Canteen Crew - Howdy ya'll!!!
Posted on 09/15/2004 8:06:41 PM PDT by MoJo2001
oooooooooo nice hug this morning, thanks Sarge!
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on September 16:
1387 Henry V king of England (1413-22)
1547 Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet
1638 Louis XIV [Sun King] king of France (1643-1715)
1685 John Gay poet (Beggar's Opera)
1823 Francis Parkman American historian/author (Oregon Trail)
1832 George Washington Custis Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
1838 James J Hill Canada, RR entrepreneur (Great Northern Railroad)
1875 James Cash Penney department store founder (J.C. Penney)
1877 James J Jeans cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe)
1880 Alfred Noyes England, poet (The Highwayman)
1895 Charles W Bidwill Sr Chicago, NFL hall of famer (Chicago Cardinals)
1901 CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout (WW II, Arnhem)
1914 Allen Funt Bkln NY, TV host & creator (Candid Camera)
1924 Bess Myerson NY, Miss America 1945/shoplifter (or 0716)
1924 Lauren Bacall Staten Island, actress (Dark Passage, Key Largo)
1925 Charlie Byrd guitarist (Desafinado)
1926 Robert Schuller televangelist (Glass Cathedral)
1927 Jack Kelly Astoria Queens, actor (Bart-Maverick, Get Christie Love)
1927 Peter Falk Ossining NY, actor (Colombo, Scared Straight)
1932 Anne Francis Ossining NY, actress (Honey West, Pancho Villa)
1934 Elgin Baylor NBA star (1958-59 Rookie of the Year-Lakers)
1937 Aleksandr Medved USSR, super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964 68, 72)
1944 Ard Schenk Holland 1500m, 5K, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 Ed Begley Jr LA Cal, actor (Eating Raoul, St Elsewhere, Parenthood)
1949 Susan Ruttan Oregon City Ore, actress (Roxanne-LA Law)
1956 Kevin R Kregel NYC NY, Pilot/astronaut
1956 Sergei Beloglazov USSR, 57 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympic-gold-1980)
GM,Spotsy!
Good morning, Ms Feather! You're pom-poms are LOOKIN' GOOD today!
Well, it seems I missed out on the fact that you've been sick. Now I know there is something going around to which I may have been exposed! I have been feeling like crap the last two days. I start squirting Zicam yesterday hoping to ward off the cold if that was what it is. I wasn't sure since I had not heard anything of what was going around. So, I hope you are feeling better soon.
Has to be one of my own.It has a Texas shuffle beat rhythm and pedal steel kick off. It is titled...
A Different Song
Our song keeps playing in my head tonight
It brings back memories when love was new
When we had all tomorrows and there were no yesterdays
and we sang our song in perfect harmony.
Chorus
But somewhere in the chorus the beat began to change
A driving hurtful rhythm and love walked off the stage
But tonight this music in my head will only play for you
And I'd love to sing a different song with you.
Every time we sing our song the words don't seem to change
They always turn so harsh before we're through
But when we're close together. It always feels so right
When the rhythm flows we make a perfect blend
Chorus
But somewhere in the chorus the beat begins to change
A driving hurtful rhythm and love walks off the stage
But tonight this music in my head will only play for you
And I'd love to sing a different song with you.
Oh Beachy, this just came on this morning. I have been great up to now.
Today's classic warship, USS Harold C. Thomas (DE-21)
Evarts class destroyer escort
Displacement: 1,140 t.
Length: 289'5"
Beam: 35'1"
Draft: 8'3"
Speed: 21 k.
Complement: 156
Armament: 3 3"; 4 1.1"; 9 20mm; 2 depth charge tracks; 8 depth charge projectors; 1 hedge hog
USS HAROLD C. THOMAS (DE-21) was launched 18 December 1942 by the Mare Island Navy Yard as ESSINGTON (BDE-21) for the British; later designed for Navy use; and commissioned 31 May 1943, Comdr. H. Reich in command.
After three voyages escorting merchantmen from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor, HAROLD C. THOMAS served with ComSubTraPac 2-20 November 1943. Sailing from Pearl Harbor 20 November with a convoy of merchantmen and cargo ships, she reached Abemama, Gilbert Islands, 28 November, a week after Vice Admiral R. A. Spruance began the occupation of those islands. HAROLD C. THOMAS spent the rest of the year in the Gilberts on patrol and escort duty.
After undergoing availability early in 1944, HAROLD C. THOMAS sailed as flagship for Escort Division 10, 29 February. Reaching Entwetok, Marshall Islands, 11 March, she did escort work until 30 March when she became part of a hunter-killer carrier group on antisubmarine patrol east of the Marshalls. Returning to Pearl Harbor 6 May, the destroyer spent the remainder of the year in the vital but unsung work of shepherding merchantmen, cargo ships, and transports through the back staging areas up to their assembly points for invasion forces. This duty took HAROLD C. THOMAS to the Marshall, Admiralty, Palau, and Marianas Islands. She also performed some submarine training work at Pearl Harbor. On 21 November, HAROLD C. THOMAS rescued seven men from a PBM which had crashed at sea off Majuro Atoll.
Departing Pearl Harbor 21 January 1945, she reached San Francisco 6 days later and proceeded to San Diego for badly needed repairs. HAROLD C. THOMAS returned to Pearl Harbor 5 April and spent the rest of the war in submarine training and escort duty. The long Pacific war ended 1 September with the signing of the armistice on board battleship MISSOURI (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, and HAROLD C. THOMAS sailed for the States 20 days later, putting into San Pedro 27 September where she decommissioned 26 October 1945. She was sold to the Pacific Bridge Co., San Francisco, 25 November 1946 and scrapped 26 March 1947.
HAROLD C. THOMAS received two battle stars for World War II service.
"We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail..." President George W. Bush |
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I'm just listening on my CD player the song that best describes my life at least in this year. " Stuck in the Middle with you" (Stealers Wheel)
1906 Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
Way to go, Roald Amundsen!
Way to go, Roald Amundsen!
Whoops!
My first husband was stationed in Iceland before I met him.
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