The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Trenton - 1776

Good morning, Misty. I hope you had a nice Christmas.

Another good post Sam. I hope you had a nice Christmas.

You are welcome. :)

Ooooh...the baby is so cute! Breaks your heart to see those poor innocent children suffer. :(

I sure did! I hope you had a great one too! I just checked the powerball tickets. I didn't win! :( LOL!

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Good morning, Jen! How are you doing today? I finished my first project that I was working on!!! Whew! Now I have a smaller one of the same type which should be a piece of cake. Then I get to break out the sewing machine and have some fun!!! :) Just needed to clear the table top. :)

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P.S. This is one of my favorite war stories.

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Can you believe THIS?:

Article on FR:
SEN. MURRAY'S PRO-BIN LADEN STATEMENTS
QUOTED ON TALIBAN WEBSITE!

http://muslimthai.com/talibanonline/article.php?sid=1360&mode=thread&order=0

Democrat senator praises bin Laden
Posted on Monday, December 23 @ 14:36:54 ICT By Pak Taliban

December 20, 2002, By Art Moore

SEATTLE – Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., told a group of high-school students in her state that the U.S. should adopt Osama bin Laden's nation-building tactics.

"We've got to ask, why is this man so popular around the world?" said Murray, according to the Vancouver Columbian newspaper. "Why are people so supportive of him in many countries that are riddled with poverty?"

The second-term senator, who faces re-election in 2004, was responding to questions from world history students and student government leaders at Columbia River High School in Vancouver, Wash., on Wednesday.

Murray said, according to the Vancouver paper, that bin Laden has been "out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."

"How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?" Murray asked.

Murray, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the 107th Congress, voted against an October Senate resolution – passed by a 77-23 margin – that gives President Bush authority to use military force against Saddam Hussein's regime.

Murray concluded the session with students by challenging them to consider alternatives to war, the Columbian reported. She said that while building up Third World nations is costly, war is expensive too.

"Your generation ought to be thinking about whether we should be better neighbors out in other countries so that they have a different vision of us," said Murray. "It is a debate I think we ought to have."

(The rest of the story trie's to put down Osama with the same old rubbish and a thought, is this why the Kuffar in Afghanistan are trying to set bases of the so called reconstruction phase, thinking if they look like helping the Afghan's that they might start to like them or something? No doubt the Russians did the same thing. What would please us is when you pack and go. (in sha Allah )

Full Version Here

The Hessians were drunk from a night of dissipation;
our fathers were sober in resolution to win or else.

...and the rest is history...

Hello friends!! I'm off and running today. Missy and I are going to my sister's house to hang out and maybe go see a movie. I need a 'vacation' from the holidays! I am tired!!

Congrats Misty on finishing your project!! Hooray!!

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Can I believe it? Yeah, unfortunately I can since it's coming from a DIM! She should be ousted from the Senate for her comments. If she were a Republican there would be talking heads on TV day and night screaming for 'her' head on a platter for her pro-Osama sympathies.

Yep. The 'RATS would have made the recent smearing of Trent Lott look like a picnic by 1st graders.

Good morning Jen.

Patty Murray needs a lobotomy.

Here is my personal account from Washington Crossing.

It was a cold hard rain yesterday, on top of the prior nights snow and icy slush. Some of the reenactors marched to the reconstructed Durham boats at the dock. Yet the crossing was called off on account of inclement weather, and very few spectators showed up. Where the crowd in recent years has grown to 10 to 15 thousand, this year it only counted in the hundreds.

Washington Crossing is a great place to visit, and the open-in-the-summer kiddie theme park "Sesame Place" is only fifteen minutes away. Six miles north of the Crossing there is a hill commanding the river -- Bowman's Hill, on which a tower was built during the 30's by the CCC. That tower has a mighty fine view and shoould also be visited. The main attraction at the Crossing itself are the park center buildings, one in Jersey that houses the most excellent Swann collection of revolutionary military kits, guns and such, and the one in Pennsylvania with a great reproduction of the famous Leutze painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware".

Both centers have filmstrips describing the events of the Crossing.

On the Pennsylvania side there is an excellent art gallery on General Greene Road which has some very nice original and print art of Washington Crossing and the local area.

Collection of drawings from the Battle of Trenton: