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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Julius Caesar: The Gallic Wars ~ September 16, 2003
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| September 16, 2003
| LaDivaLoca
Posted on 09/16/2003 2:53:23 AM PDT by LaDivaLoca
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To: Severa; MoJo2001
Offering prayers for those in the path of the hurricane.
Offering prayers for the ships sent out to sea to ride it out.
I know from personal experience that the "ride" itself can be quite harrowing.
To: R. Scott
Thanks for stopping in the Canteen today.
To: Aeronaut
Good Afternoon. God Bless our troops.
I must have raised a really patient kid. My youngest had a protester spit on him and then shove him when he demanded an apology. I'm really surprised he didn't punch him. The guy did get arrested because the cops saw the whole thing. The upsetting part is that some spouses were out there with the protesters. How can a military spouse stand with people who spit on our soldiers. |
To: darkwing104
"Now off to keep world safe for FReepers everywhere."
Thank You for your service to our country.
To: Fawnn
"By the way, your goat told me to tell you that he prefers ketchup on his dog food"
He never tells me anything. LOL
To: Saint Lucie
Nice seeing you in the Canteen today.
To: Aeronaut
Hope you have a safe and successful trip.
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Beautiful bouquet this morning. Thanks men of the Military and the Canteen.
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posted on
09/16/2003 11:13:54 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Thank You for your daily posting of pics of the military each day.
To: Saint Lucie
Good morning, Lucie, good to see you. I don't think I want anything to do with a hurricane.
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posted on
09/16/2003 11:16:20 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Hope you have a safe and successful trip. Thank you my friend.
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posted on
09/16/2003 11:17:13 AM PDT
by
Aeronaut
(In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight should be called 'frenching')
To: E.G.C.
I just updated my virus files.
Thanks for reminding us all about computer upgrades, etc.
To: Fawnn; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Radix; tomkow6; SouthernHawk; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; Valin; HiJinx; ..
The porridge DNA results were devastating: The Washington University Law School mock court finds a juvenile named Goldilocks guilty of trespassing and chair breaking.
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posted on
09/16/2003 11:19:50 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: SevenofNine
Thanks for the international headlines.
To: Fawnn; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Radix; tomkow6; SouthernHawk; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; Valin; HiJinx; ..
Cleanliness is not next to dogliness: In fact, sometimes you have to pull really hard to get them together, as Brittany Caudle discovers at an Indianapolis Animal Control and Care volunteer dog wash.
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posted on
09/16/2003 11:21:20 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: MeeknMing
Good Afternoon!
Hook-em-Horns!
To: Fawnn; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Radix; tomkow6; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; HiJinx; Ragtime Cowgirl; ...
U.S. Army soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division conduct a search in Deh Chopan, in the Afghan province of Zabul, Sept. 3, 2003, as part of Operation Mountain Viper. The soldiers, with the 1st Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Division, 10th Mountain Division, conducted a "soft breach" in which civilians are asked to unlock doors, tie up dogs and move family members to an area away from the soldiers. The soldiers are looking for weapons, ammunition or evidence of ties to Taliban forces. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Davis
U.S. Army soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division patrol Deh Chopan, in the Afghan province of Zabul, searching for Taliban fighters and illegal weapons caches during Operation Mountain Viper, Sept. 1, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Davis
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posted on
09/16/2003 11:23:41 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: Aeronaut
Thought you might enjoy this story. Paul Weaver is married to a friend of mine from HS; she said she'd send me some digital pictures of the event, but I haven't received them yet. (Paul was at Osh Kosh this year, btw; his daughter was Miss Osh Kosh -- or whatever they name the title -- in 1989 or so; sorry, but I don't recall exactly what year.) A picture of Paul and his plane accompanied this story, which ran on the front page of Sunday's newspaper:
WWI Rendezvous glimpse of past
Modern look-alikes transform museum grounds
By Timothy R. Gaffney
tgaffney@DaytonDailyNews.com WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE | Replicas of World War I-era airplanes, antique cars and people in uniforms of the Great War turned the Air Force Museums front lawn on Friday into a scene from the early years of flight.
A sparkling blue sky and mild temperatures greeted the fourth Dawn Patrol Rendezvous at the museum, a free exhibition of flying and static displays that runs through Sunday. The last one was in 2000.
Pilots flying look-alikes of German or allied airplanes circled the museums grounds, taking turns with giant-scale radio-controlled model planes in the air over a temporary airfield on the grass along Springfield Street.
The airplanes arent actual antiques. Theyre built to modern standards, some full-scale but many at a slightly smaller scale. Most use modern two-stroke engines that give the planes a distinctive lawnmower sound, but some are powered by small aircraft engines, and a few sport antique rotary engines that give the sound and the scent, with castor oil fumes in the exhaust of the real thing.
Paul Weavers 3/4-scale S.E. 5 looked the part of the original British fighter, its tail scarred with a row of bullet holes.
"That happened somewhere between Lima and Van Wert," joked Weaver, an electrical supply salesman from Lima. The holes were vinyl stick-ons, which several other planes also sported.Dressed in a generic World War I-era Army uniform, Weaver, a civilian pilot who served in the Air Force from 1968 to 1972, said flying the plane and wearing the uniform help keep alive memories of the veterans who fought in World War I.
Many, if not all, of the airplanes at the fly-in are built of metal or wood from modern kits.
Robert Baslee Jr. of Airdrome Aeroplanes in Holden, Mo., showed off the aluminum skeleton of a German Fokker DVII biplane.
"You can purchase a kit, take it home and build it with basic hand tools," Baslee said of the line of German and French replicas he sells. Prices range from $5,000 to $10,000, not including engine, propeller and instruments, he said.
A typical kit-builder paints the finished plane to resemble a specific one from World War I. Some even replicate the uniform of the original planes pilot.
"They get very detailed," he said.
Re-enactors mingled with visitors at a camp display that included tents, machine guns, medical equipment and motorcycles.
Sue Fisher of South Orange, N.J., coordinating the re-enactors, was dressed as a Salvation Army worker. But thats just one of her impersonations, she said.
"Tomorrow Ill probably be a German nurse," she said.
[From the Dayton Daily News: 09.13.2003]
http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0913dawnpatrol.html?urac=n&urvf=10636722311860.7605191553095733
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posted on
09/16/2003 11:24:21 AM PDT
by
Fawnn
(NEVER FORGET!!! God Bless America! God Bless our Commander in Chief and our Troops!)
To: minor49er
And as for local officals, I don't even know who my local officals are. I've never seen any of them. Maybe they are unofficial... HA!
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posted on
09/16/2003 11:27:39 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(God protect the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God protect them all!)
To: armymarinemom
"My youngest had a protester spit on him and then shove him when he demanded an apology."
This makes me so angry I could spit nails.
It also brings back bad memories from the past.
Thank God idiots like this are few now-a-days.
Don't misunderstand, one is too many.
Please tell your sons I said Thanks for their service to our country.
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