FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ 12 June 2015

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

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

OVER AFGHANISTAN

An A-10 Thunderbolt II receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over eastern Afghanistan, July 10, 2014. The A-10 is assigned to the 303rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, and the KC-135 is assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron on Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Its maneuverability at slow speeds and low altitude has made the Thunderbolt II an aircraft choice for close air support throughout Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Matthew Bruch

Canteen Mission Statement

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.

CHINOOK SECURITY

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Mike Allen provides security from inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during a flight after conducting slingload training on Camp Marmal, Afghanistan, July 1, 2014. Allen is a crew chief assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 169th General Support Aviation Battalion. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Sandra Welch

WALL WORKERS

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Eduardo Ellorin, left, and U.S. Navy Seaman Cory Migneault spread mortar while building a wall during a Pacific Partnership 2014 engineering project at San Fernando School in Tacloban, Philippines, July 6, 2014. Ellorin is an equipment operator, and Migneault is a steelworker constructionman. Pacific Partnership is an annual deployment designed to strengthen maritime and humanitarian partnerships during disaster relief operations. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Greg Badger

MISSION SEARCH

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kevin Paul searches a pile of dead vegetation for dangerous materials during a mission in Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 4, 2014. Paul is a combat engineer assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joseph Scanlan

CRASH CRANE

Sailors use a crash crane to practice rigging a damaged aircraft during flight deck drills aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge in the Atlantic Ocean, July 13, 2014. The Kearsarge is conducting sea trials. The sailors are assigned to the crash and salvage team. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tamara Vaughn

HIGH SPEED PASS

An F-22 Raptor performs a high-speed pass during the Arctic Thunder Open House on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 26, 2014. The base hosted the biennial event, which featured more than 40 Air Force, Army and civilian aerial acts, and was expected to draw more than 200,000 people. U.S. Air Force photo by Capt Joel Cooke

PARACHUTE ASSAULT

Paratroopers perform a heavy equipment drop and parachute assault during training on Malamute drop zone on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 23, 2014. U.S. Air Force photo by Justin Connaher

NIGHT MISSION

A U.S. Air Force pararescue team takes off in an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from Bagram Airfield Afghanistan, July 9, 2014. The airmen represent U.S. Defense Department elite combat forces specifically trained, equipped and postured to conduct a range of personnel recovery combat operations. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Sandra Welch

ISLAND DIVE

Navy divers participate in a scuba dive during Rim of the Pacific Exercise 2014 in the Pacific Ocean, July 9, 2014. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in the exercise in and around the Hawaiian Islands. The Navy divers are assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1, Australian Clearance Diving Team One. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor Smith

POLE PARTNERS

Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Joshua Guerreiro performs pole top rescue procedures for the Navy Seabee Construction Electrician "A" school on Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, July 15, 2014. The pole top rescue qualification simulates a climber who has been injured and students who provide assistance. Guerreiro is a Navy Unique Block 7 instructor assigned to the 366th Training Squadron. U.S. Air Force photo by Danny Webb

Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.

[mylife]

Yes, Bass players ARE bombastic!

Hope you feel well soon.

[Publius]

The first recording from 1935 featured Barber himself on vocals. After recording the song in New York, he and the quartet went out and got drunk.

[mylife]

Toward another musical spectrum...

Gong~ A Cat In Clarks Shoes

[mylife]

☺ That's the way it should be LOL

[mylife]

I gotta hit the rack.

Cyall later.

[SandRat]

Maddi has her 3rd Birthday Party on Saturday. They grow up so fast.

[mylife]

We forgot Aaron Copeland.

[The Mayor]

Texas then Oregon

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Maestro! I'm sorry I have not been able to respond to your many posts of splendid music. I have been waylaid by circumstances not of my making.

I look forward with great anticipation to the Barber "Dover Beach." I am well familiar with Arnold's poem. In my undergrad class in Victorian Poetry we read this poem in juxtaposition to Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:"

"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin – his control
Stops with the shore; -- upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed, not does remain
A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own,
When for a moment, like a drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknell’d, uncoffin’d, and unknown."

"Dover Beach:"

"Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."

They just don't write them like that anymore. They lack the knowledge, the discipline, and the grace to do so.

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

[luvie]

A Early Happy 3rd Birthday
To Maddi!!

[SandRat]

She’ll LUV IT!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

You delivering either?

[luvie]

I was hoping that the animated animals would attract her! :)

[The Mayor]

No, too far away. I have a couple truckers I throw deliveries to. I will do a one day drive, no longer than that any more.

[SandRat]

As I said She'll LUV it.

[luvie]

:)

[luvie]

Great thread honoring our hard-working troops,Kathy! (((hugs)))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Home safe and sound. Just set up the ramp and Mom drove out onto the deck to check her flowers.

Emergency!! Just back. Thank God I have a baby monitor in the living room. I faintly heard my name. Ran out there...she had fallen. Called the gentleman next door, from Tibet and family in the huge quake. Next door is, maybe, assisted living. He said call any time. I did, he came fast, and got her into her chair.

How did you fall? Did you try to stand? NEVER try to get out of Reggie without turning him off. She is NOT supposed to stand without a hand rail if I am not here. GRRRR!!!! She’s fine, I think. Will check her later.

Ok, heart rate returning to normal. So much for my chiropractor adjustment yesterday.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and sleep tight, ML...((HUGS))

Have a Fabulous Friday!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night, my. Thanks for helping honor our military, and thank you for your service to our country.