Posted on 07/14/2004 7:59:56 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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Good evening, Lisa!
Wow, sounds like you got something good done tonight...congratulations!!
Lisa, that's one more step on a long journey. Every day that you manage to live your life is a victory. I haven't been there - yet - but Mrs. HJ has. It's been 6 years, and she still has moments now when the loss of her father hurts.
But the hurt isn't paralyzing, and it isn't permanent, and the memories of his life before are good. You'll make it, I just know you will. What you did tonight tells me that.
God Bless you good, FRiend.
Since you love to read, I figure you'd enjoy this link: http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/books/electivedecisions.shtml
Chris
Howdy treeclimber!
Hiya Star...
Look what I found over at Breaking News...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1171674/posts
Whoa dude!
That is too cool!!
Now to publicize it and show others what happens when you mess with us! :o)
Good job, Treeclimber!! That's a wonderful picture! :)
Great read...wonder if his last job is Mark...
Did you see Tom Berenger in the movie "Sniper"?
Now I know how to post pics...
Thanks for the kind words!
"Did you see Tom Berenger in the movie "Sniper"?"
Yep. Pretty good movie. I can't tell you the ending. Otherwise, what's the point of reading it.
Chris
You're welcome...you realize they're not just kind words, right?
I mean, all of us Canteeners care about each other; and anything we can do to help out a FRiend...well, we're going to do it.
It's important to us to offer support anywhere, anytime, in any way that we can.
You're one of us...get used to it!!!
(Taking a short break now, I'll be back in a bit.)
I just put 2 & 2 together. Are you the author?
1806 Pike expedition sets out
Zebulon Pike, the U.S. Army officer who in 1805 led an exploring party in search of the source of the Mississippi River, sets off with a new expedition to explore the American Southwest. Pike was instructed to seek out headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers and to investigate Spanish settlements in New Mexico.
Pike and his men left Missouri and traveled through the present-day states of Kansas and Nebraska before reaching Colorado, where he spotted the famous mountain later named in his honor. From there, they traveled down to New Mexico, where they were stopped by Spanish officials and charged with illegal entry into Spanish-held territory. His party was escorted to Santa Fe, then down to Chihuahua, back up through Texas, and finally to the border of the Louisiana Territory, where they were released. Soon after returning to the east, Pike was implicated in a plot with former Vice President Aaron Burr to seize territory in the Southwest for mysterious ends. However, after an investigation, Secretary of State James Madison fully exonerated him.
The information he provided about the U.S. territory in Kansas and Colorado was a great impetus for future U.S. settlement, and his reports about the weakness of Spanish authority in the Southwest stirred talk of future U.S. annexation. Pike later served as a brigadier general during the War of 1812, and in April 1813 he was killed by a British gunpowder bomb after leading a successful attack on York, Canada.
You're just going to have to wait.
Yes. I am the author. I figured you'd have checked my profile by now.
Chris Davis
'Evening, Gentlemen! Finally got here after a good long while!
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