FReeper Canteen ~ Honoring Military Women ~ 06 March 07~

Supporting the best Troops in the world. ^ | March 5, 2007 | Soaring Feather/FReeper Canteen

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning Troops!
Thank You for your service.


FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT

Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before.

Honoring Military Women. Click here.

Welcome to the home of the skeptical, irascible, doubting, iconoclastic Captain Critical, aka Captain Barb, whose pontificating will try to amuse, bemuse, irritate and generally annoy anyone bold enough to stay long enough to read the ramblings of a self appointed distaff critic who will continue to remind you that women are veterans too!
Did you know that there are almost two million women veterans? From the American Revolution to Panama, Bosnia, Kosovo,
Afghanistan and Iraq , women have served in some way in every conflict. Not that they were legal in the early days. History tells us that thirty three thousand women served in World War One and almost 500,000 took part in World War Two. During the Korean era 120,000 women were in uniform and seven thousand were deployed in theater during Viet Nam. During Desert Storm seven per cent of the total U.S. forces deployed were women - over forty thousand of them. On these pages you will find the history and accomplishments of those women who have served this country - voluntarily - since it's beginning.

Please remember the Canteen is cyber Home to our Troops.
Check your politics at the door.
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Thanks to all who enter this Canteen to Honor our Military.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Looking forward to more interesting tidbits! Great to see you, Radix. Any global warming in your area? How's the grampa gig?

[Kathy in Alaska]

WOW, Hope! What a backdrop for today's Pledge....thanks. Thanks to you, AfghanMan and Penguin Girl, for your parts in helping keep all of us free and safe.

[Soaring Feather]

Good evening, my. Thanks for the contribution.

[The Mayor]

It has been very windy and every once in a while blowing snow.
Tomorrow is supposed to be real cold windy and well below zero temps.

Must be like spring to Kathy.. : )

[The Mayor]

I just got finished watching it.. Wanna know the ending? LOL!

[Soaring Feather]

Currently it's ZERO here.

[HiJinx]

That look of confidence is one I've seen many times at the ranges.

[SandRat]

I'm late again!!! Only this time it was because my Image List went corrupt on me and I had to recover it.

[SevenofNine]

I don't know if I ever told the Canteen this but my great grand ma serve in US Miltary in WW1 and my aunt serve in WW2 as WAC I not sure whole history

There is report off BBC wire claim CIA has pick up the trail of Bin Laden in somewhere in Pateksin or Aghararin areas

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, acad, for today's daily dose o' da blues.

[Soaring Feather]

Yupper, nothing arrogant about her lovely face.

[Kathy in Alaska]

At least for now, no crawling for me here at work. Friday it crawled to a halt.

[AZamericonnie]

Commercial break.

LOL....NO you lil' stinker!:)

[The Mayor]

They are reporting 10 here but I think it's colder.
Man when that wind blows it rips right through ya.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank goodness you could recover your list. Good to see you, late or not.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Do NOT mess with this soldier! She's ready.

[The Mayor]

I was kiddin... I would never do that to ya.

[SandRat]

Margaret Cochran Corbin
(1751-c.1800)

Margaret Cochran Corbin fought alongside her husband in the American Revolutionary War and was the first woman to receive pension from the United States government as a disabled soldier. She was born Nov. 12, 1751 near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., orphaned at the age of five and was raised by relatives. When she was twenty-one she married John Corbin. John joined the Continental Army when the American Revolution started four years later and Margaret accompanied her husband. Wives of the soldiers often cooked for the men, washed their laundry and nursed wounded soldiers. They also watched the men do their drills and, no doubt, learned those drills, too.

On November 16,1776, while they were stationed in Fort Washington, New York, the fort was attacked by British and Hessian troops. John was assisting a gunner until the gunner was killed. At this point John took charge of the cannon and Margaret assisted him. Sometime later, John was killed also. With no time to grieve, Margaret continued loading and firing the cannon by herself until she was wounded by grapeshot which tore her shoulder, mangled her chest and lacerated her jaw. Other soldiers moved her to the rear where she received first aid. The fort was captured by the British, but the wounded American soldiers were paroled. They were ferried across the river to Fort Lee. Margaret was then transported further in a jolting wagon all the way to Philadelphia. She never recovered fully from her wounds and was left without use of her left arm for the rest of her life.

In 1779, the Continental Congress granted her a pension ("half the pay and allowances of a soldier in service") due to her distinguished bravery. She continued to be included on regimental muster lists until the end of the war in 1783. Margaret Cochran Corbin died near West Point, New York prior to her fiftieth birthday.

In 1926, the Daughters of the American Revolution had her remains moved from an obscure grave and re-interred with other soldiers behind the Old Cadet Chapel at West Point where they also erected a monument to her. Near the place of the battle, in Fort Tryon Park in New York City, a bronze plaque commemorates Margaret Corbin "the first American woman to take a soldier's part in the War for Liberty".

[mylife]

Well, she will be when she gets that magazine inserted in the reciever of that M16! L0L

[Kathy in Alaska]

My temps are always colder than the official....I think our weather station is at the airport and right next to the water.