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Posted on 10/19/2005 12:02:11 AM PDT by Mama_Bear
Good morning! What a great thread! Lets move to Alaska.
Oh, my ..early morning blurry screen.
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| October 20, 2005
Living Royally
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There is an ancient story about a man named Astyages who determined to do away with a royal infant named Cyrus. He summoned an officer of his court and told him to kill the baby prince. The officer in turn delivered the youngster to a herdsman with instructions that he should take him high up into the mountains where the baby would die from exposure.
The herdsman and his wife, however, took the child and raised him as their own. Growing up in the home of those humble peasants, he naturally thought they were his real parents. He was ignorant of his royal birth and his kingly lineage. Because he thought he was a peasant, he lived like one.
Many Christians fail to realize the royal heritage that is theirs in Christ. They live as spiritual peasants when they should be living royally. According to the apostle Paul, believers "are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:26). He also said, "Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, 'Abba, Father!' Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ" (4:6-7).
God has given us everything we need to live victorious, fulfilling lives. Let's not live like peasants. —Richard De Haan
A child of the King should reflect his Father's character.
STRYKER BRIGADE: Alaska-based soldier is killed on patrol in Iraq.
A Fairbanks-based soldier was killed Tuesday in Iraq -- the first member of the 172nd Stryker Brigade to die in combat since the 3,800-person unit left Alaska this fall.
The Stryker brigade started shipping out for the desert from posts in Anchorage and Fairbanks in August. The unit arrived in Iraq in early September, replacing a Washington-based Stryker brigade that had lost more than 30 people during its yearlong tour there. Kelly moved back with her family in Tonganoxie after her husband was deployed.
The Strykers are eight-wheeled, armored combat vehicles new to the military and are used to transport troops on the battlefield.
Several of the soldiers in the Alaska Stryker unit have been wounded in the last two months, some seriously. The sniper attack that killed Frantz occurred Tuesday around 11:40 a.m. Iraq time, according to a statement Wednesday from Army Alaska spokesman Maj. Kirk Gohlke.
Gohlke said Frantz's platoon was conducting a cordon and search operation in an area of Mosul known as "Bedrock." Frantz was mounted in his Stryker vehicle, protecting the dismounted members of his platoon, when he was shot. His wife said she was told he died instantly.
No other American soldiers were wounded.
http://www.adn.com/news/military/story/7109166p-7016259c.html
RIP Spc. L Frantz and my God give peace to his widow Kelly and others in the Fratz family. Any loss is sad and it seems more real when it is in our backyard.
love the eagle pix.. wonderful. I life contiguous to a national park & we have many "wild things" around. An occasional eagle.. but it is rare.
Great link on languages in alaska etc...HERE...(btw reading french does seem helpful here. But without it you can glean quite a bit of interesting info)
doggone you mama.. I am just surfing Alaska, not using this great free day to clean house & do my IMP STUFF. Not my fault, lack of discipline. Your fault Sistah!
:-)
"To: Texas Termite; LUV W; All
Nana, I think I did not have your name in the To box on my Reply # 194. Meant to do so!
Yes, LUV W, I have been richly blessed, an Appreciator of God's Creations and Love.
Need to go to bed here on the East Coast - good night all. God give you rest."
198 posted on 10/20/2005 12:23:11 AM EDT by LadyX ((( He Is The Lord, above all things )))
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Now look at Exhibit B, excerpted from my Sistah Nan's reply - # 199 posted on 10/20/2005 12:25:40 AM EDT by WVNan." [2 1/2 minutes later]
that I present as my circumstantial evidence...not that I would accuse my sistah of deliberately sitting there poised with her reply to hit POST as soon as I signed off!
Look at this remark to Mama_Bear in it - -
"That is the nice thing about the "state" threads. They bring new people to the Finest. Of course, Sistah's stories always spice things up. She tends to embellish her tales you know. Mama always said she had a flair for the dramatic."
EMBELLISH?? Moi?!!
Fact is Mama always said Nan was the "clever" one.
[She loved Nan best you know, overlooking all her..well..idiosyncrasies, shall we say?]
sniff..sniff..I shall, however, resist the urge to hit the Report Abuse Button, remembering she WAS nice..sometimes..like here in this graphic deadhead made for us --
Okay - recovered now, and thinking of two years ago when we last got together...my alter ego, Maggie Malone recorded the event, posted on The Finest afterward:
- HERE - with lots of photographs throughout the thread.
(she's the best Sistah in the whole wide world,actually--)
"Here are a couple of the gals in their early 20's as Florida Beach Babes. On the left is Nan, at the beach in Miami. At right, Maggie on Indialantic Beach."
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One of the men in my husband's outfit on a winter day decided to go into Fairbanks, 30 miles north of the base.
It then was a state law (and probably still is) that you cannot pass by a person on foot on a highway, but *must* stop and offer assistance.
Needless to say, if they are stranded, it takes only a matter of minutes to freeze to death in the extreme temperatures there, and important to help any time of the year.
Cruising along, dark, of course, most of the winter, his headlights picked up a man with a parka on the right side of the road ahead.
Braking to a stop beside him, he leaned over and flung open the passenger door to tell him to get in - - and even faster, slammed it closed and sped away!!
The man with a parka was - a brown bear..:))
Well, actually I think YOU are the treasure..!!!
Love, the "babe" pix of Maggie & Nan & of course the reunion trip thread! Great read about Great FRiends & Sistahs
Need to see what I can do about putting out a few major fires here on the homefront.. will try to stop by tonight.
you hold down the fort until our wonderful hostess arrives?
Thanks for letting me know about this. It is very well done, except one thing...
Benny Benson was born October 12, 1913 in *Chignik* Alaska, not *Cognac*. Was somebody drinking?
Just kidding!
Oh, goody!
I take that as a license
- to steal any graphics posted that I covet
say things about Sistah Nan, since she will not be here until tonight
- post helpful things like the time and current temperature in Fairanks this rather balmy October day there:
Am multitasking with "household musts,* but will stop to monitor until at the least 3 p.m....sure to be here this evening.
It was common to see women shoppers in any store dressed in outdoor garb, boots, etc. and a fur coat or parka, with a necklace strung with gold nuggets!
A man one day went to purchase a new car, and used gold nuggets to pay for it.
One bizarre story, though, was a time when my husband and friends went down by Tok, Alaska to hunt moose and caribou.
They were way out in the boonies, when along came a truck with a man and woman dressed to the hilt in evening finery and fur coats.
Talking with them, they'd been to Fairbanks for dinner and the opera, and were headed "home" - their mine much farther out!
To get there, they hopped aboard a huge bulldozer, still dressed to the nines, and headed out - - !!
Good morning, Lady.
Love your Alaska stories. I'm happy to hear the man in the brown parka didn't accept the offered ride. :)
How are you this beautiful morning?
LOL. Just wanted to see if you were paying attention. ;-)
Hey, I copy it as I find it. LOL. (50 States.com - Alaska Facts and Trivia #25)
Seriously, thanks for finding this error. I put too much work into these states to have mistakes in them. It has been corrected. :-)
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