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[SouthernHawk]

Good Morning Radix. Pancakes sound great!Good morning to our military and good morning to the whole Canteen crew.

Warm up exercise for today . . . . .

Talking T-Shirts?
(From the crowds at the fireworks shows)

1. "I married her for her looks, but not the ones she's been giving me lately!"

2. "There's two sides to every divorce. Yours and BUTTHEAD's!"

[beachn4fun]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. DARN, tomkow told me it was going to be Waffles on Wednesday.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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Please Thank someone in the military for ensuring our Freedom.
Take a moment and Thank a Service Man or Woman.
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[tomkow6]

SALUTE!

 

 

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Mr. Radix! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!!

[tomkow6]

For our Canteen WAFFLE Specialist, MR. Radix,
Catch 

Pancakes on Wednesdays

WAFFLES ON WEDNESDAY!

WAFFLES ON WEDNESDAY!

WAFFLES ON WEDNESDAY!

 

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[tomkow6]

 

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

From the men in the Military and the Canteen

[tomkow6]

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

A fellow and his wife in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where the people are all
patriots, were blessed with the birth of twins, two identical girls.
These twins were born on the 4th of July, and the father, being
patriotic, said to his wife, "We will name them Liberty and Justice,
after the pledge of allegiance".

His wife said, "Are you nuts? You can't have girls going through
life with names like Liberty and Justice. We are going to name them
regular girl's names like Mary or Jane". Well, the argument went on for
about a month, when a compromise was reached. They would each name one
of the girls. The man chose Liberty and the wife picked Elizabeth.

As the girls grew, they were so identical, they kept pulling tricks
on people who couldn't tell them apart. Finally, when they were about
18, a young man took interest in them. He would take one out on a date
but he was never sure which one he was with. He decided he would marry
one of them, or both if he could get away with it, but he wasn't sure
which one he would marry, if he could only get one.

He went to the girls' father and explained his quandary. "I love your
daughters and want to marry one of them, but I can't tell them apart, so
I will leave it up to you".......

"Give me Liberty or give me Beth".

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Excerpt from the Remarks by President Bush in honor of Independence Day
United States Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio | July 4, 2003

"...Our nation is still at war. The enemies of America plot against us.
And many of our fellow citizens are still serving and sacrificing
and facing danger in distant places.
Many military families are separated. Our people in uniform do not have easy duty,
and much depends on their success. Without America's active involvement in the world,
the ambitions of tyrants would go unopposed, and millions would live at the mercy of terrorists.
With Americans' active involvement in the world, tyrants learn to fear, and terrorists are on the run..."

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To our military readers, we remain steadfast in keeping the Canteen doors open.
The Canteen is Free Republics longest running daily thread specifically designed
to provide entertainment and morale support for the military.
The doors have been open since Oct 7 2001,
the day of the start of the war in Afganistain.
We are indebted to you for your sacrifices for our Freedom.

To every service man or woman reading this thread.
Thank You for your service to our country.
No matter where you are stationed,
no matter what your job description
Know that we are are proud of each and everyone of you.

[Valin]

On This Day In History



Birthdates which occurred on July 09:
1764 Ann Ward Radcliffe English Gothic novelist (The Italian)
1766 J Schopenhauer, writer
1802 Thomas Davenport invented 1st coml electric motor
1819 Elias Howe Spencer Mass, invented sewing machine
1856 Nikola Tesla, Croatia, electrical engineer/physicist who developed alternating current./inventor (Tesla Coil)
1858 Franz Boas anthropologist/linguist (Mind of Primitive Man)
1864 Franz Miller becomes first Train Murderer
1878 H.V. Kaltenborn Milwaukee Wisc, newscaster (Who Said That?)
1879 Ottorino Respighi Bologna, Italy, composer (Pines of Rome)
1887 Samuel Eliot Morison historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea)
19-- Kathleen Layman Houston Tx, actress (Casey-Heartland)
1901 Barbara Cartland romance author (Camfield #69)
1901 Jester Hairston NC, actor (Thats My Mama, Rolly-Amen)
1905 Clarence Campbell Saskatchewan, 3rd NHL pres (1946-77)
1909 Jester Hairston actor (Riley-Amen)
1915 David Diamond Rochester NY, composer (Paderewski Prize-1943)
1916 Edward Heath (C) British PM (1970-74)
1917 Ted Steele Hartford Ct, orch leader (Cavalcade of Stars)
1924 Leonard Pennario Buffalo NY, pianist (LA Philharmonic)
1925 Alan Dale Bkln NY, singer (Alan Dale Show)
1927 Ed Ames Malden Mass, actor (Mingo-Daniel Boone)
1927 Leonard Patrick "Red" Kelly NHL hall of famer (Norris trophy)
1928 Vince Edwards Bkln NY, actor (Ben Casey, Matt Lincoln)
1929 Hassan II king of Morocco (1961- )
1929 Lee Hazelwood Ok, country singer/songwriter (Summer Wine, Jackson)
1930 Buddy Bregman Chicago, orch leader (Eddie Fisher Show)
1932 Donald Rumsfeld politician (Sec. Defence)
1935 Ronnie Burns Evanston Ill, adopted son of George Burns
1936 David Zinman NYC, conductor (Balt Symphony-1983)
1936 James Hampton actor (Teen Wolf, Amazing Howard Hughes, Hawmps)
1937 Clemon Daniels AFL player of year 1963, Half back (Oak, Dallas SF)
1937 David Hockney English artist (Pop Art)
1938 Brian Dennehy Ct, actor (Check is in the Mail, F/X, Cocoon, Ants)
1938 Paul Chihara Seattle Washington, US/Japanese composer
1939 James Hampton Okla City OK, actor (Bugler Dobbs-F Troop)
1939 Richard Roundtree New Rochelle NY, actor (Shaft, Roots)
1941 Karin von Aroldingen Germany, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Co)
1941 Takehide Nakatani Japan, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 Bon Scott vocalist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
1943 John H Casper Greenville SC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS-36, sk:STS-50)
1946 Mitch Mitchell drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
1947 O(renthal) J(ames) Simpson SF, NFL running back (Buf Bills)/actor
1952 John Tesh Garden City NY, TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
1954 Debbie Sledge Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1955 Jimmy Smits NYC, actor (Victor-LA Law, Running Scared, Believers)
1956 Marc Almond rocker (Everything I Want Love to Be)
1956 Tom Hanks Concord, Calif, actor (Bossom Buddies, Big, Punchline)
1957 Kelly McGillis Newport Beach Ca, actress (Top Gun, Accused, Witness)
1958 Jimmy Smits NYC, actor (Victor Sifuentes-LA Law)
1959 Jim Kerr rocker (Simple Minds-Don't You Forget About Me)
1963 Pamela Annette Sanders Miami Florida, playmate (November, 1985)
1965 Frank Bello Bronx NY, rock bassist (Anthrax-Protest & Survive)
1971 Bobby Leslie TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1971 Scott Grimes Lowell Mass, actor (Together We Stand)
1976 Fred Aaron Savage Ill, actor (Kevin-Wonder Years, Vice Versa)

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Deaths which occurred on July 09:
1441 - Jan/Johannes van Eyck, Flemish painter (Lamb Gods),
1755 British Gen. E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War
1850 B b [Bah '¡ prophet] executed in Tabriz, Iran; Rahmat 16, 7
1850 Zachary Taylor 12th pres of US, dies in White House served 16 mo
1875 Francis Preston Blair Jr famed St Louis lawyer, dies at 54
1951 Harry Heilmann baseball hall of famer outfielder (Det), dies at 56
1968 Allyn Edwards host (One Minute Please, Mr Citizen), dies at 53
1968 John Indrisano actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 62
1974 Former U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren died in Washington D.C.
1977 Dr Loren Eiseley prof of Anthropology (Animal Secrets), dies at 69
1985 Rafael Campos actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V), dies of cancer at 49
1988 Barbara Woodhouse dog trainer, dies at 78 of a stroke
1990 Howard Duff actor, dies at 76 of a heart attack
1992 Eric Sevareid, News correspondent (CBS), dies of stomach cancer at age 79.

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1967 LEE CHARLES RICHARD SAN DIEGO CA.
[PROB DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 06/03/83]
1967 MARTIN EDWARD H. SAVANNAH GA.
[03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1971 LILLY CARROLL BAXTER MORGANTOWN WV.
1972 KETCHIE SCOTT D. BIRMINGHAM AL.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
118 Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, makes his entry into the city.
455 Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, becomes Emperor of the West.
0711 Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies Northern Spain
1401 Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad
1533 Lady Jane Grey (at 15 years old) was proclaimed queen of England in succession to Edward VI; her reign ended 13 days later when she became a prisoner in the Tower of London
1536 French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada
1540 England's King Henry VIII 6-mo marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled(If at first you don't succeed try try again)
1595 Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe
1755 Brit Gen E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War
1776 Dec of Ind read aloud to Gen Washington's troops in NY
1800 Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theatre in US
1816 Argentina declares independence from Spain
1846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
1853 Adm Perry & US Navy visit Japan
1860 Temperature hits 115ø F in Ft Scott & 112ø F in Topeka Kansas
1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Ky
1863 Union troops enter Port Hudson
1868 1st black cabinet member in SC (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)
1872 Doughnut cutter patented by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me
1878 An improved corncob pipe patented by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo
1879 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #199 Byblis
1893 Daniel H Williams performs "world's 1st successful heart coperation"
1902 L Carnera discovers asteroid #487 Venetia
1910 Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
1914 1st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY
1915 Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa
1916 1st cargo submarine to cross the Atlantic arrives in US from Germany
1917 British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 800
1918 101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tenn
1918 US Army's Distinguished Service Cross authorized
1927 Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia
1932 Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) formed
1932 Yanks' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record
1933 Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles
1934 SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
1940 German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms
1940 NL beats AL 4-0 in 8th All Star Game (Sportsman Park, St Louis)
1944 World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance. 168 die. (Hartford Conn)
1946 AL beats NL 12-0 in 13th All Star Game (No 1945 game) (Fenway Park)
1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement
1948 Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleve
1950 13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record)
1951 Pres Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1953 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)
1953 Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games
1955 1st black executive on White House staff (E Frederic Morrow)
1955 Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart
1956 Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand
1957 AL beats NL 6-5 in 24th All Star Game (Busch Stadium, St Louis)
1957 Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced
1958 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
1963 NL beats AL 5-3 in 34th All Star Game (Municipal Stad, Cleveland)
1968 39.83 cm (15.68") of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record)
1968 NL beats AL 1-0 in 1st indoor All Star Game (Houston Astrodome)
1969 Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in the 9th
1972 1st tour of Paul McCartney & Wings (France)
1973 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel
1976 Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0
1976 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
1978 American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago (I HATE Illinois nazis)
1978 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2530 Shipka
1978 Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Wash DC for ERA
1979 Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab
1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
1980 7 die in a stampede to see the pope in Brazil
1980 Walt Disney's "The Fox & The Hound" released
1981 The Jacksons begin a 36-city tour
1982 Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster
1982 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, La, killing 153
1986 Att Gen's Com on Pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes
1988 "Facts of Life," Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble
1989 1st time Wimbeldon has both men & women's final on same day, Boris Becker beats Stefan Edberg & Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratilova
1991 AL beats NL in 62nd All Star Game in Toronto

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
US : National Canned Luncheon Meat Week (Day 4)
Argentina : Independence Day (1816)
Morocco : Youth Day/King Hassan II's Birthday
US : National POW/MIA Recognition Day
South Africa : Family Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Swaziland : Reed Dance Day - - - - - ( Monday )

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Religious Observances
Christian : St Thomas More, humanist/martyr
Old Catholic : Feast of St Maria Goretti, virgin/martyr
Feast of St. Thomas More.
Feast of the Martyrs of China II.

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Religious History
1228 Death of Stephen Langton (b.ca.1155), Archbishop of Canterbury. It was Langtonwho formulated the original division of the Bible into chapters in the late 1100s.
1530 German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'This is a definite sign thatwe are God's children, because we are men of peace.'
1838 Birth of Philip P. Bliss, American gospel singer and songwriter. His best-remembered hymns include 'Wonderful Words of Life,' 'It is Well with My Soul' and 'Let theLower Lights Be Burning.'
1843 Birth of Ralph E. Hudson, sacred composer and music publisher. His most enduringhymns include 'At the Cross' and 'Blessed Be the Name.'
1896 Birth of William Cameron Townsend, American missionary and linguist. In 1942 heestablished what has become the largest evangelical missionary agency in the world --Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT).

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"As a general rule, the freedom of any people can be judged by the volume of their laughter"

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Today's 'You Might Be A Redneck If' Joke...
"You've ever been arrested on an obscene mud-flap charge."

[wolficatZ]

Good morning all. I hope our men and women in uniform stay safe today, and know they have our support, always, no matter how tough the going gets.

 

 

60 years ago today

9 July 1943

Operation HUSKY involved four separate airborne operations, two by the Bristish and two by the 82nd Airborne. The first operation HUSKY I spearheaded this airborne invasion of Sicily. Led by Col. James M. "Slim Jim" Gavin,  the 505th PIR, and the 3rd Battalion of the 504th PIR were organized into a Regimental Combat Team. Their first objective was to parachute into an area around Gela on the southern shore of Sicily to close off roads leading to the beaches and secure the drop zone for the next operation. They were also to take out Objective Y which was a series of 16 concrete "pillboxes"  from which German gunners controlled movement on the nearby roads. Under a nearly full moon the  paratroopers crossed over the on schedule and jumped on their assigned drop zone on 9 July 1943 -- an event which British Prime Minister Winston Churchill termed, "not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning."

The second operation called HUSKY II involved the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 504th PIR, led by Colonel Reuben H. Tucker. They loaded the C-47 aircraft and took off for Sicily from the dusty airstrip near Kairouan, Tunisia. Near the Sicilian coast, however, a nervous Allied naval vessel suddenly fired upon the formation. Immediately, all other naval vessels and shore troops joined in, downing friendly aircraft and forcing planeloads of paratroopers to exit far from their intended drop zones in one of the greatest tragedies of World War II. Twenty-three of 144 USAAF transports were shot down by friendly fire and a total of 318 American troops were killed or wounded in the operation.

Colonel Tucker’s plane, after twice flying the length of the Sicilian coast and with well over 2,000 holes in its fuselage, finally reached the drop zone near Gela. By morning, only 400 of the Regiment’s 1600 soldiers had reached the objective area. The others had been dropped in isolated groups on all parts of the island and carried out demolitions, cut lines of communication, established island roadblocks, ambushed German and Italian motorized columns, and caused so much confusion over such an extensive area that initial German radio reports estimated the number of American parachutists dropped to be over ten times the actual number.

Meanwhile, the troopers of the 504th 3rd Battalion along with the 505th PIR fought an enemy superior in numbers and equipment. Ambushes were conducted and even Objective Y, the deadly pillboxes, were secured. By continuing to fight in small groups the 82nd led the Germans and Italians to continue to overestimate the number of airborne invaders thus impeding any meaningful counterattacks. The German Herman Goering Panzer Division was another matter. Even though outmanned and outgunned, the 82nd used raw courage and fighting spirit to block the steel behemoths of this Division from advancing toward the Allied landings on the beachhead.

By D+3, they had accomplished their initial mission and were relieved by the 1st Infantry Division to return to regimental control.

 

[Fiddlstix]

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Radix! Thanks for Pancakes on Wednesday.

[aomagrat]

Wednesday's weird warship, CSS Manassas

Manassas class Ironclad ram
Displacementt. 387 t.
Lenght. 143'
Beam. 33'
Draft. 17'
Complement. 36
Armament. 1 64-pdr. Dahlgren

CSS MANASSAS, formerly the steam propeller ENOCH TRAIN, was built at Medford, Mass., by J. O. Curtis in 1855. A New Orleans commission merchant, Capt. J. A. Stevenson, acquired her for use as a privateer and fitted her out at Algiers, La., as an ironclad ram of radically modern design. Covered with 1-inch iron plating, her hull projected only 2 feet above the water, and her plated top was convex causing cannon shot to glance off harmlessly. She was provided with sharp irons on her bow to stave holes through enemy vessels. Fast moving, lying low in the water and a difficult target, virtually bomb-proof, she looked like a floating cigar or egg shell and was described by Union intelligence as a "hellish machine."

Commissioned as a Confederate privateer on 12 September 1861 MANASSAS was seized soon afterwards by Flag Officer G. N. Hollins, CSN, for use in the lower Mississippi River. With Lieutenant A. F. Worley, CSN, in command she participated in Flag Officer Hollins' surprise attack on the Federal blockading squadron at Head of Passes, Mississippi River, on 12 October 1861. In the action MANASSAS violently rammed USS RICHMOND damaging her severely below the water line. MANASSAS, however, suffered the loss of her prow and smokestack and had her engines temporarily thrown out of gear from the impact. She managed to retire under heavy fire from USS PREBLE and RICHMOND whose shells glanced off her armor. Two months after this engagement MANASSAS was purchased for direct ownership by the Confederate Government.

Under Lieutenant Worley, MANASSAS joined the force of Capt. J. K. Mitchell, CSN, commanding Confederate naval forces in the lower Mississippi. She participated in the engagement of 24 April 1862 during which Flag Officer Farragut, USN, on his way to New Orleans, ran his fleet past the Confederate forts Jackson and St. Philip. In the action MANASSAS attempted to ram USS PENSACOLA which turned in time to avoid the blow and deliver a broadside at close range. MANASSAS then ran into murderous fire from the whole line of the Union fleet. She then charged USS MISSISSIPPI and delivered a long glancing blow on her hull, firing her only gun as she rammed. Next she rammed USS BROOKLYN, again firing her gun, and injuring her rather deeply, but not quite enough to be fatal.

After this action MANASSAS followed the Union fleet quietly for a while but as she drew closer MISSISSIPPI furiously turned on her. MANASSAS managed to dodge the blow but was run aground. Her crew escaped as MISSISSIPPI poured her heavy broadsides on the stranded Confederate vessel. Later MANASSAS slipped off the bank and drifted down the river in flames past the Union mortar flotilla. Comdr. D. D. Porter, USN, in command of the mortar boats, tried to save her as an engineering curiosity but MANASSAS exploded and immediately plunged under water.

[MoJo2001]

Woohoo! It's Pancakes On Wednesday!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

021207-M-3022S-001 Manda Bay, Kenya (Dec. 7, 2002) -- Marines from Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) race ashore in combat rubber reconnaissance craft, to secure a beach landing site during Exercise Edged Mallet 2003. Edged Mallet is an annual exercise conducted with the Kenya military. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jeff Sisto. (RELEASED)