FReeper Canteen ~ Happy Thanksgiving & Happy Hanukkah ~ 28 November 2013

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Happy Thanksgiving 2013!! ~

GOD BLESS AND WATCH OVER THEM, WHEREVER THEY SERVE

Canteen Mission Statement

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.

Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.

I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

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

[laplata]

Very nice, Kathy. I am happy for your Mom. Have a great Thanksgiving.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Very nice, Publius...((HUGS))

Happy Thanksgiving to you.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the troops!!

Publius.....#50!!

[Liberty Valance]

;o)

The Maccabeats - Candlelight - Hanukkah

[laplata]

Kathy-My aunt and Uncle have a similar set up and they have a short, half moon shaped hand rail at the bottom of the stairs just to help step off that last step.

Thanks for sharing those neat pictures.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks for sharing how your Aunt and Uncle manage their steps.

The railing on the side opposite the chair needs to be returned and reinstalled. The municipality insists on certain things....the ends have to make a 90 degree turn into the wall. They cannot be open ended...you might catch something on them. As soon as that rail is reinstalled we will see if she needs "something", some other handhold, for the last step....which she must use backwards. Those of us with knee issues find going up is much easier than going down. So she must back down. If need be I can have that last step be only 1/2 as high by having a platform installed.

A continuous stairlift like this would have been over $18,000 installed. And what we have would be removed.

For the time being it is one day at a time.

[Kathy in Alaska]

TAPS

Welcome home and RIP

Lt Col Don C Faith Jr. USA, (MOH)

Amazing Grace

[laplata]

It will work out. Your Mom’s safety is the most important thing and you’re seeing to that.

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving, pax...((HUGS))

Are you hosting or traveling?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, KGeorge, and a Happy Thanksgiving to you, too.

Are you hosting? Traveling?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving, Luv.

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

((HUGS))Good morning, LUV W. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Kathy. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Love it! The Dreidel Song - Texas style....

Happy Thanksgiving, Liberty.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, E...((HUGS))...and a Happy Thanksgiving.

Do you have visitors?

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night Troops, wherever you are.

Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.

Thanks, unique, for the pastries.

Coffee is always on........

How about a cupcake?

Cookies?

Veggies?

Sandwich?

[Kathy in Alaska]

God bless and keep safe our troops worldwide.

Good night.

Statler Brothers ~ How Great Thou Art

[lysie]

This year it will be just hubby and me. Our daughter is in college in MA. We told her to stay put because of the weather here in CNY.

Blessings to you and your family.