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These are just a few organizations that can provide assistance for supporting our Troops. There are plenty more out there.

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Operation Iraqi Children
Help an Active Duty FReeper provide for small orphaned children in Iraq. For more information please FReepmail Kathy In Alaska,
Brad's Gramma, or MoJo2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are just a few organizations that can provide assistance for supporting our Troops. There are plenty more out there.

CANTEEN MILITARY REQUESTS

The FR Canteen and ProudPatriots.com officially have 9 Marine Units, 2 Field Hospitals, and various individual military personnel that would like to receive something from home. If you are interested, please send a FReepmail to Kathy In Alaska, Brad's Gramma, or MoJo2001.

Operation Iraqi Children
Help an Active Duty FReeper provide for small orphaned children in Iraq. For more information please FReepmail Kathy In Alaska,
Brad's Gramma, or MoJo2001.

 

 

 

 

 

[HopeandGlory]

Good morning Troops, Veterans and Canteeners . . . Love that George . . . gloat, gloat.

I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands;
one nation UNDER GOD,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

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[SouthernHawk]

Long overdue ((HUGS))) for a good friend and Greetings to everyone!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi Ms. Feather, thanks for today's thread.

My prayer for themeless Thursday is for our Soldiers
to receive our prayers of thankfulness for their
service and sacrifice. Thank you, and God Bless our
Troops!

[fritzz]

Another terrific job ms. feather.

[Lady Jag]

Thanks for the thread. I loved Imogene Coca.

[LakeLady]

May I please send Happy Birthday wishes to my daddy who was born on the same day and year as our beloved Mickey!

God bless our troops this day, as every day. Keep them safe to return soon to their loved ones.

LakeLady

[tomkow6]

 

SALUTE!

 

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Ms Feather! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOOD  

MORNING

TROOPS!

[tomkow6]

 

Today's FEEBLE

YOKE :

CONCERNED ABOUT TOO MANY CARBS IN YOUR DIET?

For those of you who watch what you eat, here's the final word on nutrition and health.

It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical studies.

       1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

       2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

       3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

    4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

       5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

CONCLUSION:

      Eat and drink what you like.

     

      Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

[tomkow6]

 

Chicagoland Weather

November 18, 2004
Chicago, IL
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[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on November 18
1527 Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor
1786 Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, German composer (Der Freischutz)
1787 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist
1789 Louis Daguerre (theater scene painter, physicist, inventor: daguerreotype photographic process)
1824 Franz Sigel, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1836 Cesare Lombroso (professor of psychiatry: founder: criminology: identifying criminals by personality types)
1836 Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (comic opera libretto writer: team: Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance)
1860 Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland (1919-20)
1874 Clarence Shepard Day, NYC, author (Life with Father)
1882 Jacques Maritain, France, Catholic philosopher (exponent of St Thomas)
1899 Eugene Ormandy, [Blau], Budapest Hungary, conductor (Phila Orch)
1901 Craig Wood (golf champion: PGA Hall of Famer: Masters [1941], U.S. Open [1941])
1901 George Gallup (pollster whose opinion polls became famous by predicting FDR's win in 1935)
1908 Imogene Coca (Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Your Show of Shows [1951]
1909 Johnny Mercer (Academy Award-winning composer, lyricist
1916 Amelita Galli-Curci (singer: opera soprano)

1923 Alan B Shepard Jr, East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3, Ap 14) first American in space)

1925 Gene Mauch (baseball manager: Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Angels)
1926 Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler) (singer: My Boy Flattop, Your Hit Parade, sang with Benny Goodman band; actress: Follies)
1926 Roy Sievers (baseball: St. Louis Cardinals outfielder: Rookie of the Year [1949])
1936 Hank Ballard (singer, songwriter: group: The Midniters: The Twist, Finger Poppin' Time, Let's Go, Let's Go
1939 Brenda Vaccaro (Emmy Award-winning actress
1939 Margaret Atwood (author: Cat's Eye, Dancing Girls & Other Stories)
1941 Gary Bettenhausen (auto racer: fastest Indy 500 qualifying time ever: 224.468 mph [1991])
1942 Jeffrey Siegel, Chicago Ill, pianist (Chicago Symph)
1942 Linda Evans (Evanstad) (actress: Dynasty, The Big Valley, Standing Tall, Hunter, North and South, Book II)
1948 Jack Tatum (football: Oakland Raiders safety: longest fumble return in history: 104 yards [1972 against the Green Bay Packers]; Super Bowl XI)
1950 Jameson Parker (actor: Simon & Simon, Prince of Darkness, A Small Circle of Friends, American Justice, Anatomy of a Seduction)
1953 Kevin Nealon (actor: Saturday Night Live, All I Want for Christmas, Roxanne)
1956 Warren Moon (football: Minnesota Vikings, Houston Oilers quarterback)
1968 Gary Sheffield (baseball)

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Deaths which occurred on November 17:

1678 Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
1841 Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77
1883 Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
1886 Chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85), dies in NY at 56
1911 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies
1922 Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
1962 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77
1965 Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77
1966 Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies
1969 Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Mass, at 81
1978 Rev. Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide
1978 Leo J Ryan, (Rep-Cal) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of People's Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members
1992 Dorothy Kirsten, US soprano, dies from stroke at 82
1994 Cab[ell] Calloway, US band leader/singer/actor (Minnie the Moocher, Blues Brothers), dies at 86

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 ARNOLD WILLIAM T.---WEST ALLIS WI.
[ACFT DOWNED AT SEA]
1967 BURDETT EDWARD B.---MACON GA.
[03/74 DRV RETURNED REMAINS DIC 11/18/67]
1967 DARDEAU OSCAR M---VILLE PLATTE LA.
[REMAINS RETURNED 11/25/87]
1967 HAUER LESLIE J.---DETROIT MI.
[06/77 REMAINS RETURNED]
1967 LEHNHOFF EDWARD W.---FORT SCOTT KS.
[REMAINS RETURNED 11/25/87]

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

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On this day...
1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1421 Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing 10,000 in Netherlands
1477 "The Sayings of the Philosophers" ("Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers") was published. It is the earliest known book printed in England to carry a date.
1497 Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope
1626 St Peter's Basilica opens in Rome
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Carlisle
1776 Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
1787 1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
1804 Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape

1805 Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent

1820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
1852 State funeral of Duke of Wellington (London)
1860 Georgia legislature votes $1,000,000 to arm the state
1861 Fifth session of the Provisional Confederate Congress meets in Richmond, Virginia
1865 Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
1883 Antonin Dvorak's "Husite Overture," premieres
1883 Standard time zones form by railroads in US & Canada set up four zones -- Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. [H]
1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
1902 Bkln toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt
1905 George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara," premieres in London
1906 Anarchists bomb St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
1909 US invades Nicaragua again, later overthrows Pres Zelaya
1916 Gen Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe
1928 Mickey Mouse made his screen debut in the landmark "Steamboat Willie" at the Colony Theater in New York City. The Walt Disney cartoon was the first with synchronized sound.
1929 Dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope"
1929 Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
1929 Stalin routes troops to Manchuria
1930 Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope/Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
1936 Germany & Italy recognize Spanish government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco (Note: Francisco Franco still dead)
1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1939 The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Picadilly Circus
1939 Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
1941 British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa
1941 Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia
1942 Thornton Wilder's "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in NYC
1943 444 British bombers attack Berlin
1943 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1950 South Korea Pres Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions
1951 "See it Now" premieres on TV
1951 British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt
1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1958 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
1961 JFK sends 18,000 military "advisors" to South Vietnam
1963 Push-button telephones made their debut. Touch-tone service was available as an option for an extra charge.
1964 J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"

1966 US RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays

1970 Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
1973 Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
1975 Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1978 914 people died in a mass suicide-murder led by the Rev. Jim Jones at the People's Temple commune in
Guyana, following the murder of Rep. Leo Ryan, R-Calif. It was the largest mass suicide in modern history. [H]
1979 Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador/embassy espionage
1980 "Heaven's Gate" premieres (and closes)
1987 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station
1989 Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
1990 Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
1991 Moslem Shiites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
1992 "Malcolm X" with Denzel Washington premieres in US
1992 It was Doomsday for Superman as the comic book detailing the superhero's death -- rumored to be temporary only hit newsstands.
1993 NAFTA passes House
1993 South Africa's ruling National Party and leaders of 20 other parties representing blacks and whites approved a new national constitution that provides fundamental rights to blacks.
1994 Palestinian police opened fire on Islamic militants outside a mosque in the Gaza Strip, sparking riots that killed at least 14 people and injured 200.
1994 "Star Trek VII - Generations," premieres
1997 FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
1997 Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
1997 Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women," sold for $4,182,500
2002 International schools in Jakarta were closed following warnings from the United States and Australia they could be the target of terrorist attacks.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

US : Children's Book Week (Day 2)
US : Community Education Day
US : Culinary Week (Day 3)
Albania Independence Day [1912]
Haiti Army Day (1803)
Latavia Independence Day.
Morocco Independence Day (thru 11-19)

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Religious Observances
RC : Mem of Dedication of Basilicas of Peter & Paul, Rome (opt)
Ang : Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby

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Religious History
1095 Pope Urban II opened the Council of Clermont. Summoned to plan the First Crusade, it was attended by over 200 bishops. Among its official policies, the Council decreed that a pilgrimage to Jerusalem made every other penance superfluous.
1302 Pope Boniface VIII published the bull "Unam Sanctam." It was the first papal writing to decree that spiritual power took precedent over temporal power, and that subjection to the pope was necessary to salvation.
1626 In Rome, the newly completed St Peter's Basilica was consecrated by Urban VIII. St. Peter's is presently the largest church in Christendom, with a length of 619 feet.
1866 English devotional writer Katherine Hankey, 32, penned the verses that we sing today as the hymn, "I Love to Tell the Story."
1966 This was the last required meatless Friday for American Roman Catholics, in accordance with a decree made by Pope Paul VI earlier this year.

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

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Thought for the day :
"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead."

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Excuses for Being Late for Work...
"Actually, I've been here for over 20 minutes, big guy -- I was just out chillin' in the van waiting for the end of the live version of 'Freebird'."

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Things I learned from children...
Super glue is forever.

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Dictionary of the Absurd...
equinox
A cross between a ox and a horse

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The Top 5 Things We Would
Have Seen Under a Kerry Administration
5. Everywhere you look: bidets!

[darkwing104]

Good Morning Canteen FReepers. Looks like the Firewall was sent packing I am back on normal shift. Only 112 days left on Active Duty!!!

[MoJo2001]

Good afternoon Troops and Canteen!
MoJo is checking in to see how everyone is doing!

It looks like Queenie's got everything under control. WooHoo! Fabulous thread!


The FR Canteen and Proud Patriots "Operation Season's Greetings" has been a smashing success. I hope to have partial totals tonight of the donations counted. We were very Blessed to have donations from 34 States and 5 countries. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!

The Sailor and the rest of his command are busy trying to get the totals done. The second shipment left via transport this morning.

Just to give folks a heads up: We received a lot of books and they were really weighing down the boxes. Since everyone at the command felt comfortable our Troops had plenty of reading material, the rest of the books will be sent to the VA Hospital in Hampton. We hope no one will be offended by this, but we are allotted so much weight per boxes and after filling 35 boxes with books and magazines...it was a bit much.

So? For our Troops in Iraq, Africa, Afghanistan, Japan, South Korea, Bosnia, Germany, and Italy, boxes are on the way.

Thank you to all the Canteeners and FReepers who really made an impact this holiday season for our Troops. May God Bless You Abundantly!

*HUGS*

By the way, I spoke with Ma earlier. It seems they allowed her into Seattle without verification of whether she's ever eaten any Moose or whether or not she's really Canadian. Hehe!

Anyways, she's supposed to call me when she's in Los Angeles. Not sure when that will be.
 

[minor49er]

Good Afternoon troops!! Good Afternoon everyone! Just got home from a half day at school. You know, that's been bugging me all day. Why do they insist on calling it a half day, if it's not half of a day? Our normal day is from about 7:30 to 2:00 (it's really 7:25 to 2:05, but the other numbers are easier to work with). That's 6 and a half hours. So half of that would be 3 and a quarter hours, right? But on what they call half days, we get out at 12:30. That's 5 hours of school. Not 3 and a quarter like it should be. So, they should either change the name to something like "earlier dismissal" (not early dismissal, because it's 5 hours of school which is not early), or they should just let us get out at 10:45. Can you guess which one I would rather have happen? Anyway, here is today's humor attempt!

Kids can sometimes ask the toughest questions.

Son: Father, Can I ask you a question?

Father: Ok ask.

Son: When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor.

Father: !!!??????!!!

[StarCMC]

For an incredibly childish and immature giggle, click here!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

041110-M-7403H-048 Fallujah, Iraq (Nov. 10, 2004) – A precision air strike takes out an identified insurgent stronghold as 3rd Battalion 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division moves forward through the city of Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Al Fajr (New Dawn). 1st Marine Division conducts Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Thomas D. Hudzinski (RELEASED)

041116-N-6536T-188 Pacific Ocean (Nov. 16, 2004) – USS Nimitz (CVN 68), and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) navigate alongside each other during routine training exercises off the southern California coast. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Elizabeth Thompson (RELEASED)

041117-N-4374S-015 Arabian Gulf (Nov. 17, 2004) - Aviation Ordnancemen move a skid of AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range, Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) across the flight deck of the conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67). The AMRAAM is an all weather, beyond-visual-range weapon. The Kennedy Strike Group and aircraft from Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17) are executing missions in support of ground troops in Fallujah Iraqi, under Operation Al Fajr (New Dawn). Units in the strike group are working closely with Multi-National Corps-Iraq and Iraqi forces to bring stability to the sovereign government of Iraq. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Michael Sandberg (RELEASED)

041115-N-5345W-154 Arabian Sea (Nov. 15, 2004) - The superstructure aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is reduced to a silhouette during a sunset in the Arabian Sea. Truman and embarked Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) are currently on a scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Kristopher Wilson (RELEASED)