FReeper Canteen ~ Guest Military Chaplain ~ August 22 2004

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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	World's fastest Beagle Deacon may have been the world's fastest Beagle. While lightly tugging at the leash one would never guess the amount of stored energy in one dog. He was faster than a rabbit. Bright brown eyes, angelic upward gaze, slight quiver in his flanks, all silently pleading to be unleashed. Zoom! The click from the release of his collar from the leash was forever accompanied by a burst of energy that jetted Deke six blocks before he slowed to smell the first telephone pole. You know at least one Deacon - the person who leads an exemplary life while in the presence of people to be impressed. But when the leash is unsnapped, whether away from home or when no one is looking, the primal instinct to run wild wins a short argument with a dwarf conscience. The Deacons of this world have placed their honor, marriage and their God in a box. Instead of uniform dependable daily behavior there is conformity only while on the leash. Remove the restraints and undisciplined risk taking rules. Compartmentalization of values, activities, and allegiances leads to disaster, divorce and depression. God did not create us to run wild. Balance and discipline are twin pillars supporting a happy peaceful life. All aspects of life - words, thoughts, attitudes and actions - must be brought into subjection for a healthy relationship with ourselves, others and with our Creator. Want to quit running? You can't reform yourself. Try all the remedies, pills, and Self Help 101 courses and you'll still fail. Help is only available in One who is more powerful than we are. Call on God to give you stability and peace. He is a patient Master.

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on August 22:
1647 Denis Papin French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine)
1760 Leo XII [Annibale Sermattei], Italy, Pope (1823-29)
1822 George Stoneman US Union general-major/(Gov-Calif, 1883-87)
1827 Josef Strauss Austria, composer
1827 Joseph Anthony Mower Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870
1834 Nathaniel Harrison Harris Brig General (Confederate Army)
1836 Archibald M Willard US, artist (Spirit of '76)
1854 Milan I, King of Serbia
1862 Claude Debussy St Germain-en-Laye, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune)
1891 Jacques Lipchitz Polish/French/US painter/cubist sculptor
1893 Dorothy Parker US, short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award)
1904 Deng Xiaoping Chinese leader (1976-1983)
1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer.(The decisive moment)
1917 John Lee Hooker Mississippi, blues musician (Boom Boom Boom)
1920 Dr Denton Cooley heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant)
1920 Ray Bradbury Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451, Illustrated Man, The Martian Chronicles)
1926 Honor Blackman London, actress (Pussy Galore-Goldfinger)
1932 Gerald P Carr Denver Colorado, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 4)
1933 Sylvia Koscina actress (Jessica, Hercules)
1934 Norman Schwartzkopf NJ, US General (Liberated Kuwait from Iraq)
1935 Morton Dean Fall River Mass, TV newscaster (CBS, ABC)
1939 Carl Yastrzemski NY, Boston Red Sox great (1967 AL MVP, Hall of Fame)
1940 Valerie Harper Sufferin NY, (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Valerie)
1942 Kathy Lennon Santa Monica Calif, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1945 Ron Dante Staten Island NY, rocker (Archies-Sugar, Sugar)
1947 Cindy Williams Van Nuys Calif, actress (Shirley-Laverne & Shirley)
1949 Diana Nyad swimmer (1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979)
1956 - Paul Molitor, St Paul MN, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, Mn Twins, 1993 World Series MVP)1961 Roland Orzabal singer (Tears for Fears-Shout, Head over Heels)

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Deaths which occurred on August 22:
408 Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader
0634 Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st caliph of Islam, dies
1241 Gregory IX [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies
1280 Nicholas III [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies
1286 Erik V Klipping king of Denmark, murdered
1485 Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32
1818 Warren Hastings 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85
1862 Henry Bohlen German/US brig-general (Union), dies in battle at 51
1914 Raffenel French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
1914 Rondoney French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
1922 Michael Collins Sinn Fein leader, killed in ambush
1977 Sebastian Cabot actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59
1978 Jomo Kenyatta president of Kenya, dies at 83
1989 Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif.
1992 Vicki Weaver, murdered by an FBI sharpshooter, Lon Horiuchi.
1991 Colleen Dewhurst actress (Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 67

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1967 KERR JOHN C. MIAMI FL.
1967 MORGAN BURKE H. MANITOU SPRINGS CO.
1968 ACOSTA-ROSARIO HUMBERTO MAYAQUEZ PR.
1972 CROCKETT WILLIAM J. COTTAGE CROVE NM.
1972 TIGNER LEE M. WASHINGTON DC.

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

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On this day...
0565 St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
1138 English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor -- Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to it being called Battle of the Standard
1350 John II, also known as John the Good, succeeds Philip VI as king of France.
1454 Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field-last of Plantagenets
1614 Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1642 Civil war in England begins as Charles I declares war on Parliament at Nottingham.
1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1775 King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
1788 Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
1791 Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
1791 Haitian Revolution begins
1846 US annexes New Mexico
1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
1851 Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
1862 Battle of Catlett's Station VA
1862 Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely Mn.
1864 Geneva Convention signed, by 12 nations
1901 First luxury automobile company in the US founded, Cadillac, in Detroit, Michigan; the company was named after 18th century explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
1902 Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
1906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1910 Japan annexes Korea
1911 Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre
1927 Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
1932 BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
1934 Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12
1944 Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed [or 23rd]
1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1947 1st college team to beat an NFL team (All Stars-16, Bears-0)
1950 Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in natl tennis competition
1951 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1956 Pres Eisenhower & VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF
1959 Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
1960 Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352
1961 Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
1965 SF Giant pitcher Juan Marachal hits LA Dodger catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
1968 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
1968 Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry
1969 Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast kills 255
1979 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
1982 Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
1984 Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes the 11th rookie to strikeout 200
1984 Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush
1986 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
1987 Madonna's "Who's "That Girl," single goes #1
1988 Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
1989 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter
1990 Pres Bush calls up military reserves
1996 President Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.(after being beat up by the GOP for not signing)

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
American Rebellion Day
Be an Angel Day
Weird Contest Week Ends
National Religious Software Week Begins
National Catfish Month

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Religious Observances
RC : Memorial of the Queenship of Mary (Immaculate Heart)
RC Timotheus, martyr to Rome
Zen-Kamakura Japan Foundation ceremonies at Kenchoji

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Religious History
1670 In Massachusetts, English-born colonial missionary John Eliot, 66, founded an Indian church at Martha's Vineyard, with educated Indians Hiacoomes and Tackanash appointed pastor and teacher, respectively.
1800 Birth of Edward B. Pusey, English biblical scholar and Tractarian spokesman. A devoted church leader all his life, Pusey worked to establish religious orders in Anglicanism, founding in 1845 the first Anglican sisterhood.
1831 Birth of William H. Cummings, English musicologist. In 1855 he adapted a theme from Mendelssohn's "Festgesang," which afterward became the melody of the Christmas carol, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing."
1948 The Amsterdam Assembly of the World Council of Churches convened (through Sept 4) to ratify the Constitution for this newly-formed experiment in organizational and global Christian unity.
1968 Pope Paul VI arrived in Colombia, making his the first-ever papal visit to South America.

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

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Thought for the day :
"Early to rise and ditto to bed, make a man healthy, but socially dead."

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Excuses For Missing Work...
The dog ate my car keys. We're going to hitchhike to the vet.

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Top 10 Difference Between Cats & Dogs...
7. Dogs will bring you your slippers or the evening newspaper. Cats might bring you a dead mouse.

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You Might Be An Engineer If...
You still think Tron was the best movie ever made

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Dumb Laws...
Maryland:
Thistles may not grow in one's yard.

[Fawnn]

You're mean!!! ;)

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Fawnn!

Good morning, Fawnn's Mom!

[tomkow6]

1911 Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre
 

[laurenmarlowe]

Good Morning Canteen

God Bless America and Our Troops

[Cindy]

You're welcome Kathy.

It's been raining here since last night.

Oh. Oh.
Looks like an early winter more and more.

Have a good Sunday Kathy.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

If you are a servicemember stationed in CONUS or overseas, you can register to vote absentee.

The UOCAVA (Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act)
requires that the states and territories allow certain U.S. citizens, as defined below,
to register and vote absentee in elections for Federal office.
These groups include:

Members of the Uniformed Services (including Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard)

Merchant Marines

Eligible family members of the above

Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service,
and Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

U.S. citizens employed by the Federal Government residing outside the U.S.,
and All other private U.S. citizens residing outside the U.S.

If you are eligible to register under UOCAVA, CLICK HERE and follow the instructions.

For state-by-state voting deadlines and calendar CLICK HERE

General Election Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2004

IMPORTANT DATA
Military Voting for 2004
YOUR VOTE will count!

Military Voter Registration Info

Just Click on a flag to Visit that Branch of Service Voting Info

Army	Navy	Air Force	Marines	Coast Guard

Originally posted by MoJo2001 and The Sailor

*IMPORTANT MILITARY VOTE INFORMATION*

 

Having gone through the process of ensuring that The Sailor can vote, I found out that there is another easy way to ensure that our military can receive their ballots. If you are stressing out trying to figure out how to get an application, you can click on the Sample to find out how to do it.

You will need to open up the ballot with Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't know how to open up .pdf files, don't worry. You can easily visit their site to get a free installation of Adobe's Acrobat reader.


Click the above link to get Adobe Reader


We must all work together to ensure that our Troops have the right to vote. This is the least we can do for them. If you know anyone overseas or stationed away from their "home of records", please send them this link. It is important.

[SevenofNine]

Good morning Canteen members

OH OH NOT GOOD UK Sunday Mirror reporting that Tony Blair may not attend cermonay for Congressional medal of honor being give to him for work on war on terrorism reason is his advisor who very PRO John KErry feel that this medal be construct by Brits people for anti war protesters

Yeah they don't want go there also Blair is suffering from poll number with 1 out of 3 Brit think Brits shouldn't take place of war effort

Well what do you expect from Brit they watch BBC


Also another report off AFP wire reporting that Baghdlaeish suffer another car bomb blast today in Capitol city killing 5 to 10 people so far

And after that mob of people went on raid against neighborhood most of Hindu

[blackie]

Guest Military Chaplian and chow with Brother Tonkin ~ Bump!

[stand watie]

GA!

free dixie,duckie & sw

[blackie]

One Nation Under God ~ Bump!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

My Favorite post for dims and trolls
who slither in here each day.
And the Lame Stream media
who find the real news on Free Republic,
then rewrite and spin the truth.

Mommy Heinz!
Help!

Look what the Washington Post said on 8/21/04

"Although Kerry campaign officials insist that they have published Kerry's full military records on their Web site (with the exception of medical records shown briefly to reporters earlier this year), they have not permitted independent access to his original Navy records. A Freedom of Information Act request by The Post for Kerry's records produced six pages of information. A spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan, said he was not authorized to release the full file, which consists of at least a hundred pages. "

Look! What the Harvard Crimson wrote about me in 1970

Published on Wednesday, February 18, 1970
John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress
By SAMUEL Z. GOLDHABER
Crimson Staff Writer

"...One time Kerry was ordered to destroy a Viet Cong village
but disobeyed orders and suggested that the Navy Command
simply send in a Psychological Warfare team to be
friend the villagers with food, hospital supplies,
and better educational facilities."


Now my shipmates on the
USS GRIDLEY CG-21
are attacking me.

Click Here Mommy
and see what
the USS GRIDLEY crew say.

They say I told lies in Tour of Duty
GRIDLEY CREW ARE LIKE
SWIFT BOAT VETS MEANIES!

Mommy : People can get
MY real book here FREE!!
I'm so proud of !
The New Soldier,
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War


Mommy : Please don't be mad
about my hero Al Hubbard.

Head of Kerry's Vietnam Vets Against the War was Vietnam Vet phony
"Many of the stories were later shown to be fictional. Other so-called Vietnam veterans, such as the executive secretary of VVAW, Al Hubbard, a self-styled poet ("See what you've become, Amerika," ends one of his Vietnam odes),
turned out to have no record of service in Vietnam."


Mommy : Why does McCain
still campaign with Bush?
Mommy : Why doesn't Al Gore defend me?
He is a Vietnam Vet.

Mommy : Did Hillary
"leak" FBI Files on me?
I even used her famous slogan?

"Kerry entered and abandoned Vietnamese village and slaughtered domestic animals
owned by the civilians and burned down their homes with his Zippo lighter."



It only takes one idiot to raze a village!
(My original response!)

Mommy : Where is Ted Kennedy?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
http://68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub.org is BOGUS !!!

I went to http://68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub.org and there is not such website.

I went to http://TonkinGulfYachtClub.org and there is only a commercial referal with links:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196940/posts?page=19#19

(Looks like I'm attracting some attention! LOL)

[darkwing104]

Good Afternoon Canteen Freepers! Just got back from spending the morning with a fellow SNCO I was stationed with in Misawa Japan. How is everyone doing today?

[darkwing104]

Mine!

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