USO Canteen FReeper Style Liberty R&R to Arkansas .... October 26,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Snow Bunny

[Snow Bunny]

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The USO Canteen FReeper Style
Delivering a Touch of Home

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A Touch of Home

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This is how I think of the USO Canteen 
Freeper Style. It is like a cottage down a road,
a place where a weary veteran can spend the night. 

Since it opened, it is magical how so many
Freepers who post here, feel it too. 
It has been so dear how the Freepers
kept making it a cottage - a home-type of 
place that had a huge living room
for them to visit in and a dance floor, 
a library, etc. 

Many Veterans have written to me, 
saying that the Canteen is like home
to them for the first time since they 
served. 

This is your Canteen -
a respite from our busy 
and sometimes troubling world. 
Make yourself at home.

Snow Bunny

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If you know a Veteran, someone in your family, 
friend of the family, neighbor, who served their  
country, take a brief moment of your day to thank 
them. 

Thank them for the sacrifice they made
for the better good of their country.

We at Free Republic, and the USO Canteen FReeper 
Style, are thankful for every service member 
in our military, who has served our great nation.

So, to the men and women who answered the call,
In both times of war and peace, thank you.

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Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields. 

John McCrae 

CASUAL SATURDAY AT THE CANTEEN

Liberty commences at the beginning of today's
FReeper USO Canteen thread
and, depending on your division assignment,
expires when the new thread for Sunday is posted.

***** A special invitation to our troops and Veterans
to join us in today's cyber trip. *****

Arkansas

Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park

The State that brought us a President

Application to Live in Arkansas

Mt. Magazine

Falling Water Falls, Ozarks

Pumpkin Hollow, Piggot

Sam's Throne, Ozark National Forest

Toad Suck Daze

Long ago, steamboats traveled the
Arkansas River when the water was
at the right depth. When it wasn't, the
captains and their crew tied up to wait
where the Toad Suck Lock and Dam now
spans the river.

While they waited, they refreshed themselves
at the local tavern there, to the dismay of the
folks living nearby, who said: "They suck on
the bottle 'til they swell up like toads." Hence,
the name Toad Suck. The tavern is long gone,
but the legend and fun live on at Toad Suck Daze.

Conway Twitty brought fame to Arkansas

Wagon Wheel, Ozarks

State Flower Apple Blossom

Sugar Loaf Mountain as seen from the Little Red River

DeGray Lake Resort State Park

[Kathy in Alaska]

I hope you got to hear the Patsy Cline that MoJo played for us. Patsy was such a good singer. Congrats to your son on Army jump school. Linda is more brave than me. I prefer staying in perfectly good airplanes. Thanks to both you and your son for your services to our country.

[radu]

"What Is A Brother" is a beautiful poem, Tonkin, and perfect for the Canteen. Thank you for posting it.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Bungee jumping? YOU DID WHAT?

OMG, now I have to worry about you jumping out of a perfectly good airplane too? Worrying about Linda was hard enough.

[radu]

My sentiments exactly, Kathy. You did WHAT??!!! groan...I feel woozy.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Great picture Radix. Hmmmmmm.....Linda, you could create quite the commotion. LOL!

[radu]

Duchess, have you ever jumped out of a perfectly good plane or done any bungee jumping? Or are you like Kathy and me, liking to keep your feet firmly planted on something solid? hehehe!

[Snow Bunny]

NEW THREAD

[radu]

The flower arrangement is perfect for getting the mood set for Halloween, Tonk. It's beautiful.

HUG

[Snow Bunny]

WOW ! Bungee jumping.

[radu]

Poo! We're on such different schedules, zip. I always miss you when you're here....I'm in 'zzzzz-land' then. haha! I hope you're feeling chipper these days. :-))

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Well, I've never DONE it, but I think I probably could bring myself to jump out of a plane. If I had to. : )

Bungee jumping doesn't appeal to me. At all. : ) So I guess that makes three of us, huh? I think I could even pass on living it vicariously through Linda and MoJo - but I DO admire their courage! Very cool!

[Snow Bunny]

Sweet dreams Starman,thank you for today.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hi redhead, I hope you were able to join us Girlz in bumper boats. We've been missing you. Thanks for the southeast description of travel. What other state has a capital that you can't get there by car?

[radu]

LOL! I admire anyone who has the guts to do anything as as exciting as jump, be it out of a plane or on the end of a BIG rubberband. I'm such a chicken. cluckcluckcluckcluck.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Were you gutsier when you were younger, though? I look back on some of the stuff I did when I was twenty and I SHUDDER. WHAT WAS I THINKING? LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

That's the word that's been trying to get out of my brain: vicariously! I can be perfectly content living vicariously thru Linda (and my kid if I must). LOL!

[radu]

hahaha! I was LOTS gutsier. I lived in treetops...as high as I could go without the tree snapping and dropping me to the ground. My Mom once told me I had a habit of picking the most brittle variety of trees to climb and she just knew I'd never survive to adult-hood. Somehow, I made it.

I shudder when I think of some of the things I did when I was younger. I don't know why I lost my nerve for daring things. No bad experiences to explain it or anything. Just - poof! - and I became a chicken.

[radu]

This is the only way I can fly these days....in my other 'persona'. (giggle!)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

LOL radu - I'm sure you're NOT a chicken!

But honestly, I think that's part of the reason I feel so appreciative of those who protect us every day. They do things I wouldn't dream of doing, and it's routine for them. Amazing.

[radu]

You've got that right!! I was married to a Marine in the early '70's and got a pretty good idea of what our troops do and that's when I got a healthy respect for our military.