USO Canteen FReeper Style....FReeper FRiday Salutes Jim Robinson.......June 28,2002

68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub and Snow Bunny

[Snow Bunny]

Today is FReeper Friday and we would like to honor and salute the Founder of Free Republic.
The FReeper USO Canteen receives many emails from our troops and also from FReepers that are themselves Veterans that have continued to lurk at FR and the FReeper USO Canteen.
They speak of their gratitude to have the finest place online to meet with others , read their thoughts and be supported by people that truly care about their service to our country.
And we agree!
I would like you to meet Jim Robinson, Founder of Free Republic, a Navy Veteran and a man of Honor

The USO Canteen would like to honor Veteran Jim Robinson for FReeper Friday.
Besides being the Founder of Free Republic
He is also a Viet Nam Vet
and a member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club.
If it were not for him, we would not be here today.
Jim also "practices what he preaches"
by getting out and making a difference.

Jim: Thank You for your past and
continuing service to our country
Thank You for providing a home for the USO Canteen.

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Jim Robinson's Military Service:

US Navy: Enlisted 1965 - 1969, Honorable Discharge

Rating: Third Class Petty Officer, Interior Communications Electrician. Was eligible for promotion to Second Class Petty Officer, but elected not to extend enlistment.

Sea Duty: USS Higbee (DD806), USS Hull (DD945), USS Wiltsie (DD716). Home ports: Long Beach; San Diego; Mare Island; Yokosuka, Japan; Subic Bay, Philippines. Other Ports of call: Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Chilung (Keelung), Midway, Guam, Pearl Harbor, Bremerton, WA

Action: Cruised to WestPac, in 1965 - 1966, and 1967 - 1968, aboard the destroyers Higbee and Hull, engaged enemy off the coast of Vietnam while delivering Naval gunfire support to forces ashore.

Awards: National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation

"On 19 January 1968 the veteran destroyer [USS Hull DD945] began her third and most recent Vietnam deployment. Conducting shore bombardment missions along the south coast and in the Demilitarized Zone, Hull poured over 25,000 rounds of five-inch ammunition into enemy strongholds and destroyed or damaged over 220 structures and bunkers. On seven occasions North Vietnamese gunners in the DMZ took her under fire, but in each instance she managed to escape damage while directing a barrage of her own fire at the attacking batteries. As a result of her performance during this deployment, the ship was awarded the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation."

USS Higbee

USS Wiltsie

Jim worked as a programmer, systems analyst and programming manager from 1972 to 1988. Served as Chairman and CEO of own software company from 1988 to 1996. Took the software company public on the Nasdaq market in 1995.

Jim Robinson lead the Free Republic group of supporters, who put on the nationally televised "March for Justice" rally in October 1998 at the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. and the "Judgment Day" rally on the Capitol steps in December.

Presenting the Colors at the March for Justice

Jim Robinson also serves on the Executive Board of VetsCoR.

Every Friday night Jim Robinson has organized a Support Our Troops Rally in the Fresno, California area with wonderful dedicated FReepers ……Patriots All.

“We, on Free Republic, are determined to speak out against this illegal alliance and to peaceably work toward reestablishing the Constitution as the supreme law of the land as our Founders intended, and to petition our representatives to force the government to operate within its Constitutional limits.

We are determined to stand up for our Constitutional rights, for liberty, truth, justice, and the rule of law.

We, the People, are exercising our Constitutional right to freedom of speech and peaceable assembly to demand that our elected representatives fulfill their Constitutional duty.”.......
Jim Robinson

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[Snow Bunny]

Tribute To HEROES

Tribute to Vietnam Veterans....Please click on picture

The great intangible of America's wars beyond logistics, beyond strategy, beyond wonder weapons and Generals, is the spiritual force of its fighting men and women - and that is the force that the USO so serves.

Free Republic....Click for Donations

Thank you from all those that frequent the FReeper Canteen to Jim Robinson, Founder of FRee Republic and Navy Veteran.

[Snow Bunny]

Please click on picture of Jim Robinson to go to his thread about our Pledge of Allegiance.

Titled.......
Vanity: The Pledge of Allegiance is Unconstitutional - If That Doesn't Convince You What Will?

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you ALL for your wonderful, touching and fun support of our Troops. Thank you for thanking our Veterans and support of the families of our military.

God Bless you ALL.

[tomkow6]

Good morning, EVERYBODY! HAPPY FRIDAY!

To Jim Robinson:

SALUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU & GOD BLESS YOU!

[tomkow6]

Oh, BOY! The KISSING booth is open! Now, where did I leave my wallet?

Do you accept plastic?

[RaceBannon]

As JimRob lines up to the Booth, Snow Bunny awaits...

[Snow Bunny]

On behalf of TF Rakkasan and myself let me thank you for your letter, your kind thoughts and most important you support. Your desire to send care packages to the soldiers of TF Rakkasan is wonderful in itself. We are lucky here because we have had the support of you great Americans every since we got here. As for the packages we will be deploying home soon after 7 months and I am afraid your packages would get lost in the system somewhere, but please know your letter and thoughts are more important to us than a package and for that we can't thank you enough!
Sincerely,
R. Herman
TASK FORCE RAKKASAN

SGM R A Herman
TF Rakkasan
HHC 3Bde
APO AE 09355

The receptionist at SAMWolf’s office has a Marine friend of hers that could use some morale building.
He's at Camp LeJeune right now waiting for a training deployment to a ship.
He's 29 has 2 daughters under age 3 and is missing his family.
SAMWolf told her he would pass the Marines’ name and address onto the Canteen.

His current snail mail address is:
Cpl Berger, Charles W.
II MEF MARFOR UNITAS
RECON DET
Bldg 10, Wing 3
PSC 20164
Camp LeJeune, NC 28542-0164
His email is:
charlesberger@hotmail.com

The USS George Washington carrier battle group left NAS Norfolk today for their 6 month .The USS George Washington has about 7,500 sailors and Marines with the carrier and its battle group left to head overseas and likely into combat. The Navy will not disclose the ships's destination.
Prayers for ALL our Troops

The USS McCampbell will be commissioned in August.
USS McCampbell (DDG 85)
FPO AP 96672-1275

[tomkow6]

Good morning, SB! Misty "accessorized" my new burka, but I think it makes my butt look fat: what ya think?

[Snow Bunny]

giggle....let's see, how about chocolate covered cherries for payment. heh heh

[Snow Bunny]

LOL....I can see your eyes peeking out, that is cute !!!!!

You are a Patriotic firecracker tootsie roll.You are so cute.

I just love it and you Tom.

rotfl.....This is a GREAT one to keep always.

You did great Misty.

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Cote, thank you so much.That means a lot to me. I am always nervous when I click the word POST for every thread hoping what I did was ok. But this time I was extra nervuos. I respect Jim Robinson so much and truly wanted to honor him.

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you for the kindness, it has tears in my eyes.

My prayer is that our Veterans and our troops will know how much we all care here at FR. So what you said means a lot to me. Thank you.

[leadpenny]

Jim Robinson? I know'd I'd hear'd o that name somewhar.

Hep me out. Is he that feller what's changed that thar America fer tha better?

[tomkow6]

[Freemeorkillme]

Thank you, Vets-one and all. Additional thank you to Jim Robinson for dedicating his time, money and energy into a forum that has sown so many rewarding seeds in my life.

Thank You!

[Bahbah]

Another great beginning to a great day in the USA. Can't imagine being without FReeRepublic and the Canteen. Thanks, Jim Rob and Snow Bunny.

[tomkow6]

Today's feeble attempt at humor:
A missionary couple was captured by some decidedly unfriendly natives,
tied together with a long piece of leather and left dangling over a large
cliff. That evening, the natives danced and chanted around the campfire
and as each member passed the leather strap holding the unfortunate
missionaries, he gave it a whack with a stick, causing it to weaken a bit
more. As the chanting grew louder and louder, the husband looked at his
wife romantically and said, "Listen darling. They're fraying our thong!"