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FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 30 June 2012
Our Troops Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted on 06/29/2012 5:59:14 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Free Republic
KEYWORDS: canteen; military; troopsupport
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To: AZamericonnie
To: 2LT Radix jr; acad1228; AirForceMom; Colonel_Flagg; AliVeritas; aomagrat; ariamne; armyavonlady; ...
TICKLIN' THE IVORIES!
Bob James~Lotus Leaves
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posted on
06/29/2012 6:43:01 PM PDT
by
luvie
(Never forget...WE have THEM surrounded! ~ Rush Limbaugh)
To: Publius; ConorMacNessa
Conor and I tied! Oops! My bad!
To: AZamericonnie; ConorMacNessa; Drumbo; Esmerelda; Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W; StarCMC
Johannes Brahms needed to keep his channels of communication open with Joseph Joachim in the hope that the rift over his divorce could be mended. To that end, Brahms wrote another violin sonata, and its a gem.
Could you ask for a better and sweeter first subject? The violin just soars. The second subject in E Major is just as sweet, but with a touch of rue. Joachim must have been captivated. The development is mostly in minor keys, so the return to A Major is welcome.
Brahms: Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 100, first movement
The second movement combines slow movement and scherzo in a manner reminiscent of Dvorak.
second movement
The finale is mostly sweetness and light.
third movement
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06/29/2012 6:45:56 PM PDT
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Publius
(Leadershiup starts with getting off the couch.)
To: 2LT Radix jr; acad1228; AirForceMom; Colonel_Flagg; AliVeritas; aomagrat; ariamne; armyavonlady; ...
TICKLIN' THE IVORIES!
Floyd Cramer~On The Rebound
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posted on
06/29/2012 6:47:02 PM PDT
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luvie
(Never forget...WE have THEM surrounded! ~ Rush Limbaugh)
To: Publius; ConorMacNessa; All
To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
Thanks so much for helping Grammie! I really appreciate it! *Hugs*
To: LUV W
Way back in the Thirties, there was a pianist named Zez Confrey who was known as “kitten on the keys”.
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posted on
06/29/2012 6:49:34 PM PDT
by
Publius
(Leadershiup starts with getting off the couch.)
To: 2LT Radix jr; acad1228; AirForceMom; Colonel_Flagg; AliVeritas; aomagrat; ariamne; armyavonlady; ...
TICKLIN' THE IVORIES!
David Grusin~On Golden Pond
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posted on
06/29/2012 6:50:36 PM PDT
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luvie
(Never forget...WE have THEM surrounded! ~ Rush Limbaugh)
To: Publius
Well, that’s interesting to know. I think I remember a song
by that name, too. :)
You’re posting lots of good stuff tonight, Maestro! :)
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posted on
06/29/2012 6:52:09 PM PDT
by
luvie
(Never forget...WE have THEM surrounded! ~ Rush Limbaugh)
To: Jet Jaguar
To: LUV W
Best thing to do is bookmark the thread, come back during the weekend or the week, and just wallow. There’s some magnificent music coming up tonight.
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posted on
06/29/2012 6:53:34 PM PDT
by
Publius
(Leadershiup starts with getting off the couch.)
To: Publius; ConorMacNessa
Tied for first....Publius and Mac!
To: AZamericonnie
Before I forget again, ((HUGS)). (Keep it on the QT lest my medical insurance tax goes up.)
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posted on
06/29/2012 6:54:48 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(One out of three ain't good enough, Make November work.)
To: AZamericonnie; Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe; BIGLOOK; alfa6; EsmeraldaA; SandRat; mylife; ...
Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!
Missing Man Setting
The Empty Chair
By Captain Carroll Lex Lefon, USN (ret), on December 21st, 2004
In the wardroom onboard the aircraft carrier from which I recently debarked was a small, round table, with single chair. No one ever sat there, and the reasons, both for the table being there, and for the fact that the chair was always empty, will tell the reader a little bit about who we are as a culture.The wardroom, of course, is where the officers will dine; morning, noon and evening. It is not only a place to eat it is also a kind of oasis from the sometimes dreary, often difficult exigencies of the service. A place of social discourse, of momentary relief from the burdens of the day. The only things explicitly forbidden by inviolable tradition in the wardroom are the wearing of a cover or sword by an officer not actually on watch, or conversation which touches upon politics or religion. But aboard ships which observe the custom, another implicit taboo concerns the empty chair: No matter how crowded the room, no matter who is waiting to be seated, that chair is never moved, never taken.
The table is by the main entrance to the wardroom. You will see it when you enter, and you will see it when you leave. It draws your eyes because it is meant to. And because it draws your eyes it draws your thoughts. And though it will be there every day for as long as you are at sea, you will look at it every time and your eyes will momentarily grow distant as you think for a moment. As you quietly give thanks.
As you remember.
The small, round table is covered with a white linen tablecloth. A single place setting rests there, of fine bone china. A wineglass stands upon the table, inverted, empty. On the dinner plate is a pinch of salt. On the bread plate is a slice of lemon. Besides the plate lies a bible. There is a small vase with a single red rose upon the table. Around the vase is wound a yellow ribbon. There is the empty chair.
We will remember because over the course of our careers, we will have had the opportunity to enjoy many a formal evening of dinner and dancing in the fine company of those with whom we have the honor to serve, and their lovely ladies. And as the night wears on, our faces will in time become flushed with pleasure of each others company, with the exertions on the dance floor, with the effects of our libations. But while the feast is still at its best, order will be called to the room we will be asked to raise our glasses to the empty table, and we will be asked to remember:
The table is round to show our everlasting concern for those who are missing. The single setting reminds us that every one of them went to their fates alone, that every life was unique.
The tablecloth is white symbolizing the purity of their motives when they answered the call to duty.
The single red rose, displayed in a vase, reminds us of the life of each of the missing, and their loved ones who kept the faith.
The yellow ribbon around the vase symbolizes our continued determination to remember them.
The slice of lemon reminds us of the bitterness of their fate. The salt symbolizes the tears shed by those who loved them. The bible represents the faith that sustained them. The glass is inverted they cannot share in the toast. The chair is empty they are not here. They are missing.
And we will remember, and we will raise our glasses to those who went before us, and who gave all that they had for us. And a part of the flush in our faces will pale as we remember that nothing worth having ever came without a cost. We will remember that many of our brothers and sisters have paid that cost in blood. We will remember that the reckoning is not over.
We many of us will settle with our families into our holiday season, our Christmas season for those who celebrate it, content in our fortune and prosperity. We will meet old friends with smiles and laughter. We will meet our members of our family with hugs. We will eat well, and exchange gifts and raise our glasses to the year passed in gratitude, and to the year to come with hope. We will sleep the sleep of the protected, secure in our homes, secure in our homeland.
But for many families, there will be an empty chair at the table this year. A place that is not filled.
We should remember.
Thanks To Alfa6 For The Narrative Of The Empty Chair.
Schumann - Traumerei (Click)
Never Forget The Brave Men and Women Who Sacrificed All That We Could Live In Freedom!!
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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
06/29/2012 6:55:20 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: Tanniker Smith
27 seconds is a very long time, apparently.Timing off on one of the vids Tann?
To: Publius
There sure is and it just so happens that I am off from work
tomorrow, and I intend to do just that! Don’t want to miss
the wallering. :)
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posted on
06/29/2012 6:56:27 PM PDT
by
luvie
(Never forget...WE have THEM surrounded! ~ Rush Limbaugh)
To: 2LT Radix jr; acad1228; AirForceMom; Colonel_Flagg; AliVeritas; aomagrat; ariamne; armyavonlady; ...
TICKLIN' THE IVORIES!
Henry Mancini~Send In The Clowns
One of my VERY favorite tunes.....
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posted on
06/29/2012 6:57:04 PM PDT
by
luvie
(Never forget...WE have THEM surrounded! ~ Rush Limbaugh)
To: AZamericonnie
I’m in, fashionably late...
To: Kathy in Alaska
Good evening Kathy & TGIF to you! *Hugs*
About to head home? Mom & Pops doing well this week?
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