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.

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL! :-D

[Jen]

Spookie, your dreams are so unusual and vivid... I was wondering if you had made any changes in your diet that might cause them - like maybe some 'special' mushrooms?

[4TheFlag]

The skies of South Dakota are amazingly beautiful! Thanks for sharing those pictures! :)

That they are and you are welcome Misty.

Sorry all, fell asleep for awhile..DOH!

[SpookBrat]

The funny thing is, in real life, I probably would have tried to cheat her. hehehe....I was a wee bit competitive and just down right naughty when I was a kid. LOL I deserved a spanking at least, but not to get shot under the table. LOL

[SAMWolf]

I never saw you post so many jokes, that's not like you.

[MistyCA]

Misconception accepted! I believe that! Yup....having a husband and three daughters, I can understand that completely! OK....you are a slug that has been trained well. Works for me! :) LOLOL!!!!!

[Jen]

Sorry all, fell asleep for awhile..DOH!

I caught you!

[GATOR NAVY]

Well, I think everyone here can agree being an average American is special enough. Hope you had a happy Mothers Day. 1800flowers saved it for me.

[MistyCA]

LOL....that picture looks like that skwerl flipper Jen was talking about! :)

[SpookBrat]

No, my dreams are all from my psycho head, no shrooms. I would be scared to death to try any of that stuff. I'm crazy enough without them. LOL

The day my dad was killed, I dreamt about that too, but I hadn't heard he was dead yet. That's a way long, morbid story, best saved for our meeting. Those dreams, and that night will forever haunt me. I'll never forget those dreams as long as I live. They weren't funny. More like Friday they 13th or Nightmare on Elm St. icky icky icky

[SAMWolf]

Mine sucks the skwerl in and then the birds eat him.

[MistyCA]

grrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!! I hate it when I make stupid spelling airs and ewes the rong werds in my postits! grrrrrrrrrr!

[HighWheeler]

Hi Bunny, I hope you are having a great time at the Canteen.

[GatorGirl]

'Thanks, Bunny!

Earlier this evening, a group of my neighbors got together to plan a party for Memorial Day weekend and one sweet lady brought a couple of bottles of wine and it got pretty chatty. So I'm wrappin' up so I can get to bed. But I wanted to stop by to see my FRiends for a while.

We plan to have fun but we also plan to honor Memorial Day. One of the things we want to do is have a centerpiece made of a tree hung with photos of Veterans we want to remember. If anyone wants us to honor their loved one on our tree down in Florida, Freepmail me and I'll send you my personal email you need to send your photo that way.

((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))) to all my FRiends! GG

[Snow Bunny]

giggle... let's make sure we ask Victoria to pack some jokes in her suitcase for the Canteen get together. heh heh....

FallGuy said, he can see it now, all of us laughing most of the time and having such fun.

[GATOR NAVY]

And thanks again for the Canteen. I'll be sure to pass on your greeting to Mrs. Gator. She doesn't quit know what to make of FR, but she indulges my need to visit.

[MistyCA]

Yes, I also had a good Mother's Day. I went to my daughter's house and the girls made a wonderful dinner and entertained me. My brother also came with his family and gave my mom a bottle of kahlua (which she loves)! Now, you have to understand that mom is 90 and way on the other side of having reached 2nd childhood. So first she shared her kahlua with Dyl Pyckle who will be 2 next month. Then she kept me up half the night wanting to talk to me about the rough seas we had encountered that day while we were out at sea. Then she was worried that all the dogs were going to get into the fish she felt compelled to hide in her room. She asked me to go in there and check it all out and then couldn't remember what she had done with it all! I am still cracking up and today she CRS either! LOLOL! Honest! I didn't give her very much of the kahlua! lololol!

[GatorGirl]

Hi Spook!

Welcome to Florida! Remind me to tell you my alligator and snake stories some time, just to make sure you feel right at home! ((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))) GG

[Snow Bunny]

Yes,I sure am, thanks HW.

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL, You don't like them? I posted jokes before. :-)

Here is a two year old thread where I posted a lot of jokes, hehehe. Womanspeak.

And here is another one, Study: Brunettes Do Have More Fun

Victoria