George Washington
1804 Sir Julius Benedict Stuttgart Germany, opera composer (Protoghesi)
1809 Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble England, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)
1857 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington 1932 Nobel Laureate in Medicine & Physiology; author of the classic "The Integrative Action of the Nervous System"; discoverer of Sherrington's Law; coiner of the terms "neuron" and "synapse".
1865 Jose Asuncion Silva Colombia, poet (Nocturno III)
1867 Charles Koechlin Paris France, composer (Jacob Chez Luban)
1874 Chaim Weizmann Israeli statesman (1st President)
1874 Charles A Beard American historian (American Continentalism)
1900 Leon Barzin Brussels Belgium, conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58)
1901 Ted Husing NYC, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights)
1903 Johnny Blood aka John McNally, early NFL halfback (Green Bay)
1909 James Agee American writer (The African Queen)
1912 David Merrick Broadway producer (Hello Dolly)
1917 "Buffalo" Bob Smith Buffalo NY, TV host (Howdy Doody)
1921 Alexander Dubcek headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69)
1932 Benigno Aquino Jr Philippine opposition leader; assassinated
1937 Gail Sheehy writer (Hustling)
1940 Bruce Lee San Francisco CA, karate star/actor (Green Hornet)
1942 Jimi Hendrix rock guitarist (Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze)
1944 Eddie Rabbitt Brooklyn, country singer (I Love a Rainy Night)
1945 Barbara Anderson Brooklyn, actress (Eve-Ironside, Mission Impossible)
1951 Jayne Kennedy Wash DC, sportscaster (CBS)/actress (Body & Soul)
1952 James D Wetherbee Flushing NY, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS-32, sk:46)
1954 Curtis Armstrong actor (Moonlighting)
1954 Patricia McPherson Oak Harbor Wash, actress (Bonnie-Knight Rider)
1957 Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg JFK's daughter
1959 Charlie Burchill rocker (Simple Minds-Breakfast Club)
1960 Ken O'Brien QB (NY Jets)
1962 Calvin Hayes rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock)
1963 Fisher Stevens Chicago, actor (My Science Project, Short Circuit)
1964 Rebecca Michelle Ferratti Helena Mt, playmate (Jun, 1986)
1964 Robin Simone Givens [Mrs Mike Tyson] NYC, (Darlene-Head of the Class)
1965 Fiachna O'Broanain rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go)
1976 Jaleel White Los Angeles CA, actor (Steve Urkel-Family Matters)

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Deaths which occurred on November 27:
8 -BC- Horace Latin poet & satirist, dies (birth date unknown)
0511 Clovis, 1st King of France, dies at 45
1680 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern), dies
1887 U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
1934 Baby Face Nelson shot by FBI agents
1953 Eugene O'Neill playwright, dies in Boston at 65
1965 Harry Harvey Sr actor (It's a Man's World), dies at 64
1972 Mahalia Jackson, vocalist (Got Whole World in His Hands), dies at 61
1975 Ross McWhirter Guinness Book of Records keeper, is murdered
1978 George Moscone (San Francisco Mayor) & City Sup Harvey Milk shot by Dan White
1981 Lotte Lenya singer/actress, dies in NY at 83
1984 Percy Norris deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead
1986 Steve Tracy actor (Percival-Little House on the Praire), dies at 61
1988 John Carradine actor, dies at 82 of kidney failure

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1968 GURNSEY EARL F.---GEORGETOWN CA.
[RELEASED BY SIHANOUK 01/06/69, DECEASED 29 MAY 82]
1968 STUIFBERGEN GENE PAUL---AUGUSTA MI.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0043 BC Octavian, Antony and Lepidus form the triumvirate of Rome
399 St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1095 In Clermont, France, Pope Urbana II makes an appeal for warriors to relieve Jerusalem. He is responding to false rumors of atrocities in the Holy Land.
1759 Town officials in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, evicted the Rev. Francis Gastrell from William Shakespeare’s home after he cut down a 150-year-old tree that had been planted by the famed writer.
1815 Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic
1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1839 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
1843 The opera "The Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)
1868 Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's 7th Cavalry kills Chief Blackkettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
1870 NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1885 Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made
1887 U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
1889 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis Brady)
1890 1st signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation
1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1898 Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die
1901 Army War College established in Washington DC
1903 The opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
1910 NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
1912 Albanian National Flag adopted
1912 Spanish protectorate in Morocco established
1924 57,000 watch a High School football game in LA
1926 110,000 watch Army & Navy play a 21-all tie
1926 KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1926 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
1937 Pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU
1941 USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat
1941 British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk
1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis don't take them
1945 Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
1947 Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
1951 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
1957 Army withdraws from Little Rock AR, after Central HS integration
1954 Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet spy, is freed after 44 months in prison.
1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
1960 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
1960 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
1961 Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games
1965 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space
1966 In highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41
1967 Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
1967 Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price
1967 Charles DeGaulle vetoes Great Britain's entry into the Common Market again.
1970 George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1972 Yanks trade Ellis, Torres & Spikes to Indians for Nettles & Moses
1973 Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
1975 Fred Lynn became 1st rookie to win the MVP
1980 Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1982 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0
1983 Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185
1985 Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
1989 Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
1989 George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" & "Poor Little Girl"
1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space
1990 Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
1991 Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ
2000 A day after George W. Bush was certified the winner of Florida's presidential vote, Al Gore laid out his case for letting the courts settle the nation's long-count election.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Paraguay : Flag Day
Burma : National Day
Cuba : Martyrs' Day
Israel : Weizmann Day
Mass : John F Kennedy Day (1963) (Sunday)
Bern Switzerland : Onion Market Day-autumn festival (Monday)
US : Thanksgiving (TODAY)
International Drum Month

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Religious Observances
RC : Commemoration of the Miraculous Medal

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Religious History
1095 In France, Pope Urban II solemnly proclaimed the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. Urban's twin_purpose was to relieve the pressure by the Seljuk Turks on the Eastern Roman Empire, and to secure free access to Jerusalem for Christian pilgrims.
1755 Land for the first Jewish settlement in America was purchased by Joseph Salvador, who bought 10,000 acres near Fort Ninety_Six, in the southern part of the Carolina Colony.
1862 Birth of Adelaide Pollard, Presbyterian hymnwriter. Plagued with frail health most of her life, she lived the life of a mystic. Of the several hymns she penned, "Have Thine Own Way, Lord" is still popular today.
1950 American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'What gets me into the Kingdom, from Christ's own statement, is not saying "Lord, Lord," but acting "Lord, Lord."'
1953 English Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Anxiety is not only a pain which we must ask God to assuage but also a weakness we must ask Him to pardon __ for He's told us to take no care for the morrow.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action."

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Question of the day...
Why do people park in driveways and drive on parkways?

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Murphys Law of the day...(Hellrung's Law)
If you wait, it will go away.
(Shevelson's Extension) ...
having done its damage.
(Grelb's Addition) ...
if it was bad, it will be back.

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Astounding fact #9...
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Aeronaut! A Happy & Blessed Thanksgiving to you & yours!

[tomkow6]

100! MINE