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.

[MistyCA]

Wow! it is great to see you here. Looks like the entire Diver family get be held as good role models! :) Congrats Dave! You did good! :)

[A Navy Vet]

I just went to your site and signed in...great site! From there I found Citizen Corps with different programs for helping in Homeland Defense. Now if I can just find where I put the thread, "Ways To Assist/Support Homeland Defense" I could add it. Help! Tonk!

[Billie]

LOL. This Sam has about the same sense of humor as the real Sam; he's just "quieter". I like it, I like it.

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL! :-D

[MistyCA]

Oops! I am feeling real sorry for one very stupid squirrel right now!

[Diver Dave]

Next time hit the abuse button instead of the post button.

Seems to work with posts, maybe it will work on that vermin. LOL

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Now if I can just find where I put the thread, "Ways To Assist/Support Homeland Defense" I could add it. Help! Tonk!"

This is what I have been posting on the other threads to get people to go to your thread.

It's your choice, sit at home OR actually get out and help defend America.

How YOU can assist fighting terrorist cells in the United Sates.
17yrs old and up, no upper age limit. Something for everyone to do



Jihad in America: Author Steve Emerson explains how he made video, lived to tell about it

[Victoria Delsoul]

It's a good thing I was shooting him with a camera rather than the 'Blue Bomber.'

LOL!!

[Jen]

Thanks for the tip, DD. If I get desparate I may give it a try...

Shelshubby, you have a fine father-in-law; he is loved by the Canteen crowd. Welcome to you! We are so glad you joined us. Jen

[Jen]

Hey now gal pal... Like Dubya would say... You are either with me or the squirrels! Choose wisely...

[A Navy Vet]

Thanks Tonk. I just noticed Cindy has that site in one her posts there.

[lodwick]

Good eyes. I found that at a WWI site that I've lost the link. I'll keep looking and post later.

[Jen]

Thanks! I'm glad you like my site. I see Tonk has already delivered on your request. He's quick! Jen

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"I see Tonk has already delivered on your request. He's quick!"

Faster than your squirrel! LOL

[MistyCA]

BARF ALERT! BARF ALERT! Here we are irritating Hitlery!!

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[A Navy Vet]

Hi Snow, something I just came across, thought you'd like to see if you haven't already. Bob Hope Resource Guide

Hey folks, here's another way to show your appreciation for our military men and women, past and present.
"AMERICA REMEMBERS": Sample Promotion Letter

[SAMWolf]

So you're the who who called my boss and told her to keep me very, very busy!!

[MistyCA]

Hi-Tech joke

Three men are sitting naked in the sauna. Suddenly there is a beeping sound. The first man presses his forearm and the beeping stops. The others look at him questioningly. "That's my pager," he says. "I have a microchip under the skin of my arm." A few minutes later, a phone rings. The second man lifts his palm to his ear. When he finishes he explains, "That's my mobile phone. I have a microchip in my hand. This broke me up!!The third man, feeling decidedly low tech, steps out of the sauna. In a few minutes, he returns with a piece of toilet paper extending from his rear. The others raise their eyebrows. "I'm getting a Fax," he explains.

[HiJinx]

"Just the Fax, ma'am..."

[SassyMom]

Good Afternoon from SUNNY - BEAUTIFUL Texas! What a wonderful day we are having. YIPPEE!!!!!!

I hope y'all are having a great day too!!!!!

It's a GREAT day to go for a drive in the convertible. VARRRROOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!! (checking to make sure Mr. Tonkin the Policeman isn't close by. *giggle*)

SassyMom