USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Canteen Sports Corner ~ 11 SEP 2003

Provided On Thread | The Goddess, txradioguy, Mr. Tonkin, Ma, and MoJo

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, Divas! I was just able to get back online! I can't really sleep. (I told Ma I was going to, but I decided to do some laundry while I hoped for the cable modem to blink!)

[Fawnn]

Gramps leaves town in the morning and the crow bar & I are gonna have some SERIOUS fun...!!!

Ever seen Fried Green Tomatoes? ;)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Laundry? I wonder if I was supposed to do that for Gramps' trip...........

hmmmmmmmmm.................

[Brad’s Gramma]

Years ago.....refresh my memory. What's a crow bar & my husband have to do with Hollywood?

[MoJo2001]

Thank you for taking time out of your busy life defending America and doing this for everyone. It means a lot. God Bless You!! *HUGS*

[MoJo2001]

LOL!! Gramps is a big boy, right?? I'm sure he can do it himself. If not, buy him a book about laundry and call it a day. You are a Diva after all. You've got better things to do!! Hehehe!

[MoJo2001]

Listening to a leftover copy of the Patriotic Music CD. I could listen to it everyday. Well, that's enough of me babbling about useless topics of no relevance to anyone else's life but my own. Hehehe!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Gramps is a big boy, right?? I'm sure he can do it himself.

Uhhhhhhhhhh........well........uhhhhhh......, well, uhhhhhh...it's like this, uhhhhhhh....well....

[MoJo2001]

Thank you for listing the dates and facts. We really appreciate it! Welcome to the Canteen!! It's great to have you today!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Wonderin' myself, WHAT THE HECK NUMBER 20 WAS?????? LOL!!!

[MoJo2001]

Hi Ma! Thanks for everything you do for our troops and the Canteen. THere are many things you do behind the scenes to support our troops. While I know all of our troops appreciate it, I just wanted to acknowledge it. God Bless You!

Yeah! Thanks for the many lectures about....Um...well, whatever! Hehehe!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Say Good Night, Brad's Gramma!

Good night, Brad's Gramma.

Good night, MoJo.

HEHEEEEEEEEEEEEE See Ye Later In The Day!

[MoJo2001]

"Cadence Rock" from our favorite Gunny!! Lee Emery. He's the host of "Mail Call" on The History Channel. Also, he was also in either "Platoon" or shoot..I can't think right now. Maybe he was in "Full Metal Jacket". Dang! It's too early/late to get this brain kicking!

[MoJo2001]

Good night, Brad's Gramma! Sweet dreams!! *HUGS*

[MoJo2001]

I love Fried Green Tomatoes!! That was such an awesome movie. (My hubby hates that movie!!) TAWANDA RULES!! LOL!

[txradioguy]

First off THANK YOU to Kathy and MoJo for helping me get the timeline posted. MoJo you designed my idea better than I could have ever imagined. I got very choked up reading it and seeing the layout you did for me. A heartfelt thanks.

To everyone at the Canteen who supports those of us in the military again I say thank you from all opf us to all of you. I'm working on a story for publication on all of you and about your supporst for us. I'll keep you posted.

Two years ago today my life changed in ways that I can't find words to describe. I lost no related to me in the attacks, I did lose several members of my Army "family" at the Pentagon. To this day I want to cry when I recall what happened two years ago. It had positive effects too. 9/11 was what pushed me to finally commit to returning to active duty military service. And it caused me to realize what was truly important in my life and focus on those things. One of those "important things" and I just passed our first wedding anniversary in July.
I know it sounds corny, but if there is someone in your life who matters to you but for whatever reason you haven't had contact with them in awhile. Call them, talk to them, let them know you are still there. 9/11 proved that if you put something like that off, tomorrow may never come. I'm going to be doing a couple stories on our remembrances in Iraq today and I'll post them as soon as they are ready. I'm posting below the remarks I prepared for our brigade commander, Col. Russ Gold for our ceremony tonite here at Briagde HQ. This is a function that is normally reserved tfor the Public Affairs officer. So it's really something that I was tasked to do it. Never Forget!


John


Proposed 9/11 Remarks For Col. Gold



Two years ago, at nearly this exact moment, our commander-in-chief addressed all of us sitting here as well as the rest of the nation on the events of what turned out to be the single greatest act of terrorism ever executed in our country. The president told a stunned nation that “these acts shattered steel but they cannot shatter the steel of our resolve”. All of you sitting here tonite are living proof that the resolve of the United States, it’s people and more importantly it’s military in fact hasn’t been shattered but has only been strengthened by the cowardly acts of September 11th 2001.

The terrorist acts of 9/11 did for all of us what the terrorist acts of December 7th 1941 did for our fathers and grandfathers a generation ago, it woke the “sleeping giant” that is the United States and brought this country together in it’s resolve and determination in a way that it never had before. Today, two years down the road, we remain united in our efforts to wipe out the global stain of terrorism that brought so much death and destruction to our doorstep. Some of those victories are easy to see, like the elimination of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the fact that you are sitting here right now in Baghdad, Iraq and Saddam Hussein and his thuggish regime are not. Other victories in the war on terrorism will never see the light of day. But they are no less important. The war on terrorism is far from over, terrorists continue to do their best to stop us, to weaken us, to kill as many of the “infidels” as they can. Proof of that is out there on the streets of this very city where soldiers still lose their life on a daily basis. But our enemies today are finding out what our enemies 62 years ago found out as well, that once you awaken the “sleeping giant”, it doesn’t rest, it doesn’t stop until the job is finished and the enemy is vanquished.

None of us will ever forget what happened two years ago today. All of us were affected in different yet very deep ways by what happened. Whether it was the personal tragedy of losing a relative or close friend in the attacks themselves, or the loss of a fellow soldier, someone you might not have known personally, but was part of the family that is the United States Army. For some of you, the attacks of September 11th are the very reason you are wearing the uniform of your nations military at this moment. Hold tight to those memories of that day, never forget how you felt as you watched that tragedy unfold.


Use them as your motivation too go out each and every day and do the job you’ve been assigned to do to the best of your ability. Because in some small way, the job we’re doing here today, tomorrow and next month is just one more step in wiping out the terrorist organizations and the people and countries that sponsor them. The job you’re doing right now, tells those would like nothing better than to pull off another terrorist act bigger than 9/11 “never again, not on my watch, not in my country.”

[Fawnn]

What's a crow bar & my husband have to do with Hollywood?

It's been awhile since I saw the film (and naive, uninformed, totally non-withit person that I am, even after I'd seen the film and read the book I was shocked to read that the lesbians in some gay pride org were upset because the film totally ignored the lesbian overtones that I was too clueless to notice were there in the first place, but am I rambling? Do I digress? Nahhhhh not me!); however, ....

When the Kathy Bates character decides to get assertive and take control of her life, she grabs a crowbar and starts tearing down a wall in her house. Yells "Tuwanda" or something like that when she does it! Her husband wasn't home at the time. Anyhow, now that you've had a glimpse of how my mind does and does not work, that's the scene that popped into my head when you mentioned crowbar. Clear as lard now?

[Fawnn]

I KNEW you'd understand! Gramma probably went to bed before she saw my intellectual discussion on the film. ;)

(Gramma: You dream those good dreams now -- or then, you hear!?)

(MoJo: I can see/hear you taking a big cinnamonny bite of your Cinnabon and yelling "TAWANDA!" while you slam the lid on the laundry hamper and hide that mess for another day.) ;)

[MoJo2001]

God Bless You, txradioguy! Thank you so much for taking time out to express how you feel. I can't seem to see my monitor very well. It's teary eyed for some reason. Darn monitor.

Don't you allow that monitor to get teary eyed okay?? *HUGS* When you come home, we will have such a celebration. Your family will think you've met a bunch of looney internet people. (They'd be almost correct! Hehehe!) Stay safe! Prayers sent daily on your behalf my friend! *HUGS*

[MoJo2001]

Actually, I'm getting ready to make some Blueberry muffins for my little guys so they'll have something nice to eat with their Eggs and Sausage.

Bobby's school will be marking September 11th in school with a moment of silence and a PRAYER! (Yes! A Prayer!) I'm going to take them out tonight and get a pizza. Or maybe not. Who knows!!

I try not to cry on this day because I want those terrorists to know that we are made of something better, greater, and stronger than their hatred. Still I suffer setbacks. And you?