FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 27 Sept 2014

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The New Release Wall

Just some new stuff for you all to sample this week....enjoy!

This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families!

Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays have provided throughout the thread. Please ping one of the DJ's with your requests for the Troops.

All music is removed on Monday.
Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops!

*Canteen Mission Statement*

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

 

*Website*	Big & Rich - Gravity
*Website*	Blake Shelton - Bringing Back The Sunshine
*Website*	Joe Bonamassa - Different Shades Of Blue
*Website*	Lee Brice - I Don't Dance
*Website*	Lenny Kravitz - Strut (2014)
*Website*	Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems

[ConorMacNessa]

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 gold 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 other’s 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 gold 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."

Many Thanks To Alfa6 For Finding Capt. Lefon's Chronicle Of "The Empty Chair."

"Träumerei"
Robert Schumann
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Never Forget The Brave Men And Women Who Gave
Their Lives To Secure Our Freedom!!

"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

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)

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: SEPTEMBER 27, 1969

COMING UP – Lou Christie: “I’m Gonna Make You Mine”

When I did the Tony Romeo (pronounced “ro-MAY-o”) songbook a few years ago, I told the story of how I conned the two major Top 40 stations in Philly to go on this single. When I was in Miami a few weeks later, I heard it on WQAM and realized that I had just broken a national hit from a college radio station.

Lou Christie, a.k.a. Luigi Sacco, had drifted from CO&CE, the little Pittsburgh label where he started his career, to MGM, where he had a string of hits in the mid-Sixties, to Columbia and then Buddah. At Buddah, he was surrounded by men who kissed each other on both cheeks used terms like “vig” and “whack”. This single marked the end of his career, but it ended on a high note. This was Tony Romeo’s biggest song writing success and marked the end of his commercial career until 1994 when he co-wrote a funk hit just before his death.

Lou Christie: “I’m Gonna Make You Mine”

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Shipmate! It's been ages since I've seen you. Still picking them up and putting them down, albeit not with the verve I had in earlier years. I hope all is well with you as well!

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

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)

[luvie]

Dude....

[Kathy in Alaska]

Have fun....the handyman just left here. Should have a bunch of little jobs that I can’t do anymore done by next week.

[luvie]

LOVE YOU CANTEEN DJ'S!!!
Thanks for your hard work!
GodBlessUSA; mylife; AZAmericonnie; Kathy In Alaska; Ms.Behavin;EsmeraldaA; ConorMacNessa;acad1228; LibertyValance; Cindy; Starwise; 50mm; iron munro; publius;
spel_grammer_an_punct_polise;
Drumbo (and me)

YOU ROCK OUT LOUD!!
God bless our troops!!!

Thanks for a great thread
and all your hard work, Connie!

[luvie]

USAF Concert Band~Armed Forces Medley

WE LOVE YOU ALL!!!



Our Troops Having A Little Fun
YouTube Video

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: SEPTEMBER 27, 1969

#9 – Sly & the Family Stone: “Hot Fun in the Summertime”

This was the premier funk band of its era that built on the foundation laid by James Brown. Sylvester Stewart, a.k.a. Sly Stone, used the weapon of tardiness to show how a person ranked in his universe. He was even late to concerts. Eventually, a band called Earth Wind & Fire ate his lunch. Today he lives in a van on the streets of South-Central L.A. How the mighty have fallen!

Sly & the Family Stone: “Hot Fun in the Summertime”

[ConorMacNessa]

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT
OUR VALIANT TROOPS!



"Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz"
Placido Domingo
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"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

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)

[left that other site]

I was a Jr in High School in 1969. I remember these songs well!

:-)

[Publius]

Hey, M-L.

(HUGS)

How's it going?

[Kathy in Alaska]

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[Liberty Valance]

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The Dave Clark Five - Catch Us If You Can

[SkyDancer]

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[luvie]

Evenin’, LV! Welcome to the Friday Night Party! :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Publius!!

[luvie]

‘69....a very good year! :)

Good stuff, Mr. P! (((hugs)))

[luvie]

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Publius, for Rachmaninov’s “The Star Spangled Banner”. ((HUGS))

[Kathy in Alaska]

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