FReeper Canteen ~ IRAQ WAR 1st ANNIVERSARY SALUTE ~ Saturday Nite Jukebox ~ MAR 20, 2004

bentfeather, Bethbg79, Diva Betsy Ross, Kathy In Alaska, and MoJo2001

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday...
Thank the Veterans who served in
The United States Armed Forces.

Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom?
Support The United States Armed Forces Today!

 

 

~ IRAQ WAR 1st ANNIVERSARY SALUTE ~

A year later we know where Iraq and Baghdad Bob are located. Thanks to our brave and courageous Troops, the world is safer for all of us. Thanks to our Allies for their continued support. We pray that you stay the course. Our music dedication is mixed with some "nostalgic" reminders of the past year. Please mouse over the icons to see our selections for today. As always, don't forget that you can request songs on the thread, or by emailing us at canteenusa@canteenusa.com . Thank you!! Enjoy the selections! (Special thanks go out to Auntie Fawnn and Queenie (bentfeather) for their contributions to this thread! Thanks Divas!!)

The Canteen Deejay Crew are bentfeather, Bethbg79, Diva Betsy Ross, Kathy In Alaska, and MoJo2001. Any requests should be made towards them. (Others provide music as well. So? Don't count them out either! Just ask!)

 

~ Salute To Our Troops ~

For all of our heroes that have returned home, this one's for you!
For those of you that have not returned yet, we're waiting for you!
 

Thank you to Auntie Fawnn for all the graphics!

 

~ Axis Of Weasels: Freedom Deniers ~

~ KISS OUR BUTT LIST ~


A.N.S.W.E.R.
MoveOn.org
DemocraticUnderground.com
France - Jacques Chirac
Canada - Jean Chretien
Germany - Gerhard Schroeder
Belgium - Guy Verhofstadt
Russia - Vladimir Putin
NY Times - (except William Safire)
Washington Post - (except George Will & Charles Krauthammer)
Newsweek
Time
Hollywood
Moby
Dixie Chicks
CNN
MSNBC - (except David Bloom, RIP & Dr. Bob Arnot)
Eric Margolis - (Toronto Sun)
The Guardian (UK)
The Independent (UK)
BBC
And many more.....

We make no apologies for the freedom we spread around the world. Either stand with us or get out of the way!

~ Music Selections ~

 

 

~ Canteen Salute To Our Guys and Gals in Uniform ~

 

 

~ All Gave Some, Some Gave All ~
 

Click on the graphics to honor our fallen heroes.

 

One Year Later of Shock and Awe
 

 

We saw the murderous dictator fall
we cheered, we sang
with glad refrain
as the statue of Saddam the
madman, Hussein toppled

by Iraqi people whom he
oppressed and tortured
gassed his own people
maimed little children
with no compassion or mercy

From palace to palace he¹d run
hide with those bloody
thug sons by his side
until the day they met the
business end of a soldiers gun
that ended their ³fun.²

Evil spawn of evil he...
found living in a spider hole
that describes the end
of his reign and his
people will determine
his plight - not his way
sneaking around at night
filling the people with fear
oh no, he will get to hear
the charges of his murderous crimes
and stand before the judges of his kind
spend the rest of his miserable life on earth
in better conditions than he meted out...

Freedom lives now for Iraqi people
conditions improve with a helping hand
from nations across the worlds¹ lands
 

They are learning to trust again
and smile, study in schools,
work for their livelihood
unhindered by the bloody dictator Hussein
Iraqi people are free to be...
 

bentfeather
a/k/a MLH
Copyright © 03/18/2004
All Rights Reserved
 

 

Beth's Music

 

 

 

Lene Marlin	Muse
Pat Green	Plumb
Portishead	Lisa Loeb
Interpol	India Arie

 

 

John Mayer	The Sunday's
Rosie Flores	Jennifer Hanson
Josh Kelly	Tool
Lucero	Elastica

 

 

The Beat Farmers	Guns N Roses
Motley Crew	FeFe Dobson
Pearl Jam	The Darkness
Soul Asylum	Arrested Development

 

 

Jimmy Eat World	The White Stripes
Violent Femmes	Ryan Adams
Iron Maiden	Drowning Pool
Midnight Oil	Ween

 

 

[E.G.C.]

Good Morning, Old sarge. I just went to the SPC website to check today's severe weather outlook. We're in a slight risk for today and tonight. We'll see what happens.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Still have catch up to do for yesterday, so maybe I'll have a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows now, and then one later. Thanks, Meekie.

[Old Sarge]

Well, Gang, it's time to go. My relief has shown up early, so I'm taking advantage, and headed for the house.

I'll see everybody here, later today, and of course, tonight.

See y'all!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Girls!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night, drive safely, and sleep well, Sarge. Thanks for helping keep Kentucky and the US of A safe. And thanks for helping honor our military, past and present.

[Radix]

You and the Canteen girlz have put together a terrific opening here today Yatch man. Thanks.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Good morning Radix! I hope you have a great day today!

[StarCMC]

	CHILDERS, ERNEST Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 45th Infantry Division.  Place and date: At Oliveto, Italy, 22 September 1943.  Entered service at: Tulsa, Okla.  Birth: Broken Arrow, Okla.  G.O. No.: 30, 8 April 1944.  Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty in action on 22 September 1943, at Oliveto, Italy.  Although 2d Lt. Childers previously had just suffered a fractured instep he, with 8 enlisted men, advanced up a hill toward enemy machinegun nests. The group advanced to a rock wall overlooking a cornfield and 2d Lt. Childers ordered a base of fire laid across the field so that he could advance. When he was fired upon by 2 enemy snipers from a nearby house he killed both of them. He moved behind the machinegun nests and killed all occupants of the nearer one. He continued toward the second one and threw rocks into it. When the 2 occupants of the nest raised up, he shot 1. The other was killed by 1 of the 8 enlisted men. 2d Lt. Childers continued his advance toward a house farther up the hill, and single-handed, captured an enemy mortar observer. The exceptional leadership, initiative, calmness under fire, and conspicuous gallantry displayed by 2d Lt. Childers were an inspiration to his men. CHOATE, CLYDE L. Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company C, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion.  Place and date: Near Bruyeres, France, 25 October 1944.  Entered service at: Anna, 111.  Born: 28 June 1920, West Frankfurt, 111.  G.O. No.: 75, 5 September 1945.  Citation: He commanded a tank destroyer near Bruyeres, France, on 25 October 1944.  Our infantry occupied a position on a wooded hill when, at dusk, an enemy Mark IV tank and a company of infantry attacked, threatening to overrun the American position and capture a command post 400 yards to the rear. S/Sgt. Choate's tank destroyer, the only weapon available to oppose the German armor, was set afire by 2 hits. Ordering his men to abandon the destroyer, S/Sgt. Choate reached comparative safety. He returned to the burning destroyer to search for comrades possibly trapped in the vehicle risking instant death in an explosion which was imminent and braving enemy fire which ripped his jacket and tore the helmet from his head. Completing the search and seeing the tank and its supporting infantry overrunning our infantry in their shallow foxholes, he secured a bazooka and ran after the tank, dodging from tree to tree and passing through the enemy's loose skirmish line. He fired a rocket from a distance of 20 yards, immobilizing the tank but leaving it able to spray the area with cannon and machinegun fire. Running back to our infantry through vicious fire, he secured another rocket, and, advancing against a hail of machinegun and small-arms fire reached a position 10 yards from the tank. His second shot shattered the turret. With his pistol he killed 2 of the crew as they emerged from the tank; and then running to the crippled Mark IV while enemy infantry sniped at him, he dropped a grenade inside the tank and completed its destruction. With their armor gone, the enemy infantry became disorganized and was driven back. S/Sgt. Choate's great daring in assaulting an enemy tank single-handed, his determination to follow the vehicle after it had passed his position, and his skill and crushing thoroughness in the attack prevented the enemy from capturing a battalion command post and turned a probable defeat into a tactical success. "If there be any glory in war, let it rest on the shoulders of men like these."   -- Audie Murphy   Thank you to every soldier, sailor, airman, marine and coast guardsman who has ensured that I have the freedoms I have today.  You are my heroes. You will not be forgotten.

Graphics and information  from the MOH website.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Good morning Canteen Crew!

Good morning troops! God bless you for protecting our freedom. Thank you.

WAKE UP!

LUST FOR LIFE-IGGY POP

[StarCMC]

You're gonna laugh, but I had to click on "North to Alaska" JUST to see if I was right about who sand it!!! I would have won that Jeopardy question!!

And yes, I am up already. It will indeed be a day of afternoon naps!! The tornado woke me with a coughing fit at just before sixish !

I hope you're sleeping!! HUGS!!

[StarCMC]

Sorry I missed that dance!! :o)

[StarCMC]

Still too lazy to go get my Woo-hoos...so...

Woo-hoo!

Congrats on getting #600 Sarge!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Almost. *HUGS*

[StarCMC]

OMG Kathy! I can's believe you had the Stones in your repertoire!! Granted, it's a nice, pretty song, but still.... So nevermind DJ's, Kathy fulfilled my request!

**shakes head in amazement!**

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Star. How's it going?

[StarCMC]

Morning Meekie! Morning EGC!

The house was rockin' last night!!

Good to see you on this side of the sunrise!!

HUGS!

[StarCMC]

Night / morning Sarge!

Sleep two rows at a time, as my mil always says.

(WHatever that means! LOL!)

[StarCMC]

Good morning RAdix! Good morning Diva!

Good to see you this fine morning!

HUGS!!

[StarCMC]

Well Kathy, you definitely deserve to sleep in!!

HUGS!!

[Radix]

Wow, between yesterday and todays Canteen threads, I just perused over 1000 posts. That and a bit of other reading has me just a bit inundated with data. Six hundred posts before 07:00, I am going to have to change my sleep patterns.

Thank God it is Saturday. Hey, wait a second, Saturday is a work day for me.