USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Canteen Thanksgiving Messages to the Military ~ November 27 2002

68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub and FRiends of the Canteen

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

On the eve of Thanksging in the continental United States we pause to remember those who are overseas.
Many of our service men and women will be spending their 1st Thanksgiving
away from home, family and friends.
Today military stationed in countries overseas will be celebrating Thanksgiving.
It is because of their devotion to duty, honor and country
that we will be able to celebrate our Thanksgiving tomorrow.



Senior U.S. officers serve their troops an elaborate Thanksgiving Dinner at Camp Doha in Kuwait on November 22, 2001.
U.S. soldiers serving in Kuwait, including some who had just arrived from the United States,
later headed to the Kuwaiti desert
for a military exercise close to the border with former occupier Iraq.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Colleen, for stopping in to help thank and honor our troops. You always have such good graphics, too.

[Dubya]

Yes I am Kathy. I would be proud of Matt anyway, but at 14 he is showing real good judgement. He has to put in a lot of extra hours that others don't have to do.

[Kathy in Alaska]

YES!! Thanks, B4, for the nifty letter from Mary Beth Johnson LtCol, USMC. I love it. It seems some of the French will never "get it".

[Dubya]

"Freedom isn't free.
Anonymous

"If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it."
anonymous (1940's saying)

"Soldiers are men...most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war."
Henry Knyvett

"A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
Adapted from Henry G. Bohn"

"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."
Josephus Daniels

"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem."
Ronald Reagan

"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living."
John F. Kennedy

"A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons."
Admiral David D. Porter, USN

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
George Patton

"Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it."
Will Rogers

"Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line."
Charles Edward Montague

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
Ernest Miller Hemmingway

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Those of you who will please remember Matt in your prayers"

Offering my prayers.

[Radix]

Thanks for the Diet Pepsi in a bottle.


You are such a peach!


Have a great night!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Excellent photo, John. Thanks for sharing it with our troops.

[Dubya]

Thank you Tonk.

[Soaring Feather]

May our Heavenly Father bless this house and all who reside here. We are ever so thankful for our families, friends, our freedoms.

Lord Jesus keep us safe from all harm, in your name. Amen

[Kathy in Alaska]

Candles for Ted Maher and his family.

[carlo3b]

A Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!

[Kathy in Alaska]

DING DING, DING DING, DING DING!!

[Mo1]

Good Morning Kathy .. Sorry for waking up the house ..

In case I don't get a chance tomorrow

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night, sweet dreams, and God bless you good, ms feather, for your steadfast help in honoring our troops and veterans. Your poems, jokes and graphics are terrific. Thank you so much.

[Kathy in Alaska]

LOL! I laughed and laughed and laughed. Thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving to you too, and your family

[Mo1]

OK .. I could not get this to work the way I wanted .. so please click on the link below

Happy Thanksgiving to All Our Troops

[Kathy in Alaska]

"Freedom Is Worth Fighting For!"

Thank you God for our troops and veterans, for all they have done, and continue to do fighting for our freedoms. Thanks, blackie, for helping honor our troops.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks again, Mo, for the card for our troops.

It is very late for you. Shouldn't you be in bed?

[Mo1]

Yes .. but I passed out on the couch earlier and now I am trying to get up the nerve to clean this lovely mess my children left me .. LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

Just got this in email...........FOR THE TROOPS!!

Subject: BLACK NOVEMBER

When I was a young turkey, new to the coop,
my big brother, Mike, took me out on the stoop.
Then he sat me down, and he spoke real slow,
and he told me there was something that I had to know.
His look and his tone I will always remember,
when he told me of the horrors of...Black November. 

"Come about August, now listen to me,
each day you'll get six meals instead of just three
and you'll grow a big rubbery thing under your chin, and then one
morning, when you're warm in your bed,
in'll burst the farmer's wife, and hack off your head;
then she'll pluck out all your feathers so you're bald 'n pink,
and scoop out all your insides and leave ya lyin' in the sink;
and then comes the worst part" he said not bluffing, "She'll spread your cheeks and pack your rear with stuffing."

Well, the rest of his words were too grim to repeat,
I sat on the stoop like a winged piece of meat,
and decided on the spot that to avoid being cooked,
I'd have to lay low and remain overlooked;
I began a new diet of nuts and granola,
high-roughage salads, juice and diet cola;
and as they ate pastries, chocolates and crepes,
I stayed in my room doing Jane Fonda tapes;
I maintained my weight of two pounds and a half,
and tried not to notice when the bigger birds laughed.
But 'twas I who was laughing, under my breath,
as they chomped and they chewed, ever closer to death;
and sure enough when Black November rolled around,
I was the last turkey left in the entire compound.
So now I'm a pet in the farmer's wife's lap;
I haven't a worry, so I eat and I nap;
she held me today, while sewing and humming,
and smiled at me and said, "Christmas is coming"!