A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....10-18-04....Military Monday

Billie, The Mayor

[The Mayor]

A Few of FR's Finest
....Every Day

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A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001

So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I could no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I had been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.

Still that didn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why we've created a place for just that. This is a friendly room in JimRob's house where FReeper FRiends can gather every day and just say hello if that's all they want to do.

There's more of course. We sometimes feature different FReepers, with a little background information on who they are and what makes them who they are, along with a few photos you might not have seen on other threads; sometimes others write an essay for us to post as the feature for the day; sometimes our presentation is a human interest story found elsewhere that you might not have read; sometimes special holiday threads; but whatever the topic of the day, it is always with FR's Finest in mind and that is YOU!

If you would like to be featured, or would like to see someone else featured, please send me a private FR mail.

Every Monday we will post the photos of FR's Military Personnel that I have collected and put into groups; these will be available to view through a link the remainder of the week - every day just a click away. :)   If you would like to add a photo of yourself or a loved one in the military, past or present, please let me know; I will hold it until I have enough for a new group.

Thank you, and please have fun with us...every day! ~ Billie

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Thank You For Serving Our Country!

TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete
MIDDLE:  T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
BOTTOM:  YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1

TOP:  Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet
MIDDLE:  4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga
BOTTOM:  Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc

TOP:  mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette
MIDDLE:  Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid
BOTTOM:  gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf

TOP:  porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP
MIDDLE:  RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian
BOTTOM:  USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma

TOP:  g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett.
MIDDLE:  fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick,Leroy S Mort, Mark17.
BOTTOM:  Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau.

TOP:  ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam,
dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony
BOTTOM:  rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang

TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx
MIDDLE:  The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law
BOTTOM:  deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.

TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68.
MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797
BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack

TOP:  Q6-God, Scan59, Mama Bear and JKPhoto's son, ofMagog.
MIDDLE:  Big'ol_freeper, JustAmy's great uncle, Prodigal Son.
BOTTOM:  JustAmy's husband, JustAmy's brother-in-law, JustAmy's brother.

TOP:  dakine's wife, MeeknMing's dad, Auntbee's nephew, MilitiaMan7, AlasBabylon.
BOTTOM:  Joe Brower, Temple Owl, Temple Owl's wife, dutchess' dad, Aomagrat.

TOP:  ladtx #2 son; DiverDave's twin Don; petuniasevan and husband
poorman; Mustard; ladtx #1 son;
BOTTOM:  AlamoGirl's brother Floyd; AG's dad; AG's brother Jim (inset);
WVNan's husband; ladtx' Aunt Eva.

TOP: Mo1's dad; BuffyT's Uncle (right, w/ her dad & grandmother); Armymarinemom's 3 sons.
MIDDLE: ru4Liberty's dad; SheLion's husband, MaineRebel; wirestripper.
BOTTOM: fivetoes; bigghurtt; hurricane; ladtx' dad; Pippin's brother.

TOP: Repubmommy's brother, Rose in RoseBear's uncle, BoxerBlues' son Chris, BoxerBlues' son Brent.
BOTTOM: Rose in RoseBear's cousin's hubby, Deadhead's stepdad, Dansy's dad, Misty's brother.




                     

T.G.I.F. WEEKEND THREAD 10/15-17 xx-xx,xx,xx-04 T.G.I.F. at the Finest

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[Texagirl4W]

Good afternoon, everyone. I'm going to vote before work tomorrow morning. Vacation was great, had a good time with my sisters, but I'm glad to be back. I'll never get caught up with messages so I'll not try. I'm just taking it from here. Hope everyone is fine.

[Aquamarine]

So glad to hear that you had a nice vacation with your sisters and are safely back home.
Voting tomorrow will make your day, I'm still smiling. :)

[Aquamarine]

Please remember to keep those who are protecting our freedom in your prayers.

God Bless Our Military ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Below are names of some of our FReepers' loved ones who are serving our country. If you have someone you would like to add, please address a post to Billie; Mama_Bear; Dutchess; Aquamarine and we will add their name to this list. As we pray for them, we pray also for all our nation's leaders, and military personnel, and their families and friends. May God hold them close to His heart.

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We ask Lord, that You guide the leaders of our great country in their hour of decision. The burden that has been placed on their shoulders is overwhelming. We ask that with Your infinite wisdom You guide them gently to the right decisions.

Please give us the strength, Lord, to get through each difficult and devastating day that faces each of us and our country. Protect and guide our Military that are now being called to duty, strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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OhioWfan........................son mystery-ak..........son, husband Gogrammy................grandson Inspectorette...................son Blessed American..........nephew Slip18..........................nephew anniegetyourgun...........nephew Doug from Upland......son-in-law weldgophardline.....brotherinlaw Future Snake Eater..........cousin WaterDragon..son-in-law,grandson BeforeISleep...................son The Mayor........................niece LadyX.........................grandson fawn796.....................nephew ValerieUSA................2 sons Warrior Nurse...........active duty SK1 Thurman...........active duty David Osborne.........active duty fc2tomschermuly......active duty bkwells..................activve duty LongCut..................active duty Trish.......................active duty StarCMC.........brother Atomic Conspiracy............half-brother....niece....nephew TexKat......son.....and stepson ODC-GIRL............active duty cookcounty................son Donaeus..............nephew thumperusn...........active duty katykelly..................son Notwithstanding.....active duty Lakeside................two sons Q6-God and twin brother...active duty cjk................active duty philman_36...........2 nephews Veloxherc.................active duty WVNan................friend's son mrstank...............husband Conspiracy Guy........two nephews eaglesiniowa...............son Don Simmons............active duty Leofl.........son

Pippin.......niece, loved one, .............nephew and fiancee Maigrey................cousin ladtx....................2 sons Mama_Bear...........2 nephews gator girl............husband severa................husband, brother Hostel....................cousin MozartLover......son, nephew LBGA........................son SpookBrat........nephew and cousin Himyar.....................son boxerblues............2 sons the piper...................son sheeza...............husband kemathen7...........husband Tiffee4Bob.......boyfriend Diver Dave.......niece, nephew deadhead................cousin JimRobinson.....2 nephews Armymarinemom.....3 sons Consort..2 daughters,son-in-law Darheel..................niece dixie sass.............nephew BeAllYouCanBe.........son AgThorn...............2 sons homeschoolmama.......nephew kneezles.................son kimmie7..............brother Spruce..............daughter visualops.................cousin Dubya...................nephew SunflowerGal..........grandson AF_Blue.............active duty RoseBear...........cousin's husband Redhead....step granddaughter and her fiance RepubMommy.................brother Alouette..................son american_ranger..............son auboy..................cousin spotbus1..................husband jamaly............brother in law

[Billie]

Good evening, ALL! God Bless our Military every day, and God Bless our Leaders! Prayers for each one of them for strength, resolve, and safety.

mrs tank, early voting started today in Texas, and I also voted this afternoon - FOUR MORE YEARS FOR THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET!

[Billie]

Below are names of some of our FReepers' loved ones who are serving our country. If you have someone you would like to add, please address a post to Billie; Mama_Bear; Dutchess; Aquamarine, and we will add their name to this list. As we pray for them, we pray also for all our nation’s leaders, and military personnel, and their families and friends. May God hold them close to His heart.

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OhioWfan........................son mystery-ak..........son, husband Gogrammy................grandson Inspectorette...................son Blessed American..........nephew Slip18..........................nephew anniegetyourgun...........nephew Diver Dave.......niece, nephew ConspiracyGuy........2 nephews Pippin..........niece, loved one Pippin...nephew & his fiancee weldgophardline.....brotherinlaw jamaly.................brotherinlaw Future Snake Eater..........cousin WaterDragon.............grandson WaterDragon...........son-in-law BeforeISleep...................son kimmie7......................brother Armymarinemom............3 sons american_ranger.............son LadyX.........................grandson fawn796.......................nephew Dubya............................nephew StarCMC......................brother ValerieUSA..................2 sons Lakeside......................2 sons Spruce.....................daughter Philman_36..............2 nephews Rose inRoseBear...cousin's hubby Warrior Nurse...........active duty SK1 Thurman...........active duty David Osborne.........active duty fc2tomschermuly......active duty bkwells..................active duty LongCut..................active duty cjk............................active duty Trish.......................active duty ODC-GIRL.................active duty AF_Blue..................active duty Notwithstanding.....active duty thumperusn.............active duty Q6-God.....................active duty Q6-God...................twin brother Veloxherc.................active duty Don Simmons...............active duty

Maigrey................cousin WVNan..............friend's son ladtx....................2 sons Mama_Bear.........2 nephews gator girl............husband severa.......husband, brother Hostel..................cousin MozartLover......son, nephew LBGA........................son katykelly.................son cookcounty..............son SpookBrat...nephew, cousin Doug from Upland...son-in-law Himyar.....................son boxerblues............2 sons the piper...................son sheeza...............husband kemathen7...........husband Tiffee4Bob.......boyfriend deadhead................cousin JimRobinson.....2 nephews TexKat..............son, step-son Consort..2 daughters,son-in-law Darheel.....................niece Donaeus...................nephew dixie sass...............nephew BeAllYouCanBe............son Repubmommy...............brother AgThorn...................2 sons homeschoolmama.......nephew kneezles......................son Redhead....step-granddaughter Redhead..step-grdaughter fiance Atomic Conspiracy..half-brother Atomic Conspiracy...nephew Atomic Conspiracy...niece Sunflowergal.........grandson visualops.................cousin Alouette.......................son mrstank.......................husband MrsMike31..................husband eaglesiniowa.................son auboy.........................cousin spotbust1....................husband Leofl................................son

[Billie]

Well, nothing like having double prayers for our military today. :) Hi, Sistah - didn't read the thread before posting my prayer list. :)

[Aquamarine]

I meant to write you and tell you that I had posted it. Knew you were busy with tomorrows Post. :)

[T'wit]

Why, thank you! Looks fade, but as long as I can keep lobbing my own brand of sass at the enemy, I'm happy :-)

[Dubya]

'I'm not ready to get out yet'

By Estes Thompson
The Associated Press
George Perez still feels the sweat between his toes when he exercises. He's still plagued with nagging cramps in his calf muscle. And sometimes, when he gets out of bed at night without thinking, he topples over.
Perez, 21, lost his leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq more than a year ago, but despite the phantom pains that haunt him, he says he is determined to prove to the Army that he is no less a man -- and no less a soldier.
"I'm not ready to get out yet," he said. "I'm not going to let this little injury stop me from what I want to do."
Perez is one of at least four amputees from the elite 82nd Airborne Division to re-enlist. With a new black carbon-fiber prosthetic leg, Perez intends to show a medical board that he can run an eight-minute mile, jump out of airplanes and pass all the other paratrooper tests that will allow him to accompany the rest of his regiment to Afghanistan next year.
On Sept. 14, 2003, Perez, of Carteret, N.J., and seven other members of his squad were rumbling down a road outside Fallujah when a bomb blast rocked their Humvee. Perez recalls flying through the air and hitting the ground hard.
The blast killed one of Perez's comrades. Perez felt surprisingly little pain, but he couldn't get up. He saw that his left foot was folded backward onto his knee. His size 12 1/2 combat boot stood in the dusty road a few feet away, still laced.
A photograph of Perez's lonely boot transmitted around the world and spread across two pages of Time magazine became a stark reminder that the war in Iraq was far from over.
Doctors initially tried to save part of Perez's foot. But an infection crept up his leg, and Perez agreed to amputation below the knee.
"I was going to stay in no matter what," he recalled telling the surgeons. "Do whatever would get me back fastest."
Perez was left with a rounded stump that fits into the suction cup of the prosthetic leg.
When he arrived at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., for his rehabilitation, Perez asked two generals who visited his bedside if he could stay in the Army.
"They told me, 'It's all up to you, how much you want it,' " he said. "If I could do everything like a regular soldier, I could stay in."
He wasted little time getting started. A visitor found him doing push-ups in bed. He trained himself to walk normally, then run, with his new leg.
Perez has to rise at least an hour earlier than his fellow soldiers to allow swelling from the previous day's training to subside enough for his stump to fit into the prosthetic.
But Perez takes comfort knowing he's not alone.
In the past two years, at least three other paratroopers in the 82nd have lost limbs in combat and re-enlisted. Staff Sgt. Daniel Metzdorf, for example, lost his right leg above the knee in a Jan. 27 blast. He appealed three times before the fitness board allowed him to stay on.
"I think it's a testimony to today's professional Army," said the division commander, Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell. "I also think, deep down, it is a love for their other paratroopers."
Today, Perez looks every bit the paratrooper -- tall, serious and in ripped-ab shape. His uniform is sharply creased, his maroon beret sits at an exact angle above one eye, and the black leather boot on his good leg gleams with a mirror shine. The only thing that sets him apart at a glance is the white running shoe on his prosthetic leg.

[Dubya]

Six area Iraq war veterans honored at veterans post

By Patrick Mcgee
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
ARLINGTON - Six combat veterans from the Iraq war -- three of them brothers from Centerville -- were honored at a local Veterans of Foreign Wars post Saturday night. Most of them served in the Second Battalion, 4th Marines, Echo Company, the U.S. military unit that has suffered the most deaths in Iraq.
"I remember my lost brothers," said Marcus Waechter, 22, a Marine and 2001 graduate of McKinney High School. "They died for a reason. They died for us to be able to live the good life."
Waechter sat at a table with Toby and Matt Winn, 22-year-old twin brothers from Centerville who enlisted in the Marines in 2001. Their older brother, Jayson Winn, 25, was with them shortly after they finished basic training. It was the 9-11 terrorist attacks that prompted him to enlist in the Army. He fought in a field artillery unit in Iraq last year before returning to civilian life. On Saturday night, he spoke to honor his brothers.
"What they have done is offer hope, freedom and the gift of choice to 25 million people," Jayson Winn said of his brothers and their fellow Marines. He spoke before an audience of about 50 relatives and friends who gave the young veterans a standing ovation.
About two dozen restaurants, food stores and other companies donated food for the celebration at VFW Post 6111 in south Arlington.
"It means a lot because I heard a lot of the people don't agree with what we're doing over there, and to see something like this means there are people who appreciate it," Waechter said. He said that half his squad was killed by insurgents.
Matt Winn said he and other Marines plan this month to visit the family of a Marine killed in Iraq. He doesn't know what he will say to them.
"I just want them to know that I have been thinking about them," he said.
The Marines said they were involved in more battles than they can count, but they didn't dramatize their experiences when talking about them.
Cory Maxwell, 21, of Arlington would not say what he thinks of the war -- other than to say he's considering volunteering to fight again.
"It's still going on. I still have time in the service. I want to be there," he said.
He and the other Marines said they appreciate their freedom and security more and have an experience that only other combat veterans can understand.
"My grandfather was in Vietnam. I talked to him for hours on end," said Marine Ben Musser, 21, of Missouri. "You don't have to deal with trying to kill people to stay alive on a regular basis. Well, we do."

[Dubya]

Car bombers kill 12 in Baghdad, Mosul
Fallujah talks remain suspended
By Robert H. Reid
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced plans Monday to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shiite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City to cities nationwide in an attempt to disarm the country.

The announcement came as fresh violence erupted in Baghdad and Mosul. Multiple car bombs over a two-day period claimed at least 12 lives, and a militant group, the Islamic Army in Iraq, claimed to have beheaded two Macedonian hostages.

U.S. forces also reported fresh attacks against alleged terrorist strongholds in Fallujah.

The government launched the cash-for-guns program in Sadr City as part of a deal to end weeks of fighting in the Shiite district of Baghdad and has twice extended the deadline for fighters to hand in their weapons.

On Monday, Allawi told the National Council, a government oversight body, that the program is going so well he wants to extend it to the rest of Iraq.

"The government is determined to disarm cities and neighborhoods because our forces are now ready to fight terrorists and there's no justification for people to keep weapons at home," Allawi said.

Iraqi officials hope that Sunni Muslim leaders in the insurgent-torn city of Fallujah can be persuaded to negotiate a similar weapons buyback deal.

But Fallujah, the focal point of the Sunni rebellion, presents a tougher challenge.

The U.S. military announced late Monday that it had destroyed several safehouses and weapons storage sites linked to terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The statement did not specify whether the attacks were airstrikes, although such attacks have been launched frequently against the insurgent stronghold in recent weeks.

Iraqi officials insist they are seeking a peaceful solution to the standoff in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad. But hopes that peace talks could resume there quickly were dashed when the city's chief negotiator, Sheik Khaled al-Jumeili, ruled out any quick resumption of talks despite his release Monday from U.S. custody.

"I'm negotiating on behalf of Fallujah people _ civilians, kids, women _ who have no power except by being represented by somebody," al-Jumeili told Al-Arabiya television. "Since the situation has gotten to this, each can go wherever they want and we don't need to talk about negotiations."

Al-Jumeili was detained Friday a day after talks broke down over the government's demand that the city hand over al-Zarqawi, who Fallujah's clerics claim isn't there.

Fallujah, considered a major militant stronghold, has been under a wave of aerial and ground attacks by U.S. forces in a bid to root out al-Zarqawi and his group, Tawhid and Jihad.

Tawhid and Jihad has claimed responsibility for numerous beheadings and suicide bombings, including two attacks on Baghdad's Green Zone last week that killed six, including four U.S. civilians.

During his appearance before the National Council, Allawi said his government was still extending an "olive branch" to Fallujah but added that "we shall not be lenient in regard to the question of maintaining security and granting security to every Iraqi."

If negotiations fail to restore government control to Fallujah, U.S. and Iraqi military leaders are expected to launch an all-out assault on the city. Fallujah fell under insurgent control after the Marines lifted their siege of the city in April.

British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon told the House of Commons that his government was considering a request by Washington to redeploy some British troops from southern Iraq to free American soldiers for "further operations elsewhere in Iraq."

In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded late Sunday near a police patrol in the Jadiriyah district, killing six people, including three police officers, and wounding 26 others. The blast hit a cafe near the Australian Embassy, although there were no Australian casualties.

In Mosul, a car bomb detonated Sunday morning on a bridge, killing five Iraqis and wounding 15 others, the U.S. military said Monday. Another car bomber Monday hit a civilian convoy, killing one and wounding four others.

[Dubya]

Battlefield remembrance

Some Marines pay their final respects at a memorial service for 1st Marine Division combat photographer Cpl. William Salazar, 26, of Las Vegas, Nev., at Camp Blue Diamond, on the outskirts of Ramadi, Iraq.

(The Associated Press / Jim MacMillan)

[The Mayor]

I enjoy posting Our Daily Bread and know many people that read them everyday, I have gotten many freep mails with testimony from people that a particular day hit close to home and really need the message that day...

It's to bad that Maine has gotten so liberal, it was more Conservative when I was younger..

[The Mayor]

Hi Pippin ! I Just got back home from workin..

[The Mayor]

Your Welcome!

[The Mayor]

Very Cool!!

[The Mayor]

Amen dansangel, Amen!

[The Mayor]

Your Welcome!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

041018-N-6213R-030 Pacific Ocean (Oct. 18, 2004) - A RIM-7 NATO Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile launches from aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) during a live fire missile exercise. The missile scored a direct hit on an A/B 37U Tactical Air Launched Decoy (TALD) launched from an S-3B Viking assigned to the "Blue Wolves" of Sea Control Squadron Three Five (VS-35). The Sea Sparrow is used aboard Naval ships as a surface-to-air anti-missile defense system. Stennis and embarked Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are on a scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Mark J. Rebilas (RELEASED)

041014-N-6213R-022 Western Pacific Ocean (Oct. 14, 2004) - An S-3B Viking assigned to the "Redtails" of Sea Control Squadron Two One (VS-21), creates a rooster tail of water as it lands on the wet flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) during an evening rain shower. Stennis and embarked Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are on a scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Mark J. Rebilas (RELEASED)

040927-N-0376G-001 Pacific Ocean (Sept. 27, 2004) - Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) members repel from an MH-60S Knighthawk assigned to the "Gunbearers" of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Eleven (HC-11), Detachment Nine, to the flight deck aboard the fast combat supply ship USS Camden (AOE-2) during fast-rope exercises. Camden was operating with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) during Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMTUEX). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Travis Gee (RELEASED)

[The Mayor]

I also voted this afternoon

Well so far I see Bush-3- Kerry-0-

Bigger landslide than I thought..LOL!