I am embarrassed to ask, having visited Free Republic regularly since August of 1998, and having suffered through several versions of site software.
How do I create a link to this Freeper thread post directly? Thanks in advance.
In the meantime, here is a link to the original article, which may or may not be "permanent."
If you right click on the post number (e.g. # posted on date), and copy the link, you can embed that link in html code to place it in your post.
Example:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3431639/posts?page=11#11 is the link you get by right clicking the number on the bottom of your post.