USO Canteen FReeper Style....Memorial Day....May 27,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Snow Bunny

[ofMagog]

Monday May 27 at 2300 with 39F
South of Dunedin,New Zealand
Almost Tuesday here.

"Then good night, peaceful night,
Till the light of the dawn shineth bright,
God is near, do not fear -- Friend, good night."

Regards to all.

[Movemout]

My Grandma, still alive in her 90s, calls it Remembrance Day. Today I salute all my fellow warriors who have ever fallen in defense of the Republic. I remain in awe of your sacrifices and envy you the many blessings bestowed upon you by man and God.

[Joe Brower]

[DoughtyOne]

From the early days of our nation men have fought and died for the ideals that made this nation great.  Men and women are defending them at this moment.  Those who have fallen, and those who still serve deserve our heartfelt thanks.  But more than that, they deserve to have those ideals defended at home, the loss of their lives and the blood, sweat and hard fought victories never to have gone in vane.

Will we surrender those ideals?  Will we relinquish our God given rights?  Will we hand over the keys to our nation to foreign nationals and leaders too morally bankrupt to grasp the enormity of what they are doing?  I hope not. For those who have gone before, I certainly hope not.  And for all those to come, I hope it even more.

That is my heartfelt Memorial Day wish for our fallen men.  It is that this nation will return to the values and ideals they fought and died for.  Is there any honor greater than this, that we could give them?  Is there any more of a moral debt that we could owe them?

[MeekOneGOP]

At Memorial, Sgt. Gene Vance Jr. Honored
for Service to State, Nation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/690109/posts

Excerpt:

In remembrance of a fallen hero, may his family have strength to endure the tough times ahead. He postponed his honeymoon to serve his country and protect us. God bless him and his loved ones.

Lisa Vance (left) widow of Sgt. Gene Vance Jr.,
who was killed May 19 while on patrol in eastern
Afghanistan, embraces a West Virginia state flag
presented to her during a public memorial service
Sunday in Morgantown. At right is Sgt. Vance's mother,
June Vance of North Carolina.

Audio: For The Fallen Soldiers

[usmcobra]

Oh, I've slipped the surely bonds of earth
And hovered out of ground effect on semi-rigid blades;
Earthward I've auto'ed and met the rising brush of Non-paved terrain;
And done a thousand things you would never care to
Skidded and dropped and flared Low in the heat soaked roar.
Confined there, I've chased the earthbound traffic And lost the race to insignificant Headwinds;
Forward and up a little in ground effect I've topped the General's hedge with drooping turns
Where never Skyhawk or even Phantom flew.
Shaking and pulling collective,
I've lumbered The low untresspassed halls of victor airways,
Put out my hand and touched a tree.

~~MEMO to self:
all right now the font color is green
How do you turn it off
and do you really want to?~~

[g'nad]

Thanks FRiends, for the awesome Memorial Day posts... I'm heading out to Quantico National Cemetary this morning... got a few old friends I gotta go see...

[Vigilantcitizen]

Thanks for the ping, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub.

Sorry I haven't visited lately Snow Bunny, but we've been working massive overtime again.

Just wanted to stop by and pay tribute to those who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and liberty.

May the Lord bless their souls.

[Aeronaut]

The origin of "Taps." (It's long, that's why the link.)

[lodwick]

Thanks so much. Have a great day everyone. God bless you all.

[Pippin]

Good Morning! Glad to see you back up! 4TheFlag told me that there is a virus going around among especially the FReepers who come to the Canteen. A scary thought! I hate to bring this up, but isn't it sort of a form of cyber-terrorism? I pray it's not that and I'm just being paraniod. But someone out there is trying to sabotage this wonderful thread. Maybe it's the Demo's or the terrorists, no matter, we cannot let them destroy this thread. It's for our troops and for the veterans. I hope you have a blessed Memorial Day, and remember those who gave their lives so that we have the freedom to post on such a thread. Thank You Heroes!

[tomkow6]

I know ther term is over-used now-a-days, but this time it fits like a glove:

TOTALLY AWESOME!

Thank you!

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Snow! Good morning, all!

Lest we forget our fallen 4-legged heros:

[leadpenny]

Good Morning on a beautiful day of rememberance and of memories. To all those serving today, Thank You.

My thoughts are always reflected in a poem by Lawrence Binyon:

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them...nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them!

[tomkow6]

I remember a fellow high school classmate; now, also, a brother & fallen hero:

[MeekOneGOP]

"A Memorial Day Prayer"
http://www.talltexian.com/TALLTEXIANsInspirationalToo/id18.htm

They served and fought and died
so that we might be safe and free,
Grant them O Lord, eternal peace
and give them "The Victory!"
And in these days of unrest,
filled with grave uncertainty
Let's not forget the price they paid
to keep our country free...
And so, on this Memorial Day,
we offer up a prayer-
May the people of all nations
be united in Thy care...
For earth's peace and man's salvation
can come only by Thy grace
And not through bombs and missiles
and our quest for outer space...
For until all men recognize that the
battle is the Lord's
and peace on earth cannot be won
with strategy and swords,
We will go on vainly fighting,
as we have in ages past,
Finding only empty victories
and a peace that cannot last...
But we've grown so rich and mighty
and so arrogantly strong,
We no longer ask in humbleness-
"God show us where we're wrong."
We have come to trust completely
in the power of man-made things,
Unmindful of God's mighty power
and that "He is King of Kings"...

We have turned our eyes away from Him
to go our selfish way,
and money, power & pleasure
are the gods we serve today...
And the good green earth God gave us
to peacefully enjoy,
Through greed and fear and hatred
we are seeking to destroy....
Oh, Father, up in heaven,
stir and wake our sleeping souls,
Renew our faith and lift us up
and give us higher goals,
And grant us heavenly guidance
as war threatens us again
For more than guided missles
all the world needs guided men.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Lest we forget our fallen 4-legged heros:

Bump for man's best friend...

[Vigilantcitizen]

Question for for my more "cyber experienced" Freepers...

Does anyone know a good online source for finding information on people that served in WW2. I would love to find and talk to someone that served with my Granddad.

I have tried google, but to no avail...

Thanks,

Kermit

[csvset]

I recently had an appointment at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital and had some time to fill so I visited the cemetery on the hospital grounds. Here's a short article about the history of PNH.

The making of Portsmouth naval hospital

The Portsmouth Naval hospital

Read more about local history

To finance the construction of the naval hospital in Portsmouth, the pay of every seaman, officer and marine was docked 20 cents a month in 1826. Money collected from disciplinary fines was also used to erect the four-story granite structure that admitted its first patient in 1830.

Today, the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth — which recently underwent a $330-million expansion — is the oldest continuously running hospital in the Navy. It serves the Navy family — active duty personnel, dependents and retirees — of Hampton Roads.

The original building, designed by Philadelphia architect John Haviland, was erected on the site of Fort Nelson, a coastal defense built by the colonists but captured in 1779 by the British. Bricks from the old fort were used in building the hospital.

Haviland’s design called for a Doric portico of 10 columns, and they still stand today and have long been considered the "grand ornament" of the harbor and a masterpiece of monumentality in the classical form. The portico was kept in place although the 1830 structure was rebuilt and modernized in 1909.

Hospital facilities were greatly expanded at the outset of World Wars I and II. The high-rise hospital building was completed in 1960.

The hospital received its first combat casualty patients during the Mexican War. In 1855, the staff treated nearly 600 civilians during the yellow fever epidemic during which nearly 10 percent of the population of Norfolk and Portsmouth died. During the Civil War, it was a Confederate hospital until 1862, and after that, a Union hospital. The Navy’s first hospital ship, the Solace, brought the wounded from the Spanish-American War to Portsmouth. Influenza patients taxed hospital facilities during the First World War. Combat wounded from Europe, the Pacific, Korea and Vietnam were treated there.

A few people who died at the hospital are buried in a national cemetery on the hospital compound at Hospital Point. The oldest gravestone is that of a sailor who died in 1838 after falling from a yardarm of Old Ironsides, the frigate Constitution.

[wattsmag2]

Morning Madame Bunny.