FReeper Canteen ~ Military Short Speak ~ Feb. 6, 2006

(Thanks Bro!) | Sweet Polly Purebread

[luvie]

I know...I missed your tunes on Friday! :o(

The sooner you get the new modem the better your day will get! LOL!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

LOL.

It is good news and I am proud of him.

Make sure you'll post it to him when the time is right.

HUGS!!!

[luvie]

Miss Kylie Rose? Has it been a year since her birth already? My goodness! Have new pics? :o)

[StarCMC]

 

ALONE AND FAR REMOVED

Alone and far removed from earthly care
The noble ruins of men lie buried here.
You were strong men, good men
Endowed with youth and much the will to live
I hear no protest from the mute lips of the dead.
They rest; there is no more to give.

So long my comrades,
Sleep ye where you fell upon the field.
But tread softly please
March o'er my heart with ease
March on and on,
But to God alone we kneel.

. . . Audie Murphy

 

[Mrs.Nooseman]

LOL.

It was a very cute little rodent and it did tricks.She was very lovable and it was sad when we had to put her to sleep,because of tumors.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Lovely Table Star!!!!!

Great poem.:)

[beachn4fun]

I was wondering why my pinger was going off like a machine gun

WOO HOO

[StarCMC]

One more...

"In 1948, I returned to France at the invitation of French Government. It was still a war-ravaged country ... but this time there was something different. It wasn't the absence of fighting, nor the silence of the big guns, nor the disappearance of uniforms and chow lines ... I didn't know what it was until one morning when I was taken to the grounds of a small French school. The children had been assembled in the play yard. They were grouped close together and arranged in wobbly little rows, their dark heads bobbing around like flower buds on long stems. One of the teachers rapped for silence. The kids quieted immediately and turned their eyes towards her. Their Faces were scrubbed and bright in the sunshine. The teacher raised her arms, and for a moment, there was no sound ... Then the teacher brought her arms down and the kids began to sing ... I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again. A people had recovered their independence and their children were grateful. They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. America, at that moment, never meant more to me ... The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me." 

[luvie]

Oh...another wonderful one. He was very aware of the deaths of his brothers, wasn't he? Thanks Star!

[stand watie]

GM, beachn!

free dixie SMOOCH,sw

[StarCMC]

Thanks -- Audie Murphy is one of my greatest heroes.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

and ....

.....

and our thanks to the families of our awesome troops!!!!

[StarCMC]

Yes he was. He was a very special person and he suffered a great deal with PTSD. He was a great man.

[StarCMC]

Beautiful!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Thank you Star for this lovely tribute to our awesome troops past and present.

[beachn4fun]

Yes, it is almost a year. Her mommy has new pictures but I have to go to my Yahoo email to see if she has sent them yet. I need updates on all of them thar grandkids!

[luvie]

Well, that one made me cry. And I saw him once in Lubbock Texas in a rodeo parade when I was little. He was so handsome!

Thanks Star! ((((hugs))))

[Mrs.Nooseman]

You are welcome.:)

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, sugar. SMOOCHES back atcha.

Have a good day!

I gotta sneak off and grab some lunch. BBL

[luvie]

He was very sensitive and kept everything inside himself. I was so sad when he died.