The FReeper Foxhole Honors our Veterans - November 11th, 2005

Department of Veterans Affairs and The Foxhole

[snippy_about_it]

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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FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer
for all those serving their country at this time.


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Veterans Day



To our veterans - Thank You


Veterans Day

A day set aside to honor our country's living veterans. At the Foxhole honoring veterans is a major part of our mission.

Whereas we will not forget those who died or our POW/MIAs, and those who are currently serving, today we specifically honor those men and women living among us who have served our country in times past, our living veterans.

Especially here at the Foxhole we are blessed to have veterans as part of our Foxhole family both as readers and contributors.


We would like to welcome all our veterans to the Foxhole on this very special day as we attempt to honor you and thank you for your service to our country. Freedom is not free and our debt to you and those gone before you can never fully be paid. May God richly bless you all. Welcome home and we will never forget.

It matters not where, when or how your served; here at home or in a foreign land, in the air, at sea or on land; in peacetime or in war, on the battefield or behind a desk; on supply lines; as an engineer, a mechanic, an infantrymen, a cook or medic. You chose to volunteer or fullfilled your duty by the draft and served America and we are forever grateful. Every job is important as they all support each other and the cause of freedom.

Some sacrifices are greater, yes, and some service more dangerous than others, yet all service is sacrifice by the troop and their family and we highly respect that service. Some gave all, all gave some.

Thank you all - from SAM and snippy




"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." --Thomas Paine, Founding Father



"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their Nation."
--George Washington


"Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower




Veterans Day is the day set aside to thank and honor ALL those who served honorably in the military - in wartime or peacetime. In fact, Veterans Day is largely intended to thank LIVING veterans for their service, to acknowledge that their contributions to our national security are appreciated, and to underscore the fact that all those who served - not only those who died - have sacrificed and done their duty.

--- Department of Veterans Affairs

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FReeper Foxhole Armed Services Links

[Professional Engineer]

Shhhhhhhhh! No one is supposed to know that I'm really Ann-Margaret.

Hubba Hubba

[Professional Engineer]

Too bad they don't mention their dog more often.

I've never had a Newfoundland Dog before, but during college I did have a girlfriend from Newfoundland. No, she wasn't a canine.

[Professional Engineer]

1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score & 7 years..."

In 6th grade the other class had to memorize this. At the time I was glad I didn't have to. Now, I wish I had had to.

[Professional Engineer]

1861 Julia Ward Howe writes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

Jim Nabors ~ Battle Hymn of the Republic

[snippy_about_it]

Now now Ann, you can trust me. I won't tell a soul. ;-)

[Valin]

Great site! thanks

[Iris7]

I am sure you have noticed my disappointment with NASA. I suppose I am too sentimental about Apollo.

To me the Saturn V and the Apollo ships generally were, as far as I can tell, really quite good designs. Problems can be found with the Command and Lander modules pretty easily, and I do figure I could have done better (no Egotism in THIS boy, no sirree Bob!!!!!!!!!) but really the machine was a real work of art in every way.

Myself, I think we should go to first principles. For example, Robert Truax's Sea Dragon:



Notice the dimensions - 60 feet in diameter and the nozzle mouth 66 feet across. Sweet.

The whole site is very cool, just make sure you switch to English!

SITE

[alfa6]

A fun sort of pic to get Sunday underway

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on November 20:
1602 Otto von Guericke inventor (air pump)
1620 Peregrine White son of William & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower
1726 Oliver Wolcott (Ct-Gov), signed Declaration of Independence
1761 Pius VIII 253rd Roman Catholic pope (1829-30)
1830 Patrick Henry Jones Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1836 John Thomas Croxton Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis judge/1st commissioner of baseball
1869 Clark Griffith Missouri, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees)
1884 Norman Thomas Marion Ohio, socialist (presidential candidate 1928-48)
1886 Karl von Frisch zoologist/bee expert (Nobel 1973)
1889 Edwin Hubble astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift)
1891 Leon Cadore pitcher (pitched all of 26 inning game)
1900 Chester Gould cartoonist (gave Dick Tracy a job)
1907 Fran Allison LaPorte City Iowa, actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1908 Alistair Cooke Manchester England, actor (Masterpiece Theatre, Letters from America)
Letters From America
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/letter_from_america/default.stm
1911 Jean Shiley US, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1932)
1914 Emilio Pucci Naples, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1954)
1915 Kon Ichikawa Japan, director (Matatabi, Money Talks)
1916 Robert A Bruce MD, pioneer (exercise cardiology)
1917 Robert Byrd (D-Sen-WV)
1918 Dora Ratjen Germany, man posing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936)
1919 Evelyn Keyes actress (Adventure of Martin Eden)
1920 Gene Tierney Brooklyn, actress (Laura, Razor's Edge, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1923 Nadine Gordimer South Africa, actress/writer (Lying Days)
1924 Benoit Mandelbrot Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law)
1925 Maya Plisetkaya prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet)
1925 Robert Francis Kennedy Brookline MA (D-Sen-NY) AG; assassinated
1926 Kaye Ballard Cleveland Ohio, actress/comedienne (Kaye-Mothers-in-Law)
1927 Estelle Parsons Lynn MA, actress (Rachel Rachel, Bonnie & Clyde)
1928 Franklin Cover Cleveland, actor (Tom-The Jeffersons)
1929 Dick Clark Mt Vernon NY, TV host (American Bandstand)
1929 Kenneth DeWitt Schermerhorn Schenectady NY, conductor (American Ballet)
1932 Richard Dawson Hampshire England, actor (Hogan's Heroes, Family Feud)
1934 Valentine J Peter Omaha NB, priest (Boy's Town 1985- )
1937 Eero Muntyranta Finland, nordic ski relay (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 Jack Linkletter San Francisco CA, TV host (Haggis Baggis, Hootenanny)
1939 Dick Smothers NYC, comedian (Smother Brothers' Show)
1940 Bob Einstein Los Angeles CA, comedian (Officer Judy, Super Dave Osborne)
1941 Gary Karr Los Angeles CA, double-bassist (Oslo Philharmonic)
1942 Joseph R Biden Jr (D-Sen-Del)
1942 Norman Greenbaum Massachusetts, folk singer (Spirit in the Sky)
1943 Veronica Hamel Philadelphia PA, actress (Joyce-Hill St Blues)
1946 Duane Allman rocker (Allman Brothers-Jessica, Ramblin' Man)
1946 Judy Woodruff newscaster (McNeil Lehrer Report)
1947 Joe Walsh Wichita KS, guitarist/rocker (The James Gang, Eagles)
1948 Richard Masur NYC, actor (David-One Day at a Time)
1949 Juha Mieto Finland, 15KM skier (Olympic-silver-1980)
1954 Steve Dahl California, Chicago's anti-disco DJ (WLS-FM)
1956 Bo Derek Long Beach Cal, actress (10, Tarzan the Ape Man)
1956 Mark Gastineau NFL end (NY Jets, Pro Bowl 1981-85)
1959 Sean Young Louisville KY, actress (Dune, Young Doctor in Love)
1974 Marisa Ryan actress (Major Dad)

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Deaths which occurred on November 20:
0967 Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of liederen), dies
1527 Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic
1903 Tom Horn (Scout, Indian Fighter) hung
1910 Leo Tolstoy Russia, author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82
1962 Jasper McLevy socialist mayor of Bridgeport CT, dies
1968 Cathy Lewis actress (Deidre-Hazel), dies at 50
1973 Allan Sherman songwriter ("Camp Granada"), dies
1975 Gen Francisco Franco Spain's dictator, Still dead
1983 Marcel Dalio actor (Casablanca), dies at 83
1983 Richard Loo actor, dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest
1985 Bill Scott cartoon voice (Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle), dies at 65

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Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
20-Nov-2003 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private Scott Matthew Tyrrell Brooke Army Med Center, TX Non-hostile - ordnance accident
US Captain George A. Wood Al Ghalibiyah (nr. Ba’qubah) - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Joseph L. Lister Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

26-Nov-2004 5 | US: 5 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal David B. Houck Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Bradley M. Faircloth Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - grenade
US Lance Corporal Jordan D. Winkler Camp Fallujah - Anbar Non-hostile - unspecified cause
US Private 1st Class Harrison J. Meyer Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Private Brian K. Grant Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire



Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY


http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White
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Go here and I'll stop nagging.
http://soldiersangels.org/heroes/index.php

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On this day...
0269 Diocletian is proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor by his soldiers. He had been the commander of the emperor's bodyguard.
1272 Edward I proclaimed King of England
1521 Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
1616 Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War
1637 Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden(Peter later purchased Manhattan Island for 60 guilders)
1780 Britain declares war on Holland

1789 New Jersey becomes 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights

1829 Jews are expelled from Russia's Nikolayev & Sevastopol
1862 Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg
1866 1st national convention of Grand Army of the Republic (veterans' organization)
1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1873 Rival cities of Buda & Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary
1888 William Bundy patents the timecard clock
(So next time you're late for work, you know who to blame)
1890 Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in the missions
1894 US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
1903 In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell.
Tom Horn - The Legends, The Truth
http://www.tom-horn.com/story.htm
1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1914 US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1917 Ukrainian Republic declared
1919 1st municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Az
1928 WGH-AM in Newport News VA begins radio transmissions
1931 Commercial teletype service begins
1938 1st documented anti-Semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
1941 Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
1942 NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over

1943 US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Island
Tarawa on the Web
http://www.tarawaontheweb.org/
1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC
1947 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (The New Jersey)
1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
1947 UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1300 MPH)
1959 UN adopts the declaration of children's rights
1962 US lifts blockade of Cuba
1966 Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times
1967 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million
1969 Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
1970 UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
1974 The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT.
1975 Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination. He lost to incumbent Gerald Ford.
1976 George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live

1977 Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset

1977 Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards, against Minn Vikings
1980 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1980 UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
1981 Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship
1981 Ringo releases "Stop & Smell the Roses" album
1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "The Day After," about nuclear war (Reagan's gonna kill us all!!!)
1983 Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0
1983 NY Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing
1985 Yankee Don Mattingly named AL MVP
1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1990 Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership
1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
1991 California Democrat Alan Cranston accepted a Senate reprimand for his dealings with former savings-and-loan chief Charles H. Keating Jr., but then denied he was guilty of many of the allegations, prompting an angry rebuttal by New Hampshire Republican Warren B. Rudman.
2000 Lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush battled before the Florida Supreme Court over whether the presidential election recount should be allowed to continue.
2001 Portland police refuse to cooperate with FBI efforts to interview some 5,000 Middle Eastern men because the questioning violated state laws
2002 On the eve of a NATO summit in the Czech Republic, President Bush, recalling Europe's grim history of "excusing aggression," challenged skeptical allies to stand firm against Saddam Hussein.
2003 Islamic terrorists attack HSBC London-based bank and the British consulate in Turkey
2004 Germany and the United States agree on a proposal to write off as much as 80 percent of Iraq's debt.

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

Mexico : Revolution Day (1910)
World : Rights of the Child Day
US : National Children's Book Week Begins (Monday)
US : Bible Sunday
US : Holidays Are Pickle Days (thru 12-31)
Absurdity Day
Religion and Philosophy Month

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Religious Observances
Ang : Commemoration of Edmund
RC : Commemoration of St Felix of Valois, confessor

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Religious History
1541 In Switzerland, French reformer John Calvin, 32, established a theocratic government at Geneva, thereby creating a home base for emergent Protestantism throughout Europe.
1572 The first Presbyterian meeting house in England was established at Wandsworth, Surrey.
1850 Blind Fanny Crosby underwent a dramatic spiritual conversion at age 30. Fifteen years later, she began writing her first of over 8,000 hymns texts. Many of these remain popular today, including "Rescue the Perishing," "Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross," "All the Way My Savior Leads Me" and "Tell Me the Story of Jesus."
1872 The hymn penned by Annie Sherwood Hawks, 36 __ "I Need Thee Every Hour" __ was first sung at a National Baptist Sunday School Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1961 The Russian Orthodox Church joined the World Council of Churches.

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

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Elderly Ga. Man on Oxygen Foils Robbers

Nov 20, 9:43 AM (ET)


SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Despite being 83 years old and reliant on oxygen tubes for a lung ailment, Harry Carpenter wouldn't let his wife of 57 years be robbed by knife-wielding intruders in his own home.
Two would-be robbers forced their way into the home of Carpenter and his wife, Jackie, Wednesday evening while the two were having dinner, according to a police report.

One of them made Harry Carpenter sit down in the sun room, while the other went with Jackie Carpenter, 80, to get money from her bedroom.
Carpenter tried to come to his wife's rescue but was threatened with the knife.

Then he got his break - his wife pretended to faint and the intruder who was holding him went into the other room to see what was happening.
Carpenter shuffled to the laundry room, where he kept an old, unloaded rifle that he used to shoot squirrels, he said.

When one of the intruders came back, he found Carpenter aiming the rifle at him and yelled at his companion to flee. Police were unable to locate the two suspects, who didn't get any money.

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Thought for the day :
"People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster."
Alistair Cooke

[Soaring Feather]

Psalm 121

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

King James Version

[Valin]

no Egotism in THIS boy, no sirree Bob!!!!!!!!!

He ain't conceited...He's convinced. :-)

Cool site. Thanks

[Soaring Feather]

Good Morning everyone.

[Soaring Feather]

I would not want to be in the lead plane. LOL

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. Some days I feel like that little plane.

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning feather.

[Professional Engineer]

1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1300 MPH)

[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies and gents. Flag-o-Gram.

Spc. Thomas Loken, of Winona, Minn., holds his daughter Hailey and her handful of welcome home balloons early Friday morning, as the third group of soldiers with Bravo Company, 434th Main Support Battalion, returned home to the National Guard Armory in Austin, Minn.

[Professional Engineer]

Hi miss Feather

[Professional Engineer]

Howdy ma'am

[Iris7]

You are welcome.

We could have had a permanent Moon Base now, and a manned Mars scientific base too. We might have built deep space ships. Our people knew how with numerical certainty in 1975. Jupiter's moons. Europa. Saturn's Titan.

Near Earth space with 10,000 full time people. Daily 500 ton launches.

F-22s have their place, but how about an orbital free electron laser battle station that could shoot down fifty enemy aircraft a second. Seriously.

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/fel_001023.html

The FEL is a baby now. Fifty bogies a second is a ways away. Several years. Maybe less. Look at this megawatt FEL study, from the DOD:

http://www.stormingmedia.us/80/8022/A802224.html

Those Lefties have stopped all of this for way, way, way to long.