FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 24 March 2004

Canteen Crew ~ Radix

[StarCMC]

Good morning Defender2!

Good morning Darkwing!

Good to see you!

HUGS!!

[tomkow6]

 

BURKA MAN FOR PRESIDENT IN 04 !!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

I overslept bigtime....gotta throw things together and get outta here, but OH MY GAWD....is this Kerry thing funny.

[StarCMC]

Good morning Ms. Feather!

Good morning Diva!

Good morning Fawnn!

Good to see you today!

HUGS!!

[Defender2]

Good Morning, StarCMC!!!!:-) May you have a Fine Day!!!!:-)
Hugs!!!!:-)

[Fawnn]

tomkow6!!! #150!!!

[Fawnn]

g'mornin'

My mom, niece, and great-nephew are on their way here for lunch. So, I have to go see if I can find anything clean to wear. LOL

Gonna be a busy afternoon then after they leave because I didn't get my writing done yet! (Glad you enjoyed the attempts at humor. I wish my Canteen salary were better! Maybe I should demand a raise!) ;)

Latersssssssssssss....

[TexasCowboy]

Before I run for the day I've got to tell y'all this story because it blows me away:

I've just signed a contract on a place in the country where I can have disadvantaged kids come out for weekends.
Just down the road from me is a biker couple who belonged to one of the roughest gang of bikers in the country.
About six months ago they found Jesus and opened a retreat for disadvantaged kids complete with horses for them to ride. I knew nothing about this until a few days ago.

About half an hour ago I was talking to the oil company representative who has a gas line running across my place.
He informed me that my next door neighbor is opening a retreat for disadvantaged kids!

Now, God was working in the lives of all three of us at the same time in the same place for the same purpose!
Our God is an awesome God!

[Fawnn]

P.S. The salary part was a joke. I just had visions of poor Tonk getting all kinds of FReepmail wondering why I get paid. LOL!!!

[Fawnn]

Our God is an awesome God!

Amen!

(Okay, now I'm really outtahere!) ;)

[StarCMC]

1903 Malcolm Muggeridge English writer (Observer of Life)

**snip** A socialist in his upbringing, the young Muggeridge taught for some years in India and Egypt; obtained a post on the staff of the Manchester Guardian; and at the age of twenty-nine, accompanied by his wife, Kitty, made his way to Moscow, where he succeeded William Henry Chamberlin as Moscow correspondent of the Guardian. The Muggeridges believed earnestly that they were departing from a dying bourgeois culture to participate in a "new civilization," in which the human potential would be fulfilled. They arrived in September 1932. Within six months, Muggeridge came to know the hideousness of the communist regime, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

It destroys everything and everyone; is the essence of destruction-in towns, a darkness; a paralysis; in the country, a blight, sterility; shouting monotonously its empty formula-a classless, socialist society -it attacks with methodical barbarity, not only men and classes and institutions, but the soul of a society. It tears a society up by the roots and leaves it dead. "If we go," Lenin said, "we shall slam the door on an empty house." So Muggeridge wrote in his Moscow diary.

The editor of the Manchester Guardian chose not to print much of the truth that Muggeridge sent him from the heart of darkness. In disgust, Muggeridge resigned from that famous newspaper, leaving himself unemployed and in unhappy circumstances. Out of his Russian months came his sardonic novel, Winter in Moscow, recently republished with an introduction by Mr. Michael Aeschliman.

**snip**

For the full article, go here!

[blackie]

Coffee with Kathy ~ Bump!

[blackie]

Mornin' angels ~ Bump!

[armyboy]

Good evening FReeper Canteen! How are Y'all doing?

[StarCMC]

JACK M. BUTCHER
Captain - United States Air Force
Shot Down: March 24, 1971
Released: March 28, 1973

"On my eleventh combat mission over Laos on 24 March 1971, I was shot down. I was injured in the explosion of the aircraft but managed to eject. Very soon after landing on the ground I was captured and was detained in a small camp in Laos for six weeks. While in this camp I managed to escape once, but was re-captured after only a few hours. While in this camp, I also received medical attention and regained my health for the trip by foot to Hanoi.

During the trip to Hanoi, I escaped again. This time I evaded for ten days. I survived by eating some fruit, ants and grasshoppers. I attempted to make signals in an effort to be rescued. However, on the tenth day, I accidentally ran into the enemy and was re-captured again. After some rest, I was again moved toward Hanoi.

During the first week of June 1971 I arrived in Hanoi and was joined with a small group of men captured in Laos and remained with them in Hanoi until 28 March 1973 when we were released. Three days later I was reunited with my wife, Dawn, at Wright Patterson AFB."

Although he ejected from a flaming aircraft and received severe shrapnel wounds in both legs, and although he was imprisoned from March 27, 1971 to March 28, 1973, Captain Butcher considers himself "lucky." "I was captured after the bad times," he says, referring to the period from 1965 to 1969 when the POWs were tortured. "I was not beaten. I was not mistreated."

He was graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in engineering and a commission in the Air Force through ROTC. He had become interested in aeronautical engineering and flying after joining ROTC, and after graduating he received his wings at Webb AFB, Big Spring, Texas. After six months of training in the OV-10 forward air controlling aircraft, he volunteered for duty in Vietnam so, as he says, he could be "close to what was happening." He was sent to DaNang Air Base, South Vietnam.

He plans to spend three months in the Air Force Pilot Upgrading School where he will be refamiliarized with flying. After nine additional months training on the F-106 plane, he plans to spend an additional two year tour with the Air Force.

Captain Butcher has these thoughts to share about America:
"American POWs, in serving the way they did, helped to preserve the freedom in this country necessary to correct its faults and mistakes.

"I learned a lot in prison camp. I learned what a great country this is. It was a daily challenge to stick up for it and to love it. And that love grows and grows."

November 1996
Jack Butcher retired from the United States Air Force as a Lt. Colonel. He and his wife Dawn reside in Washington State




GOD BLESS OUR HEROES!!!

[blackie]

Pancakes and Coffee on Wednesday with Tonk ~ Bump!

[blackie]

Medal Of Honor Citations ~ You Will Not Be Forgotten ~ Bump!

[StarCMC]

SO AWESOME TC!! Thanks for sharing!! :o)

[StarCMC]

LOL!!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Our God is an awesome God!"

God Bless You Brother