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FReeper Canteen ~ Finally Friday ~ 19 October 07
Serving The Best Troops In The World | The Canteen Crew

Posted on 10/18/2007 6:00:02 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska




USS Oklahoma City (SSN-723)






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.




Army, Navy: Sister Services, Brothers in Arms


Paul Anka ~ Love Me Warm & Tender

Ricky Nelson ~ Teenage Idol

Patsy Cline ~ She's Got You

Billy Joe Shaver ~ Freedom's Child

Sharkey Bonano ~ Banana Peel Rag


Reaper Aids Commanders on Battlefield

Chicago ~ If You Leave Me Now

Dropkick Murphys ~ Finnegans Wake

Merle & Willie ~ Ramblin' Fever

Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey

Sharkey Bonano ~ Dinah


Soldiers Train with Ravens


Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.



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To: TASMANIANRED

Good evening, Taz.


81 posted on 10/18/2007 6:59:33 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith ("I am the master.")
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Bummer on internet problems...but glad you are getting to
go home! We’ll see ya....be careful!


82 posted on 10/18/2007 6:59:48 PM PDT by luvie (Friendship is neither a contest nor a race. What matters is the feeling involved. <3)
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To: TASMANIANRED
"Prayers for your nephew and all our troops."

Thanks Taz,
Here is a pic of my nephew holding his helmet which stopped a small arms round. He's been blown up by two IED's shot in the chest and head and still hasn't got a purple heart yet.

Prayers for our troops work, but it is up to us to continue to pray!

(more pics of him on my homepage)

83 posted on 10/18/2007 7:01:20 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: SandRat

Yeah, ya are.....thank goodness. They all need a sense of
history, and you’re doing it in a fun way that won’t make
their eyes glaze over!


84 posted on 10/18/2007 7:01:22 PM PDT by luvie (Friendship is neither a contest nor a race. What matters is the feeling involved. <3)
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To: All

Sorry to hit and run. G’nite
All


85 posted on 10/18/2007 7:01:46 PM PDT by LilAngel (FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
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To: Seadog Bytes

Evening Seadog...


86 posted on 10/18/2007 7:05:53 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: TASMANIANRED; Randy Larsen; SandRat
Randy knows how to deal with bears.

Yeah....throwing bottles of beer at them.

I don't think that's in ANY of the scout handbooks! LOL!

87 posted on 10/18/2007 7:06:18 PM PDT by luvie (Friendship is neither a contest nor a race. What matters is the feeling involved. <3)
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To: AZamericonnie

Fresh sauce is so tasty...


88 posted on 10/18/2007 7:07:40 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: LUV W
I even have DesertCoyote doing that sort of teaching in her student teaching.
89 posted on 10/18/2007 7:07:41 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; MS.BEHAVIN; Mrs.Nooseman; AZamericonnie; GodBlessUSA; All
Received in email

~~~~

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's , 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We would collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy fruit tingles and some firecrackers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, ipods, voicemail, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms...

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays,

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mom didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

Little Johnnie had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

Our teachers used to threaten us with rulers and study hall, and sometimes bullies ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like "Britney" and "Sanjaya."

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

PS The big type is because your eyes are about shot .. ;) =

90 posted on 10/18/2007 7:08:33 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: DocRock

Good looking young man.

I’m glad he hasn’t earned a purple heart ...


91 posted on 10/18/2007 7:10:32 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Hi, Kathy. Gut Erev-Shabbes.


92 posted on 10/18/2007 7:12:20 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: TASMANIANRED
"Good looking young man."

I use the term "Movie Star Handsome" when describing his looks. Being a manly man, that's as manly as I can sound. LOL!
93 posted on 10/18/2007 7:13:04 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: LUV W

LOL...when a bear is involved you do what works.


94 posted on 10/18/2007 7:13:24 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: LUV W

YET!


95 posted on 10/18/2007 7:13:57 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (I'M WITH FRED!)
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To: STARWISE
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

In the words of Papa Smith:
"When I was a kid, if a policeman caught you doing something wrong, he turn you around and give you a hop in the ass. Then he'd march you home and tell your father. And he'd turn you around again and give you another hop in the ass!"

That's the way it was in those days, and we liked it! We had to walk to school, five miles in the snow, uphill, both ways . . . .

96 posted on 10/18/2007 7:14:16 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith ("I am the master.")
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97 posted on 10/18/2007 7:14:46 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith ("I am the master.")
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99 posted on 10/18/2007 7:14:46 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith ("I am the master.")
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100 posted on 10/18/2007 7:14:48 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith ("I am the master.")
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