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1 posted on 03/21/2013 5:58:30 PM PDT by fatima

REQUEST PERMISSION TO COME ABOARD

CHARLESTOWN, Mass. (Jan. 14, 2008) The first major snowfall of the New Year blankets the USS Constitution. Despite the weather “Old Ironside,” remained open for free public tours. At 210-years-old, USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, manned by 67 active-duty United States Sailors and visited by nearly half a million visitors annually. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Brown (Released)

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND OUR BELOVED NATION!!!

Boston, Oct. 21, 2009 - Boatswains Mate 2nd Class Philip Gagnon pipes as USS Constitution performs an underway demonstration in honor of the three-masted wooden frigate's 212th birthday. (U.S. Navy photo by Airman Mark Alexander/Released).
(Click for Bosun’s Whistle)

USS Constitution's 1812 Marine Guard fire vintage Springfield flintlock muskets during the ship's underway. "Old Ironsides" was underway for the "Constitution Day Cruise," which is conducted to thank the family and supporters of Constitution. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Nick Lyman (Released)

OUR TROOPS ROCK!!!!!!!

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)

2 posted on 03/21/2013 5:58:45 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)

Good morning Troops, Veterans and Canteeners.
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Our Flag Flying Proudly One Nation Under God
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Lord, Please Bless Our Troops, They're fighting for our Freedom.
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God Bless Our Republic

Prayers going up

3 posted on 03/21/2013 5:58:58 PM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)

Hello Fatima . . “Blue on Blue.”

4 posted on 03/21/2013 5:59:44 PM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)

5 posted on 03/21/2013 6:00:08 PM PDT by Publius

Jesus Loves The Little Children

6 posted on 03/21/2013 6:01:33 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012

7 posted on 03/21/2013 6:02:15 PM PDT by Publius

8 posted on 03/21/2013 6:02:57 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)

She wore a Yellow Rose.

9 posted on 03/21/2013 6:03:06 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)

10 posted on 03/21/2013 6:03:21 PM PDT by Publius

Song: New Order - Blue Monday

Albums: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - Blue Train

11 posted on 03/21/2013 6:03:28 PM PDT by real saxophonist ("Always Progressing and Not Fitting Neatly in a Box"- Tosin Abasi)

13 posted on 03/21/2013 6:04:15 PM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (The Old White Flag Republicans can go straight to He// and take their pal Obama with them!)

14 posted on 03/21/2013 6:04:40 PM PDT by Publius

Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list

Going For The Prize
March 22, 2013

Every March, the Iditarod Trail Race is held in Alaska. Sled dogs and their drivers, called “mushers,” race across a 1,049-mile route from Anchorage to Nome. The competing teams cover this great distance in anywhere from 8 to 15 days. In 2011, a record time was set by musher John Baker who covered the entire route in 8 days, 19 hours, 46 minutes, and 39 seconds. The teamwork between dogs and driver is remarkable, and those who compete are tenacious in their efforts to win. The first-place winner receives a cash prize and a new pickup truck. But after so much perseverance in extreme weather conditions, the accolades and prizes may seem insignificant and transient.

The excitement of a race was a familiar concept to the apostle Paul, but he used competition to illustrate something eternal. He wrote, “Everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown” (1 Cor. 9:25).

Sometimes we are tempted to place our emphasis on temporal rewards, which perish with the passing of time. The Scriptures, however, encourage us to focus on something more permanent. We honor God by seeking spiritual impact that will be rewarded in eternity.

Here we labor, here we pray,
Here we wrestle night and day;
There we lay our burdens down,
There we wear the victor’s crown. —Anon.

Run the race with eternity in view.

Read: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Everyone who competes for the prize . . . [does] it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. —1 Corinthians 9:25

Bible in a Year:
Joshua 10-12; Luke 1:39-56

16 posted on 03/21/2013 6:04:53 PM PDT by The Mayor ("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat" Â— Ronald Reagan)

“The Coloring Song” by PETRA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s6012RghSQ

20 posted on 03/21/2013 6:07:32 PM PDT by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)

22 posted on 03/21/2013 6:08:15 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)

28 posted on 03/21/2013 6:11:36 PM PDT by Sloopy

Bands: King Crimson; Black Flag

31 posted on 03/21/2013 6:12:05 PM PDT by real saxophonist ("Always Progressing and Not Fitting Neatly in a Box"- Tosin Abasi)

35 posted on 03/21/2013 6:14:27 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)

Panama Red, New Riders of the Purple Sage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyPYM5uUViI

38 posted on 03/21/2013 6:14:41 PM PDT by Yogafist

39 posted on 03/21/2013 6:15:01 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Obama lied, Stevens died.)

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