FReeper Canteen ~ FReeper Canteen Kids Wednesday ~ Proud To Be A Military Brat! ~ 15FEB06

Hi! I'm The Sailor and MoJo's youngest son. My nickname at home is *Tibby*. You've probably seen my older brother, hotstreak, before. I'm 6 years old and currently in First Grade.

See the big guy pictured above? Do you know him who he is? If you like the NBA, you'll know it's Shaquille O'Neal.

He, hotstreak, and myself are part of a special community. We're proudly known as *military brats*. His father was in the Army while our Dad is in the Navy.

Military brat is an informal term for a child who has one or more parents who serves or served full-time in the military. It implies that such an upbringing is different in important ways from that experienced by those in the community at large, and can be an insult or a compliment, depending on the context. Although brat is usually taken to mean a spoiled child, military brats are usually considered more disciplined than their stateside peers.

Click here for a neat story about him and one of our heroes.

Other famous *Military Brats*

Johnny Damon
Kathy Lee Gifford
Mia Hamm
Crystal Kay
Kris Kristofferson
Martin Lawrence
Shawn Michaels
Jim Morrison
Nelly
Priscilla Presley
Jeri Ryan
Blair Underwood
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
Lionel Richie
Victoria Principal
Mary-Louise Parker
Mitch Pleggi
Hunter "Patch" Adams
Christina Aguilara
Jessica Alba
Leslie M. Alexander
Michael J. Alexander
Ray Allen
America
Michael Anderson
Rick Atkinson B Barbara Babcock
Alonzo Babers
Kendall Baker
Bob Barr
Sarah Bird
John Blaha
Susan Blakely
Neal Boortz
Deborah Bryant
LeVar Burton C Julia Campbell
James Carroll
John Casper
Eddie Cheever
James Clapper
Glenn Close
Henri Cole
Pat Conroy
Donald G. Cook
Deedee Corrandini
Vivian Crea
Robert Davenport
Diane Mott Davidson
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
John Denver
Faye Dunaway
Ann Dunwoody
Robert Duval
Michael J. Fox
*Some of these folks were schooled overseas with military brats or themselves military brats.

*More info here.

Are you a military brat?
Where have you lived?
Did you go to school overseas?
Do you still keep in touch with those friends?

Thank you to all of our Troops, Veterans, and family members.
Thank you to our fellow military brats! We're everywhere!!

261 posted on 02/15/2006 4:01:46 AM PST by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Morning, Ma!

NOW GET TO BED!

262 posted on 02/15/2006 4:01:51 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)

263 posted on 02/15/2006 4:02:15 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)

Morning, TX!

Morning, Sxy!

264 posted on 02/15/2006 4:03:26 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)

Good Morning Tomkow :)

265 posted on 02/15/2006 4:03:49 AM PST by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, Past, Present and Future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

266 posted on 02/15/2006 4:04:01 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)

No, but you know, you NEED your beauty sleep.....

267 posted on 02/15/2006 4:05:24 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)

268 posted on 02/15/2006 4:06:23 AM PST by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

Many a colony of drug-crazed lint balls take up residence in you footlocker....

269 posted on 02/15/2006 4:07:43 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)

I do?? Who says so beside one of those many minds of yours??

270 posted on 02/15/2006 4:08:16 AM PST by Soaring Feather (~www.proudpatriots.org~Supporting Our TROOPS~)

LOL! their cousins...the pot smoking shirt strings have invaded my class a uniform.

271 posted on 02/15/2006 4:08:39 AM PST by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

272 posted on 02/15/2006 4:08:50 AM PST by Soaring Feather (~www.proudpatriots.org~Supporting Our TROOPS~)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Yep I'm up! At least it's later than yesterday at 3:30 am feeling as though I was being drowned by my sinus'.

273 posted on 02/15/2006 4:09:09 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

274 posted on 02/15/2006 4:10:40 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)

To: tomkow6; bentfeather; All

Good morning, Tomkow6. How's it going?

I did BTW, go back to Windows Update to see if the update was still on the needed list. I downloaded it from the alternate method.

It's not listed so it looks like WU did recgonize the update even though it did have a record of the failed downloads.

BTW, folks today is Norton Update Day so be sure to update your anti-virus software.

275 posted on 02/15/2006 4:10:51 AM PST by E.G.C.

Morning Ms. Feather!

276 posted on 02/15/2006 4:11:05 AM PST by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

It's rare indeed when I can say good morning to you. My timing problem not yours. Morning

277 posted on 02/15/2006 4:24:18 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

"I do?? Who says so beside one of those many minds of yours??"

My, my, my! Sounds to us like SOMEBODY got up on the wrong side of the perch today....

278 posted on 02/15/2006 4:30:08 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)

Good Morning troops! Good Morning everyone! My dad was in the Navy, but I'm not an actual military brat because he got out a little over a year before I was born. Anyway, I'm actually going to work with my dad today instead of school because of the major nosebleed I had last night (The doc put me on nasal spray a couple weeks ago for my sinuses which is probably the reason). But you're not supposed to take anti-inflammatory medicines (which includes over the counter stuff like Tylenol, Advil, Motrin, and Aleve) which are the very same medicines I take to keep migraines away. And as my dad so very eloquently put it, "There's no point in sending her to school if she can't make it through the day." (so that really wasn't very eloquent, but I couldn't think of another word). Anyway, here is today's humor attempt.

An Army brat was boasting about his father to a Navy brat.

"My dad is an engineer. He can do everything. Do you know the Alps?"

"Yes," said the Navy brat.

"My dad has built them."

Then the naval kid spoke: "And do you know the Dead Sea?"

"Yes."

"It's my dad who's killed it!"

279 posted on 02/15/2006 4:32:31 AM PST by minor49er ("I am not worried about the defecit. It is big enough to care for itself." -- Ronald Reagan)

280 posted on 02/15/2006 4:35:32 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)

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