John Kerry told the world we were war criminals who raped, tortured and murdered in Vietnam. Now, thirty-three years later, we will tell America the truth.

Join us at the rally we call:

What: A peaceful remembrance of those with whom we served in Vietnam - those who lived and those who died.
We will tell the story of their virtues and how that contrasts with the lies told by John Kerry.

When: Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004 @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

Where: The West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC

All Vietnam veterans and their families and supporters are asked to attend. Other veterans are invited as honored guests. This will be a peaceful event--no shouting or contact with others with different opinions. We fought for their rights then, and we respect their rights now. This is NOT a Republican or a pro-Bush rally. Democrats, Republicans and independents alike are warmly invited.

Our gathering is to remember those with whom we served, thereby giving the lie to John Kerry's smear against a generation of fine young men. B.G. "Jug" Burkett, author of "Stolen Valor," will be one of our speakers. Jug has debunked countless impostors who falsely claimed to be Vietnam veterans or who falsely claimed awards for heroism. Jug recommends that we refrain from dragging fatigues out of mothballs. Dress like America, like you do every day. Dress code: business casual, nice slacks, and shirt and shoes. No uniform remnants, please. Unit hats OK.

Selected members will wear badges identifying them as authorized to speak to the media about our event. Others who speak to the media will speak only for themselves.

The program will be controlled in an attempt to stay on-message. Speakers are encouraged not to engage in speculative criticism of John Kerry but (1) to stick to known and undisputed facts about John Kerry’s lies while (2) reminding America of the true honor and courage of our brothers in battle in Vietnam.

Send this announcement to 10 or more of your brothers! Bring them by car, bus, train or plane! Make this event one of pride in America, an event you would be proud to have your mother or your children attend.

Contact: kerrylied.com

Veterans for Constitution Restoration is a non-profit, non-partisan educational and grassroots activist organization.

Actively seeking volunteers to provide this valuable service to Veterans and their families.

Thanks to quietolong for providing this link.

UPDATED THROUGH APRIL 2004

The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul

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"The FReeper Foxhole Compiled List of Daily Threads"

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on August 29:
1387 Henry V king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)
1476 Kano Motonobu Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)
1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus German mathematician (Trigonometry)
1632 John Locke, philosopher of liberalism whose ideas influenced the American founding fathers, famous for his treatise An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1792 Charles G. Finney, American revivalist
1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes Cambridge, MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)
1811 Henry Bergh 1st president of SPCA
1815 Anna Ella Carroll US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)
1876 Charles F Kettering Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)
1881 Valery Nicolas Larbaud France, novelist/translator (Enfantines)
1899 Lyman L Lemnitzer US Army General (WW II), Chief of Staff, US Army and Nato Commander
1909 Roy Reuther Wheeling WV, labor leader
1912 Barry Sullivan NYC, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man)
1915 Ingrid Bergman Sweden, actress (Casablanca, Cactus Flower)
1916 George Montgomery Brady Mont, actor (Battle of Bulge, Hallucination)
1917 Isabel Sanford NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family)
1920 Charlie "Bird" Parker American jazz genius
1923 Sir Richard Attenborough actor/director (Gandhi, Young Winston)
1924 Dinah Washington Chicago, singer (What a Difference a Day Makes)
1925 Donald O'Connor Chicago Ill, dancer/actor (Singing in the Rain)
1928 Charles Gray Bournemouth England, actor (Clay-Rawhide)
1928 Thomas Stewart San Saba Texas, baritone (La Roche Capriccio)
1936 John McCain (Sen.-R-Arizona)
1938 Elliott Gould Queens NY, actor (M*A*S*H, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
1938 Peter Jennings Canada, news anchor (ABC TV)
1939 William Friedkin US, dir (Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection)
1941 Robin Leach TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous)
1948 Charles D Walker astronaut (STS 41D, STS 51D, STS 61B)
1954 Chet Catallo guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1958 Michael Jackson Gary Indiana, singer (Thriller, Bad)
1962 Carl Banks NFL line backer (NY Giants)
1962 Rebecca De Mornay actress (And God Created Women)

Deaths which occurred on August 29:
0029 John the Baptist beheaded ( Note: Actual date is questionable )
1533 Atahualpa last Incan King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors
1769 Edmond Hoyle games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
1877 Brigham Young 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies
1914 Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle
1941 Henri Louis French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40
1914 Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik Dutch resist fighter in France, executed at 36
1960 Hazza el-Majali PM of Jordan is assassinated
1967 George Rockwell American nazi party leader, murdered
1975 Eamon de Valera Irish independence fighter, dies at 92
1976 Jimmy Reed rocker, dies of epileptic seizure at 50
1976 Anissa Jones actress (Buffy-Family Affair), dies at 18
1981 Lowell Thomas newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling NY, at 89
1982 Ingrid Bergman academy award winning actress, dies on 67th birthday
1983 Simon Oakland actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61
1987 Lee Marvin dies in Tucson, Ariz at 63

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 BYRNE RONALD E. JR. GREAT NECK NY.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98
1965 MC WHORTER HENRY S. SAVANNAH GA.
[FLAK EJECTED NO PARA BEEP, REMAINS RETURNED 04/10/86]
1965 TAYLOR ED DAVID KENSETT AR.
[FIRE CRASH NO PARA SEEN]
1966 WELLS NORMAN L. ANNAPOLIS MD.
["03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1967 NEWBURN LARRY S. KOKOMO IN.
1968 ASHALL ALAN F. BILLINGS MT.
[SURVIVAL UNLIKELY]
1968 DUNCAN ROBERT R. WEST PALM BEACH FL.
1969 GRAF ALBERT STEPHEN BOGOTA NJ.
1969 ZIMMER JERRY ALLEN MAINE NY.

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

On this day...
0070 The Temple of Jerusalem burns after a nine-month Roman siege.
0284 Gen Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius becomes emperor of Rome
1178 Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
1526 Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent crushes a Hungarian army under Lewis II at the Battle of Mohacs.
1708 Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians
1758 1st indian reservation established (New Jersey)
1776 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1786 Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
1844 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
1854 Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station)
1862 Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1862 US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
1864 William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
1883 Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hrs after the explosion
1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
1885 Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
1889 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1904 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
1909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
1909 World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtis (USA) wins
1914 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics
1916 Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
1916 Steamer 'Hsin Iu' sinks off China coast, 1,000 drown
1916 Congress creates US Naval reserve
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1937 Phila A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1941 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1943 Danish government resigned and abandoned its policy of co-existence with Germany
1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1949 USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
1950 Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52
1953 USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
1954 SF International Airport (SFO) opens
1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1958 Air Force Academy opens
1962 US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba
1964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
1965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1966 Beatles last public concert, (Candlestick Park, SF)
1967 Final TV episode of "The Fugitive"
1967 Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes
1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1977 St Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3
1985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission
1988 Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
1988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
1990 Seattle Mariners become 1st team to have father-son teammates, signing Ken Griffey to play with son Ken Griffey Jr
1991 John F Kennedy Jr wins his 1st law case
1994 Israel and the PLO signed a new agreement to shift West Bank administrative functions to the Palestinian National Authority.
1997 Hooded men killed more than 300 people in an Algerian farm village in the worst carnage since an Islamic insurgency began.
1997 Japan's Supreme Court ruled that the country's Education Ministry broke the law by removing mention of a Japanese World War II atrocity from historian Saburo Ienaga's high school textbook.
2000 Pope John Paul II laid down moral guidelines for medical research in the 21st century, endorsing organ donation and adult stem cell study, but condemning human cloning and embryo experiments.

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

Czecoslovakia : Slovak National Uprising Day
Afghanistan : Jeshyn-Afghan Day/Independence Day (1920)
National Plastic Surgery Day....(Michael Jackson b. 1958)
More Herbs, Less Salt Day
Architecture Month

Religious Observances
RC : Memorial of the Beheading of St John the Baptist
RC : Sabina, martyr in Umbria, beheaded

Religious History
1792 Birth of Charles G. Finney, American revivalist and educator. Originally trained in law, he was converted to Christian faith at age 29, conducted revival services for eight years and, from 1835 until his death, maintained a close affiliation with Oberlin College in Ohio.
1852 The Latter Day Saints first published their doctrine of "celestial marriage," popularly known as polygamy. The Mormon Church maintained this teaching until the Manifest of 1890 (and later Congressional legislation) outlawed the practice.
1867 The Social Brethren were officially organized in Illinois. Today, there are about 1,000 total members of this small, evangelistic denomination, with most churches located in Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. Church doctrine is a blend of Methodist and Baptist polity.
1908 Death of Lewis H. Redner, 78, American Episcopal organist. Maintaining a keen interest in music all his life, Redner composed ST. LOUIS, the tune to which today is most commonly sung Phillips Brooks' Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
1917 Death of Ernest W. Shurtleff, 55, American Congregational clergyman and author of the hymn, "Lead On, O King Eternal." Shurtleff died during World War I, while doing relief work along with his wife.

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

Thought for the day :
"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you."

Translating Southern United States Slang to English...
BAMMER - noun. The state west of Jawjuh. The capitol is Berminhayum.
Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' lef $20,000,000.00 in improvements."

Things a Cat Thinks About...
I could have sworn I heard the can opener.

Politically Correct Terms for Females...
She does not hate sports on TV,
she is athletically biased.

Feel Smarter -- Instantly!...
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued...Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.

-- Letter from the Illinois Department of Public Aid

August 29, 2004

Daily Bread

Read: Leviticus 24:1-9

I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. —John 6:51

Bible In One Year: Psalms 126-128; 1 Corinthians 10:19-33

Bread has come to be regarded as something less than what it was in Bible times. We don't usually think of it as a symbol of life's necessities. In Jesus' day, however, bread represented nourishment in all its many forms.

This helps us understand why the Lord told Israel to put bread in the Holy Place of the tabernacle—His "house of symbols." There in that first room, 12 loaves were to be displayed on a golden table "before the Lord" (Leviticus 24:6). Those loaves re-minded Israel that God always provides for His own when they come to Him on His terms. The bread reflected God's promise to provide for all who hunger and thirst for righteousness (Matthew 5:6; 6:31-34).

For the believer in Christ, bread may represent the Bible, Jesus, Christian fellowship, or any of the provisions God has made for our spiritual needs. He cares for us and He's ready to feed us, but His offer is not unconditional. He promised to provide daily "bread" for those who in obedience have separated themselves to live and to eat from the hand of God.

The Lord cares for all who willingly and humbly receive their physical and spiritual food from Him. —Mart De Haan

In You, O Lord, we take delight,
Our every need You can supply;
We long to do what's true and right,
So, Lord, on You we will rely. —D. De Haan

Only Christ the Living Bread can satisfy our spiritual hunger.

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