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FReeper Canteen ~ Last Chance! Get Out The Military Vote! Voter Info!~ September 23 2004
FRiends of the Troops and the Canteen

Posted on 09/22/2004 7:59:09 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

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To: USVet6792Retired

Hi there!


221 posted on 09/23/2004 7:38:32 AM PDT by Bethbg79 (God bless our Troops and their families!)
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To: Bethbg79

Hi Bethy! Good to see you. How are you?


222 posted on 09/23/2004 7:38:32 AM PDT by Spotsy (The main stream news media no longer control information. WooHoo!!!)
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To: Valin; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; 2LT Radix jr; Radix; LaDivaLoca; Severa; Bethbg79; southerngrit; ..

1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech

 

 

 


223 posted on 09/23/2004 7:39:33 AM PDT by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
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To: Spotsy
Good to see you too!

I'm doing better these days.

Thanks for asking. :-)

224 posted on 09/23/2004 7:39:44 AM PDT by Bethbg79 (God bless our Troops and their families!)
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To: beachn4fun
I'm here, but Beachy is not. Waaaaa!
225 posted on 09/23/2004 7:40:45 AM PDT by Spotsy (The main stream news media no longer control information. WooHoo!!!)
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To: bentfeather

MoJo's car??

226 posted on 09/23/2004 7:40:49 AM PDT by USVet6792Retired (Keep up the Fire!!)
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To: Bethbg79

and a happy Thursday to you.


227 posted on 09/23/2004 7:42:28 AM PDT by USVet6792Retired (Keep up the Fire!!)
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To: Bethbg79; tomkow6

Look what Tomkow just posted for "Checkers."
Sheesh. Can you imagine if he taught history for a living?

Okay, time for me to get to work. Have a great day!


228 posted on 09/23/2004 7:43:43 AM PDT by Spotsy (The main stream news media no longer control information. WooHoo!!!)
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To: Spotsy

Here we come!!!! Hooooooah!!!!!!!!!!

229 posted on 09/23/2004 7:45:38 AM PDT by USVet6792Retired (Death from Above!)
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To: tomkow6

230 posted on 09/23/2004 7:46:28 AM PDT by Old Sarge (ZOT 'em all, let MOD sort 'em out!)
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To: Spotsy
I see! LOL

I'm sure all the boy's in the class would have straight A's! LOL!

You have a great day too Spotsy!

231 posted on 09/23/2004 7:47:14 AM PDT by Bethbg79 (God bless our Troops and their families!)
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To: Old Sarge

Hi Sarge! (((HUGS)))


232 posted on 09/23/2004 7:47:36 AM PDT by Bethbg79 (God bless our Troops and their families!)
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To: Old Sarge

Hi Sarge! (((HUGS)))


233 posted on 09/23/2004 7:48:08 AM PDT by Bethbg79 (God bless our Troops and their families!)
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To: Old Sarge

Hiccup! 'scuse me!


234 posted on 09/23/2004 7:48:36 AM PDT by Bethbg79 (God bless our Troops and their families!)
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To: USVet6792Retired

:-)


235 posted on 09/23/2004 7:50:00 AM PDT by Bethbg79 (God bless our Troops and their families!)
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To: Spotsy
Simlilar thing, way less pizzazz:



236 posted on 09/23/2004 7:57:24 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: nw_arizona_granny; All
Thank you for forwarding this to us NW_AZ!

THE MOUNTAIN AND THE MAN

Sometimes you just make an exception.

And this is one of those times.

Last Saturday a bunch of cops hiked a mountain and left behind a reminder of their dead buddy.

It was a little plaque, about a foot square. They climbed the highest peak in Utah and got off the trail a ways and on the side of a boulder, where no one would ever see, they calked the plaque in place.

It was dedicated to their SWAT buddy, a Marine reservist, a man who went to war to take care of his troops. A man who died in Iraq.

Now the environmentalists and the bureaucrats want them to take it down.

If they don’t, the federal government will.

It’s one thing to die for your country, I guess, but don’t expect it to mean anything to anybody.

His name was James Cawley. Jimbo, they called him. A detective, and a SWAT man, a veteran of the Salt Lake City Police Department, a staff sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserve. Forty-one years old and a family man.

He died in March of last year.

Anyway, Saturday was September 11 – the three-year anniversary. And on seven mountains across America various cops climbed to the top, carrying memories and mementoes, in honor of their buddies.

The climb for Jim Cawley was put together by an assistant chief. It was seven guys from the SWAT team and Jim’s brother Mike.

And it was a touching story in the paper on Sunday. A reminder that people can be gone but not forgotten, that a grateful nation doesn’t forget, that atop King’s Peak there was a silent testament that freedom isn’t free.

That’s what most got out of the story.

Some, though, got something else. They took offense.

The tree huggers. The wilderness freaks.

They didn’t see a remembrance, they saw a desecration. They cared more about the mountain than the man. And on Monday morning they called to complain.

See, King’s Peak is in the Ashley National Forest. Specifically, it’s in the High Uintas Wilderness Area. Like some two-thirds of Utah, it’s federal land. And the federal government makes the rules. More specifically, activists and their law suits make the rules.

And while you can hike in wilderness areas, you better not leave footprints. And you better not leave a plaque.

Because some self-righteous prig reading the paper is going to complain, and some other self-righteous prig sitting in the ranger shack is going to agree.

“It’s not a place for monuments,” the ranger told the paper. “This is a special place.”

Which is funny, because I didn’t think there was anyplace so special that the name of an American who died in the service of his country would be out of place. It would seem like giving your life for the defense of the nation would mean something.

So that’s the situation.

There is a little plaque on one of a million boulders near the top of one of a thousand Rocky Mountain peaks, and the environmentalists and the bureaucrats say it has to come down. They don’t know where it is, they couldn’t find it if their lives depended on it, but it offends them.

All they know is what they read in the paper.

If the cops hadn’t spoken to the reporter, nobody would have been any the wiser. In uniform they call that “op sec” – operational security. It’s what you do in combat. Who’d have thought you’d need to worry about it at home.

Like I said, sometimes you just make an exception.

And it seems like somebody with the title “congressman” or “senator” ought to be able to figure out how to make an exception. I mean, aren’t those the people who vote on Forest Service budgets?

It seems like there ought to be something people of good conscience on both sides of this could do to reach an accommodation. After all, this wasn’t a flagrant violation of the rules. Jim Cawley’s buddies called a guy in the Forest Service, before they went up the mountain, and he told them it would be OK. He later said he “got caught up in the moment,” but it seems like the word of a government official ought to mean something.

There’s no reason this has to end dumb. There’s no reason this has to end with the disrespecting of a good man’s name. There’s no reason this has to end breaking the hearts of the cops who wanted to remember their buddy.

That plaque is in the mountains. It is part of the mountains. It ought to stay right where it is.

And those people with the fancy titles ought to make sure that it does.

Because, while just eight men climbed King’s Peak on Saturday, they were representing us all.

- by Bob Lonsberry © 2004

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1493

http://www.militarycity.com/valor/256582.html


237 posted on 09/23/2004 7:58:44 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: USVet6792Retired

Good morning, Vet!!
Oh no, this can't be our Little Diva's car!
She is working so hard to tell everyone to Get Out the Military Vote!

238 posted on 09/23/2004 7:59:39 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (~Poetry is my forte.~)
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To: Bethbg79; Spotsy

At least, I would make the subject matter "interesting"!


239 posted on 09/23/2004 8:03:00 AM PDT by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
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To: tomkow6

THAT you would Bro! LOL


240 posted on 09/23/2004 8:05:11 AM PDT by Bethbg79 (God bless our Troops and their families!)
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