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FReeper Canteen ~ Happy Thanksgiving 2016! ~ 24 November 2016
Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew

Posted on 11/23/2016 5:59:01 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska




~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Happy Thanksgiving 2016!! ~



GOD BLESS AND WATCH OVER THEM, WHEREVER THEY SERVE




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.






Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.

I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln





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and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.




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KEYWORDS: canteen; military; thanksgiving; troopsupport
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Bless you and a re-empowering Thanksgiving to all who have felt minimized during the last decade. This is the time, this is the place to free young minds saturated in socialist indoctrination and bring them back into the fold of patriotic individualism where they can at least make a choice without fear.


41 posted on 11/23/2016 7:14:32 PM PST by N-R-T (NewRome Tacitus)
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To: PROCON

Happy Thanksgiving, PRO!

Any plans for tomorrow?
It’ll be a quiet day here. Just the two of us and a visit to Aunt Clara.


42 posted on 11/23/2016 7:15:06 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: mountainlion
Good evening, mountainlion...they say we are going to get snow next week.
It would be nice instead of the temps in the teens and no snow cover.

It is indeed the time to be thankful.


43 posted on 11/23/2016 7:17:10 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Jolla
Happy Thanksgiving, Jolla!

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

44 posted on 11/23/2016 7:18:47 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: Soaring Feather

Happy Thanksgiving, Feathers!

Any plans with your daughters and grandkids?

It looks like y’all have more snow up in your neck o’ the woods. BRRR!


45 posted on 11/23/2016 7:19:47 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Happy Thanksgiving day to all of my fellow FReepers.


46 posted on 11/23/2016 7:21:02 PM PST by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family Kathy!
Thank you


47 posted on 11/23/2016 7:22:28 PM PST by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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To: LUV W

Happy Thanksgiving, LUV!

Where are y’all going for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow? That really is the way to do it - no fuss, no muss. LOL


48 posted on 11/23/2016 7:22:51 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Biggirl
Thanks, and a Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.


49 posted on 11/23/2016 7:23:56 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: LUV W; PROCON

Goin’ for it!


50 posted on 11/23/2016 7:24:16 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: radu; PROCON

Ya did it! I was totally watching Harriet! LOL!

WooooHoooo!


51 posted on 11/23/2016 7:28:07 PM PST by luvie (I love the troops. That is all....)
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To: radu

Yes, going to the daughter with whom I lived. Turkey and all the fixings. I wish I could make my Waldorf salad, alas have to settle without it this year.


52 posted on 11/23/2016 7:31:28 PM PST by Soaring Feather (Holding On)
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To: LUV W; PROCON

I almost missed it. LOL! Heavy-duty “Code Black” tonight on tv. Good show.


53 posted on 11/23/2016 7:41:34 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Thanks, just love it.


54 posted on 11/23/2016 7:42:22 PM PST by Mears
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To: Soaring Feather

Cool! Sounds like a good day.

Just Hubby and me here - and the kittehs - so it’ll be a quiet day. We’ll visit Aunt Clara for a bit at the nursing home.


55 posted on 11/23/2016 7:43:53 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: radu

We’ll go to Furr’s Cafeteria. You’re right...no fuss no cleanup! LOL!


56 posted on 11/23/2016 7:45:45 PM PST by luvie (I love the troops. That is all....)
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To: LeoWindhorse
Thank you, and HAU’OLI LA HO’O MAIKAI ie KAKOU to you, too.


57 posted on 11/23/2016 7:48:09 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: LUV W

If it’s anything like Morrison’s Cafeteria around these parts, it should be delicious. And LOTS of goodies to choose from.


58 posted on 11/23/2016 7:52:22 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: SandRat
LOL! Good evening, Sand...((HUGS))...and Happy Thanksgiving.

All the kids and grands coming to your house?


59 posted on 11/23/2016 8:03:18 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: radu

That sounds like it might be a good show. So many of my favorites are now cancelled and so there isn’t much left to watch except BBC series, which I love, too!


60 posted on 11/23/2016 8:07:57 PM PST by luvie (I love the troops. That is all....)
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