A few of FR's Finest....Every Day 06-27-02

A Few of FR's Finest.....
......Every Day

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A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001

So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I can no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I've been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.

Still that doesn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why, in addition to seeing FR's Finest Military Personnel every day, I thought it might be fun to feature a different FReeper (or FReepers) each day. If you would like to be pictured, or know someone who would, please FReepmail me and we'll turn the spotlight - on YOU - for the day!

And do let me know if you'd like your picture added to the groups of Veterans/Active Military below. I will keep this page updated, and continue to add them to the comment section of the original Veteran's Day thread as well.

TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete
MIDDLE: T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
BOTTOM: YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1

TOP: Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet

MIDDLE: 4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga

BOTTOM: Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc

TOP: mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette

MIDDLE: Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid

BOTTOM: gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf

TOP: porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP

MIDDLE: RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian

BOTTOM: USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma

TOP: spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68

MIDDLE: FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797
BOTTOM: usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack

TOP: g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett

MIDDLE: fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick,Leroy S Mort, Mark17

BOTTOM: Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau

TOP: ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam,

dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony

BOTTOM: rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang

TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx

MIDDLE: The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law

BOTTOM: deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.

Rintense has been posting a Daily Thread - "A Day in the Life of President Bush" - since shortly after the Inauguration last year. This thread enjoyed almost instantaneous success and has affectionately been dubbed "The Dose".

The Dose begins with a summary of the President's Day, followed by a quote of the day and then photos taken of the President that day. Rintense downloads these photos (mostly from Yahoo and the WH Website) and posts them for all of us to see. She also provides comments along the way and replies to posters. The thread is informative, educational, humorous and poignant. It is posted in the early evening and many of us cannot retire for the night till we have had our Daily Dose of W.

If you have not already done so, do check out the Dose link here. If you like what you see, send Rintense a freep mail and she will put you on her ping list.

Take a bow, Rintense. You have created and maintained a valuable and popular thread and you are ONE OF FREE REPUBLIC'S FINEST.

In the Hospital the relatives gathered in the waiting room, where their family member lay gravely ill. Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and somber.

I'm afraid I'm the bearer of bad news," he said as he surveyed the worried faces. "The only hope left for your loved one at this time is a brain transplant. It's an experimental procedure, semi-risky and you will have to pay for the brain yourselves."

The family members sat silent as they absorbed the news. After a great length of time, someone asked, "Well, how much does a brain cost?" The doctor quickly responded, "$5,000 for a male brain, and $200 for a female brain."

The moment turned awkward. Men in the room tried not to smile, avoiding eye contact with the women, but some actually smirked. A man, unable to control his curiosity, blurted out the question everyone wanted to ask, "Why is the male brain so much more?"

The doctor smiled at the childish innocence and so to the entire group said, "It's just standard pricing procedure. We have to mark down the price of the female brains, because they've been used."

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OK when y ou get tired of my stupid jokes, let me know!

Even though Senator John McCain carries a little too much political left rudder to suit me, he couldn't be more right on the money than when he said this:

John McCain explains the Pledge of Allegiance
(By Sen. John S. McCain, a Vietnam era Navy Captain and POW)
"As you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept us in solitary confinement or two or three to a cell. In 1971 the NVA moved us from these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30 to 40 men to a room. This was, as you can imagine, a wonderful change and was a direct result of the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred POWs 10,000 miles from home.

One of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike Christian. Mike came from a small town near Selma, Alabama. He didn't wear a pair of shoes until he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the US Navy. He later earned a commission by going to Officer Training School. Then he became a Naval Flight Officer and was shot down and captured in 1967. Mike had a keen and deep appreciation of the opportunities this country, and our military, provide for people who want to work and want to succeed. As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive packages from home. In some of these packages were handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of clothing. Mike got himself a bamboo needle.

Over a period of a couple of months, he created an American flag and sewed it on the inside of his shirt. Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang Mike's shirt on the wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance. I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell, it was indeed the most important and meaningful event.

One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did periodically, and discovered Mike's shirt with the flag sewn inside, and removed it. That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for the benefit of all us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of hours.

Then, they opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as well as we could. The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on which we slept. Four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room. As said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After the excitement died down, I looked in the corner of the room, and sitting there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag.

He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to pledge our allegiance to our flag and country.

So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build our nation and promote freedom around the world. You must remember our duty, our honor, and our country. "

179 posted on 6/27/02 1:09 PM Central by Scuttlebutte
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..OK when y ou get tired of my stupid jokes, let me know! ..

Keep them coming.....

If I can post them and get away with it, I welcome yours. (I might add some of yours to my book...)

A little boy walked to and from school daily. Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, he made his daily trek to the elementary school.

As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with thunder and lightning. The mother of the little boy felt concerned that her son would be frightened as he walked home from school and she herself feared that the electrical storm might harm her child.

Following the roar of thunder, lightning would cut through the sky like a flaming sword. Full of concern, the mother quickly got into her car and drove along the route to her child's school. As she did so, she saw her little boy walking along, but at each flash of lightning, the child would stop, look up and smile. Another and another were to follow quickly, and with each, the little boy would look at the streak of light and smile.

When the mother's car drew up beside the child, she lowered the window and called to him, "What are you doing? Why do you keep stopping?"

The child answered, "I am trying to look nice. God keeps taking my picture."

Just got back from a New England vacation.........we got a letter from Eric, and a couple of calls and I'll give you all an update.....

He is very excited about what he's doing.....he's in the thick of basic training now, and is one of the 5% who has passed or exceeded all the physical requirements (including the required running 2 miles in 13 1/2 minutes which he finished in 12 minutes). He said they were going to tackle Misery and Agony hills this week, but we haven't heard what he thought about it.

He says he's in the best shape he's ever been in, and loves that, and he laughed about having no hair! He has a younger and an older Drill Sergeant, and he likes them both (and I'm sure they like him, too, because he does what he's told, and does it well!)

He also says he's had the opportunity to witness to a lot of the guys in his platoon, and tell them about the Lord. One of them even asked Eric to hit him when he cussed, because he wanted to stop, and wanted Eric's help.

Eric asked us to pray for him, that he would be shielded from the language, and the sexual jokes, and that he would remain strong, but he also asked for prayer for the guys he's witnessing to, that they would understand their need for Christ.

He's absolutely sure that he's where God wants him to be, and he's having a great time! PRAISE THE LORD!!

The following I thought too good to be missed:

I hope I pinged everyone in the Canteen. I don't want to leave anyone out. God bless! After you read it, you'll say what my husband says, "Can't you ever be brief woman"? ROFL!

I’m in my kitchen baking chocolate chip cookies for a Marine who would give her life for her country and flag tomorrow if asked. We are not rich. Cookies are the least I could do. The more I think about it, the madder I get. I’m mad as a hornet. I’m so mad I could spit.

This ruling yesterday will probably be overturned, Lord willing. I'm shocked these people would even "go there" right now (or ever). Yeah, it will be overturned, but it's the freaking principle of the matter. How dare they?!?! Over 3,000 innocent Americans were slaughtered 9 months ago, over half never to be found. Nothing to bury…nothing. They are a vapor. It was a blessing if the family got a finger back to bury. We’ve got thousands of troops out there now fighting this evil (our family and friends, mind you). Some of them are dying and coming home in body bags. How dare these evil people stab America in the back like this.

I heard on the news last night, this poor, traumatized Atheist…..bless his pea pickin’ heart….. is upset because he doesn’t want his daughter being ostracized for her beliefs. Well I say too *&^%$ bad!!!

That’s life. Being ostracized and feeling left out is part of growing up. Everyone reading this was ostracized in his or her childhood. We were all weird. We were all made fun of. Big deal. It put hair on my chest. It made me tough as nails. Yes growing up hurts. So does being an adult. Life hurts. So what. A court cannot legislate or make laws to protect children from being ostracized. What a crock!

When I was growing up, people made fun of me for the way I dressed. I couldn't wear a bikini and had to wear "granny suits", no short shorts, and no Jordache jeans so tight I couldn’t breathe. I wasn’t allowed to dance. Girls hated me and tortured me. Boys chased me only long enough to figure out I didn’t “put out” so that was the end of that. No date to the prom for me either (I had to ask a boy from another school to be my date. How embarrassing). I didn’t do drugs or drink in high school so no party invitations ever came to my mailbox. I stayed home, read books and ran for President of everything at school…and won. No one wanted to date me but I was electable. LOL!! Sniff, sniff…boo hoo…big deal. It’s over…it’s in the past. I lived through it. I’m a great adult now (I hope).

I DEMAND THE COURTS MAKE LAWS TO PROTECT THE GOODY GOODIES OF THIS WORLD!!! NOT

I don’t understand why the three letter word GOD is so offensive to people. I’m around people who believe differently than me all the time and I mind my manners and am not rude about it. I don’t freak out, get my panties in a wad and cause a big stink. I ADJUST and COPE. Why can’t non-Christians adjust? Is it too much to ask for people to just shut up, be polite, mind their manners and adjust?

I’m sick and tired of being told by a court to be tolerant. (Unconstitutional????) Lord have mercy, liberals have no earthly idea just how tolerant we are. We tolerate and tolerate and tolerate until we’re blue in the face. In fact, I think they count on our tolerance. They know we will sit back and be peaceful, tolerant good little Christians, mind our own business, raise our families, not rock the boat. They know we won’t fight. We’re too busy living from paycheck to paycheck so we can pay our *&^%$* taxes.

I’m sick to death of liberals. You know what??? They are BULLIES. They push, they shove, they pout, throw temper tantrums, stomp, kick their feet, snarl, and foam at the mouth to get their way. They make me sick.

If that flag, our precious flag, comes down, that’s it. That’s the end of it. I’m the eternal optimist, but I know in my heart, if that flag should ever come down, the world will go to hell in a giant suitcase. Evil will be free to practice their favorite extracurricular activities on billions of human beings around the globe. America is HOPE and PEACE because we ARE a God fearing nation. God has blessed us with unimaginable prosperity. He blessed us, so we could then bless the rest of the world. He loves everyone, not just his people. Why did he send Jonah to the Ninevites if he only loves "his people", the apostles to the gentiles?

And what really cracks me up, except I don’t feel like laughing, is people honestly think they can remove the word GOD, and they are rid of him. LOL Sorry buddy, but you can’t REMOVE God. You can try, but he isn’t going anywhere. God IS. God IS and that’s it. Period. End of discussion. Keep mocking him and making a fool of yourself trying to make him disappear. God will NEVER magically go “POOF”…away. God is with you, not matter how much you hate him or deny him.

I have nothing more to say. I’m back to making my cookies for a brave American who will fight for my children, our constitution and our flag. God bless her and all our other troops, alive and dead, who were stabbed in the back yesterday.

190 posted on 6/27/02 1:38 PM Central by SpookBrat

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