USO Canteen FReeper Style....Chesty Puller Thank You Sir!.......June 30,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Snow Bunny

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"'First to Fight' isn't a motto but a sacred pledge."

Lt.Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller
June 26, 1898 - October 11, 1971

His name was Lewis Burwell Puller, and he came from West Point, Virginia.......

Born 26 June 1898, at West Point, Virginia, the general attended Virginia Military Institute until enlisting in the Marine Corps in August 1918.

The last part of the emblem is the anchor. It is not just a plain anchor but a "fouled" anchor. The anchor emphasizes the close ties of the Marine Corps with the U.S. Navy.

He was appointed a Marine Reserve second lieutenant 16 June 1919, but due to force reductions after World War I, he was placed on inactive duty ten days later.

He rejoined the Marines as an enlisted man to serve with the Gendarmerie d'Haiti, a military force in that country under a treaty with the United States.

When he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1917, he was just Serial No.135517. From that modest beginning, the young man rose through the ranks to later become Lieutenant General Puller.

But in the annals of military valor, he is known as "Chesty" Puller, not only for his bull chest but also for his absolute fearlessness and devotion to duty.

"Chesty" Puller came to the Marine Corps out of Virginia Military Institute, the college where General Stonewall Jackson taught before the Civil War. The school itself had a history of wartime valor.

VMI cadets fought as a unit in Jackson's Army, the only time in American history when a student body was committed to a pitched battle. Cadet Puller may have been inspired by their heroism. Or perhaps it was the example of a cadet four years ahead of Puller - Lemuel C. Shepherd. In either case, with World War I raging in Europe, Puller left VMI at the end of his freshman year to enlist in the Marines, saying simply, "I want to go where the guns are!"

Chesty Puller enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1917 at the age of 20. He chased bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua. He commanded the Horse Marines in Peking as Commander of the 2nd Btn 4th Marines. In W.W.II he battled his way from Island to Island in the Pacific. He led his Marines at the Landing at Inchon as well as one of the most Savage rearguard actions of the Korean War; The Battle of the Chosin Reservoir.

The story of Lt. Gen. Lewis Burwell (Chesty) Puller

Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller was a colorful veteran of the Korean War, four World War II campaigns, and expeditionary service in China, Nicaragua, and Haiti.

He was the only Marine to win the Navy Cross five times for heroism and gallantry in combat.

After almost five years in Haiti, where he saw frequent action against the Caco rebels, Puller returned in March 1924 to the United States. He was commissioned a Marine second lieutenant that same month, and during the next two years, served at the Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Virginia, completed the Basic School at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and served with the 10th Marine Regiment at Quantico, Virginia.

In July of 1926, Puller embarked for a two-year tour of duty at the Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor.

Returning in June 1928, he served in San Diego, California, until he joined the Nicaraguan National Guard Detachment that December.

Chesty Puller, smoking a pipe, in Nicaragua in 1931, They are flanked by two Nicaraguan Soldiers.

After winning his first Navy Cross in Nicaragua, he returned to the United States in July 1931 to enter the Company Officers Course at the Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia. He completed the course in June 1932 and returned to Nicaragua the following month to begin the tour of duty that brought him a second Navy Cross.

In January 1933, Puller left Nicaragua for the United States. A month later he sailed from San Francisco to join the Marine Detachment of the American Legation at Peiping, China.

There, in addition to other duties, he commanded the famed "Horse Marines." Without coming back to the United States, he began a tour of sea duty in USS AUGUSTA of the Asiatic Fleet. In June 1936 he returned to the United States to become an instructor in the Basic School at Philadelphia. He left there in May 1939 to serve another year as commander of the AUGUSTA's Marine Detachment, and from that cruiser, joined the 4th Marine Regiment at Shanghai, China, in May 1940.

The Augusta, which was commanded by Lieutenant Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, already legendary and the quintessential Marine Here is Lt. Puller serving as Officer of the Deck during a port visit by the Augusta to Batavia, Java.

Lt. Puller is in the center

After serving as a battalion executive and commanding officer with the 4th Marines, Puller sailed for the United States in August 1941. In September, he took command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, at Camp Lejeune. That Regiment was detached from the 1st Division in March 1942 and the following month, as part of the 3rd Marine Brigade, sailed for the Pacific theater. The 7th Regiment rejoined the 1st Marine Division in September 1942, and Puller, still commanding its 1st Battalion, went on to win his third Navy Cross at Guadalcanal.

The action that brought him that medal occurred on the night of October 24-25 1942.

For a desperate three hours his battalion, stretched over a mile-long front, was the only defense between vital Henderson Airfield and a regiment of seasoned Japanese troops. In pouring jungle rain the Japanese smashed repeatedly at his thin line, as General Puller moved up and down its length to encourage his men and direct the defense. After reinforcements arrived, he commanded the augmented force until late the next afternoon. The defending Marines suffered less than 70 casualties in the engagement while 1400 of the enemy were killed and 17 truckloads of Japanese equipment were recovered by the Americans.

After Guadalcanal, Puller became executive officer of the 7th Marines. He was fighting in that capacity when he won his fourth Navy Cross at Cape Gloucester in January 1944. There, when the commanders of the two battalions were wounded, he took over their units and moved through heavy machine-gun and mortar fire to reorganize them for attack, then led them in taking a strongly fortified enemy position.

In February 1944, Puller took command of the 1st Marines at Cape Gloucester. After leading that regiment for the remainder of the campaign, he sailed with it for the Russell Islands in April 1944.

He went on to command it at Peleliu in September and October 1944. He returned to the United States in November 1944, named executive officer of the Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Lejeune in January 1945, and took command of that regiment the next month.

In August 1946, Puller became Director of the 8th Marine Corps Reserve District, with headquarters at New Orleans, Louisiana. After that assignment, he commanded the Marine Barracks at Pearl Harbor until August 1950, when he arrived at Camp Pendleton, California, to re-establish and take command of the 1st Marines, the same regiment he had led at Cape Gloucester and Peleliu.

1st Marines assault Blue Beach during the Inchon invasion, 9/15//50 Navy LSMR rocket salvos plaster the landing areas.

Landing with the 1st Marines at Inchon, Korea, in September 1950, he continued to head that regiment until January 1951, when he was promoted to brigadier general and named Assistant Commander of the 1st Marine Division. That May he returned to Camp Pendleton to command the newly reactivated 3rd Marine Division in January 1952.

Col. L. B. "Chesty" Puller, "fierce and utterly fearless", waits as his 1st Marine Regiment prepares for their part of the Inchon invasion, the assault on Blue Beach.

In the Korean War, he was a full colonel. His unit was near the Yalu River at the Chinese border (the 38th parallel) when the Chinese army attacked its position, and United Nations forces retreated so rapidly that they abandoned weapons, vehicles and equipment.
The Marines were the last to be informed, and Col. Puller found himself in the Chosin Reservoir in the middle of winter, surrounded on all sides by what had to seem like the entire Chinese army. When informed of the situation, Col. Puller laughed and said, "Poor bastards. They have us just where we want them."

Next Chesty headed into South Korea.

On the road to Seoul, 9/50…….
Col. "Chesty" Puller and Brig. Gen. Craig Brig. Gen. E.A. Craig was Commander, 1st Prov. Marine Brigade through the fighting in the Pusan Perimeter. When the brigade was disengaged, against the objections of Army Generals Walker and Almond (Commanding General of X Corps), the 5th Marines mounted out with the 1st Marine Division for the Inchon invasion. Here, Gen. Craig checks the situation-map with Col. Puller, Commander, 1st Marine Regiment.

Many of his men were injured, and they were low on provisions as they began their trek.

One of his junior officers asked if they were retreating, to which the ever-quotable Col.Chesty Puller said,
"Retreat?! Hell, we're just advancing to the rear!"

As the Marines plodded along the icy, mountainous section of North Korea they would later affectionately call the "Frozen Chosin," they scrounged for ammunition, food, weapons and even vehicles among the articles deserted by rapidly moving U.N. forces in their hasty retreat. Chesty delivered his men to safety with minimal losses.

For his refusal to give up his men despite the grave obstacles they were forced to overcome, and for his overall resourcefulness, he received the Congressional Medal of Honor.

……….Gen Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller to his wife after the retreat from Chosin, Korea, 1950…….

December 9, 1950

Darling:
I understand that the news back home is to the effect that the First Marine Division is cut off, surrounded by the Chinese, etc. etc.... God is helping us; so do not worry, Virginia. I am confident that I will get back home to come for you, Virginia Mc, Martha Leigh and little Lewis. Believe me! My love for you will last forever, Virginia, even into the next life and then on. The hardest thing that I have ever done was to tell you goodbye.
As always,
your loving husband

December 20, 1950
My Dearest Virginia:
Just a quick message to let you know that I am well and safe. With the help of the Almighty and no other unit or person, my Regiment is on the beach at Hungnam and will be aboard ship before the day is over. I am thankful to the good God for all his blessings.
Your Loving Husband

After that, he was assistant at division commander until he took over the Troop Training Unit, Pacific, at Coronado, California, that June.

He was promoted to major general in September 1953, and in July 1954, assumed command of the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune.

Despite his illness, he retained that command until February 1955, when he was appointed Deputy Camp Commander.

He served in that capacity until August, when he entered the U. S. Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune prior to retirement.

Lewis "Chesty" Puller Marine Barracks in Rota, Spain in March, 1965

In 1966, General Puller requested to return to active duty to serve in Vietnam, but was turned down because of his age.

He died 11 October 1971 in Hampton, Virginia, after a long illness. He was 73.......

Time Magazine once said of Chesty;
"He shouted battle orders in a bellow that rattled the Halls of Montezuma. He stalked about under enemy fire as though he were daring anyone to hit him. He had an abiding love for the enlisted man who did the killing and the dying, and a sneering hatred for the staff officers who did the sitting and the meddling. He thrived on combat until he became a legend to his troops... a born leader who went off to a battle with his green eyes gleaming malevolently, a stubby pipe clenched in his crooked mouth and a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel bag."

A Marine officer and enlisted man for 37 years, General Puller served at sea or overseas for all but ten of those years, including a hitch as commander of the "Horse Marines" in China. Excluding medals from foreign governments, he won a total of 14 personal decorations in combat, plus a long list of campaign medals, unit citation ribbons and other awards. In addition to the Navy Crosses, the highest honor the Navy can bestow, he holds its Army equivalent, the Distinguished Service Cross.

QUOTES from Chesty.......
Marine Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller. Colonel (later General) Puller made one of the most famous statements in Marine Corps history at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. When Col. Puller was advised that his 15,000 men, strung out between the Korean villages of Koto-ri, Yudam-ni, and Hagaru-ri, were surrounded by over 150,000 soldiers of the Chinese Eighth Route Army, Col. "Chesty" replied, "We're surrounded? That simplifies our problem. Now we can shoot in any direction and still hit the enemy."

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time."

"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won't get away this time!" - CHESTY PULLER

Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed. Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em. Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

"We're surrounded... that simplifies our problem."

"Son, if they give you any shit, level the place." Orders to a company commander .

"You guys are the Marine's doctors;

There's no better in the business than a Navy Corpsman...." Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, U.S.M.C

"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!" -LT. GEN. LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER

"Chesty" Puller became more than a hero: he was an American Legend. His gruff, give 'em hell attitude was admired throughout the Marine Corps. His bravery and his nickname, were known to the millions of Americans on the home front. He was a man's man, a Marine' s Marine. For all his renown, however, there are few permanent monuments to "Chesty" Puller. One is in the Hall of Valor at the VMI Museum. There, thousands of visitors come each year to learn about the VMI men who made our nation great. "Chesty" Puller's medals are on display along with those of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, General Lemuel C. Shepherd, and others.

Good night, Chesty, wherever you are: This is an often-used tribute of supreme respect to the late and legendary LtGen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC. Chesty! Without a doubt he was the most outspoken Marine, the most famous Marine, the Marine who really loved to fight, the most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps.

"And when he gets to heaven to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir!! " I've served my time in hell."

Good night, Chesty, wherever you are.......

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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
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TF Rakkasan
HHC 3Bde
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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)
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TUNGUSKA The Cosmic Mytery of the Century
The explosions were heard in the early morning hours of June 30, 1908. It was a drama that has occurred countless times in Earth's history, and that is sure to play again. Those Tungus tribesmen and Russian fur traders who happened to glance into the southeastern Siberian sky that fateful morning must have been startled to see a fireball streaking through the atmosphere toward their trading post of Vanavara and leaving a trail of light some 800 kilometers long. The object, whatever its nature, was approaching from an azimuth of 115 degrees and descending at an entry angle of 30 to 35 degrees above the horizon. Their gaze followed the bright fireball as it continued along a northwestward trajectory until it seemed about to disappear over the horizon. Then it shattered in a rapid series of cataclysmic explosions lasting about half a second over a distance of 15 to 20 kilometers. The site was centered on 101 E by 62 N near the Stony Tunguska River 92 kilometers north of Vanavara. According to calculations, the object shattered at an altitude of 7.6 kilometers2 and became the first such cosmic visitor to strike Earth in the life time of civilized man. According to an eyewitness in Vanavara: "The sky split apart and a great fire appeared. It became so hot that one couldn't stand it. There was a deafening explosion [and my friend] S. Semenov was blown over the ground across a distance of three sazhens [six meters]. As the hot wind passed by, the ground and the huts trembled. Sod was shaken loose from our ceilings and glass was splintered out of the window frames." Vasiliy Dzhenkoul's tepees of poles overlain with thick sheets of Siberian cedar bark were located in at the site and the 1908 explosion instantly incinerated his 600 to 700 reindeer. His hunting dogs, stores, furs, and tepees also were reduced to ashes. Some have suggested it was a black hole. Others have wondered if it was a piece of anti-matter. A Japanese UFO group (Sakura), headed by Kozo Kowai, are convinced that it was the explosion of the nuclear power plant of an errant vehicle belonging to extraterrestrials. To this day the vast Tunguska region remains a desolate area of mosquito-infested bogs and swamps amid the beautiful hilly taiga. To reach the epicenter you are dropped off by helicopter. Or you hike in. Evidence of the blast is not difficult to identify, even after 90 years. The power of the blast felled trees outward in a radial pattern over an area of 2,1504 square kilometers, more than half the size of Rhode Island. In the hot central region of the epicenter the forest flashed into an ascending column of flame visible several hundred kilometers away. The fires burned for weeks, destroying an area of 1,000 square kilometers. Ash and powdered tundra fragments sucked skyward by the fiery vortex were caught up in the global air circulation and carried around the world. Meanwhile, bursts of thunder echoed across the land to a distance of some 800 kilometers. The mass of the object has been estimated at about 100,000 tons and the force of the explosion at 40 megatons of TNT, 2,000 times the force of the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima in 1945. Following the Tunguska explosion, unusually colorful sunsets and sunrises caught the world's attention and were reported from many countries, including Western Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, and Western Siberia. The climax of visual displays occurred on the night of June 30th. Although they continued, they weakened exponentially over several weeks until they died away. The New York Times of July 3, 1908 reported "remarkable lights" being "observed in the northern heavens on Tuesday and Wednesday nights." Scientists mistakenly attributed the dazzling displays to solar outbursts causing electrical disturbances in the atmosphere. Similar light displays had been reported in 1883 at the time of the Krakatoa volcanic explosion in the Sunda Strait, said the Times. These "optical fireworks" and "light nights" were most prominent over Eastern Siberia and Middle Asia. They included a night sky bright enough to read a watch or newspaper by. Dust in the air at heights of from 40 to 70 kilometers caused high-altitude noctiluscent, or "night-shining," clouds that illuminated much of the visible sky. And there were halos around the Sun. A marked decrease of the air's transparency was recorded in the United States by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and California's Mount Wilson Observatory.
Disturbances in earth's magnetic field were reported 900 kilometers southeast of the epicenter by the Irkutsk Observatory. These were magnetic "storms" similar to the ones produced by nuclear test explosions in the atmosphere. The seismograph station some 4,000 kilometers west in St. Petersburg recorded tremors produced by the blast, as did more distant stations around the world. But no one, except observers in Central Siberia, was aware that an enormous explosion of a cosmic body had occurred. It was generally believed that an earthquake, somewhere, had taken place. And little more was thought about the matter in scientific circles. It wasn't until 19 years after the event that a Russian scientist named Kulik managed to organize the first expedition in search of the site, and cause of the event. There had been reports from Tungus nomads of a vast area of fallen trees and evidence of much burning. The shaman-chief of the Tungus people, or Evenks, had for years virtually sealed off the region, proclaiming it "enchanted." The Evenk people had long been fearful of further enraging the gods whose wrath they believed had been responsible for 1908 explosion. Investigators had to hack their way through some 100 kilometers of taiga, cross rivers and streams, and plod through bogs and swamps. Perhaps worst of all, they had to endure endless and dense swarms--"walls" is more descriptive--of mosquitoes. The epicenter was found and they mapped the area of fallen trees. They puzzled over several neat oval areas which were presumed to be old meteorite craters that had been filled in by time. Magnetic probes and drilling over the years failed to detect a single gram of metal either in the Great Southern Swamp or in those neat oval patches of tundra. There have been a series of interesting biological consequences of the explosion. Following the blast there was accelerated growth of biomass in the region of the epicenter, and the accelerated growth had continued. There also was an increase in the rate of biological mutations, not only within the epicenter but along the trajectory of the object over Tunguska. For example, abnormalities in the Rh blood factor of local Evenk groups have been found. Genetic variation in certain local ant species is now being studied. And genetic abnormalities in the seeds and needle clusters of at least one species of pine have been discovered. An Italian group of scientists analyzed the resin of trees felled by the explosion and preliminary findings indeed did identify such cosmic matter--among which were particles of calcium, iron-nickel, silicates, cobalt-wolfram, and lead. It has been suggested that part of the asteroid might have been pulverized on exploding while a portion remaining intact skipped off in a new direction and back out of the atmosphere. To complicate matters, investigators of the 1960s identified four smaller epicenters within the larger one of a 60-kilometer diameter. Each of the smaller epicenters has its own radial tree-fall pattern, and each presumably was caused by individual explosions during the half-second burst. A number of scientists favor a comet theory. The leading investigator in this area is the geochemist Yevgeniy Kolesnikov, of Moscow University. Over the years he has dug out large blocks of peat samples from various locations over the epicenter and analyzed them for isotopic anomalies. The 1908 layer in his many peat samples contains high concentrations of a number of volatiles that also occur in the upper atmosphere and are presumed to be cometary dust. The investigations are on-going and at this stage, the comet and asteroid theories appear to be the most promising, but the matter is far from being closed.

Today in Military History

296		St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1294		Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1520		Montezuma II is murdered as Spanish conquistadors flee the Aztec capital of Tenochtilan during the night.
1794		Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1834		Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1862		Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp
1871		Guatemala revolts for agarian reforms
1894		Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1908		A mysterious explosion, possibly the result of a meteorite, levels thousands of trees in the Tunguska region of Siberia with a force approaching twenty megatons.
1934		Adolf Hitler orders the bloody purge of his own party in the "Night of the Long Knives."
1936		Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone With the Wind, is published.
1939		Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemonde
1950		Pres Truman orders US troops into Korea
1951		NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
1960		Zaire (then Belgian Congo) gains independence from Belgium
1962		Rwanda & Burundi become independent
1969		Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
1977		Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
1981		China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1982		Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1985		39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1989		Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK
1989		Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
Born
1470		Charles VIII king of France (1483-98), invaded Italy
1685		John Gay, poet and playwright (The Beggar's Opera).
1768		Elizabeth Kortright, later Elizabeth Monroe, first lady to U.S. President James Monroe.
1819		William A Wheeler (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
1837		Stephen D Ramseur youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
1909		Juan Bosch poet/pres of the Dominican Republic (1962-63)
1911		Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and critic.
1917		Lena Horne, American singer.
1919		Susan Hayward, actress.
1926		Paul Berg, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.
1932		Mongo Beti, novelist and political writer.
1934		Harry Blackstone Jr magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion)
1966		Mike Tyson heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)
Died
1973		Elmer Layden one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died
1974		Mrs Albert King mother of Martin Luther King, murdered in church

[Snow Bunny]

I hope you have a great day Beep!

[4TheFlag]

Good Morning SB!

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Blackie.......HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Our phone was on the blink yesterday so I could not get online. This is a day late but I wanted to wish you and Mrs. Blackie all the best!

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Hi handsome, I missed you! I had no phone line yesterday, until a few minutes before 2300. waaaaa.

Have a fantastic day my good friend. I am gong to go to sleep now....

(((((((((((( hug ))))))))))

[4TheFlag]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEEP!!!

[SpookBrat]

Hey there 4TheFlag. I haven't talked to you in a couple of days.

[SpookBrat]

Thanks for this thread. I'll have to read it when I get back from church. I have family visiting and I need to fix them a big breakfast. I'll see y'all later. Have a good day everyone.

[philman_36]

Good night, Chesty, wherever you are.
Great post SB about a great Marine. It almost makes me want to take back every jarhead joke I ever told.

[4TheFlag]

Bummer on the phone line SB, sleep well my FRiend....:)

I'm going to bed too.....

[4TheFlag]

Hey there SB2! Yeah been wicked up here....BRUTAL heat, and now fires.

How are you Lady, and how is that rabbit?

[SpookBrat]

Before I go, I thought I would bless everyone with real live angels on this beautiful Sunday morning. Have a good day everyone.

[SpookBrat]

Rabbit is alive and doing better, slowly. It's very hard to give her medicene. Have you ever tried to give medicene to a rabbit? augh!!

[RightOnline]

What an absolutely superb tribute to such a great man. Salute to the General................and a salute to you, Snow Bunny. God bless you both.