Posted on 04/30/2007 8:01:23 AM PDT by Billie
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HALL OF FAME #19 THE WEEKEND THREAD T.G.I.F. at the Finest |
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Prayers are what I do, so I always add folks and service members when I come close to them. Or they come close to me! Like here!
The grandson in Iraq has a wife and a baby on the way, so it was difficult for him to leave. But he is a proud Marine, so he never thought of anything but doing his duty to God and his country.
Rest easy knowing that the military also has “extended families.” FR is a good example of that!
*hugs*
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070428-N-5459S-124 ATLANTIC OCEAN (April 28, 2007) - A Landing Signal Enlisted (LSE) directs a SH-60B helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light (HSL) 46 Det. 6, as it delivers supplies on the forecastle of the guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG 72) during a vertical replenishment (VERTREP). Mahan conducted the VERTREP with fleet replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201) in the Atlantic Ocean. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Vincent J. Street (RELEASED)
070427-N-0841E-011 ATLANTIC OCEAN (April 27, 2007) – A V-22 Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 162 practice touch and go landings to receive their deck landing qualification aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3). Kearsarge is underway testing various aspects of the ship’s readiness for deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Oscar Espinoza (RELEASED)
070426-N-0000X-001 PACIFIC OCEAN (April 26, 2007) - A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), during a joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test. Approximately three minutes later, the SM-3 intercepted a unitary (non-separating) ballistic missile threat target, launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. Within moments of this launch, the USS Lake Erie also launched a Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) against a hostile air target in order to defend herself. The test was the eighth intercept, in 10 program flight tests. The test was designed to show the capability of the ship and its crew to conduct ballistic missile defense and at the same time defend herself. This test also marks the 27th successful hit-to-kill intercept in tests since 2001. U.S. Navy photo (RELEASED)
May 1, 2007
READ: Proverbs 4:5-13
I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. —Ecclesiastes 2:13
Brewster Kahle has a vision for the Internet. He dreams of universal access to all human knowledge. As Digital Librarian and Director and co-founder of Internet Archive, Kahle believes we have only begun to tap the vast potential of the Internet to change and improve our world. “My interest,” he says, “is to build the great library. . . . It is now technically possible to live up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria.” He’s referring to a huge vault of writings in ancient Egypt that was said to house all the world’s knowledge.
But knowledge is not the same as wisdom. King Solomon was a man of vast knowledge (1 Kings 4:29-34). In his better moments, he used his God-given capacity to collect information and insight from every corner of life. In unguarded moments, however, he showed that all the knowledge in the world does not keep a person from missing the purpose of life (Eccl. 1:16-18). In spite of his knowledge, Solomon married many women, and when he was old he built altars to their gods (1 Kings 11:1-11). His foolishness eventually led to his downfall.
Wisdom is the application of knowledge. Don’t get caught in a web of knowledge without true wisdom that comes from the fear of the Lord (Prov. 1:7; 9:10).
Good morning!
Gosh it’s May 1st already.
Why are the months and years suddenly flying by?
Dolly, I second that...God Bless Our Men and Women in the Military and their fine families!
Finally!
I haven’t posted coffee since Saturday.
It has been frustrating and this glich has effected business all across WNY...
Where does the time go....
it seems to go by faster these days.....
Freepers as a whole are such a patriotic bunch that I am sure our troops are always in our hearts and minds and our prayers.
Good morning, stopem. Even thugh some of us aren’t here as often as we used to be, we still want to see this thread here every week, don’t we? :)
Thank you, Mayor! It is so good to have your Daily Bread!
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Thank you!
You need the rain tho don’t you?
It has been cloudy here, I don’t know if it rained today.
Wekkum!
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I love that we have rain on my neighborhood..The last few storms rained on the county but not on my yard! We are not in bad shape as far as lake level..We had a really big rain this spring that flooded the river. The storms were just skirting us yesterday..enough for me to get some lightning and thunder and a bit of rain but today I heard it rained an inch in 30 minutes.
The radar shows it has moved on so I can leave my computer on..Yah! We are to get rain all week..so I’ll be unplugging the computer a lot I suspect.
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