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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....07-10-06....Military Monday ~ Tribute to LadyX
Billie, The Mayor

Posted on 07/09/2006 8:59:29 PM PDT by The Mayor




A Few of FR's Finest
....Every Day
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A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001

So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I could no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I had been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.
Still that didn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why we've created a place for just that. This is a friendly room in JimRob's house where FReeper FRiends can gather every day and just say hello if that's all they want to do.
There's more of course. We sometimes feature different FReepers, with a little background information on who they are and what makes them who they are, along with a few photos you might not have seen on other threads; sometimes others write an essay for us to post as the feature for the day; sometimes our presentation is a human interest story found elsewhere that you might not have read; sometimes special holiday threads; but whatever the topic of the day, it is always with FR's Finest in mind and that is YOU!
If you would like to be featured, or would like to see someone else featured, please send me a private FR mail.
Every Monday we will post the photos of FR's Military Personnel that I have collected and put into groups; these will be available to view through a link the remainder of the week - every day just a click away. :)   If you would like to add a photo of yourself or a loved one in the military, past or present, please let me know; I will hold it until I have enough for a new group.
Thank you, and please have fun with us...every day! ~ Billie

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Thank You For Serving Our Country!

TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete
MIDDLE:  T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
BOTTOM:  YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1



TOP:  Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet
MIDDLE:  4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga
BOTTOM:  Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc



TOP:  mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette
MIDDLE:  Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid
BOTTOM:  gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf



TOP:  porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP
MIDDLE:  RaceBannon, Neets, rdb3, jwTexian
BOTTOM:  USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma



TOP:  g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett.
MIDDLE:  fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick,Leroy S Mort, Mark17.
BOTTOM:  Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau.



TOP:  ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam,
dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony
BOTTOM:  rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang



TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx
MIDDLE:  The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law
BOTTOM:  deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.



TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68.
MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797
BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack



TOP:  Q6-God, Scan59, Mama Bear and JKPhoto's son, ofMagog.
MIDDLE:  Big'ol_freeper, JustAmy's great uncle, Prodigal Son.
BOTTOM:  JustAmy's husband, JustAmy's brother-in-law, JustAmy's brother.



TOP:  dakine's wife, MeeknMing's dad, Auntbee's nephew, MilitiaMan7, AlasBabylon.
BOTTOM:  Joe Brower, Temple Owl, Temple Owl's wife, dutchess' dad, Aomagrat.



TOP:  ladtx #2 son; DiverDave's twin Don; petuniasevan and husband
poorman; Mustard; ladtx #1 son;
BOTTOM:  AlamoGirl's brother Floyd; AG's dad; AG's brother Jim (inset);
WVNan's husband; ladtx' Aunt Eva.



TOP: Mo1's dad; BuffyT's Uncle (right, w/ her dad & grandmother); Armymarinemom's 3 sons.
MIDDLE: ru4Liberty's dad; SheLion's husband, MaineRebel; wirestripper.
BOTTOM: fivetoes; bigghurtt; hurricane; ladtx' dad; Pippin's brother.



TOP: Repubmommy's brother, Rose in RoseBear's uncle, BoxerBlues' son Chris, BoxerBlues' son Brent.
BOTTOM: Rose in RoseBear's cousin's hubby, Deadhead's stepdad, Dansy's dad, Misty's brother.



LEFT: Little Pig; TOP: hattend, Old Sarge, Aquamarine's dad.
MIDDLE: HuntsvilleTxVeteran.
BOTTOM: Its_me_K.E.T.'s son, Veloxherc, SeeRushToldU_So.





                     








07-01-06 ~ Hall of Fame #16

THE WEEKEND THREAD

thru -07-7,8,9-06...
T.G.I.F. at the Finest

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping'
Every Thursday at the Finest
The guy's good, folks!



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To: Calpernia

Oh wow! I was hoping the memorial would go up, but didn't know who does them. Thank you for the link.


121 posted on 07/10/2006 9:24:36 AM PDT by WVNan (In memory of LadyX,, the finest of Free Republic)
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To: feinswinesuksass

ofmagog disappeared after saying he was taking a sabbatical. I think he had cancer, and nobody ever let us know whether he survived or not. I miss him still. Also wonder about invictus.


122 posted on 07/10/2006 9:26:39 AM PDT by WVNan (In memory of LadyX,, the finest of Free Republic)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; The Mayor; All
Thank you for the ping Tonk, and thank you for a wonderful tribute to a precious lady, Mayor.



Rest in Peace Maggie

123 posted on 07/10/2006 9:28:41 AM PDT by Gucho
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To: WVNan; Billie; Mama_Bear; The Mayor; Dubya; NicknamedBob; snugs; Mrs.Nooseman; StarCMC; All
Good Afternoon everybody!

I have a poem for LadyX, But I'll have to post it tomorrow as I have it at home, but I feel it'll be of comfort to everybody here who was tuched by this wonderful person.

I was shocked this morning to read that Maggie had gone on to be with the Lord. I thought she was getting better, guess I should have kept up with the prayer thread closer.

All the posts I've read here were so moving and feel Maggie id reading them all from her place in Heaven.

God bless you all and may God bring comfort to Maggie's family and friends.

124 posted on 07/10/2006 9:30:42 AM PDT by Anne of DC (RUMMY FAN BIG BIG TIME!)
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To: WVNan
I think I read at the bottom of the wall after the tribute for Maggie that the MW was kept up by MrMagoo.

I don't know, but you can check his profile page for info.

He used to post a lot on the Canteen thread.

125 posted on 07/10/2006 9:33:11 AM PDT by Anne of DC (RUMMY FAN BIG BIG TIME!)
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To: LadyX
I bet you have an even better view of the Aura Borealis now, Maggie.




126 posted on 07/10/2006 9:36:51 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: WVNan

It's a nice one.

I've been going crazy looking for the finest thread where we stayed up late one night and she told some stories of her time in Alaska.

I can't find it. I wanted to link it here.


127 posted on 07/10/2006 9:38:00 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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click for prayer thread

128 posted on 07/10/2006 9:47:07 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Anne of DC

I did start the Wall back when I was known as Mr_Magoo. Jim Robinson now maintains it. I am not on FR as much as I used to be.

Farewell LadyX.


129 posted on 07/10/2006 9:47:25 AM PDT by Petruchio (* Censored *)
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To: Petruchio

Thanks.


130 posted on 07/10/2006 9:54:33 AM PDT by Anne of DC (RUMMY FAN BIG BIG TIME!)
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To: All
A good story from LadyX

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....05-02-06....A Walk on the Beach

  Posted by LadyX to GodBlessUSA; Mrs.Nooseman; MEG33; WVNan; snugs; DollyCali
On News/Activism 05/02/2006 12:59:51 PM EDT · 70 of 194

It has been an incredibly wonderful and varied life, spanning so many major events in America's history.

Born at the end of The Great Depression in a quite different America, where doors were not locked, strangers welcomed and fed, and as litle girls (my sisters 5 and 9 years older), we freely and safely left home and either walked or went by Coral Gavles and Miami city buses anywhere we desired, without an adult.

WWII impacted us greatly, Pearl Harbor happening when I was 7 1/2 - sharpening my patriotism to the 'nth' degree. No time to indulge in fairy takes, instead playacting how brave I would be if I were a prisoner of the Germans or Japanese...collected scrap metal and newspapers to turn in for the War Effort...dug play foxholes in vacant lots with the little boys in the neighborhood...

Okay - it was a tad extreme to go into the U.S. Marine Corps!! LOL - I loved being a classroom instructor, though, and feeling useful to my country, during The Korean Conflict.

Spent 12 years as a military wife (Korean Conflict, The Cold War, Cuban Missie Crisis, Nam) - taught school one year - then spent 6 years in retail management, and after that, 18 1/2 years in and around medicine.
Crisscrossed up and down and around America (lived in 8 states, including Ohio twice and South Dakota) and in 1965-66, drove literally a line from above the Arctic Circle in Alaska to South Florida, and then up to South Carolina...in childhood, down the Florida Keys. Lived in Rochester, NY 2 years, and of course into that end of Canada...

Gypsy Woman is an All-American Woman...:)


131 posted on 07/10/2006 10:00:06 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: The Mayor

Beautiful opening and Maggy pic collage.


132 posted on 07/10/2006 10:01:48 AM PDT by Majie Purple
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To: All
Another good one!

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....05-02-06....A Walk on the Beach

  Posted by LadyX to GodBlessUSA; MEG33; Mrs.Nooseman; DollyCali; The Mayor; WVNan; LUV W; Lakeside; Kitty Mittens; ...
On News/Activism 05/02/2006 11:10:05 AM EDT · 54 of 194

Beaches have been a huge part of my life. My first 9 1/2 years were in Coral Gables; a lovely residential area within Miami, Florida.

Born in 1934, my earliest memories were of - I kid you not! -
"Sunday Drives in the Country" to Miami Beach!
Driving over the causeway to the beach area, there were numerous homes along the Biscayne Bay side, but on Miami Beach itself, there were only about a dozen blocks of development. Reaching the Beach, we had no problem finding a good spot, if we wanted to swim there.

World War II, however, brought the big boom. We usually drove up from Miami Beach to Baker's Haulover, where we could watch vessels going from the Inland Waterway into the ocean itself - and back. The beach line was total wilderness, with nothing but sand dunes and palmettos the whole way.

We also would park beside Biscayne Bay to watch the Pan American Clipper Ships (airplanes) take off for South America!
For family serious swimming/picnic times, however, we often drove down to Mathison Hammock Beach, where many knobby-kneed trees rose from the shoreline, and the wave action was more gentle, and there were covered picnic areas.
On my hall wall, I have a priceless photograph of my parents in their early 40's, posing by one of those trees...

Florida, of course, is rampant with flora and bird life of every description - - as is all of the state.

Going to Parris Island, that first fall we were just 3 blocks from the ocean, and were threatened by two hurricanes. If they had arrived at high tide, we at first floor level would have been washed over by 20-foot waves. We had to move all our clothing and bedding and gear to the second floor for the duration to save it if that happened.

The same was true when I lived on Chincoteague Island, Virginia in 1955 - 2 x 7miles "big."
We had to go over the one causeway to stay with friends inland, when, again, two hurricanes brushed by!
[Always wondered if I were a *magnet* for storms!!]

Leaving Fairbanks, Alaska in the summer of 1966, we were blessed to be sent to Myrtle Beach AFB, in base houring, located directly across the highway from a South Carolina State Park beside the ocean.
Living later in both South and North Caroina, we often made treks/vacations to beach areas.

=======================================

Sharks played a major role in meeting my husband!
Living then in Melbourne, Florida, I often took my two little boys to the beach after teaching a 5-year old Sunday School Class, and sometimes during the week.

I had seen him at Indialantic Beach, the head Lifeguard, dramatically going out to retrieve from the surf a large plastic ball a little boy had let go.
(He was a partner in a restaurant business with his brother, and with days free, he as a Water Safety Instructor was talked by the Kiwanis Club into heading the guards at the beach, going there anyway to swim.)

A few days later, my friend and her son went with us there. It was a usual summer of *Shark Sightings* up and down the coast, including there, sometimes having to close the beach to swimming. Leaving my boys with Dot, I went up to ask him if any had been sighted this day, so I could go out and swim alone. ...(with a negative answer, I did, and he caually strolled over to Dot, and ascertained the fact I was not married..:)

About two weeks later, he and I took my sons' inner tube, with me in it, out in the fairly calm water to chat while we enjoyed the warm water.
Of course, the tide was slowly pushing us out, and intent upon our conversation, we had not reali zed how far from shore we had drifted - - AND...

saw nearby a FIN circling us!!!
He protectively got between me and The Beast, and quietly told me to get to shore WITHOUT OBVIOUS SPLASHING!!
Talk about a L-O-N-G and harrowing journey - LOL now... propel, but don't make waves..:))

As it turned out, he was the predator shark, lo those 46 years ago..:))


133 posted on 07/10/2006 10:04:05 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Mama_Bear; Billie

Lovely & loving Maggie tributes Ladies!


134 posted on 07/10/2006 10:04:46 AM PDT by Majie Purple
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To: WVNan

The only one I knew who had his private info was Cob1.
When Cob1 left after the snowbunny incident.....ofmagog was able to send me his personal email addy so we could stay in touch. I really miss those crazy ofmagog posts.


135 posted on 07/10/2006 10:07:01 AM PDT by Feiny (Now go bang your heads on your desks until something useful comes out!)
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To: Anne of DC

Thank you. I did read that too when I got to the tribute page. Thanks in advance for the poem too.


136 posted on 07/10/2006 10:08:08 AM PDT by WVNan (In memory of LadyX,, the finest of Free Republic)
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To: MEG33; LUV W

Wonderful Maggie Tributes.
Thank you for the ping to both today.


137 posted on 07/10/2006 10:08:23 AM PDT by Majie Purple
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To: Calpernia

I have a printout of her time in Alaska, but not the time to type it out today.


138 posted on 07/10/2006 10:08:58 AM PDT by WVNan (In memory of LadyX,, the finest of Free Republic)
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To: Petruchio

Oh, hi Petruchio (Mr. Magoo)! I didn't know you had changed your name. I was missing you. God bless.


139 posted on 07/10/2006 10:09:58 AM PDT by WVNan (In memory of LadyX,, the finest of Free Republic)
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To: WVNan

::crack whips:: Type it now!

/teasing

I'm glad you have it. I know we can get it posted then :)


140 posted on 07/10/2006 10:10:41 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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