Posted on 10/28/2001 11:16:15 PM PST by Snow Bunny
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"Uh...duh!! Looks like fun..."
FReegards...MUD
I saw that movie! .....You talking to ME!????
Been there, done that too many times, my FRiend. At least try to get 3-4 hours per night and the next day goes soooo much better.
FReegards...MUD
FReegards...MUD
Sure beats reading the media propaganda of the day.
Internet offers way for troops to receive messages of support
By Patrick J. Dickson, Washington bureau editor
Stars and Stripes is helping loved ones and new friends keep in touch with soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines with its Messages of Support program.
With Operation Dear Abby and the Any Servicemember mail programs falling victim to the anthrax scare, Stars and Stripes was inundated with requests and suggestions from Americans looking for a new way to show their support and send their love.
Thus, Messages of Support was born.
Joan Scofield, marketing coordinator at Stripes offices in Washington, sent a news release to newspapers and television stations across the United States, letting Americans know about this program.
The Winston-Salem Journal says it will run a column about the program in response to their own deluge of requests from readers about where to send letters.
Scofield also has approached Internet giant America Online.
"AOL said theyre willing to promote the use of Messages of Support on their government guide, the parenting channel and in their coverage of the attack on America on their start page," Scofield said. "We believe AOL is going to set up a keyword, but we dont know when just yet."
The American Legion and The Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, among many others, have put links to the program on their Web site.
The feature originally appeared in the European edition of Stars and Stripes on Oct. 10. But because of the overwhelming response, the program was extended to include the Pacific edition beginning Nov. 12.
This new feature includes space to send greetings, words of encouragement and announcements, free to family and friends of deployed troops.
Messages are limited to 30 words and will be printed on a first-come, first-run basis. Stars and Stripes reserves the right to omit any ad determined inappropriate and to screen and edit all messages.
Stripes is planning a moderated message board to be placed on this Web site soon. Direct e-mail was ruled out to avoid giving away locations of troops, in case some troops replied.
"No one outside Stripes will be able to alter the e-mails; its a message board," said John Allio, director of technical operations at Stars and Stripes in Washington. "We hope to have it up on the Web site very soon."
Messages can be e-mailed to Stars and Stripes 24 hours a day at supportmessages@estripes.com.
For additional information, or Internet-ready buttons and links to Messages of Support, please contact Joan Scofield at 202-761-0942.
Isn't there anything happening in the Atlanta area? I wanna freep so bad!!!
[Lightbulb goes on...] Hey! That has the making of a good parody song. [Tune of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand] Back at ya, after more coffee...
Do your part to keep America's service men and women as PROUD OF AMERICA as we are of them.
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I FORGOT
The recent events of Tuesday, Sept. 11 have brought death and destruction and sadness to so many people around the world. But It DIDN'T HAVE TO BE! Why is it, that all of a sudden we come together as a nation? Why does it take a tragedy of this magnitude to show our solidarity? The pictures from TV of complete strangers hugging each other in the streets of NYC brought tears to my eyes! For one brief moment in time we were truly a nation of one! All racial / ethnic / religious barriers came down! Blacks and whites helping each other Jews and Christians hugging and coming together! Why are we not ALWAYS like this ???? And HOW could we, the strongest country in the world let this happen!
Simply because WE FORGOT! EXACTLY WHAT THE TERRORISTS WANTED!
With everything that is happening in America today, all the new gun laws that our socialist politicians are attempting to pass, the problems in Klamath Falls with the ESA wanting to protect fish instead of America's farmers, the UN kicking the US off of the Human Rights Council, the U.N. vote to add Syria as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, Agenda 21, the New World Order, and on and on. It's just too much to think about for one man.
WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN: declared a holy war against the US, I thought, what an idiot, then, I FORGOT!
WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN AND HIS BUDDY, HEZBOLLAH: attacked the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 that killed 241 Americans, I thought This sucks! THEN I FORGOT
WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN: bombed the Jewish cultural center in Argentina in 1994 that killed 95 people, I thought, oh my God this guy should be stopped! But then, I FORGOT!
WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN: Bombed the World Trade center in 1993 (the first time), that killed 6 people and wounded over 1000, I thought to myself how horrible! Then, I FORGOT!
WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN: Admitted to the 1995 bombing in Riyadh that killed 5 US servicemen, I thought, OH my God, what a tragedy! THEN I FORGOT!
WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN: Had his terrorists attack the USS Cole (DDG-57) while it was refueling in port in Yemen on October 12, 2000. 17 sailors were killed and over 30 were injured in the bombing, I thought we need to stop these guys before they kill any more Americans. THEN I FORGOT!
WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN: Was named in the June 25, 1996, terrorist truck bombing in Dhahran that killed 19 U.S. airmen, I was outraged! THEN I FORGOT!
WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN: bombed the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania in 1998, I thought it was so sad, then, I FORGOT!
WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN: Was prevented from a plot to hijack 12 planes in one day in Algeria, and blow them up, I thought GREAT work FBI! THEN I FORGOT!
WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN: This past February, renewed his threat of a "jihad" or holy war against the U.S. and, in speaking to an Arabic newspaper, bin Laden said, "We had thought that the Riyadh and al-Khobar blasts were a sufficient signal to sensible U.S. decision-makers to avert a real battle between the Islamic nation and U.S. forces, but it seems that they did not understand the signal." I thought to myself this guy must be stopped! THEN I FORGOT !
WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN: Sent his "punk ass" henchmen to fly airplanes into the Word Trade Center, killing what will probably be over 10 thousand people, and THEN fly an airplane into the pentagon and kill (NO MURDER) someone so close to me, I PROMISE YOU, I WILL NOT FORGET!
NOW! ITS F*&%&$ing PERSONAL!
Please, Please, Please, if you are reading this, don't look away when they show the airplanes flying into the buildings on TV, look at it over and over again !! Don't stick your head in the sand! Remember how despicable the act was, remember the loss of life, don't shield your children, use restraint, but help them understand it, and remember it! They are our future! You will go back to work, and resume your daily duties, but, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, DON'T EVER FORGET!
I assure you the terrorists around the world are counting on us to! AGAIN! I fear the next time we will see a mushroom cloud on our beautiful horizon! Then it will be too late! All because WE FORGOT !
Maybe one of the reasons we won WW 2 , was because everyone.............................REMEMBERED PEARL HARBOR !
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There are American sailors and soldiers on ships, in aircraft and on the ground fighting to keep America safe. These servicemen and women don't want to be fighting the Afghans. They would much rather be home, like us with our families, our husbands, our boyfriends, our girlfriends, our wives and children. At night we sleep safely in our homes because of them.
President Bush is wrong! Don't go back to "life as normal"
Don't Forget who is protecting us, AMERICAN military troops!
Before you go to sleep, everynight, say a prayer that they will be able to avoid the dangers of WAR and come home to us, so that we may thank them.
All Americans:
Keep this picture in your mind forever and the attack on the World Trade Towers, the death of those men, women and children will stay personal forever! When you get a peacelover whining in your ear, this is the cure. Six posts from the left, in the middle of the picture you see someone holding an infant out of the building trying to give it fresh air. These folks are all dead now. Keep this atrocity personal forever! Do not listen to the whiners and weepers about the civilian casulties that our pilots accidentally cause. Remember foremost the six thousand plus civilians who died in the attack on the World Trade Center Towers. This terrorist attack was an intentional mass murder of innocent civilians. So tell Reuters or CNN can go somewhere else with their 'sad stories'!
"I Wanna Freep So Bad"
Oh you my Freeper friend
I know you'll understand
When I say that someday
I wanna freep so bad!
I wanna freep so bad!
I wanna freep so bad!
Oh please say to me
You'll let me join your band
For truth and liberty
We will make our stand!
I wanna freep so bad!
I wanna freep so bad!
And when I see you standing there, with your flag
Waving in the air
So high, way up high
I feel pride! I feel pride!
Yeah, you are doing something
I know you'll understand
When I say that someday
I wanna freep so bad!
I wanna freep so bad!
I wanna freep so bad!
And when I see you standing there, with your flag
Waving in the air
So high, way up high
I feel pride! I feel pride!
Yeah, you are doing something
I know you'll understand
When I say that someday
I wanna freep so bad!
I wanna freep so bad!
I wanna freep so bad!
Just dropping off an image for the thread.
God Bless America! God Bless Our Troops!
Tired of idiot reporters insisting on details that compromise operational security and endangering our military people? Then check out this link. Phone # is in opening post; email info is in #32.
SUPPORT RUMSFELD: Idiot Reporters Should Be Identified (Call The Pentagon Public Affairs Office Now)
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