The FReeper Foxhole Honors our Veterans

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LOL Well, have fun!

Good evening everyone!

To all our military men and women past and present, military family members, and to our allies who stand beside us
Thank You!

Today is designated as a day to honor and give thanks to our Veterans.
In my heart, and in the hearts of thousands if not millions, EVERY day is Veterans Day.
Without the men and women who have served our country over the years, we would live in an entirely different world.........one I doubt any of us would like.
Saying thank you never seems like enough but it's all I have to offer.....that and my unwavering support for our military.

Happy Veterans Day, everybody.

Eveing Victoria. You get the day off?

Evening vox_PL. Isn't it Polish Independence Day?

Hi Sam!!! I got the day off.

Long time no see.

SLACKER!

LOL!

Hi radu, thanks for stopping in.

Good evening Victoria.

Hi Snippy.

LOL

Can't think of a better role model.

Today was a very special day for Veterans everywhere. Today the commanders from our local American Legion and VFW posts accepted, on behalf of Veterans, an emblem that was created especially for the Veterans. To date, there has never been an "official" emblem for Veterans. Veterans clubs each have their own, but Veterans as a whole do not have one. By these two organizations accepting this presentation it moves us closer to making it an "official" Veterans emblem.

This I think is long overdue to many Veterans who deserve this kind of recognition. We decided to forego waiting for Congressional approval, which will take months or years, and make it a part of todays Veterans Day Ceremonies. It was only a local ceremony, but through the VFW and the American Legion we hope this finds its way into other posts across the country. We are also planning on a similar presentation to a Chapter of the VVA in another part of the state, after the first of the year.

We would like to be able to make this same kind of presentation to Veterans through other similar organizations throughout the upcoming year. Anyone who can help, please let me know.

I don't know how to post images here so cannot show you the emblem....any help would be appreciated.

Our thanks to all Veterans everywhere for their service in protecting our freedoms.

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On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on November 12:
1790 Letitia Christian Tyler 1st wife of President Tyler
1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Johnstown NY, suffragist (80 Years & More)
1817 Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn Ali) founded Bahá'ís faith
1833 Aleksandr Borodin Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)
1840 Auguste Rodin France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)
1841 Lord Rayleigh England, physicist/chancellor of Cambridge (1908-14)
1866 Sun Yat-sen father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional)
1889 DeWitt Wallace St Paul MN, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)
1908 Harry A Blackmun Illinois, Supreme Court justice (70-94)
1912 Alphonse [Tuffy] Leemans NFL fullback (NY Giants)
1914 Roberto Cavanagh Argentina, polo (Olympic-gold-1936)
1918 Jo Stafford Coalinga CA, singer (I'll Never Smile Again)
1920 Richard Quine Detroit, actor (Clay Pigeon)
1922 Kim Hunter Detroit MI, actress (Bell, Book and Candle)
1929 Grace Kelly Phil, Monaco princess/actress (Philadelphia Story, Rear Window)
1934 Charles Manson [No Name Maddox], Cincinnati OH, criminal (Tate-Labianco)
http://www.crimelibrary.com/manson/mansonmain.htm
1935 Jerry Douglas actor (John-Young & Restless)
1937 Richard H Truly Fayette Miss, Rear Adm USN/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 8)
1943 Brian Hyland Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini)
1945 Al Michaels Brooklyn, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football)
1945 Neil Young Canada, singer/songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
1961 Nadia Comaneci Onesti Romania, gymnast (Oly-gold-1976, 80)
1975 Angela Watson actress (Karen Foster-Step by Step)
1989 Paul Jessup actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)

Deaths which occurred on November 12:
1035 Canute "The Great" King of the Danes (1016-1035), dies at 41
1558 Rabbi Shalom Shakna ben Joseph founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva, dies
1600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1777 Rev. Benjamin Russen hanged at Tyburn, England for rape
1889 Robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77
1939 Douglas Fairbanks, actor (Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), dies at 56
1941 Abe "Kid Twist" Reles NY gangster/police-informant, dies
1962 Sid Tomack actor (Jim Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma)
1987 Roger Lewis aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75
1990 Eve Arden actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82
1971 David Sarnoff, US TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80
1990 Dave Willock actor (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 81
2000 Actor George Montgomery died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 84.

Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
12-Nov-2003 18 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 16
IT Aiutante (Adjuvant) Alfonso Trincone An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Marescillo Capo Alfio Ragazzi An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Maresciallo Silvio Olla An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Meresciallo Filippo Merlino An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Carabiniere Scelto Horatio Maiorana An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Appuntato Domenico Intravaia An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Vice Brigadiere Ivan Ghitti An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Maresciallo Daniele Ghione An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Luogotenente Enzo Fregosi An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Carabiniere Scelto Andrea Filippa An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Tenente Massimiliano Ficuciello An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Caporal Maggiore Emanuele Ferraro An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Vice Brigadiere Giuseppe Coletta An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Aiutante (Adjuvant) Giovanni Cavallaro An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Caporale Alessandro Carrisi An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
IT Maresciallo Capo Massimiliano Bruno An Nasiriyah - Dhi Qar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
US Staff Sergeant Nathan J. Bailey Camp Arifjan Non-hostile - weapon discharge
US Specialist Robert A. Wise Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

12-Nov-2004 11 | US: 11 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal Nicholas H. Anderson Baghdad (20 mi. S of) Hostile - vehicle accident
US Sergeant James C. "J.C." Matteson Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
US Lance Corporal Brian A. Medina Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal David M. Branning Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Jonathan B. Shields Fallujah - Anbar Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US 1st Lieutenant Edward D. Iwan Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
US Corporal Brian P. Prening Babil Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Nathan R. Anderson Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Morgan W. Strader Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Jarrod L. Maher Baghdad (Abu Ghuraib) Non-hostile - weapon discharge
US Specialist Raymond L. White Baghdad (southern part) Hostile - hostile fire

Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY

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On this day...
0607 Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1098 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Mara, Syria
1276 Edward I invades Wales
1428 Siege of Orléans Begins The siege of Orléans lasted until Joan of Arc persuaded King Charles VII of France to send an army to relieve the city in April.
1474 Isabella crowns herself queen of Castilia & Aragon
1533 Juan Diego said he saw the Virgin Mary on a hill near Mexico City; Our Lady of Guadalupe became the patron saint of all Latin America by 1910.
1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1792 In Vienna, Ludwig Van Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
1800 Washington DC established as capital of US
1859 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris). He also designed the garment that bears his name
1864 William Tecumseh Sherman's Federal troops burn the City of Atlanta, Georgia
1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1892 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0 in football
1910 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1915 Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice Islands
1917 Father Edward J. Flanagan, a thirty-one-year-old Irish priest, founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb A home for troubled and neglected children, and a half-dozen boys enter to seek a better life.
1918 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1919 Ross & Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1921 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1925 Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo, CA
1927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1936 1st TV Gardening show
1936 Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1939 Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands
1941 WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in New York City swap call letters
1944 German battleship "Tirpitz" sunk off Norway
1946 1st driv-up bank window established (Chicago)
1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released
1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1950 Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yards) vs Chicago Cards
1953 US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II"
1955 E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1960 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1966 Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1969 Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1975 Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest (Dutch) Morial
1979 US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1980 US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
1981 1st balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
1982 Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader
1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1987 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
1988 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1989 Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1991 "Full House" 100th episode-The twins are born

1992 In his first formal post-election news conference, President-elect Clinton presented a detailed blueprint for action once he took office, and promised his administration would have the strictest ethical guidelines in history.

1996 The worst mid-air collision in aviation history. A Saudi Arabian Boeing 747 with 312 passengers crashed into a Kazak Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 with 39, all 349 passengers and crew were killed.
1997 Ramzi Ahmed and Eyad Ismoil, were convicted of involvement in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York.
2000 A divided U.S. Supreme Court reversed a state court decision for recounts in Florida's contested election, effectively transforming George W. Bush into the president-elect. (The high court agreed, 7-to-2, to reverse the Florida court's order of a state recount and voted 5-to-4 that there was no acceptable procedure by which a timely new recount could take place.)
2001 Taliban forces abandoned Kabul and Northern Alliance forces moved in to the capital.
2002 A new tape surfaced from terrorist "mastermind" Osama bin Laden in which he warned U.S. allies to be ready for the consequences of supporting Washington against his al-Qaida network (NOTE: You are now supposed to be quaking with fear. You might also want to run in circles waving your arms screaming in a loud voice "We're all going to die, we're all going to die!")
(Q: What's the difference between Osama bin Laden & a 200 lbs bag of fertilizer?
A: About 15 lbs.)
2003 Imelda Ortiz Abdala, a former Mexican consul to Lebanon, was arrested on charges of helping a smuggling ring move Arab migrants into the United States from Mexico. Federal agents over the previous 2 days arrested alleged ring leader Salim Boughader Mucharrafille along with alleged collaborators Melissa Ataja Valdez and Orlando Alfaro, in Tijuana

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

Austria : Republic Day (1918)
Bermuda : Rememberance Day
Saudi Arabia : Coronation Day
Taiwan : Sun Yat Sen's Birthday (1866)
Women's Organizations : Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day (1815)
West Germany : Repentance Day
World : International Cat Week Ends
Aviation History Month

Religious Observances
Old RC : Commemoration of Martin I, pope (649-55)
RC : Memorial of St Josaphat Kuncevyc, bishop/martyr
Ang : Commemoration of Charles Simeon, priest

Religious History
1556 Dutch Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons wrote in a letter: 'I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.'
1701 The Carolina Assembly passed a Vestry Act making the Church of England the official religion of the Carolina Colony. (Strong opposition by Quakers and other resident Nonconformists forced the colony's proprietors to revoke their legislation two years later.)
1818 Birth of Henri F. Hemy, English church organist. Of his several original compositions, best known is the tune ST. CATHERINE, to which we commonly sing the hymn, "Faith of Our Fathers."
1899 American evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody, 62, began his last evangelistic campaign in Kansas City, Missouri. Becoming ill during the last service, Moody was unable to complete his message, and died a few days later, on Dec 22.
1954 American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Loyalty to organizations and movements has always tended over time to take the place of loyalty to the person of Christ.'

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

HOW TO TELL IF YOU'VE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS

By NICK JEFFREYS
Roswell, N.M.

MOST people have been abducted by aliens, say some UFO experts -- so odds are you're one of them.

"Extraterrestrials possess the ability to wipe human memory clean," said Dr. J. Albert Longneck, a UFO investigator from Houston, Texas. "You could be kidnapped once or twice a week and you wouldn't remember a thing."

But there are detectable signs that you've been taken aboard a spacecraft and examined, according to Dr. Longneck. Here is a revealing excerpt from his upcoming book Did I Forget I Was Kidnapped By Aliens?

•You're drunk a lot -- Aliens take advantage of boozers because they're used to forgetting huge blocks of time and some really embarrassing stuff, said Dr. Longneck. ETs appreciate drunks because they don't have to waste their memory- wiper ammunition, which is expensive. They pick up a lot of people stumbling out of bars.
•You are mentally ill -- No one believes a psycho when he says he was in a space ship. Extraterrestrials take advantage of that fact by lurking around insane asylums and psychiatrist offices.
•You find a lot of puncture marks in your arms and you can't remember injecting yourself -- "These are from routine alien blood tests," said the expert.
•During an X-ray, your doctor discovers you are missing an internal organ you know you were born with -- "A lot of times aliens take out spleens, a lung, a kidney, an appendix so they can examine them closely," explained Dr. Longneck. Despite their advanced intellect, sometimes they simply forget to put them back.
•You wake up and can't remember everyday things like your name, the year, your address, your spouse's name, etc. -- "The alien scientists have sliced out a vital part of your brain," said Dr. Longneck.
•You cut yourself and your blood is green -- "This is when they've accidentally sucked out too much of your blood and had to give you a blood transfusion from their own blood bank," explained the expert.
•You suddenly find yourself in a foreign country thousands of miles from where you live -- "Aliens have a very bad sense of direction and can't read maps worth a damn," said Dr. Longneck. "They'll circle around the globe a lot, then get disgusted and just give their human abductees the boot when it's dinnertime -- alien wives are not very understanding."
•You look in the mirror and see that your nose is suddenly smaller -- "Many extraterrestrials are interested in plastic surgery techniques and will try them out on their captives," said Dr. Longneck.
•You develop an irrational fear of going to the doctor when it's never bothered you before -- "Your subconscious is telling you you've been poked, prodded, injected and probed enough," said Dr. Longneck.
•You suddenly discover you are missing a limb -- "You know you started out the day with two arms and two legs, and yet, when it's time to go to bed, one is missing," said Dr. Longneck. "This is an indication they have kept one of your limbs for dissection purposes."

Thought for the day :
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Auguste Rodin

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