USO Canteen FReeper Style....Monday Mail Call....May 13,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Snow Bunny

[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.

[Pippin]

Misty, You are sooooo funny!! I love your jokes TEHE even if I AM a blonde! What they used to call (DIRTY BLONDE). My hairstylist says that it is more chestnut in color.

[archy]

I wish to comment about a joke I posted late last night. ... 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.

I thought it was sweet, and neatly skewered the admitted trait we males sometimes have of overlooking someone particularly special right under our noses.

And you're spot-on about the *USO Hostesses* here. They're amazing.

-archy-/-

[Jen]

Where are you? Did I scare you off by mentioning my 'evil twin'? You are safe, I keep her locked in the basement. I have catnip...

[Pippin]

You and Misty ought to join forces! I love it when you post. It you and she make me laugh when I need to especially at work were laughter is needed.

[4TheFlag]

THANK YOU ELLSWORTH AFB RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA

HOME OF THE B-1B BOMBER

[Jen]

... do big planes have baby planes?

Of course! See how the mama plane feeds her flock?

[Pippin]

LOL Learn something nwe every day! LOL

[Pippin]

I forgot, were you in the Air Force?

[4TheFlag]

WOW, what a treat, must be break time?

[4TheFlag]

Nope, I was ARMY GREEN!!

[TopQuark]

Thank you for doing all of this, Snow Bunny. G-d bless you.

[Jen]

That's a KC-135R Stratotanker air refueling two F-16s and two F-15s over the Pacific Ocean near Okinawa, Japan. The F-15s have the twin vertical stabilizers.

[4TheFlag]

I had one of the good jobs!!!

81mm Mortar Team

[Snow Bunny]

Hi every one.Great to see you.Can we post political things at the Canteen? hahahaa

Billie and I talked about that when we were working on starting the Canteen and we thought if FReepers come and post links to other threads about things that are important like how you have done it Meekie, then it is great.It helps so a person can just click on it and go to that thread. I really appreciate it especially when I am busy in one of the Canteen rooms here. heh heh

Because of the way FR is set up it is so neat. Because sometimes we here at the Canteen need to know something has happened, like with our troops,etc. it is important to have someone that will post a link here so we can know about it.Like yesterday there was on about Marines a thread at FR and it was posted on here as a link. That was great!!!

Can we say we don't like Hitlery or Brand X and his being a draft dodger and disgusting. giggle.. You mean like that? hahahhaa yesss.

And any time you just want to say... Hanoi Jane is a traitor that is fine with me.

Mostly what Billie and I had tried to do since there are entire threads about a subject that is political , let the discussion of that subject be at its own thread and merely make mention of it here.....like a link.

The USO Headquaters, explains how they are not political, how they support every President. That is how they are set up and have been since day one.
We are FReepers and we know that not every President has earned respect.That puts us in a unique situation, but the FReeper Canteen is also unique as well.

The way it has been going is perfect. Links to threads of interest is almost a must so we can stay on top of things at the Canteen.
The only thing and this one is big time for me to remember, LOL, is not to be discussing issues of politics, things being voted on and bills being passed here at the Canteen.

When I have to rant or say yippee about something like that I just go to the thread of the subject and do my Bunny thing. hahhaa

So this long yada yada...hahhaah is just to say ...Keep up the great work. The Canteen is running smoothly just the way you have been helping to do it.Links to things are great. And saying to pray for our President and saying how great Rummy's press conferences are is fabulous of course.

Just stay the course as you have been and all is fantastic.

Love all of you !

[SAMWolf]

I knew I should have stuck the little note under that post about "I know what your dirty little minds are really thinkiing". ROTFL!

[Jen]

New feature article -- Women's Memorial Exhibit Tells Untold Story of Clandestine Women Spies

[SAMWolf]

Really bogged down at work today, not much chance to post.
I guess they finally figured out I should actually do some real work.

See you all this evevning for sure.

[SAMWolf]

11-Charlie Bump there Brother!

[MistyCA]

Heck....I thought you have darker hair! Mine is also a dark blonde/lt brown... One of my daughter's is very blonde. She is the one who loves the blonde jokes the most! She sends them to me all of the time. When she was little she would swim in our pool and her hair would turn a bright florescent-looking green! lol. My other daughter always says, "it's sooo fun having our very own blonde in the family!" LOL.

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Joe, thank you for the donuts.Yummy !

Good morning my friend, have a great day. I think I will have two donuts..heh heh.....they are really good.