A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day 7-04-02 thru 7-07-02

"A few of FR's Finest" will return 7-08-02

[Mama_Bear]

Celebrating American Independence Day
July 4, 1776




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Have a safe and happy 4th of July

THIS WEEK'S THREADS

07-01-02 Veterans Group 9
07-02-02 JulieRNR21
07-03-02 Lodwick

[whoever]

Good night, daisy.

That graphic is the cutest !!!!!

[Mama_Bear]

Thanks daisy, I'm glad everyone seemed to enjoy our Independence Day thread.

I am looking forward to having Billie back tomorrow. I forgot who she said she is going to spotlight, so it will be as big a surprise to me as everyone else.

Good night, all. See you tomorrow.

[Mama_Bear]

Thanks Julie, it has been fun. :-)

whoever and lodwick, we appreciate you being here, always.

Billie, I'm looking forward to tomorrow and to getting back in the routine.

To all, God bless and good night.

[whoever]

Good night, Mama Bear. May God bless you.

A great day ahead tomorrow.

[Diver Dave]

Evenin' who. I thought I'd find you here.

Thanks for all the great contributions you've made to the thread these past few days.

Always a treat to "see" you. Uh, someone seems to have removed your photo from that picture frame. :^)

[whoever]

..someone seems to have removed your photo from that picture frame..

What not again? Has Skinny been here swiping my stuff again?

Hi, Diver. Missed you today. Have a good one?

[Diver Dave]

Have a good one?

It's been a busy loooong weekend, but a good one nonetheless.

Fireworks still going off around the homestead tonight, but that's okay by me. If it causes some to reflect on this great nation, so be it.

Time for me to log off and spend some quiet time with my best Friend and his Word.

[whoever]

I pray His blessings on that time.

Goodnight, my friend and brother.

[floriduh voter]

LOL. True, true, true.

[lodwick]

Posted on 7/8/02 7:35 AM Central by Oldeconomybuyer



Washington -- Thirty-seven years after he was executed by his Viet Cong captors, Rocky Versace is to be honored today with the Medal of Honor -- the first Army soldier to receive the award for his actions while in captivity, defense historians say.

Versace, an Army captain from Alexandria, Va., was killed in 1965 when he was 27. He is to be posthumously awarded the medal by President Bush for the extraordinary resistance he displayed under terribly cruel conditions.

Serving as an intelligence adviser for the South Vietnamese army, Versace was captured along with two other Americans in October 1963 near U Minh Forest and held within the mangrove swamps of the Viet Cong stronghold. He tried to escape four times and was often kept in irons and gagged inside a bamboo cage.

"He told them to go to hell in Vietnamese, French and English," one of Versace's fellow captives, Dan Pitzer, who died in 1997, told an oral historian. "He got a lot of pressure and torture, but he held his path."

Versace, his head swollen, his hair white and skin yellowed by jaundice, was pulled around villages with a rope tied around his neck by his angry captors. Villagers were astounded by his defiance, according to Jack Nicholson,

a retired Army officer who searched for Versace.

In September 1965, Hanoi Radio announced that Versace had been executed in retaliation for the killing of suspected communist sympathizers.

"He was a soldier," said retired Army Gen. Pete Dawkins, a West Point classmate of Versace's. "He was killed because honor, duty and country meant more to him than life."

[Billie]

A NEW THREAD, A NEW DAY HERE

[blackie]

Cool !!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

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