FReeper Canteen ~ WASPs Honored with Congressional Gold Medal ~ 12 March 10

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[Kathy in Alaska]

~ WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS ~
~ Honored with Congressional Gold Medal ~

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

President Barack Obama signs S.614 in the Oval Office July 1 at the White House. The bill awards a Congressional Gold Medal to Women Airforce Service Pilots. The WASP program was established during World War II, and from 1942 to 1943, more than 1,000 women joined, flying 60 million miles of noncombat military missions. Of the women who received their wings as Women Airforce Service Pilots, approximately 300 are living today. Official White House photo by Pete Souza

Deanie Parrish, a former pilot who flew for the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, receives the Congressional Medal of Honor on behalf of all 1,102 women pilots as members of Congress and several speakers look on, including Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley, second from left, and Air Force Lt. Col. Nicole Malachowski, in front, recovering from a broken leg. DoD photo by Linda Hosek

Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz returns a salute from Bernice "Bee" Heyda during a reception March 9, 2010, at the Women in Military Service to America Memorial in Arlington, Va. U.S. Air Force photo by Andy Morataya

Kay Kyser ~ Always

Connee Boswell ~ Bell Bottom Trousers

Glenn Miller ~ Chattanooga Choo Choo

Clyde Lucas ~ Dance With A Dolly

Carmen Cavallaro ~ Dancing In The Dark

Jan Nicolai holds a photo of Helen Jo Anderson Severson, a deceased pilot from South Dakota who flew with the Women Airforce Service Pilots during world War II, during a wreath-laying and remembrance ceremony for all 1,102 pilots at the Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Va., March 9, 2010. The ceremony was part of a two-day event in which all pilots will receive the Congressional Gold Medal at the U.S. Capitol for their service. DoD photo by Linda Hosek

Cheryl Marie Michell Van Riper holds the photo of her aunt, Marie Mitchell, a deceased pilot who flew with the Women Airforce Service Pilots during world War II, during a wreath-laying and remembrance ceremony for all 1,102 pilots at the Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Va., March 9, 2010. The ceremony was part of a two-day event in which all pilots will receive the Congressional Gold Medal at the U.S. Capitol for their service. DoD photo by Linda Hosek

Bing Crosby ~ Down By The River, Only Forever, It’s Easy To Remember

Ella Fitzgerald ~ I’ll Always Be In Love With You

Jo Stafford with The Paul Weston Band ~ I'll Be Seeing You

Hal Kemp with Skinnay Ennis ~ I've Got A Date With An Angel

Jimmy Brown, Bobby Haggart, and Band ~ Mam’selle

Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, military members and guests salute a wreath and roses dedicated to the 38 out of 1,102 women pilots who died during service to their country during a ceremony at the Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Va., March 9, 2010. The ceremony was part of an event in which all pilots will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal at the U.S. Capitol. The women were civilian pilots and the first to fly military aircraft under the direction of U.S. forces. Fewer than 300 women are alive and more than half were expected to attend the events. DoD photo by Linda Hosek

Rose Penn Ross, a pilot who flew with the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, poses for a photo for her family at the Air Force Memorial after a wreath-laying ceremony to honor the pilots at the memorial in Arlington, Va., March 10, 2010. The ceremony is part of a two-day event to honor the 1,102 women civilian pilots who served their country by flying military aircraft under the direction of U.S. military forces. DoD photo by Linda Hosek

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Thanks, SandRat, for the heads up!

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

[Kathy in Alaska]

TAPS

RIP Pvt Nicholas Cook, USA

Amazing Grace

[ConorMacNessa]

Greetings To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, Our Veterans, Their Families, FRiends and To Our Allies!

Missing Man Setting

Never Forget Those Who Sacrificed All That We Could Live In Freedom!!

[AZamericonnie]

"Murfie" I should have remembered that! Such a great name...

Is she to big for a lap dog now?

[SandRat]

Well done Canteen Thread. Thanks.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, AZ, for the red, white, and blue tribute.

A good commute for you? No critters hindering forward progress?

My car ended up with a vacuum hose issue...fixed and no charge! Yippee!!

[SandRat]

You are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander to the game you want to see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound unlike any you’ve ever heard fills the air. The sound is high above you. A trumpet? A choir? A choir of trumpets? You don’t know, but you want to know. So you pull over, get out of your car, and look up. As you do, you see you aren’t the only curious one. The roadside has become a parking lot. Car
doors are open, and people are staring at the sky. Shoppers are
racing out of the grocery store. The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt. Players and parents are searching the clouds and what they see, and what you see, has never before been seen.

As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part. A brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are no shadows. None.

From every hue ever seen and a million more never seen. Riding on the flow is an endless fleet of angels. They pass through the curtains one myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky.

North. South. East. West.

Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound of the trumpets, you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting, Holy, holy, holy.. The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four silver-bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in worship..

Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet. The angels

turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there He is..... Jesus.

Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the King. He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud. He opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:

I am the Alpha and the Omega.

The angels bow their heads... The elders remove their crowns.... And before you is a Figure so consuming that you know, instantly you know:
Nothing else matters.. forget stock markets and school reports.... sales meetings and football games. Nothing is newsworthy... . All that mattered, matters no more... For Christ has come.

Please let me know the exact time you read this.. It is mystical—honest.

This morning when the Lord opened a window to Heaven, he saw me, and he
asked: My child, what is your greatest wish for today?

I responded: ‘Lord please; take care of my family, my friends, the person who is reading this message, their family and their special friends. They deserve it and I love them very much’.

The love of God is like the ocean, you can see its beginnings but not its end.

This message works on the day you receive it.

To some it may sound dumb, but the person who sent this to me was impressed with its timing. Let us see if it is true.

ANGELS EXIST, but sometimes, since they don’t all have wings we call them FRIENDS, SUCH AS YOU.

SOMEONE WILL CALL YOU BY PHONE OR WILL SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING THAT YOU WERE WAITING TO HEAR OR MAYBE PING YOU TO A THREAD SAYING SOMETHING COMFORTING THATAT YOU NEEDED TO HEAR.

[AZamericonnie]

Safe commute indeed.

Put the SUV in the shop for it’s annual. Oil change etc...

You did quite well at the mechanics today!

A sweet bunny under my window this morning munching on a winter lawn salad.:)

[SandRat]

Definately did. Another young man passed his Board of Review to make Eagle Scout tonight; A GOOD Thursday.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Go Bibi...the Palastinians don't want peace.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, investigateworld...bless you for taking the time to educate you granddaughter, for teaching her about good role models. And we thank you for your service to our country.

[ConorMacNessa]

AMERICA – LAND OF THE FREE . . .

BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!!!!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Kathy in Alaska]

TAPS

RIP Sgt Jonathan J Richardson, USA

Amazing Grace

[luvie]

I didn't realize....
These wings...not used to them. :D
I'm happy to be your friend!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Arrowhead...((HUGS))...did you and the pup get to walk today?

[Kathy in Alaska]

And thank you for the heads up and link. ((HUGS)) A good day for you?

[SandRat]

Angels are all around us and we don’t even know it.

That good deed done by or for a stranger, a voice or care or concern, the voice of a friend; means there was an angel.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I am off for home...be back in a bit.

[MoochPooch]

Evening, Kathy. Glad to see women so honored.

[SandRat]

As I said in an earlier reply, it was as we hatched another Eagle tonight.

[SandRat]

We got a shock Thursday morning; we woke up to find that it was snowing. That’s not right! Not at this time of year. It collected on the cars, and on the grass but thank goodness not on the streets.