[Radix]

USO Canteen FReeper Style Military Support Links

Please Thank someone in the military for ensuring our Freedom.
Take a moment and Thank a Service Man or Woman.
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Armed Forces Careers

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The Fisher House program is a unique private-public partnership that supports America's military in their time of need by providing homes close to a loved one during the hospitalization for an unexpected illness, disease, or injury. There are currently 31 houses located on the grounds of every major military medical center and several VA medical centers. These houses will play a critical role in caring for casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom. Donations will be used to help meet the cost of lodging for a family whose loved one was injured in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. There is a limit to the number of families who can stay in a Fisher House and program is committed to help provide lodging for families who must find commercial lodging, because the Fisher House is full.

Access the Wounded Heroes Guestbook to write a message of encouragement for a hero wounded in the line of duty.   Messages in the Wounded Heroes Guestbook are viewed by wounded soldiers, their loved ones, and the general public.

	Links to Veteran Associations

VetsCoR is pleased to present: a CD message of support from America to our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen deployed in the Middle East, and other places around the globe, in the ongoing war on terrorism.

If you have a family member deployed, and would like to send them a copy of the CD, please click here. (VetsCoR will mail a copy of the CD FREE to any APO/FPO or military address.) If you want a copy of the CD and you are not a member of the Armed Forces, you may order a copy for $5.00 each. Click the VetsCor Logo for more information.

Share your thoughts, good wishes and messages with American troops deployed around the globe. In turn, we hope those in service will be able to view them on this site, and perhaps respond themselves. ADD A SERVICEPERSON: Please help make this tribute more complete by creating a page for your own friends and family who are currently deployed around the globe.

Support the Military Relief Societies!
Please support the the Military Relief Societies that help families whose loved
ones were injured or killed in battle. Click any one of the following:

Audio Reports from the
3rd Brigade Combat Team

Click on the patch and you can see and hear the voice of
our own txradioguy reporting from somewhere incountry.

Send a message to a Marine!

MSgt. Edwards a/k/a FReeper M1911A1 is currently serving in Kuwait for Operation Enduring Freedom!

Please click the pic and FReepmail Mrs. MSgt Dan a/k/a FReeper M0sby with your messages of support, goodwill or prayers.

Mrs. MSgt Dan will send your message to MSgt Dan in a great big HAPPY MESSAGE for him to read and pass around!

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[Aeronaut]

Good morning Radix.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on the pic and I'll guide you
to the start of today's
Pancakes on Wednesday thread






You will stay right where you are on the thread.
Please take a moment and Thank a Service Man or Woman.
Just Click on the graphic to send an e-mail.

[E.G.C.]

Good morning to everyone at the Canteen and all of our military at home and abroad. Thank you for all you're doing to keep our great country safe.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Some sad news posted last night in the Canteen by Texas Cowboy.

"Dear friends, I just got the call that I've been dreading, but expecting.

My sis died at about midnight Texas time. God has taken her home.

She devoted the last twenty-five years of her life to caring for the needs
of veterans in the VA Hospitals in San Antonio,
and I know many of them are welcoming her into heaven right now.

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.

I'll be going to San Antonio to take care of her final business.
May God bless you all."

335 posted on 08/19/2003 10:29 PM PDT by TexasCowboy (COB1)

I am sorry to hear of your loss.
May God Welcome your sister Home and comfort her family and friends.
Know that when she gets Home Mr. Hope will cheer her up and Thank her for her work with vets.
God Bless you Brother.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

These are two of the many links in the USO Canteen Post Office.

The Blue Star Mothers now have an area on their forum
where people can send messages to our troops.
They are printed by families and placed in care packages and letters.
These messages can go to any area where our troops are located.

CLICK BELOW TO SEND YOUR MESSAGE



CLICK BELOW for more info.

[SouthernHawk]

Good Morning Radix! More Waffles Please!!!!Good morning to our military and good morning to the whole Canteen crew.

Warm up exercise for today . . . . .

Would you like another cup?
A sweet little boy surprised his grandmother one morning and brought her a cup of coffee. He made it himself and he was so proud. The young lad anxiously waited to hear the verdict on the quality of the coffee.

The grandmother had never in her life had such a bad cup of coffee, and as she forced down the last sip she noticed three of those little green army guys in the bottom of the cup.

She asked her grandson, "Honey, why would three little green army guys be in the bottom of my cup of coffee?"

Her grandson proudly replied, "You know Grandma, it's like on TV. 'The best part of waking up is soldiers in your cup.'"

[The Mayor]

[tomkow6]

SALUTE!

 

 

[beachn4fun]

Morning Everyone...happy Wednesday....otherwise known as Pancakes on Wednesday...here at the Canteen. Mmmmmm.......boy....I can smell them now....

Thanks Radix for cooking up breakfast/lunch/dinner for us all. For dinner I'd like to request this kind of pancake............mmmmmmm, doesn't that look....dee....lishi....ous?

[tomkow6]

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

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!!

[tomkow6]

 

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[tomkow6]

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

Two Engineers agree to paint a flag pole. Of course they need to know how tall it is so they can purchase the paint. One shimmies up the pole with a tape measure and falls after reaching about half way. While trying to figure out how they can possibly measure the pole along comes a Designer.

After asking what they're doing he replies, "that's easy". He then reaches around the pole and pulls it out of the ground and lays it down. "There you go", he said as he walked away.

The two Engineers look at each other and one said "that stupid guy will never get anywhere, we don't need to know how wide it is, just how tall".

[aomagrat]

Wednesday's weird warship, USS Daisy

The 54-ton screw tug Mulford, originally built in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1850s, served with the U.S. Army on the Western Rivers in 1862. She was transferred to the Navy in October of that year. Soon renamed Daisy, she served in the Mississippi Squadron until August 1865, when she was sold. Under the name Little Queen, she remained in civilian employment until about 1871.

I don't think I could have served on a ship named "Daisy" with a straight face.

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on August 20:
1778 Bernardo O'Higgins won independence for Chile
1785 Oliver Hazard Perry US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
1833 Benjamin Harrison North Bend, Ohio (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893)
1860 Raymond Poincar‚ France, PM (1912), president
1873 Eliel Saarinen Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich)
1881 Edgar Albert Guest Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman
1890 H.P. Lovecraft US, Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness)
1901 Salvatore Quasimodo Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959)
1907 Alan Reed NYC, actor (Mr Adams & Eve/voice (Fred Flintstone)
1907 Shirley Booth NYC, actress (Hazel-Hazel, A Touch of Grace)
1908 Alfonso Lopez baseball player (AL Manager of the year 1959)
1920 Istv n Sziv¢s Hungary, water polo player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1921 Jacqueline Susann Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls)
1931 Don King boxing promoter, shocking hairstyle
1933 George Mitchell (Sen-D-Me, Senate Whip 1989- )
1935 Justin Tubb San Antonio Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1937 George Thoma German FR, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1960)
1938 Jean-Loup Chr‚tien 1st French traveler in space (on Soyuz T-6)
1940 Sam Melville Utah, actor (Mike Danko-Rookies, Roughnecks)
1941 William H Gray III Baton Rouge La, (Rep-D-Pa, 1978- )
1942 Hans-Joachim Klein German FR, 100m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1942 Isaac Hayes composer (Shaft)
1944 Graig Nettles 3rd baseman (NY Yankees, SD Padres, Cleve Indians)
1944 Rajiv Gandhi PM of India (1984- )
1946 Connie Chung TV newscaster (NBC, CBS)
1948 Robert Plant rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1953 Peter Horton Bellevue Wash, actor (Gary-30 Something)
1955 Jay Acovone Mahopac NY, actor (Det Rado-Hollywood Beat)
1957 Cindy Nicholas Canada, swimmer, swam English Channel 19 times
1957 Jim "Bullseye" Bowen British TV game show host
1958 Lenny Henry British comedian (3 of a Kind)
1960 Elizabeth Alda daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Beth-Four Seasons)
1961 Linda Mantz NYC, actress (Frankie-Dorothy)
1961 Rick Rael heavy metal rocker
1964 Giuseppe Giannini Rome Italy, soccer player (Rome A Team)
1966 Courtney Gibbs Miss USA (1988)/actress (Baywatch)
1971 Ke Huy Quan Saigon Vietnam, actor (Sam-Together We Stand)

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Deaths which occurred on August 20:
1804 Charles Floyd only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
1914 Pope Pius X dies
1915 Paul Ehrlich scientist, dies in Hamburg at 61
1940 Leon Trotsky icepicked by Frank Jackson
1961 Vilhjalmur Stefansson Arctic explorer, dies at 82
1982 Ulla Jacobsson Swedish actress, dies in Vienna at 53 of bone cnacer
1985 Harchand Singh Longowai Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
1986 Donn Bennett TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
1986 Walter Brooke actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
1991 Lenore Strunsky Gershwin widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 MILIKIN RICHARD M.III MIAMI FL.
1968 LINDBLOOM CHARLES DAVID ATLANTA GA.
1968 RISNER RICHARD F.
[08/22/68 ESCAPED, ALIVE IN 99]
1972 MOSSMAN HARRY S. MANHASSET NY.

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

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On this day...
1781 George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1794 Gen Mad Anthony Wayne routes Indians at Fallen Timbers, Ohio
1852 Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
1865 Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
1866 Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
1896 Dial telephone patented
1908 Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1912 Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
1913 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe P‚goud-France)
1914 German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I
1918 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1920 1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
1920 Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
1925 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1929 1st airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed
1930 Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1940 British PM Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
1940 Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21
1942 Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
1944 "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
1945 Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
1947 Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1948 US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
1949 78,382 watch the White Sox play the Indians at Cleveland
1949 Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1953 Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1955 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
1955 Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
1956 Republicans convene at Cow Palace
1957 Chic White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
1957 USAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
1957 White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
1958 Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1958 Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
1960 Senegal breaks from the Mali federation; declaring independence
1960 USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1961 Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight losses
1964 President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act (totaling nearly $1 billion)
1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
1968 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1971 FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
1974 Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1975 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1975 Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
1978 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
1978 Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
1979 Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
1980 NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980 Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1980 UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital
1982 Don Lever becomes the 1st captain of the NJ Devils
1985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Goodin)
1985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of the US
1985 Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1986 Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in the 9th
1988 Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
1990 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Hungary : Constitution Day (1949)
Senegal : Independence Day (1960)
Hawaii : Admission Day (1959) - - - - - ( Friday )
Mich : Montrose-Blueberry Festival - - - - - ( Friday )

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Religious Observances
Unification Church : The Day of Total Victory
Ang, RC, Luth : Memorial of St Bernard, abbot at Clairvaux, doctor

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Religious History
1553 Protestant reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter: 'Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.'
1745 Birth of Francis Asbury, English Methodist missionary and circuit-riding bishop of the American colonies. During 42 years of labor, Asbury traveled 300,000 miles by horseback, ministering up and down the Eastern seaboard.
1884 Birth of Rudolf Bultmann, German New Testament scholar. He pioneered Form Criticism with his History of the Synoptic Tradition (1921), whereby he sought to identify the devices of Hebrew speech in order to make the central Gospel message meaningful to moderns.
1886 Birth of Paul Tillich, German philosophical theologian. Tillich advocated "myth" as a signpost, participating in the reality to which it points. Evangelicals generally criticize Tillich today for his pantheistic views of God.
1958 A pentecostal sect, formed by Grady R. Kent out of the Church of God of Prophecy, formally adopted as its name "The Church of God of All Nations." The denomination is headquartered today in Cleveland, Tennessee.

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

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Thought for the day :
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

[darkwing104]

Good Morning Canteen FReepers.

[armymarinemom]

Good Morning everyone

I spoke with my son in the sand box yesterday. He is doing well but he was tired due to a long day. His unit ran six birds for UN transports.
I told him that some of the Veterans for Peace people had asked parents for addresses of our soldiers in the sand box and rock pile in order to tell them that our government is lying to them. To my surprise he asked that I please give them his address. When I asked him why on earth he would want to recieve mail from those idiots he told me that he would like to clean a certain part of his anatomy with the letters and then mail them back!

He still has his sense of humor.

[HiJinx]

Well, we’re going to do something a little different today. Rather than Googling for sites, we’re going to go straight to Arizona’s premiere horn-tootin’ back-pattin’ self-aggrandizing medium – Arizona Highways magazine! Every month they offer a back road adventure at the back (where else?) of the magazine. September’s adventure takes us to Point of Pines Lake. It was written by Sam Negri, who has spent much of his adult life wandering around rural Arizona. The photographs are by Mike Larson. Arizona Highways limits access to their property, so none of these pictures are linked. If you want to see them in full size, you'll have to subscribe!

Clouds threaten to disrupt the lake’s placid reflections and the sunlit display of colorful wildflowers at Point of Pines

Point of Pines, a high-country recreational area, sits within the borders of the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Created by Congress in 1897, the reservation covers a little more than 1.8 million acres in central and eastern Arizona and was formerly a division of the White Mountain Reservation established in 1871.

Sunlight shimmering through morning mist transforms dewdrops into sparkling jewels on pine boughs and bracken ferns

I'm at the southwestern edge of Point of Pines Lake in a small meadow surrounded by the remnants of late summer wildflowers and a deep forest of ponderosa pine trees. I was startled by what appeared to be a bald eagle perched on a bare branch at the top of a ponderosa pine on the opposite bank. An Apache man who had been watching his wife fish pointed at the top of the tree.

"Eagle," he said.
"I think so," I replied.
"Maybe a hawk," he said.

But, it turned out not to be an eagle. When it moved, I saw its white belly and a line of black feathers extending from its eye to the back of its head, the unmistakable markings of an osprey. Ospreys migrate through the area in the fall, and this one was clearly attracted by the prospect of dining on fish from the lake.

A great blue heron surveys Point of Pines Lake’s shoreline, the source of its diet of small fish, insects, snakes, and frogs

The morning after my arrival, I took my kayak over to the mile-long lake. I paddled down the middle, scanning the steep embankment on the southern shore. From the high-water mark stained in the rocks, I could see how much the lake had dropped during the recent long drought.

While I was lost in a reverie of missing rain, two great blue herons suddenly rose from a shadow at the edge of my peripheral vision. One swung over my head, arching through a small circle of the sky; the second one banked and moved wider, but both landed in the same pine tree, folding their smoky wings and becoming invisible against the backdrop of the forest.

Getting to the country up around Point of Pines is easy. Drive east of Globe on US 70. You can get the tribe's $7 recreational use permit at the Chevron station across from the Apache Gold Casino. The road to Point of Pines from US 70 is Indian Route 8 and the one up the mountain is Indian Route 1000. Neither is marked, but they're impossible to miss (right...I'd miss 'em! HJ).

The paved road climbs gradually through a broad grassy area called Antelope Flat and leads eventually through 6.646-foot-high Barlow Pass. This area is well known as an archaeological trove once inhabited by Mogollon, Hohokam, Puebloan, and Salado Indians before the Apaches arrived sometime after 1450 AD.

[Mr. Silverback]

Feeble attempt at humor for the lurking troops...

PLEASE NOTE: NOT YOUR TYPICAL CHAIN LETTER. TAKE A MINUTE TO READ IT AND
YOU'LL GET A LAUGH.

Dear Friend,

This chain letter was started in hopes of bringing relief to other tired
and discouraged men. Unlike most chain letters, this one doesn't cost
anything!

Just send a copy of this letter to five of your friends who are equally
tired and discontented. Then, bundle up your wife and/or girlfriend and
send her to the man whose name appears at the top of the following list,
and add your name to the
bottom of the list.

When your turn comes, you will receive 15,625 women. One of them is
bound to be better than the one you already have.

At the writing of this letter, a friend of mine has already received 184
women, of whom four were worth keeping.

REMEMBER this chain brings luck. One man's pit bull died, and the next day he received a Playboy
playmate. An unmarried Jewish man, living with his widowed mother, was
able to choose between a Hooter's waitress and a Hollywood super model.

You can be lucky too, but DO NOT BREAK THE CHAIN! One man broke the chain and got his wife back.

Let's keep it going, men! Just add your name to the bottom of the list
below!

Bill Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

Billy Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

Billie Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

B. Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

William Jefferson Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

W. Jefferson Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

W. Jeff Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

W. J. Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

W. Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

William J Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

Wilhelm Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

Willie Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

Will Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

Mr. Hillary Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

Mr. Slick Willie Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

Mr. Big B Clinton
780 3rd Ave New York, NY 10017

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Radix, for Pancakes on Wednesday. Lots of fun links to follow.

[MoJo2001]

Woohoo! It's Pancakes On Wednesday! Thank you for posting such a fun and interesting thread, Radix!! *HUGS* to you and yours!