FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops~ ~ 16 February 2023

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[Kathy in Alaska]

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~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

Ooh Rah! Semper Fi!

U.S. Marine Corps Private First Class Selena Serrano, a Marine with Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, poses for a photo with her eagle, globe and anchor on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 5, 2022. Serrano just completed the crucible – a 54-hour event that challenges all the skills a recruit has learned throughout recruit training. Serrano was recruited out of Los Angeles, C with Recruiting Station Montebello. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Christopher A. Madero)

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Welcome To The World, Isaac!

Gina and Joshua Steitzer welcomed their new son, Isaac, at 4:34 a.m., Jan. 6, 2022. Isaac was the first baby born in the New Year at Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Northwest Beginnings Family Birth Center to proud parents Gina and Joshua, chief damage controlman assigned to USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Isaac weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and is 20 inches long. (Official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC public affairs officer)

No Cornhole? No Problem!

Airmen from the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing take part in holiday themed games during the 2021 Ops Town Games at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Dec. 25, 2021. The games were created to boost morale for members deployed during the holidays. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christina Graves)

Hold Your Breath! Whatever You Do: Don’t Swallow!

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Tyler Ornelas, a squad leader with 3d Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, conducts the endurance course during the 3d Marine Division Squad Competition at the Jungle Warfare Training Center on Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 7, 2022. The week-long competition tests jungle survival skills, basic infantry tactics, and excellence in weapons handling. The competition participants are forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division, as a part of the Unit Deployment Program. Ornelas is a native of Bend, Oregon. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jonathan Willcox)

Congrats Marine! Hug Well Earned!

A new U.S. Marine of Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, is welcomed by a loved one following a graduation ceremony at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Jan. 7, 2022. Once Delta Company was dismissed, families and friends met their new Marines on the parade deck. As recruits, their only means of contact was through letters during their 13-week training cycle. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by MSgt Sheila Brooks)

We Want To Fly!

A 14th Flying Training Wing instructor pilot and student pilot conduct pre-flight checks inside a T-6 Texan II on January 7, 2022, at Columbus Air Force Base, MS. Stepped-tandem seating in the single cockpit places one crewmember in front of the other, with the student and instructor positions being interchangeable. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Davis Donaldson)

The Toilet Bowl Ultimate (Psst...No Toilets Were Harmed)

U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force Defense Information School students complete in ultimate frisbee for the school's Annual event, the Commandant's Cup on Ft. G Meade, Maryland. (Photo by Pvt. Anastasiya Ludchenko)

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[PROCON]

Thanks for remembering and honoring our Troops, Kathy!

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks Kathy.

[The Mayor]

February 16

Reflecting Christ’s Light

Bible in a Year:

• Leviticus 19–20
• Matthew 27:51–66

In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

John 1:4

To capture the beauty of reflective light in his landscape oil paintings, artist Armand Cabrera works with a key artistic principle: “Reflected light is never as strong as its source light.” He observes that novice painters tend to exaggerate reflected light. He says, “Reflected light belongs to the shadow and as such it must support, not compete with the lighted areas of your painting.”

We hear similar insight in the Bible concerning Jesus as “the light of all mankind” (John 1:4). John the Baptist “came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe” (v. 7). The gospel writer tells us, “He himself [John] was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light” (v. 8).

As with John, we’re chosen by God to reflect Christ’s light to those living in the shadows of an unbelieving world. This is our role, as one source says, “perhaps because unbelievers are not able to bear the full blazing glory of His light firsthand.”

Cabrera teaches his art students that “anything that has direct light falling on it in a scene becomes a source of light itself.” Similarly, with Jesus as “the true light that gives light to everyone” (v. 9), we can shine as witnesses. As we reflect Him, may the world be amazed to see His glory shine through us.

Reflect & Pray

How do you reflect the light of Christ? In what shadowy areas of the world can you shine His transforming light?

Shine on me, beautiful Light of God. Please help me to shine Your light in the shadows of an unbelieving world.

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Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[Kathy in Alaska]

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro...we must remember them.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, JJ...you are welcome.

How is your winter weather doing? Can you get out and play?

We are drowning in snow.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

We made it through hump day. Hurrah for us.

Stay warm!!

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Nice to see sunshine up there again today after yesterday’s gloom.

You made it to Hump Day. I hope you get a little breather this evening and an early bedtime.

[luvie]

Remembering all our troops
And everything they do for us!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...I hope the snow is staying away.

We had a whole day with nary a flake of snow. Happy times here.

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

Was it windy there again today? It was here. Early from the south. Then it calmed down for a while and then it whipped around to the north and sped up again. Earlier it was 71 degrees. Now it’s 46. You have that to look forward to. LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Janey...((HUGS))...when do you go for your renewal testing? Study hard!

[MoochPooch]

Evening, Kathy! Enjoying the balmy weather here in NY. For now.

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

No, we had a nice breeze here but it wasn’t windy like I thought it would be. Fine with me. I had things to do in town and outside here so the lack of wind was welcome.
It looks like this stuff’s coming through here in waves over the next 24 hours and our yeeha will be tomorrow afternoon. Raining a little right now and there’s some heavier stuff headed our way but nothing severe. That’s going on at the west end of the state tonight.

Yes, we get the big temp drop tomorrow night. It’ll be around 70 for the high tomorrow and the overnight low will be 30, with Friday’s high around 40.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Pro!!

1st!!