FReeper Canteen - Scuttlebutt - 14 Oct 10

Thank you Troops, Vets, Allies & Military Families! | Canteen Crew

[SkyDancer]

Hi Red,
Ditto’s .....

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Kathy, Hugs.

[ConorMacNessa]

REQUEST PERMISSION TO COME ABOARD!

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!!!

OUR TROOPS ROCK!!!!!!!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[SkyDancer]

Hi Kathy,
(((HUGS))) just sitting around the office - some tourists I’ll have to show around later ...

[luvie]

Well, I dunno about me and thinkin’! Can it be done? LOL!

I’ll try! :D

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Taz!

And ((HUGS)) backatcha!

Heard that there's worries over the New Madrid fault in your neck of the woods.....any seismic activity?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[oldteen]

Evenin’ Kathy! *hugs*

Busy day for ya? Afterall, it is Wednesday! :)

[MoochPooch]

Evening, AZ (Kathy). Wow, getta load of those antlers!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Families, for your service to our country.

Thanks, unique, for the perfect woohoo.

John Conlee ~ They Also Serve

[oldteen]

HI D LUVVY! *hugs*

Good day for ya?

[PROCON]

Yo Teenie!

Whassup in your neighborhood, sunny and great in mine!

[luvie]

15 out of 25...not so hot! LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

In first....Hawaii grabs the gold!!

[PROCON]

Hiya Taz, slugs!

[SkyDancer]

Aussie cuisine ... ahh, that's the tells ....

We can eat indigenous Australian food or native food. Native food being calamari seasoned with lemon myrtle, Lemon myrtle linguine tossed with local scallops and prawns, Native spinach fettuccine with Springs Smoked Salmon with creamy bush tomato and macadamia sauce, Kangaroo fillet crusted with Mountain Pepper, and served with a pepper berry dressing and fresh leaf salad. Damper is a perfect example of a food passed from one tradition to another. The aboriginal people have traditionally ground seeds to make a kind of flour, added water and baked a kind of Damper in the coals of their cooking fires. Damper became the means of outback stockmen having fresh bread, but using the more traditional flours, and using a camp oven for baking in the hot coals of the camp fire. Our local pubs (read restaurants) offer up this cuisine ... but then too, we have fast food joints like back home .....

All in all it's great feed ... but do have to watch the waistline here ... lots of carb's in their diet.

Love and Regards, Janie

[ConorMacNessa]

REST IN PEACE, FALLEN BROTHER!

Sgt. Frank R. Zaehringer, USMC, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, KIA Afghanistan 11OCT2010

I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7 (KJV)

Eternal Father, Strong to Save



Rest in Peace, fallen brother, rest in peace!
We who remain hold you in high honor.
Rest, fallen brother, in this sacred precinct;
We who remain keep this place sacred.
Rest, fallen brother, among these, your comrades;
We who remain keep the watch.
Rest, fallen brother, amid these who heeded the Nation’s call;
We who remain press the fight forward in your name.
Rest, fallen brother, lay down thy burden;
We who remain have taken up the torch.
Rest in Peace, fallen brother, rest in eternal peace!



Taps

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[oldteen]

Oh, dear! So glad he’s OK. UGH....insurance companies...not my favorite things to deal with!

[AZamericonnie]

I scored 19/25 on the Think Test

W00H00 Pro!

I got only one more correct. Who knew the colors on the Campbells can! LOL

[ConorMacNessa]

From: 1st. Sgt. Dennis _________, USMC
Subject: Fallen Hero

Fellow Marines, Friends, & Family,

Wanted to tell you all about a true American hero that I am very proud of. Weapons Company
lost its first Marine this past Monday, 11 October at 1218 local time.

Sergeant Frank R. Zaehringer III, 23 years old from Reno NV, was one of my squad leaders for
my Combined Anti-Armor Platoon. He was killed in action against the enemy by an
improvised explosive device while leading his Marines on a dismounted (foot) patrol. In
true Marine NCO fashion, he was leading from the front, which ultimately saved the lives
of 4 other Marines, as he was positioned between them and the device.

He was well known and deeply respected by not just Weapons Company, but the whole
Battalion. Sgt Zaehringer was a meritorious corporal and sergeant, and one of the best
noncommissioned officers I have ever served with. He had just reenlisted and had orders
to Camp Pendleton, CA for another tour in an infantry battalion after we returned from
our tour here in Marjah.

He leaves behind a wife, 2 young step daughters, and his parents.

His death has hit my Marines and Corpsmen hard, but has also steeled their resolve in our fight
against a ruthless enemy.

They say a man dies 2 deaths; the first when he passes from this mortal world into eternity, and
the second when we stop saying his name. Please help the Marines and Corpsmen of
Weapons Company, 2d Battalion, 9th Marines ensure that the name Sergeant Frank Riddell Zaehringer III is never forgotten.

Semper Fidelis,

Dennis


Lamh Foistenach Abu!