The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Airborne Attack on Sukch'on/Sunch'on (10/20/1950) - Oct, 20th 2003

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/korea/20-2-1/sn32.htm ^

[SAMWolf]

Lord,

Keep our Troops forever in Your care

Give them victory over the enemy...

Grant them a safe and swift return...

Bless those who mourn the lost.
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for all those serving their country at this time.

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Airborne Attack:
Sukch'on and Sunch'on

When Eighth Army crossed the 38th Parallel and drove on P'yongyang, General MacArthur held the 187th Airborne Regiment, commanded by Col. Frank S. Bowen, Jr., in GHQ reserve at Kimpo Airfield near Seoul. He planned to employ the airborne troops in a drop north of P'yongyang in an attempt to cut off North Korean officials and enemy troops, and to rescue American prisoners of war who it was assumed would be evacuated northward when the fall of the North Korean capital seemed imminent.

After changing the date a time or two, General MacArthur set the airdrop for the morning of 20 October. There were to be two drop zones 30 air miles north of P'yongyang, the principal one at Sukch'on and the other at Sunch'on. Two highways run north from P'yongyang like the sides of a narrow capital letter V, each roughly paralleling a rail line. The main highway from P'yongyang to the Yalu River and the Manchurian border at Sinuiju forms the left-hand side of the V. Sukch'on on this highway is situated in a wide valley surrounded by low hills, about 35 road miles north of P'yongyang. The right-hand road passes through rougher terrain to reach Sunch'on on the Taedong River, 17 air miles east of Sukch'on.



The airborne regiment turned out in a heavy rain for reveille at 0230 in the after-midnight darkness of 20 October. The men ate breakfast and then went to the airfield where they waited in the downpour for the weather to improve. Shortly before noon the sky began to clear. The regiment loaded into 113 planes, C-119's and C-47's of the 314th and 21st Troop Carrier Squadrons based in Japan. The planes were crowded-a typical C-119 carried 46 men in 2 sticks of 23 men each, 15 monorail bundles, and 4 door bundles. Each man had a main parachute, a .45-caliber pistol, and a carbine or M1 rifle.



The first aircraft, carrying Colonel Bowen, was airborne at noon. When all the planes had assembled over the Han River estuary, they turned north along the west coast of Korea. This flight carried about 2,800 men. Recent intelligence had informed the airborne force that a trainload of American prisoners, traveling only at night and then slowly, was on its way north from P'yongyang. Colonel Bowen's men hoped to intercept this train and rescue the prisoners.



As the troop carriers approached the drop zone, fighter planes preceded them rocketing and strafing the ground. At approximately 1400 the first troops began dropping from the lead planes over Sukch'on. There was no enemy antiaircraft fire and only occasional sniper fire came into the drop zone. This first drop put Colonel Bowen and 1,470 men of the 1st Battalion, regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Company, and supporting engineer, medical, and service troops on the ground in Drop Zone William, southeast of Sukch'on. Twenty-five men were injured in this jump. One group landed a mile and a half east of the drop zone and lost one man killed in his parachute by attacking enemy soldiers. Seventy-four tons of equipment were dropped with the men.

After the troop drop came that of the heavy equipment-equipment organic to an airborne infantry regiment, including jeeps, 90-mm. towed antitank guns, 105-mm. howitzers, and a mobile radio transmission set equivalent in weight to a 2 1/2-ton truck. Seven 105-mm. howitzers of the 674th Field Artillery Battalion and 1,125 rounds of ammunition were in the drop. Six of the howitzers were recovered in usable condition.



About 90 percent of the shells were undamaged and none exploded. This was the first time heavy equipment had been dropped in combat, and it was the first time C-119'S had been used in a combat parachute operation.

The 1st Battalion, against only light resistance, seized Hill 97 east of Sukch'on, where Colonel Bowen established his command post, and Hill 104 north of the town, cleared the town of Sukch'on itself, and set up a roadblock north of it.

In the meantime, the 3d Battalion had jumped in the same zone, turned south, taken up defensive positions on low hills two miles south of the town, and established roadblocks across the highway and railroad at that point. It seized its objectives by 1700, killing five enemy soldiers and capturing forty-two others without loss to itself.



In the second jump area the 2d Battalion at 1420 began parachuting onto Drop Zone Easy, two miles southwest of Sunch'on. Twenty men were injured in this jump. The battalion secured its objective by night against virtually no resistance. Two companies established roadblocks south and west of Sunch'on. A third advanced to the town and established contact there with elements of the ROK 6th Division which had reached Sunch'on from the southeast in its push toward the Ch'ongch'on River.

During this and succeeding days, a total of approximately 4,000 troops and more than 600 tons of equipment and supplies were dropped at Sukch'on and Sunch'on. Included in the equipment were 12 105-mm. howitzers, 39 jeeps, 38 1/4-ton trailers, 4 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, 4 3/4-ton trucks, and 584 tons of ammunition, gasoline, water, rations, and other supplies.

On the morning after the airdrop, the 1st Battalion, 187th Airborne Regiment gained the dominant terrain it needed directly north of Sukch'on to carry out its mission of blocking the main highway running north. Strong enemy rear guard forces held the next line of hills northward. That afternoon elements of the 1st Battalion established contact with the 2d Battalion at Sunch'on.



General MacArthur, accompanied by Generals Stratemeyer, Wright, and Whitney, had flown from Japan to watch the airdrop. After seeing the parachute troops land and assemble successfully, he flew to P'yongyang. There he commented to reporters that the airborne landing seemed to have been a complete surprise to the enemy. He estimated that 30,000 North Korean troops, perhaps half of those remaining in North Korea, were caught in the trap between the 187th Airborne Regiment on the north and the 1st Cavalry and ROK 1st Divisions at P'yongyang on the south, and that they would be destroyed or captured. He termed the airdrop an "expert performance" and said, "This closes the trap on the enemy." The next day in Tokyo MacArthur predicted that "the war is very definitely coming to an end shortly."

General MacArthur's optimism was not supported by the events of succeeding days. The airborne troops had not cut off any sizable part of the North Korean forces. The main body of the enemy had already withdrawn north of Sukch'on and Sunch'on and were either north of the Ch'ongch'on River or in the act of crossing it. No important North Korean Army or government officials were cut off and killed or captured. Civilians in P'yongyang said that the principal North Korean government officials had left P'yongyang on 12 October for Manp'ojin on the Yalu. The best information indicated, however, that the North Korean Government had moved to Kanggye in the mountains twenty air miles southeast of Manp'ojin. Most of the American and South Korean prisoners had been successfully removed into the remote part of North Korea.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning snippy!!!

How be ya today?? Boy was that a short night or what??

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning, yep. Short weekend and here we go again. ;)

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning feather.

I thought I went to sleep earlier than I have been lately but it sure didn't feel like it this morning!

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on October 20:
1435 Andrea Della Robbia Florence, sculptor, nephew of Luca
1632 Sir Christopher Wren England, astronomer/great architect
1812 Austin Flint 19th century heart research pioneer
1819 Mirza Ali Mohammad [Babi faith], forerunner of Baha'i
1823 Thomas Hughes England, author (Tom Brown's School Days)
1854 Arthur Rimbaud France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations)
1859 John Dewey philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing)
1874 Charles Edward Ives Danbury Ct, composer (Holliday Quick Step)
1874 Viscount Palmerston (Whig) British PM (1855-65)
1887 Addison Richards Zanesville Ohio, actor (Col-Pentagon)
1889 Margaret Dumont actress-Marx Brothers' foil
1896 Nat Holman basketball coach (CCNY)
1900 Wayne Morse (Sen-R/D-Ore)
1905 Frederic Dannay « of Ellery Queen & Barnaby Ross (Cat of Many Tales)
1908 Arlene Francis Boston Mass, radio/TV hostess (What's My Line?)
1911 Will Rogers Jr actor (Down to Earth)
1913 Barney Phillips St Louis Mo, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad)
1917 Jean-Pierre Melville Paris France, director (Un Flic)
1918 Anton Diffring Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna)
1921 Pierre Laporte Canada, journalist/statesman (Revolution Script)
1922 John Anderson Clayton Ill, actor (Virgil-Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1923 Herschel Bernardi NYC, actor (Peter Gunn, Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, The Front)
1923 Robert Craft Kingston, NY, conductor, Stravinsky-follower
1925 Art Buchwald Mt Vernon NY, columnist/author (Have I Ever Lied to You)
1926 Ursula Happe Germany, 200m backstroke swimmer(Olympic-gold-1956)
1930 "Grandpa" Louis M Jones Niagra Ky, country singer/banjoist (Hee Haw)
1931 Mickey Mantle NY Yankee, home run slugger (1956 Triple Crown)
1932 Roosevelt Brown Virginia, NFL hall of fame tackle (NY Giants)
1932 William Christopher Evanstown Ill, actor (Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H)
1934 Martin Landau actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Tucker)
1934 Timothy West Yorkshire England, actor (Masada)
1935 Jerry Orbach actor (Promises! Promises!, Dirty Dancing)
1937 Juan Marichal baseball pitcher (SF Giants)
1937 Wanda Jackson Maud Okla, country singer (Let's Have a Party)
1946 Connie Chung Washington DC, news anchor (NBC, CBS)
1948 Andrei Suraikin USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1972)
1949 Valery Borzov USSR, 100m/200m dash (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 Wayne Collett US, 400m runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1950 Finola Hughes London, actress (Anna Devane-General Hospital)
1952 Melanie Mayron Phila, actress (30 Something, Car Wash, Missing)
1953 Keith Hernandez SF Calif, NY Met 1st baseman (9 golden gloves)
1953 Tom Petty Gainesville Fla, singer (Heartbreakers-Refugee)
1958 Eric Scott Hollywood Calif, actor (Ben-Waltons)
1958 Ivo Pogorelich Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist (1978 Casagrande winner)
1958 Mark King bass/vocalist (Level 42-Standing in the Light)
1966 Fred Coury Johnston NY, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1967 Susan Tulley British actress (Michelle-EastEnders)
1970 Tiffany [Renee Darwisch], rocker (I Think We are Alone Now)

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Deaths which occurred on October 20:
1765 William August duke of Cumberland, Engl supreme commander, dies at 44
1906 William "Buck" Ewing hall of fame catcher (NY Giants), dies at 67
1954 Willie Shaw race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51
1964 Herbert Hoover 31st president of US, dies in NY at 90
1968 Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux TV preacher, dies at 84
1972 Harlow Shapley discoverer of the Sun's position in the galaxy, dies
1989 Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow), dies at 76
1990 Joel McCrea, actor (Ramrod), dies of pulmonary complications at 84
1994 Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 80

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 EDWARDS HARRY S. JR.---DECATUR GA.
[REMAINS RETUNED 09/96]
1966 PURRINGTON FREDERICK R.---NORTH DARTMOUTH MA.
[02/18/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1966 WAGENER DAVID R.---ANN ARBOR MI.
[REMAINS IDENTIFIED 04 SEPT 97]
1967 WOMACK LONNIE H.
[10/24/67 NOT HEARD OF SINCE]
1968 BRIDGES JERRY G.---COLUMBIA TN.
1968 DEITSCH CHARLES E.---MT DORA FL.
1968 KNIGHT HENRY C.---LA HABRA CA.
1968 MELDAHL CHARLES H.---MONROE WA.
1968 STANTON RONALD V.---MASSILLON OH.
1969 STUBBS WILLIAM W.---NEWPORT WA.

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

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On this day...
480 BC Greeks defeat the Persians in a naval battle at Salamis.
1097 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch
1349 Pope Clement VI condemns the flagellant movement
1600 Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)
1740 Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
1813 German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
1817 1st Mississippi showboat leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
1818 49th parallel established as the border between US & Canada
1818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
1845 The opera "Tannh„user" is produced (Dresden)
1847 Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa
1883 Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile
1888 Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ
1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) begins
1898 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
1899 Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th America's Cup
1903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada
1905 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
1906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrates his radio tube
1910 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series (World Series #7)
1911 Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole
1922 Kennelworth in the Bronx renamed Dwight Place
1929 Bayshore Highway opens (SF)
1930 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
1942 "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations
1944 30 blocks of Cleveland OH burn after a liquid gas factory explodes
1944 Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
1944 US 1st army wins battle of Aachen
1944 US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines
1945: Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
1946 Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants
1947 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
1955 Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan
1956 58ø F (15ø C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)
1956 Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft
1960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
1960 Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
1963 Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds
1963 S Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy
1964 Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)
1967 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss
1967 All white fed jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers
1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
1973 Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz"
1973 Arab oil-producing nations ban oil exports to the United States, following the outbreak of Arab-Israeli war.
1973 Pres Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st « century
1973 William Shatner marries Marcy Lafferty
1973 Sat Night Massacre, Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by Solicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
1973 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Mass
1976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
1976 NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to the Phila 76ers
1977 3 members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash
1979 John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston
1981 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
1982 Billy Martin fired as manager of the Oakland A's
1982 St Louis Cards beat Mil Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series
1983 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released
1984 Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals
1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
1988 Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
1988 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
1988 LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's in 85th World Series 4 games to 1
1988 Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
1988 Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
1988 LA 1st to have both NBA & baseball champs as LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series
1989 US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
1990 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obscenity charges in Florida
1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
1990 Cincinatti Reds sweep Oakland A's in the 87th World Series
1991 Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black
1997 - US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers using Windows 95

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

Guatemala : Revolution Day/D¡a de la Revoluci¢n (1944)
Kenya : Jomo Kenyatta Day
Alaska : Alaska Day (1867) (Monday)
Getting the World to Beat a Path to Your Door Week (Day 2)
National Shampoo Week (Day 2)
National Save Your Back Week (Day 2)
Auto Battery Safety Month
International Marine Travel Month
National Sarcastics' Awareness Month
Clergy Appreciation Month
National Cookie Month! (It was Cookie Madness..taking over me)

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Religious Observances
Buddhist-Laos : End of Buddhist Fast
Christian : Commemoration of St Bertilla Boscardin
Christian : Feast of St Irene
Old Catholic : Commemoration of St John Cantius (now 12/23)

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Religious History
1802 Birth of Ernst W. Hengstenberg, German O.T. scholar. An outspoken defender of evangelical Christianity against the rationalism of his day, Hengstenberg's most significant writing was his four-volume "Christology of the Old Testament."
1828 Birth of American lawyer Horatio Gates Spafford. In 1873, upon learning of the drowning of his four daughters following a ship collision in the Atlantic, Spafford penned the lines to the hymn, "It is Well With My Soul."
1892 Birth of Harry Dixon Loes, sacred music educator. A writer of gospel songs and choruses, it was Loes who composed the hymn tune REDEEMER ("Up Calvary's Mountain, One Dreadful Morn").
1908 Birth of Stuart Hamblen, country songwriter who flourished during the 1950s. His best-remembered Christian songs include "Known Only to Him," "Beyond the Sunset," and "It Is No Secret."
1957 English apologist C.S. Lewis shared his longing for heaven in a letter: 'It'll be nice when we all wake up from this life, which has indeed something like a nightmare about it.'

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

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Thought for the day :
"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right"

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You might be a NASCAR fan if...
you've ever told a cop,"but officer I wasn't tailgating, I was drafting."

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Murphys Law of the day...(The Murphy Philosophy)
Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.

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Astounding fact # 564,891...
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

[Valin]

Chief Wiggles Toy Drive Update
http://chiefwiggles.blog-city.com/ ^ | 10/18/03 | Chief Wiggles Blog


Posted on 10/19/2003 7:14 PM CDT by tsmith130


For those of you who have been following this, here is the new info from Plunge for mailing packages to the Chief.


WE ARE BACK IN BUSINESS BABY!!!!

Here is the new shipping address!!!!

Operation Give
7155 Columbia Gateway Drive
Columbia, MD 21046


We'll go through the list of things to send again:

You should definitely not send:

NO Guns of any kind
NO Violent action hereos
NO Violent toys
NO Barbie dolls or dolls scantily dressed
NO Toys that shoot something, no projectiles
NO Water guns
NO Makeup


Also, please be careful with anything that requires electricty. Electricity isn't available everywhere in Iraq, and where it is available, it uses a voltage (220v) that is incompatible with most American electronics. Most electrical devices made in America will not work in Iraq without modification.

Excellent choices you should think about including:

Toys
Balls
Stuffed animals
Puppets
Kaleidoscopes
Pinwheels
Small cars and trucks (non-military)
Flying discs
Non-military toy planes
Kites
Coloring books
Non-toy items
Flip-flops
Candy (hard candy is better, chocolate melts in the heat)
Toothbrushes & toothpaste
Dental floss
Brushes and combs
Socks and underwear, for both boys and girls, aged 3-18.
School Supplies
Pencils and small pencil sharpeners
Lined paper or colored paper
Colored pencils
Rulers
Pens and markers (Avoid crayons, they melt in the heat)

Other than that, follow your heart and use common sense. These kids have nothing, so even small things matter a lot.


Please visit Operation Give to donate to the Toy Drive for Iraqi Children.


Where the toys/supplies are going:


Please read the latest journal entry about the Chief's visit to Children's Hospital. THIS IS WHAT ALL OF YOU ARE MAKING POSSIBLE!


Latest update:

Here is the new process for sending packages of toys, clothing and school supplies to the Chief.


The packages will all go to the warehouse. In the warehouse, they will be opened and sorted. This will save time for the Chief as he and his merry crew have spent endless hours, time they should use sleeping, sorting through the myriad of items. Big thanks to Data Net for helping us get this up and going.


After everything has been sorted and re-packed, it will all be placed in a cargo container. This container will be shipped to Kuwait. From there, locals will move the container to a warehouse in Baghdad that the Chief has secured.


The Chief should then have an easy time distributing items to the children.


This might sound easy, but it has been a Herculean effort getting everything ready to go. Dean is working on front end of donations, getting the letters ready for tax deductions. He should be happy to learn that eFile Cabinet has offered their software free of charge to help in this endeavor. We have also secured the services of a CPA firm to help with the accounting.


This will also take a major amount of donated time by numerous volunteers to keep it going. We want to thank those who have already offered their services.


What else do we need? We need people to send the toys! Send the school supplies! Send the clothes! To see more of what this means, look at these pictures here and here. This is only the beginning!


The other thing we need is monetary donations. This can be done through the Operation Give website. There, using paypal, you can make a donation to this endeavor. You can either donate money with a specific toy or other item in mind, or, you can leave it to our discretion. With our decision to take on the shipping duties ourselves, funds are needed. Monetary donations will be gratefully accepted.


Packages delivered to the Chief: 712 (Toy boxes continue to trickle in, hopefully enough until our first container arrives!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004091/posts?page=21#21


/hint hint

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks Valin for the history and the link with updates.

[w_over_w]

Morning Glory Snip & Sam~

Great work as always . . . this is probably the most reading I've ever done on any Korean campaign. Very insightful.

[w_over_w]

1983 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released

/R Ctrl F3 . . . ah, the good ol' days.

[w_over_w]

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

No way! It can't be that hard to get lobster out from between your teeth?

[Darksheare]

I'm in.
*looks around*
I think.

[snippy_about_it]

I see you. Good morning Darksheare.

[Johnny Gage]

Good Morning, just checking in after a nice long weekend spent running around the woods up in the YooPer.
(the annex of Finland... LOL)

Ms Feather:
I had cinnamon Nisu bread with my breakfast on Friday, and one of our group had the Panna(something) the Finnsh pancakes at place called "SUOMI HOME BAKERY & RESTAURANT"

There was even a race team called "SISU Racing", and up there you can't go a block without seeing at least 2 Finnish flags and one of the drivers who was from Finland said he felt like he was back home.

[Darksheare]

Thankfully!

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Snippy. "Happy" Monday.

[SAMWolf]

HI E.G.C. Warm but overcast today.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Neil.

[SAMWolf]

The Aussies have always been good. Too bad the Brits usually mis-used them.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for bringing Pfc. Wilson's scarifice to our attaention. Medics and Corpsmen are a special breed of men.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Mayor. Monday Morning Coffee needed big time.