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.

[Snow Bunny]

ROTFL...Love your post my friend.

[SAMWolf]

Hey SpookBrat, Welcome back.

[Snow Bunny]

I Gator, great to see you again.Thank you for sharing about being in Japan and the Navy.And a BIG thank you for serving our country.

Hi to Mrs.Gator.

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you, and woof woof back. hahahhaa....from my children of the fur. heh heh

[whoever]

Welcome back to The Canteen. I hope you will visit and chat with us often. As you know, we do have fun here while showing our love and devotion to those serving in the military.

[Snow Bunny]

HI Lodwick!

Thanks so much my friend, that means a lot.

I love to get mail and it is exciting because all I really did was send the Canteen url and FR's url with what FR is about etc. to different bases and Marine Corps Leagues.Then to a few of the ships.Then the big wait...hahahhaa.....

I really didn't do a lot of work just hoped they would enjoy it and check out FR too along the way.

Thanks again!!!

[deadhead]

JOKE OF THE DAY

Osama bin Laden finally gets nailed and makes his way to the Pearly Gates. There he is greeted by George Washington.

"How dare you attack the nation I helped conceive!" yells Washington, slapping Osama in the face.

Patrick Henry comes up from behind: "You wanted to end the Americans' liberty, so they gave you death!" Henry punches Osama on the nose.

James Madison comes up next, and says, "This is why I allowed the federal government to provide for the common defense!" He drops a large weight on Osama's knee.

Osama is subject to similar beatings from John Randolph of Roanoke, James Monroe, and 65 other people who have the same love for liberty and America.

As he writhes on the ground, Thomas Jefferson picks him up to hurl him back toward the gate where he is to be judged.

As Osama awaits his journey to his final very hot destination, he screams, "This is not what I was promised!"

An angel replies, "I told you there would be 72 Virginians waiting for you. What did you think I said?"

[Snow Bunny]

Hi IG, hope you are having a beautiful day.
Thank you so much,it means a lot to get the mail.

I hope your weather there is beautiful.

[SAMWolf]

Loved reading those e-mails from the troops. I can sympathize with Mark A..
The girl I was dating at the time waited until about 8 months into my first tour in Vietnam to "Dear John" me.
All I can say is life goes on and I ended up with a better woman in the end.

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Blackie

Great day today, FallGuy has started to tell me each day what the weather is in Oregon in different places. LOL
He is so cute. heh heh

[LadyX]

The LadyX has been on an adventure!
We all remember the experience Snow Bunny had last year with that annoying devil, Buoy Bob,
when SB had to blast him with dynamite.

Well - at the last port I was engaged in a very interesting conversation with a fellow who talked me into having a non-Spam dinner with him.
Wouldn't you know he turned out to be Buoy Bob's baby brother, Buoy BILL?!!!

Had to utilize all my best Marine maneuvers to ditch him, and missed your sailing.
Hitched a ride on a tramp steamer to catch up with you.
The Captain let me use his cabin, and I HAD A HOT SHOWER - EAT YER HEARTS OUT!!!
Fluffy towels instead of feed sacks - body wash instead of lye soap - a kimono to sleep in - ALONE, instead of sharing quarters with SB and Misty and 3 guys on the current rotation plan.

Anyway, I did miss the lot of you!

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL! Glad ya had a HAPPY day!

[SassyMom]

from my children of the fur. heh heh

LOL.... I actually got a Mothers Day card from my little doggie.....

[SAMWolf]

Now that LadyX is back we'll have to find someone else to talk about.

[Snow Bunny]

That had to be hard when it happened. That is the worst timing in the world.

You are right though too that you met the better person later on. ( big smile)

Sorry you had a lot at work today.Glad you can play now giggle

[whoever]

..Then again, you probably would

Right, I am gullible.

[SassyMom]

ROFLMBO...... Oh my gosh, that one is good.....hahaha

[Mr_Magoo]

The old Cherokee chief sat in his reservation hut, smoking the ceremonial pipe, eyeing the two US government officials sent to interview him.

"Chief Two Eagles," one official began, "you have observed the white man for many generations, you have seen his wars and his products, you have seen all his progress, and all his problems."

The chief nodded.

The official continued, "Considering recent events, in your opinion, where has the white man gone wrong?"

The chief stared at the government officials for over a minute, and then calmly replied:

"When white man found this land, Indians were running it. No taxes. No debt. Plenty buffalo. Plenty beaver. Women did most of the work. Medicine man free. Indian men hunted and fished all the time."

The chief smiled, and added quietly, "White man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that."

[Pippin]

You have freepmail! SUGAH!

[SassyMom]

LadyX, I have missed you! I hope all is ok with you! I have been watching the skies over Texas for more of those Tortillas Bombers. *giggle*