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USO Canteen FReeper Style....Happy 4th of July !!!!
Coteblanche and Snow Bunny

Posted on 07/03/2002 11:14:30 PM PDT by Snow Bunny

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Come Fly With Us
On A Patriotic Journey

God Bless America

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Graphic by Paul Atreides

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The Good Guys Wear White Hats
Hail to the Chiefs

Memories

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The Declaration of Independence by Trumbull

The First Couple

The Gettysburg Address


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What GeorgeW loves to call
The People's House

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An Attorney-General to be proud of...

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A little Sousa anyone?

Liberty Bell.....Semper Fidelis.....Stars and Stripes

Washington Post.....King Cotton.....El Capitan

.....Crusader.....Our Flirtations ;-).....The Presidential Polonaise.....

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Patriotic Medley

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For an 1812 Overture accompaniment, click here.

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Good Night

God Bless

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Turn out the lights

The party's over

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~ A Message from Snow Bunny ~

4 July is not just a day to party, cook out,
go to the beach, or recreate in a myriad of ways.

4 July has a much more profound meaning.

4 July is all about: Belleau Woods,
Inchon, Khe Sahn, Guadalcanal, Kuwait,
Tarawa, Chosin Reservoir, Grenada,
Bougainville, Hue City, Panama, Iwo Jima,
Somalia, Beirut, Peleilu, and many
other places where the price of freedom came due.

4 July is a day of celebration in our nation
precisely because of what so many unsung
heroes were willing to do
in order to make it so.

4 July comes and goes every year,
overshadowed often by summer vacations
and busy schedules.

4 July, however, brings to the forefront
in many hearts, the knowledge of what America might be
if not for the courage, sacrifice,
and dedication of the finest of her sons and daughters.

4 July is a day for every Veteran,
and those serving, to receive the recognition
that should come from a people,
who owe the precious gift of freedom to these gallant warriors
and servants of our Constitution..

4 July is a day in which we,
the "protected," stand and salute you.
Your efforts often go unrewarded and unrecognized
in a manner befitting you.

4 July is a day for at least myself
and you wonderful Freepers, to attempt
to honor these men and women properly
and to say, "Thank You."

What you have done, and continue to do
every day, makes it possible
for my family and I
to celebrate on 4 July,
and to live in "The Land Of The Free."

We can never repay you sufficiently for this privilege.

May God bless each of you!



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To: Teacup
Hi, Teacup! Happy 4th of July to you, God bless you,.

that's a cute grahpic!

141 posted on 07/04/2002 7:58:11 AM PDT by Pippin
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To: Snow Bunny; All
As the New Republic Celebrates 4th of July

Sacrifice-Freedom.....lest we forget

Infinite Justice Will Be Served

142 posted on 07/04/2002 7:58:47 AM PDT by Senator_Palpatine
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To: HiJinx
Good Morning, HiJinx!
143 posted on 07/04/2002 7:59:51 AM PDT by Pippin
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To: COB1
Thanks for posting that COB. It's very humbling to see the sacrifices that were made in the past for the freedom that we enjoy today. I hope you have a wonderful 4th today!
144 posted on 07/04/2002 8:02:57 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: Senator_Palpatine; *USO Canteen
Thanks for the reminder!


Click on the pic

145 posted on 07/04/2002 8:07:25 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: ClaraSuzanne
Good Morning, CS!

We're having a wonderful day, celebrating Independence!
The VFW kicks off the ceremony at Veterans' Memorial Park, followed by a pets and people parade, music and dancing from local groups, a patriotic band concert by the 36th Army Band, and then the finale -- the fireworks display!

I'll need to go to work tomorrow just to rest from today's fun! Hope you enjoy yours!
146 posted on 07/04/2002 8:08:56 AM PDT by HiJinx
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To: Snow Bunny; *USO Canteen
A happy, blessed Independence Day to one and all.

Let's Roll.
147 posted on 07/04/2002 8:15:07 AM PDT by lodwick
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To: COB1; All
Have a wonderful day!



Happy Independence Day!




I Pledge Allegiance to the flag,
Of the United States of America.
And to the Republic, for which it stands.
One nation, Under God; Indivisible;
with liberty, and Justice for all!
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Thanks, Cob.

INDEPENDENCE DAY 2002 PART III'

I'll check this out later.

Stay safe! Enjoy the day!

148 posted on 07/04/2002 8:15:55 AM PDT by ST.LOUIE1
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To: Snow Bunny
Bless you, Snow Bunny, and all the great folks at the Canteen.

Happy Independence Day to y'all!

149 posted on 07/04/2002 8:18:39 AM PDT by sultan88
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To: Snow Bunny
Same to you, darlin'! I dropped by about post 15 late last night, but was just too tired to post. God bless America. I love July 4.
150 posted on 07/04/2002 8:25:25 AM PDT by redhead
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To: SpookBrat; Snow Bunny; SassyMom; MistyCA; ClaraSuzanne; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; COB1
This seems appropriate for today. Check this out. It is a commentary on the Pledge of Allegiance by Red Skelton:

Pledge of Allegiance
--Red Skelton

http://home.att.net/~poofcatt/july.html
Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance...

UNDER GOD

Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said
that is a prayer
and that would be eliminated from schools too?

God Bless America!

151 posted on 07/04/2002 8:29:40 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: Snow Bunny
A DAILY PRAYER OF OUR FIRST PRESIDENT

"Almighty God.I yield thee humble and hearty thanks that thou has preserved me from the danger of the night past, and brought me to the light of the day, and the comforts thereof, a day which is consecrated to thine own service and for thine own honor. Let my heart, therefore, Gracious God, be so affected with the glory and majesty of it, that I may not do mine own works, but wait on thee, and discharge those weighty duties thou requirest of me. Give me grace to hear thee calling on me in thy word, that it may be wisdom, righteousness, reconciliation and peace to the saving of the soul in the day of the Lord Jesus. Grant that I may hear it with reverence, receive it with meekness, mingle it with faith, and that it may accomplish in me, Gracious God, the good work for which thou has sent it. Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and for ever for His sake, who lay down in the Grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen."

--From the Prayer Journal of George Washington

152 posted on 07/04/2002 8:29:54 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: Snow Bunny

 IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness — That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

HE has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

HE has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

HE has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.

HE has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.

HE has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.

HE has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.

HE has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

HE has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

HE has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

HE has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.

HE has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.

HE has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

HE has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

FOR quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:

FOR protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

FOR cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:

FOR imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

FOR depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

FOR transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses:

FOR abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into these Colonies:

FOR taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

FOR suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

 HE has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

HE has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.

HE is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.

HE has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

HE has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

 IN every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.

 NOR have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.

 WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to Levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

 

JOHN HANCOCK

 

New Hampshire

JOSIAH BARTLETT

WM. WHIPPLE

MATTHEW THORNTON

 

Massachusetts Bay

SAML. ADAMS

JOHN ADAMS

ROBT.TREAT PAINE

ELBRIDGE GERRY

 

Rhode Island

STEP. HOPKINS

WILLIAM ELLERY

 

Connecticut

ROGER SHERMAN

SAM'EL HUNTINGTON

WM. WILLIAMS

OLIVER WOLCOTT

 

New York

WM. FLOYD

PHIL. LIVINGSTON

FRANS. LEWIS

LEWIS MORRIS

 

New Jersey

RICHD. STOCKTON

JNO. WITHERSPOON

FRAS. HOPKINSON

JOHN HART

ABRA. CLARK

 

Pennsylvania

ROBT. MORRIS

BENJAMIN RUSH

BENJA. FRANKLIN

JOHN MORTON

GEO. CLYMER

JAS. SMITH

GEO. TAYLOR

JAMES WILSON

GEO. ROSS

 

Delaware

CAESAR RODNEY

GEO. READ

THO. M'KEAN

 

Maryland

SAMUEL CHASE

WM. PACA

THOS. STONE

CHARLES CARROLL of Carrollton

 

Virginia

GEORGE WYTHE

RICHARD HENRY LEE

TH. JEFFERSON

BENJA. HARRISON

THS. NELSON, JR.

FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE

CARTER BRAXTON

 

North Carolina

WM. HOOPER

JOSEPH HEWES

JOHN PENN

 

South Carolina

EDWARD RUTLEDGE

THOS. HEYWARD, Junr.

THOMAS LYNCH, Junr.

ARTHUR MIDDLETON

 

Georgia

BUTTON GWINNETT

LYMAN HALL

GEO. WALTON

 

 

153 posted on 07/04/2002 8:30:48 AM PDT by Mr_Magoo
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To: SAMWolf
Great exploding terrorist cartoon Sam - thanks.
154 posted on 07/04/2002 8:32:21 AM PDT by lodwick
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To: Snow Bunny
Snowbie, I LOVE THIS POEM. I put it up on the front page of my website for all to see! Stop by and take a look!
155 posted on 07/04/2002 8:33:07 AM PDT by redhead
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156 posted on 07/04/2002 8:33:21 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: Snow Bunny; Victoria Delsoul; All
The flag draped softly as it furled
Across the silent grave;
A soldier boy is laid to rest
By a nation he helped save.
Grateful people stood around
With prayers upon their lips;
Sometimes the silence's broken
As deep emotion grips.
This soldier once had rosy cheeks
And life was full and free;
No thought of death or dying,
Youth was his guarantee.
But then his country called him
And he marched off to war;
Young blood is the sacrifice
As death walks through the door.

Our nation was in deepest peril,
Our enemies were near;
But millions of our nation's youth
Responded without fear.
Thank God for Independence Day
And the freedom that it bought;
The sacrifices made by some
And life's lessons that are taught.
That flag that waves in freedom
Has paid a frightful cost;
War, that evil master,
Demands a holocaust.
The battles rage around it,
The flag still bravely flies;
A tribute to the living
With hope that never dies.

For those who lie in hallowed graves,
We bow our heads and pray;
We can enjoy the freedom
For the flag still flies today.
Independence day is a gift
But yet a price is paid;
For many crosses dot the earth
As those memories slowly fade.
This soldier boy that's sleeping
Has found eternal rest;
No more battles to be fought,
He gave his very best.
The taps have sounded softly,
The mourners walk away;
The flag still is flying,
It's Independence Day.

James R. Shultz, Mesa, AZ, USA

157 posted on 07/04/2002 8:45:37 AM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: Mr_Magoo
Thanks so much Magoo for posting the Declaration of Independence.
That's what this is all about.
158 posted on 07/04/2002 8:51:49 AM PDT by COB1
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To: Nightshift
Welcome to the Canteen Nightshift.

Thanks for your service.
159 posted on 07/04/2002 8:53:30 AM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: DoughtyOne
Thanks DoughtyOne. Your work for the Canteen, doing animated graphics is amazing.
160 posted on 07/04/2002 8:55:19 AM PDT by SAMWolf
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