FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 2019 ~ 26 May 2019

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[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Sunday Chapel ~ MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 2019 ~

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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.




In honor of those who lost their lives while serving our country, we would like to share with you President Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery:

Today is the day we put aside to remember fallen heroes and to pray that no heroes will ever have to die for us again. It’s a day of thanks for the valor of others, a day to remember the splendor of America and those of her children who rest in this cemetery and others. It’s a day to be with the family and remember.

I was thinking this morning that across the country children and their parents will be going to the town parade and the young ones will sit on the sidewalks and wave their flags as the band goes by. Later, maybe, they’ll have a cookout or a day at the beach. And that’s good, because today is a day to be with the family and to remember.

Arlington, this place of so many memories, is a fitting place for some remembering. So many wonderful men and women rest here, men and women who led colorful, vivid, and passionate lives. There are the greats of the military: Bull Halsey and the Admirals Leahy, father and son; Black Jack Pershing; and the GI’s general, Omar Bradley. Great men all, military men. But there are others here known for other things.

Here in Arlington rests a sharecropper’s son who became a hero to a lonely people. Joe Louis came from nowhere, but he knew how to fight. And he galvanized a nation in the days after Pearl Harbor when he put on the uniform of his country and said, “I know we’ll win because we’re on God’s side.” Audie Murphy is here, Audie Murphy of the wild, wild courage. For what else would you call it when a man bounds to the top of a disabled tank, stops an enemy advance, saves lives, and rallies his men, and all of it single-handedly. When he radioed for artillery support and was asked how close the enemy was to his position, he said, “Wait a minute and I’ll let you speak to them.” [Laughter]

Michael Smith is here, and Dick Scobee, both of the space shuttle Challenger. Their courage wasn’t wild, but thoughtful, the mature and measured courage of career professionals who took prudent risks for great reward—in their case, to advance the sum total of knowledge in the world. They’re only the latest to rest here; they join other great explorers with names like Grissom and Chaffee.

Oliver Wendell Holmes is here, the great jurist and fighter for the right. A poet searching for an image of true majesty could not rest until he seized on “Holmes dissenting in a sordid age.” Young Holmes served in the Civil War. He might have been thinking of the crosses and stars of Arlington when he wrote: “At the grave of a hero we end, not with sorrow at the inevitable loss, but with the contagion of his courage; and with a kind of desperate joy we go back to the fight".

All of these men were different, but they shared this in common: They loved America very much. There was nothing they wouldn’t do for her. And they loved with the sureness of the young. It’s hard not to think of the young in a place like this, for it’s the young who do the fighting and dying when a peace fails and a war begins. Not far from here is the statue of the three servicemen—the three fighting boys of Vietnam. It, too, has majesty and more. Perhaps you’ve seen it—three rough boys walking together, looking ahead with a steady gaze. There’s something wounded about them, a kind of resigned toughness. But there’s an unexpected tenderness, too. At first you don’t really notice, but then you see it. The three are touching each other, as if they’re supporting each other, helping each other on.

I know that many veterans of Vietnam will gather today, some of them perhaps by the wall. And they’re still helping each other on. They were quite a group, the boys of Vietnam—boys who fought a terrible and vicious war without enough support from home, boys who were dodging bullets while we debated the efficacy of the battle. It was often our poor who fought in that war; it was the unpampered boys of the working class who picked up the rifles and went on the march. They learned not to rely on us; they learned to rely on each other. And they were special in another way: They chose to be faithful. They chose to reject the fashionable skepticism of their time. They chose to believe and answer the call of duty. They had the wild, wild courage of youth. They seized certainty from the heart of an ambivalent age; they stood for something.

And we owe them something, those boys. We owe them first a promise: That just as they did not forget their missing comrades, neither, ever, will we. And there are other promises. We must always remember that peace is a fragile thing that needs constant vigilance. We owe them a promise to look at the world with a steady gaze and, perhaps, a resigned toughness, knowing that we have adversaries in the world and challenges and the only way to meet them and maintain the peace is by staying strong.

That, of course, is the lesson of this century, a lesson learned in the Sudetenland, in Poland, in Hungary, in Czechoslovakia, in Cambodia. If we really care about peace, we must stay strong. If we really care about peace, we must, through our strength, demonstrate our unwillingness to accept an ending of the peace. We must be strong enough to create peace where it does not exist and strong enough to protect it where it does. That’s the lesson of this century and, I think, of this day. And that’s all I wanted to say. The rest of my contribution is to leave this great place to its peace, a peace it has earned.

Thank all of you, and God bless you, and have a day full of memories.

Note: The President spoke at 10:10 a.m. at the Memorial Amphitheater. Prior to his remarks, he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...and a Blessed Lord's Day and Shavua Tov to you and yours.

Hope you and Penny are able to get out and hike this Memorial Day weekend.

We will NEVER forget the sacrifices our heroes made for us.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and a Blessed Lord’s Day this Memorial Day weekend to you and yours.

Work hard on the resting. How are your mixers doing?

[left that other site]

Today we did an easy hike around a soccer field. Penny kept stopping and rolling in the grass. She LOVES doing that.

I am going to bed now, so may you have a sweet good night. :-)

[luvie]

U S Military Academy~Mansions Of The Lord

Mansions Of The Lord
Ronan Tynan

To fallen soldiers let us sing
Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
To the Mansions of the Lord

No more bleeding, no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
Just divine embrace, eternal light
To the Mansions of the Lord.

Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard though the angels sleep
Through the ages safely keep
The Mansions of the Lord.

NEVER FORGET THEM!

[The Mayor]

Today I had little energy so not much happened today.

First mixer going out Wednesday or Thursday.
2 more in a couple weeks, then we have to finish the other two.

You have a great memory Kathy! Thank you for asking

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Janey, and Shavua Tov and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.

Rain and fog...not a good combination.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, mountainlion, and a Blessed Lord's Day to you and yours.

We honor your ancestors for their sacrifice for our country.

Are you still getting more snow? We had rain today, with more coming.

[Kathy in Alaska]

We honor your ancestors, lightman……

[Kathy in Alaska]

He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our G-d from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.

May HASHEM cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.

May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your G-d, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.

G-d bless and keep your children safe, Alouette.

[luvie]

Howdy, radu! How was your day at the museum? Were there lots of Memorial Weekend visitors? Hope you had good weather for the drive.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and rest well, ML. ((HUGS))

[radu]

Howdy, LUV!

It was another fun day at the museum. A little busier than we expected because people tend to flock to the lakes when it's hot and dry. But we had a decent number of visitors.

Hubby's cousin and another guy went to Tupelo Thursday to bring back two old military wagons and they are beauties. This one was a blacksmith's wagon and has several items a blacksmith would use, like bellows and such.

The other is a second Big Red One wagon in our collection and it's huge.

Both are WWI wagons and there's one more to bring up that's even larger than these.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, JJ, and a Blessed Lord's Day to you and yours.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu, and a Blessed Lord's Day this Memorial Day weekend.

Did you have a good turnout at the museum? Folks just stopping by?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Keep practicing the resting...don't over do.

Any of the mixers in a cool color? d:o)

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Love that Decoration Day poem.

We had a decent turnout at the museum today. Nice weather plus a lot of people going out of town kept the numbers down a little.
I hope we get a good turnout Monday since we’ll be open then. Last year went well so we’re doing it again.

How was your day? Kicked back or did you have a lot of errands to run?

[Churchillspirit]

"They shall grow not old as we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them not the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them"

.....Laurence Binyon.

[mylife]

Good night my dear friends.

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqiZdFVYp2c

[mylife]

In memorial of Chief Tommy Cox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zIrxYqnleY