Posted on 03/24/2002 11:33:16 PM PST by Snow Bunny
ALL IN FAVOR SAY, "AYE"!!
THE "AYE'S" HAVE IT!
Thanks for the second, SAM!
Now it's up to FallGuy to put the balm on her fingers.
Welcome Home Flag Man.
I also want to thank Billie and Snow Bunny for all they do to make the Canteen a wonderful place to be. I love ya!!!!
It looks good. It could stand to be a bit smaller, but I don't know how to further reduce it without it becoming even more blurred. I think it looks good this size though. :-)
God bless the USA!
(((( hug ))) and for ALL you do to help make this happen.
"You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.
So I just thought I would write to let them know what an American is, so they would know when they found one.
An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan. An American may also be a Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses. An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each man and woman to the pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need. When Afghanistan was overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country. As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan. The best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best athletes.
Americans welcome the best, but they also welcome the least. The national symbol of America welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America. Some of them were working in the Twin Towers in the morning of September 11, earning a better life for their families. [ I've been told that the people in the Towers were from at least 30, and maybe many more, other countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists. ]
So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant in the history of the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
So look around you. You may find more Americans in your land than you thought were there. One day they will rise up and overthrow the old, ignorant, tired tyrants that trouble too many lands. Then those lands, too, will join the community of free and prosperous nations. And America will welcome them!
I am sorry about your mouse.
I got my fisrt computer in 1997. I thought ok I am doing ok learning all this computer stuff little by little.
Then one day I was moving my mouse and nothing was happening. No arrow moving, no cute little hand when I tried to place it on something.
I got up and announced to FallGuy.... My Mouse has DIED. It is dead as a doornail. FallGuy said I had the longest look on my face.
I told him I guess we had to buy a new one or something.
Being the leader in our home. giggle... He took the mouse in his hand... my DEAD Mouse, and with one look said." Look I bet it just needs a new battery.
Battery???????? I was surprised, I had not gotten that far to realize it was not hooked up to anything. haahhaaa
He turned my little mouse over and showed me.
Then FallGuy did the surgery and gave it a new battery and it came to live like crazy. giggle
That is what happened and now I am a genius with my mouse. tee hee
( said with a soft Texas drawl ) Why thank you kind sir!
(((( hug ))))
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