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USO Canteen FReeper Style....Monday Mail Call....May 13,2002
FRiends of the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Snow Bunny

Posted on 05/13/2002 1:16:06 AM PDT by Snow Bunny

Our troops need our support and encouragement. They are away from home, some for the first time, and usually lonely or discouraged. It is important for us to reach out and help them in the same way we would want someone to reach out to our loved ones if and when they are in the same position.

They answered their call and we are answering theirs offering them the USO Canteen FReeper Style each day and thanking them for serving.

This is IN Coming Mail from some of those serving now.

We at the USO Canteen FReeper Style, a running thread at Free Republic, are proud to support our Military. The mail comes in from contacting some of our Military Bases, Marine Corps Leagues , and friends and family of those serving now. Also from responses at the wonderful P.O.Box that 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub has made so easily available to each of us here at Free Republic.

They are writing to those that frequent the FReeper USO Canteen to thank you for your support.


I work with damage-control and small-boats on a guided missile destroyer,I just want to thank you at the Canteen for your support. Thank you for being there for all of us. Sometimes you feel like you are all alone out here, then I get online and get to read the Canteen.
My girl broke up with me right before I left. I guess that could be the story for a lot of us .
My mom is all I have back home and she can’t afford a computer . She writes to me when she can and it is good to hear from her.
A buddy back at the base told me about an email he got from a creature with a heart, named Snow Bunny. It had the web address for Free Republic and told how the founder had been a Navy man and how everyone respected him. That he was a heck of a guy and had this place at Free Republic called the Canteen.
One lonely day I checked it out and sat here with , darn it anyway, tears rolling down my face.
I never saw anything like it in my life. OH I have surfed the web in school before I enlisted, but this is a whole new ballgame. The Canteen is my home now away from home.
All of you make a difference and your support means more then you may know. One of the things that makes it more real to me then just a place on the web are several things I’d like to share with you.
You know you all can be serious and then on a dime laugh and have fun and I like that. I like the way the day gears down just like life at home does. When you have done your business in the day and sit around with friends in the evening and cut up.
None of us here could be intense all day and the way the Canteen moves into night is why it feels so much like home too.
Thanks for being there .

Mark A.

Command Master Chief , right before 9-11 my wife and I had just gotten settled in our new home. I have 3 kids and a beautiful wife. Then I was transferred to Norfolk and then shipped out.
I missed Christmas but I know being here has helped preserve our freedom for the future. Only have a minute this time to write Snow Bunny. I know that other stuff I asked you not to pass on helped me to be able to share when I needed it most.
This time I do want you to pass something on to someone.
Whoever has a fan here and please tell whoever that for me. I wasn’t sure if whoever was a man or woman at first, but then I watched the reactions and the tenderness and could tell. So thanks for what you bring in your basket when you visit the Canteen.
I read every thread all the way through and it is powerful stuff. Thanks Snow Bunny for caring so much about us and making a place I can see others that care too.

Stephen A.

Air Force Sgt

Hey Snow Bunny, I am Charlie, just Charlie OK !!!!
Thanks for the Canteen from my heart .
I guess you can call me a lurker but that sure sounds weird. I can’t enter in but I can tell you I have read every day of the Canteen since March.I can’t get to it every day, so I go back and see what I missed when I do have the time.
Some of the ones I like are the one you call HiJinx, 4TheFlag,and you call this one Tonkin. Tell that Tonkin guy the Air Force knows how to spell. LOL , Victoria Delsoul and a mystomachisturning. You have to change that name beautiful girl, with your bubbly personality , AFVetGal one of our own, and this one gets me every time, Deadhead. That one reminds me of a rock group, but I have a crush on Deadhead and SassyMom.
Snow Bunny thanks for making it so I could write to you. Someday maybe I can tell you more about me. But you have been supper about it with a friend of mine and he said Bunny is AOK.

Hang in there and we will too.
Our friend,
Charlie

Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class

It is because of you all and your support and caring about us, that I am strengthened and makes me proud to serve our country. Please tell SAMWolf , my brother could use his talents. I saw where he was the head scrounger at the Canteen. I think my kid brother is headed in that direction when he gets in the Army. Bad boy turned “Bad Boy” in many ways and a heart as big as a ship.
Whoever whoever is, could you tell this whoever being that I have saved and sent a lot of things from whoever to my nephew and his wife. They have the time to pass it on to the rest of the family. Tell whoever thanks for the fun stories and jokes.
Snow Bunny, thanks for doing this for me. I never met anyone like you, not sure how I could thank you enough and Billie. So please know that you are making a difference out here and if your ears are burning it is because we are talking about you in awesome ways. God just gave some people bigger hearts and you Snow Bunny and Billie are two girls that got them.
God bless you all at the Canteen and thank you Free Republic for being all to so many of us.
James K.L.

Air Force 1st Lt

Mr. Jim Robinson and ladies and gentlemen of the Canteen. Thank you for your magnificent support and dedication, day in day out for all of us. You make a difference in my life. I printed out a copy of the logo for Free Republic with the Eagle and all and have it inside on my plane. Just so you know it is right next to a very sexy blonde. I didn’t think you would mind. Apple pie and moms and sexy blondes are all American.
I just wanted you to know your efforts are noticed and not just by me.
Your support means we have Americans that care about us and that goes a long way believe me.

Tim B.



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To: Scuttlebutt
'Morning, Scuttlebutt.....here, as I promised you last night are some good ole Willie tunes.....Enjoy!

A Whiter Shade of Pale
Always On My Mind
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Forgiving You Was Easier
Good Hearted Woman
Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
To All the Girls I've Loved Before

101 posted on 05/13/2002 8:20:02 AM PDT by Billie
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To: SassyMom; Snow Bunny
Yes, I agree, Sassy - it's so nice to read the mail that Bunny gets, and wonderful to know they're enjoying the Canteen.


102 posted on 05/13/2002 8:25:12 AM PDT by Billie
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To: Billie
Thank ya…thank ya…thank ya!
103 posted on 05/13/2002 8:30:42 AM PDT by Scuttlebutt
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To: ofMagog
Oh oh! Passing them out? Or passed out? I will go right away Sir!
104 posted on 05/13/2002 8:39:49 AM PDT by MistyCA
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To: AFVetGal
Good morning! I have a gif(t) for you... Hope you like it.

Awwww, that's sweet. But you really shouldn't interrupt Dr. archy while he's performing surgery:


105 posted on 05/13/2002 8:41:39 AM PDT by archy
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To: GATOR NAVY
You're welcome!
106 posted on 05/13/2002 8:46:31 AM PDT by MistyCA
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To: SassyMom
OH! it's the uniform,Right?
107 posted on 05/13/2002 8:47:56 AM PDT by Pippin
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To: SAMWolf; MistyCA
Thanks, Sam! I think under those guidelines, then, I've
been a pretty good boy here on the USO Threads. LOL!

108 posted on 05/13/2002 8:49:17 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: AFVetGal
Your graphics are neat even though I do not drink coffee!! This is a good site to be on. MamaB
109 posted on 05/13/2002 8:54:53 AM PDT by MamaB
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To: Snow Bunny; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; JohnHuang2, Neil E. Wright; SassyMom; AFVetGal; All...
Good morning friends.

Thanks so much, Bunny for posting those wonderful letters.


110 posted on 05/13/2002 8:55:37 AM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: archy
Hahaha. I hope you have plenty of malpractice insurance, doc.
111 posted on 05/13/2002 8:59:36 AM PDT by Jen
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To: MistyCA
Passing them out? Or passed out?

She definitely wasn't passed out. We don't want ofMagog to get the impression that LadyX completely ignored all of our temperance lectures.

112 posted on 05/13/2002 9:00:59 AM PDT by Scuttlebutt
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To: MamaB
Thank you. I have fun making them or hunting for them on the Internet. Good to see you here; this is the best thread on FR in my opinion. Jen
113 posted on 05/13/2002 9:01:26 AM PDT by Jen
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Snow Bunny; All
Powerful post #4, Tonk. Thanks for reminding us who this thread is for.


114 posted on 05/13/2002 9:02:36 AM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: SAMWolf
That tank is purr-fect for you Sam, you big kitty!
115 posted on 05/13/2002 9:03:47 AM PDT by Jen
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To: Victoria Delsoul
Hi,Victoria! how is your day? I think the e-mail letters from the troops are special.
116 posted on 05/13/2002 9:04:28 AM PDT by Pippin
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To: MamaB
The Canteen kitchen is well stocked. We have hot tea if you'd rather have it. Or soft drinks of every flavor imaginable. I even made a big pitcher of real Southern 'sweet tea' this morning. It's in the fridge if you'd like to have some. Lemons are in the crisper.
117 posted on 05/13/2002 9:07:27 AM PDT by Jen
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To: ClaraSuzanne
Hi Clara. I'm having a good day, thanks for asking.

I think the e-mail letters from the troops are special.

They sure are.

118 posted on 05/13/2002 9:12:17 AM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub;Snow Bunny
I wish to comment about a joke I posted late last night. I want you to know that I hesitated posting it. Frankly, I have held back for a few weeks posting that one because it could be construed to be a bit bawdy(sp). When I did post it, it was late at night so that exposure to children was at a minimum. My decision to post it was because I felt that it would be appreciated by the troops. Also the woman in it (in my view) described the women who post on the Canteen threads everyday. Ummm, I mean that in a good way. The Gals on these threads can make anything out of nothing. Amazing.

I hope I did not offend anyone with that joke.

119 posted on 05/13/2002 9:12:36 AM PDT by Mr_Magoo
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To: AFVetGal
No one makes tea better than we do here in the South. Although, I have learned to drink unsweetened tea from a few restaurants in this area. Our grandson likes his hot! MamaB
120 posted on 05/13/2002 9:16:58 AM PDT by MamaB
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