FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 2015 ~ 24 May 2015

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[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Sunday Chapel ~ MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 2015 ~

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




In honor of those who lost their lives while serving our country, we would like to share with you President Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery:

Today is the day we put aside to remember fallen heroes and to pray that no heroes will ever have to die for us again. It’s a day of thanks for the valor of others, a day to remember the splendor of America and those of her children who rest in this cemetery and others. It’s a day to be with the family and remember.

I was thinking this morning that across the country children and their parents will be going to the town parade and the young ones will sit on the sidewalks and wave their flags as the band goes by. Later, maybe, they’ll have a cookout or a day at the beach. And that’s good, because today is a day to be with the family and to remember.

Arlington, this place of so many memories, is a fitting place for some remembering. So many wonderful men and women rest here, men and women who led colorful, vivid, and passionate lives. There are the greats of the military: Bull Halsey and the Admirals Leahy, father and son; Black Jack Pershing; and the GI’s general, Omar Bradley. Great men all, military men. But there are others here known for other things.

Here in Arlington rests a sharecropper’s son who became a hero to a lonely people. Joe Louis came from nowhere, but he knew how to fight. And he galvanized a nation in the days after Pearl Harbor when he put on the uniform of his country and said, “I know we’ll win because we’re on God’s side.” Audie Murphy is here, Audie Murphy of the wild, wild courage. For what else would you call it when a man bounds to the top of a disabled tank, stops an enemy advance, saves lives, and rallies his men, and all of it single-handedly. When he radioed for artillery support and was asked how close the enemy was to his position, he said, “Wait a minute and I’ll let you speak to them.” [Laughter]

Michael Smith is here, and Dick Scobee, both of the space shuttle Challenger. Their courage wasn’t wild, but thoughtful, the mature and measured courage of career professionals who took prudent risks for great reward—in their case, to advance the sum total of knowledge in the world. They’re only the latest to rest here; they join other great explorers with names like Grissom and Chaffee.

Oliver Wendell Holmes is here, the great jurist and fighter for the right. A poet searching for an image of true majesty could not rest until he seized on “Holmes dissenting in a sordid age.” Young Holmes served in the Civil War. He might have been thinking of the crosses and stars of Arlington when he wrote: “At the grave of a hero we end, not with sorrow at the inevitable loss, but with the contagion of his courage; and with a kind of desperate joy we go back to the fight".

All of these men were different, but they shared this in common: They loved America very much. There was nothing they wouldn’t do for her. And they loved with the sureness of the young. It’s hard not to think of the young in a place like this, for it’s the young who do the fighting and dying when a peace fails and a war begins. Not far from here is the statue of the three servicemen—the three fighting boys of Vietnam. It, too, has majesty and more. Perhaps you’ve seen it—three rough boys walking together, looking ahead with a steady gaze. There’s something wounded about them, a kind of resigned toughness. But there’s an unexpected tenderness, too. At first you don’t really notice, but then you see it. The three are touching each other, as if they’re supporting each other, helping each other on.

I know that many veterans of Vietnam will gather today, some of them perhaps by the wall. And they’re still helping each other on. They were quite a group, the boys of Vietnam—boys who fought a terrible and vicious war without enough support from home, boys who were dodging bullets while we debated the efficacy of the battle. It was often our poor who fought in that war; it was the unpampered boys of the working class who picked up the rifles and went on the march. They learned not to rely on us; they learned to rely on each other. And they were special in another way: They chose to be faithful. They chose to reject the fashionable skepticism of their time. They chose to believe and answer the call of duty. They had the wild, wild courage of youth. They seized certainty from the heart of an ambivalent age; they stood for something.

And we owe them something, those boys. We owe them first a promise: That just as they did not forget their missing comrades, neither, ever, will we. And there are other promises. We must always remember that peace is a fragile thing that needs constant vigilance. We owe them a promise to look at the world with a steady gaze and, perhaps, a resigned toughness, knowing that we have adversaries in the world and challenges and the only way to meet them and maintain the peace is by staying strong.

That, of course, is the lesson of this century, a lesson learned in the Sudetenland, in Poland, in Hungary, in Czechoslovakia, in Cambodia. If we really care about peace, we must stay strong. If we really care about peace, we must, through our strength, demonstrate our unwillingness to accept an ending of the peace. We must be strong enough to create peace where it does not exist and strong enough to protect it where it does. That’s the lesson of this century and, I think, of this day. And that’s all I wanted to say. The rest of my contribution is to leave this great place to its peace, a peace it has earned.

Thank all of you, and God bless you, and have a day full of memories.

Note: The President spoke at 10:10 a.m. at the Memorial Amphitheater. Prior to his remarks, he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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Thanks!

I used to listen to “The execution of Stepan Razin” almost compulsively (Love that Bass Voice) but was not familiar with this piece.

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I remember listening to it over and over, going to sleep, one hot summer with no A/C. The white bedroom curtains would flutter in the darkness.

That was a good summer. I was a teenager. The LP wasn’t very powerful, so you could hear the record getting a little worn after a while.

But the melodies. And the story of the symphony itself. Kind of like Beethoven’s 3rd. Or 5th. Or 9th.

Ours was a Brahms, Bach and Beethoven house.

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I am praying for you right now, ConorMacNessa.

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My folks went to hear a man play the piano in the basement of their church.

This man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXGSfJn3nKQ

It was long ago now, but I have always been amazed at the idea.

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I was in the Guitar center today and they had a HUGE selection of VINYL RECORDS!

(I felt SO validated!)

[Publius]

Mahler: Veni Creator Spiritus

The first movement of his Eighth Symphony.

[combat_boots]

Glad I could help! Vinyl has its place. Good vinyl is just that.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, bgill....a Blessed Lord's Day to you and yours.

And thank you, Anthony, for your service to our country.

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I have such memories of vinyl...opening the cellophane carefully so I could s-l-i-d-e the LP out without tearing it, The inner sleeve crisp and new, handling the record just by the edges, and placing the needle oh-so=carefully on the edge....and then...NEW music that i had never heard before.

There was even an aroma...not quite as strong and unforgettable as film developer (I had my own darkroom at 16), but really, really cool!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Dear God:
I ask that no Airman, Coast Guardsman,
Marine, Sailor, Soldier, Reservist, National Guardsman, or Merchant Marine
feel alone or forgotten.

O Israel, hope in the Lord;
For with the Lord there is loving kindness,
And with Him is abundant redemption.
And He will redeem Israel
From all his iniquities.

Psalm 130:7 & 8

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I went through a serious Van Karajan time. He really did good work.

On the other hand, I can remember wanting to go up and YANK the baton out of this one guy’s hand and conduct Beethoven’s 3rd as it should be. I was REALLY tempted.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

A Blessed Lord's Day and Shavua Tov to you.

[combat_boots]

Remember how we were needle nuts? You had to have the right one, the best balance, that lightest touch. It was about as bad as comparing Tandberg to Klipsch speakers.

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Van Karajan was my Dad’s favorite conductor of Beethoven’s Symphonies.

[Publius]

IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE SUNG

Charles Ives (1874-1954) founded Metropolitan Life and created the concept of life insurance as a tool of estate planning. His secret life as a composer was played out at home and at a church in New York where was organist.

His religious settings stretch the boundaries of tonality. This was a student exercise from his years at the Yale Music School. Half the chorus sings in G minor and the other half in C Major. It’s hard to make bi-tonality work – it’s still illegal in some states – but Charlie does a reasonable job.

Ives: Psalm 67

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I still have my Klipsch Speakers.

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KJV, Psalm 121:

1 (A Song of degrees.) I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

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I think that is still illegal in Florida!

(That is probably a good thing!) LOL!

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Well, Dear FRiends, i have a church Service and a recital both on the same day...tomorrow (With set-up and equipment breakdown included!) so I am going to bed early.

Good Night!

(((HUGS)))

[Salvation]

Come Holy Spirit

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.