FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Fort Leavenworth ~ 30 SEPT, 2008

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[drdemars]

Thank you for the info on Ft. Leavenworth. My grandfather is buried in the cemetery there. He was a Sargent in the Spanish American War and was killed while guarding prisoners at the prison. I never met him since he died in his late thirty's. I must some time soon visit his grave.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, TS....you sure did refresh at just the right moment. A good Monday at school?

[mylife]

Thanks for yer Grandads service.. Yes you should visit.

I never met mine either. Died when mom was 2

[Kathy in Alaska]

Great pictures of our troops hard at work. Thanks, lauren.

[Ben Hecks]

30 years later, I’m still using my C&GS coffee cup.

Hey, I still have the C&GS note paper from the book store. We may have been there at the same time....I was in the class of 76.

Thanks for the great post, Lauren.

[Tanniker Smith]

Good evening, TS....you sure did refresh at just the right moment. A good Monday at school?

Pretty good. I was drinking decaf. Somehow, I was a little calmer than usual.

I have off for the Jewish holidays for the next two days.
But not being Jewish, I really have them off.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, my....Fort Leavenworth does conger up bad times before realizing that there are other things there.

[TASMANIANRED]

LOl

Evening my

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening QT Pi

[mylife]

Hi there Taz! Ya doin alright?

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Lauren, Hugs.

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Kathy, Hugs

Are you feeling better?

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Sandy

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Sounds like you need a rest.

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Lauren!

Excellent as always.

My Kansas stories amount to only one.

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Evening Sarge, Hugs.

Doing the St. James art fair this year?

[gpapa]

This Day in U.S. Military History September 30

1938 - Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sign the Munich Pact, which seals the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace.

Upon return to Britain, Chamberlain would declare that the meeting had achieved "peace in our time." Although the agreement was to give into Hitler's hands only the Sudentenland, that part of Czechoslovakia where 3 million ethnic Germans lived, it also handed over to the Nazi war machine 66 percent of Czechoslovakia's coal, 70 percent of its iron and steel, and 70 percent of its electrical power. It also left the Czech nation open to complete domination by Germany. In short, the Munich Pact sacrificed the autonomy of Czechoslovakia on the altar of short-term peace-very short term. The terrorized Czech government was eventually forced to surrender the western provinces of Bohemia and Moravia (which became a protectorate of Germany) and finally Slovakia and the Carpathian Ukraine. In each of these partitioned regions, Germany set up puppet, pro-Nazi regimes that served the military and political ends of Adolf Hitler. By the time of the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the nation called "Czechoslovakia" no longer existed.

It was Neville Chamberlain who would be best remembered as the champion of the Munich Pact, having met privately with Hitler at Berchtesgaden, the dictator's mountaintop retreat, before the Munich conference. Chamberlain, convinced that Hitler's territorial demands were not unreasonable (and that Hitler was a "gentleman"), persuaded the French to join him in pressuring Czechoslovakia to submit to the Fuhrer's demands. Upon Hitler's invasion of Poland a year later, Chamberlain was put in the embarrassing situation of announcing that a "state of war" existed between Germany and Britain. By the time Hitler occupied Norway and Denmark, Chamberlain was finished as a credible leader. "Depart, I say, and let us have done with you!" one member of Parliament said to him, quoting Oliver Cromwell. Winston Churchill would succeed him as prime minister soon afterwards.

[Tanniker Smith]

Evening QT Pi

Excuse me, Taz, I have a QT2.
It's from uh, uh, uh .....

shoot ... last time I let Barry compose my responses!

[TASMANIANRED]

Got plans?

[TASMANIANRED]

Doing fairly well.

I actually have the recliner to myself for a little while.