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FReeper Canteen ~ The Best City To Visit Is...? ~ 03 May 2006
Serving The Best Troops In The World | The Canteen Crew

Posted on 05/02/2006 5:14:07 PM PDT by MoJo2001


 

 

 

 

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

Modern Times:
The best city to visit is...?
 

 

Welcome to the FReeper Canteen! It's great to have you with all of us!!
Thank you to all of our Troops, Veterans, and their families for allowing us to entertain you!

 

 

 

 

 


Your Opinions Please

 
 

Main Topic:

The best city to visit is....?

 

Simple question, right?
 


 



Have at it folks!!
 

 



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To: GodBlessUSA

I'm doing good GB...wearing my kevlar lined ACU's this morning as always *wink*

Getting ready for the beginning of the busy season here with TOG.


401 posted on 05/03/2006 6:01:07 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: tomkow6

Mernin' Tom!
The Bulls lost last night. Boo Hoo!


402 posted on 05/03/2006 6:04:07 AM PDT by MeekMom (Praise Jesus! He has given ALL for us!!!)
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To: beachn4fun

Hey Beachie!!
(((Hugs to you)))!!!


403 posted on 05/03/2006 6:04:47 AM PDT by MeekMom (Praise Jesus! He has given ALL for us!!!)
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To: MeekMom

Yeah, I fear the next game will be the last for Da Bulls.


404 posted on 05/03/2006 6:06:09 AM PDT by tomkow6 (....PROUD to be a member of PROUDPATRIOTS!...www.ProudPatriots.org)
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To: GodBlessUSA

NO! I was not ready. I was working.(pouting)


405 posted on 05/03/2006 6:09:45 AM PDT by beachn4fun (I am not opposed to LEGAL immigration.)
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To: txradioguy; CMS; bcsco; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; bentfeather; ...
This Day In History.

May 3

1994 -- US space probe Clementine launched

1982 -- Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts

1982 -- NY Times reports that military will get 25% of

NASA's budget

1971 -- Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days

1967 -- Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U

1965 -- Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US

1952 -- 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole

1949 -- 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km

1944 -- Meat rationing ends in US

1943 -- US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia

1942 -- Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star

1942 -- Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands

1941 -- -4] German air raid on Liverpool

1938 -- Concentration camp at Flossenbrg goes into use

1933 -- 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office

1926 -- US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933

1923 -- 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed

1921 -- West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax

1919 -- America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)

1919 -- Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain

1898 -- Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see

1864 -- 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault

1863 -- Battle of Salem Church, VA

1863 -- Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)

1863 -- Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws

1861 -- Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen

1861 -- Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan

1851 -- Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die

1846 -- Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas

1845 -- 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)

1830 -- 1st regular steam train passenger service starts

1802 -- Washington DC incorporates as a city

1765 -- 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia

1494 -- Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"

1455 -- Jews flee Spain


406 posted on 05/03/2006 6:17:26 AM PDT by beachn4fun (I am not opposed to LEGAL immigration.)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Met a few fine Alaskans in Hawaii. Stayed with one from Hope. Guess the ties run deep.


407 posted on 05/03/2006 6:22:41 AM PDT by wizr (wiz - Sound on prairie, made by buffalo.)
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To: beachn4fun
Thank you for your historical perspective. Just a couple points:

1863 -- Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights): This was not the 'Battle of Fredricksburg' per se but a second front initiated by the Army of the Potomac in it's march to Chancellorsville.

1846 -- Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas: This was not the fall of the Alamo we all know from history. That occurred in March, 1836.

I don't know if these observations have already been noted. I have to run and don't have the time to read each post in this long thread. I do believe they are worth mentioning, however.

Again, thanks for the history reminder.
408 posted on 05/03/2006 6:27:34 AM PDT by bcsco ("He who is wedded to the spirit of the age is soon a widower" - Anonymous)
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To: All

For all of my fellow soldiers out there...read this and hang onto it in your brain. When you're feeling down or questioning what you're doing...remember this text below and drive on.

"Duty," "Honor," "Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you want to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean.

The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and, I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.

But these are some of the things they do. They build your basic character. They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense. They make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid.

They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for action; not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm, but to have compassion on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future, yet never neglect the past; to be serious, yet never take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness; the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.


409 posted on 05/03/2006 6:30:24 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: beachn4fun

410 posted on 05/03/2006 6:30:30 AM PDT by MEG33 ( GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: MEG33

411 posted on 05/03/2006 6:36:20 AM PDT by tomkow6 (....PROUD to be a member of PROUDPATRIOTS!...www.ProudPatriots.org)
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To: beachn4fun; GodBlessUSA; tomkow6; MEG33; All

412 posted on 05/03/2006 6:43:33 AM PDT by MozartLover ( My son, my soldier, my hero. Protect him, Lord, wherever he goes, and keep him strong.)
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To: MozartLover

Merning, ML! Find the cow box???


413 posted on 05/03/2006 6:47:33 AM PDT by tomkow6 (....PROUD to be a member of PROUDPATRIOTS!...www.ProudPatriots.org)
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To: tomkow6
Ann came to downtown St. John`s NFLD. carrying a jug of moonshine in one hand and a shotgun in the other.
She stopped Brian (from Toronto) on Duckworth Street and said, "Here, Friend, take a drink outta my jug."
Brian protested, explaining that he never drank.

This Newfie leveled her shotgun at the stranger and commanded "Drink!"
Brian drank, shuddered, shook, shivered and coughed. "Gee! That’s awful stuff you’ve got there."
"Ain’t it, though?" replied Ann. "Now, you hold the gun on me while I take a swig."

414 posted on 05/03/2006 6:47:34 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom)
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To: Lady Jag

Mernin, LJ!


415 posted on 05/03/2006 6:48:18 AM PDT by tomkow6 (....PROUD to be a member of PROUDPATRIOTS!...www.ProudPatriots.org)
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To: tomkow6

416 posted on 05/03/2006 6:49:41 AM PDT by MEG33 ( GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: tomkow6

Not yet. It'll take a few days for the old one to get here I have a little time. I think I know where it is though. If I can't find it I'll Katie; she was here when he went over all that stuff with us, and her memory is a teeny bit better than mine.;^)


417 posted on 05/03/2006 6:49:54 AM PDT by MozartLover ( My son, my soldier, my hero. Protect him, Lord, wherever he goes, and keep him strong.)
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To: MoJo2001; Kathy in Alaska; beachn4fun; tomkow6; uncleshag; CelticLass; pelikan; StarCMC; ...
Good morning Canteeners, Cubies, Newbies & Troops! My two favorite cities would be Honolulu, HI and Memphis, TN. Not much beats Hawaiian sunshine, except maybe the great rib joints and juke joints of Memphis. Hope you all are having a great day, the DC area is looking pretty good weatherwise. Enjoy yourselves!


418 posted on 05/03/2006 6:50:22 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Let's all leave the US and return as undocumented trespassers....uh, immigrants)
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To: tomkow6
I'll katie=I'll call Katie.

But you prolly figgered that out.;^)

419 posted on 05/03/2006 6:50:48 AM PDT by MozartLover ( My son, my soldier, my hero. Protect him, Lord, wherever he goes, and keep him strong.)
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To: tomkow6

You know, I almost wish the Cubbies would win again; I much prefer seeing your cute little dancing nuns.;^)


420 posted on 05/03/2006 6:53:53 AM PDT by MozartLover ( My son, my soldier, my hero. Protect him, Lord, wherever he goes, and keep him strong.)
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