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Posted on 04/17/2024 6:21:45 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
Thank those serving.
Honor those who served.
NEVER forget the fallen!
And on this anniversary eve, always remember those who stood firm when sounded “the shot heard ‘round the world!”
Thank you for your service and protecting Freedom.
Freedom doesn’t come for free.
Hoping this works....at my home computer now, hoping it works.
Work internet is NOT working, or just long enough after 15 tries, letting me post the thread. I think!
Shifty Powers tells the sniper story from the battle of Foy in this short clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCW918ed8P4
For the first time on film, Shifty Powers, the legendary Easy Company sharpshooter, tells the true story of his sniper encounter during the attack on Foy in Jan 1945. Featured within is our all-new artwork, “The Sharpshooter,” by Larry Selman, which depicts Shifty & is available for purchase with the autographs of several Easy Company paratroopers on our site at: ValorStudios.com
Back to Sainte Mere Eglise: A Band of Brothers D-Day experience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH1eXMuuEIs
Hiwdy, Kathy.
Hump Day! Any sanity left? :-)
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I figured you’d gotten hung up on a last-minute work call or something. I sux your ‘net is giving you grief. I hope things straighten out quickly! I know the frustration all too well. LOL
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Good evenng, radu...more rain today? Wind?
No sun today...overcast and dreary. But melting continues.
Bible in a Year :
To them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek.
A 2017 video of a dad comforting his two-month-old son while the baby received his routine vaccinations garnered international attention for the way it captured a dad’s love for his child. After the nurse finished administering the vaccinations, the dad tenderly held his son close to his cheek, and the boy stopped sobbing within seconds. There’s almost nothing more reassuring than the tender care of a loving parent.
In Scripture, there are many beautiful descriptions of God as a loving parent, images that invoke God’s deep love for His children. Old Testament prophet Hosea was given a message to deliver to the Israelites living in the Northern Kingdom during the time of the divided kingdom. He called them to return to a relationship with God. Hosea reminded the Israelites of God’s love for them as he pictured God as a gentle Father: “when Israel was a child, I loved him” (Hosea 11:1) and “to them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek” (v. 4).
This same reassuring promise of God’s loving care is true for us. Whether we seek His tender care after a season where we’ve rejected His love or because of pain and suffering in our lives, He calls us His children (1 John 3:1) and His comforting arms are open to receive us (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
Reflect & Pray
How have you experienced the love of God as a caring Father? What concerns might you bring to Him today?
Heavenly Father, thank You that You call me Your child and provide tender care when I run to You.
There was rain this morning and it was dreary and cooler the rest of the day. Breezy but nothing like yesterday. Sure could have used less wind yesterday so I wouldn’t have worn as much grass as I did while mowing. LOL
It might be dreary up there but melting definitely continues in earnest. I can see bare ground on Gull Island and almost all of the snow on Lake Hood has melted. Now days of sunshine are needed to melt that ice!
Good evening, lightman...we will never forget!
On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists. Early the next morning, the British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minutemen had gathered on the village green. Someone suddenly fired a shot—it’s uncertain which side—and a melee ensued. When the brief clash ended, eight Americans lay dead and at least an equal amount were injured, while one redcoat was wounded. The British continued on to nearby Concord, where that same day they encountered armed resistance from a group of patriots at the town’s North Bridge. Gunfire was exchanged, leaving two colonists and three redcoats dead. Afterward, the British retreated back to Boston, skirmishing with colonial militiamen along the way and suffering a number of casualties; the Revolutionary War had begun. The incident at the North Bridge later was memorialized by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1837 poem “Concord Hymn,” whose opening stanza is: “By the rude bridge that arched the flood/Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled/Here once the embattled farmers stood/And fired the shot heard round the world.”
Emerson penned “Concord Hymn” for the dedication of a battle monument at the site of the North Bridge. At the dedication ceremony on July 4, 1837, a group of townspeople sang the poem’s 16 lines to the tune of a traditional hymn called “Old Hundredth.” Emerson, a Boston native born in 1803, spent portions of his childhood in Concord (where his grandfather, a minister, had witnessed the 1775 battle at the North Bridge from his nearby home) and moved there permanently in 1834. He went on to become one of the country’s leading intellectuals and lived in Concord until his death in 1882.
In addition to the American Revolution, the “shot heard round the world” became associated with other historical events, such as the 1914 assassination of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which helped trigger World War I, and the 1951 game-winning, three-run homer by the New York Giants’ Bobby Thomson against the Brooklyn Dodgers; thanks to Thomson’s “shot,” the Giants nabbed the National League pennant.
Howdy, PRO.
Any adventures with your son this week?
Robin is off again on her annual 4 day quilt-a-thon with about 10 like-minded gal quilters so son is holding the fort down.
He's coming over tomorrow for dinner and hanging, not much else happening here.
Good evening, USA-FRANCE...you are so right: freedom is not free.
God Bless our military.
You are most welcome, Pro....we must remember them!
No sun at all today, but no snow, and more melting.
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