FReeper Canteen ~ Veterans Day, November 11, 2014

Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World!! | The Canteen Crew

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night Troops, wherever you are.

Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.

Thanks, unique, for the pastries.

Coffee is always on........

How about a cupcake?

Cookies?

Veggies?

Sandwich?

[Kathy in Alaska]

God bless and keep safe our troops worldwide.

Good night.

Statler Brothers ~ How Great Thou Art

[Kathy in Alaska]

Prayers for Arrowhead's recovery and in his absence....

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Tuesday morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

((HUGS))Good Tuesday morning, Kathy. Happy Veterans Day.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

((HUGS))Good morning, LUV W. Happy Veterans Day.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Everyone.
Good morning to our

AWESOME

military, our allies, and their families

Thank you, Lauren, for preparing the Canteen
for today’s activities.

It is a pleasure to honor those
who have sacrificed so much.

Thank you to all vets present and past,
those here and not
(including my son who doesn't hang out here).

Today is a home day with chores.
Has been nice to have 4 days off,
and not really looking forward to going back up the road.

Got to make my rounds.
But, please stay right where you are.
Chat with the military or their families.

O P E N

So, come on in and sit for a while.
There's always plenty of coffee, tea
pancakes, conversation,
silliness, and plain old BS

REMEMBER THEM

DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT

Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above Honoring those who have served before.

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Beach. Happy Veterans Day.

[luvie]

Howdy, EGC! (((hugs)))

Thank you for your service on this day of remembrance!

[luvie]

Well...it got cold overnight, Early Birds!
I wanted to stay under the covers!
I'm sure it's worse for most of you!
I guess we can say summer is over. :)
(((hugs)))

Remembering Our Vets!

[ExTexasRedhead]

For my husband, my hero, who flew the F100 (the Hun) out of Phan Rang during the Vietnam War.

http://vimeo.com/27102505

High Flight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL-KCFbIpA

[CMS]

Family is doing good, Ashleigh is almost 2 and a half.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Thank you for posting that poem today. Someone needed to. Glad you did.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh my goodness...CMS! What a cutie!

And we thank you for your service to our country.

[CMS]

Thank you

[acad1228]

Tunes For Da Troops!!!acad1228’s Daily Dose O’ Da Blues!

Big Maybelle Smith - Whole Lot Of Shakin' Goin' On

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Albert King - I Got The Blues

Little Joe McClarren - Highway Sixty One

Candye Kane - Just Because

Crank up them speakers!!!!

Support the artists you hear in the Canteen (buy their music)!

ArtistDirect.com l Amazon.com l Ticketmaster.com l CDconnection.com l Songfacts.com l Walmart.com

(FReepmail me if you would like to be added to the "Daily Dose O' Da Blues" Ping List.)

[Old Sarge]

THE NOISE

I roll in my bed, my pillow on my head,
in Dreamland I wish I could stay,
but what else can I do? So I throw my old shoe
at The Noise That Just Won’t Go Away.

The alarm stops humming, and the sunlight is coming
through the window, announcing the day,
the clock has stopped humming, but it just keeps coming,
The Noise That Just Won’t Go Away.

My hands keep jerking, my jaw keeps working
as I struggle to earn a day’s pay,
then it’s off to the pub, where I try to drub
The Noise That Just Won’t Go Away.

As I sit at the bar, other soldiers there are,
who were with me in the land far away,
and our fists hold our ale, and we remember the tale
of The Noise That Just Won’t Go Away.

Whether daylight so hot, or night when it’s not,
and the moon lit the land bright as day,
you just never knew where the mortar shell flew
with The Noise That Just Won’t Go Away.

Sometimes you heard, the only warning word,
“Incoming!!” the sirens would bray,
and you rush inside, as you try to hide
from The Noise That Just Won’t Go Away.

A tall plume of smoke, and no one spoke
“Hope it missed”, you would silently pray,
and it gets kind of hard, with your careful regard
of The Noise That Just Won’t Go Away.

Now, my verses are done, but before you run
do one thing on this Veterans’ Day,
remember those who face fear, so that you’ll never hear,
The Noise That Just Won’t Go Away.

© Copyright 2006 by JSR

[left that other site]

Is that yours? It is wonderful.

Thank you, Old Sarge, for your service to America.

[MEG33]

Happy Veterans Day
~We Honor All Who Served Our Country~

~America~
Land Of The Free Because Of The Brave