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FReeper Canteen ~ The Berlin Airlift Part 3: Operation Little Vittles ~ December 16, 2013
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Posted on 12/15/2013 5:01:26 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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To: yarddog
WOW! yarddog, what a great story/memory! Thank you for sharing.
So cool that you have a picture.
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posted on
12/15/2013 6:22:11 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: The Mayor
The Mayor!!
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posted on
12/15/2013 6:23:32 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
Woke up this morning to at least 8 more inches, I plowed all day, done now. Hope it eases up a tad. Too much all at one time.
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posted on
12/15/2013 6:24:09 PM PST
by
The Mayor
(Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
To: AMDG&BVMH
Welcome to the Canteen, AMDG&BVMH.
Hope you are enjoying the Berlin Airlift stories.
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posted on
12/15/2013 6:25:08 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
I have a picture of Templehoff scattered with destroyed German planes. Also one of Eisenhower landing at Templehoff.
Also of a football game between the Combat Engineers and 82nd Airborne. Eisenhower and Marshall Zhukov were both at the game. I believe future Auburn Coach Shug Jordan was playing in the game but can’t be sure.
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posted on
12/15/2013 6:27:58 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: PROCON
Good evening, Pro...((HUGS))...glad you will be together.
I spent my whole day at the office...we moved Friday and I needed to make sure my computer was good to go and I could find the stuff I need to be operable Monday morning.
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posted on
12/15/2013 6:28:49 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: The Mayor
Very well put.
Thank you.
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posted on
12/15/2013 6:53:25 PM PST
by
Tucker39
(ed eith a hot iron.")
To: yarddog
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posted on
12/15/2013 6:55:16 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: The Mayor
Thank goodness you have a plow!
Our neighbors are from Buffalo and tell us about SNOW!!
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posted on
12/15/2013 6:57:18 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Tucker39
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posted on
12/15/2013 7:08:26 PM PST
by
The Mayor
(Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
To: Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe; BIGLOOK; alfa6; EsmeraldaA; SandRat; mylife; TMSuchman; PROCON; ...
Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!
Missing Man Setting
"The Empty Chair"
By Captain Carroll "Lex" Lefon, USN (RET), on December 21st, 2004
"In the wardroom onboard the aircraft carrier from which I recently debarked was a small, round table, with single chair. No one ever sat there, and the reasons, both for the table being there, and for the fact that the chair was always empty, will tell the reader a little bit about who we are as a culture. The wardroom, of course, is where the officers will dine; morning, noon and evening. It is not only a place to eat it is also a kind of oasis from the sometimes dreary, often difficult exigencies of the service. A place of social discourse, of momentary relief from the burdens of the day. The only things explicitly forbidden by inviolable tradition in the wardroom are the wearing of a cover or sword by an officer not actually on watch, or conversation which touches upon politics or religion. But aboard ships which observe the custom, another implicit taboo concerns the empty chair: No matter how crowded the room, no matter who is waiting to be seated, that chair is never moved, never taken.
The table is by the main entrance to the wardroom. You will see it when you enter, and you will see it when you leave. It draws your eyes because it is meant to. And because it draws your eyes it draws your thoughts. And though it will be there every day for as long as you are at sea, you will look at it every time and your eyes will momentarily grow distant as you think for a moment. As you quietly give thanks.
AS YOU REMEMBER.
The small, round table is covered with a gold linen tablecloth. A single place setting rests there, of fine bone china. A wineglass stands upon the table, inverted, empty. On the dinner plate is a pinch of salt. On the bread plate is a slice of lemon. Besides the plate lies a bible. There is a small vase with a single red rose upon the table. Around the vase is wound a yellow ribbon. There is the empty chair.
We will remember because over the course of our careers, we will have had the opportunity to enjoy many a formal evening of dinner and dancing in the fine company of those with whom we have the honor to serve, and their lovely ladies. And as the night wears on, our faces will in time become flushed with pleasure of each others company, with the exertions on the dance floor, with the effects of our libations. But while the feast is still at its best, order will be called to the room we will be asked to raise our glasses to the empty table, and we will be asked to remember:
The table is round to show our everlasting concern for those who are missing. The single setting reminds us that every one of them went to their fates alone, that every life was unique.
The tablecloth is gold symbolizing the purity of their motives when they answered the call to duty.
The single red rose, displayed in a vase, reminds us of the life of each of the missing, and their loved ones who kept the faith.
The yellow ribbon around the vase symbolizes our continued determination to remember them.
The slice of lemon reminds us of the bitterness of their fate. The salt symbolizes the tears shed by those who loved them. The bible represents the faith that sustained them. The glass is inverted they cannot share in the toast. The chair is empty they are not here. They are missing.
And we will remember, and we will raise our glasses to those who went before us, and who gave all that they had for us. And a part of the flush in our faces will pale as we remember that nothing worth having ever came without a cost. We will remember that many of our brothers and sisters have paid that cost in blood. We will remember that the reckoning is not over.
We many of us will settle with our families into our holiday season, our Christmas season for those who celebrate it, content in our fortune and prosperity. We will meet old friends with smiles and laughter. We will meet our members of our family with hugs. We will eat well, and exchange gifts and raise our glasses to the year passed in gratitude, and to the year to come with hope. We will sleep the sleep of the protected, secure in our homes, secure in our homeland.
But for many families, there will be an empty chair at the table this year. A place that is not filled.
WE SHOULD REMEMBER."
Many Thanks To Alfa6 For Finding Capt. Lefon's Chronicle Of "The Empty Chair."
"Träumerei" Robert Schumann (Click)
Never Forget The Brave Men And Women Who Gave Their Lives To Secure Our Freedom!!
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"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
12/15/2013 7:09:29 PM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Especially in south towns, the lake effect can be brutal until Lake Erie freezes. Wind blows over the lake, picks up the moisture and down comes the snow. Sometimes for day.
We don’t get much of it cause of where we live in the middle of the Niagara River sandwiched between Canada and Niagara Falls, but when we do it hits hard.
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posted on
12/15/2013 7:11:16 PM PST
by
The Mayor
(Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
To: Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe; BIGLOOK; alfa6; EsmeraldaA; SandRat; mylife; TMSuchman; PROCON; ...
GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND OUR BELOVED NATION!
TATTOO (Click)
Must retire for the evening -
For Every Morn' Brings Forth A Noble Chance, And Every Chance Demands A Noble Knight!
The Bugler, his grim visage replete with an evil sneer, already mounts the parapet.
Soldiers of the Greatest Generation Stand The Watch Tonight!
Standing With Them Old Iron Pants!
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, USAF
TAPS U.S. Marine Band (Click)
"Do poor Tom some charity, whom the foul fiend vexes!"
(King Lear, Act III, Scene iv)
All Gave Some Some Gave All!!! (Click)
Good night, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America!
Godspeed our Troops around the Globe especially those in harms way by virtue of their service and sacrifice we continue to live in Freedom!
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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
12/15/2013 7:11:50 PM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: docman57
Where would a body get a copy of “The Candy Bombers?” My dad participated in the airlift while he was in the Army Air Corps (Air Force)
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posted on
12/15/2013 7:32:31 PM PST
by
Cloverfarm
(This too shall pass ...)
To: ConorMacNessa
GOD BLESS AMERICA!! God Bless you good, Mac. Good night and rest well.
Thanks for helping honor our troops, past and present.
Thank you for your service to our country.
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posted on
12/15/2013 7:32:46 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska; StarCMC
Thanks, Galz, for more of the story! Quite a feat!
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:23:13 PM PST
by
luvie
(All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Love the Douglas Graphic
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:33:43 PM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; mylife; Old Sarge; NYTexan; All
*SIGH*
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:40:49 PM PST
by
MS.BEHAVIN
(Women who behave rarely make history)
To: MS.BEHAVIN
Eep! That’s gonna be fun to dig out of. NOT! Stay warm, you two!
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:55:02 PM PST
by
luvie
(All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
To: MS.BEHAVIN
Socked in again?
Well I guess I should get the kettle on.
You make some toast, and get the tea, Ill get the butter sugar and cinnamon.
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:56:05 PM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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